Globes Noms and Snubs; Netflix Leads; Epic Flop; 'Bombshell' Review

What's news: The Golden Globe nominations are in, Netflix's big morning, lots of snubs, another record for Meryl Streep. Plus: Frozen 2 wins the weekend while Playmobil flops, Disney passes $10 billion in ticket sales this year, Succession creator inks a deal with HBO, remembering Carroll Spinney, the first trailer for Ghostbusters: Afterlife, and a review of Bombshell. --Alex Weprin [The Hollywood Reporter]( [The Hollywood Reporter]( Today In Entertainment DECEMBER 09, 2019 What's news: The Golden Globe nominations are in, Netflix's big morning, lots of snubs, another record for Meryl Streep. Plus: Frozen 2 wins the weekend while Playmobil flops, Disney passes $10 billion in ticket sales this year, Succession creator inks a deal with HBO, remembering Carroll Spinney, the first trailer for Ghostbusters: Afterlife, and a review of Bombshell. --Alex Weprin What's news: The Golden Globe nominations are in, Netflix's big morning, lots of snubs, another record for Meryl Streep. Plus: Frozen 2 wins the weekend while Playmobil flops, Disney passes $10 billion in ticket sales this year, Succession creator inks a deal with HBO, remembering Carroll Spinney, the first trailer for Ghostbusters: Afterlife, and a review of Bombshell. --Alex Weprin [Golden Globe Nominations] Golden Globe Nominations The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced the nominations for the 77th Golden Globe Awards this morning, with Tim Allen, Dakota Fanning and Susan Kelechi Watson unveiling the list of nominees. Golden Globes by the numbers... --The most-nominated movies: Marriage Story (6 nominations), The Irishman and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (5 noms each), Joker and The Two Popes (4 noms each), 1917, Parasite, Knives Out and Rocketman (3 noms each), Bombshell, Dolemite Is My Name, The Farewell, Frozen 2, Harriet, Jojo Rabbit, The Lion King, Little Women, Pain and Glory (2 noms each)... --Nominees by film distributor: Netflix (17 nominations), Sony Pictures (8 noms), Disney and Warner Bros. (6 noms each), Universal and Lionsgate (5 noms each), NEON (4 noms), Amazon Studios, United Artists and Paramount (3 noms each), A24, Focus Features, Fox Searchlight, Sony Pictures Classics (2 noms each), STX Films and LD Entertainment / Roadside Attractions (1 nom each). --Nominees by TV network: Netflix (17 nominations), HBO (15 noms), Hulu (5 noms), Amazon Prime Video (5 noms), FX (4 noms), Apple TV+ (3 noms), Showtime (3 noms), BBC America (2 noms), USA (1 nom). --The most-nominated TV shows: Chernobyl, The Crown and Unbelievable (4 nominations each), Barry, Big Little Lies, Succession, Fleabag, Fosse/Verdon, Kominsky Method, The Morning Show (3 noms each), The Act, Catch 22, Killing Eve, The Loudest Voice, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Politician (2 noms each)... [The full list of nominees...]( +There was no shortage of snubs this year. Among the films getting shut out were Uncut Gems and Honey Boy, with Ford v Ferrari and Hustlers only securing none nomination each. On the TV side, no broadcast TV shows saw any nominations, while the final season of Game of Thrones only had one nomination, and Watchmen, Handmaid's Tale, PEN15, and the final seasons of Orange is the New Black and Veep were shut out. [The full list of film snubs](. and the [full list of TV snubs](. +Female directors were also snubbed, with men dominating the category once again. Last year, Natalie Portman made headlines when she criticized the lack of female directors nominated for the Golden Globes. While presenting the best director category, the actress went off script and said, "And here are all the male nominees." [More](. The big stories from the nominations... --Netflix domination: The streaming service had more nominations than any other distributor in the film categories, and more nominations than any other network in the TV categories, underscoring its quick rise to power in Hollywood. In film, The irishman, The Two Popes, Marriage Story and Dolemite Is My Name[led its slate of nominees](. On the TV side, The Crown, Unbelievable and The Kominsky Method led the streamer's slate. --Apple's first awards taste: The Morning Show, which streams