What's news: After the UTA deal, what happens next in the talent agencies-writers fight? Tenet delayed again as Warners eyes a staggered release, Fox News hit with a new lawsuit, David Byrne's American Utopia to open semi-virtual TIFF, Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington sign on to a Netflix thriller, Pose creator gets another FX show, SNL eyes a return to the studio. Plus: Telemundo gets a new chairman, Idris Elba to get BAFTA honors. --Alex Weprin

 What Happens Next In The Agencies-Writers Fight?

►As UTA breaks ranks, what's next for Writers Guild and agencies? More than a year after 7,000 scribes left their agents, WME, CAA and ICM Partners are holdouts on making a deal with the union and the WGA's long game remains unclear, Jonathan Handel reports.

--The cross-ownership question: While packaging remains the biggest sticking point between writers and agents, talent agency ownership of production entities remains a related problem. "The latest ceiling suits UTA just fine, according to an agency source, because the firm had kept its ownership stake in Civic Center Media below 20 percent to stay in compliance with the AFTRA franchise agreement, which also sports a 20 percent limit," Handel reports.

--ICM "has no affiliate production entity and is not known to have any plans for one. But Endeavor Content is wholly owned by its parent, Endeavor, and appears to be tightly integrated into Endeavor CEO Ariel Emanuel’s ambitious plans for media moguldom... In contrast, CAA’s wiip holds a more modest place in its agency’s firmament — and, notably, the talent firm is not the affiliate’s sole owner..." Here's the story, digging into every aspect of the deal.

In other labor news...

+Here's the story about UTA withdrawing from the WGA lawsuit. United Talent Agency broke ranks with the other talent agencies by withdrawing from an ongoing lawsuit in California federal court against the Writers Guild of America. The news comes after the potentially breakthrough development that UTA had reached a deal with the WGA last week. The story.

+SAG-AFTRA board rebukes L.A. president for refusing to remove Corey Feldman from sexual harassment committee. In the wake of "numerous separate, detailed complaints," union president Gabrielle Carteris urged that the actor be removed from the Local’s Sexual Harassment Committee; he ultimately resigned in June. The story.

 'Tenet' Delayed Again

►Warner Bros.' and Christopher Nolan's Tenet delayed once more. The Aug. 12 release of the film has been delayed due to the ongoing coronavirus crisis and a surge in cases in some parts of the United States, Warner Bros. announced Monday.

--As Hollywood grapples with a new normal brought on by the pandemic, the $200 million tentpole is no longer expected to get a conventional release and is likely to open first in overseas markets, Pamela McClintock reports. And in the U.S., it could go out first in cities where cinemas can safely reopen, versus nationwide. Warners is expected to announce its new plan in the coming days.

--The studio also announced that The Conjuring 3, set for release on Sept. 11, is being pushed back to June 4, 2021 (the move had been widely expected). Monday's announcement does not impact Wonder Woman 1984, which remains scheduled for Oct. 2, and Dune, set for Dec. 18. The story.

+In more far-out scheduling news: Skydance and Paramount Pictures are continuing their partnership with the original animated musical Spellbound, which will hit theaters on Nov. 11, 2022. In a twinned move, David Ellison's company and Paramount said Monday they are pushing back the release of Luck from spring 2021 to Feb. 18, 2022. More.

 Fox News has been hit with a kitchen sink suit, replete with trigger warning, as a complaint was filed on Monday in New York federal court alleging sexual misconduct by some of its top hosts including Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson. Jennifer Eckhart, identifying herself as a freelance administrative assistant to Fox Business anchor Liz Claman, is a co-plaintiff in the suit. The most serious claim pertains to Eckhart's allegation that she was raped by Ed Henry, who earlier this month was fired by Fox News as a result of the charge.

--"Based on the findings of a comprehensive independent investigation conducted by an outside law firm, including interviews with numerous eyewitnesses, we have determined that all of Cathy Areu’s claims against Fox News, including its management as well as its hosts Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity & Howard Kurtz and its contributor Gianno Caldwell, are false, patently frivolous and utterly devoid of any merit," the company said in a statement, adding that claims can be made against Henry directly. The story.

+Amber Heard denies fabricating injuries in Johnny Depp libel trial. The actress has alleged that the actor threw a phone at her "like he was a baseball pitcher" that evening, hitting her on the right cheek and eye. More.

 TIFF Plans

►David Byrne's American Utopia movie to open virtual Toronto festival. Director Spike Lee's filmed version of the Talking Heads frontman's acclaimed Broadway show will launch TIFF's 45th edition on Sept. 10. Toronto has yet to name a venue for its first-night premiere, which traditionally has been Roy Thomson Hall. After launching Toronto, David Byrne's American Utopia will land on HBO in the fall, and simultaneously on the Crave streaming service in Canada. The story.

+Toronto Film Fest offers digital movie rentals amid pandemic. TIFF is sending its theatrical releases straight to homes as the coronavirus outbreak keeps its five Bell Lightbox screens in Toronto shut down. The story.

+In other news from up north: The Just For Laughs comedy festival in Montreal, run by a consortium led by ICM and Howie Mandel, has unveiled plans for a fully virtually event in the fall amid the coronavirus pandemic. More.

►Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington to star in Netflix thriller Leave The World Behind. The streaming giant has landed rights to the project, based on an upcoming novel by Rumaan Alam, with Sam Esmail, the creator of Mr. Robot and Homecoming, set to write the adaptation and direct it. Roberts and Washington are attached to star. The novel will be published this fall by HarperCollins imprint Ecco. The story.

►Pose creator lines up another LGBTQ-focused show for FX. Steven Canals is developing 81 Words, a limited series exploring the historic effort by a group of medical professionals to change the definition homosexuality from being classified as a mental illness. The story.

