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103.4M<br />
People who watched the Feb. 4<br />
Big<br />
Number<br />
Super Bowl on NBC (106 million with<br />
streaming), down 3 percent from<br />
last year and the fewest since 2009.<br />
Sutter<br />
Waterhouse<br />
Gray<br />
MacLaren<br />
Sprouse<br />
China’s CMC Capital<br />
Partners has taken<br />
full ownership of Oriental<br />
DreamWorks from<br />
NBCUniversal and will<br />
rename it Pearl Studio.<br />
F. Gary Gray (UTA,<br />
Principato Young, Del<br />
Shaw) is in talks to direct<br />
Sony’s Men in Black spinoff.<br />
Octavia Spencer (WME,<br />
Jackoway Tyerman)<br />
and <strong>The</strong> Help director<br />
Tate Taylor (CAA, Lichter<br />
Grossman) will reteam<br />
for Blumhouse horror thriller<br />
Ma, also starring Luke<br />
Evans and Juliette Lewis.<br />
Willem Dafoe (CAA, the<br />
U.K.’s Artists Partnership,<br />
Circle of Confusion)<br />
has joined Edward Norton’s<br />
adaptation of Jonathan<br />
Lethem’s detective novel<br />
Motherless Brooklyn<br />
along with Bruce Willis and<br />
Alec Baldwin.<br />
Lionsgate and Roadside<br />
Attractions have acquired<br />
U.S. rights to the Rose<br />
Byrne starrer Juliet, Naked.<br />
Iger and Bay’s Fifth Avenue co-op features Central Park views.<br />
IFC Films has picked<br />
up North American rights<br />
to the gender-identity<br />
drama A Kid Like Jake.<br />
James Mangold (WME,<br />
Management 360)<br />
will direct Fox’s untitled<br />
drama about the rivalry<br />
between automakers Ford<br />
and Ferrari.<br />
Adam Shankman (UTA,<br />
Bloom Hergott) will<br />
direct Taraji P. Henson in<br />
Paramount Players’ What<br />
Men Want.<br />
Jim Caviezel (ICM, Frank<br />
Stewart) is in talks to<br />
reprise his role as Jesus in<br />
Mel Gibson’s sequel to<br />
<strong>The</strong> Passion of the Christ.<br />
Spectre’s John<br />
Logan (CAA) will adapt<br />
Walter Isaacson’s<br />
Leonardo da Vinci biography<br />
for Paramount<br />
and Leonardo DiCaprio.<br />
TriStar Pictures has<br />
acquired the rights to<br />
Kristin Hannah’s upcoming<br />
novel <strong>The</strong> Great Alone.<br />
Drew Barrymore (CAA,<br />
Hansen Jacobson) will<br />
play two starring roles in<br />
Jamie Babbit’s romantic<br />
comedy <strong>The</strong> Stand-In.<br />
This Is Us’ Chrissy Metz<br />
(CAA, Luber Roklin,<br />
Meyers & Downs) will star<br />
in Fox 2000’s faith-based<br />
drama <strong>The</strong> Impossible.<br />
Riverdale’s K.J. Apa<br />
(UTA, Luber Roklin,<br />
Jackoway Tyerman) will<br />
topline Gulfstream Pictures’<br />
ensemble romantic<br />
comedy <strong>The</strong> Last Summer.<br />
TELEVISION<br />
<strong>The</strong> NFL and Fox<br />
have reached a five-year,<br />
$3.3 billion deal for<br />
Thursday Night Football.<br />
Dwayne Johnson (WME,<br />
<strong>The</strong> Garcia Co., Gang Tyre)<br />
will host and executive<br />
produce NBC’s competition<br />
series <strong>The</strong> Titan Games.<br />
Leslie Jones (Integral,<br />
Hansen Jacobson)<br />
will join NBC’s coverage of<br />
the <strong>2018</strong> Winter Olympics.<br />
Hannibal’s Jesse<br />
Alexander (CAA,<br />
Kleinberg Lange) will<br />
showrun season two<br />
of Starz’s American Gods<br />
