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Sony updated their release schedule for their slate of Spider-Man films, and sadly we’re going to have to wait even longer for the Spider-Verse sequel.

“The return of Miles Morales is going to be just a little bit longer. Sony just announced that Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse will now be released on June 2, 2023, moved back eight months from its most recent October 7 release date. Which sucks. But, we now know when the second part is coming too. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Part II will be released on March 29, 2024.”

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The Flash star Ezra Miller was arrested in Hawaii (again), and fans are asking for a recast of the speedster.

“It seems as if Ezra Miller has been arrested again in Hawaii. Miller was arrested after a complaint of second-degree assault, and it is alleged that they got violent when they were asked to leave a private residence in Pāhoa.

Local horror has proved a hit following an easing of pandemic restrictions.

Tran Huu Tan’s Vietnamese Horror Story has set new records at the Vietnam box office as cinemas reopened in Hanoi, following an easing of pandemic restrictions.

The anthology feature, inspired by urban legends, opened on February 11 and took $2.3m (VND53bn) from its four-day opening weekend, according to figures released this week by distributor Cgv.

This saw the feature achieve the second-highest opening day for a Vietnamese title in its local market to date, taking $660,000 (VND15bn), and recorded the highest ever presales for a local film in Vietnam with 85,000 tickets.

RuPaul Leads The Way On BBC Three Return

RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Versus The World led the way on BBC Three’s return to linear TV after a six year break last night, securing five times more viewers than any other show. The spin-off format, in which queens from around the world compete, was viewed by 350,000 people from 9pm-10pm, according to Barb data from overnights.tv. It was way ahead of reality format Eating With My Ex (70,000) from the previous slot, while the Launch Party managed just 28,000. The RuPaul spin-off will air for the next 10 weeks and comes off the back of the huge success of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, which has aired for three seasons and is widely recognized to be BBC Three’s most popular non-scripted show.

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S.W.A.T. Survive Trailer — CBS‘ S.W.A.T.: Season 5, Episode 9: Survive TV show trailer has been released. Cast and crew S.W.A.T. stars Shemar Moore, Alex Russell, Lina Esco, Kenny Johnson, David Lim, Patrick St. Esprit, and Jay Harrington. S.W.A.T.‘s executive producers: Shawn Ryan, Neal H. Moritz, Aaron Rahsaan Thomas, Andrew Dettmann, Justin Lin, Marney Hochman, [...]

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Life on the road and fantasy worlds held sway at the 29th edition of the EnergaCamerimage International Film Festival on Saturday, winning big after a week of scaled down but enthusiastic industry events, seminars and screenings celebrating cinematography.

“C’mon C’mon,” shot by Robbie Ryan and directed by Mike Mills, won this year’s Golden Frog. The film, which tells the story of a radio journalist driving between American cities with his nine-year-old nephew Jesse, enchanted jurors with its black-and-white imagery, one of several top contenders in monochrome.

Ryan, praised for his “precise and humble eye” and “cinema that touches the soul,” accepted via video from a film set in Hungary, calling “C’mon C’mon” a “small film,” made just prior to the Covid pandemic by a crew “traveling around like a circus.”

Buzz built early on during the fest for Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” shot by Bruno Delbonnel,...

"I've been chasing their boss forever... this might go south." Lionsgate has released the official trailer for another cheap, cheesy action thriller called Survive the Game. Not to be confused with any of the other "Survive" films recently, including Survive the Night (which also has Bruce Willis funny enough). This is yet another of these films that will make you wonder "why is Bruce Willis making such trashy movies all the time over and over these days?!" There's not much to this one: a man's life on his farm is interrupted when a cop and a pair of dangerous criminals show up. Outnumbered, three heroes must use stealth, smarts, and good shooting to take down the drug-dealing mob. Starring Chad Michael Murray, Bruce Willis, Swen Temmel, Donna D'Errico, Zack Ward, Sean Kanan, and Sarah Roemer. You can easily refer to this one as the "Bruce Willis on a farm action...

Roku is betting its fire-sale pickup of the shows from Quibi, Jeffrey Katzenberg’s short-lived, short-form startup, will continue to pay off for the streaming platform.

On Aug. 13, the company will premiere 23 new Roku Originals (each of them from Quibi’s library) exclusively on the Roku Channel to stream for free with ads. It’s the second tranche of Quibi shows coming to the Roku Channel, after Roku bowed 30 titles in May.