on the tech giant's Apple TV+ subscription service, [earned three Golden Globes nods]( on Monday morning. The show picked up a nomination for best drama series, and its stars — Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon — were both nominated for lead actress in a drama series. --Also: Meryl Streep [broke her own record]( with her 34th nomination for Big Little Lies... Todd Phillips' controversial Joker [nabbed a number]( of nominations... HBO's Succession[landed three]( noms... [Here's why]( Parasite, The Farewell and Pain & Glory weren't nominated for best picture... Brad Pitt [landed a nomination]( for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood... Composers Hildur Guðnadóttir and Alexandre Desplat's had their [names flubbed]( during the announcement... The Roger Ailes-centric projects Bombshell and The Loudest Voice [land noms](... And now the rest of the day's news... Golden Globe Nominations The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced the nominations for the 77th Golden Globe Awards this morning, with Tim Allen, Dakota Fanning and Susan Kelechi Watson unveiling the list of nominees. Golden Globes by the numbers... --The most-nominated movies: Marriage Story (6 nominations), The Irishman and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (5 noms each), Joker and The Two Popes (4 noms each), 1917, Parasite, Knives Out and Rocketman (3 noms each), Bombshell, Dolemite Is My Name, The Farewell, Frozen 2, Harriet, Jojo Rabbit, The Lion King, Little Women, Pain and Glory (2 noms each)... --Nominees by film distributor: Netflix (17 nominations), Sony Pictures (8 noms), Disney and Warner Bros. (6 noms each), Universal and Lionsgate (5 noms each), NEON (4 noms), Amazon Studios, United Artists and Paramount (3 noms each), A24, Focus Features, Fox Searchlight, Sony Pictures Classics (2 noms each), STX Films and LD Entertainment / Roadside Attractions (1 nom each). --Nominees by TV network: Netflix (17 nominations), HBO (15 noms), Hulu (5 noms), Amazon Prime Video (5 noms), FX (4 noms), Apple TV+ (3 noms), Showtime (3 noms), BBC America (2 noms), USA (1 nom). --The most-nominated TV shows: Chernobyl, The Crown and Unbelievable (4 nominations each), Barry, Big Little Lies, Succession, Fleabag, Fosse/Verdon, Kominsky Method, The Morning Show (3 noms each), The Act, Catch 22, Killing Eve, The Loudest Voice, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Politician (2 noms each)... [The full list of nominees...]( +There was no shortage of snubs this year. Among the films getting shut out were Uncut Gems and Honey Boy, with Ford v Ferrari and Hustlers only securing none nomination each. On the TV side, no broadcast TV shows saw any nominations, while the final season of Game of Thrones only had one nomination, and Watchmen, Handmaid's Tale, PEN15, and the final seasons of Orange is the New Black and Veep were shut out. [The full list of film snubs](. and the [full list of TV snubs](. +Female directors were also snubbed, with men dominating the category once again. Last year, Natalie Portman made headlines when she criticized the lack of female directors nominated for the Golden Globes. While presenting the best director category, the actress went off script and said, "And here are all the male nominees." [More](. The big stories from the nominations... --Netflix domination: The streaming service had more nominations than any other distributor in the film categories, and more nominations than any other network in the TV categories, underscoring its quick rise to power in Hollywood. In film, The irishman, The Two Popes, Marriage Story and Dolemite Is My Name[led its slate of nominees](. On the TV side, The Crown, Unbelievable and The Kominsky Method led the streamer's slate. --Apple's first awards taste: The Morning Show, which streams on the tech giant's Apple TV+ subscription service, [earned three Golden Globes nods]( on Monday morning. The show picked up a nomination for best drama series, and its stars — Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon — were both nominated for lead actress in a drama series. --Also: Meryl Streep [broke her own record]( with her 34th nomination for Big Little Lies... Todd Phillips' controversial Joker [nabbed a number]( of