Rethinking Hollywood's Relationship With the Police

What's news: Rethinking Hollywood's relationship with the police, strict travel rules and rising virus cases complicate a return to production, meet the Film Academy's newly-invited members, Fox News fires anchor Ed Henry over misconduct claims, $19 million Harvey Weinstein settlement, Emma Watts jumps to Paramount, Bozoma Saint John jumps to Netflix, Naveen Chopra named ViacomCBS CFO. Plus: Curb Your Enthusiasm renewed, and looking back on Carl Reiner's legacy. --Alex Weprin What's news: Rethinking Hollywood's relationship with the police, strict travel rules and rising virus cases complicate a return to production, meet the Film Academy's newly-invited members, Fox News fires anchor Ed Henry over misconduct claims, $19 million Harvey Weinstein settlement, Emma Watts jumps to Paramount, Bozoma Saint John jumps to Netflix, Naveen Chopra named ViacomCBS CFO. Plus: Curb Your Enthusiasm renewed, and looking back on Carl Reiner's legacy. --Alex Weprin [The Hollywood Reporter]( [The Hollywood Reporter]( Today In Entertainment JULY 01, 2020 What's news: Rethinking Hollywood's relationship with the police, strict travel rules and rising virus cases complicate a return to production, meet the Film Academy's newly-invited members, Fox News fires anchor Ed Henry over misconduct claims, $19 million Harvey Weinstein settlement, Emma Watts jumps to Paramount, Bozoma Saint John jumps to Netflix, Naveen Chopra named ViacomCBS CFO. Plus: Curb Your Enthusiasm renewed, and looking back on Carl Reiner's legacy. --Alex Weprin What's news: Rethinking Hollywood's relationship with the police, strict travel rules and rising virus cases complicate a return to production, meet the Film Academy's newly-invited members, Fox News fires anchor Ed Henry over misconduct claims, $19 million Harvey Weinstein settlement, Emma Watts jumps to Paramount, Bozoma Saint John jumps to Netflix, Naveen Chopra named ViacomCBS CFO. Plus: Curb Your Enthusiasm renewed, and looking back on Carl Reiner's legacy. --Alex Weprin [Hollywood and the Police] Hollywood and the Police On the cover: Hollywood and the police: A deep, complicated and now strained relationship. The entertainment industry has always had close ties with law enforcement, but with talent calling for a clean break, those bonds are more fraught than ever, Tatiana Siegel reports: "It's just standing up for what we all know is not correct." --"If I am a director and I am shooting a scene where I'm driving with cameras in the car, do I really have to have cops with guns escorting me through that?" Ava DuVernay asks. "These militarized forces have been allowed to invade so many parts of our lives. Folks that live in certain areas may not feel it, but if you are in areas where there are no other resources, the police are a stopgap in our current society for everything. And that can be reimagined. That is not a radical idea. That is an idea that's steeped in humanity and dignity and justice. Pull back and say, 'We've given the police too much wherewithal, too much power in that space.' And that's what defunding the police is about." --Former NYPD detective Sgt. Joseph Giacalone, who teaches criminal justice at John Jay College, accuses the industry of hypocrisy in its outrage. "Anything that anybody from Hollywood says on this is so disingenuous," says Giacalone. "They don't live in neighborhoods with high crime rates. They live in walled mansions with private security. They're going to say, 'Defund the police'? If they call the police, the police are going to come to them. What about the poor people?" --"[W]ill Hollywood have the appetite to actually disassociate or divest [from law enforcement relationships]? THR reached out to the five major studios — Disney, Warner Bros., NBCUniversal, Sony and Paramount — to address the demands. All declined to comment on the record. On background, several pointed to their internal efforts to bolster a diverse staff and external investments in social justice organizations, but none would address their enduring reliance on police-themed content and ties with law enforcement or how they plan to meet this watershed moment." [The cover story](. ►Just in: Apple lands Will Smith, Antoine Fuqua Cannes package Emancipation. Many of the major studios were vying for the package being sold out of the Cannes virtual market. Warner Bros and Apple were the final two bidders, with Apple taking the project for a massive price tag. [The story](. Hollywood and the Police On the cover: Hollywood and the police: A deep, complicated and now strained relationship. The