The new shows coming to the Roku Channel include “Mapleworth Murders,” a “Murder She Wrote” spoof that nabbed three 2021 Emmy acting nominations for Paula Pell, John Lutz and J.B. Smoove. Also on the slate are four previously unreleased Quibi titles: “Eye Candy” hosted by Josh Groban, a competition series in which contestants attempt to identify outrageous edible creations that look like everyday objects; cleaning competition “Squeaky Clean” hosted by Leslie Jordan; Season 2 of money-giveaway reality show “Thanks a...

The Roku Channel will be premiering a fresh batch of its original shows on Aug. 13, the company announced Monday. The new slate of 23 shows — all stemming from Roku’s acquisition of Quibi’s library earlier this year — will include a new season of “Thanks a Million,” the pay-it-forward series from executive producer Jennifer Lopez.

The new season of “Thanks a Million” will include guest stars Matthew McConaughey, Chris Rock, Vanessa Hudgens and Lana Condor, among others, Roku said. Other titles coming soon to Roku includes “Mapleworth Murders,” the Emmy-nominated show starring Paula Pell, John Lutz and J.B. Smoove. The comedy-mystery series was first available on Quibi last August and is produced by “SNL” head honcho Lorne Michaels and Seth Meyers.

Other shows coming to Roku that haven’t been seen on Quibi previously are: “Eye Candy,” a game show hosted by Josh Groban that is based on the popular Japanese series “Sokkuri Sweets,...

Forma Pro Films is planning to launch one of Europe’s largest LED Unit studios in Latvia this summer, Variety has learned. The virtual production facility will utilize the latest state-of-the-art technology in real-time rendering, live camera tracking hardware, and LED screens to enable what the company describes as “a completely new way” of producing films, TV shows and commercials.

Three films and seven commercials are already lined up for production.

The 16,000-square-foot site, set to open in the Latvian capital of Riga this August, will offer a combination of game engine technology and a photorealistic 3D environment to allow for the creation of spatial imagery that the company says goes beyond what is currently possible in film production.

The studio’s background can dynamically update to match camera perspectives in real time, and huge LED panels will generate the ideal lighting to replicate natural settings and reflections, allowing for...

Exclusive: Matthew Signer, who has held executive posts at Dimension Films, AwesomenessTV and most recently Quibi, has been hired as EVP Production & Content at Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group. He will report directly to Allen and is based in Los Angeles.

In the new position, Signer will focus on the development and production of movies, TV series, documentaries and other content for Amg’s ever-expanding distribution platforms — Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures, its digital unit Freestyle Digital Media and free streaming service Local Now — as well as outside streaming services and platforms.

“Matt Signer is an excellent executive who gets things done,” Allen, founder, chairman and CEO of Allen Media Group, said Wednesday. “His extensive experience in the development and production of content will help propel us to greater success as our industry continues to adapt and expand.”

Singer held the role of EVP Production and Creative Affairs during a 14-year career at Dimension Films,...

Sophie Turner has joined the cast of the HBO Max series “The Staircase.”

Turner joins previously announced cast members Colin Firth, Toni Collette, Parker Posey, Juliette Binoche, and Rosemarie DeWitt.

The eight-episode series is based on the docuseries of the same name as well as various books and reports about the case of Michael Peterson (Firth), who was accused of murdering his wife, Kathleen (Collette), in 2001. He claimed she died after falling down the stairs at their home, but police suspected he bludgeoned her to death and staged the scene to look like an accident.

Turner will play Margaret Ratliff, one of Michael Peterson’s adopted daughters. Turner is best known for her role as Sansa Stark in the megahit HBO series “Game of Thrones.” Her time on the show earned her an Emmy nomination for best supporting actress in a drama. She is also know for playing Jean Grey...

Roku presented its first original programming slate to media buyers at the NewFronts, showcasing programming acquired in separate deals with Quibi and This Old House.

In a 30-minute virtual pitch, the streaming provider noted the median age of its viewers is 39 (compared with 60-plus for the broadcast networks), and they are less tethered to the traditional cord. About 57% of Roku users have no pay-tv subscription, but many of them are willing to pay for SVOD services like Netflix and Disney+.

This “streaming-first audience is unreachable on linear TV,” said Julian Mintz, Roku’s national brand sales lead.

