Grammys Bombshell Lawsuit; Sundance Hot List; Weinstein Trial Opens; Netflix Numbers; RIP Terry Jones

What's news: Streamers take center stage and the hot list takes shape at Sundance, the Harvey Weinstein trial gets underway in New York, the former Grammys CEO filed an explosive lawsuit, Netflix reported a strong quarter and changed its viewing metrics, ViacomCBS shakes up its ranks amid cost-cutting. Plus: Remembering Terry Jones, and CAA sets its management board. --Alex Weprin [The Hollywood Reporter]( [The Hollywood Reporter]( Today In Entertainment JANUARY 22, 2020 What's news: Streamers take center stage and the hot list takes shape at Sundance, the Harvey Weinstein trial gets underway in New York, the former Grammys CEO filed an explosive lawsuit, Netflix reported a strong quarter and changed its viewing metrics, ViacomCBS shakes up its ranks amid cost-cutting. Plus: Remembering Terry Jones, and CAA sets its management board. --Alex Weprin What's news: Streamers take center stage and the hot list takes shape at Sundance, the Harvey Weinstein trial gets underway in New York, the former Grammys CEO filed an explosive lawsuit, Netflix reported a strong quarter and changed its viewing metrics, ViacomCBS shakes up its ranks amid cost-cutting. Plus: Remembering Terry Jones, and CAA sets its management board. --Alex Weprin [Sundance 2020] Sundance 2020 Hollywood will descend on Park City, Utah this week as the Sundance Film Festival gets underway. Screenings, panels, and parties will officially kick off tomorrow, running through February 2, when the Grand Jury prizes are announced. ►A story to follow: Oprah’s Russell Simmons doc withdrawal angers accusers and activists. Winfrey’s decision to pull her support from On  the  Record, the Sundance-bound film about Simmons' alleged sexual misconduct, sparks anxiety for those involved in the project, Rebecca Keegan and Tatiana Siegel report. Quote: "The last few days have been like a hellscape that I honestly can't even really believe is real," Drew Dixon, the film's main accuser tells THR. "I'm still just trying to wrap my head around the fact that somehow this is where we all find ourselves going into Sundance, which was already a source of anxiety, and now it's just turned into a pressure cooker and it's really, really scary." [The story](. ►The Sundance hot list: Will Sundance 2020 offer a repeat of last year's explosive market when a record four films sold for more than $13 million apiece, totaling $56 million? Probably not, given that those four — New Line's Blinded by the Light and Amazon's Late Night, The Report and Brittany Runs a Marathon — earned a combined $47 million at the box office. So a market correction could be in order. While some active buyers in recent years have retreated from the distribution space (like Annapurna), others may be picking up the slack (HBO Max, Apple and even Disney+). [Here's THR's hot list of 12 titles that could tempt cautious buyers](. +The schedule. Screenings begin tomorrow, with the full lineup kicking into high gear on Friday. Conversations with Jeffrey Katzenberg and Ron Howard are on the schedule for Friday, Carrie Brownstein and Rufus Wainwright on Saturday, and Hillary Clinton on Sunday. [The full schedule](. ^The streaming dealmakers: It was the independent studio that once reigned supreme at Sundance, snapping up exciting new projects and filmmakers with the promise of showcasing their work on the big screen. But in the age of deep-pocketed streamers — Netflix committed $15 billion for original content in 2019, Amazon devoted $7.5 billion, Apple appointed $6 billion and Hulu spent $2.5 billion — indie filmmakers are finding new demand for their work on the small screen. [Here's who'll be repping the streamers on the ground in Park City](. Meanwhile, in New York City... ►The Harvey Weinstein trial will begin this morning, as the prosecution and defense deliver their opening statements. On Tuesday morning, attorneys for Harvey Weinstein and the State of New York fought over the confines of their opening statements in the former movie mogul’s sexual assault trial, which will be delivered to the 12-person jury today. Judge James M. Burke ruled on Tuesday that Weinstein lawyer Damon Cheronis will be allowed to quote from emails that were exchanged between Weinstein and his accusers in his presentation, but