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Patrick Hipes, Amanda N'Duka Passion River Films and 8 Above are teaming on the U.S. release of The Disrupted, the feature documentary debut of Sarah Colt, the Emmy-winning director of PBS’ American Experience docs about Walt Disney and Henry Ford, as well as The Polio Crusade and the Native American series We Shall Remain.The Disrupted, a look at rising income inequality in the U.S.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to The Place of No Words, the fantasy-reality drama written and directed by Mark Webber and starring Webber, his real-life wife Teresa Palmer and their son Bodhi Palmer.The pic, which originally premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, will now be released in theaters and on demand on October 23.Continuing Webber’s aesthetic of using elements from his real life to enhance his storytelling

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Kamikaze Dogfight and Gravitas Ventures have co-acquired U.S. rights to Don’t Look Back, written and directed by Final Destination creator Jeffrey Reddick.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThe 2020 Creative Arts Emmy Awards begins its weeklong run Monday with Night 1 of its five-night ceremony. The event, modified and virtual this year because of the coronavirus pandemic, is being streamed at the Television Academy’s website as well as on Deadline here beginning at 8 p.m.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThe kickoff of this week’s socially distanced Creative Arts Emmy Awards is Monday with the first of four virtual ceremonies to be livestreamed on the Emmys website over four consecutive nights.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThe New York Film Critics Circle will vote for its 2020 awards on December 18, the organization said Friday.Last year, Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman was named the NYFCC’s best film on December 4, a day after the National Board of Review bestowed the pic the same honor. Both critics groups are always among the first of the awards season to select their annual awards.The timing will be different this season thanks to the coronavirus pandemic.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorBlue Fox Entertainment has acquired She Is the Ocean, the new documentary from Inna Blokhina (On the Wave) that follows nine women from across the globe who share a deep and profound love of the ocean.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorNeon said Wednesday that it has acquired U.S. rights to writer-director Philippe Lacôte’s Night of the Kings, a deal that comes after the pic premiered earlier this week in the Horizons section of the Venice Film Festival.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorSaban Films has acquired U.S. rights to Fatman, the dark action comedy starring Mel Gibson as Santa Claus.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThe National Board of Review said Wednesday that it will unveil its 2020 honorees on Tuesday, January 26, 2021, almost two months later than usual as the film-awards season has shifted owing to the coronavirus pandemic.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorApple on Tuesday countersued Fortnite creator Epic Games in California federal court, the latest move in the companies’ contentious battle over the uber-popular video game.At issue is the 30% of revenue that Apple and Google take from all downloads on their app stores.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThis Is Us star Susan Kelechi Watson has been set to host the 45th annual Gracie Awards, overseeing a night that will feature honors bestowed on Katy Perry, Geena Davis, Gayle King, Danai Gurira and Michelle Williams among others.Malin Akerman, Sanjay Gupta, Angélica Vale, Cassie DiLaura, Imani Walker and Elaina Doré Smith are among the presenters expected for Thursday’s virtual event, organizers the Alliance for Women in Media said Tuesday.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorCBS’ Big Brother remained the big show in primetime Thursday, topping the night with a 1.0 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 4.06 million viewers. It teamed with a two-hour Love Island (0.4, 1.55M) to give the network a No.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThe return of Tyler Perry’s House of Payne along with the series premiere of Tyler Perry’s Assisted Living both debuted Wednesday to solid ratings on BET, airing in a four-episode, two-hour block that was simulcast on BET Her.House of Payne, which originally ran for 254 episodes on TBS from 2006-2012, returned with what Perry is calling its seventh season, growing in the ratings each quarter-hour.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Saban Films has acquired North American rights to Ambush, the Vietnam War action thriller toplined by Aaron Echkart. Cody Christian, Dermot Mulroney and Jason Genao have also joined the cast of the pic, which is co-written and to be directed by Mark Earl Burman (Dog Eat Dog).

