Today’s #ActorsOnActors cover:
Noah Wyle and Sally Field on ‘The Pitt’ Exhaustion, CGI Co-Stars and Their ‘ER’ History: It Was a ‘Big Gamble’ Once for an Oscar Winner to Do TV
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The Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger has been approved by the Department of Justice:
• The DOJ’s Antitrust Division cleared the $111B deal without requiring divestitures, behavioral remedies or other concessions
• An official announcement is expected Friday
#ThePitt star Noah Wyle says he wants "a stake of ownership in his work" because he's "given up some of the best work to editors that didn't know what to do with it or directors that didn't know how to frame it."
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Jason Bateman says he’s open to a “Game Night” sequel:
"I think if John and Jonathan wanted to write one, I’ll bet you [Warner Bros.’] Mike [De Luca] and Pam [Abdy] will be up for it, and I certainly would be there as an actor."
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Aaron Sorkin spent three days trying to get Jesse Eisenberg to come back as Mark Zuckerberg in "The Social Reckoning," but the actor turned him down.
“I felt like it belonged to him, and he was certainly battle-tested,” Sorkin told Vanity Fair of originally wanting Eisenberg to
Justin Baldoni has been ordered to pay Blake Lively’s legal fees, but his team says she was “only awarded limited attorney fees for a single claim.”
“Throughout this process, innocent people had their reputations unfairly tarnished,” Baldoni’s attorney, Bryan Freedman,
Ashley Padilla on Writing a Book With Diane Keaton, Staying Off Social Media and Becoming an ‘SNL’ Breakout Star: ‘I Assumed People Would Go, We Hate Her!’
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