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Today In Entertainment NOVEMBER 12, 2019
What's news: The complete launch day guide to Disney+, Disney working to resolve tech glitches, Ricky Gervais will return to host The Golden Globes, Paul Thomas Anderson sets a new movie to film in 2020, Damien Chazelle's Babylon moves forward, Paramount's Bee Gees movie takes shape, Sean Spicer gets the boot on Dancing with the Stars. Plus: Why Netflix shouldn't give in to theater owners, and remembering Rick Ludwin. --Alex Weprin Disney+ Day Early this morning Disney+ went live across the U.S., officially launching the Walt Disney Company's most ambitious new business in years, and what CEO Bob Iger has called "the most important product that the company has launched" during his nearly 15 year run as chief executive of the company. This morning in a statement Iger called the launch a "historic moment."+The basics: Disney+ costs $6.99 per month or $69.99 per year, but some Verizon Wireless customers will get a year free. The service is available to watch on Apple devices, Android devices, Amazon Fire and Roku devices, and through web browsers. The service will have nearly 500 movies, and 7,500 episodes of TV at launch. New episodes of TV shows will launch at 12:01 am on Fridays. +The original shows and movies: Disney+ is launching with a handful of signature original shows and movies, with others to be rolled out each month. The big shows: Star Wars drama The Mandalorian, and High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. The big movies: holiday flick Noelle and a live-action CGI remake of Lady and the Tramp. Lots of others too, including Forky Asks a Question, Encore!, The World According to Jeff Goldblum and others. +The library: Disney is opening up the "Disney Vault," making hundreds of library titles available, from Mary Poppins to Operation Dumbo Drop. A number of Marvel titles will be available to launch too, including Captain Marvel and Avengers: Endgame. Every Star Wars movie is there, as are most Pixar films. On the TV side: all 30 seasons of The Simpsons are included, as are classic Disney shows like DuckTales, Lizzie McGuire and others. Here's THR's complete guide to all of the Disney+ programming so far... +The reviews: Robyn Bahr reviews the "funny/kitschy" High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (pictured above)... Daniel Fienberg reviews the "nostalgia-fueled" musical competition Encore!... Fienberg also reviews The World According to Jeff Goldblum... THR film critic John DeFore reviews the holiday film Noelle... DeFore reviews Lady and the Tramp... Here's DeFore's list of the 25 best things to watch currently on the streamer... +Technical glitches: At launch this morning, a number of users appeared to have technical problems when trying to sign up or use the service. “The consumer demand for Disney+ has exceeded our high expectations," a Disney statement said. "We are pleased by this incredible response and are working to quickly resolve the current user issue. We appreciate your patience.” More. +The backstory: Disney+ can trace its origin to Aug. 2015, when the erosion of Disney's pay-TV business sparked an "alarm bell" in Iger's mind. For more, read Natalie Jarvey's deep-dive into Disney+ here. +The marketing blitz: With the service live, Disney is putting its marketing for Disney+ into high gear, shifting from driving awareness to driving subscriptions. ABC's Good Morning America featured a number of segments about Disney+, including a preview of The Mandalorian, and interviews with Idina Menzel, Kirsten Bell and Jeff Goldblum. The company is deploying a fleet of trucks to U.S. cities giving out Simpsons donuts and D+ cookies, with iPads on hand letting passersby sign up for the service. +What the rest of the world is saying: Writing for The Economist, analyst Matthew Ball asks "What is the endgame for Disney+?"... Frank Pallotta at CNN writes that Disney is "staking its future" on the service... The New York Times' Brooks Barnes writes that the launch "shakes an industry"... The Los Angeles Times' Meg James and Ryan Faughnder write that Disney+ "may change the TV industry forever"... +Iger in his own words: In his recently released memoir, Iger addressed the decision to launch Disney+ in chapter 12, titled "If you don't innovate, you die." "In essence," after publicly announcing the company's streaming plans, Iger wrote on page 193, "we were now hastening the disruption of our own business, and the short-term losses would be significant." Now that Disney+ is live, the company's long-term play has started. Disney+ Day Early this morning Disney+ went live across the U.S., officially launching the Walt Disney Company's most ambitious new business in years, and what CEO Bob Iger has called "the most important product that the company has launched" during his nearly 15 year run as chief executive of the company. This morning in a statement Iger called the launch a "historic moment."