UTA Nears Deal With WGA

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaAmazon Studios is in final negotiations to buy worldwide rights to “Without Remorse” from Paramount Pictures, Variety has learned.The Tom Clancy thriller stars Michael B. Jordan as U.S.

David Robb Labor EditorEXCLUSIVE: The WGA has wrapped up successful negotiations on two fronts in the past few weeks, getting UTA to break ranks with the other Big Four agencies by signing the guild’s franchise agreement and hammering out a new three-year film and TV contract with management’s AMPTP. And WGA West president David A.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorWithout fanfare — or one of Governor Gavin Newsom’s regular press conferences — California quietly posted the news that there were 11,126 new confirmed coronavirus cases reported on Wednesday. That’s the second-highest total of new cases since the pandemic began, eclipsed only by the 11,694 new cases reported last Tuesday.

UPDATE: UTA has on Wednesday morning closed a deal to sign a franchise agreement with the Writers Guild of America amid the ongoing standoff around packaging fees.UTA will become the first of Hollywood’s four biggest talent agencies to agree to the guild’s terms after more than a year and resume representation of guild writers.

Variety.it’s unclear when the agency will formally sign the franchise agreement, but the decision came down late Tuesday as leadership signed off and agents began contacting writer clients — the same lot who fired them in April 2019 over a contentious battle to end lucrative packaging fees for their representatives — saying the odds of a reunion looked good.As of late Tuesday, the company had yet to announce the news internally.

IFC Films’ upcoming release, “The Painted Bird,” is a disturbing film. But that is to be expected when you have a black and white feature set during the end of World War I about a young boy that is on his own, trying to do whatever it takes to survive in the face of violence and brutality.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterAmazon has landed the rights to develop the 2020 Pulitzer Prize finalist New York Times story and podcast “The Jungle Prince of Delhi” as a drama series, Variety has learned.The story, written by Ellen Barry, delved into the history of the royal family of Oudh, deposed aristocrats living in a ruined palace in the Indian capital claiming to be the heirs to a fallen kingdom.Mira Nair is attached to direct the project and will also executive produce.

Peter White Television EditorThe Jungle Prince of Delhi, a New York Times expose about the fake royal family of Oudh, is in development at Amazon.The streamer has secured the exclusive rights to the story, which was also profiled on the paper’s podcast The Daily and was a 2020 Pulitzer Prize finalist.Mira Nair, who recently directed six-part BBC drama A Suitable Boy, is attached to direct and exec produce.

Tiny Desk concert series – watch the full clip below.On Wednesday (July 8) he filmed at West Coast Customs, without an audience, and delivered his favourite tracks ‘The Box,’ ‘High Fashion,’ and ‘Ballin’.He started off with ‘Perfect Time,’ and then introduced his collaborator Ty Dolla $ign to the quarantine version of Tiny Desk for ‘Bacc Seat.’Finally, he closed out by offering his words on the world around us, performing ‘War Baby’ to finish the set.“It’s dangerous,” he said before launching in

struggling as its cinemas have been shuttered by coronavirus lockdowns, saw its stock surge nearly 10 percent Wednesday on reports that it’s nearing a debt restructuring deal to avoid bankruptcyThe company, which operates about 1,000 theaters globally, has been trying for weeks to get bond holders to agree to swap debt at a discount but only a relatively small percentage had agreed as of June 30.