What's news: The Film Academy is set to vote on an Oscars delay, Creative Arts Emmys go virtual as the Governors Balls are canceled, Canadian movie theaters set to reopen, Black TV news journalists speak out, Arnold Schwarzenegger takes a stake in a kids content producer, highlights from the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Pride Summit. Plus: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on HBO Max and Gone With the Wind, and Peacock offers a steep pre-sale discount. --Alex Weprin

 Oscars and Emmys Grapple With Pandemic Fallout

►Film Academy board set to postpone Oscars ceremony and extend eligibility window. THR's Scott Feinberg has learned that the Academy's 54 governors are likely to delay the ceremony's date by as many as eight weeks, and to extend the eligibility window beyond Dec. 31, 2020, in recognition of the fact that the coronavirus has not yet receded — in fact, California's three highest days of new reported cases have all happened this month — and, according to some experts, could surge again with a 'second wave' before year's end.

--The governors are not expected to determine the format for the ceremony yet — in-person or virtual — as they feel they still have time to see how the pandemic unfolds before making that call. They did, however, need to put a hold on a new date on the calendar of its broadcasting partner, ABC.

--While highly unusual, these moves by the Academy are not unprecedented. The Oscars has been delayed three times before — due to LA flooding in 1938; following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968; and after the attempted assassination of Pres. Ronald Reagan in 1981. The story.

Big changes are also coming to this year's Emmys season...

►A "new format" for the Creative Arts Emmys. Typically held the weekend before the Primetime Emmy Awards, this year the Creative Arts honors will be presented virtually, the TV Academy says. The awards will be handed out over "several nights in September" with the exact format still in development.

--Meanwhile, the main Emmys telecast remains scheduled for Sept. 20, Scott Feinberg reports. The TV Academy and its 2020 broadcast partner, ABC, are in the midst on discussions regarding the format and production of that ceremony, and "are committed to delivering a show that honors television’s unparalleled role throughout 2020 in bringing people together during a worldwide pandemic as well as acknowledge and support the unprecedented national and global demand for social justice and equality."

--Also: For the first time in Emmys history there will be no Governors Ball following either the Creative Arts Emmys or the Emmys ceremonies, "a precautionary measure to protect the health and safety of Emmy winners, nominees and guests during the uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic." The story.

 How 'Gone With the Wind' Will Return to HBO Max

►Why Gone With the Wind needs a warning label, not a ban. THR columnist Kareem Abdul-Jabbar says that though such racist content is damaging, "we need a way to present art within its historical context so the works can still be available and appreciated for their achievements but not admired for their cultural failings."

Quote: "Art can either inform us of past follies or it can perpetuate them. Movies and TV shows that display the subjugation, humiliation, or marginalization of anyone are like the Confederate monuments: they have a place in history as both manifestations of and warnings against our ignorance. In contemporary life, they are weighty anchors pulling us down to the bottom while the rest of the world swims freely toward the future." The column.

+HBO Max appears to be doing just that. Turner Classic Movies' Silent Sunday Nights host Jacqueline Stewart will record a new introduction to the movie "placing the film in its multiple historical contexts," at which point it will return to the streaming service, she says.

►Peacock's pricing promotion. NBCUniversal's streaming service is following in the footsteps of competitors Disney+ and HBO Max and offering a discount for subscribers who sign up ahead of launch next month. According to a marketing email viewed by THR, Peacock will offer users a year of its ad-supported tier for $29.99 ($2.50 per month) or a year of its ad-free tier for $79.99 ($6.66 per month).

--Context: Disney offered a $70 discount on three years subscriptions to D23 members, while HBO offered preorders of HBO Max for $11.99 per month, a $3 discount. Of course, the ad-supported tier of Peacock will also be free to many cable TV subscribers, including Comcast and Cox customers.

►Arnold Schwarzenegger takes a stake in kids content producer Genius Brands. The actor is co-producing and doing voiceover work for Genius' Stan Lee's Superhero Kindergarten, and has "elected to receive warrants to purchase shares of the company’s common stock as an advance against his profit participation in the show," the company says. The deal makes Schwarzenegger a "significant" investor in Genius Brands.

►Canadian movie theaters set to reopen. Canadian exhibition giant Cineplex says it will open six theaters in Alberta on June 26, before it hopes to have the rest of its domestic circuit open in early July as regulatory guidelines allow. "In all markets where Cineplex is permitted by government and health authorities, it plans to reopen as many of its locations as it can on July 3, 2020 (or as soon thereafter as permitted by law)," Cineplex said in a statement on Monday. More.

►Hong Kong Disneyland set to reopen Thursday. The facility follows Shanghai Disneyland as the House of Mouse's second major theme park to resume business during the coronavirus pandemic, with Disney World in Orlando, Florida scheduled to reopen its doors on July 11. Disney says the Hong Kong park will come back online with a cap on attendance and social distancing protocols implemented across attractions, restaurants and other services. More.

 Black TV News Journalists Speak Out

►"I have struggled": Black TV journalists talk George Floyd coverage, industry diversity. Ten Black journalists speak to Jeremy Barr about how they have covered the protests, the hurdles and dilemmas they face, and why their industry still has work to do.