+The basics: Disney+ costs $6.99 per month or $69.99 per year, but some Verizon Wireless customers will get a year free. The service is available to watch on Apple devices, Android devices, Amazon Fire and Roku devices, and through web browsers. The service will have nearly 500 movies, and 7,500 episodes of TV at launch. New episodes of TV shows will launch at 12:01 am on Fridays. +The original shows and movies: Disney+ is launching with a handful of signature original shows and movies, with others to be rolled out each month. The big shows: Star Wars drama The Mandalorian, and High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. The big movies: holiday flick Noelle and a live-action CGI remake of Lady and the Tramp. Lots of others too, including Forky Asks a Question, Encore!, The World According to Jeff Goldblum and others. +The library: Disney is opening up the "Disney Vault," making hundreds of library titles available, from Mary Poppins to Operation Dumbo Drop. A number of Marvel titles will be available to launch too, including Captain Marvel and Avengers: Endgame. Every Star Wars movie is there, as are most Pixar films. On the TV side: all 30 seasons of The Simpsons are included, as are classic Disney shows like DuckTales, Lizzie McGuire and others. Here's THR's complete guide to all of the Disney+ programming so far... +The reviews: Robyn Bahr reviews the "funny/kitschy" High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (pictured above)... Daniel Fienberg reviews the "nostalgia-fueled" musical competition Encore!... Fienberg also reviews The World According to Jeff Goldblum... THR film critic John DeFore reviews the holiday film Noelle... DeFore reviews Lady and the Tramp... Here's DeFore's list of the 25 best things to watch currently on the streamer... +Technical glitches: At launch this morning, a number of users appeared to have technical problems when trying to sign up or use the service. “The consumer demand for Disney+ has exceeded our high expectations," a Disney statement said. "We are pleased by this incredible response and are working to quickly resolve the current user issue. We appreciate your patience.” More. +The backstory: Disney+ can trace its origin to Aug. 2015, when the erosion of Disney's pay-TV business sparked an "alarm bell" in Iger's mind. For more, read Natalie Jarvey's deep-dive into Disney+ here. +The marketing blitz: With the service live, Disney is putting its marketing for Disney+ into high gear, shifting from driving awareness to driving subscriptions. ABC's Good Morning America featured a number of segments about Disney+, including a preview of The Mandalorian, and interviews with Idina Menzel, Kirsten Bell and Jeff Goldblum. The company is deploying a fleet of trucks to U.S. cities giving out Simpsons donuts and D+ cookies, with iPads on hand letting passersby sign up for the service. +What the rest of the world is saying: Writing for The Economist, analyst Matthew Ball asks "What is the endgame for Disney+?"... Frank Pallotta at CNN writes that Disney is "staking its future" on the service... The New York Times' Brooks Barnes writes that the launch "shakes an industry"... The Los Angeles Times' Meg James and Ryan Faughnder write that Disney+ "may change the TV industry forever"... +Iger in his own words: In his recently released memoir, Iger addressed the decision to launch Disney+ in chapter 12, titled "If you don't innovate, you die." "In essence," after publicly announcing the company's streaming plans, Iger wrote on page 193, "we were now hastening the disruption of our own business, and the short-term losses would be significant." Now that Disney+ is live, the company's long-term play has started. Ricky Returns ►Ricky Gervais is returning to host the Golden Globes. It will be the comedian's record-breaking fifth time hosting the awards show, which he last hosted in 2016. “Once again, they've made me an offer I can’t refuse. But this is the very last time I’m doing this, which could make for a fun evening,” Gervais warned in a statement. The Globes will be held Jen. 5, and will air on NBC. The story.+Speaking of the Golden Globes: Fiji Water is out, Icelandic Glacial water is in, Chris Gardner reports. The new water partner comes after the "Fiji Water Girl" debacle last year when a model holding a tray of the water bottles photobombed A-listers, leading to social media outrage and even a lawsuit. More. ►Paul Thomas Anderson sets 1970s high school movie For 2020 production. The untitled film will be centered on a high school student who is also a successful child actor, Borys Kit and Bryn Elise Sandberg report. Anderson will write, direct and produce the project through his Ghoulardi Film Company banner. Sources say casting is underway to find the lead and the project features a multitude of roles and could be ensemble in nature or have intersecting storylines. The story. +Also this morning: The California state film commission has announced that 13 features, including Damien Chazelle's big-budgeted Babylon and Anderson's next film, have been selected to