Roku Originals include a number of the shows that had a brief run on the now-defunct Quibi. Jeffrey Katzenberg’s mobile-focused subscription streaming outlet fizzled last fall, after burning through most of its $1.75 billion in start-up capital. Not surprisingly, no mention was made in the presentation that shows like Dummy, Survive and The Fugitive...

Roku is officially dropping the Quibi name.

Roku announced that the content from its January acquisition of Quibi — the short-lived, short-form mobile entertainment startup founded by Jeffrey Katzenberg — will be rebranded as “Roku Originals.” The 75-plus original shows from Quibi will be available to watch for free on the ad-supported Roku Channel starting sometime this year, the company has said.

Roku Originals also will be the brand name for future original programming for The Roku Channel, which is currently available in the U.S., the U.K. and Canada. The company said it will provide additional details next month about the launch of Roku Originals.

The collection of Quibi programming — snapped up by Roku after Katzenberg’s richly funded company shut its doors six months after launching — includes a dozen unreleased series that will debut for the first time on The Roku Channel. Among those are “The Now,” a suicide-themed comedy from Peter Farrelly,...

Four high-impact boxers — Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto “Manos de Piedra” Durán, Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Thomas “The Hitman” Hearns — will re-enter the limelight in Showtime docuseries The Kings.

The first of the show’s four episodes will premiere on Sunday, June 6, at 8Pm Et/Pt on linear and streaming, the ViacomCBS premium network announced.

Nicknamed the Four Kings during their remarkable, overlapping careers, the quartet contested nine championship fights among them from 1980 to 1989. Their distinct styles and vivid personalities helped spark a renaissance in the sport of boxing, which had endured a downturn after Muhammad Ali’s storybook run concluded.

The backdrop of the series is the 1980s, a go-go decade marked by pronounced socioeconomic and political upheaval in the U.S. as President Ronald Reagan left his mark.

Hagler died last month at age 66.

“These four men defined an era in boxing,” said Stephen Espinoza, president of Showtime Sports,...

David Bowie’s Brilliant Live Adventures — an archival series that collected six of the late singer’s Nineties concerts — will conclude with David Bowie at the Kit Kat Klub (Live New York 99), due out April 2nd.

The 12-song performance was originally recorded on November 12th, 1999 at the small venue in front of an invite-only audience of fans and contest winners. The show was webcast in December 1999 and later released as a promotional album.

Joining Bowie onstage at the Kit Kat Klub were longtime collaborators Gail Ann Dorsey on bass, keyboardist Mike Garson,...

Both titles are produced by Matta Cinema.

Hong Kong-based sales agency Good Move Media has picked up international rights to two Indonesian horror films – Death Knot and The Portrait Of A Nightmare – as it builds up its slate of Southeast Asian titles.

Both titles are produced by Indonesia’s Matta Cinema, founded by director Ismail Basbeth and actor-producer Cornelio Sunny to produce “alternative films for a global audience by working with artistic and creative directors”.

The Portrait Of A Nightmare, directed by Basbeth, follows a woman who has found refuge with a street painter, with whom she has a link through dreams.

The nominations for the 19th Annual Visual Effects Society Awards have been announced with “The Mandalorian” and “Soul” leading.

“The Mandalorian” leads with 13 nominations including outstanding visual effects in a photoreal episode. “Soul” was next with five nominations, followed by “The Witches” and “Project Power.”

The Ves awards will be handed out in a virtual ceremony and will stream worldwide on April 6.

“Traditions find a way to persist,” said Lisa Cooke, Ves Board Chair. “With vision and a lot of hard work, we are proud to host our annual celebration of the artistry, ingenuity and passion of visual effects practitioners around the world – virtually. We are seeing best in class work that elevates the art of storytelling and engages the audience in new and innovative ways. The Ves Awards is the only venue that showcases and honors these outstanding artists across a wide range of disciplines, and we are extremely proud of all our nominees!

Laurel Marsden, a relative newcomer in Hollywood, has joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The actor will play Zoe Zimmer in Ms. Marvel, the Disney+ series that centers on teenage hero Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani).

Marvel declined to comment.

Marsden appeared opposite Sophie Turner in Quibi’s Survive. Though the streaming service was short-lived, the performance generated some attention and put her in the mix for larger projects, with Ms. Marvel her highest-profile to date.

