Ari Emanuel Slams Netanyahu; THR's Comedy Actress Roundtable; 'Dexter' Prequel Cast Revealed; 'Tires' Review

[View on web]( [New reader? Subscribe]( May 23, 2024 What's news: Deadpool & Wolverine's first-day sales are likely around $8m to $9m. OpenAI has inked a content deal with News Corp. A judge has blocked the sale of Elvis' Graceland. Diddy is facing a new lawsuit claiming sexual assault. Marvel is working on a new Disney+ series centered around The Vision. Former Netflix exec Bozoma Saint John has joined the cast of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. — [Abid Rahman]( Do you have THR's next big story? Confidentially share tips with us at [tips@thr.com](. Emanuel Slams Netanyahu Amid Boos at Simon Wiesenthal Center Gala ►"For the good of Israel, [Netanyahu] should go." Ari Emanuel, CEO of Endeavor and one of Hollywood’s most outspoken voices in the fight against antisemitism, made a fiery speech as he accepted the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Humanitarian Award, at the organization’s National Tribute Gala fundraiser on Wednesday evening. THR's Scott Feinberg reports that Emanuel went on to excoriate, at length, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his handling of the Israel-Gaza war. Many attendees applauded, but dozens of others stormed out of the room in fury, and others booed. [The story.]( —Dismissed. Bryan Freedman, the lawyer representing UTA in a clash over Michael Kassan’s departure from the agency, has prevailed in a lawsuit accusing him of defaming the MediaLink founder. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Daniel Murphy, in an order issued on Tuesday, dismissed the case under a statute allowing for the early dismissal of lawsuits intended to chill free speech. He found that a comment from Freedman aimed at Kassan can only be construed as opinion, which can’t make up the basis of a defamation claim. [The story.]( —🤝 Content deal 🤝 OpenAI has cut another major media licensing deal. The controversial AI firm has inked a deal with News Corp. that will bring content from its stable of media outlets to ChatGPT and other OpenAI products. The News Corp. U.S. properties The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch, Investor’s Business Daily, FN and New York Post are all part of the deal. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. [The story.]( —🤝 Ratified 🤝 The Writers Guild of Canada membership has ratified a new three-year contract deal. The new Independent Production Agreement for Canadian screenwriters, to come into effect on May 22, 2024, includes script fee increases, minimum staffing requirements and artificial intelligence protections. The new IPA, negotiated with the Canadian Media Producers Association, representing local indie film and television producers, sees live action script fees increase 5 percent, 4 percent, and 3.5 percent over the next three years. [The story.]( —Halted! A judge has blocked an attempt to sell Elvis Presley’s iconic Graceland estate. At a hearing Wednesday, a Shelby County judge halted the sale after the estate had been scheduled for a foreclosure auction on Thursday. In a hearing that lasted only eight minutes, Chancellor JoeDae Jenkins adjourned the sale of Graceland saying, "The notary has sworn that the notary did not notarize the signature of Lisa Marie Presley on the deed of trust, which brings into question the authenticity of the signature." [The story.]( THR's Comedy Actress Roundtable ►"When I stopped giving a f***." With Emmy season sputtering to life, THR's award-winning Roundtable series is back! First up are the comedy actresses and joining THR's [Lacey Rose]( for a raucous and revealing conversation are Abbott Elementary’s Quinta Brunson, Saturday Night Live’s Ego Nwodim, Loot’s Maya Rudolph, Palm Royale’s Kristen Wiig, Girls5eva’s Renée Elise Goldsberry and Survival of the Thickest’s Buteau who discuss ignoring industry expectations, the pressure to mine their personal lives and tap-dancing for the patriarchy. [The roundtable.]( —New lawsuit. Former model Crystal McKinney has filed a lawsuit against Sean "Diddy" Combs, alleging she was drugged and sexually assaulted by the scandal-plagued music mogul at his New York City recording studio in 2003. McKinney gained public attention when she won MTV’s 1998 Model Mission series, which earned her a modeling contract with IMG. Her lawsuit is the latest Combs faces as he is accused elsewhere of rape, sexual assault and sex trafficking. [The story.]( —"[You] don’t invite us to talk about shit that’s positive." Rapper Cam’ron has attempted to explain his strange CNN appearance this week. Booked for a Newsnight segment that was to have CNN host Abby Phillip discussing the series of assault lawsuits filed against Diddy, Cam'ron told her that he doesn’t know why he was booked, and then drank a male sexual enhancement drink on air and referenced "getting some cheeks." On Tuesday, Cam’ron said that he felt used by CNN while speaking about the incident on the It Is What It Is podcast. [The story.]( —Diddy doc. Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson has claimed Netflix won a bidding war for a docuseries his company produced on Diddy. The streamer's apparent triumph in the battle for the series, which was produced by Jackson’s G-Unit Film and Production Studios, was announced on Jackson’s Instagram account in a Tuesday night post captioned by the “In Da Club” rapper. [The story.]( —Suit filed. Apple Studios has been sued by a Native American costume designer on Killers of the Flower Moon for excluding her from awards consideration, allegedly in retaliation for raising complaints of discrimination. Kristi Marie Hoffman, in a lawsuit filed on Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleges she completed “most of the research and costume design for the film” but that her contributions were “completely ignored.” [The story.]( 'Dexter' Prequel Cast Revealed ►🎭 OG team 🎭 Patrick Gibson, Christian Slater and Molly Brown have been tapped to star in Dexter: Original Sin, a prequel to Showtime’s Dexter. Ordered to series in February 2023, Original Sin is set in 1991 Miami and revolves around Dexter (Gibson) as he goes from student to avenging serial killer. With guidance from his father, Harry (Slater), Dexter adopts a Code designed to help him find and kill people at the same time as he begins a forensics internship at the Miami Metro Police Department. [The story.]( —Vision quest. Marvel is looking to a new Vision for its next TV offering. The Vision character played by Paul Bettany will be at the center of the studio’s first new series order in some time. The untitled show is currently on track for a 2026 premiere on Disney+, with Star Trek: Picard’s Terry Matalas installed as showrunner. A writers room for the series opened this week. Bettany will reprise his role as Vision, which spans three Marvel films and the WandaVision series. [The story.]( —Executive power. Bravo said Wednesday that Bozoma Saint John, the former chief marketing officer at Netflix and Endeavor, is joining The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills for its 14th season. Saint John will join returning castmembers Garcelle Beauvais, Erika Jayne, Dorit Kemsley, Kyle Richards and Sutton Stracke in the season. Bravo also says Kathy Hilton and Jennifer Tilly will appear as “friends” of the core cast. [The story.]( —"Eat Pray Lovett." The next season of Survivor looks set to have a familiar face, with former Obama administration speechwriter and Pod Save America co-host Jon Lovett seemingly among the contestants for season 47. During Wednesday night’s finale of season 46 of Survivor, CBS' teaser ad for the next season featured Lovett, although none of the contestants were named and there has been no official confirmation. However, Lovett's podcast co-host Jon Favreau did appear to confirm his place on the show on X. [The story.]( —All in. Three years after rebranding the channel formerly known as WGN America to NewsNation, the Nexstar-owned channel will officially be a 24/7 cable news outlet. NewsNation says that with the addition of NewsNation Now with Adrienne Bankert on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, the channel will officially be programming news 24 hours a day, seven days a week. NewsNation had been programming reruns of the CBS series Blue Bloods during the 4-7 p.m. weekend hours. Bankert will now anchor the window. [The story.]( —🤝 Sublicensing deal 🤝 ESPN and TNT Sports — already partners in an upcoming sports streaming bundle — are teaming up again. Warner Bros. Discovery’s TNT Sports will air some early-round College Football Playoff games in a sublicensing deal with ESPN, beginning with the coming season as the playoff expands to 12 teams. The five-year deal calls for TNT to air two first-round games following the 2024 and 2025 seasons, then add two quarterfinal matchups in the remaining three years of the deal. [The story.]( 'Deadpool 3' First-Day Ticket Sales Set R-Rated Record ►We are so back! Deadpool & Wolverine is off to a supersized start and set a new record for first-day advance ticket sales for the country’s largest movie circuits. Online ticketing service Fandango, which services a majority of movie circuits, reported brisk first-day sales for the film, saying they were the best of 2024 to date, as well as a franchise best and the best for an R-rated feature. While neither Fandango nor AMC provided dollar figures, insiders tell THR that first-day sales are likely around $8m to $9m. [The box office report.]( —🎭 Phone a Friend 🎭 THR's [Borys Kit]( has the scoop on Rupert Friend joining the cast of Universal's all-new Jurassic World feature. The Asteroid City actor will star in the film alongside Scarlett Johansson and fellow Brit Jonathan Bailey. Gareth Edwards is directing the creature feature that also has Manuel Garcia-Rulfo on the call sheet. David Koepp, the original screenwriter of Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Jurassic Park, penned the script for the new installment, whose plot details are being kept under wraps. [The story.]( —Snapped up. Brothers, the action comedy starring Josh Brolin and Peter Dinklage, has found a home in Amazon MGM Studios. The streaming giant has acquired the worldwide rights to the Legendary Pictures-made feature, setting both a theatrical and streaming release. The movie will be available to stream on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide on Oct. 17. That will be preceded by a big-screen release in select theaters starting Oct. 1. [The story.]