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Jason Statham & David Ayer Reteaming On Action Movie ‘John Doe’
EXCLUSIVE: After working together on The Beekeeper and A Working Man, David Ayer and Jason Statham are reteaming on action-thriller John Doe, with Ayer directing from a script by blockbuster screenwriter Zak Penn (Ready Player One, The Avengers).
Statham is set to play the Man With No Name in the film, which will chart the story “of a man with no memory, no past, and no name — and only one face he can’t forget: Eliza. As fragments of his identity return, he discovers he was trained for a mission still in motion and is being hunted by the very people who sent him. With enemies closing in, John must choose between finishing what he started… or protecting the one thing that makes him feel human: love.”
Miramax is producing and financing, with Statham producing via Punch Palace Productions. Paul Schiff and Zak Penn are also producing.
Black Bear will introduce the film to international buyers at the upcoming Cannes market where it’ll be a strong commercial option thanks to the track records of the creatives and backers. Production is being lined up to begin in September 2026.
Miramax and Black Bear have had recent success with the filmmaker-star duo, having produced The Beekeeper ($163M WW) and A Working Man ($89M), respectively.
Fast & Furious star Statham remains a box office pull. His films have grossed more than $8.5BN at the box office. Upcoming films include multiple Black Bear productions, including Guy Ritchie’s Viva La Madness, also starring Ben Foster, Jason Isaacs, and Camila Mendes, and Jason Statham Stole My Bike, the meta-action-comedy from David Leitch. He is also collaborating with Miramax on The Beekeeper 2, alongside Jeremy Irons and Pom Klementieff.
Ayer is best known for Suicide Squad, Fury, The Beekeeper, and A Working Man and upcoming has Paramount action-adventure film Heart of the Beast with Brad Pitt and J.K. Simmons.
Penn served as a writer on three Academy Award-nominated blockbusters: Joss Whedon’s The Avengers, Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One, and Shawn Levy’s Free Guy. He also wrote or co-wrote films including The Incredible Hulk, X2: X-Men United and X-Men: The Last Stand, Elektra, Behind Enemy Lines, and Inspector Gadget.
Schiff’s credits include Rushmore, Mona Lisa Smile, My Cousin Vinnie, and How It Ends, as well as the television series Super Pumped.
“We’re thrilled to be reuniting Jason and David on John Doe, powered by Zak Penn’s sharp, propulsive script. With wildly inventive action and modern themes that will resonate with a global audience, this takes the Statham/Ayer collaboration to a new level,” said Jonathan Glickman, CEO, Miramax.
“Jason is a singular talent in the action genre who consistently delivers for his audience,” added John Friedberg, President of International for Black Bear. “David has also firmly established himself as one of the top action directors working today. Their previous collaborations rank among the most successful independent action movies in recent years, and we are thrilled to deliver their third movie together in John Doe.”
Statham is represented by GGSSC. Ayer is represented by WME and Sloane Offer. Penn is represented by WME and McKuin Frankel Whitehead. Schiff is represented by Lawrence Kopeikin.
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‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ Sets Brooklyn Week With Mamdani, Springsteen & More
As Jimmy Kimmel returns to his late-night post, he’s ready to take the show across the river for Brooklyn Week once again.
On Thursday, ABC announced that Jimmy Kimmel Live! will head to Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House for the eighth Brooklyn Week, which will kick off next Monday with an all-star lineup.
This year’s guests for Brooklyn Week include New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Mahershala Ali, Billy Crystal, Pete Davidson, Robby Hoffman, Paul McCartney, Seth Meyers, Tom Morello, John Oliver, Bernie Sanders, Bruce Springsteen and Howard Stern, with musical guests De La Soul, Goose, TV On the Radio, and Springsteen & Tom Morello.
All five shows will tape in front of a live studio audience at BAM, to air every weeknight at 11:35pm ET on ABC and stream the next day on Hulu.
Jimmy Kimmel Live is produced by 12:05 AM Productions LLC, in association with Kimmelot and 20th Television. Kimmel, Erin Irwin, Molly McNearney, Jennifer Sharron and David Craig serve as executive producers, with Douglas DeLuca and Danny Ricker as co-executive producers.
Brooklyn Week comes after ABC denied “inaccurate” reports that Jimmy Kimmel Live! is ending in 2027 after 24 seasons.