Writer G. Willow Wilson and artist Adrian Alphona introduced Zoe Zimmer in 2014’s Ms. Marvel No. 3 as the first person Kamala Khan saves. In the comics, Zoe Zimmer is for ...

Laurel Marsden, a relative newcomer in Hollywood, has joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The actor will play Zoe Zimmer in Ms. Marvel, the Disney+ series that centers on teenage hero Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani).

Marvel declined to comment.

Marsden appeared opposite Sophie Turner in Quibi’s Survive. Though the streaming service was short-lived, the performance generated some attention and put her in the mix for larger projects, with Ms. Marvel her highest-profile to date.

Writer G. Willow Wilson and artist Adrian Alphona introduced Zoe Zimmer in 2014’s Ms. Marvel No. 3 as the first person Kamala Khan saves. In the comics, Zoe Zimmer is for ...

Like 2020, Quibi started out with so much promise when it was unveiled last year. The short-form video streamer launched to a ton of hype in April of 2020, positioning itself as an easy-to-consume alternative to the bigger streaming services on the market. Why slog through an hours-long show on Disney+ or Hulu, the thinking went, when you can finish an entire episode of a Liam Hemsworth thriller in ten minutes or less?

Unfortunately, it turns out the thinking didn’t quite carry over to the general public. Just six months later,...

Shows will play on fast-growing Roku Channel.

In a highly significant play that illustrates its expansion ambitions, Roku has acquired the majority of Quibi’s original content catalogue after the latter shut down late last year.

The Wall Street Journal reported the sale of more than 75 shows and documentaries to be valued at less than $100m.

Content will play on the free, ad-supported Roku Channel, which by the fourth quarter of last year had doubled its reach within US households to an estimated 61.8m people.

Shares in Roku surged by roughly 5% before settling in the region of $390 by mid-afternoon on the Nasdaq exchange.

Roku is getting a content injection.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, 75 short-form shows such as Survive, The Stranger, and Most Dangerous Game will be resurrected on The Roku Channel.

"We are thrilled that these stories, from the surreal to the sublime, have found a new home on The Roku Channel," Quibi founder Jeffrey Katzenberg said in a statement, confirming the news.

Rumors swirled earlier this week that Roku could be in the running to snap up the content left out in the cold from Quibi's sudden closure late last year.

The various shows will be ad-supported on Roku, but it's unclear whether this could lead to additional seasons of the ones that were renewed before the closure.

Shows like Most Dangerous Game and Chrissy's Court had landed orders for additional episodes and were left in the lurch when Quibi's founders announced it would be closing down last year.

Quibi was a big-budget experiment that failed.

Roku snapped up the rights to the majority of Quibi’s multimillion-dollar portfolio original programming — more than 75 shows in all — and will make them available free to stream in 2021 on the Roku Channel.

Following Quibi’s decision last October to shut down after failing to attract a sustainable base of subscribers, Roku acquired Quibi Holdings LLC, the company that holds all of Quibi’s content distribution rights.

Financial terms of the pact were not disclosed. A source familiar with the agreement said Roku is paying “significantly” less than $100 million for the Quibi library, confirming an earlier Wall Street Journal report. Rob Holmes, Roku’s VP of programming, said in an interview, “We do think this deal represents a great value.”

“Fundamentally, we think that Quibi has created great, high-quality content,” Holmes told Variety. “It’s a great value proposition for our users… We’re pivoting from Quibi’s SVOD model to an ad-supported model,...

Happy 2021, everyone! It’s been a few weeks, but we’re back with a brand-new edition of our weekly Blu-ray and DVD releases column to kick off this new year. And while we may not have a ton of titles headed home on Tuesday, we do have an excellent bunch of films all the same, including one of my favorite films of 2020, Love and Monsters, which hits various formats this week. Another film from last year that I really enjoyed was Brea Grant’s 12 Hour Shift, which hits both Blu-ray and DVD (and will be available On Demand) tomorrow, and if you have somehow never seen it, I highly recommend picking up the new Blu for Savage Streets, featuring Linda Blair.

Other releases for January 5th include Tintorera… Tiger Shark, From the Depths, Nina of the Woods, and Hacksaw.

12 Hour Shift

It's 1998, and over the course of one...

