The Tracking Board’s Daily Debrief (10.17.16)

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like a Crowded Christmas Box Office

With 19 major films entering theaters in nine days this holiday season, this year’s race for box office green and Oscar gold is bound to make for an even more chaotic Christmas than usual.

The Complete List of Screenplay and Film Competition Jury Award Winners

The Austin Film Festival announced their winners for the 2016 Screenplay Competition as well as the winners for the Film Competition Jury Award. One of the big screenplay winners of the festival was Henry Jones’ Static. Described as a grounded, visionary sci-fi thriller, the script was acquired by Inkubate, the new banner for Godzilla’s Max Borenstein focused on character-driven genre material in film and television.

Leonardo DiCaprio Combines Powers with Scream Queens Star Glen Powell For Captain Planet Movie at Paramount

One of the world’s foremost celebrity environmental activists is set to produce a Captain Planet movie at Paramount, the studio with which the newly minted Oscar winner inked a first-look deal back in March. Jono Matt and Glen Powell are in negotiations to write the script based on the 1990s cartoon series, the first feature gig for both.

More News From Around The Web

• Difficult People is returning for a third go-round as Hulu has ordered a 10-episode third season of the critically prasied half-hour comedy starring Julie Klausner and Billy Eichner. (Deadline)

• Spike Lee’s Netflix series She’s Gotta Have It has tapped Shots Fired star DeWanda Wise to fill the lead role. Wise will star opposite Hamilton breakout Anthony Ramos. (Screen Crush)

• Bosch, Amazon’s longest-running original drama, has been renewed for a fourth season. The cop drama based on Michael Connelly’s best-selling novels, stars Titus Welliver as LAPD Detective Harry Bosch. (Variety)

• Freeform is expanding its comedy slate by ordering the multicamera pilot Brown Girls from writers Shilpi Roy and Nastaran Dibai which focuses on two girls of Indian descent. (The Hollywood Reporter)

• Netflix has picked up English-language territory rights to Cold War thriller The Same Sky which has its world premiere at Mipcom on Monday. The six-hour series portrays the fate of two families on either side of the Berlin Wall. (Variety)

• On the heels of hits like Captain America: Civil War, Zootopia, The Jungle Book, and Finding Dory, the Walt Disney Studios has clocked its best year ever at the international box office – and there are still another two and a half months to go in 2016. (Deadline)

• YouTube Red is planning new shows with Dwayne Johnson, Doug Liman, and Dan Harmon. Johnson and Harmon will create new comedy series while Liman has a sci-fi drama in the works for YouTube’s SVOD service. (The Hollywood Reporter)

• Veteran scribe Chuck Hogan, who penned The Town and 13 Hours, is set to write a film adaptation of the popular online action game Crossfire for Korean game developer Smilegate and Original Film. (Dark Horizons)

• The drama Frank & Lola, starring Michael Shannon and Imogen Poots, is set to be released on December 9 in 20-25 markets. Universal acquired the title out of the festival for $2 million, but Paladin is distributing through its partnership with Great Point Media. (Deadline)