will not be allowed to display the emails in full. The defense views the emails as a central piece of exculpatory evidence. [The story](. ►In other legal news, ousted Recording Academy chief Deborah Dugan has filed an explosive lawsuit. Dugan says she was put on leave because she threatened to take legal action over alleged misconduct including sexual harassment by the Recording Academy's general counsel Joel Katz and being asked to hire ex-CEO Neil Portnow as a consultant despite a rape allegation from a recording artist. She also alleges that Grammy nominations include instances of insider dealing. [The story](. ►APA has signed an agreement with the Writers Guild of America. The news comes four days after fellow full-service agency Gersh did the same, earning the green light from the union to resume representation of its members. The two lead a growing list of agencies that have individually come to terms with the WGA, which remains locked in a nine-month stalemate with the Association of Talent Agents. [More](. Elsewhere in film... --Netflix [has landed]( the Bradley Cooper-fronted Leonard Bernstein movie that was previously set up at Paramount. The movie will act as Cooper's directorial follow-up to A Star is Born, with the actor having also co-written the screenplay about the legendary composer with Spotlight and The Post scribe Josh Singer. --Kung Fu is finding new life. Universal has optioned the 1970s martial arts Western television show and [is developing it]( as a big-screen property with director David Leitch. --Bad Boys producer Jerry Bruckheimer [on the sequel](and Top Gun training. --After Oscars' snub of female filmmakers for best director, Kenyan director Wanuri Kahiu [urged Davos delegates]( to buy cinema tickets to support women directing movies in Hollywood and worldwide. --Pamela Anderson and movie mogul Jon Peters [tied the knot]( in a private ceremony in Malibu on Jan. 20. Sundance 2020 Hollywood will descend on Park City, Utah this week as the Sundance Film Festival gets underway. Screenings, panels, and parties will officially kick off tomorrow, running through February 2, when the Grand Jury prizes are announced. ►A story to follow: Oprah’s Russell Simmons doc withdrawal angers accusers and activists. Winfrey’s decision to pull her support from On  the  Record, the Sundance-bound film about Simmons' alleged sexual misconduct, sparks anxiety for those involved in the project, Rebecca Keegan and Tatiana Siegel report. Quote: "The last few days have been like a hellscape that I honestly can't even really believe is real," Drew Dixon, the film's main accuser tells THR. "I'm still just trying to wrap my head around the fact that somehow this is where we all find ourselves going into Sundance, which was already a source of anxiety, and now it's just turned into a pressure cooker and it's really, really scary." [The story](. ►The Sundance hot list: Will Sundance 2020 offer a repeat of last year's explosive market when a record four films sold for more than $13 million apiece, totaling $56 million? Probably not, given that those four — New Line's Blinded by the Light and Amazon's Late Night, The Report and Brittany Runs a Marathon — earned a combined $47 million at the box office. So a market correction could be in order. While some active buyers in recent years have retreated from the distribution space (like Annapurna), others may be picking up the slack (HBO Max, Apple and even Disney+). [Here's THR's hot list of 12 titles that could tempt cautious buyers](. +The schedule. Screenings begin tomorrow, with the full lineup kicking into high gear on Friday. Conversations with Jeffrey Katzenberg and Ron Howard are on the schedule for Friday, Carrie Brownstein and Rufus Wainwright on Saturday, and Hillary Clinton on Sunday. [The full schedule](. ^The streaming dealmakers: It was the independent studio that once reigned supreme at Sundance, snapping up exciting new projects and filmmakers with the promise of showcasing their work on the big screen. But in the age of deep-pocketed streamers — Netflix committed $15 billion for original content in 2019, Amazon devoted $7.5 billion, Apple appointed $6 billion and Hulu spent $2.5 billion — indie filmmakers are finding new demand for their work on the small screen. [Here's who'll be repping the streamers on the ground in Park City](. Meanwhile, in