Quibi, after its high-profile collapse, may be close to landing a deal with Roku to sell rights to its multimillion-dollar lineup of original shows.

Quibi, the startup led by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, is in “advanced talks” on a pact with Roku to acquire streaming rights to the Quibi catalog, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. If the deal is consummated, Roku would add the short-form original series to the free, ad-supported Roku Channel.

Reps for Quibi and Roku declined to comment.

The Journal story didn’t include details about which Quibi shows may be part of the Roku deal or the financial terms. Quibi announced last fall that it planned to wind down operations after failing to attract a sustainable base of subscribers, leaving dozens of Quibi projects in limbo. The streaming app went dark on Dec. 1 less than eight months after launching.

Quibi does not own any...

Start-up struggled to draw subscribers.

In a spectacular development that marks the first heavyweight casualty from this year’s class of digital entertainment start-ups, Jeffrey Katzenberg’s short-form portal Quibi has confirmed it is to shut down six months after launch.

The company announced the decision to wind down and sell its assets following a report on The Wall Street Journal. After meeting its liabilities, Quibi said remaining funds will be returned to its investors as specified in the operating agreement

Acknowledging the impact of the pandemic, founder and chairman Katzenberg said, “The world has changed dramatically since Quibi launched...

Start-up had struggled to draw subscribers.

In a spectacular development that marks the first heavyweight casualty from this year’s class of digital entertainment start-ups, The Wall Street Journal has reported that six months after launch Jeffrey Katzenberg’s short-form portal Quibi is to shut down.

Katzenberg and his CEO Meg Whitman raised $1.75bn and debuted the mobile-only platform with “quick bite” entertainment in the early stages of the pandemic lockdown in April.

The platform debuted in the US and Canada and was available on Apple’s App Store or Google Play in 30 countries.

However it struggled to draw subscribers...

On Night 4 of the remote Creative Arts Emmy Awards, Quibi got its Emmys breakthrough, earning its first pair of statuettes via #FreeRayshawn stars Laurence Fishburne and Jasmine Cephas Jones.

“As I sit here on my rooftop in the middle of Brooklyn, in the middle of a pandemic, and the social climate that we’re in, I am honored and grateful to be a part of an important story that is #FreeRayshawn, to be an emotional vessel to shed light on these victims and what their families go through,” first-time nominee Cephas Jones said. “Let’s vote in November, and let’s continue to tell these important stories.”

“Good evening, and first let me say thank you to all the members of the Academy,” said Fishburne, who tonight claimed his second statuette. “My thanks to Antoine Fuqua, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Seith Mann, David Boorstein, Marc Maurino and Michael Martin…my fellow cast mates,...

Quibi, in its awards-season debut, picked up two trophies at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Thursday night.

Both were for “#FreeRayshawn,” a police drama from from executive producer Antoine Fuqua: Laurence Fishburne and Jasmine Cephas Jones won the acting awards in the Emmys short-form category. It was Fishburne’s third career Emmy win, and the first win for Cephas Jones (“Hamilton”) and her first nomination.

The first Emmy wins for Quibi, which is led by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, don’t come as a surprise: The well-funded mobile streamer has paid handsomely for its originals — upwards of $100,000 per minute of programming from A-list Hollywood talent. All of its entries were in the short-form categories, which historically have been populated by series that are sidecars to TV shows.

Overall, Quibi had picked up 10 Emmy Awards nominations. But it was mainly competing against itself, since it captured four of...

A version of this story about Quibi first appeared in the Down to the Wire issue of TheWrap’s Emmy magazine. The new streaming service Quibi may have gotten off to a rough start this year, but don’t tell that to Emmy voters. While the streamer devoted to short-form content for mobile devices fell short of its projected subscriber count after its April launch and now faces a potentially high cancellation rate as its 90-day free trials expire, the service dominated the Emmy nominations in the short-form categories. It took four of the five nominations in both of the acting categories, plus two additional nominations in the Outstanding Short Form Comedy or Drama Series category. Its 10 nominations were spread among six different shows — “#FreeRayshawn,” “Most Dangerous Game,” “Survive,” “Dummy,” “Flipped” and “Reno 911!” — and equaled all other short-form platforms combined. That success was the culmination of a trend that...

David Bowie’s rarities-filled 1999 Paris concert will serve as the next installment in an ongoing series of digital releases dedicated to the music icon’s Nineties concert work.