shoot in the state and receive the latest round of tax credits. Also in the works are Aaron Sorkin’s Lucy and Desi drama Being the Ricardos and 24/7, a comedy directed and produced by Eva Longoria with Kerry Washington and Paul Feig. More. ►A pair of notable Paramount movie deals: Paramount has picked up Babylon, Chazelle’s drama set in the Golden Age of Hollywood. Brad Pitt and Emma Stone are in talks to star in the project, but no deals are set. The story is said to be set in the late 1920s, during the movie industry’s transition from silent films to talkies. Also: The Chris Pratt-led sci-fi thriller The Tomorrow War will invade movie theaters on Dec. 25, 2020, Skydance Media and Paramount announced Monday. The live-action movie was previously known as Ghost Draft. ►Paramount's Bee Gees movie takes shape. Anthony McCarten has signed on to write the film about the disco-era band. The London-based writer says he was recruited for the film by producer Graham King a few months ago, after they had worked on Bohemian Rhapsody, which won four Oscars this year. The story. Elsewhere in film... --Elizabeth Gabler is reteaming with The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber for a new book-to-film project under her recently established 3000 Pictures. Gabler and her Sony-set label picked up the screen rights for Kevin Wilson's Nothing to See Here. --The making of Jojo Rabbit: How Taika Waititi scored The Beatles' music for his Hitler satire. --How Beautiful Day in the Neighborhoodre-created Mister Rogers' whimsical world. --Trailers: Paramount released a new trailer for Sonic The Hedgehog, fixing many of the problems fans had with the initial trailer... A vacation on a remote island turns fantasies into nightmares in the first trailer for Blumhouse Productions and Sony Pictures Entertainment's Fantasy Island... The new trailer for Warner Bros.' upcoming animated movie Scoob! opens with Shaggy and Scooby-Doo nearly breaking the fourth wall as they discuss their new flick... ^CBS earnings: CBS Corp. reported lower third-quarter earnings on Tuesday that exceeded Wall Street estimates despite increased spending on content and its growing streaming services. CBS CEO Joe Ianniello (pictured above) told investors that the merger with Viacom remains "on track" to close in the next few weeks. The numbers. +Other earnings news: U.K. TV giant ITV early on Tuesday reported lower revenue for the first nine months of the year, with its studio arm, whose hit shows include Love Island, growing to partially make up declines elsewhere. ►ABC cutting back on same-day ratings. ABC on Monday released a batch of 35-day, multiplatform numbers for premiere week (along with a note that it will no longer share notes on same-day ratings going forward, other than for live events), and they show that a number of the network's premieres tripled or even quadrupled their initial performance, Rick Porter reports. The story. ►CBS midseason schedule: A pair of new dramas and three veteran shows will join CBS' lineup in the first two months of 2020. FBI spinoff FBI: Most Wanted will premiere at 10 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 7, following its parent show and forming a two-hour block for the Dick Wolf-produced procedurals. NCIS: New Orleans will move to Sundays at 10 starting Feb. 16, pairing with NCIS: Los Angeles after Madam Secretary ends its six-season run. Here's the full schedule. Elsewhere in TV... --Don Cherry, the feisty former minor-league player and Boston Bruins coach known for hollering and high collars as the co-host of the "Coach's Corner" segment on Hockey Night in Canada, was fired Monday by local sports channel Sportsnet. --Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek choked up when a contestant wrote a supportive message in place of an answer on Monday's show. --Poland's prime minister accuses Netflix's Devil Next Door of "rewriting history." --Alex Rodriguez wants to "pay it forward" with new CNBC show. --Michelle Wolf is returning to Netflix. The comic will launch her latest hour, Michelle Wolf: Joke Show, globally on the streaming service Dec. 10. --Ratings: ABC's Shark Tank reached a season high among adults 18-49 Sunday, and Kids Say the Darndest Things and The Rookie also improved week to week. Sunday Night Football scored more big ratings for NBC with a tight game involving the Dallas Cowboys. Also: PBS' Country Music drew the biggest audience for a Ken Burns project since The Roosevelts: An Intimate History in 2014. Across all platforms, the series averaged 6.8 million viewers per episode. Ricky Returns ►Ricky Gervais is returning to host the Golden Globes. It will be the comedian's record-breaking fifth time hosting the awards show, which he last hosted in 2016. “Once again, they've made me an offer I can’t refuse. But this is the very last time I’m doing this, which could make for a fun evening,” Gervais warned in a statement. The Globes will be held Jen. 5, and will air on NBC. The story.