nominations... HBO's Succession[landed three]( noms... [Here's why]( Parasite, The Farewell and Pain & Glory weren't nominated for best picture... Brad Pitt [landed a nomination]( for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood... Composers Hildur Guðnadóttir and Alexandre Desplat's had their [names flubbed]( during the announcement... The Roger Ailes-centric projects Bombshell and The Loudest Voice [land noms](... And now the rest of the day's news... ['Frozen 2' Dominates, 'Playmobil' Flops] 'Frozen 2' Dominates, 'Playmobil' Flops ►Box office: Disney Animation Studios' Frozen 2 easily stayed atop the North American box office in its third weekend with $34.7 million, while fellow animated pic Playmobil: The Movie came apart with a debut of just $668,000. --Playmobil, released domestically by STXfilms, marks the third-worst opening of all time for a title rolling out domestically in more than 2,000 theaters despite special ticket pricing of $5 in most theaters across the country. --Meanwhile: Knives Out grossed $14.2 million in its sophomore outing, a 47 percent decline, for a domestic total of $63.5 million and $124.1 million globally for Lionsgate, MRC and T-Street. Fox and Disney's Ford v. Ferrari narrowly edged out Universal's Queen & Slim for third place with an estimated $6.54 in its fourth weekend, with Queen & Slim bringing in $6.53 million.[The numbers](. --Frozen didn't just dominate the box office, the soundtrack for Frozen 2 reached number one on the Billboard 200 Albums chart. The last animated musical to lead the chart was the first Frozen in 2014... [The story](. +Also: Sony's Jumanji: The Next Level made a shaky start in China over the weekend, opening to $24.7 million, according to data from Artisan Gateway. [More](. +And: Filmmaker Kasi Lemmons' Harriet crossed $40 million in ticket sales at the domestic box office on Friday, a major feat for a specialty biographical drama. [More](. ►Disney smashes past $10 billion in 2019 global ticket sales. "Disney's domination has reached a new high," Pamela McClintock writes. The studio announced Sunday that it is crossing the $10 billion mark in 2019 global ticket sales, including $3.28 billion domestically and $6.72 billion internationally. Disney blew past the previous industry record of $7.6 billion all the way back in July. The question now is how high Disney will fly by by the time Dec. 31 wraps, considering it has yet to release Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, which opens in less than two weeks.[The story](. Elsewhere in film... --Here's the first trailer for [Ghostbusters: Afterlife](. --Little Women premiere: Florence Pugh, Timothée Chalamet [celebrate director]( Greta Gerwig. --Indie filmmakers [hope people won't forget]( a "really good movie" in crowded awards season. --Chelsea Handler, Moby and Leah Remini [were among those]( who showed up at the Sherry Lansing theater on the Paramount lot in Los Angeles on a cold and blustery Saturday night to honor documentary films and filmmakers at the 35th annual Independent Documentary Association Awards. ^Review: Bombshell. Todd McCarthy reviews the film, about sexual harassment at Fox News Channel, writing that "the performances, enhanced by physical transformations by Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and John Lithgow that are uncannily convincing, deliver the goods in a very engaging way" Quote: "Bombshell — its double-entendre fully justified — dives right into this turbulent cesspool of sex and politics with confidence, enthusiasm and smarts. As he demonstrated in his Oscar-winning script (with Adam McKay) for The Big Short, Randolph is adept at stirring complicated and combustible real events and systems (economics, politics, gambling, sexual pressure) and using them to push the narrative forward at a relentless clip." [The review](. ►Succession creator inks HBO overall deal. The premium cable network has signed Succession creator Jesse Armstrong to an exclusive three-year overall TV deal. Under the pact, Armstrong will continue to serve as showrunner on the breakout hit as well as create and develop new projects for the WarnerMedia-backed outlet. [More](. ►Zenith raises U.S., global 2020 ad forecasts on Olympics, political spend. Global