Something in the Air (Live Paris 99) — one of a handful of full-concert promotional performances Bowie made following the release of 1999’s Hours — was recorded October 14th, 1999 at Paris’ Elysée Montmartre.

Earlier that day, Bowie was awarded the Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France’s highest artistic honor, and that night Bowie responded with a set that journeyed into...

You’re probably already aware that Academy Award winners Cate Blanchett (“Mrs. America”), Olivia Colman (“The Crown”), Regina King (“Watchmen”) and Octavia Spencer (“Self Made”), among others, landed Emmy nominations on Tuesday, but there are a handful of other familiar faces that joined the ranks in less-publicized categories. Most of these winners will be announced at the Creative Arts Emmys in two separate virtual ceremonies on Sept. 12 and 13, a week before the primetime telecast on Sept. 20. Check out the complete list of nominations here.

In the Best Narrator category, “12 Years a Slave” stars Chiwetel Ejiofor (“The Elephant Queen”) and Lupita Nyong’o (“Serengeti”) reunite as competitors, the former of whom is a previous Best Limited Series/TV Movie Actor nominee for “Dancing on the Edge,” while the latter is enjoying her maiden Emmy nomination six years after winning her first Oscar. Joining her as a first-time nominee is former NBA star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,...

Quibi, the Jeffrey Katzenberg-led streaming player whose early path has been altered by Covid-19 and other challenges, drew 10 Emmy nominations Tuesday in a rare moment of validation for the startup.

The company, whose name is short for “quick bites,” dominated the short form categories, nabbing two of the five nominations for outstanding comedy or drama series, with Most Dangerous Game and Reno 911!

It also took home eight of the 10 nominations in the actor and actress categories for short form. Nominees include Laurence Fishburne, Stephan James and Jasmine Cephas Jones for the Antoine Fuqua-produced #FreeRayshawn; Christoph Waltz for Most Dangerous Game; Corey Hawkins for Survive; Anna Kendrick for Dummy; Corey Hawkins for Survive; Kaitlin Olson for Flipped; and Kerri Kenney-Silver for Reno 911!

Quibi launched April 6 after having raised $1.75 billion in venture funds and selling out its initial inventory of advertising, but trouble soon manifest itself. Pandemic-prompted stay-at-home orders...

A grand total of 34 performs are celebrating their first-ever Emmy bids after Tuesday’s nominations announcement. Some of these were expected based on our odds, and some of these totally came out of the blue.

The list below does not include first-time nominees for Best Reality Host, like Nicole Byer (“Nailed It!”) and the Fab Five from “Queer Eye,” or Best Narrator (Lupita Nyong’o for “Serengeti” or Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for “Black Patriots: Heroes of The Revolution”).

Here are all the first-time acting nominees:

See Full list of 2020 Emmy nominations

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II: Best Limited Series/TV Movie Supporting Actor (“Watchmen”)

Jovan Adepo: Best Limited Series/TV Movie Supporting Actor (“Watchmen”)

Mamoudou Athie: Best Short Form Comedy/Drama Series Actor”)

Cate Blanchett: Best Limited Series/TV Movie Actress (“Mrs. America”)

Nicholas Braun: Best Drama Supporting Actor (“Succession”)

D’Arcy Carden: Best Comedy Supporting Actress (“The Good Place...

Baby Yoda is now an Emmy contender. So are several new streaming platforms.

Disney Plus, Apple TV Plus and Quibi all earned nominations from the Television Academy, with Disney Plus’ “The Mandalorian” making a surprise appearance on the best drama series list and Steve Carell and Jennifer Aniston getting nods in the lead acting categories for Apple TV Plus’ “The Morning Show.”

“The Mandalorian” nabbed a total of 15 Emmy nominations, in categories including sound editing, sound mixing, special visual effects, voice-over and stunt coordination, making it the most nominated program from a direct-to-consumer service that debuted in the last year. The voice-over nod went to “Star Wars” fan-favorite Taika Waititi for his performance as Ig-11, the bounty hunter droid-turned Baby Yoda protector. Waititi wasn’t the only “Mandalorian” performer to receive a nomination, as Giancarlo Esposito broke into the guest actor in a drama category for playing the villainous, dark saber-wielding Moff Gideon.

