Good morning: In today’s edition of The Industry, we look at:
Sony’s Jump, Close’s Oscar, and a white lie.
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Our Tribeca Film Festival panel was a huge success.
I would like to thank Shannon Treusch from Falco Ink, Shayna Weingast, Kaitlyn Hughes, and Anwulika Oputa from Tribeca, and our panelists, Lilly Riber from Mubi and Tyler DiNapoli from Bleecker Street. The room was at capacity, and we had some great questions from the audience.
HBO Max’s The Pitt season 2 once again taps into the chaos of overworked healthcare professionals at a Pittsburgh hospital.
This season navigates through their personal crises, workplace politics, and the emotional toll of treating critically ill patients. All the while escalating the uncertainty principle by asking a sinister question: what happens when the leaders in charge of the people who save lives become untrustworthy?
The cast is led by a great performance by the righteous but tormented Noah Wyle, who presses through this “deli of death.”
THE INDUSTRY TLDR
Fubo and NBCUniversal strike a new carriage deal, restoring NBC.
Sony develops 24 Jump Street with Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, & Ice Cube.
Glenn Close, Ridley Scott, and Christine Vachon set for honorary Oscars.
Netflix unscripted VP Jeff Gaspin exits.
Former Paramount exec Brendon Thomas joins Radial Entertainment as CRO.
Scott Nemes exits AGBO to launch his own production company.
Miles Teller joins John Swab’s West Texas thriller Copperhead.
Phil Dunster cast in Amazon MGM’s romantic comedy Hello & Paris.
Hugh Laurie and Joe Alwyn join MGM+’s John le Carré adaptation Legacy of Spies.
Edgar Ramírez cast in S2 of HBO’s Mark Ruffalo-led crime drama Task.
Geena Davis joins Arnold Schwarzenegger in Amazon MGM’s The Kellys.
Oliver Stone wraps his Josh Hartnett-led drama White Lies.
Matt Shakman will direct A24 & Paramount+’s Nicole Kidman legal thriller.
Yesterday’s correct answer: Spike Lee’s production company is 40 Acres and a Mule.
82% got it correct.
Noah Wyle (Dr. Robby) is the most problematic of all - click here for more info.
THE INDUSTRY NEWS
Welcome back to Jump Street. Sony Pictures and the original cast, Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, and Ice Cube, are in talks to return to that universe with 24 Jump Street.
Oscar-winner Rodney Rothman (Dir: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) will direct, with Phil Lord and Chris Miller (Dirs: Project Hail Mary, 21 Jump Street) returning to produce the third installment of the comedy franchise.
Now that Lord and Miller have created a visually stunning blockbuster in Project Hail Mary, we can see why they would be attracted to Rothman’s dazzling visual sensibilities. Doesn’t hurt that Rothman also scripted 22 Jump Street.
We may be in for a wildly divergent visual language for this third film. The two previous installments made over $500M worldwide.
After six months of nonstop negotiations, Fubo and NBCUniversal have reached a new distribution agreement that restores the latter’s networks to the streaming platform.
The deal brings back channels including NBC, Bravo, Telemundo, and regional sports networks, ending a programming blackout that began late 2025.
The disputes revolved not only around the integration of Peacock but also around NBCU’s package pricing, which Fubo said would increase subscriber costs. The timing of the resolution could not have worked out more perfectly for the heavily sports-focused Fubo, with the 2026 FIFA World Cup about to begin.
Mini Tidbits:
It’s about time! The eight-time nominated Glenn Close will finally be getting her Oscar. This coming November’s Governors Awards will bestow honorary Oscars to Close, Ridley Scott, animator Floyd Norman (Monsters, Inc.), and Killer Films producers Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler (Past Lives).
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema’s flagship San Francisco theater is officially being renamed the Christopher Nolan Cinema. We’re jealous of any filmgoers who will see Nolan’s The Odyssey on 70mm this July at his new namesake theater.
Executive Changes:
Netflix’s VP of Unscripted Series, Jeff Gaspin, is exiting the company. He was Chairman of NBCUniversal Television Entertainment before joining the streamer two years ago.
Former Paramount Global executive Brendon Thomas joins Radial Entertainment (Content distributor of over 70,000 films and television episodes) as Chief Revenue Officer. Previously, he was SVP, Global Distribution and Business Development at Paramount.
Scott Nemes is leaving AGBO (Prod Co: Everything Everywhere All at Once) to launch his own production company. He joined AGBO as President of Television in 2022.
Trailers:
Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning
Cast: Mikey Madison, Jeremy Strong, Jeremy Allen White
Release: Oct 9
Gregg Araki’s I Want Your Sex
Cast: Olivia Wilde, Cooper Hoffman, Charli XCX
Premiered: Sundance
Release: Jul 31
Green Day’s Nimrods
Dir/Wri: Lee Kirk (dir. The Office)
Release: Aug 14
CNN’s The Salisbury Poisonings: A Spy Next Door
Release: Jul 12
Re-Releases:
Reagan (2024)
Cast: Dennis Quaid
Re-Release: Jul 4 (For America’s 250th Anniversary)
Michael Mann’s Manhunter (1986)
4K Final Cut (original trailer)
Re-Release: Jul 24
Release dates:
Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary
Streaming Release: Jun 18 on MGM+
FX and Hulu’s The Shards
E.P: Ryan Murphy
Release: Aug 5
Crunchyroll’s Solo Leveling S3
Release: Sometime 2027
Noah Wyle (Dr. Robby) is the most problematic of all - click here for more info.
