Paramount Won’t Let Theaters Show ‘Team America,’ Clooney Rails Against Hollywood Cowardice, Studios and MPAA Line Up Against Google

Cancellation Contagion: Paramount Refuses To Allow ‘Team America’ Screenings In Place Of ‘The Interview’

Several theaters around the country, including the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin and George R.R. Martin’s theater in New Mexico, had planned to show the film, but now the studio behind it is forbidding theaters from doing so. (CB)

Hollywood Cowardice: George Clooney Explains Why Sony Stood Alone In the North Korea Cyber Attack

In a fascinating interview, the Oscar-winning filmmaker discusses why no one spoke up on behalf of the beleaguered studio, as well as the petition he and his agent sent around and could not get anyone to sign, and how it all affects the way we’ll do business from now on. (DH)

The Studios and the MPAA Are Now Lining Up Against Google In the Wake Of the Sony Mess

A top Google exec said the Internet search giant is “deeply concerned” about a “coordinated campaign” by the MPAA and Hollywood studios to attack the company through non-legislative tactics, citing emails stolen in the massive hack, while the MPAA says that “freedom of speech should never be used as a shield for unlawful activities.” (VAR)

As the Dust Just Barely Begins To Settle, a Timeline Of How This Whole ‘Interview’ Thing Shook Out

Three weeks after the cyber attack on Sony, the studio was still set to release The Interview, until it was threatened by hackers who referenced the September 11th attacks. Then, over the course of just two days, everything fell apart. (HP)

It Was Only a Matter Of Time, But Now We’re Looking At Our First Premium Theater Subscription Package

AMC Theaters and Stacy Spikes’ MoviePass are launching a pilot program, to test in Boston and Denver, that would allow theatergoers a way to see all the movies they want to view in any format, including premium presentations, for one monthly fee. (SAA)

David Fincher’s Plan To Take Over TV Continues, as His HBO Shows Get Titles

Fincher’s show with novelist James Ellroy is now called Shakedown, while another show, about the people who made music videos in the 1980s, will be called Living On Noise. Fincher will direct that show’s pilot. (SF)

In What Can Only Be Called a No-Brainer, Mark Wahlberg Will Return For ‘Transformers 5’

The star of this year’s fourth installment, Transformers: Age of Extinction, had signed on for the entire second trilogy in the series, though it is not confirmed whether or not director Michael Bay will also come back. (TP)

Disney Likes the Look Of ‘Ed Terrestrial’

The Mouse House is developing a new family adventure film about an extraterrestrial being, with Michael Starrbury hired to rewrite the spec originally written by Greg Erb and Jason Oremland. Shrek director Andrew Adamson is producing. (THR)

First Look: Steven Spielberg’s Untitled Cold War Thriller

Spielbeg’s fourth collaboration with Tom Hanks tells the true story of James Donovan, a lawyer working on behalf of the CIA to secretly negotiate the release of a U.S. pilot shot down over Soviet airspace in 1960. The film will hit theaters October 16th. (COL)

Screenwriters: How To Develop, Sell and Write a TV Mini-Series

Lit manager and producer of Pooka Entertainment is an expert when it comes to packaging and selling TV miniseries. But like so many other successful professionals in the film industry, his journey has been a fascinating and at times circuitous one. (SM)