The fat wad of cash Quibi has spent on high-end programming paid dividends in one area, at least: Jeffrey Katzenberg’s streamer picked up 10 Primetime Emmy Awards nominations in short form categories.

Of course, there’s no guarantee that Emmys nods (or even wins) can move the needle for Quibi, which has had a tough time signing up subscribers since premium mobile entertainment app’s launch earlier this spring — at the front end of the Covid-19 crisis.

And note that Quibi’s nominations all fall in the Emmys’ short-form brackets, which are less competitive — and less prestigious — than the traditional TV categories.

Quibi notched two nominations for best short form comedy or drama series, for “Reno 911,” a revival of Comedy Central’s cop spoof, and for dystopian thriller “Most Dangerous Game,” starring Liam Hemsworth.

Quibi’s “#FreeRayshawn,” a police drama from executive producer Antoine Fuqua, scored three acting nominations: Laurence Fishburne (as Lt.

The Best Short Form Comedy/Drama Series slate has mostly been wiped clean for domination by Quibi, a new streaming service comprised entirely of short-form content. Netflix made a play last year with three entries, but they are sitting out this time. Also clearing the stage are two past nominees that were expressly produced to get Emmys for their headliners, as neither “An Emmy for Megan” nor “This Eddie Murphy Role is Mine, Not Yours” returned for a third season. Sundance swept last year with the critically-acclaimed “State of the Union,” but that network does not have a player this year.

See our rundown on 15 of Quibi’s new short form series.

So Quibi is filling that void with ten new shows, six of which are strong contenders. The app’s flagship is an adaptation of “Most Dangerous Game,” which is additionally being campaigned by CBS Television Studios under Viacom.

Canadian drama Coroner and CBS All Access castoff Tell Me a Story will make their CW debuts earlier than planned. Originally pegged to bow in the fall, the two series — which were among a handful of acquisitions The CW made in an effort to pandemic-proof its schedule — will now premiere this summer.

Coroner will launch on Wednesday, August 5 at 9/8c, with new episodes from the procedural’s first two seasons airing well into fall. Tell Me a Story, meanwhile, will kick off its two-season CW run on Tuesday, July 28 at 9/8c; new episodes will also air well into fall. (Here...

In the latest TV ratings, Marvel’s Agents of Shield this Wednesday drew 1.6 million total viewers (improving on last week’s all-time low) and a 0.3 rating, holding steady in the demo for a second straight week since its premiere.

TVLine readers gave the episode an average grade of “A”; revisit the top moments.

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Update: Quibi has added one more series to be submitted for Emmys it’s Elba Vs Block, to compete in Outstanding Short Form Nonfiction or Reality Category. Show stars Idris Elba and Ken Block as they go head to head to see who’s best behind the driver’s seat.

Exclusive: Quibi has firmed the list of 19 shows, and the accompanying stars and filmmakers it will submit for the 2020 Primetime Emmy Awards. Deadline has the whole list of shows that fall into the short form comedy and drama categories, as well as Short Form Nonfiction/Reality, and Variety series. Quibi launched in April, and has found that a venture meant to generate content designed to be consumed in short bites by people on the go, has been challenged by landing right in the middle of an unprecedented pandemic that has rendered the world to a state of not going anywhere.

When Burden of Truth Season 3 premieres this Thursday (The CW, 8/7c), Joanna and Billy are not a new couple — because they’ve actually been in a relationship for a significant amount of time! And not only are the lawyers shacking up, but they’ve also started a law firm together in Winnipeg. How’s that for different?!

In jumping past the pair’s early dating months, “we skipped the part that’s really not that important,” star Kristin Kreuk tells TVLine. “It’s not dramatic. The dramatic part happens when it gets hard again” — and things definitely get difficult very quickly for the duo,...

The members of the Doom Patrol will find themselves in big, little trouble when Season 2 arrives this summer.

The live-action DC Comics series will premiere its sophomore run on Thursday, June 25, with episodes simultaneously releasing on DC Universe and the HBO Max streaming service (which itself launches on May 27).

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It certainly wasn't Jeffrey Katzenberg's plan to kick off his new short-form streaming service in the midst of a pandemic, but here we are. The service launched earlier this month with a variety of different programs, including action/thriller Most Dangerous Game starring Chris Hemsworth and Christoph Waltz, survival/thriller Survive starring Sophie Turner and Corey Hawkins,…...

