 Gyllenhaal, Melchior, Magnussen, Ikumelo Amazon greenlit a remake of the 1989 action film "Road House." Jake Gyllenhaal will star in the reimagined take, as a former UFC fighter who takes a bouncer job in the Florida Keys. More: - "Edge of Tomorrow" and "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" vet Doug Liman will direct.
- The cast also includes Billy Magnussen, Daniela Melchior, Gbemisola Ikumelo, and Lukas Gage.
- The film goes into production later this month in the Dominican Republic; no release date has been set.
- Gyllenhaal will next be seen in the Guy Ritchie war film "The Interpreter"; he recently starred in "The Guilty" for director Antoine Fuqua and Netflix.
- The original "Road House" starred Patrick Swayze as a Missouri bouncer who squares off against a corrupt local businessman (Ben Gazzara).
DEADLINE 
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 Amazon announced an alternate "Thursday Night Football" stream, featuring the cast of YouTube's Dude Perfect channel. Amazon's main "Thursday Night Football" feed will feature previously-set announcers Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit. More: - Dude Perfect launched on YouTube in 2009 and features a variety of stunts and elaborate "trick shots."
- The Dude Perfect stream will feature the cast predicting upcoming plays along with side activities including "dunk tanks, pudding cannons, special guests" and attempts to set new world records.
- Amazon indicated that more alternate "Thursday Night Football" streams will be announced in the coming weeks.
- Amazon's exclusive deal for Thursday night NFL games extends over the next 11 years.
THE VERGE
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A group of over 500 male TV writers and showrunners joined a letter-writing campaign kickstarted last week by their female colleagues, asking Hollywood studios to ensure their workers can continue to access reproductive health care in states with anti-abortion laws. Writers who signed the letter include Jordan Peele, J.J. Abrams, Donald Glover, Eric Kripke, Neil Gaiman, and Taika Waititi. More: - The initial letter, sent last week, was signed by over 400 women, including Issa Rae, Shonda Rhimes, Natasha Lyonne, and Mindy Kaling.
- The new letter demands a written response within 10 days of July 28, when the first letter was sent, and seeks set protocols for pregnant employees as well as "criminal and civil legal protection" for anyone who helps them.
- A number of states with strict anti-abortion laws on the books are also popular locations for shooting films and TV shows, including Georgia, Texas, and Louisiana.
COLLIDER
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 Production has been delayed on Netflix's action film "The Old Guard 2" following a fire at Rome's legendary Cinecittà Studios. The flames were quickly brought under control by firefighters; no injuries or major damage was reported. More: - The fire started on a set depicting Renaissance Florence that was in the process of being taken apart.
- "The Old Guard 2" lost an estimated two days of filming due to the shutdown.
- The specific cause of the fire has not been determined, but it's been suggested that it may be connected to the ongoing heat wave and severe drought impacting Italy and much of Europe.
- Cinecittà first opened in 1937; notable films shot there include "Roman Holiday," "Ben-Hur," "La Dolce Vita," "The English Patient," and "Gangs of New York."
HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
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 Hulu released a new trailer for the 10-part sports docuseries "Legacy: The True Story of the LA Lakers." The series, from filmmaker Antoine Fuqua, recounts the storied history of the Los Angeles Lakers NBA franchise. More: - Interview subjects include LeBron James, Magic Johnson, Jeanie Buss, Pat Riley, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Shaquille O'Neal, Jerry West, and Phil Jackson; Buss also executive produced.
- "Challenger: The Final Flight" vet Steven Leckart wrote the scripts.
- The series arrives on August 15.
AWFUL ANNOUNCING
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 Axios reported that YouTube stopped serving ads on two videos from controversial Canadian professor and author Jordan Peterson. The videos deal with Peterson's views on transgender rights and gender-affirming medical care. More: - In the clips, Peterson misgenders actor Elliot Page, refers to transgender identity as a "viciously harmful fad," and compares gender-affirming health care to "Nazi medical experiment(s)."
- One of the videos has over 3 million views while the other has close to 500,000; they both remain viewable on YouTube, though Peterson will not earn any direct revenue from them.
- In a statement to Axios, YouTube responded "We set a high bar for what videos can make money on YouTube," and noted that the videos did not meet guidelines around "hateful and derogatory content."
- In June, Peterson was also forced to delete tweets misgendering Page.
AXIOS
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 Colin Farrell spoke about the upcoming HBO Max Penguin series with "Entertainment Tonight." The new show is a spinoff of the recent film "The Batman," and follows Gotham City gangster Oswald "Oz" Cobblepot's rise to power. More: - The series will enter production in early 2023.
- "The Batman" writer/director Matt Reeves is executive producing the series; Lauren LeFranc ("Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.") will serve as writer and showrunner.
- According to Farrell, though Reeves is not personally directing the series, "he's all over the structure of the scripts and who's going to direct them."
- A "The Batman" sequel film is also in the early planning stages, and Farrell hopes to return, telling ET: "It's so much fun, are you joking [with] me?"
INDIEWIRE
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 ABC's "Miss Fisher and The Crypt of Tears" In Australia, a number of streaming apps from local TV brands have started to cut into Netflix's market share. According to data from Sensor Tower, Netflix was the fourth most-downloaded streaming app in the country in the last 12 months, after Disney+, Amazon, and TikTok. More: - Four more Australian streaming apps also claimed spots in the top ten: Nine, ABC, Seven, and Stan.
- Notably, three of the four -- Nine, ABC, and Steven -- are free ad-supported platforms.
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- Amazon's feature adaptation of the Grady Hendrix horror novel "My Best Friend's Exorcism" hits Prime Video on September 30; "Eighth Grade" vet Elsie Fisher stars.
- Netflix dropped a trailer for "Cyberpunk: Edgerunners," a new anime series set in the world of the "Cyberpunk" video game franchise; it comes from "Kill la Kill" animation house Studio Trigger, and arrives in September.
- '80s pop icon Cyndi Lauper signed on for a recurring guest role on the upcoming Prime Video series "The Horror of Dolores Roach," based on the Gimlet podcast.
- Amazon's English-language remake of the 2014 Austrian thriller "Goodnight Mommy" hits Prime Video on September 16, 2022; Naomi Watts and young actors Cameron & Nicholas Crovetti co-star.
- Speaking on the red carpet from the "Bullet Train" premiere, Joey King briefly discussed working on the Netflix adaptation of the YA bestseller "Uglies," calling it "a dream realized."
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 |  | Lon Harris is the writer and editor of Inside Streaming and was the very first person to ever write an Inside newsletter. He lives in Los Angeles, California, and also writes about TV and film for Fandom, Screen Junkies, Rotten Tomatoes, Gamma Ray and others. Plus he has a Game of Thrones podcast called "Casterly Talk" and competes on The Movie Trivia Schmoedown as "The Professor." |  | | Editor | Eduardo Garcia is a writer and editor based in New York. He is the author of "Things You Can Do," an illustrated book about climate action. Bylines in The New York Times, The Guardian, Slate, Scientific American, and others. In one of his previous lives, Eduardo worked as a Reuters correspondent in Latin America for nearly a decade. | |
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