entertainment industry has always had close ties with law enforcement, but with talent calling for a clean break, those bonds are more fraught than ever, Tatiana Siegel reports: "It's just standing up for what we all know is not correct." --"If I am a director and I am shooting a scene where I'm driving with cameras in the car, do I really have to have cops with guns escorting me through that?" Ava DuVernay asks. "These militarized forces have been allowed to invade so many parts of our lives. Folks that live in certain areas may not feel it, but if you are in areas where there are no other resources, the police are a stopgap in our current society for everything. And that can be reimagined. That is not a radical idea. That is an idea that's steeped in humanity and dignity and justice. Pull back and say, 'We've given the police too much wherewithal, too much power in that space.' And that's what defunding the police is about." --Former NYPD detective Sgt. Joseph Giacalone, who teaches criminal justice at John Jay College, accuses the industry of hypocrisy in its outrage. "Anything that anybody from Hollywood says on this is so disingenuous," says Giacalone. "They don't live in neighborhoods with high crime rates. They live in walled mansions with private security. They're going to say, 'Defund the police'? If they call the police, the police are going to come to them. What about the poor people?" --"[W]ill Hollywood have the appetite to actually disassociate or divest [from law enforcement relationships]? THR reached out to the five major studios — Disney, Warner Bros., NBCUniversal, Sony and Paramount — to address the demands. All declined to comment on the record. On background, several pointed to their internal efforts to bolster a diverse staff and external investments in social justice organizations, but none would address their enduring reliance on police-themed content and ties with law enforcement or how they plan to meet this watershed moment." [The cover story](. ►Just in: Apple lands Will Smith, Antoine Fuqua Cannes package Emancipation. Many of the major studios were vying for the package being sold out of the Cannes virtual market. Warner Bros and Apple were the final two bidders, with Apple taking the project for a massive price tag. [The story](. [Travel Orders and Rising Virus Cases Pose Production Problems] Travel Orders and Rising Virus Cases Pose Production Problems ►Hollywood's reopening dilemma: "We can't afford to get this wrong." As Disney delays its Anaheim park restart and major studios and theaters pull back on their mid-July release plans, film and TV shoots face renewed uncertainty, Ryan Parker writes: "Day to day, everything could change." --"We've seen a real slow return in the two weeks that we've had so far," says FilmLA president Paul Audley. And if the L.A. County Department of Public Health does pull back on the reopening, it'll likely be because of hospitalization rates, not necessarily testing numbers. "We'll take our guidance directly from the health department," Audley adds. "If they think it's time to pull back, we'll let the industry know that." [The story](. +As Toronto restarts production, strict travel orders are a barrier for Hollywood. Pinewood Toronto Studios chairman Paul Bronfman predicts: "Nothing significant will be shooting until after Labor Day. Things will take time to get used to, production will take more time on set, and it will cost producers more money." [The story](. +Europe's U.S. travel ban won't stop international production (but it won't help). "It's a genuine concern, especially for an international facing company like ours," says Stuart Ford, CEO of indie production and sales group AGC Studios. "A lot of our material is ideally suited for shooting in Europe." [The story](. Film Academy invites 819 new members, with 36 percent people of color. Awkwafina, Matthew Cherry, Cynthia Erivo, Alma Har'el, Zendaya and two people named Ryan Murphy — one the famous content creator, the other a sound technician — are among 819 members of the global film community who on Tuesday received invitations to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Scott Feinberg writes. --Hollywood's most exclusive club reports that of this year's invitations — which, in total, are down from a record 928 last year, but more than any other year in the Academy's 93-year history — 45 percent went to women, 36 percent to people of color and 49 percent to people based outside of the United States, all part of the Academy's concerted push to diversify its membership that began in earnest in 2016, in the wake of the #OscarsSoWhite controversy. [The list](. ►Just in: Fox News has fired anchor Ed Henry over sexual misconduct claims. The network says it terminated the America's Newsroom anchor and former chief White House correspondent and after receiving a complaint from a former employee's attorney. The cable news channel says that a rotating group of anchors will co-host America’s Newsroom alongside Sandra Smith until a permanent replacement is named. [The story.]