+Speaking of the Golden Globes: Fiji Water is out, Icelandic Glacial water is in, Chris Gardner reports. The new water partner comes after the "Fiji Water Girl" debacle last year when a model holding a tray of the water bottles photobombed A-listers, leading to social media outrage and even a lawsuit. More. ►Paul Thomas Anderson sets 1970s high school movie For 2020 production. The untitled film will be centered on a high school student who is also a successful child actor, Borys Kit and Bryn Elise Sandberg report. Anderson will write, direct and produce the project through his Ghoulardi Film Company banner. Sources say casting is underway to find the lead and the project features a multitude of roles and could be ensemble in nature or have intersecting storylines. The story. +Also this morning: The California state film commission has announced that 13 features, including Damien Chazelle's big-budgeted Babylon and Anderson's next film, have been selected to shoot in the state and receive the latest round of tax credits. Also in the works are Aaron Sorkin’s Lucy and Desi drama Being the Ricardos and 24/7, a comedy directed and produced by Eva Longoria with Kerry Washington and Paul Feig. More. ►A pair of notable Paramount movie deals: Paramount has picked up Babylon, Chazelle’s drama set in the Golden Age of Hollywood. Brad Pitt and Emma Stone are in talks to star in the project, but no deals are set. The story is said to be set in the late 1920s, during the movie industry’s transition from silent films to talkies. Also: The Chris Pratt-led sci-fi thriller The Tomorrow War will invade movie theaters on Dec. 25, 2020, Skydance Media and Paramount announced Monday. The live-action movie was previously known as Ghost Draft. ►Paramount's Bee Gees movie takes shape. Anthony McCarten has signed on to write the film about the disco-era band. The London-based writer says he was recruited for the film by producer Graham King a few months ago, after they had worked on Bohemian Rhapsody, which won four Oscars this year. The story. Elsewhere in film... --Elizabeth Gabler is reteaming with The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber for a new book-to-film project under her recently established 3000 Pictures. Gabler and her Sony-set label picked up the screen rights for Kevin Wilson's Nothing to See Here. --The making of Jojo Rabbit: How Taika Waititi scored The Beatles' music for his Hitler satire. --How Beautiful Day in the Neighborhoodre-created Mister Rogers' whimsical world. --Trailers: Paramount released a new trailer for Sonic The Hedgehog, fixing many of the problems fans had with the initial trailer... A vacation on a remote island turns fantasies into nightmares in the first trailer for Blumhouse Productions and Sony Pictures Entertainment's Fantasy Island... The new trailer for Warner Bros.' upcoming animated movie Scoob! opens with Shaggy and Scooby-Doo nearly breaking the fourth wall as they discuss their new flick... ^CBS earnings: CBS Corp. reported lower third-quarter earnings on Tuesday that exceeded Wall Street estimates despite increased spending on content and its growing streaming services. CBS CEO Joe Ianniello (pictured above) told investors that the merger with Viacom remains "on track" to close in the next few weeks. The numbers. +Other earnings news: U.K. TV giant ITV early on Tuesday reported lower revenue for the first nine months of the year, with its studio arm, whose hit shows include Love Island, growing to partially make up declines elsewhere. ►ABC cutting back on same-day ratings. ABC on Monday released a batch of 35-day, multiplatform numbers for premiere week (along with a note that it will no longer share notes on same-day ratings going forward, other than for live events), and they show that a number of the network's premieres tripled or even quadrupled their initial performance, Rick Porter reports. The story. ►CBS midseason schedule: A pair of new dramas and three veteran shows will join CBS' lineup in the first two months of 2020. FBI spinoff FBI: Most Wanted will premiere at 10 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 7, following its parent show and forming a two-hour block for the Dick Wolf-produced procedurals. NCIS: New Orleans will move to Sundays at 10 starting Feb. 16, pairing with NCIS: Los Angeles after Madam Secretary ends its six-season run. Here's the full schedule. Elsewhere in TV... --Don Cherry, the feisty former minor-league player and Boston Bruins coach known for hollering and high collars as the co-host of the "Coach's Corner" segment on Hockey Night in Canada, was fired Monday by local sports channel Sportsnet. --Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek choked up when a contestant wrote a supportive message in place of an answer on Monday's show. --Poland's prime minister accuses Netflix's Devil Next Door of "rewriting history." --Alex Rodriguez wants to "pay it forward" with new CNBC show. --Michelle Wolf is returning to Netflix. The comic will launch her latest hour, Michelle Wolf: Joke Show, globally on the streaming