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Trump DOJ Launches Investigation Of Networks For Suspending TV Pool

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The Justice Department has launched an investigation of the five major networks that make up the White House TV pool, a probe focused on whether they violated antitrust laws by suspending participation in protest of Donald Trump‘s ban on CNN.

Emily Covington, a spokesperson for the Justice Department, said in a statement, “Members of the television press pool have boycotted covering White House events. Group boycotts among commercial competitors can violate the Sherman Act. The Antitrust Division is simply investigating to determine whether these news organizations have violated the antitrust laws.” The New York Times first reported on the investigation.

After Trump announced his ban on CNN, Politico and MS NOW from the White House grounds on Sept. 18, CNN also was restricted from the TV pool. As part of a long-running arrangement, CNN, CBS News, ABC News, NBC News and Fox News rotate assignments, providing technical, video and reporting coverage of the president that then is distributed to other networks.

After the CNN freeze out, the other members of the TV pool jointly announced on Sept. 21 that they would suspend their participation.

“The public has a vital interest in receiving accurate, independent information about its government. No administration should restrict a news organization because it objects to its reporting,” the five networks said in a statement at the time.

The suspension lasted for about four days, but it came during the White House visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping. That meant that there was a paucity of video coverage of major ceremonies and other events.

ABC confirmed that it has not received any notification of the investigation but it expects to. Other networks in the pool did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The White House has continued to restrict CNN from certain assignments, including flying on Air Force One on presidential trip.

More to come.

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Rohan Campbell Teases Directorial Debut Plans

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After steadily growing his onscreen career in recent years, Rohan Campbell is ready to step behind the camera.

The Below star recently revealed that he’s planning to make his directorial debut next summer with “a very personal story,” for which he’s currently awaiting a greenlight.

“I’ve got a couple of things on the go right now. I’m trying to direct my own movie in the summer of next year, which I’m really excited about. It’s a cute idea, so we’re sort of just trying to get all systems to go on that one,” Campbell told Film Updates. “It’s a big part of my focus, and it’s a very personal story.”

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After making his onscreen debut at 10 years old, Campbell broke out as Frank Hardy on Hulu’s The Hardy Boys, which ran for three seasons from 2020 to 2023. He’s since become a “scream king” with roles in Halloween Ends (2022), The Monkey (2025) and Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025).

Campbell can currently be seen in Netflix’s Below, playing the troubled Newfoundland expat Jay Penney, one of fisherman Calvin Penney’s (Josh Hartnett) three kids. When their town is targeted by a mysterious sea creature, the family must fight to protect their community.

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Sakha Filmmakers & Korean Producers Guild Pact For Co-Productions

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EXCLUSIVE: The Producers Guild of Korea (PGK) and the Sakha Filmmakers Association (SFA) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) aimed at creating a direct route to international co-productions and professional exchange between the Korean and Sakha screen production sectors.

The Sakha Republic (Yakutia), in Russia’s Far East, has built one of the country’s most procative film industries, making films mostly in the Sakha (Yakut) language and developing a strong local theatrical audience. Its films have been drawing growing attention at festivals and markets across Asia and internationally.

The MOU with PGK was signed at the Sakha Filmmakers Association booth during the Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM) in Busan, with the aim of starting a long-term industry partnership between producers from the two territories.

Under the agreement, PGK and SFA will establish a new framework for co-production between Korean and Sakha producers, aimed at developing projects together and sharing information on public financing available in both territories.

The partnership will include project showcases, producer-to-producer meetings and B2B sessions designed to identify projects with international potential and move them towards co-production.

The two organisations will also bring the partnership to major international markets, including ACFM, Hong Kong Filmart and the Cannes Marché du Film, creating new opportunities for Sakha projects to connect with the wider Asian and international industry.

For PGK, the agreement continues a programme of international partnerships built since the pandemic, alongside MOUs with the Canadian Media Producers Association (CMPA), the Hong Kong Film Production Executives Association (HKFPEA), the Indonesian Film Producers Association (APROFI) and the Brazilian Audiovisual Industry Union (SIAESP).

PGK President Lee Dong-ha said: “Sakha cinema is one of the most distinctive voices to emerge in Asia in recent years, and it belongs in the conversation among Asian producers. Through this MOU, PGK and SFA open a direct channel between our two production communities – one that we intend to turn into actual co-productions.”

Stepan Burnashev, SFA’s Executive Director, said: “Sakha cinema grew from a small regional community into a strong local film culture because our filmmakers kept telling stories in our own language and from our own perspective.

“Korea is an important example of how a strong local identity can connect with audiences around the world. This agreement gives our producers a direct working relationship with the Korean industry. We want it to lead not only to exchange, but to projects developed and produced together, and to a lasting connection between our filmmaking communities.”

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‘Blade Runner 2099’ Trailer: Hunter Schafer & Michelle Yeoh Team Up

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Nearly 45 years later, a new Blade Runner is back to make the Ridley Scott franchise “more human than human” once again.

On Saturday at New York Comic-Con, Prime Video released key art and a new trailer for the eight-episode limited series created by Silka Luisa with Amazon MGM Studios and Alcon Television Group, premiering in full Nov. 25 on the streamer.

Set 50 years after the events of Blade Runner 2049, Los Angeles has been reborn, just not by humanity. Cora (Hunter Schafer), a fugitive in a final bid to stop running, takes on one last identity: a Blade Runner. Forced to partner with Olwen (Michelle Yeoh), a Replicant days from dying, she hunts down a runaway hiding a truth that could collapse a fragile city.

Luisa, Yeoh and Schafer took the stage at Prime Video’s NYCC panel on Sunday, along with cast members Dimitri Abold, Lewis Gribben and Matthew Needham, as well as executive producers Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson.

The series also stars Katelyn Rose Downey, Daniel Rigby, Johnny Harris, Amy Lennox, Sheila Atim, Tom Burke and Maurizio Lombardi.

Luisa serves as showrunner, creator and executive producer. Additional EPs include Ridley Scott, Alcon Entertainment co-founders Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson, Alcon’s President of Television Ben Roberts, Steven Johnson, David W. Zucker and Clayton Krueger from Scott Free Productions, Richard Sharkey, Tom Spezialy, Michael Green, Cynthia Yorkin, Frank Giustra, Tim Gable, Isa Dick Hackett and Jonathan van Tulleken, who directed the first two episodes.

Directed by Scott, the original Blade Runner premiered in 1982, starring Harrison Ford and Sean Young. In 2017, Ford reprised his role as Rick Deckard in Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049, starring alongside Ryan Gosling.

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