( An $18.875 million settlement fund will be created as part of a deal to resolve a class action complaint against Harvey Weinstein and The Weinstein Company. The settlement resolves a series of civil suits alleging Weinstein "engaged in a pattern of sexual harassment and abuse" as well as a lawsuit from the New York Attorney General's Office that alleged he created a hostile work environment and the conduct was aided and abetted by the company in violation of the state's human rights laws. [The story](. +"Sh**ty Media Men" list creator unable to escape libel suit. In a decision with potentially large ramifications, New York Federal Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall won't dismiss a libel suit against "Sh*tty Media Men" creator Moira Donegan. The complaint comes from Stephen Elliott, a widely published author and director of About Cherry and Happy Baby who was upset about his inclusion in a spreadsheet that circulated in the wake of allegations against Harvey Weinstein. [The story](. +President Donald Trump's niece is temporarily barred from releasing her upcoming book Too Much and Never Enough, How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man, a New York judge ruled Tuesday. [More](. Some significant revolving door moves... +Paramount Pictures names Emma Watts president of the motion picture group. She'll report to studio chief Jim Gianopulos, whom she previously worked for at 20th Century Fox. She succeeds Wyck Godfrey, who will be stepping down and returning to producing movies and television shows. He has been chief of the Paramount Motion Picture Group since early 2018. [More](. +Bozoma Saint John exits Endeavor for Netflix CMO post. Saint John will take over for Jackie Lee-Joe, the former BBC Studios CMO who was tapped to lead marketing at Netflix in July 2019. Lee-Joe had been filling a role previously held by Kelly Bennett, who stepped down from his role that year after six years at the streamer. [More.]( +ViacomCBS hires Amazon executive Naveen Chopra as CFO. He succeeds Christina Spade, who will transition into an advisory role after the company’s second-quarter earnings call. Spade has been the highest-ranking CBS corporate executive left at the firm after the December recombination of Viacom and CBS. Chopra joins as executive vp and CFO from Amazon, where he served as CFO of Amazon’s devices and services business. [More](. +Revolving door: Dirty Films — the production banner from Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton — has [signed a first look film deal]( with New Republic Pictures... Wayfarer Studios, the banner behind successful teen drama Five Feet Apart and upcoming Disney+ feature Clouds, [has tapped]( Andrew Calof as president of production, across both film and television... Christopher Jackson, who earned a Tony nomination for originating the role of George Washington in the Broadway production Hamilton, [has signed](with CAA... Red Arrow Studios CEO James Baker [will leave]( the company... Travel Orders and Rising Virus Cases Pose Production Problems ►Hollywood's reopening dilemma: "We can't afford to get this wrong." As Disney delays its Anaheim park restart and major studios and theaters pull back on their mid-July release plans, film and TV shoots face renewed uncertainty, Ryan Parker writes: "Day to day, everything could change." --"We've seen a real slow return in the two weeks that we've had so far," says FilmLA president Paul Audley. And if the L.A. County Department of Public Health does pull back on the reopening, it'll likely be because of hospitalization rates, not necessarily testing numbers. "We'll take our guidance directly from the health department," Audley adds. "If they think it's time to pull back, we'll let the industry know that." [The story](. +As Toronto restarts production, strict travel orders are a barrier for Hollywood. Pinewood Toronto Studios chairman Paul Bronfman predicts: "Nothing significant will be shooting until after Labor Day. Things will take time to get used to, production will take more time on set, and it will cost producers more money." [The story](. +Europe's U.S. travel ban