‘Apprentice’ Producer Group Buys Out Pro-Trump Investor Stake, Disney Probes Hack by Anti-AI Group and Art Directors Guild Members Raise Alarms About AI

Plus: MrBeast’s $5 Million game show is a no-brainer for Amazon, Hallmark execs ‘confident’ audiences will follow them into streaming and RNC Secret Service Security strengthens after Trump rally shooting [the-apprentice-sebastian-stan-donald-trump-jeremy-strong-roy-cohn]( ['The Apprentice' Producer James Shani to Lead Group That Buys Out Pro-Trump Investor's Stake | Exclusive]( By Umberto Gonzalez James Shani, who is an executive producer on the Donald Trump biopic “The Apprentice” that debuted at Cannes earlier this year, is leading the group that will buy out Dan Snyder’s Kinematics stake in the controversial film directed by Ali Abbasi, TheWrap has exclusively learned. The move will pave the way for the film to secure U.S. distribution after Snyder, a staunch conservative, wanted out of the movie. According to insiders, the producers and Kinematics are working to settle in the $6 million-$7 million range, and if there is no agreement this week, the film’s producers are confident in their own legal recourse to give the film a path towards release. [Read More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida]( [Disney Investigating Hack by Anti-AI Group Who Says It Took 'Anything We Could Get Our Hands On']( By Sharon Knolle Disney is investigating an internal breach after a group of hacktivists called NullBulge took credit over the weekend for stealing 1.1 terabytes of personal and corporate data from the studio’s internal Slack channels — or, as the group said in a since-deleted tweet, “anything we could get our hands on.” The hack was reported on an underground forum, with the note that they hadn’t gotten as much information as they planned since “our insider man got cold feet and kicked us out.” [Read More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [IATSE computer image]( [These IATSE Artists Are Voting ‘No’ on Their Next Contract, and AI Is to Blame]( By Jeremy Fuster Members of the Art Directors Guild are raising alarms that protections related to artificial intelligence in the latest IATSE bargaining agreement don’t go far enough to protect the future of their professions. On Saturday, the Set Designers Council, a craft committee within the ADG, recommended that IATSE members vote against ratifying the deal. In a memo, the council compared the AI protections unfavorably to those won by the Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA after last year’s strikes. [Read More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [MrBeast]( [MrBeast’s $5 Million Game Show Is a No-Brainer for Amazon — But What Is the YouTuber Getting Out of It?]( [Hallmark-Celebrations-With-Lacey-Chabert]( [As Hallmark Steps Into Streaming, Execs Are 'Very Confident' Audiences and Cord-Cutters Will Follow Them]( [donald-trump-shot-rally]( [RNC Secret Service Security 'Reviewed and Strengthened' After Trump Assassination Attempt]( [Donald Trump invited J.D. Vance, Republican candidate for the 2022 United States Senate election to the stage. His Save America Rally was held in Vandalia, Ohio on Monday, November 07, 2022.]( [Trump Taps JD Vance as His Vice PresidentÂ]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [WrapPRO logo] Discover why entertainment executives and professionals rely on the WrapPRO platform daily for exclusive coverage, analysis, deeper reporting, and access to VIP events & screenings throughout the year. [Subscribe Today]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [YouTube]( TheWrap | 2034 Armacost Ave Los Angeles, CA 90025 [Preferences]( | [Unsubscribe]( [LiveIntent Logo]( [AdChoices Logo](