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| Good morning/afternoon, Inside Streaming readers! I watched a pretty good movie last night. It was a Sundance 2022 selection that's recently popped up to stream on Hulu, called "God's Country." Thandiwe Newton stars as a college professor, originally from New Orleans, who has resettled in a very rural spot in Montana. When two local hunters start parking their truck on her property, against her wishes, it kicks off a feud with ultimately far-reaching consequences. I don't want to give anything else away! Just watch it! Lon
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| 1 | | Representatives from the Alliance for Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) and the Writers Guild of America (WGA) met again on Tuesday, to what Deadline terms "mixed results." No details about specific proposals have emerged from the discussions. More: - The AMPTP delivered a counter-proposal to the WGA last week, including a number of new concessions on key issues.
- The WGA committee then met on Monday to consider the studios' offer, which included new proposals around streaming residuals, pay raises, AI, and staffing.
- On Tuesday, Deadline reported that the talks have been "progressive," though it's worth noting that Deadline, as with all Hollywood trade papers, tends to represent the studio perspective more than the WGA's.
- Should the strikes extend beyond Labor Day, they will begin to have a serious impact on the 2023-2024 TV season, particularly for broadcast networks.
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| 2 | | "Warrior Nun" executive producer Dean English announced on a new dedicated website that the Netflix fantasy-drama series will return as a trilogy of feature films. English noted that the films can't really move forward presently, due to the ongoing actors' and writers' strikes. More: - Netflix canceled the popular YA series after two seasons, leading to a strong backlash from fans and a social media campaign to save the series.
- The series is based on the comic book "Warrior Nun Areala" by Ben Dunn; Simon Barry created the adaptation and served as showrunner.
- Alba Baptista stars as a 19-year-old who dies and wakes up in the morgue with a divine artifact embedded in her back; she now serves as part of an ancient order that battles demons on Earth.
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| 3 | | DAILY CALENDAR WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16 HIP HOP 50 LIVE AT YANKEE STADIUM: Tonight's live concert event from The Bronx celebrates 50 years of hip-hop and features performances from a vast array of rap icons, including Run-DMC, Melle Mel, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, Kurtis Blow, Common, Lil Kim, and the Sugarhill Gang. The stream begins at 6 pm ET on the Mass Appeal YouTube channel. [YouTube] THE CHOSEN ONE: Debut fantasy-drama series, produced in a combination of English and Spanish, about a 12-year-old boy (Bobby Luhnow) from Baja California who develops Christ-like superpowers following a near-fatal accident. Tenoch Huerta and Dianna Agron co-star. The series is based on the graphic novel "American Jesus" by Mark Millar and Peter Gross. [Netflix] DEPP V. HEARD: Three-part docuseries chronicling the 2022 celebrity defamation trial involving former spouses Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, utilizing over 200 hours of trial coverage, including the testimony of Depp and Heard themselves. Emma Cooper ("The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes") directs. [Netflix] AT HOME WITH THE FURYS: Debut reality series chronicling the home life of British professional boxer Tyson Fury, the undefeated WBC heavyweight champ, as he embraces retirement and spends time with his father John, wife Paris, and their six children. [Netflix] MIGUEL WANTS TO FIGHT: Coming-of-age comedy feature starring Tyler Dean Flores as a high school junior who's nervous about moving to a new town before getting into his first fight. Christian Vunipola, Imani Lewis, and Suraj Partha co-star as his three best friends, who are determined to make it happen. Shea Serrano ("Primo") co-wrote the script; Oz Rodriguez ("Vampires vs. the Bronx") directs. [Hulu] BATTLE OF THE DECADES: Debut reality competition series from Food Network, in which chefs from different generations square off in challenges based on food trends from different eras. The winning team walks away with a $10,000 grand prize. Jonathan Bennett hosts. [Max] HAMSTER & GRETEL: The animated Disney Channel series centers on a teenage boy who's constantly drawn into conflicts after his younger sister and her pet hamster develop superpowers. Meli Povenmire, Michael Cimino, Beck Bennett, and Joey King co-star. Four new Season 1 episodes hit Disney+ today. [Disney+] THE VILLAINS OF VALLEY VIEW: Live-action Disney Channel comedy series about a family of supervillains on the run from the authorities who pose as a typical Texas suburban family. James Patrick Stuart, Lucy Davis, Isabella Pappas, Malachi Barton, Reed Horstmann, and Kayden Muller-Janssen co-star. Six new Season 2 episodes come to Disney+ today. [Disney+] WICKED TUNA: The Nat Geo reality series features commercial tuna fishermen based in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and follows along as they compete to see who can bring in the most profitable hauls. Season 12 hits Disney+ today. [Disney+] DISNEY JUNIOR WONDERFUL WORLD OF SONGS: Collection of three animated musical shorts, produced for the Disney Junior cable network, featuring reimagined versions of classic Disney songs. [Disney+] | | | |
| 4 | | The trailer for Netflix's Leonard Bernstein biopic "Maestro" was met with some backlash online over star/director Bradley Cooper's use of a prosthetic nose. Composer Bernstein was Jewish, while Cooper is not, leading some to level accusations of "Jewface" against the actor. More: - The film centers on the "West Side Story" composer's tumultuous 25-year marriage to Felicia Montealegre (Carey Mulligan).
