Amazon Acquires C&W Legend Merle Haggard Biopic Package; Sam Rockwell Circling & Robin Bissell Directing Script He’ll Write With Theresa Haggard

Video game developer and publisher Daybreak Games, known for massively multiplayer online (MMO) franchises EverQuest and PlanetSide, has acquired Cold Iron Studios, known for MMO, shooter and action games. Under the new ownership, the San Jose-based studio will continue to develop a PC and console game set in the Alien universe, with co-founder Craig Zinkievich reporting to Ji Ham, CEO of San Diego-based Daybreak Games.

PMC administratorIf you happened to live next door to the co-founder of Nextdoor, a hyper-local, Facebook-like app for your neighborhood, where locals trade babysitter and piano teacher referrals, you’d be living beside a pristine mansion with an asking price of $25 million.

Metallica have shared another sneak preview of their upcoming concert film S&M2, performing ‘Moth Into Flame’ with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.Watch it below.The forthcoming live album/concert was recorded at two shows that took place in 2019 to mark the 20th anniversary of the metal band’s seminal live album ‘S&M’.S&M2 was first screened in a one-night-only event in October that year.The band have previously shared renditions of ‘Nothing Else Matters’ and ‘All Within My Hands’ from the

As we pointed out recently, following their acquisition of Paul Thomas Anderson’s upcoming 1970s San Fernando Valley movie, MGM is making movies. Now run by Michael De Luca—a former New Line Cinema executive who champion filmmakers like David Fincher, F.

Swedish House Mafia (2/13-17, 2013)The first and only artist to headline five consecutive nights at the venue to kick off their historic One Last Tour in 2013. I remember the excitement of the call with about a dozen people on the artists’ team, including Amy Thomson their manager and Sam Kirby their agent, rolling the shows one after the other as each quickly sold out, something that no artist had done before at the Civic.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaBradley Cooper is poised to team up with Paul Thomas Anderson, a meeting of the mega-talents that should please film lovers.The “American Sniper” star is in talks to appear in Anderson’s next, deeply secretive venture, which is being described as a coming-of-age story set in 1970s San Fernando Valley.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEight-time Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper is in talks for MGM’s untitled Paul Thomas Anderson movie. Deadline first told you that the movie’s domestic release was heading from Focus Features to MGM.

Ahead of its TIFF debut, Amazon Studios has picked upRegina King’s feature directorial debutOne Night in Miami, with plans to release it as an awards contender. Based on the 2013 stage play by Kemp Powers, the movie is set on the night of February 25, 1964, and follows a young Cassius Clay (Eli Goree)— before he became Muhammad Ali— as he emerges from the Miami Beach Convention Center the new World Heavyweight Boxing Champion.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterLos Angeles residents were given a rude awakening circa 4.30AM this morning when a 4.3 magnitude earthquake hit the city.The quake’s epicentre was near San Fernando Valley.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticA dispute over rights to a Sin City TV series and a Hard Boiled film have turned hardcore between Cursed co-creator Frank Miller and producer Stephen L’Heureux.Hardcore to the tune of more than $25 million, as a defamation and economic interference lawsuit from the Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame to Kill For producer is seeking.

Merle Haggard in an upcoming biopic about the legendary country singer’s life.Robin Bissell – who directed Rockwell in The Best Of Enemies – will helm the project, and he will write the script with Haggard’s widow, Theresa Haggard, based on the singer’s memoir Sing Me Back Home.According to Deadline, Bissell and Haggard will produce the film together for Amazon Studios, who have grabbed the rights to the film and book.Rockwell is said to be in talks to take on the role of the country legend, and

[email protected] comes to a close Sunday, ending a five-day lineup of almost entirely prerecorded virtual panels.San Diego Comic-Con 2020 was canceled in April due to the coronavirus pandemic, marking the first time the annual pop culture event won’t happen as planned in its 50-year history.

femmetón singer-songwriter La Doña's new album, Algo Nuevo, dropped March 12 via Human Re Sources just as the coronavirus pandemic intensified in the U.S.

[email protected] is in full swing, boasting an impressive lineup of almost entirely prerecorded virtual panels.HBO has set presentations for “His Dark Materials” and “Lovecraft Country,” and Amazon Prime Video is bringing “The Boys,” “Upload,” “Truth Seekers” and “Utopia,” and also sponsoring its own Amazon Virtual-Con hub.Meanwhile, AMC is hosting panels for its “Walking Dead” universe and “NOS4A2” and Disney is prepping 11 different presentations, including a career retrospective on Nathan

Bruce Haring, Tom Tapp UPDATE: The Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants joined an earlier demonstration by their major league brothers honoring Black Lives Matter in a pregame ceremony.As at the earlier Yankees/Nationals game, opening day at Dodger Stadium saw the playing of a video from The Players Alliance, a group of African American players, calling for racial justice.The Dodgers coaching staff and the entire San Francisco Giants squad wore T-shirts with “Black Lives Matter” written

Janet W. Lee For the first time in its 50-year history, San Diego Comic-Con is happening as a virtual, streaming event.

[email protected] As a result, there will be no Marvel, DC Comics or for that matter any Hall H panels, no Artists Alley, no convention floor to walk around, and definitely no cosplayers (despite the uptick in masks we’re all seeing).It’s not just fans, of course. The other side of the big events in Hall H and Ballroom 20 is that they are the place many studios, networks and streamers kick off the promotional arm of an upcoming tentpole movie or genre TV show.

Eli Countryman San Diego Comic-Con may be going digital, but the lineup still offers a wide array of panels and conversations. With four days of content, Variety breaks down a list of this year’s most notable, anticipated and exciting panels.The “Star Trek Universe” panel begins Thursday at 10 A.M.