advertisers will increase their advertising spend by 4.3 percent to $666 billion in 2020, Zenith said Sunday in its latest forecast as it pointed to increased ad expenditures on the Summer Olympics and the U.S. presidential election. --But while demand for mass audiences rises, the media supply will continue to fall as consumers steadily move from traditional cable TV and partly to Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO, and eventually Disney+ and other forms of non-commercial TV content, the media forecaster said. [The story](. J.J. Abrams joined the cast of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker on stage at Brazilian convention Comic Con Experience in São Paulo Saturday afternoon to talk about the experience of making the final chapter, and tease what lies in store for a galaxy far, far away ahead as the story heads towards its conclusion. "I can't wait for you to see how and why that character [Emperor Palpatine] is back." [The story](. +Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige shared a little about the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe Saturday at Comic-Con Experience in Brazil, including the first footage of Eternals and a new look at Black Widow. [The story](. +Also: Ryan Reynolds was received in style Saturday at Comic Con Experience, the Brazilian convention taking place in São Paulo. Fans gave him a standing ovation and chanted his name as he entered the convention to [debut the first trailer]( for Free Guy... Reynolds [also made]( a "Snyder Cut" joke as he brought Netflix's 6 Underground to Brazil... Gal Gadot [shared the first teaser](for Wonder Woman 1984 on Saturday morning, with the Amazonian princess stating in the preview "nothing good is born from lies and greatness is not what you think." In other awards news... The Critics' Choice Association revealed on Sunday the nominations for the 25th annual Critics' Choice Awards. The Irishman leads this year's Critics' Choice Awards with a total of 14 nominations including best picture and best director for Martin Scorsese. Meanwhile on the television side, Netflix's When They See Us lead the nominations with a total of 6, followed by This Is Us (NBC) and Schitt's Creek (Pop) with 5 each. [The full list of nominees](. +Analysis: Scott Feinberg dissects Sunday's Critics' Choice Association announcement and how it may impact campaigns moving forward. [The column](. +For Sama won the top prize of best feature at the International Documentary Association's 2019 awards, which took place at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles. [More](. Elsewhere in TV... --Silicon Valley showrunners [talk about ending]( the HBO series: "It's a different kind of comedy now." --Simon Cowell [beefs up legal team]( amid America’s Got Talent investigation. --Rachel Brosnahan [reveals the]( Marvelous Mrs. Maisel romance she "begged" to stop. --21 Harvey Weinstein accusers [call out]( "manipulative tactics" in Nightline Interview. --About last night: Watchmen star on that "once in a lifetime" [Doctor Manhattan twist](... Also: How that post-credits scene [sets up]( the endgame... Why the first big Crisis on Infinite Earths tragedy [happened so early](... 'Frozen 2' Dominates, 'Playmobil' Flops ►Box office: Disney Animation Studios' Frozen 2 easily stayed atop the North American box office in its third weekend with $34.7 million, while fellow animated pic Playmobil: The Movie came apart with a debut of just $668,000. --Playmobil, released domestically by STXfilms, marks the third-worst opening of all time for a title rolling out domestically in more than 2,000 theaters despite special ticket pricing of $5 in most theaters across the country. --Meanwhile: Knives Out grossed $14.2 million in its sophomore outing, a 47 percent decline, for a domestic total of $63.5 million and $124.1 million globally for Lionsgate, MRC and T-Street. Fox and Disney's Ford v. Ferrari narrowly edged out Universal's Queen & Slim for third place with an estimated $6.54 in its fourth weekend, with Queen & Slim bringing in $6.53 million.