( —London calling. Amazon Prime Video is set to release a U.K. original feature titled My Fault: London, based on the first book of Mercedes Ron’s bestselling Culpables trilogy. Following the success of Spanish movie Culpa Mia (My Fault), the London version remakes the story of Nick and Noah, starring English talent Asha Banks and Matthew Broome. Production has recently wrapped in the U.K. [The story.]( TV Review: 'Tires' ►"Just fine on its own very limited terms." THR's [Angie Han]( reviews Netflix's Tires. Shane Gillis and Steve Gerben's workplace comedy series is about an anxious man who takes over a failing branch of his father's auto repair chain. [The review.]( —"A visually arresting, if emotionally detached, debut." Angie reviews Ryan J. Sloan's Gazer. A young mother with a deteriorating neurological condition gets caught up in a deadly mystery in this Cannes-bowing feature directorial debut from Sloan. [The review.]( —"Quietly inspiring." THR's [Lovia Gyarkye]( revies Claire Simon's Elementary. In her latest doc, which premiered at Cannes, the French director observes the daily life of a primary school in a suburb of Paris. [The review.]( Film Review: 'Julie Keeps Quiet' ►"Silence speaks volumes." THR's chief film critic [David Rooney]( reviews Leonardo Van Dijl's Julie Keeps Quiet. The Belgian filmmaker's first feature casts young athlete Tessa Van den Broeck as a player whose own trauma is heightened by a fellow academy member’s suicide. [The review.]( —"A visual knockout that doesn’t quite stick the landing." David reviews Karim Aïnouz's Cannes competition entry Motel Destino. An uneasy triangle forms when a young man in trouble with his criminal cohorts shacks up at a seedy roadside sex hotel in a Brazilian beach town. [The review.]( —"Beautiful and bold, if not always believable." THR's Jordan Mintzer reviews Miguel Gomes' Cannes competition entry Grand Tour. The director of Tabu and Arabian Nights plays Cannes' main competition for the first time with a movie that shifts between past and present, documentary and fiction. [The review.]( In other news... —Netflix [shares first look at Liam Hemsworth in The Witcher S4 teaser]( —Henry Creel [origins teased in new Stranger Things: The First Shadow trailer]( —Frank Miller [documentary American Genius reveals trailer]( —Eddie Murphy [is back on the beat in trailer for Netflix’s Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F]( —Robert De Niro-led [Wildflower Studios names executive director]( —Risa Heller Communications [opens L.A. office, led by Netflix vet Erika Masonhall]( —[Charlie Colin]( founding member of pop-rock band Train, dies at 58 ​​​What else we're reading... —Kyle Buchanan argues that it wasn't Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis that had Cannes talking, but rather the Demi Moore-starrer The Substance and the musical crime drama Emilia Pérez [[NYT]( —With a more muted critical reception to season three, Nick Levine looks at why the "Bridgerton effect" may be wearing off [[BBC]( —With public filming of strangers increasingly making up more of the content we watch on social media, Rebecca Jennings looks at the brewing backlash to surreptitious recording [[Vox]( —ICYMI, Mehera Bonner has a handy catch-up on the Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck divorce rumors [[Cosmopolitan]( —Roger Cohen looks at whether European recognition will bring Palestinian statehood any closer [[NYT]( Today... ...in 2013, Warner Bros. Pictures released Todd Phillips' The Hangover Part III in theaters. The third installment of the phenomenally successful franchise took the action back to Vegas and scored $362m at the box office. [The original review.]( Today's birthdays: Joan Collins (91), Ryan Coogler (38), Drew Carey (66), Barbara Barrie (93), Jewel (50), Lisa Joy (47), Tom Tykwer (59), Ken Jennings (50), H. Jon Benjamin (58), Melissa McBride (59), Richard Ayoade (47), [Bob Mortimer]( (65), LaMonica Garrett (49), Karen Duffy (62), Luis Zahera (58), Linden Ashby (64), Lea DeLaria (66), Alberto Frezza (35), Felissa Rose (55), Ramona Young (26), Adam Wylie (40), Matt Lintz (23), Kelly Monaco (48), Lane Garrison (44), Laurel Holloman (53), D.J. Cotrona (44), Guinevere Turner (56), Myko Olivier (37), Deion Smith (28), Chris Gethard (44), Gracie Otto (37) Fred Roos, the casting director turned producer who jump-started the career of Jack Nicholson and often collaborated with Francis Ford Coppola, sharing the best picture Oscar with the filmmaker for The Godfather Part II, has died. He was 89. [The obituary.]( This email was sent to {EMAIL} by The Hollywood Reporter. Please add email@email.hollywoodreporter.com to your address book to ensure delivery to your inbox. Visit the [Preferences Center]( to update your profile and customize what email alerts and newsletters you receive. The Hollywood Reporter is a part of Penske Media Corporation. © 2024 The Hollywood Reporter, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 11175 Santa Monica Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90025 [View in Browser]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Your Privacy Rights]( | [Ad Choices]( | [Terms of Use]( | [Unsubscribe](