won't stop international production (but it won't help). "It's a genuine concern, especially for an international facing company like ours," says Stuart Ford, CEO of indie production and sales group AGC Studios. "A lot of our material is ideally suited for shooting in Europe." [The story](. Film Academy invites 819 new members, with 36 percent people of color. Awkwafina, Matthew Cherry, Cynthia Erivo, Alma Har'el, Zendaya and two people named Ryan Murphy — one the famous content creator, the other a sound technician — are among 819 members of the global film community who on Tuesday received invitations to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Scott Feinberg writes. --Hollywood's most exclusive club reports that of this year's invitations — which, in total, are down from a record 928 last year, but more than any other year in the Academy's 93-year history — 45 percent went to women, 36 percent to people of color and 49 percent to people based outside of the United States, all part of the Academy's concerted push to diversify its membership that began in earnest in 2016, in the wake of the #OscarsSoWhite controversy. [The list](. ►Just in: Fox News has fired anchor Ed Henry over sexual misconduct claims. The network says it terminated the America's Newsroom anchor and former chief White House correspondent and after receiving a complaint from a former employee's attorney. The cable news channel says that a rotating group of anchors will co-host America’s Newsroom alongside Sandra Smith until a permanent replacement is named. [The story.]( An $18.875 million settlement fund will be created as part of a deal to resolve a class action complaint against Harvey Weinstein and The Weinstein Company. The settlement resolves a series of civil suits alleging Weinstein "engaged in a pattern of sexual harassment and abuse" as well as a lawsuit from the New York Attorney General's Office that alleged he created a hostile work environment and the conduct was aided and abetted by the company in violation of the state's human rights laws. [The story](. +"Sh**ty Media Men" list creator unable to escape libel suit. In a decision with potentially large ramifications, New York Federal Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall won't dismiss a libel suit against "Sh*tty Media Men" creator Moira Donegan. The complaint comes from Stephen Elliott, a widely published author and director of About Cherry and Happy Baby who was upset about his inclusion in a spreadsheet that circulated in the wake of allegations against Harvey Weinstein. [The story](. +President Donald Trump's niece is temporarily barred from releasing her upcoming book Too Much and Never Enough, How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man, a New York judge ruled Tuesday. [More](. Some significant revolving door moves... +Paramount Pictures names Emma Watts president of the motion picture group. She'll report to studio chief Jim Gianopulos, whom she previously worked for at 20th Century Fox. She succeeds Wyck Godfrey, who will be stepping down and returning to producing movies and television shows. He has been chief of the Paramount Motion Picture Group since early 2018. [More](. +Bozoma Saint John exits Endeavor for Netflix CMO post. Saint John will take over for Jackie Lee-Joe, the former BBC Studios CMO who was tapped to lead marketing at Netflix in July 2019. Lee-Joe had been filling a role previously held by Kelly Bennett, who stepped down from his role that year after six years at the streamer. [More.]( +ViacomCBS hires Amazon executive Naveen Chopra as CFO. He succeeds Christina Spade, who will transition into an advisory role after the company’s second-quarter earnings call. Spade has been the highest-ranking CBS corporate executive left at the firm after the December recombination of Viacom and CBS. Chopra joins as executive vp and CFO from Amazon, where he served as CFO of Amazon’s devices and services business. [More](. +Revolving door: Dirty Films — the production banner from Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton — has [signed a first look film deal]( with New Republic Pictures... Wayfarer Studios, the banner behind successful teen drama Five Feet Apart and upcoming Disney+ feature Clouds, [has tapped]( Andrew Calof as president of production, across both film and television... Christopher Jackson, who earned a Tony nomination for originating the role of George Washington in the Broadway production Hamilton, [has signed](with CAA... Red Arrow Studios CEO James Baker [will leave]( the company... [Remembering Carl Reiner...] Remembering