[The numbers](. --Frozen didn't just dominate the box office, the soundtrack for Frozen 2 reached number one on the Billboard 200 Albums chart. The last animated musical to lead the chart was the first Frozen in 2014... [The story](. +Also: Sony's Jumanji: The Next Level made a shaky start in China over the weekend, opening to $24.7 million, according to data from Artisan Gateway. [More](. +And: Filmmaker Kasi Lemmons' Harriet crossed $40 million in ticket sales at the domestic box office on Friday, a major feat for a specialty biographical drama. [More](. ►Disney smashes past $10 billion in 2019 global ticket sales. "Disney's domination has reached a new high," Pamela McClintock writes. The studio announced Sunday that it is crossing the $10 billion mark in 2019 global ticket sales, including $3.28 billion domestically and $6.72 billion internationally. Disney blew past the previous industry record of $7.6 billion all the way back in July. The question now is how high Disney will fly by by the time Dec. 31 wraps, considering it has yet to release Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, which opens in less than two weeks.[The story](. Elsewhere in film... --Here's the first trailer for [Ghostbusters: Afterlife](. --Little Women premiere: Florence Pugh, Timothée Chalamet [celebrate director]( Greta Gerwig. --Indie filmmakers [hope people won't forget]( a "really good movie" in crowded awards season. --Chelsea Handler, Moby and Leah Remini [were among those]( who showed up at the Sherry Lansing theater on the Paramount lot in Los Angeles on a cold and blustery Saturday night to honor documentary films and filmmakers at the 35th annual Independent Documentary Association Awards. ^Review: Bombshell. Todd McCarthy reviews the film, about sexual harassment at Fox News Channel, writing that "the performances, enhanced by physical transformations by Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and John Lithgow that are uncannily convincing, deliver the goods in a very engaging way" Quote: "Bombshell — its double-entendre fully justified — dives right into this turbulent cesspool of sex and politics with confidence, enthusiasm and smarts. As he demonstrated in his Oscar-winning script (with Adam McKay) for The Big Short, Randolph is adept at stirring complicated and combustible real events and systems (economics, politics, gambling, sexual pressure) and using them to push the narrative forward at a relentless clip." [The review](. ►Succession creator inks HBO overall deal. The premium cable network has signed Succession creator Jesse Armstrong to an exclusive three-year overall TV deal. Under the pact, Armstrong will continue to serve as showrunner on the breakout hit as well as create and develop new projects for the WarnerMedia-backed outlet. [More](. ►Zenith raises U.S., global 2020 ad forecasts on Olympics, political spend. Global advertisers will increase their advertising spend by 4.3 percent to $666 billion in 2020, Zenith said Sunday in its latest forecast as it pointed to increased ad expenditures on the Summer Olympics and the U.S. presidential election. --But while demand for mass audiences rises, the media supply will continue to fall as consumers steadily move from traditional cable TV and partly to Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO, and eventually Disney+ and other forms of non-commercial TV content, the media forecaster said. [The story](. J.J. Abrams joined the cast of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker on stage at Brazilian convention Comic Con Experience in São Paulo Saturday afternoon to talk about the experience of making the final chapter, and tease what lies in store for a galaxy far, far away ahead as the story heads towards its conclusion. "I can't wait for you to see how and why that character [Emperor Palpatine] is back." [The story](. +Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige shared a little about the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe Saturday at Comic-Con Experience in Brazil, including the first footage of Eternals and a new look at Black Widow. [The story](. +Also: Ryan Reynolds was received in style Saturday at Comic Con Experience, the Brazilian convention taking place in São Paulo. Fans gave him a standing ovation and chanted his name as he entered the convention to [debut the first trailer]( for Free Guy... Reynolds [also made]( a "Snyder Cut" joke