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorChris D’Elia has been accused by two women of exposing himself in separate incidents, one in 2011 and one in 2018, with their stories detailed in a report on CNN.com. Earlier this summer, D’Elia was accused of soliciting underage girls on social media; like then, he has denied the new allegations.After the original accusations surfaced in June on social media and in a subsequent Los Angeles Times report, CAA dropped the actor-comedian as a client.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights to Luxor, the Zeina Durra drama starring Andrea Riseborough that played at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorVix, one of the world’s largest free streaming services dedicated to Latino-focused films and TV shows, has struck a deal with SoniFi’s guest entertainment platform that will put its content in 500,000 U.S. hotel rooms.It is the first Hispanic-focused content partner to launch on SoniFi’s platform, and the pact will also allow VIX mobile app users to stream content to SoniFi’s hotel room TVs via SoniFi’s Staycast technology.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorJuried award for the 72nd Emmy Awards were revealed Tuesday, with honors in the categories of animation, choreography, interactive programming and motion design going to the likes of animator Genndy Tartakovsky for Primal, Mandy Moore for her choreography on NBC’s Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist and the team from Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s HitRecord.The categories require all entrants to be screened by a panel of professionals in peer groups; unlike the typical

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorCBS’ unscripted combo Big Brother and Love Island helped the network to the top ratings spot Thursday, on a night President Donald Trump’s 70-minute speech from the White House lawn in primetime wrapped the Republican National Convention.Big Brother scored a night-leading 1.0 rating and 4.01 million viewers, with the all-star edition off a tenth from Wednesday’s episode, which had matched season-best numbers in the demo.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThe Hamptons Film Festival will open its virtual and drive-in edition with the world premiere of With Drawn Arms, the documentary about the legacy of Olympian Tommie Smith’s fist-raising moment at the 1968 Olympics.The film will also be awarded HIFF’s Film of Conflict & Resolution Award, given to a project that deals with the complex issues and societal effects of war and violence, and the attendant human dramas, in creative ways.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorEmmy-nominated Nailed It! host Nicole Byer will host the 2020 Creative Arts Emmy Awards, which the Television Academy will present in virtual ceremonies over five nights from September 14-19, streaming on Emmys.com the first four nights and concluding with a two-hour ceremony that Saturday on FXX.Byer this year became the first Black woman to be nominated in the category of Outstanding Host for a Reality or Competition Program for fronting the Netflix

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorCBS Television Studios, Rideback and Thinking Hat are reteaming on a second year of the Rideback/Thinking Hat Campfire writers room, which in its inaugural year developed and sold two projects to CBS.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThe Milwaukee Brewers’ scheduled home game against the Cincinnati Reds on Wednesday has been postponed after Brewers’ players met earlier in the afternoon and decided to boycott the game in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake.The news, reported by multiple outlets, follows earlier in the day the NBA having to postpone its three scheduled playoff games tonight in Orlando, a move prompted by players on the Milwaukee Bucks not taking the floor for

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorTom Cruise on Tuesday posted a video on social media showing him and his Mission: Impossible director Christopher McQuarrie attending a London screening of Tenet, Christopher Nolan’s new film from Warner Bros that opens overseas this weekend and over the Labor Day holiday in the U.S.The film’s release date has been pushed back several times because of the COVID-19 pandemic — it has widely been seen as the benchmark tentpole that would herald the return of

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorAnnie Awards organizer ASIFA-Hollywood said Monday that its 48th edition honoring the year’s best in animation will be held on April 16, 2021, the week before the Oscars. Nominations will be announced March 3.A decision will be made in October whether the ceremony will be virtual or live, a ruling most of the industry’s awards shows will have to make going forward the COVID-19 pandemic runs its course.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThe Republican National Convention kicks off Monday on the heels of last week’s Democratic National Convention and wastes no time, with the official re-nomination of President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence set for this morning beginning at 9 a.m. ET/6 a.m.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorDavid Pecker, the longtime publisher of the tabloid National Enquirer, is leaving the role as part of a deal unveiled Friday in which the paper’s parent company American Media LLC said it was merging with Accelerate, a national wholesale distribution company.Pecker, the longtime, often controversial president and CEO of Enquirer parent American Media, will become an executive adviser to the new combined company, which will be known as A360.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorCBS’ Thursday edition of Big Brother was primetime’s top-rated and most-watched program, scoring a 1.0 rating and 3.98 million viewers. That and the network’s coverage of the final night of the Democratic National Convention (0.2, 1.59M) helped CBS sweep the night in the demo and viewers.Big Brother was steady with both its Wednesday episode and last Thursday’s numbers.