Weekly Journal #36
News
Filming in Los Angeles Begins to Pick Back Up (Hollywood Reporter)
Meghan and Harry Just Signed a Big Netflix Deal (The Cut)
How Humboldt-Del-Norte’s Film Commissioner Aims to Restart Filming in the Northern California (Variety)
Film
‘The Batman’ UK Production Halted After Robert Pattinson Tests Positive For Coronavirus (Deadline)
‘Cuties’ Director Says She Received Death Threats After Netflix Poster Backlash (Deadline)
The Forty-Year-Old Version | Official Trailer | Netflix (Watch Here)
Nigerian Filmmaking Collective Endorsed by J.J. Abrams and Franklin Leonard (Hollywood Reporter)
Mulan, a Most Adaptable Heroine: There’s a Version for Every Era (New York Times)
Francis Ford Coppola Finally Gets to Release His Version of The Godfather Part III (Vanity Fair)
Television
‘Shameless’ Starts Filming, Ann Sarnoff Reveals, Talks COVID-19 Impact On TV Production (Deadline)
How HBO Is Complicating WarnerMedia’s Ad-Based HBO Max Plans (Information)
The Nielsen Total Audience Report: August 2020 (Nielsen)
Anthony Hemingway Productions Adds CBS Vets Whitney Davis & Sean Hoagland (Deadline)
The pandemic wiped out the fall TV schedule. Does it matter? (LA Times)
Digital
Is this the biggest meme account buyout ever? (The Hustle)
Will Beijing derail the TikTok deal? (Economist)
Good Reads
‘When We All Vote’ Enlists Celebrity Backers To Deliver A Masked Message (Deadline)
Black Lives Matter Just Entered Its Next Phase (Atlantic)
We Can Solve the Coronavirus-Test Mess Now—If We Want To (New Yorker)
The Little Cards That Tell Police 'Let's Forget This Ever Happened' (Vice)
The Wildest Insurance Fraud Scheme Texas Has Ever Seen (Texas Monthly)
How Tulsa, Oklahoma, almost won Elon Musk using the language he knows best: memes (Verge)
This Image Is Too Rich to Process (The Cut)