service Dec. 10. --Ratings: ABC's Shark Tank reached a season high among adults 18-49 Sunday, and Kids Say the Darndest Things and The Rookie also improved week to week. Sunday Night Football scored more big ratings for NBC with a tight game involving the Dallas Cowboys. Also: PBS' Country Music drew the biggest audience for a Ken Burns project since The Roosevelts: An Intimate History in 2014. Across all platforms, the series averaged 6.8 million viewers per episode. Netflix And Movie Theaters ►Why Netflix shouldn't give in to theaters' demands. In a guest column for THR, Ben Weiss, chief investment officer for 8th & Jackson Capital Management, argues that the company's money is better spent elsewhere.Quote: "Netflix's business model is not held hostage by any of these constraints. It does not need to drive opening-weekend box office, nor does it sell DVDs or license its owned content. The $100 million in P&A costs that Netflix probably would need to spend to open The Irishman on 3,000 screens is money that cannot be spent on producing more movies." The column. ►Remembering Rick Ludwin: Rick Ludwin, the legendary NBC executive who got his start writing jokes for Bob Hope, was a Seinfeld champion from the start and ran specials and late night programming at NBC for more than 30 years, died Sunday in Los Angeles after a brief illness. He was 71. The obituary. +The stories: Among those sharing stories about the executive on social media was The Good Place showrunner Mike Schur, who recounted a long-running joke with Ludwin about "a wonderful night in the industry"... Here's John Mulaney's remembrances... Seth Meyers remembered Ludwin on Late Night last night... Conan O'Brien remembered Ludwin on his show... and from Seinfeld, Jason Alexander and Julia Louis-Dreyfus shared their thoughts... Revolving door: Apple TV executive Kim Rozenfeld is departing the tech giant amid a restructuring of the executive ranks at the tech giant's streaming platform. He has signed a first-look deal with the company... Robyn Marshall, an executive at production shingle Ace Entertainment, has been hired by MRC Film as senior vice president... Will Graham has signed a first-look deal at Amazon, and has boarded Amazon's Reese Witherspoon-produced drama Daisy Jones and the Six as showrunner... ►Sean Spicer finally gets the boot: Despite a presidential tweet that urged viewers to vote for him hours earlier, Sean Spicer was voted off of Dancing With the Stars on Monday's show. Spicer’s Dancing with the Stars days came to a close when the show’s panel of judges, along with low fan votes, gave him the boot after the former U.S. press secretary performed a foxtrot to Destiny's Child's "Bills, Bills, Bills" with dancing partner Jenna Johnson. More. Fox News drama Bombshell and Elton John biopic Rocketman lead the Make-up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild's seventh annual awards feature film nominations, with three apiece. The full list... Black Panther and Walking Dead actress Danai Gurira will be honored at annual CARE Impact awards held at the Mandarin Oriental in New York... Nature, science, women and the production company Neon were among the biggest winners at the fourth annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards held Sunday night in Brooklyn, New York... +How producers on The Irishman, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and 10 more Best Picture contenders overcame their biggest challenges. The story. +Here's the latest Feinberg Forecast, which updates the awards landscape after the Hollywood Film Awards, European Film Awards noms, British Independent Film Awards noms, Cinema Eye Honors noms, DOC NYC, Critics' Choice Documentary Awards and American Cinematheque Award. More. ►Tootsie Broadway run to end in January 2020. The production on Monday announced that it will be closing in January after 25 previews and 293 regular performances at New York's Marquis Theatre. The final performance is set for Jan. 5. Opening April 23 on Broadway, Tootsie was originally expected to be a long-running success. With a capitalization of around $20 million, relatively high for a musical, the show earned generally positive reviews and two Tony Awards — for book writer Robert Horn and lead actor Santino Fontana. More. THR In Studio: Silicon Valley star Zach Woods teases the end of the HBO series in the latest episode. "I feel like they did a really good job of finding an ending that felt honest and unsentimental and meaningful to me at least, as someone who is invested in the fictional world of the show." Watch. Series Regular podcast: This week Josh Wigler dives into season one, episode four of HBO's Watchmen, "If You Don't Like My Story, Write Your Own." Listen. What else we're reading... --"The mining of media (or the "streaming wars' are just a battle)" [Matthew Ball] --"National Enquirer publisher’s secret scheme to funnel $1 million to accused pedophile R. Kelly" [The Daily Beast] --CNBC is ending production on two business news shows that have been