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Meet Netflix's Man In Korea - Netflix is planning to spend $2.5 billion on Korean content in the next four years. Netflix’s Korean chief Don Kang – along with Minyoung Kim who heads up Netflix’s Asia Pacific content outside of India – is the man who decides what to commission in the territory. He says the company is currently producing 15-20 Korean drama series a year, five or six movies, and is in the early stages of building out an unscripted slate. >>> Exclusive Interview
Barry Levinson, Al Pacino, David Mamet & JFK - Oscar winning filmmaker Barry Levinson is stepping in to direct the David Mamet-scripted drama Assassination. Pulitzer Prize winner Mamet originally was set to direct the movie, which tells the story of how infamous mobster Sam Giancana allegedly arranged the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. >>> Director Reteaming With Pacino
Reporting From Gaza - With international journalists stuck in Israel, the job of reporting on the plight of Palestinian civilians on the ground has largely fallen to local journalists. Many are risking death to tell the story of a tragedy that has upended the lives of Gaza’s 2.1 million inhabitants. More than 2,700 locals – and 11 journalists – have already been killed. >>>" Living In The Middle Of A Conflict"
Deadline's Doc Talk Podcast: Errol Morris - Documentary filmmaking legend Errol Morris has built his extraordinary reputation on two principle foundations: what might be called dramatizations (he rejects the terms reenactments or recreations) and interviews of incredible insight and verve. Here, Morris talks about his latest documentary, The Pigeon Tunnel. In the film, the director trains his lens on perhaps his most elusive subject yet – the spy-turned-novelist David Cornwell, known to the world by his pen name, John le Carré. >>> Listen |
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Receiving its world premiere in Pingyao International Film Festival’s Crouching Tigers section, Zhang Yu’s feature debut Killing the Violet is the story of a woman dealing with the aftermath of being raped by a man who breaks into her apartment. Here, Zhang, a Shanghai-based director and screenwriter who made Killing the Violet as her graduation film at Tokyo University of the Arts, talks about the influence of American writers, shooting sensitive scenes and what's next for her. >>> Read The Interview |
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Exclusive Sam Rockwell and Kumail Nanjiani have closed deals to star in A Guy Walks Into a Bar, a dark comedy from director Gary Fleder ( Runaway Jury) that has secured an Interim Agreement from SAG-AFTRA and will go into production by year’s end. Exclusive Kate del Castillo ( La Reina del Sur, Weeds) is set to lead the ViX comedy feature Es Por Tu Bien which just kicked off production in Mexico. The project is produced by 3Pas Studios. National Geographic has given a green light to No Taste Like Home with Antoni Porowski, a docuseries hosted by the Queer Eye star, from Gordon Ramsay’s Studio Ramsay Global. |
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More News ⚖ A bit more than six months after criminal charges were dropped against Alec Baldwin for the 2021 killing of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, new involuntary manslaughter claims against him could be put before a grand jury in a matter of weeks.
💰 The third-highest grossing movie of the year, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer ($942M) arrives on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and digital on Nov. 21, complete with three hours' worth of bonus material.
🏆 The Oscars have their producing team. Raj Kapoor, who has worked on the Oscars for the past seven years, including last year as a producer, will serve for the first time as Executive Producer and Showrunner. He will be joined by Done + Dusted veteran executive Katy Mullan as Executive Producer, the latter a first-timer to the Academy Awards.
📽️ Disney has shifted the wide theatrical release of Jeff Nichols’ The Bikeriders off of December 1, which is the date when AMC will debut concert pic Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé. New new date for Bikeriders, which stars Tom Hardy, Austin Butler and Jodie Comer, has been set. |
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26 million - The number of people who tuned in to watch the Jets-Eagles matchup last Sunday on Fox |
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Trending  The Season 49 premiere of SNL managed 4.8M viewers on NBC, according to Nielsen data. That marks a 19% audience increase versus the Season 48 premiere.
🔻 The changes at Showtime continue. Paramount Global confirmed Tuesday that the network’s sports operation will be dissolved by the end of the year. |
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On the Radar
Wed - Netflix earnings; Biden in Israel
Fri - Keith Richards on Fallon
Sat - SAG strike hits 100 days |
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Biden Visits Israel - U.S. President Joe Biden arrived in Israel on Wednesday morning as Middle East tensions ratchet up further following a horrific strike on Gaza’s Al Ahli hospital overnight in which hundreds of people died. Biden was greeted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog. |
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