THE ACTOR SPOTLIGHT
Miles Teller (Whiplash) is back to being an apprentice. Teller joins the new thriller Copperhead, directed by John Swab (Dir: King Ivory starring Ben Foster). The film follows a veteran detective who is forced to team up with a young federal agent to unravel the hidden foes in their elite task force in West Texas. Black Label Media (Prod Co: Die My Love) is producing the film alongside Teller’s Lime Tree Productions and Swab’s Milk Boy.
Teller thrives as a mentee who gets brutalized, from the bloody knuckles in Whiplash (2014) to the rocket fuel in his blood for Top Gun: Maverick (2022). And Swab’s cinema is brutal (here’s our interview w/ him and Melissa Leo for King Ivory).
Teller's youthful charm should help balance the miasma of darkness that is pervasive in Swab’s work.
Tidbits:
Phil Dunster (Ted Lasso) joins Amazon MGM Studios’ romantic comedy feature Hello & Paris. Already cast are Javier Bardem, Kate Hudson, and Steve Zahn. The film is said to follow an enemies-to-lovers story. After breaking out as the cocky soccer star on Apple’s Ted Lasso, Dunster is now just coming off the delightful first season of another Bill Lawrence comedy, HBO’s Rooster, where he played an equally rough-around-the-edges character. Maybe he’ll finally play someone likable in Hello & Paris, which is currently in production.
The Mark Ruffalo-led HBO series Task is bringing on Edgar Ramírez for its upcoming second season. The Emilia Pérez actor will play a devoted family man and loyal DEA second in command to Ruffalo’s priest turned FBI agent Tom Brandis. Coming off his Tribeca premiering romance film Next Life, this will be his first recurring TV role since his guest appearance in 2023 on Peacock’s Dr. Death. Production is expected to begin soon on Task.
Hugh Laurie and Joe Alwyn (Hamnet) join MGM+’s John le Carré adaptation Legacy of Spies. Based on John le Carré’s beloved book of the same name, the series will follow George Smiley (Matthew Macfadyen) and his espionage during the Cold War. Laurie plays Control, the commander of British secret intelligence, The Circus. Alwyn plays Jim Prideaux, a Circus veteran.
Mini Tidbits:
Geena Davis (Thelma & Louise) joins Amazon MGM’s action film The Kellys. The film follows a disgraced NYC cop who teams up with his family to save his wife, who is taken hostage by terrorists. Davis joins an ensemble cast that includes Arnold Schwarzenegger and Liam Hemsworth.
Titus Welliver (Bosch series) joins the animation adaptation of Get Jiro!, a graphic novel written by star chef Anthony Bourdain. The film is set in a dystopian near-future where master chefs rule like the mafia and follows an ex-Yakuza who kills anyone who disrespects his sushi.
Fox’s Baywatch has added John Beckwith to its cast shortly after his Song Sung Blue role as Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder. He’ll take on Julian, a sophisticated Ph.D. student who’s part of an ocean research team brought in to help Baywatch.
Noah Wyle (Dr. Robby) is the most problematic of all - click here for more info.
FESTIVALS AND DOCS
Veteran German producer and the former Constantin Film chief Martin Moszkowicz has been named the new president of the Zurich Film Festival. From the Oscar-nominated September 5 to the Resident Evil franchise, Moszkowicz has worked on more than 300 global film and television projects. The Zurich Film Festival will run for 10 days beginning Sept 24.
INDIE FILMMAKER SPOTLIGHT / INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Three-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter Oliver Stone is back with a new film titled White Lies.
His first narrative feature since 2016’s Snowden follows a man repeating the same mistakes he saw in his own parents’ failed marriage. On a quest for freedom, he meets a woman when he least expects it, who changes the course of his life.
The project reunites Stone with both Willem Dafoe, who unforgettably starred in his Vietnam War masterpiece Platoon (1986), and Michael Douglas, who won his Oscar as the ruthless Gordon Gekko in his crime thriller Wall Street (1987).
Rather than taking on another sprawling political scandal or brutal war epic, White Lies is a meditative drama on family dynamics and rediscovering your purpose.
Filming on White Lies took place all over Thailand and Rome, with production officially wrapping this week.
Not long after helming last summer’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps, filmmaker Matt Shakman is set to direct A24 and Paramount+’s legal thriller series Discretion.
Starring Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning, the series follows a young associate who uncovers dangerous secrets hidden behind a wall of NDAs at her powerful law firm.
Long before entering the Marvel universe with the Emmy-nominated WandaVision, Shakman was a veteran TV director behind episodes of heavy hitters like Mad Men, Game of Thrones, and Succession, making Discretion a welcome return to the prestige drama short format that built his career.
Production will begin later this year.
Mini Tidbits:
Santa Monica-based SK Global (Crazy Rich Asians) is giving one of its executives a major promotion. Less than two years after joining the studio, former SVP Elizabeth Haggard is the new Executive Vice President and Head of Film, set to lead oversight on SK’s entire narrative slate.
Rodrigo Teixeira (Prod: 2025 Oscar winner I’m Still Here) joins the team of sci-fi drama Bodies of Summer. Based on a novel of the same name, the film follows a man resurrected after 100 years as he seeks out his aging son, who rejects eternal life.
Rupert Everett (Shrek 2) joins ABC’s Australian crime drama Fortitude Valley. The plot is under wraps, but the show will be a six-part crime thriller set in Brisbane that explores the themes of family and corruption. Everett stars alongside Hunter Page-Lochard (Reckless) and Kat Stewart (Offspring).
Doctor Who will break its annual tradition with no Christmas Special this year.
ON THIS DAY
1982. E.T. is released.
Written by Gabriel Miller, Madelyn Menapace, and Tony Jaeyeong Jeong.
Editor: Gabriel Miller.
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