Carl Reiner... ►"Now this is funny": My recent afternoon at Carl Reiner's house. When THR's senior film editor Rebecca Keegan was invited to watch The Jerk with its legendary director, she learned that his reputation for self-effacing generosity was no joke. [The column](. +Parks and Recreation co-creator Mike Schur remembers Carl Reiner, "The emperor of comedy." Schur pays tribute to the comedy legend, who appeared on a Parks and Recreation episode alongside Amy Poehler. "For 98 years, comedy flowed through Carl Reiner, and radiated off him, and followed him like an obedient hunting dog, ready to follow his commands." [The column](. +Critic's appreciation: From TV to film to Twitter, Carl Reiner was a master. "Carl Reiner would have killed on TikTok. Carl Reiner would have done all of the best Quibis. Carl Reiner would have put everybody on Parler to shame. The legendary — sometimes hyperbole is actually insufficient — comic mind passed away on Monday at the age of 98, and I pity every new medium and social platform to come for giving people a place to be funny, but never getting to showcase the varied talents of Carl Reiner," Daniel Fienberg writes. [The column](. +Meanwhile: Mel Brooks, Jerry Seinfeld, Steve Martin and many others paid tribute to Reiner. [More](. ►Curb Your Enthusiasm renewed for 11th season on HBO. The premium cable outlet has renewed the show for an 11th season, with an airdate to be determined as most TV production remains in limbo during the COVID-19 crisis. The renewal comes about three months after season 10 finished is run in March. --"Believe me, I’m as upset about this as you are," said creator and star Larry David. "One day I can only hope that HBO will come to their senses and grant me the cancellation I so richly deserve." [The story](. +Ozark to end with expanded season 4 on Netflix. The streamer has ordered 14 episodes for season four — up from 10 for each of the prior three seasons — that will be split into two equal parts. The season will mark the final chapter in the Byrde family's journey from suburban Chicago to a criminal enterprise in the Ozarks. Dates for the season haven't been set, as production for many series remains in limbo due to the coronavirus pandemic. [The story](. ►APA to undergo new pay cuts, furloughs. APA president and CEO Jim Gosnell wrote Tuesday in a note to staff that the cost-cutting moves were necessary given the novel coronavirus pandemic's impact on its representation business. The agency, which has more than 300 employees and six global offices including its Beverly Hills location, did not disclose the number of positions impacted by the restructuring. APA's board members will see the "biggest decreases," wrote Gosnell of the pay cuts. [More](. In film news... ►Animated Ninja Turtles movie in the works from Seth Rogen. Nickelodeon Animation will produce a CG installment along with Point Grey Pictures, the shingle run by Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and James Weaver. Jeff Rowe, co-director of the upcoming Phil Lord and Chris Miller-produced animated movie Connected, will direct from a script by Neighbors screenwriter Brendan O’Brian. [The story](. +Will Packer, Universal team for HBCU sports drama One and Done. The original feature from writers Chad Sanders and Chris Spencer will follow one of the nation’s top high school athletes as he makes his unprecedented decision to attend an HBCU. [More](. +Mulan director Niki Caro to helm Beautiful Ruins for Amblin Partners. Amblin is reteaming with Neal Street Productions to shoot the book-to-movie adaptation, with Sam Mendes producing. [More](. ►Netflix and gaming stocks gain, many Hollywood majors fall amid pandemic. "The cyclical components and high debts are finally being recognized by the market," Vogel Capital Management CEO and former Wall Street analyst Hal Vogel tells THR. And the pandemic means less revenue coming in. "For example, Disney and Comcast have theme parks that will operate at fractional capacity ...