+Bret Easton Ellis, Irvine Welsh teaming for press satire series American Tabloid. The TV show will follow a "rambunctious cavalcade of pranksters, con men and rapscallions, in other words, journalists" and will be co-created by the American Psycho and Trainspotting authors. More.

 Yara Shahidi is making a home at ABC Studios. The Grown-ish star, who recently was upped to executive producer as well, has signed an overall deal with the Disney Television Studios unit. Shahidi and her mother and business partner, Keri Shahidi, have formed production company 7th Sun to develop scripted and unscripted projects for ABC Studios. The story.

+Tenderfoot TV inks multi-podcast deal with iHeartMedia. Under the terms of the deal, the studio behind Up and Vanished will create a slate of nine new original podcasts for the iHeartPodcast Network over the next two years. The slate will include limited series and weekly shows. More.

►Netflix cancels Turkish show after government demands removal of gay character. Netflix announced the eight-part romantic drama If Only in March. Produced by Turkish shingle Ay Yapim, If Only was set to feature Turkish film star Özge Özpirincci. But Netflix has pulled the plug on the show after authorities, citing the existence of a homosexual supporting character in the script, refused to issue a filming license. Instead of censoring the script, Netflix has decided to pull the series altogether. The story.

+Flashback: Last year at the New York Times Dealbook Conference, CEO Reed Hastings addressed this very possibility: "We can accomplish a lot more by being entertainment and influencing a global conversation conversation about how people live than trying to be another news channel," Hastings said. "If they can came to us and said you can't have gay content, we wouldn't do that. We would not comply with that."

►Los Angeles awarded National Women’s Soccer League team in 2022. A majority woman-founded group led by Natalie Portman, technology venture capitalist Kara Nortman, media and gaming entrepreneur Julie Uhrman and tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist Alexis Ohanian secured the expansion rights, according to the league. More.

 Idris Elba is set to be honored at the upcoming BAFTA TV Awards. The Luther star, who rose to prominence as Stringer Bell in The Wire, will receive the BAFTA Special Award, one of the British Academy's highest honors, for creative contribution to television... Pixar's new animated short Loop, helmed by Erica Milsom, was named Best in Show for CG confab Siggraph's annual Computer Animation Festival Electronic Theater competition, which this year will be presented virtually due to COVID-19...

►TV ratings: The broadcast networks essentially took Sunday night off, with reruns up and down the schedule. A repeat of Celebrity Family Feud on ABC led the primetime rankings among adults 18-49, and a golf telecast that bled into the evening hours topped the total-viewer chart. The numbers.

►NBCUniversal taps Beau Ferrari as Telemundo chairman. Ferrari has been executive vp of Telemundo since 2017, overseeing operations, finance and strategy. He succeeds Cesar Conde, who became chairman of the NBCUniversal News Group in May. The story.

+ABC News senior vp Barbara Fedida will depart the network following an investigation into racially insensitive remarks she was alleged to have made about colleagues. The results of the investigation, conducted by outside counsel, were revealed in an email to ABC News employees from Walt Disney Television chairman Peter Rice Monday afternoon. More.

+Revolving door: Sundance Film Festival regular Brett Haley has been tapped to helm Paramount's Grease prequel, Summer Loving... ABC News has promoted Rachel Scott to White House correspondent and D.C. correspondent... 13 Reasons Why star Tommy Dorfman has signed with CAA in all areas... Virtual entertainment company Wave revealed Monday that former Riot Games executive Jarred Kennedy has been appointed as COO... Multi-hyphenate creator Flight, real name Kimani White, has signed with UTA for representation in all areas...

Obituary: Jonathan Oppenheim, the documentary editor behind the seminal ball culture film Paris Is Burning as well as multiple Oscar-nominated titles, has died. He was 67...

In other news...

--A trio of Wellington, NZ-based companies — Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings VFX powerhouse Weta Digital, technical production services provider Streamliner and Avalon Studios — have partnered to offer virtual production services.

--Sony Pictures Classics is set to release Michael Covino’s The Climb, which bowed in Cannes, starting in in New York and Los Angeles theaters on Oct. 9.

--More than 90 percent of people ages 13-54 use at least one streaming service, a study from Hulu finds — but they don't use those services in any single way.

--CNN's top women political reporters are getting their close-up on HBO Max as the WarnerMedia-backed streaming platform rolls out its first CNN Films original. As the 2020 U.S. presidential campaign gathers pace, HBO Max and CNN Films are set to launch On the Trail: Inside the 2020 Primaries on August 6. 

--Hollywood mega-agency CAA has inked a strategic partnership agreement with Singapore and Indonesia-based film and television company United Media Asia (UMA).

--Kanye West went a strange rant on Twitter late Monday.

--TikTok star Addison Rae Easterling is launching a podcast. Mama Knows Best premieres July 20 from Spotify-owned studio Parcast. 

--Katie Couric on Monday reunited the cast of the 1998 remake of The Parent Trap in honor of the film's 22nd anniversary.

--Alex Trebek talked about the ups and downs of cancer treatment in a new interview.

What else we're reading...

--"Covid rewrites the Disney playbook" [WSJ]

"'This was abuse': The fall of a CBS showrunner" [Vanity Fair]

--"Under fire from Washington, TikTok pledges U.S. job growth" [Axios]

--"The NFL’s pandemic plan: Daily testing and high-tech contact tracing" [WSJ]

--"Ubisoft family accused of mishandling sexual misconduct claims" [Bloomberg]

Today's birthdays: Josh Hartnett, 42, Yusuf Islam, aka Cat Stevens, 72, Paloma Faith, 39, Damian Marley, 42, Charlotte Gainsbourg, 49.