Hollywood productions and promotional tours around the world have been put on indefinite hold as actors join writers on the picket lines as they seek new contracts with studios and streaming services.
Late-night talk shows and many television productions were put on long-term hiatus due to the writers strike, movie tentpoles, some in mid-production, have shut down too from Ridley Scott's "Gladiator" sequel to "Deadpool 3," and studios are also pushing some of their completed films into 2024 as well.
On Thursday, Warner Bros. reshuffled several films, notably moving "Dune 2" from November to March 2024. The studio also shifted the release date of a "Lord of the Rings" movie that will now arrive in theaters in December 2024.
Here's a selected look at shows and films in suspension.
SHOWS THAT HAVE PAUSED WORK DURING WRITERS STRIKE
- "1923" — Paramount+
- "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight" — HBO
- "Abbott Elementary" — ABC
- "American Dad" — Fox
- "American Horror Story" — FX
- "Big Mouth" — Netflix
- "Billions" — Showtime
- "The Chi" — Showtime
- "Cobra Kai" — Netflix
- "Daredevil: Born Again" — Disney+
- "Duster" — Max
- "Emily in Paris" — Netflix
- "Family Guy" — Fox
- "FBI: Most Wanted" — CBS
- "Grey's Anatomy" — ABC
- "Hacks" — Max
- "The Last of Us" — HBO
- "Law & Order" — NBC
- "Metropolis" — Apple TV+
- "Penguin" — Max
- "Severance" — Apple TV+
- "The Sex Lives of College Girls" — Max
- "Stranger Things" — Netflix
- "The Summer I Turned Pretty" — Prime Video
- "Yellowjackets" — Showtime
MOVIES IN (VARIOUS STAGES) OF PRODUCTION THAT SHUT DOWN
- "Deadpool 3" — Disney/Marvel (originally set for May 3, 2024)
- "Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part II" — Paramount (originally set for June 28, 2024)
- "Beetlejuice 2" — Warner Bros (originally set for Sept. 6, 2024)
- "Gladiator 2" — Paramount (originally set for Nov. 24, 2024)
- "Wicked" — Universal (originally set for Nov. 27, 2024)
- Untitled Karate Kid film — Sony (now Dec. 13, 2024)
- "Blade" — Disney (now Feb. 14, 2025)
- "G20" — (TBD)
- "Lilo & Stitch" — Disney (TBD)
- "Mortal Kombat 2"— Warner Bros. (TBD)
- "Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse" — Sony (TBD)
- Untitled Brad Pitt F1 Film — Apple (TBD)
- "Venom 3" — Sony (TBD)
MOVIES DELAYING RELEASES
- "Challengers" – MGM/Amazon (now April 26, 2024)
- "Dune: Part Two"- Warner Bros. (now March 15, 2024)
- "Ghostbusters: Afterlife" – Sony (now March 29, 2024)
- "Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire" – Warner Bros. (now April 12, 2024)
- "Kraven the Hunter" – Sony (now Aug. 30, 2024)
- "The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim" – Warner Bros (now Dec. 13, 2024)
- "Poor Things" — Searchlight Pictures (now Dec. 8)
- "Problemista" — A24 (TBD)
- "They Listen" — Sony (TBD)
- Untitled Dirty Dancing Sequel – Lionsgate (now 2025)
- "White Bird" – Lionsgate (now Winter 2023)
SHOWS THAT HAVE CANCELED EPISODES DURING WRITERS STRIKE
- "Jimmy Kimmel Live" — ABC
- "Last Week Tonight With John Oliver" — HBO
- "Late Night With Seth Myers" — NBC
- "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" — CBS
- "Saturday Night Live" — NBC
- "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" — NBC
Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More