Warner Starts Layoffs Today, NBC Green Lights Jerrod Carmichael Sitcom, Nicholas Winding Refn to Helm ‘Neon Demon’

The Dreaded Day Has Arrived: Warner Bros. Begins Its Layoffs Today

Film and television studio will cut approximately 1,000 jobs globally as part of a company-wide belt-tightening, amounting to more than 10 percent of the studio’s roughly 8,000-person workforce. (VAR)

Jerrod Carmichael Becomes in a Long Line of Comedians to Get a Sitcom Based on His Act

NBC gives a pilot order to the still-untitled show, to be written by Nick Stoller, who directed the comic in this summer’s hit comedy, Neighbors. (THR)

Nicholas Winding Refn Has Found His Next Project, and It’s a Horror Film

Drive director takes the helm of female-led The Neon Demon, which will start shooting in Los Angeles soon, and is searching for distribution this week at AFM. (EMP)

‘Black Hawk Down’ Scribe Makes Big Spec Sale to Fox With Cold War Spy Tale

Writer Ken Nolan’s Defection is adapted from the novel by Robert Littell, redrafted to have a topical edge, and has Hutch Parker on board to produce. (DH)

Alert to Legal Scholars: Cinemax Producers Get Green Light to Sue Actress For Reneging On a Nude Scene

Actress Anne Greene initially sued the producers of the network’s Femmes Fatales, as well as Cinemax, Time Warner, and HBO, saying she was bullied into appearing topless, before the producers counter-sued. (UR)

On the Eve of AFM, Millennium Scores Itself a Brand New VP of Acquisitions

Jeff Deutchman leaves his gig as Director of Acquisitions at Paramount Home Media Distribution, where he had worked for over a year. (TOH)

All Those Who Think It’s Okay to Bring Your Google Glass to the Movies, Stand Up. Not So Fast, Techies!

The MPAA and National Association of Theater Owners have gotten together to ban the devices from theaters, due to the potential for privacy breaches inherent in the design. (TP)

Marvel Bootleg Specialist Adi Shankar On Why He Won’t Be Pitching Marvel Any Time Soon

The producer of the new web series Judge Dredd: Superfine, as well as The Punisher: Dirty Laundry and Venom: Truth in Journalism, was also a producer of September’s A Walk Among the Tombstones. (FCC)

Trailer Buzz: ‘The Minions’

The first trailer from spinoff of the fabulously successful Despicable Me franchise features voice work by Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm, Michael Keaton, Steve Coogan and Allison Janney, and hits theaters July 10, 2015. (IW)

Screenwriters: ‘Ordinary People’

The 130-page second draft, dated September 21, 1979, by Alvin Sargent (DS)