What's news: The Venice Film Festival announces its lineup, Warner Bros. reveals Tenet's global release plan, the Primetime Emmy Award nominees will be announced this morning, a workplace investigation at The Ellen DeGeneres Show, #SaveYourCinema scores 200,000 letters to Congress, Golden Globes aligns eligibility window to Oscars. Plus: Oprah to host an AppleTV+ interview show, and Rich Paul joins UTA's board. --Alex Weprin

 Emmy Nominations Day

Emmys season is finally underway, after a pandemic-fueled delay threw the calendar into disarray (and canceled all in-person FYC events in the process). This morning at 8:30 am PT (11:30 am ET), the nominees for this year's Primetime Emmy Awards will be announced.

+The details: The nominees announcement will be hosted by former Saturday Night Live star Leslie Jones, joined by Josh Gad, Laverne Cox, Tatiana Maslany and TV Academy CEO Frank Scherma. It will stream live on the Academy's social media pages and on YouTube. You can also watch right here.

+Who are the favorites? In his latest Feinberg Forecast, THR's awards analyst Scott Feinberg breaks down the projected nominees, alternates and potential surprises in 24 categories. The forecast.

+What comes next? The Emmy voting period will begin Aug. 21 and run through Aug. 31, with the Primetime Emmy Awards set to air on ABC Sept. 20. Jimmy Kimmel will be the host.

+What will those awards look like? Good question! No one knows yet. "There are multiple plans for an in-person ceremony and a virtual "ceremony," ABC's entertainment president Karey Burke told THR last month. "The producers and Jimmy have been hard at work on what those might look like. I have total confidence in whatever shape it takes, it's going to be wildly entertaining."

In tomorrow's newsletter I'll break down the nominees by the numbers according to network and show, and highlight any notable themes from this year's slate of nominees. Stay tuned...

 The Venice Film Festival

►The lineup: Studio titles, female directors and some of the biggest names in international arthouse cinema will be competing for this year's Golden Lion at the 77th Venice International Film Festival. Announcing the 2020 line up Tuesday, Venice Director Alberto Barbera was keen to point out that this year's event will feature films from around the world, ensuring that Venice will continue to be "a shop window for the best cinema production in the world."

--Titles include Nomadland, The World To Come, The Duke and documentary Greta.Venice this year also went some way towards addressing the gender imbalance of festivals past. 8 of the 18 competition titles, or 44 percent, were directed by women, the highest level ever for the event. The full lineup.

+Venice Festival finds its own way to (near) gender parity. Nearly half of the films in competition this year were directed by women, but the world's oldest film festival still rejects the idea of a quota system to improve gender representation. More.

+The Crown star Vanessa Kirby to pull double duty. She stars in two films picked for this year’s Venice competition lineup, which organizers unveiled Tuesday morning. Kirby's Venice movies are director Mona Fastvold's The World to Come and Kornél Mundruczó's Pieces of a Woman. More.

+Deauville Film Festival to screen Cannes 2020 selection. Francis Lee's Ammonite, Yeon Sang-ho's Peninsula and DNA from French director Maïwenn are among the 10 titles from the Cannes lineup that will screen at the event in September. More.

►Tenet's plan. In a win for those theater owners who are able to reopen, Tenet will now open first overseas in more than 70 countries starting on Aug. 26, followed by select U.S. cities on Sept. 3 in advance of the long Labor Day weekend.

--The official dating news came a week after Warner Bros. said it was shelving a traditional release for Christopher Nolan's film amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and that it could no longer wait for a global day-and-date release. Per Warner Bros., the major foreign territories where Tenet will open include Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Russia, Spain and the U.K. Territories still to be determined include China, where theaters have finally begun reopening. The story.

+#SaveYourCinema scores more than 200,000 letters of support sent to Congress. NATO's campaign, launched in mid-July, urges lawmakers to enact the RESTART Act, which would provide cinemas access to access to partially forgivable seven-year loans covering six months of expenses.

--The legislation would also press the U.S. Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve to implement more relief programs under the existing CARES Act that would help cinemas of all sizes amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. NATO says that theaters have been left out of current loan programs. The story.

 2021 Golden Globes will have same eligibility window for films as 2021 Oscars. The HFPA, the organization of LA-based journalists for outlets based abroad that hosts the Globes — a show which recognizes film and TV work — has not, however, changed the period from which work on the small screen will be considered. That will remain Jan. 1, 2020 through Dec. 31, 2020. The 78th Golden Globes will also take place on the date previously held by the 93rd Oscars, Feb. 28. The story.

 An 'Ellen' Investigation

►Ellen investigation at WarnerMedia. WarnerMedia has initiated an investigation into alleged workplace misconduct on the set of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, sources confirmed to THR. The decision followed the publication of a story from Buzzfeed that detailed accusations of racism, unjust termination and an overall toxic work culture on July 16. Warner Bros. and Telepictures declined comment. The story.

In other TV news...

►Adam McKay developing COVID-19 vaccine drama at HBO. The premium cable outlet has optioned rights to journalist Brendan Borrell's forthcoming book The First Shot, about the companies involved in the research, the science of vaccines and challenges regarding access and safety. Borrell has written about the coronavirus pandemic for National Geographic, Wired and Science. More.

+Oprah Winfrey to discuss race in America in Apple TV+ series. The Oprah Conversation will kick off Thursday on the tech giant's streaming platform with an episode titled "How to Be an Antiracist." Abram X. Kendi, author of the book with the same title, will be Winfrey's guest. The story.