alongside Neil Gaiman.<br />
Katherine Heigl (Zero<br />
Gravity, Morris Yorn)<br />
will be a series regular on<br />
Suits, which USA has<br />
renewed for season eight.<br />
Kurt Sutter (WME,<br />
Gendler & Kelly) has<br />
renewed his overall<br />
deal with 20th Century<br />
Fox Television, Fox 21<br />
Television Studios and<br />
FX Productions.<br />
Zachary Quinto (CAA,<br />
Untitled, Jackoway<br />
Tyerman) will host History’s<br />
revival of In Search Of,<br />
whose original iteration was<br />
hosted by Leonard Nimoy.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Leftovers’ Nicole<br />
Kassell (WME, Washington<br />
Square, Frankfurt<br />
Kurnit) will direct HBO’s<br />
Watchmen pilot.<br />
HBO has ordered<br />
J.J. Abrams’ sci-fi drama<br />
Demimonde straight to<br />
series. … NBC has picked<br />
up Julian Fellowes’<br />
<strong>The</strong> Gilded Age to series.<br />
DIGITAL<br />
Warner Bros. Digital<br />
Networks has ordered<br />
the drama Metropolis<br />
straight to series<br />
for the upcoming DC<br />
Digital Service.<br />
Rep<br />
Sheet<br />
Empire’s Jussie Smollett<br />
has signed with UTA.<br />
Billions’ David Costabile,<br />
who also is in <strong>The</strong> Post,<br />
has signed with ICM<br />
Partners, as has Politico.<br />
Rectify alum Aden<br />
Young has signed with<br />
Anonymous Content,<br />
as has <strong>The</strong> New York<br />
Times Co.<br />
This Is Us co-showrunners<br />
Isaac Aptaker<br />
and Elizabeth Berger<br />
have signed with CAA.<br />
Comedian Tony Rock has<br />
signed with E2W PR.<br />
Diane Lane (UTA,<br />
Weintraub Tobin) and<br />
Greg Kinnear (WME,<br />
Stone Genow) will play<br />
siblings on the final season<br />
of Netflix’s House of Cards.<br />
Tony winner Ben Platt<br />
(CAA, One Entertainment,<br />
Jackoway Tyerman) will<br />
topline Ryan Murphy’s musical<br />
series <strong>The</strong> Politician,<br />
which received a twoseason<br />
order from Netflix,<br />
with Barbra Streisand and<br />
Gwyneth Paltrow in talks to<br />
co-star.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Vampire Diaries’<br />
Jaz Sinclair (UTA,<br />
Next<br />
Big<br />
Thing<br />
Ayanna Floyd Davis<br />
REP ICM Partners<br />
WHY SHE MATTERS<br />
Davis will replace<br />
Elwood Reid as showrunner<br />
of critically<br />
acclaimed new drama<br />
<strong>The</strong> Chi, which<br />
Showtime has renewed<br />
for a second season.<br />
Davis is a veteran<br />
television writer with<br />
credits on Private<br />
Practice, Hannibal and<br />
Empire, but the Lena<br />
Waithe-created series<br />
will mark her first turn<br />
as an executive producer<br />
and head of the<br />
writers room.<br />
Creative Partners,<br />
Hirsch Wallerstein) will<br />
co-star in Netflix’s<br />
untitled Riverdale spinoff<br />
about Sabrina the<br />
Teenage Witch.<br />
BOOKS<br />
Rogue One writer<br />
Gary Whitta (UTA, Circle<br />
of Confusion, Behr<br />
Abramson) will pen<br />
Marvel’s comic book series<br />
adaptation of <strong>The</strong> Last Jedi.<br />
REAL ESTATE<br />
Bob Iger and wife Willow<br />
Bay (Stribling) have sold<br />
a New York City co-op for<br />
$18.75 million.<br />
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