“All Hands’ Briefing Set For Sony, AFI Goes Beyond Top 10, ‘Jobs’ Swings For Portman and Misses, Actors Unions Make Surprise Move

Michael Lynton Declares an “All Hands” Briefing On the Scope Of the Sony Hack

The company’s CEO sent out a memo to staff on the corporation’s ongoing attempt to dig out of the damage done. The meeting will happen later today on the Sony lot to let the rank and file know what’s going on. (DH)

AFI Has Released Its List Of the Year’s Best Films, But Couldn’t Keep It To Just 10

For the first time, there was a tie, bringing the final number to 11. Among the picks were American Sniper, Birdman, Foxcatcher, Nightcrawler and Whiplash. (DP)

The Suddenly Troubled ‘Jobs’ Biopic Takes Another Hit as Natalie Portman Passes

The pic, starring Michael Fassbender and Seth Rogen, and to be directed by Danny Boyle from an Aaron Sorkin script, is based on the Walter Isaacson biography and was originally set up at Sony before Universal picked it up out of turnaround when Sony let it go. (VAR)

SAG-AFTRA Makes a Surprising Move, Gets Behind Copyrights For Some Performers

The actors’s union joins with Actors Equity Association, the American Federation of Musicians and a few other labor groups in the entertainment industry, saying an actor can indeed have a copyrightable interest in a performance that's separate and apart from the interest anyone else holds in a motion picture. (HE)

Pixar’s Next Movie Just Added an Impressive Pair Of Voices

Diane Lane and Kyle MacLachlan join Inside Out along with Amy Poehler, Lewis Black, Bill Hader and Mindy Kaling in the film, which is due in theaters June 19th, 2015. (MF)

Sundance Has Announced Even More Of the Movies It Will Be Showing Next Month

The festival revealed the films playing in the Premieres, Documentary Premieres, Special Events and 'Power of Story' Panels lineup. Premieres include new films from Joe Swanberg and Paul Weitz. (IW)

Because There Are Still Not Enough TV Shows Based On Comic Books, Syfy Is Developing Another One

Man of Steel writer David S. Goyer is behind Krypton, a Superman prequel drama that will tell the story of Superman’s grandpa, “as he brings hope and equality to Krypton, turning a planet in disarray into one worthy of giving birth to the greatest superhero ever known.” (COL)

FXX Is Bringing Back ‘The League’ For a Seventh and Final Season

The comedy, which began its run on FX and moved to the sister network last year, follows a bunch of friends with questionable morality as they do battle in fantasy football. (VUL)

Trailer Buzz: ‘Still Alice’

The first look at the drama about a woman fighting early onset Alzheimer’s, starring Julianne Moore, is currently in limited release for an Oscar qualifying run and opens wide January 16th.  (CB)

Online Film School: Robert Rodriguez’s Eight-Minute Film School

The director of Desperado, From Dusk Till Dawn, three Spy Kids movies, two Machete flicks, two Sin City’s and Planet Terror can help you make your first film in less time than it takes to hard boil an egg. (NFS)