- In a post to Twitter/X, Bernstein's daughters Jamie, Alexander, and Nina said that they had worked closely with Cooper on the film, and they are "perfectly fine" with the filmmaker's decision to "amplify [their father's] resemblance."
- Neither Cooper nor Netflix responded to requests for comment.
- The term "Jewface" was popularized by comedian Sarah Silverman on her podcast in 2021, and refers to non-Jewish actors playing characters who aren't just Jews, but who are in part defined by their Jewishness.
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| 5 | | Netflix dropped a trailer for the new animated feature adaptation of "Scott Pilgrim." The same cast from director Edgar Wright's 2010 live-action adaptation reprises their roles for the animated version. More: - The story concerns a young musician who falls for a beautiful delivery girl but must do battle against her army of evil ex-partners before he can win her heart.
- Wright returned as an executive producer for the film, along with original comic book creator Bryan Lee O'Malley.
- The voice cast includes Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Anna Kendrick, Brie Larson, Alison Pill, and Aubrey Plaza.
- The animation was produced by Japanese studio Science SARU, of "Devilman Crybaby" and "Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!" fame.
- The "Scott Pilgrim" anime arrives on November 17.
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| 6 | | Google has apparently started issuing refunds to some marketers following claims that it was selling low quality streaming ads. A recent, widely-shared report from Adalytics suggested that Google was selling advertisers low-quality ad placements but charging premium prices. More: - According to Adalytics, so-called premium ads were often placed within small, hard-to-find video ads, some of which played automatically and didn't meet Google's own monetization standards.
- Adalytics reported that Google's ad placements violated their own standards approximately 80% of the time.
- A representative for Google told AdAge "we sometimes issue credits to advertisers; this is not uncommon."
- Google has also indicated that Adalytics used a "flawed methodology" in their report.
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| 7 | | Disney apparently spent around $105.9 million to produce the "Willow" sequel series. The fantasy comedy-drama series, based on the 1988 film, ran for one season on Disney+, and was pulled from the platform to save costs after just six months. More: - Disney acquired the rights to "Willow" along with other Lucasfilm properties from founder George Lucas in 2012, as part of a $4 billion deal that also included the "Star Wars" franchise.
- The eight-part series debuted in October 2022.
- "Willow" was produced in the United Kingdom, and benefited from the UK's Television Tax Relief plan, which allowed producers to recoup up to 25% of the money spent in the country; these filings were also how Forbes was able to determine Disney's budget for the series.
- The bulk of the show's expenses went to post-production work, which was led by Lucasfilm's Industrial Light & Magic team in London.
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- E! announced the debut reality competition series "House of Villains," in which memorably devious or unpredictable cast members from previous reality shows will square off to determine who is "America's Ultimate Supervillain"; the cast includes Anfisa Arkhipchenko ("90 Day Fiancé"), Johnny Bananas ("The Challenge"), Jonny Fairplay ("Survivor: Pearl Islands"), Omarosa Manigault Newman ("The Apprentice"), and Tiffany "New York" Pollard.
- FX will debut the new season of "American Horror Story" -- subtitled "Delicate" and co-starring Emma Roberts, Kim Kardashian, and Cara Delevingne -- on September 20; episodes will stream on Hulu the day after they air on cable.
- The finale of Paramount+'s limited series "1883: A Yellowstone Origin Story" ranked among the 10 most-watched cable TV programs last week; the series has been airing on cable's Paramount Network, and drew 2.4 million viewers to Sunday's finale.
- Hulu released a trailer for "The Other Black Girl," a "workplace thriller" based on the novel by Zakiya Dalila Harris; the original series stars Sinclair Daniel as a Black editorial assistant at a mostly-white publishing house who becomes paranoid and suspicious of her new Black colleague (Ashleigh Murray).
- According to a report in TV Line, Johnny Hardwick recorded some dialogue for Hulu's "King of the Hill" revival prior to his death earlier this month.
- "Stranger Things" star Millie Bobby Brown told Women's Wear Daily that she's ready to say goodbye to the breakout Netflix series and her character, Eleven, comparing the upcoming final season to her senior year of high school.
- Adult Swim released a new teaser for Season 7 of "Rick and Morty," the first batch of episodes produced without original creator and voice actor Justin Roiland; a release date will be announced next week.
- The period comedy-drama series "The Buccaneers" -- based on author Edith Wharton's unfinished final novel, and following the lives of a group of free-spirited American girls in 1870s London -- comes to Apple TV+ on November 8.
- Amazon dropped a trailer for the biographical drama "A Million Miles Away," starring Michael Peña as real-life NASA astronaut José Hernández; the film tracks Hernández's journey from the rural Mexican village of Michoacán to the International Space Station, and hits Prime Video in the US on September 15.
- Director Ángel Manuel Soto had to convince a reluctant Warner Bros. Discovery to release "Blue Beetle" to theaters, rather than sending it direct to streaming; he discussed the negotiation process with Collider.
- Raquel Leviss, one of the key players in the Season 10 #Scandoval storyline, will exit the cast of "Vanderpump Rules" ahead of the show's 11th season.
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 | Writer | | 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." | | This newsletter was edited by Eduardo Garcia | |
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