New York City... ►The Harvey Weinstein trial will begin this morning, as the prosecution and defense deliver their opening statements. On Tuesday morning, attorneys for Harvey Weinstein and the State of New York fought over the confines of their opening statements in the former movie mogul’s sexual assault trial, which will be delivered to the 12-person jury today. Judge James M. Burke ruled on Tuesday that Weinstein lawyer Damon Cheronis will be allowed to quote from emails that were exchanged between Weinstein and his accusers in his presentation, but will not be allowed to display the emails in full. The defense views the emails as a central piece of exculpatory evidence. [The story](. ►In other legal news, ousted Recording Academy chief Deborah Dugan has filed an explosive lawsuit. Dugan says she was put on leave because she threatened to take legal action over alleged misconduct including sexual harassment by the Recording Academy's general counsel Joel Katz and being asked to hire ex-CEO Neil Portnow as a consultant despite a rape allegation from a recording artist. She also alleges that Grammy nominations include instances of insider dealing. [The story](. ►APA has signed an agreement with the Writers Guild of America. The news comes four days after fellow full-service agency Gersh did the same, earning the green light from the union to resume representation of its members. The two lead a growing list of agencies that have individually come to terms with the WGA, which remains locked in a nine-month stalemate with the Association of Talent Agents. [More](. Elsewhere in film... --Netflix [has landed]( the Bradley Cooper-fronted Leonard Bernstein movie that was previously set up at Paramount. The movie will act as Cooper's directorial follow-up to A Star is Born, with the actor having also co-written the screenplay about the legendary composer with Spotlight and The Post scribe Josh Singer. --Kung Fu is finding new life. Universal has optioned the 1970s martial arts Western television show and [is developing it]( as a big-screen property with director David Leitch. --Bad Boys producer Jerry Bruckheimer [on the sequel](and Top Gun training. --After Oscars' snub of female filmmakers for best director, Kenyan director Wanuri Kahiu [urged Davos delegates]( to buy cinema tickets to support women directing movies in Hollywood and worldwide. --Pamela Anderson and movie mogul Jon Peters [tied the knot]( in a private ceremony in Malibu on Jan. 20. [Netflix Under Pressure] Netflix Under Pressure ►Netflix doesn't appear to be feeling the heat from Disney+ just yet. The streamer added nearly 8.8 million subscribers during the fourth quarter of 2019, a period when the company faced increased competition as new streaming entries from Disney and Apple entered the market. The company now has 167 million global members, up 20 percent from the same period last year. That includes 420,000 new subscribers in the U.S., where Netflix has the most market saturation, and 8.3 million new subscribers abroad. [The quarterly results](. Netflix also revealed that it would be changing the way it measures viewership of its content, shifting from counting a view as an account that watched at least 70 percent of a movie or TV show, to any account that watches two minutes of any particular show or movie. +TV show viewership data: In the quarterly investor letter, Netflix revealed viewership for recent TV launches The Witcher as well as new seasons of hits The Crown and Lifetime rescue You. The big winner was The Witcher, with the service saying that through four weeks of release, 76 million member households watched the fantasy drama (under its new metrics). [The numbers](. +Also: Michael Bay's big-budget action pic 6 Underground, starring Ryan Reynolds, was viewed by 83 member households in its first four weeks on Netflix, once again using the new viewership metric. [More](. +Netflix spent $150 million in New Mexico on film and TV productions in 2019. Just more than a year after Netflix set up its first major U.S. production hub in New Mexico by buying ABQ Studios in Albuquerque, a clearer picture of the partnership is emerging as state lawmakers kicked off a 30-day legislative session on Jan. 21. [Bryn Elise Sandberg has the story](. +Greenlight Capital founder David Einhorn says that his firm has increased its short