by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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ENTERTAINMENT AND CULTURE NEWS:
CANNES - From THR: Indiana Jones star Harrison Ford received an honorary Palme d’Or for lifetime achievement at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.
From Variety: Variety's Zach Sharf describes the audience's reaction to seeing to a screening of "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" as "a muted standing ovation."
SPORTS/STREAMING - From Deadline: National Football League (NFL) Commissioner Roger Goodell says that the league's deal with YouTube to carry the "NFL Sunday Ticket" is just the beginning of strengthening ties between the NFL and YouTube.
ANIMATION - From Deadline: Hulu's revival of the former Fox animated series, "Futurama," will debut Monday, 24th. The 20 episodes will constitute Season 11 of the series.
MOVIES/TRAILERS - From Variety: Apple/Paramount have released the first trailer for director Martin Scorsese's "Killers of the Flower Moon," starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro. The film is due in theaters Oct. 18th.
From KOSU: "People Need to Know the History" - Osage citizens are excited and nervous as "Killers of the Flower Moon" hits the big screen.
DISNEY - From Deadline: In an exclusive Q&A, director Rob Marshall talks about turning an animated classic into the live-action "The Little Mermaid."
MOVIES/TRAILERS - From THR: The new trailer for Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning: Part One reveals more of what Tom Cruise has in store when he returns to the IMF agent role of "Ethan Hunt" he originated in 1996's "Mission: Impossible."
MOVIES - From THR: In this wide-ranging Q&A, Hollywood legend and icon, Arnold Schwarzenegger talks about the end of his involvement with "The Terminator" franchise and about the "Conan" movie he is struggling to get made, among other things.
LGBTQ+ - From CNN: Oscar and Tony Award-winning actress, Marcia Gay Harden, says that all three of her adult children identify as "Queer." Harden is an advocate for the LGBTQ community.
DISNEY - From Lucasfilm: All "Indiana Jones" is coming to Disney+ on May 31st. That includes the four films and, as they titled it, "The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones" (ABC, The Family Channel, 1992-96). So the streamer will likely have the reworked and not the original TV series, "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles" (ABC, 1992-96).
From Deadline: Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kenney says the full "Indiana Jones" catalog will land on Disney+ before the new film, "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" arrives in theaters June 30th.
TELEVISION - From Deadline: Because of the writer's strike, ABC has released a contingent 2023-24 television schedule. It leans heavily on unscripted series, such as "Dancing with the Stars" and "Bachelor in Paradise."
From Deadline: The Fox broadcast network revealed its 2023-24 television schedule at it "upfront" in NYC on Monday (May 15th).
ANIMATION - From Variety: Cable network FXX's long-running animated series, "Archer," will end after its upcoming 14th season, which debuts August 30th.
DISNEY/STREAMING - From Variety: "Avatar: The Way of Water" will begin streaming on both Disney+ and Max (formerly HBO Max) on June 7th.
BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficePro: The winner of the 5/12 to 5/14/2023 weekend box office is Disney/Marvel Studios' "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3" with an estimated total of 60.5 million dollars.
From Here: My review of "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3."
TELEVISION - From Deadline: The winners of the 2023 BAFTA TV Awards have been announced.
MOVIES - From Deadline: Millennium Media is going to Cannes to shop around "Infernus," an action thriller that Idris Elba will produce, direct, and star in.
From Deadline: Mel Gibson's first directorial effort since the Oscar-nominated "Hacksaw Ridge" is "Flight Fisk" a thriller starring Mark Wahlberg. Lionsgate will be selling the film at the Cannes Film Festival.
CELEBRITY - From EW: 65-year-old action movie legend, Dolph Lundgren ("Universal Soldier," "The Expendables" franchises) has revealed that he has been privately engaged in an 8-year battle with cancer.
OBITS:
From AP: Social activist, actor, and former professional football player, Jim Brown, has died at the age of 87, Thursday, May 18, 2023. One of the greatest players in football, he is best remembered as the running back for the Cleveland Browns (1957-65). He was a three-time NFL Most Valuable Player (1957, 1958, and 1965) and "Rookie of the Year" (1957). He was a member of the Brown's 1964 NFL Champions. In addition to being one of the greatest football players of all time, Brown is also considered to be one of the greatest lacrosse players of all time. He was also a prolific film and television actor, appearing in such films as "The Dirty Dozen" (1967), "100 Rifles" (1969), and "Three the Hard Way" (1974), to name a few. As an activist, Brown organized black professional athletes in the fight for civil rights and against the Vietnam War. He later to curb gang violence in Los Angeles.
From Deadline: American film editor, John Refoua, has died at the age of 58, Sunday, May 14, 2023. He was best known for his work editing "Avatar" (for which he shared an Oscar nomination) and "Avatar: The Way of Water." He also worked on "The Equalizer" (2014), "The Magnificent Seven" (2016), and "Geostorm" (2017), to name a few.
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WRITERS STRIKE:
From Deadline: President Joe Biden speaks on the Writers Guild of America strike.
From Deadline: Retaliation! The studios have starting informing writer-producers who have "overall" and "first-look" deals that such deals are being suspended.
From Deadline: Retaliation! Prolific HBO creator, David Simon, who is best known for "The Wire," is one of the many writers who have had their overall deals suspended the studios due to the WGA strike. Simon has been with HBO for 25 years.
From Deadline: The Writers Guild of America (WGA) is on strike.
From Deadline: Disney, HBO/HBO Max, and CBS have sent letters to showrunners (the TV equivalent of film directors) instructing them to return to work, inspite of the writer's strike.
From Deadline: The WGA's chief negotiator, Ellen Stutzman, talks about the state of the writers' strike, including the lack of engagement on the part of the strike's other party, AMPTP.
From Deadline: What went wrong between the WGA and AMPTP? What could they not agree on that led to a strike?
From Deadline: The site explains the WGA strike: the issues, the stakes, movies and TV shows affected, and how long it might last.