--Fredricka Whitfield (Anchor, CNN): I think this one struck a chord with everyone. Me included. For me as a mother, this is your fear all the time. You can't help but wonder and worry about, 'Is this what my son's going to encounter? Is this why my husband might be taking longer than usual to get home?' These are frightening things. So, we are covering it as journalists, yes, but you can't help but feel pain. Feel worry. Feel fright.

--Antonia Hylton (Correspondent, NBC News/Quibi): On a private level, I have struggled, and I talk about that a lot with my friends in the field. ... I wake up and frankly, I'm already anxious in the morning about what's going to happen today, what I might need to cover, how I might need to pivot, and then also just privately worried about what I'm going to have to do to keep my self sane, to keep myself together as I interact with colleagues, and to try to put my reporter hat on and not my personal, private one." The story.

►ABC News executive placed on administrative leave. Barbara Fedida, an ABC News executive overseeing talent and business, has been placed on administrative leave while the network investigates insensitive comments she made in the workplace. The Huffington Post first reported the news, citing 34 anonymous sources that were collected over a period of six months. According to the report, there was an encounter in 2018 between Fedida and Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts that included one of the alleged inappropriate remarks. More.

+New: Yashar Ali reports this morning that Disney has hired an outside law firm to investigate the matter.

►LAist Studios unveils podcast slate featuring true crime noir, Hollywood interview series. Southern California Public Radio has assembled a slate of podcasts through shingle LAist Studios and, true to their origin, the stories are focused on the Golden State. "The diversity of L.A. is really a calling card," says SCPR president and CEO Herb Scannell, explaining that he wanted to "lean into that" with the new projects from 11-month-old LAist Studios. "We want to tell L.A. stories to the world." More.

On Saturday, The Hollywood Reporter and sister publication Billboard hosted its second annual Pride Summit and Prom. The events were held virtually due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, and included interviews, guest speakers, performances, and more. Some of the highlights...



+Lilly Wachowski and Abby McEnany on the power of showcasing "unpalatable queers" on TV. The stars, writers and producers of Showtime's Work in Progress participated in a conversation in which they spoke about the evolution of LGBTQ representation in television. More.

+Lena Waithe, Jonica Gibbs explore how lesbian representation in TV creates a "space of understanding." "Art is at its best when it's saying something true that nobody wants to touch," Waithe said during the Summit. More.

+Todrick Hall and Steven Canals on the uphill battle toward representation. Pose co-creator Canals says one issue he's had to face is the industry wanting to produce "remakes or duplicates" of primarily white stories but with a more diverse cast. "We have our own stories to tell. Just create space for us to do that." More.

+Wilson Cruz and Visible team on the importance of LGBTQ representation in 2020: "There is a lot more work to be done." The talent behind the Apple TV+ docuseries spoke about the triumphs and setbacks of queer storytelling on screen. More.

+And: Patrisse Cullors urges white people to stand up for Black lives: "We need everybody right now"... Boy George gets real about global protests, pronouns and more...

Here are all the highlights from Pride Prom... And here are the highlights from the Pride Summit...

►Critic's picks: 10 great underseen films about Black America. From docs about literary heroes and the L.A. riots to a romantic two-hander that launched an auspicious career, a quietly groundbreaking 1964 indie to a rollicking biopic, here are 10 terrific — and timely — movies about Black people in America that deserve more attention. The list.

In other news...

--In an interview with New York City radio station on Saturday, the Da 5 Bloods director Spike Lee got candid about Woody Allen and "cancel culture." "I’d just like to say Woody Allen is a great, great filmmaker and this cancel thing is not just Woody." Following criticism for his defense of Allen, Lee later took to Twitter to apologize and took back his statements.

--Ben Whishaw is headed to the hospital. Whishaw (A Very English Scandal, Mary Poppins Returns) will star in a dramedy called This Is Going to Hurt for the BBC and AMC

--Holland Taylor on Ann, working with Ryan Murphy and coming out: "I've not hidden my life."

--As nationwide anti-racism protests following the death of George Floyd continue, Beyonce Knowles-Carter is seeking action for the late Breonna Taylor. The singer shared a letter on her website Sunday that she sent to Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron. In the letter, Knowles-Carter demands for the officers involved in Taylor's shooting be criminally charged. 

--Fox News has removed digitally altered photos from its website after the Seattle Times on Friday noted misleading images used in the network's coverage about a Seattle neighborhood that's become a protest center against police brutality and racial injustice.

--The Hollywood power lunch returns? Beverly Hills restaurants prep for crowds.

What else we're reading...

--"Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman struggle with their startup—and each other" [WSJ]

--"Newsrooms are in revolt. The bosses are in their country houses" [NY Times]

--"Trump's latest target on Twitter: Comcast" [CNN Business]

--"Chris Wallace, insider and outlier at Fox News" [NY Times]

--"Spotify staked its future on podcasts. Then the pandemic changed how we listen" [CNN Business]

Today's birthdays: Jim Belushi, 66, Ice Cube, 51, Helen Hunt, 57, Courteney Cox, 56, Neil Patrick Harris, 47.