[and] advertising is still down across the board" despite some recent suggestions that the worst pandemic-related drop was now behind the industry. [The story](. ►TV ratings: Cable news has record-setting second quarter. All three major cable news networks set ratings records in the second quarter of 2020, as ongoing stories including the coronavirus pandemic and racial justice protests drove viewers to Fox News, CNN and MSNBC. The three channels recorded double-digit gains over the same period in 2019 in total viewers and adults 25-54. All three also delivered their biggest viewer tallies ever in both total-day averages and in primetime. [The numbers](. ►Theater owners chair talks opening L.A. and NYC movie screens amid U.S. virus surge. "This pandemic has some very unusual impacts," National Association of Theater Owners chairman Ellis Jacob, who also runs the Cineplex chain in Canada, told THR's Etan Vlessing. "The studios need their movies broadly released. They cannot release them in specific areas without others," he added. [The story](. ►Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov breaks silence after fraud conviction: "I am not a thief." "All my career, I tried to be as far as possible from all this f—ing money," says the internationally celebrated auteur. "What a f—ing hell." [The interview](. ►Mel Gibson has busy film slate despite renewed anti-semitism claims. “He’s still definitely got currency,” says Phil Hunt of Brit banner Head Gear Films, which helped with the financing of upcoming Gibson-starring action-thriller Last Looks (formerly known as Waldo). “He made really bad comments. But we’ve known about them for a very long time. He still has value. Although, from a humanitarian point of view, he probably shouldn’t.” [More](. ►Hollywood's inclusion efforts must be central to its work. "We must bring more non-white women and people of color not only into the rooms but also to the decision-making tables," says Melissa Silverstein, the founder and publisher of Women and Hollywood and artistic director and co-founder of the Athena Film Festival at Barnard College, in a guest column. [The column](. ►TV review: Daniel Fienberg reviews the Showtime docuseries Outcry, writing that it is "provocative and infuriating — and if it feels somewhat padded, the duration is thematically justified." [The review](. +Critic's notebook: Sequels, finales and interactivity lead TV movie race. Following three consecutive wins for Black Mirror, this year's TV movie contenders represent the next generation of an expanding category that used to be overrun by less-noted biopics and topical dramas, Inkoo Kang writes. [The notebook](. Rep Sheet Roundup: Burn Notice actor Jeffrey Donovan leaves WME for ICM ... Hamilton actor Christopher Jackson signs with CAA ... Meghan Markle and Prince Harry sign with Harry Walker Agency ... Joel Zimmerman, known as artist deadmau5, signs with UTA ... Florence Pugh leaves WME for CAA ... True Detective actor Stephen Dorff leaves Paradigm for ICM. [More here](... Obituaries:[Johnny Mandel](, the famed composer and arranger behind the Oscar-winning song "The Shadow of Your Smile" and "Suicide Is Painless," the theme from the M*A*S*H movie and television series, has died. He was 94... [Joni Berry,]( a philanthropist and longtime chairman of the Professional Dancers Society, an organization that assists dancers in need, died Sunday in Los Angeles of complications from COVID-19, a publicist announced. She was 89... In other news... --Sony Corp.'s Sony Pictures Television [has acquired]( a majority stake in Eleven, the British production banner behind Netflix's global smash hit series Sex Education. --Great Point Capital Management — a media-focused investment fund run by Robert Halmi, president and CEO of Hallmark Entertainment, and Fehmi Zeko — [has unveiled plans]( for a $50 million film and TV production studio to be built in Buffalo, New York. --Sir Patrick Stewart [has a deal]( with Gallery Books for a “revealing and heartwarming look” into his life and times, the publisher announced Tuesday. A title and release date will be determined later. --Coinciding with Pride month, the Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA) [unveiled their nominations]( for the inaugural Dorian TV Awards on Tuesday. --Nikki Blonsky [on coming out]( as gay: "It was a long time coming." --Internet stunt personality Jimmy Donaldson, better known online as MrBeast, [has launched]( a one-time multiplayer mobile game and endurance test called Finger on the App. Participants are tasked with holding a finger to their phone screen in the app, and the last person to take it off wins a cash prize of up to $25,000. What else we're reading... --"With India’s TikTok ban, the world’s digital walls grow higher" [[NY Times](] --"Facebook’s tensions with advertisers predate the boycott" [[WSJ](] --"YouTube TV hikes monthly price from $50 to $65" [[CNet](] --"ESPN Plus increases to $5.99 in August, making it the same price as Hulu" [[The Verge](] Today's birthdays: Dame Olivia de Havilland, 104, Debbie Harry, 75, Liv Tyler, 43, Missy Elliott, 49, Dan Ackroyd, 68. Remembering Carl Reiner... ►"Now this is funny": My recent afternoon at Carl