Quibi has been downloaded more than 2.7 million times since its April 6, the mobile streaming service revealed on Wednesday. The streaming service, which launched on April 6, pulled in 1.7 million in its first week. It added an additional 1 million in its second. Quibi founders Meg Whitman and Jeffrey Katzenberg had previously said they would shy away from releasing any kind of subscriber information. The new service is offering a free 90-day trial for people who sign up this month. Afterward, it will cost $4.99 per month for ad-supported streaming and $7.99 per month for ad-free streaming. Quibi also revealed that it’s five most-watched shows are “Most Dangerous Game,” “Chrissy’s Court,” “Flipped,” “Punk’d” and “Survive.” Katzenberg added in an interview with Reuters that some users would have the ability to cast the mobile content onto their connected TV sets as early as next month. Some users had complained that they could only watch the content on their phones.

Quibi, which launched two weeks ago as a mobile-only video streaming app for on-the-go viewing, said it plans to add the ability to “cast” content to compatible TVs next month.

The company, led by founder Jeffrey Katzenberg and CEO Meg Whitman, also announced that its app has been downloaded more than 2.7 million times in the first two weeks. In the first week, according to the company, it hit 1.7 million downloads.

According to analytics company Sensor Tower, Quibi has around 2.3 million downloads to date. The Quibi figure “seems reasonable assuming they are counting all possible installs,” said Sensor Tower head of mobile insights Randy Nelson, which may include re-downloads; installs on multiple devices per Apple or Google account; or iPad downloads of the iPhone-only app.

Meanwhile, it’s worth noting that downloads do not equate to active users, as some of those who downloaded the Quibi app have likely watched very little of the quick-bite content.

Director Mark Pellington has spent a great deal of his career addressing the complexities of grief, memory and reconciliation, but with his new film Survive he explores these themes on a larger canvas than ever before, placing his preoccupations in the context of an adventure tale that is sweeping in its physical scale yet every bit as emotionally penetrating as more intimate Pellington character studies like Nostalgia and I Melt with You. Richard Abate and Jeremy Ungar’s script tells the story of Jane (Sophie Turner), a traumatized young woman who plans to commit suicide in the bathroom of a plane […]...

Director Mark Pellington has spent a great deal of his career addressing the complexities of grief, memory and reconciliation, but with his new film Survive he explores these themes on a larger canvas than ever before, placing his preoccupations in the context of an adventure tale that is sweeping in its physical scale yet every bit as emotionally penetrating as more intimate Pellington character studies like Nostalgia and I Melt with You. Richard Abate and Jeremy Ungar’s script tells the story of Jane (Sophie Turner), a traumatized young woman who plans to commit suicide in the bathroom of a plane […]...

Sneak Peek the new TV series "Survive", starring Sophie Turner ("Game of Thrones") and Corey Hawkins ("Kong: Skull Island") based on the novel of the same name by Alex Morel, that debuted on Quibi, April 6, 2020:

"...'Jane' (Turner) and 'Paul' (Hawkins) are the only survivors of a plane accident in a remote snow-covered mountain..."

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Survive"...

Quibi is not moving ahead with a planned series dramatizing the rise of Snapchat and its founder, Evan Spiegel, Variety has learned exclusively.

The project was announced at the SXSW film festival last year by Quibi founder and board chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg. It was to be based on the feature script “Frat Boy Genius” by Elissa Karasik, which was featured on the 2018 Black List.

“We want to tell a story that’s as compelling and interesting about Snapchat and Evan as ‘The Social Network’ was for Facebook,” Katzenberg said at the time.

The news comes just one week after the launch of the mobile-only streaming app, which aims to premium short form content to subscribers in brief chapters, or “quick bites.” Quibi CEO Meg Whitman said earlier on Monday that the app had been downloaded 1.7 million times since launch. The service launched with a 90-day free trial.

Quibi’s launch...

Launch ranked in the top five overall in Google Play Store and App Store.

Short-form content platform Quibi said on Monday (13) it has attracted more than 1.7million downloads in its first week.

Sources at the company founded by Jeffrey Katzenberg said the number exceeded expectations and ensured it delivered one of the most successful app debuts by a new brand.

Quibi, which is only available on smart phones, said the app was the number one entertainment app on the Google Play Store and the second most popular in entertainment in the App Store.

It ranked in the top five overall...