position on Netflix, arguing that “there is a lot of downside to the shares” in a new letter to investors released Tuesday. The market celebrated NFLX as the king of a perceived 'winner-take-all' (or 'winner-take-most') global market for streaming video-on-demand (VOD),” Einhorn wrote in the letter. “We believe this narrative is finally coming to an end.” [More](. ^NBCUniversal finally embraces streaming, but won't sacrifice cable business. Comcast brass are wary of jeopardizing NBCU's $11.8 billion cable revenue even as the conglomerate lays groundwork for its streaming future, Natalie Jarvey writes: "We think we've identified a unique approach." Quote: "With Peacock, Comcast has found a compromise: a product that it hopes will appeal to streaming natives but not necessarily entice existing cable subscribers to cut the cord and jeopardize NBCUniversal's $11.8 billion cable business. However, by aiming to mollify its cable provider partners with the Peacock unveiling, the conglomerate risks eventual Wall Street ire over what could be more modest streaming subscriber gains than its rivals achieve." [The story](. +NBCUniversal's Linda Yaccarino told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday that the media industry got the consumer experience "really wrong" in live linear TV in the U.S., but the company's planned streaming service Peacock will ensure that "the viewer doesn’t experience ad nauseam the same ad over and over." [More](. ►CAA forms new board to lead day-to-day operations. The board will be comprised of representatives from across the agency's divisions, including sports, music, motion pictures, television, brand consulting and diversity and inclusion. Half of the board members are women, which fulfills the company's 50/50 by 2020 pledge that was taken in December 2017. [The details](. +Revolving door, part one: TikToker Addison Easterling, aka Addison Rae, has [signed with WME]( in all areas... Amy Doyle, who serves as general manager at Chris McCarthy's MTV, VH1, CMT and Logo, has [opted to exit]( her role after 20 years with the media giant... Nina L. Diaz and Tanya Giles will [both take on responsibilities]( previously held by Doyle... Pose co-creator Steven Canals has [signed an overall deal]( with producers 20th Century Fox Television... Verve is invigorating its literary business with the addition of Chernin Entertainment exec Chris Lupo, [who will lead]( its book-to-screen efforts... +ViacomCBS remakes executive ranks amid cost-cutting. As CEO Bob Bakish installs a new tier of toppers and cuts costs, CBS boss Joe Ianniello might exit even sooner than many expect, Paul Bond reports. [More](. ►Royal family getting animated satire treatment at HBO Max. The Prince, featuring Tom Hollander as the voice of Princes Philip and Charles, is based on Gary Janetti's parody account. The series, like the Instagram account (with its 882,000 followers), is a send-up of the British Royals as told through the eyes of a young Prince George, the eldest child of Prince William and Princess Kate. [The story](. +What will the Parasite TV series look like at HBO? Bong Joon Ho tells Rebecca Ford "there were so many stories that I thought of that could happen in between the sequences you see in the film, and some background stories for each character. I really wanted to explore those ideas freely with a five- or six-hour film." [More](. Elsewhere in TV... --Former Teen Vogue editor Elaine Welteroth has [optioned her memoir]( More Than Enough for development as a TV series. --Why Patrick Stewart [turned down]( a classic Star Trek arc. --Ratings: The Bachelor [bounced back]( from last week's ratings dip to lead ABC to a first-place finish among adults 18-49 Monday night. NBC's America's Got Talent: The Champions also improved week to week. Netflix Under Pressure ►Netflix doesn't appear to be feeling the heat from Disney+ just yet. The streamer added nearly 8.8 million subscribers during the fourth quarter of 2019, a period when the company faced increased competition as new streaming entries from Disney and Apple entered the market. The company now has 167 million global members, up 20 percent from the same period last year. That includes 420,000 new subscribers in the U.S., where Netflix has the most market saturation, and 8.3 million new subscribers abroad. [The quarterly results](. Netflix also