Reiner's house. When THR's senior film editor Rebecca Keegan was invited to watch The Jerk with its legendary director, she learned that his reputation for self-effacing generosity was no joke. [The column](. +Parks and Recreation co-creator Mike Schur remembers Carl Reiner, "The emperor of comedy." Schur pays tribute to the comedy legend, who appeared on a Parks and Recreation episode alongside Amy Poehler. "For 98 years, comedy flowed through Carl Reiner, and radiated off him, and followed him like an obedient hunting dog, ready to follow his commands." [The column](. +Critic's appreciation: From TV to film to Twitter, Carl Reiner was a master. "Carl Reiner would have killed on TikTok. Carl Reiner would have done all of the best Quibis. Carl Reiner would have put everybody on Parler to shame. The legendary — sometimes hyperbole is actually insufficient — comic mind passed away on Monday at the age of 98, and I pity every new medium and social platform to come for giving people a place to be funny, but never getting to showcase the varied talents of Carl Reiner," Daniel Fienberg writes. [The column](. +Meanwhile: Mel Brooks, Jerry Seinfeld, Steve Martin and many others paid tribute to Reiner. [More](. ►Curb Your Enthusiasm renewed for 11th season on HBO. The premium cable outlet has renewed the show for an 11th season, with an airdate to be determined as most TV production remains in limbo during the COVID-19 crisis. The renewal comes about three months after season 10 finished is run in March. --"Believe me, I’m as upset about this as you are," said creator and star Larry David. "One day I can only hope that HBO will come to their senses and grant me the cancellation I so richly deserve." [The story](. +Ozark to end with expanded season 4 on Netflix. The streamer has ordered 14 episodes for season four — up from 10 for each of the prior three seasons — that will be split into two equal parts. The season will mark the final chapter in the Byrde family's journey from suburban Chicago to a criminal enterprise in the Ozarks. Dates for the season haven't been set, as production for many series remains in limbo due to the coronavirus pandemic. [The story](. ►APA to undergo new pay cuts, furloughs. APA president and CEO Jim Gosnell wrote Tuesday in a note to staff that the cost-cutting moves were necessary given the novel coronavirus pandemic's impact on its representation business. The agency, which has more than 300 employees and six global offices including its Beverly Hills location, did not disclose the number of positions impacted by the restructuring. APA's board members will see the "biggest decreases," wrote Gosnell of the pay cuts. [More](. In film news... ►Animated Ninja Turtles movie in the works from Seth Rogen. Nickelodeon Animation will produce a CG installment along with Point Grey Pictures, the shingle run by Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and James Weaver. Jeff Rowe, co-director of the upcoming Phil Lord and Chris Miller-produced animated movie Connected, will direct from a script by Neighbors screenwriter Brendan O’Brian. [The story](. +Will Packer, Universal team for HBCU sports drama One and Done. The original feature from writers Chad Sanders and Chris Spencer will follow one of the nation’s top high school athletes as he makes his unprecedented decision to attend an HBCU. [More](. +Mulan director Niki Caro to helm Beautiful Ruins for Amblin Partners. Amblin is reteaming with Neal Street Productions to shoot the book-to-movie adaptation, with Sam Mendes producing. [More](. ►Netflix and gaming stocks gain, many Hollywood majors fall amid pandemic. "The cyclical components and high debts are finally being recognized by the market," Vogel Capital Management CEO and former Wall Street analyst Hal Vogel tells THR. And the pandemic means less revenue coming in. "For example, Disney and Comcast have theme parks that will operate at fractional capacity ...