as he brought Netflix's 6 Underground to Brazil... Gal Gadot [shared the first teaser](for Wonder Woman 1984 on Saturday morning, with the Amazonian princess stating in the preview "nothing good is born from lies and greatness is not what you think." In other awards news... The Critics' Choice Association revealed on Sunday the nominations for the 25th annual Critics' Choice Awards. The Irishman leads this year's Critics' Choice Awards with a total of 14 nominations including best picture and best director for Martin Scorsese. Meanwhile on the television side, Netflix's When They See Us lead the nominations with a total of 6, followed by This Is Us (NBC) and Schitt's Creek (Pop) with 5 each. [The full list of nominees](. +Analysis: Scott Feinberg dissects Sunday's Critics' Choice Association announcement and how it may impact campaigns moving forward. [The column](. +For Sama won the top prize of best feature at the International Documentary Association's 2019 awards, which took place at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles. [More](. Elsewhere in TV... --Silicon Valley showrunners [talk about ending]( the HBO series: "It's a different kind of comedy now." --Simon Cowell [beefs up legal team]( amid America’s Got Talent investigation. --Rachel Brosnahan [reveals the]( Marvelous Mrs. Maisel romance she "begged" to stop. --21 Harvey Weinstein accusers [call out]( "manipulative tactics" in Nightline Interview. --About last night: Watchmen star on that "once in a lifetime" [Doctor Manhattan twist](... Also: How that post-credits scene [sets up]( the endgame... Why the first big Crisis on Infinite Earths tragedy [happened so early](... [Remembering Carroll Spinney] Remembering Carroll Spinney ►Obituary: Caroll Spinney, the big-hearted Muppeteer who climbed inside a claustrophobic feathered costume to play the beloved Sesame Street character Big Bird for almost a half-century, died Sunday, Sesame Workshop announced. He was 85. Spinney, who also operated and voiced Oscar, Big Bird's grumpy trash can-dwelling neighbor, before retiring from the iconic kids program in October 2018, died at his home in Connecticut after "living with dystonia for some time." [The obituary](. +[René Auberjonois](, the prolific actor best known for his roles on the television shows Benson and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and his part in the 1970 film M*A*S*H playing Father Mulcahy, has died. He was 79. +Also: Juice WRLD, a.k.a. Jarad Anthony Higgins, one of this year's brightest hip-hop stars, has died suddenly at the age of 21. [The story.]( The week ahead... --TV: HBO's Watchmen will have its season finale Sunday at 9 pm... Also Sunday: The Kennedy Center Honors will air on CBS (they were taped last night)... [More](... --Movies: It's a big weekend at the box office: Jumanji: The Next Level, Richard Jewell, and Uncut Gems will all debut, hoping to melt Frozen 2's momentum. Bombshell will also open in limited release, before going wide next week. --Elsewhere: UBS is hosting is annual TMT summit in New York Monday and Tuesday... SAG Award nominees will be announced on the Turner Networks Wednesday at 7am PT/10am ET... In gaming news: 2K Games launches new studio to develop next BioShock title. The new studio, Cloud Chamber, will build its team in 2K's Bay Areas headquarters and in Montreal, marking the first Canadian office for a 2K studio. Cloud Chamber is currently working on the next entry in the BioShock franchise, the latest since 2013's BioShock Infinite. A follow-up to that title, which sold more than 11 million copies, has been rumored to be in the works for years under different studios and creative leads. [More](. On Saturday Night Live: Jimmy Fallon, Paul Rudd, and James Corden [appeared in the cold open](, poking fun at the "hot mic" comments from last week's NATO summit... Darius Trump [makes a comeback]( in SNL mock TV series Them Trumps... Jennifer Lopez sings "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town," and[the rest of the sketches](... Theater review: Frozen. Deborah Wilker reviews the national tour of the Broadway musical based on the Disney film, writing that "through smart cuts and additions, a little Disney magic and ongoing tweaks, the tale of sisters Elsa