A damage control meeting on the Warner Bros. lot between Ezra Miller, their agent and Warners' Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy took place this week, with aims to quell concerns over the star's arrests and controversies thr.cm/eT7qK7d
During the meeting, Ezra Miller discussed how to stay on course for #TheFlash, reaffirmed their commitment to the movie and apologized for bringing negative attention to the production and the company thr.cm/eT7qK7d
The meeting comes a couple weeks after Ezra Miller announced they were seeking help for mental health issues, saying in a statement "I want to apologize to everyone that I have alarmed and upset with my past behavior" thr.cm/eT7qK7d
Sources say Ezra Miller vowed to seek help after learning that Warners was considering all options for #TheFlash, including scrapping the $250 million movie if things devolved further with Miller thr.cm/eT7qK7d
Ezra Miller was spooked by the notion of #TheFlash getting canceled and jolted to take action. "They care about the Flash," one source says. "It's one of their favorite characters to play."
The first live-action series in the #ResidentEvil franchise will be a short-lived one.
Netflix has canceled the series after a single season. The decision comes six weeks after the show's debut thr.cm/Q18Yd3G
Both Netflix’s own metrics and external measurements showed #ResidentEvil didn’t have a long shelf life with viewers thr.cm/Q18Yd3G
#ResidentEvil opened to decent numbers by both Netflix’s public rankings and Nielsen’s streaming measurement. It was relatively flat in its second week, however, and dropped off considerably in the last week of July thr.cm/Q18Yd3G
#HouseoftheDragon's renewal comes relatively quickly following its premiere on Sunday, which delivered 10 million viewers overnight — an HBO record thr.cm/ENLy0LV
Wendy Williams was one of daytime’s most successful personalities. Then, one day she was gone. Now, insiders reveal for the first time what really happened thr.cm/eVGiTxS
Executives Mort Marcus and Ira Bernstein reveal a series of heartbreaking conversations with Wendy Williams where they’d have to explain to her again and again, right up until finale day, that her show was ending thr.cm/eVGiTxS
At the top of season 13, Wendy Williams joined a staff-wide Zoom call where she is said to have been rambling and increasingly incoherent. “People were sort of freaked out,” Debmar-Mercury’s Lonnie Burstein says thr.cm/eVGiTxS
Peter Jackson says Amazon asked him to be involved with its mega-budget #LOTR prequel – and then cut off contact. Amazon suggests the story isn't quite so simple: thr.cm/M2ugCIJ
“They asked me if I wanted to be involved...and I said, ‘That’s an impossible question to answer without seeing a script,'” said Peter Jackson, “So they said...'we’ll send them to you.’ And the scripts never showed up" thr.cm/M2ugCIJ
Peter Jackson said he has no hard feelings towards the #LOTR series: “I’ll be watching it...If somebody makes a good film or TV show, it’s something to celebrate. The one thing I am looking forward to is actually seeing it as a perfectly neutral viewer” thr.cm/M2ugCIJ
David Zaslav revealed a cohesive plan for the future of DC:
“We’ve restructured the business where we are going to focus, where there is going to be a team with a ten-year plan focusing just on DC...It’s very similar to the structure...at Disney" thr.cm/KZgPvET
"We think we can build a much stronger, sustainable growth business out of DC,” said Zazlav. “As part of that, we are going to focus on quality. We are not going to release any film before it’s ready…DC is something we can make better" thr.cm/KZgPvET
David Zaslav touted a number of DC films coming up, including #BlackAdam, #Shazam Fury of the Gods and #TheFlash, and addressed rumors that some of those films could shift dates without confirming or denying moves thr.cm/KZgPvET