Fox Hires ‘Rio’ Director for New Film, Bill Murray’s Christmas Special Is Coming, RDJ Will Be in ‘Captain America 3′

Fox Hires ‘Rio’ and “Ice Age’ Director to Helm New ‘Timeless’ Series

Less than a week after former Pixar artist Armand Baltazar closed a deal for his debut three-book children’s series, studio taps Carlos Saldanha to bring it to the big screen. (THR)

Bill Murray Is Going to Star In His Own Christmas Special, and Sofia Coppola Is Directing It. Yes, Really

Details haven’t been ironed out yet, but it is apparently not going to be live, won’t have a format, but will have music and Murray will sing. (VAR)

‘Captain America 3’ Is Going to Have a Pretty Big Guest Star, and His Name is Robert Downey Jr. 

The world’s highest paid movie star will bring Tony Stark to the flick, which is set to kick off a major storyline in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the speculation being that it'l be Civil War. (CB)

Fortune Comes Out With Its Annual “40 Under 40” List — Are You On It?

There are plenty of household names —like Mark Zuckerberg, Brian Chesky and Marissa Mayer — but also some new faces who fulfill what Fortune looks for: power, influence, leverage, scale, and ideas that disrupt. (FTN)

‘The Mortal Instruments’ Will Not Have a Sequel, After All, But Will Instead Continue as a TV Series

Constantin Film, which owns the rights to the series, has hired Ed Decter as show runner for the project, which will go into production in 2015. (TVW)

Katie Holmes Will Return to ‘Camelot,’ Once Again Play Jackie Kennedy in New Reelz Mini-Series

New four-episode The Kennedys: After Camelot, will shoot in the spring, with Holmes serving as EP and directing one episode. (PPL)

Aereo Asks FCC For a Life Line by Asking FCC to Define It as a Pay TV Service

The The broadcast streaming service is in limbo after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that it can’t retransmit TV stations’ free, over-the-air signals without their permission. (DH)

Netflix Is Getting Into Children’s Programming by Bringing Back the Care Bears

Online streaming service will reboot the ‘80s animated series with the new version, Care Bears and Cousins, which will debut in 2016. (TOW)

Marvel Announces Cancellation of ‘Fantastic Four’ Comics, Which Will End Next Year

Speculation abounds: is Marvel doing this to spite Fox and it’s upcoming Fantastic Four movie, in theaters next August? (CBM)

Screenwriters: ‘The Believer’

Final shooting draft, by Henry Bean, story by Bean and Marc Jacobson (DS)