What's news: International film fests team up for Nomadland premiere, Netflix orders a Witcher prequel, the advertising business begins to pick up, Alan Menken gets his EGOT, BritBox seeks global expansion, Zack Snyder pulls back the curtain on his Justice League cut, ABC's Stumptown adds a showrunner. Plus: Remembering Olivia de Havilland and Regis Philbin. --Alex Weprin

 Film Fests Team Up For 'Nomadland' Premiere

►A significant move by the festival circuit: Nomadland, a road movie drama from director Chloé Zhao starring, and produced by, Oscar-winner Frances McDormand, will premiere simultaneously at the Venice International and Toronto International film festivals on Sept. 11. Both premieres will feature virtual introductions by Zhao and McDormand.

--As part of the cooperation between the fall festivals, announced earlier this month, Nomadland will also screen as the centerpiece film at the New York Film Festival. Telluride, which was part of the fall festivals collaboration but has since cancelled its physical event, will hold a special "Telluride from Los Angeles" drive-in screening of Nomadland in Southern California on Sept.11 with in-person appearances by Zhao and McDormand. The story.

+Venice Film Festival unveils international juries. Joanna Hogg, Ludivine Sagnier and Christian Petzold join jury president Cate Blanchett to judge the competition titles at the 77th Venice International Film Festival. More.

►Netflix orders a Witcher prequel: Netflix has ordered The Witcher: Blood Origin, a prequel set in the same universe as The Witcher, which debuted on the streamer in December. Blood Origin will be set in an elven world 1,200 years before the world of The Witcher and will tell the origin story of the first Witcher, and the events that led to the "conjunction of the spheres," when the worlds of monsters, men and elves merged to become one. Declan de Barra will serve as showrunner with Lauren Schmidt Hissrich as executive producer. The story.

►A light at the end of the advertising tunnel? Global advertising expenditure will decline 9.1 percent in 2020 driven by the coronavirus pandemic, including a 7.0 percent drop in the U.S., according to the latest forecast from media planning firm Zenith on Monday. In comparison, ad spend fell 9.5 percent during the 2009 recession.

--Zenith says ad spending is "beginning to return" after the coronavirus pandemic hit and sees digital advertising attracting more than half of total global ad spend this year, earlier than forecast. The story.

 

 Obituaries...

►Olivia de Havilland, sophisticated star of Hollywood's Golden Age, dies at 104. De Havilland died of natural causes at her home in Paris, where she had lived for more than 60 years. De Havilland captured her best actress Oscar statuettes for To Each His Own (1946), in which she played an unwed mother who is forced to give up her baby and loves him from afar, and The Heiress (1949), where she starred as a vulnerable woman who falls hard for a handsome journeyman (Montgomery Clift) against the wishes of her emotionally abusive father (Ralph Richardson). She was the oldest surviving Oscar-winning actor.

--For her performance as the sweet and suffering Melanie in Gone With the Wind (1939), de Havilland earned her first Oscar nom, but in the supporting actress category, she lost to fellow castmember Hattie McDaniel. In addition to her award-winning turns, de Havilland was a true star, playing in a number of the day’s most popular movies. She appeared in nine films at Warner Bros. opposite the dashing Errol Flynn, including The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), where she played a sweet Maid Marian, and she teamed with director Michael Curtiz nine times as well.

--But for all her work onscreen, de Havilland’s greatest impact on Hollywood came away from the soundstage in 1943 when she sued Warner Bros. to gain freedom from the studio after her seven-year contract had expired. In 1945, the courts ruled that not only was de Havilland free, but all artists were to be limited to the calendar terms of their deals. It's now known in legal circles as The De Havilland Decision. The obituary.

►Regis Philbin, TV host with the most congenial demeanor, dies at 88. Unfailingly perky and personable during his 60-plus years in show business, Philbin hosted live morning programs from Los Angeles and New York from the early 1970s through 2011, sharing cups of coffee and flipping through the morning papers alongside the likes of Ruta Lee, Sarah Purcell, Cyndy Garvey, Mary Hart, Kathie Lee Gifford and Kelly Ripa.

--According to Guinness World Records, the dapper Philbin — who got his first on-camera job in 1959 at a San Diego TV station— spent nearly 17,000 hours on television, surpassing the record held by Hugh Downs. The obituary.

+The tributes: Kathie Lee Gifford, Kelly Ripa, Mary Hart, Jimmy Kimmel, Hoda Kotb and many others paid tribute to the legendary TV host. More.

+Also: This morning Ripa announced that Philbin will be buried at his alma mater, Notre Dame. 

+Peter Green, the dexterous blues guitarist who led the first incarnation of Fleetwood Mac in a career shortened by psychedelic drugs and mental illness, has died at 73. A law firm representing his family, Swan Turton, announced the death in a statement Saturday. It said he died “peacefully in his sleep″ this weekend. The obituary.