and Anna in search of one another finally lands in a way that a commercial blockbuster should." [The review](. Video: THR In Studio. In this episode, the cast of Showtime's The L Word: Generation Q discuss the reboot, and creating a show for a new generation. [Watch](. What else we're reading... --"One year after Moonves, 'Toxic' culture remains in CBS TV stations" [[LA Times](] --"Release the influencers! Quibi's plan for streaming success" [[NY Times](] --"Overtime, Gen Z sports oasis, looks to raise $40 million" [[WSJ](] Today's birthdays: Jesse Metcalfe, 41, Beau Bridges, 78, Donny Osmond, 62, Felicity Huffman, 57, John Malkovich, 66, Judi Dench, 85, Kara DioGuardi, 49. Remembering Carroll Spinney ►Obituary: Caroll Spinney, the big-hearted Muppeteer who climbed inside a claustrophobic feathered costume to play the beloved Sesame Street character Big Bird for almost a half-century, died Sunday, Sesame Workshop announced. He was 85. Spinney, who also operated and voiced Oscar, Big Bird's grumpy trash can-dwelling neighbor, before retiring from the iconic kids program in October 2018, died at his home in Connecticut after "living with dystonia for some time." [The obituary](. +[René Auberjonois](, the prolific actor best known for his roles on the television shows Benson and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and his part in the 1970 film M*A*S*H playing Father Mulcahy, has died. He was 79. +Also: Juice WRLD, a.k.a. Jarad Anthony Higgins, one of this year's brightest hip-hop stars, has died suddenly at the age of 21. [The story.]( The week ahead... --TV: HBO's Watchmen will have its season finale Sunday at 9 pm... Also Sunday: The Kennedy Center Honors will air on CBS (they were taped last night)... [More](... --Movies: It's a big weekend at the box office: Jumanji: The Next Level, Richard Jewell, and Uncut Gems will all debut, hoping to melt Frozen 2's momentum. Bombshell will also open in limited release, before going wide next week. --Elsewhere: UBS is hosting is annual TMT summit in New York Monday and Tuesday... SAG Award nominees will be announced on the Turner Networks Wednesday at 7am PT/10am ET... In gaming news: 2K Games launches new studio to develop next BioShock title. The new studio, Cloud Chamber, will build its team in 2K's Bay Areas headquarters and in Montreal, marking the first Canadian office for a 2K studio. Cloud Chamber is currently working on the next entry in the BioShock franchise, the latest since 2013's BioShock Infinite. A follow-up to that title, which sold more than 11 million copies, has been rumored to be in the works for years under different studios and creative leads. [More](. On Saturday Night Live: Jimmy Fallon, Paul Rudd, and James Corden [appeared in the cold open](, poking fun at the "hot mic" comments from last week's NATO summit... Darius Trump [makes a comeback]( in SNL mock TV series Them Trumps... Jennifer Lopez sings "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town," and[the rest of the sketches](... Theater review: Frozen. Deborah Wilker reviews the national tour of the Broadway musical based on the Disney film, writing that "through smart cuts and additions, a little Disney magic and ongoing tweaks, the tale of sisters Elsa and Anna in search of one another finally lands in a way that a commercial blockbuster should." [The review](. Video: THR In Studio. In this episode, the cast of Showtime's The L Word: Generation Q discuss the reboot, and creating a show for a new generation. [Watch](. What else we're reading... --"One year after Moonves, 'Toxic' culture remains in CBS TV stations" [[LA Times](] --"Release the influencers! Quibi's plan for streaming success" [[NY Times](] --"Overtime, Gen Z sports oasis, looks to raise $40 million" [[WSJ](] Today's birthdays: Jesse Metcalfe, 41, Beau Bridges, 78, Donny Osmond, 62, Felicity Huffman, 57, John Malkovich, 66, Judi Dench, 85, Kara DioGuardi, 49. [Image] [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn]( Is this e-mail not displaying correctly? [View it in your browser.]( ©2019 The Hollywood Reporter. 5700 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036 All rights reserved. DECEMBER 09, 2019 [UNSUBSCRIBE]( [MANAGE PREFERENCES]( [PRIVACY POLICY]( [TERMS OF USE](