in production since the 1970s [TVNewser] --"Liberty Media wants to build up podcasting business" [WSJ] Today's birthdays: Al Michaels, 75, Anne Hathaway, 37, Megan Mullally, 61, Neil Young, 74, Ryan Gosling, 39. Netflix And Movie Theaters ►Why Netflix shouldn't give in to theaters' demands. In a guest column for THR, Ben Weiss, chief investment officer for 8th & Jackson Capital Management, argues that the company's money is better spent elsewhere.Quote: "Netflix's business model is not held hostage by any of these constraints. It does not need to drive opening-weekend box office, nor does it sell DVDs or license its owned content. The $100 million in P&A costs that Netflix probably would need to spend to open The Irishman on 3,000 screens is money that cannot be spent on producing more movies." The column. ►Remembering Rick Ludwin: Rick Ludwin, the legendary NBC executive who got his start writing jokes for Bob Hope, was a Seinfeld champion from the start and ran specials and late night programming at NBC for more than 30 years, died Sunday in Los Angeles after a brief illness. He was 71. The obituary. +The stories: Among those sharing stories about the executive on social media was The Good Place showrunner Mike Schur, who recounted a long-running joke with Ludwin about "a wonderful night in the industry"... Here's John Mulaney's remembrances... Seth Meyers remembered Ludwin on Late Night last night... Conan O'Brien remembered Ludwin on his show... and from Seinfeld, Jason Alexander and Julia Louis-Dreyfus shared their thoughts... Revolving door: Apple TV executive Kim Rozenfeld is departing the tech giant amid a restructuring of the executive ranks at the tech giant's streaming platform. He has signed a first-look deal with the company... Robyn Marshall, an executive at production shingle Ace Entertainment, has been hired by MRC Film as senior vice president... Will Graham has signed a first-look deal at Amazon, and has boarded Amazon's Reese Witherspoon-produced drama Daisy Jones and the Six as showrunner... ►Sean Spicer finally gets the boot: Despite a presidential tweet that urged viewers to vote for him hours earlier, Sean Spicer was voted off of Dancing With the Stars on Monday's show. Spicer’s Dancing with the Stars days came to a close when the show’s panel of judges, along with low fan votes, gave him the boot after the former U.S. press secretary performed a foxtrot to Destiny's Child's "Bills, Bills, Bills" with dancing partner Jenna Johnson. More. Fox News drama Bombshell and Elton John biopic Rocketman lead the Make-up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild's seventh annual awards feature film nominations, with three apiece. The full list... Black Panther and Walking Dead actress Danai Gurira will be honored at annual CARE Impact awards held at the Mandarin Oriental in New York... Nature, science, women and the production company Neon were among the biggest winners at the fourth annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards held Sunday night in Brooklyn, New York... +How producers on The Irishman, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and 10 more Best Picture contenders overcame their biggest challenges. The story. +Here's the latest Feinberg Forecast, which updates the awards landscape after the Hollywood Film Awards, European Film Awards noms, British Independent Film Awards noms, Cinema Eye Honors noms, DOC NYC, Critics' Choice Documentary Awards and American Cinematheque Award. More. ►Tootsie Broadway run to end in January 2020. The production on Monday announced that it will be closing in January after 25 previews and 293 regular performances at New York's Marquis Theatre. The final performance is set for Jan. 5. Opening April 23 on Broadway, Tootsie was originally expected to be a long-running success. With a capitalization of around $20 million, relatively high for a musical, the show earned generally positive reviews and two Tony Awards — for book writer Robert Horn and lead actor Santino Fontana. More. THR In Studio: Silicon Valley star Zach Woods teases the end of the HBO series in the latest episode. "I feel like they did a really good job of finding an ending that felt honest and unsentimental and meaningful to me at least, as someone who is invested in the fictional world of the show." Watch. Series Regular podcast: This week Josh Wigler dives into season one, episode four of HBO's Watchmen, "If You Don't Like My Story, Write Your Own." Listen. What else we're reading... --"The mining of media (or the "streaming wars' are just a battle)" [Matthew Ball] --"National Enquirer publisher’s secret scheme to funnel $1 million to accused pedophile R. Kelly" [The Daily Beast] --CNBC is ending production on two business news shows that have been in production since the 1970s [TVNewser] --"Liberty Media wants to build up podcasting business" [WSJ] Today's birthdays: Al Michaels, 75, Anne Hathaway, 37, Megan Mullally, 61, Neil Young, 74, Ryan Gosling, 39.
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