+John Saxon, the rugged actor who kicked around with Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon and appeared in three Nightmare on Elm Street movies for director Wes Craven, died Saturday. He was 83. Saxon died of pneumonia in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The obituary.

+Lars Björck, an international film executive who also produced the 2005 drama Havoc, starring Anne Hathaway, Bijou Phillips and Shiri Appleby, has died. He was 66. The obituary.

 A New EGOT Winner

►Sunday's Daytime Emmy Awards minted a new EGOT winner. Composer Alan Menken on Sunday became the 16th person ever to achieve EGOT status. He joins the small group of entertainers who have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award. At Sunday's awards ceremony (which focused on children's, lifestyle and animated programming), Menken won the award for best original song in a children's, young adult or animated program for Disney Channel's Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure. 

--Menken also has won eight Oscars, with those wins coming for songs and scores from The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and Pocahontas. He also has won 11 Grammys, for his work on the aforementioned films. He won a Tony Award in 2012 for best original score for Newsies. The story.

 Zack Snyder pulls back curtain on his Justice League cut. During a live panel at Justice Con, the filmmaker revealed The Snyder Cut will be more than 214 minutes and confirmed none of Joss Whedon's shots will be in this version. “I would set the movie on fire, I’d destroy it before I used a single frame that I did not photograph,” Snyder said. The story.

►Hasbro posts quarterly loss as pandemic hits eOne. Toy giant Hasbro on Monday posted second-quarter financial results that missed Wall Street forecasts for earnings and revenue as the novel coronavirus pandemic caused production delays, hitting its Entertainment One film and TV division, and delays in its movie releases amid cinema closures. The story.

►The rise of BritBox: BBC Studios and ITV said on Monday that they plan to bring streaming service BritBox to up to 25 countries. "Building upon the success of the service in the U.S. and Canada, where it recently hit 1 million subscribers, as well as the U.K., where it launched in November 2019, BritBox will seek to broaden its global footprint across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, South America and Africa," the venture partners said. More.

►ABC's Stumptown is bolstering its showrunner ranks. Monica Owusu-Breen has been tapped to serve as co-showrunner alongside creator Jason Richman on season two of the Cobie Smulders drama. Owusu-Breen will replace Matt Olmstead, who was co-showrunner on season one alongside Richman. Olmstead will now focus on Law & Order: SVU spinoff, Law & Order: Organized Crime, as he is expected to exit his overall deal with Stumptown producers ABC Studios in favor or a new deal at his former home, Universal TV. More.

►Get ready for more of The Kissing Booth. The new movie franchise will return once again for a third installment, Netflix announced Sunday. Stars Joey King, Joel Courtney, Jacob Elordi, Taylor Zakhar Perez, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Meganne Young and Molly Ringwald are set to return for the new installment, which secretly filmed pre-pandemic. More.

 A lawyer for British tabloid The Sun said Monday that Johnny Depp abused Amber Heard during their relationship, committing acts of violence fueled by misogyny and unleashed by addiction to alcohol and drugs. The story.

►Taylor Swift's Folklore album exceeds 1.3 million copies sold in 24 hours. According to Republic Records, the album broke the record for first-day album streams by a female artist on Spotify. More.

►Black Lives Matter, but do the voices of Black women? For a Black woman, to speak ill, true or false about a Black man has become taboo, especially in hip-hop. But the time has come to listen, writes Glenn "Daddy-O" Bolton in a guest column for THR. The column.

In other news...

--The Stacey Abrams-led voter rights doc All In: The Fight for Democracy has set a release date ahead of the 2020 election. The doc will open in select theaters on Sept. 9 ahead of its global launch on Prime Video on Sept. 18.

--After years of guest appearances as the go-to gambling aficionado, Sal Iacono, AKA "Cousin Sal," has started his own venture with Extra Points, a media company focusing on sports, sports betting and comedy.

--Lovecraft Country team on the HBO horror drama's resonant themes in today's America.

--ViacomCBS' ViacomCBS Networks International unit on Monday unveiled four key leadership promotions in its Youth & Entertainment division.

--Oprah Winfrey's monthly magazine, which is produced by Hearst, will cease printing after its December 2020 issue.

--Actress Spencer Grammer says she was trying to calm an agitated man when he slashed her in the arm and stabbed her friend in the back Friday outside a New York City restaurant.

--Prince William infuriated Prince Harry when he told his younger brother he should move slowly in his relationship with the former Meghan Markle, fearing that he was being "blindsided by lust," a new book on the Windsors says.

What else we're reading...

--"Nintendo, Disney, and cultural determinism" [Matthew Ball]

--"Marketers experiment with TV ads in console videogames" [WSJ]

--"Conservative TV networks tout conspiracies" [Axios]

--"A coming of age tale from Gwyneth Paltrow" [Vanity Fair]

Today's birthdays: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, 50, Alex Rodriguez, 45, Maya Rudolph, 48, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, 43, Norman Lear, 98.