revealed that it would be changing the way it measures viewership of its content, shifting from counting a view as an account that watched at least 70 percent of a movie or TV show, to any account that watches two minutes of any particular show or movie. +TV show viewership data: In the quarterly investor letter, Netflix revealed viewership for recent TV launches The Witcher as well as new seasons of hits The Crown and Lifetime rescue You. The big winner was The Witcher, with the service saying that through four weeks of release, 76 million member households watched the fantasy drama (under its new metrics). [The numbers](. +Also: Michael Bay's big-budget action pic 6 Underground, starring Ryan Reynolds, was viewed by 83 member households in its first four weeks on Netflix, once again using the new viewership metric. [More](. +Netflix spent $150 million in New Mexico on film and TV productions in 2019. Just more than a year after Netflix set up its first major U.S. production hub in New Mexico by buying ABQ Studios in Albuquerque, a clearer picture of the partnership is emerging as state lawmakers kicked off a 30-day legislative session on Jan. 21. [Bryn Elise Sandberg has the story](. +Greenlight Capital founder David Einhorn says that his firm has increased its short position on Netflix, arguing that “there is a lot of downside to the shares” in a new letter to investors released Tuesday. The market celebrated NFLX as the king of a perceived 'winner-take-all' (or 'winner-take-most') global market for streaming video-on-demand (VOD),” Einhorn wrote in the letter. “We believe this narrative is finally coming to an end.” [More](. ^NBCUniversal finally embraces streaming, but won't sacrifice cable business. Comcast brass are wary of jeopardizing NBCU's $11.8 billion cable revenue even as the conglomerate lays groundwork for its streaming future, Natalie Jarvey writes: "We think we've identified a unique approach." Quote: "With Peacock, Comcast has found a compromise: a product that it hopes will appeal to streaming natives but not necessarily entice existing cable subscribers to cut the cord and jeopardize NBCUniversal's $11.8 billion cable business. However, by aiming to mollify its cable provider partners with the Peacock unveiling, the conglomerate risks eventual Wall Street ire over what could be more modest streaming subscriber gains than its rivals achieve." [The story](. +NBCUniversal's Linda Yaccarino told the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday that the media industry got the consumer experience "really wrong" in live linear TV in the U.S., but the company's planned streaming service Peacock will ensure that "the viewer doesn’t experience ad nauseam the same ad over and over." [More](. ►CAA forms new board to lead day-to-day operations. The board will be comprised of representatives from across the agency's divisions, including sports, music, motion pictures, television, brand consulting and diversity and inclusion. Half of the board members are women, which fulfills the company's 50/50 by 2020 pledge that was taken in December 2017. [The details](. +Revolving door, part one: TikToker Addison Easterling, aka Addison Rae, has [signed with WME]( in all areas... Amy Doyle, who serves as general manager at Chris McCarthy's MTV, VH1, CMT and Logo, has [opted to exit]( her role after 20 years with the media giant... Nina L. Diaz and Tanya Giles will [both take on responsibilities]( previously held by Doyle... Pose co-creator Steven Canals has [signed an overall deal]( with producers 20th Century Fox Television... Verve is invigorating its literary business with the addition of Chernin Entertainment exec Chris Lupo, [who will lead]( its book-to-screen efforts... +ViacomCBS remakes executive ranks amid cost-cutting. As CEO Bob Bakish installs a new tier of toppers and cuts costs, CBS boss Joe Ianniello might exit even sooner than many expect, Paul Bond reports. [More](. ►Royal family getting animated satire treatment at HBO Max. The Prince, featuring Tom Hollander as the voice of Princes Philip and Charles, is based on Gary Janetti's parody account. The series, like the Instagram account (with its 882,000 followers), is a send-up of the British Royals as told through the eyes of a young Prince George, the eldest child of Prince William and Princess Kate. [The story](. +What will the