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Disney Legal Chief Warns Of Looming Layoffs: “Much Smaller Organization”
EXCLUSIVE: An end-of-week memo from Disney‘s Chief Legal and Global Affairs Officer has fired a warning shot that layoffs are coming amidst a “transformation process” that includes “automating certain workflows by leveraging the latest technologies.”
Without actually saying that AI is taking over or that job losses are on the horizon, the memo by Horacio Gutierrez strongly implies that. Sent out at noon on Sept. 18 to the LGA department, which counts less than 1,000 members globally, the missive has taken on a life of its own. It is being circulated among the Disney rank and file, with many fearing that the blunt warning to LGA staffers applies to them too as they are bracing for rounds of layoffs, expected to begin as early as next week. Unspecified cuts within the LGA department are not connected to the next round of cuts, I hear. I’m told.
The memo has also been shared throughout the entertainment law community in L.A., NYC and DC.
Noting that the Mouse House’s “legal, government relations, operations, and others, are going through their own reinvention as technology reshapes how work gets done, and the operating models that underpin those professions,” the multi-tasked Gutierrez says he’s “taking a dispassionate look at every aspect of how we do our work, so we can do it in a more efficient and cost-effective manner.”
Gutierrez joined Disney from Spotify in late 2021 under Bob Chapek‘s short-lived reign as CEO. Replacing Disney veteran Alan Braverman in the top in-house legal job, Gutierrez was one of few key Chapek lieutenants to keep his job when Bob Iger returned as CEO in late 2022.
“Obviously, this will require hard choices about where and how we deploy our resources and investments, including our staffing investments and how we work will look different in the months and years ahead,” Gutierrez writes in the memo, adding, “LGA will be a much smaller organization than it is today, and some of you will personally be affected by decisions we make in this process. As a result, we’ll have to consider a whole range of new models for different workloads, including automating certain workflows by leveraging the latest technologies, moving to self-service models where appropriate, engaging alternative legal providers and others, and new expanded share services, even outsourcing.”
Proving once again that timing is everything in this town, Gutierrez’s memo came on the same day that Disney unveiled Karandeep Anand as the company’s very first Chief Technology Officer. The ex-Character.AI, CEO will report directly to Disney boss Josh D’Amaro. With the most recent rounds of job cuts hitting Disney in April and then July, execs made no secret on the Aug. 5 earnings call that more is to come. To that, Gutierrez email also came as the deadline was looming for qualifying longtime Disney executives to take the company’s voluntary early retirement offer, first unveiled in August by EVP and Chief People Officer Sonia Coleman. The process was always expected to be followed by involuntary layoffs.
Cutting to the chase in his September 18 memo, and invoking the name of D’Amaro, Gutierrez goes on to tell his staff that “when teams work smarter, Disney can serve more fans at lower costs, freeing up capital to reinvest in the content, guest experiences, and technology infrastructure that keep the company out in front.”
“Josh’s vision is of a Disney that succeeds in a changing market by breaking internal walls and embracing technology to amplify what makes it great, not by clinging to the way things always have been done.”
Disney would not comment on Gutierrez’s memo or on a timeline and scope of the upcoming job cuts when contacted Thursday by Deadline.
Nellie Andreeva contributed to this report
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‘Big Brother’ Season 28, Week 11 Eviction Results: Final 3 Houseguests Revealed
SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details on Big Brother Season 28, Episode 39, which aired on Thursday, September 24.
Big Brother Season 28 is down to its final four, and the night will reveal the final three houseguests who can still win the whole game.
Week 11 saw an Egyptian Eviction, which saw Melody Morris fall victim and leave the game, making her the fifth jury member.
Following the special eviction, Taylor Brown became Head of Household (HOH) and put Dee Valladares and Drew Campbell up for eviction. At the Power of Veto (POV) competition, Drew won and saved himself.
The final POV had tremendous power as the holder would determine who would be evicted and who would make it to Final 3.
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How did the Big Brother Season 28 houseguests vote in Week 11?
Dee and Devens were the two housemates on the block, but one wouldn’t survive the night.
Votes to evict Dee: Drew
Votes to evict Devens: No votes
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Who was evicted from Big Brother Season 28 in Week 11?
By a vote of 1 to 0, Dee was the housemate evicted from Big Brother Season 28 in Week 11 and became the sixth member of the jury.
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Who are the Final 3 houseguests in Big Brother Season 28?
The final three houseguests who could potentially win Big Brother Season 28 are Taylor Brown, Drew Campbell, and Rick Devens.
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