[and] advertising is still down across the board" despite some recent suggestions that the worst pandemic-related drop was now behind the industry. [The story](. ►TV ratings: Cable news has record-setting second quarter. All three major cable news networks set ratings records in the second quarter of 2020, as ongoing stories including the coronavirus pandemic and racial justice protests drove viewers to Fox News, CNN and MSNBC. The three channels recorded double-digit gains over the same period in 2019 in total viewers and adults 25-54. All three also delivered their biggest viewer tallies ever in both total-day averages and in primetime. [The numbers](. ►Theater owners chair talks opening L.A. and NYC movie screens amid U.S. virus surge. "This pandemic has some very unusual impacts," National Association of Theater Owners chairman Ellis Jacob, who also runs the Cineplex chain in Canada, told THR's Etan Vlessing. "The studios need their movies broadly released. They cannot release them in specific areas without others," he added. [The story](. ►Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov breaks silence after fraud conviction: "I am not a thief." "All my career, I tried to be as far as possible from all this f—ing money," says the internationally celebrated auteur. "What a f—ing hell." [The interview](. ►Mel Gibson has busy film slate despite renewed anti-semitism claims. “He’s still definitely got currency,” says Phil Hunt of Brit banner Head Gear Films, which helped with the financing of upcoming Gibson-starring action-thriller Last Looks (formerly known as Waldo). “He made really bad comments. But we’ve known about them for a very long time. He still has value. Although, from a humanitarian point of view, he probably shouldn’t.” [More](. ►Hollywood's inclusion efforts must be central to its work. "We must bring more non-white women and people of color not only into the rooms but also to the decision-making tables," says Melissa Silverstein, the founder and publisher of Women and Hollywood and artistic director and co-founder of the Athena Film Festival at Barnard College, in a guest column. [The column](. ►TV review: Daniel Fienberg reviews the Showtime docuseries Outcry, writing that it is "provocative and infuriating — and if it feels somewhat padded, the duration is thematically justified." [The review](. +Critic's notebook: Sequels, finales and interactivity lead TV movie race. Following three consecutive wins for Black Mirror, this year's TV movie contenders represent the next generation of an expanding category that used to be overrun by less-noted biopics and topical dramas, Inkoo Kang writes. [The notebook](. Rep Sheet Roundup: Burn Notice actor Jeffrey Donovan leaves WME for ICM ... Hamilton actor Christopher Jackson signs with CAA ... Meghan Markle and Prince Harry sign with Harry Walker Agency ... Joel Zimmerman, known as artist deadmau5, signs with UTA ... Florence Pugh leaves WME for CAA ... True Detective actor Stephen Dorff leaves Paradigm for ICM. [More here](... Obituaries:[Johnny Mandel](, the famed composer and arranger behind the Oscar-winning song "The Shadow of Your Smile" and "Suicide Is Painless," the theme from the M*A*S*H movie and television series, has died. He was 94... [Joni Berry,]( a philanthropist and longtime chairman of the Professional Dancers Society, an organization that assists dancers in need, died Sunday in Los Angeles of complications from COVID-19, a publicist announced. She was 89... In other news... --Sony Corp.'s Sony Pictures Television [has acquired]( a majority stake in Eleven, the British production banner behind Netflix's global smash hit series Sex Education. --Great Point Capital Management — a media-focused investment fund run by Robert Halmi, president and CEO of Hallmark Entertainment, and Fehmi Zeko — [has unveiled plans]( for a $50 million film and TV production studio to be built in Buffalo, New York. --Sir Patrick Stewart [has a deal]( with Gallery Books for a “revealing and heartwarming look” into his life and times, the publisher announced Tuesday. A title and release date will be determined later. --Coinciding with Pride month, the Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA) [unveiled their nominations]( for the inaugural Dorian TV Awards on Tuesday. --Nikki Blonsky [on coming out]( as gay: "It was a long time coming." --Internet stunt personality Jimmy Donaldson, better known online as MrBeast, [has launched]( a one-time multiplayer mobile game and endurance test called Finger on the App. Participants are tasked with holding a finger to their phone screen in the app, and the last person to take it off wins a cash prize of up to $25,000. What else we're reading... --"With India’s TikTok ban, the world’s digital walls grow higher" [[NY Times](] --"Facebook’s tensions with advertisers predate the boycott" [[WSJ](] --"YouTube TV hikes monthly price from $50 to $65" [[CNet](] --"ESPN Plus increases to $5.99 in August, making it the same price as Hulu" [[The Verge](] Today's birthdays: Dame Olivia de Havilland, 104, Debbie Harry, 75, Liv Tyler, 43, Missy Elliott, 49, Dan Ackroyd, 68. [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. JULY 01, 2020 [UNSUBSCRIBE]( [MANAGE PREFERENCES]( [PRIVACY POLICY]( [TERMS OF USE](