+Starz will return to P-Valley. After airing only three episodes of the Mississippi Delta-set strip club drama, the Lionsgate-owned premium cable network has handed out a second season renewal for the series from creator Katori Hall. Season two will feature 10 episodes, up from eight from its freshman order. Based on Hall's Pussy Valley play, the series currently has a rare 100 percent rating among critics on aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes. More.

+Sopranos, Goodfellas scribes team for mob drama at Showtime. Terence Winter and Nicholas Pileggi are coming together for the mob drama. Winter will write the untitled project, which is based on Pileggi's in-depth chronology of organized crime in America, which is also the history of corruption in the United States, as seen through the eyes of the Mafia's first family. Showtime and Imagine Television are producing. The story.

+Shania Twain to produce, write songs for TV drama. The country music icon is teaming with Reel World Management (Netflix's Virgin River) to develop a drama based on best-selling author Debbie Macomber's Heart of Texas novels. More.

+Amazon boards Emily Mortimer's Pursuit of Love miniseries. Mortimer writes and directs the three-hour project, which has begun production in the U.K. Amazon Studios is co-producing for the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand along with Open Book and Moonage Pictures. The show will air on BBC One in the U.K. More.

+Megan Rapinoe will host a special for HBO Sports — but the discussion won't necessarily center on athletics. The soccer star and 2019 Women's World Cup outstanding player will be joined by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and Patriot Act host Hasan Minhaj for Seeing America With Megan Rapinoe. The half-hour special is set to air Saturday on HBO. More.

+Also: Vice TV is revving up for a new drag-racing series titled Donkmaster. The weekly half-hour series will follow the "high-stakes subculture of Donk racing," where "classic American cars on insanely huge rims [are] pushed to the extreme for big money."

"As the old saying goes, no business is like show business. For one thing, show business is speech business. But what acts by an entertainment producer are legitimately free speech? And what acts are plain ol' discrimination? That's not always clear. Just look at the ongoing case of Alf Clausen, the 79-year-old who was fired as Simpsons composer after 27 years of celebrated work on the animated classic. As his lawsuit heads towards an important hearing next week, Clausen looks to undercut Fox's positioning that this dispute relates to an important First Amendment issue." The story.

+Johnny Depp’s lawyer denies "Reputation-destroying, career-ending allegation” in closing arguments of U.K. libel trial. Johnny Depp’s libel case against a British tabloid that accused him of abusing ex-wife Amber Heard was wrapping up Tuesday after three weeks of court hearings that dissected a toxic celebrity love affair. More.

Revolving door: Rich Paul has been appointed to the UTA board of directors. Paul, an agency partner, has been the head of the agency's sports division since July 2019, when UTA invested in Paul's Klutch Sports Group...In a move expanding the news outlet's presence in Hollywood, The New York Times has named Caitlin Roper executive producer for scripted projects... Jim Lanzone, the veteran tech executive who led CBS’ push into streaming video, has been named the new CEO of Tinder...

►To note: THR is now accepting online submissions for the 27th edition of the Next Gen list, which is slated to publish Oct. 7, and will identify 35 standouts who one day will run the entertainment industry. Candidates should be submitted in one of the following categories: agents, managers, film, TV, digital, legal and business managers. The details.

►Broadcast TV ratings: Sunday's broadcast slate was heavy on repeats for the second straight week, and like last week, reruns of ABC's game shows topped primetime among adults 18-49. CBS' 60 Minutes led the night in total viewers. The numbers.

►TV review: Daniel Fienberg reviews Last Chance U: Laney, writing of the Netflix series " after five seasons, I feel comfortable that whatever the story ends up being, the Last Chance U team will tell it as well as it can be told, which is a hugely reassuring sensation to have as you're sitting down to watch eight hours of TV." The review.

+Film review: Inkoo Kang reviews the HBO documentary Stockton On My Mind, writing that Stockton mayor Michael Tubbs "makes for an exceptional and inviting subject." The review.

Obituary: Royana Black, who appeared on Broadway in Brighton Beach Memoirs and starred as the title character on the short-lived sitcom Raising Miranda, has died. She was 47...

In other news...

--UTA has partnered with New York's Metrograph to present the Metrograph Drive-In, an outdoor theater series at Hamptons venue Nova's Ark.

--Oscar-winner Malcolm Clarke documented the early days of the coronavirus pandemic in upcoming doc feature, Wuhan - A Season In Hell. Made with a team of international filmmaker, the feature is meant to take viewers to ground zero of the global coronavirus pandemic.

--A3 Artists Agency has launched a new virtual live events initiative, the A3 Approach, to maintain its touring business for celebrity clients after the pandemic brought the physical events business to a grinding halt.

--U.K. arts and culture network Sky Arts will become a free-to-air TV channel in September, "supercharging its mission to increase access to and drive participation in the arts," Comcast-owned pay TV giant Sky said.

--A Malaysian court pronounced former Prime Minister Najib Razak guilty Tuesday in his first corruption trial over the multibillion-dollar looting of the 1MDB investment fund.

--Amid questions about its online voting process, the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards announced the winners of its 32nd annual awards via an online video Friday night, although not every winner accepted the honor.

What else we're reading...

--"I went to Disney World" [The Atlantic]

--"Docuseries are the hottest thing on TV. Someone should tell the Emmys" [LA Times]

--"Facebook offers money to reel in TikTok creators" [WSJ]

--"Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google prepare for their ‘Big Tobacco moment’" [NY Times]

--"Popular TikTok stars to leave platform for rival app over data privacy concerns" [LA Times]

Today's birthdays: Soulja Boy, 30, Jim Davis, 75, Lori Loughlin, 56, Manu Ginobili, 43, Dana White, 51.