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Warner Bros. in Talks to Land ‘Theo of Golden’ Film Rights, Tom Hanks Eyed to Star

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Warner Bros. Pictures is in negotiations for the feature film rights to Allen Levi’s breakout novel “Theo of Golden,” with Hanks eyeing to star.

The book’s official logline reads: One spring morning, a stranger named Theo arrives in the small Southern city of Golden. He doesn’t explain much about where he came from or why he’s there—but when he visits the local coffeehouse, where pencil portraits of the people of Golden hang on the walls, he begins purchasing them, one at a time, and giving each portrait to the person depicted. In exchange, he asks only for the person’s story. And so portrait by portrait, person by person, secrets are revealed, regrets are shared, and ordinary lives are profoundly altered.

Gil Netter, Hanks, and Gary Goetzman are producing. Allen Levi is executive producing.

Jesse Ehrman and Sheila Walcott are overseeing the project for Warner Bros. Pictures. The team credits literary affairs executive Ian Dalyrmple for flagging the project to the studio.

“Theo of Golden” by Allen Levi was published by Simon & Schuster October 2025.

Domestically, the book is a smash hit. The #1 New York Times bestseller, which has been on the list for over nine consecutive months, has sold over 3.5 million copies and is the highest selling print book in America in 2026. Globally, the book has been published in 43 languages and is a #1 bestseller in territorries like the UK, Italy and the Netherlands.

Levi is repped by WME.

Next up, Hanks will next play a hitting coach for the New York Mets in “The Comebacker,” which starts production in the fall. He is repped by CAA.

Deadline first reported the news.

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‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Excitement Ebbs Despite Splashy D23 Tease | Chart

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What are the entertainment offerings that consumers are most excited about? It’s a question that marketers, distributors, advertisers and media publications are always asking.

ScreenShare, a data partnership between Screen Engine/ASI and TheWrap, tracks the Top 10 most-mentioned entertainment options every week and whether each has gained or lost momentum compared to the prior week. The chart lives on the Data & Analysis page of the WrapPRO Members Hub.

For the week of Aug. 8–14, “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” remained the leader in entertainment mentions at 11.2%, heading into its third weekend of release. “NFL Football” jumped to second at 5.6%, as preseason Week 1 kicked off on Aug. 13 across all 32 teams. “Grand Theft Auto VI” held third at 4.2%, continuing to build ahead of Rockstar and Netflix’s “Extended Look” special premiering Aug. 27, roughly three months before the game’s Nov. 19 launch.

“The Odyssey” slid to 3.8% as Christopher Nolan’s film moved into its fourth week of release. HBO’s “House of the Dragon” dipped slightly to 2.6% following its Season 3 finale, which aired Aug. 9, with the show’s fourth and final season still to come. Prime Video’s “Reacher” entered the Top 10 at 1.9% as the first three episodes of Season 4 premiered Aug. 12.

“Obsession” rose to 1.7% during its SVOD run on Peacock, while “Avengers: Doomsday” eased to 1.7% even as Marvel unveiled new footage and a poster at D23 on Aug. 14 ahead of the film’s December 18 release.  Apple TV’s “Ted Lasso” climbed to 1.5% following its Aug. 5 Season 4 premiere. “Special Ops: Lioness” closed out the Top 10 at 1.4%, continuing its weekly episodic release following its Aug. 2 Season 3 premiere on Paramount+.

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Cecily Strong Calls Out SAG-AFTRA’s ‘Dramatically’ Increased Mental Health Prices

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Cecily Strong called on SAG-AFTRA and President Sean Astin to address members’ concerns over the union’s new insurance polices around mental health, decrying in an Instagram post Wednesday that changes made earlier this year have led to “super high bills that are no longer being covered in the same way.”

“Mental health services are HUGELY important in our industry,” the “Saturday Night Live” and “Schmigadoon!” alum said. “Many of us have been with our amazing, invaluable, out of network therapists for years and found out recently that in January of this year the ‘allowed amount’ for these services dropped dramatically leaving many of us with super high bills that are no longer being covered in the same way.”

In January, SAG-AFTRA changed from Carelon Behavioral Health to Anthem for the union health plan’s behavioral health provider network, which unified mental health and medical healthcare under one umbrella and advertised at the time a larger choice of behavioral health providers.

According to the SAG-AFTRA website‘s October 2025 breakdown of the change, members receiving mental health care in-network at the end of 2025 who would fall out-of-network with continued care with the same provider under the new plan could “qualify for a Transition of Care period of up to 90 days at in-network benefit levels.”

Still, the change apparently caught many members by surprise and led to higher bills and less reimbursement for their 2026 mental health care.

“Many of us didn’t know this change would be happening and so didn’t budget for our therapy or mental health services becoming out of pocket expenses, equaling hundreds to thousands of dollars a month,” Strong continued. “I know my privilege, for sure, but I also know I’m not alone here.”

Strong’s Instagram post featured a screenshot of a letter from the union explaining the move from Carelon to Anthem and why impacted members’ medical bills may look different than expected. Strong clarified that the letter wasn’t hers and she’s “still waiting on my letter to explain my drastically smaller reimbursement amounts from therapy which has been invaluable to my life, especially postpartum.”

“Please please please fix this for us. I know health insurance is a damn cruel battle in this country and this is one tiny part of it, but I believe in our union and our union’s dedication to protecting actors.”

Read the full post below:

“Please make this right and protect our mental health services,” the actress’ post concluded. “A good therapist/doctor/social worker can be life changing and more importantly — life-saving.”

Strong has become a vocal mental health advocate in recent years while candidly sharing her own experience with depression, anxiety and grief, notably with her 2021 memoir “This Will All Be Over Soon.”

Representatives for SAG-AFTRA did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment.

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José Suárez, Telemundo Executive, Dies at 55 in Helicopter Crash

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Telemundo executive José Suárez was one of four Americans, who died in a helicopter crash in northeastern Kenya Wednesday.

There were seven people on board the aircraft which crashed in the foothills of Mount Ololokwe in Samburu County, according to Kenya’s Civil Aviation Authority. All six passengers and the pilot were killed in the crash.

Suárez served as the president and general manager of several of Telemundo‘s TV stations in Orlando, Tampa and Fort Myers-Naples, Florida.

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