Parasite TV series look like at HBO? Bong Joon Ho tells Rebecca Ford "there were so many stories that I thought of that could happen in between the sequences you see in the film, and some background stories for each character. I really wanted to explore those ideas freely with a five- or six-hour film." [More](. Elsewhere in TV... --Former Teen Vogue editor Elaine Welteroth has [optioned her memoir]( More Than Enough for development as a TV series. --Why Patrick Stewart [turned down]( a classic Star Trek arc. --Ratings: The Bachelor [bounced back]( from last week's ratings dip to lead ABC to a first-place finish among adults 18-49 Monday night. NBC's America's Got Talent: The Champions also improved week to week. [Terry Jones: 1942-2020] Terry Jones: 1942-2020 Obituary: Terry Jones, a founding member of Monty Python and a beloved comedian, screenwriter, film director, poet, historian and author, has died. He was 77. His agent confirmed his death to the BBC. He had been suffering from dementia, which was revealed publicly by his son, Bill, in September 2016. It left him unable to speak. [The obituary](. +The news of Jones' death provoked an instant outpouring of emotion across the U.K.'s entertainment world on Wednesday. His Monty Python colleagues John Cleese and Michael Palin shared their thoughts, as did Stephen Fry, Neil Gaiman, and others. [The tributes](. ►Theater review: A Soldier's Play. David Alan Grier and Blair Underwood head the cast in director Kenny Leon's Broadway premiere of Charles Fuller's Pulitzer-winning 1981 race drama set on a Louisiana Army base during World War II. [David Rooney's review](. Revolving door, part two: Universal Content Productions [has signed]( It and Annabelle franchise writer Gary Dauberman to a first-look TV deal... Oscar-winning producer John Battsek has [left Passion Pictures]( after two decades to help launch Ventureland... Wheelhouse Group is [adding a chief creative officer](to its executive ranks, bringing CAA vet Eric Wattenberg aboard... Vice Studios [has signed]( with WME to represent its unscripted projects in the United States... The San Francisco International Film Festival, known as SFFilm, named Anne Lai [as its new executive director]( on Tuesday, the first woman of color to hold the title... ^How 1917 can win the best picture Oscar with no acting nominations. Stephen Galloway lays out the film's path to Academy glory, writing that "Ultimately, 1917's best calling card is itself. After years in which the Academy has rewarded art house releases, it now has a chance to honor a legitimate box office hit without being condemned for conventionality (as with Green Book)." [The column](. +Another honor for Bong Joon Ho: The South Korean filmmaker whose 2019 dramedy Parasite has brought him international acclaim and Oscar nominations for producing, directing and writing, will be feted by the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on Thursday with its Outstanding Director of the Year Award. [More](. +Also: The Berlin Film Festival on Wednesday unveiled its [Generations sidebar lineup](, consisting of 59 children and youth films, with 58 percent of the titles, both feature-length and short films, directed by women... Norman Lear is not Irish — neither was Archie Bunker, apparently — but that won't stop him [from being honored]( at the 15th annual Oscar Wilde Awards... Media advocacy organization GLAAD revealed on Wednesday[that it will honor]( actress and activist Judith Light with the Excellence in Media award at the 31st annual GLAAD Media Awards... Casting roundup: Emmy winner and Oscar nominee Laura Dern is the newest A-lister to team up with Quibi. The Marriage Story and Little Women actress [will star in]( and ep Just One Drink for the streamer... Justin Long [will host]( a competition show called Shop Class on Disney+... Acting Oscar winners from 2019 Mahershala Ali, Olivia Colman, Regina King and Rami Malek [will present]( at the 2020 Oscars... Raul Castillo [has been added]( to Guy Ritchie's latest thriller Cash Truck... What else we're reading... --"Peggy Siegal sends her regrets" [[Vanity Fair](] --"CBS bets big on Star Trek: Picard to boost streaming business" [[WSJ](] --"Quibi’s CEO Meg Whitman compared reporters to sexual predators" [[The Information](] --"Michael Barbaro made the New York Times podcast The Daily a raging success. Or is it the other way around?" [[New York magazine](] --"Mark Cuban once crashed the NBA's party. Now he hosts it" [[The Ringer](] Today's birthdays: Guy Fieri, 52, Justin Hurwitz, 35, Linda Blair, 61. Terry Jones: 1942-2020 Obituary: Terry Jones, a founding member of Monty Python and a beloved comedian, screenwriter, film director, poet, historian and author, has died. He was 77. His agent confirmed his death to the BBC. He had been suffering from dementia, which was revealed publicly by his son, Bill, in September 2016. It left him unable to speak. [The obituary](. +The news of Jones' death provoked an instant outpouring of emotion across the U.K.'s entertainment world on Wednesday. His Monty Python colleagues John Cleese and Michael Palin shared their thoughts, as did Stephen Fry, Neil Gaiman, and others. [The tributes](. ►Theater review: A Soldier's Play. David Alan Grier and Blair Underwood head the cast in director Kenny Leon's Broadway premiere of Charles Fuller's Pulitzer-winning 1981 race drama set on a Louisiana Army base during World War II. [David Rooney's review](. Revolving door, part two: Universal Content Productions [has signed]( It and Annabelle franchise writer Gary Dauberman to a first-look TV deal... Oscar-winning producer John Battsek has [left Passion Pictures]( after two decades to help launch Ventureland... Wheelhouse Group is [adding a chief creative officer](to its executive ranks, bringing CAA vet Eric Wattenberg aboard... Vice Studios [has signed]( with WME to represent its unscripted projects in the United States... The San Francisco International Film Festival, known as SFFilm, named Anne Lai [as its new executive director]( on Tuesday, the first woman of color to hold the title... ^How 1917 can win the best picture Oscar with no acting nominations. Stephen Galloway lays out the film's path to Academy glory, writing that "Ultimately, 1917's best calling card is itself. After years in which the Academy has rewarded art house releases, it now has a chance to honor a legitimate box office hit without being condemned for conventionality (as with Green Book)." [The column](. +Another honor for Bong Joon Ho: The South Korean filmmaker whose 2019 dramedy Parasite has brought him international acclaim and Oscar nominations for producing, directing and writing, will be feted by the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on Thursday with its Outstanding Director of the Year Award. [More](. +Also: The Berlin Film Festival on Wednesday unveiled its [Generations sidebar lineup](, consisting of 59 children and youth films, with 58 percent of the titles, both feature-length and short films, directed by women... Norman Lear is not Irish — neither was Archie Bunker, apparently — but that won't stop him [from being honored]( at the 15th annual Oscar Wilde Awards... Media advocacy organization GLAAD revealed on Wednesday[that it will honor]( actress and activist Judith Light with the Excellence in Media award at the 31st annual GLAAD Media Awards... Casting roundup: Emmy winner and Oscar nominee Laura Dern is the newest A-lister to team up with Quibi. The Marriage Story and Little Women actress [will star in]( and ep Just One Drink for the streamer... Justin Long [will host]( a competition show called Shop Class on Disney+... Acting Oscar winners from 2019 Mahershala Ali, Olivia Colman, Regina King and Rami Malek [will present]( at the 2020 Oscars... Raul Castillo [has been added]( to Guy Ritchie's latest thriller Cash Truck... What else we're reading... --"Peggy Siegal sends her regrets" [[Vanity Fair](] --"CBS bets big on Star Trek: Picard to boost streaming business" [[WSJ](] --"Quibi’s CEO Meg Whitman compared reporters to sexual predators" [[The Information](] --"Michael Barbaro made the New York Times podcast The Daily a raging success. Or is it the other way around?" [[New York magazine](] --"Mark Cuban once crashed the NBA's party. Now he hosts it" [[The Ringer](] Today's birthdays: Guy Fieri, 52, Justin Hurwitz, 35, Linda Blair, 61. [Image] [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn]( Is this e-mail not displaying correctly? [View it in your browser.]( ©2020 The Hollywood Reporter. 5700 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036 All rights reserved. JANUARY 22, 2020 [UNSUBSCRIBE]( [MANAGE PREFERENCES]( [PRIVACY POLICY]( [TERMS OF USE](