By Sharon Knolle

A crew member from the ABC series “9-1-1” died in a car crash early Saturday morning following a 14-hour overnight shift. Rico Priem, who was a grip for the ABC first-responder series, was involved in a car crash after working Friday night through Saturday morning on location in Pomona.

“On behalf of the studio and everyone at ‘9-1-1,’ we send our sincere and deepest condolences to Rico Priem’s family and friends,” 20th Television said in a statement shared with TheWrap.

By Lucas Manfredi

After last year’s Hollywood strikes put pay for creatives at the center of the labor dispute, Amazon, Apple and Netflix are looking to change the way they compensate talent.

Amazon is “exploring” a new performance-based back-end pay structure for its direct-to-service films and series, an individual familiar with the matter confirmed to TheWrap. The individual declined to elaborate further on the plan.

By Adam Chitwood and Umberto Gonzalez

“Return to normal” has been the hopeful theme of the Cannes Film Festival market for the last few years as the industry attempted to recover from the pandemic. But the theme of 2024 should probably be “return to new normal” as the industry experiences an ongoing period of contraction following the burst of activity brought on by the streaming boom.

Major films are still up for acquisition, from Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” (which closed sales to foreign territories this weekend), to director Ali Abbasi’s “The Apprentice,” which stars Sebastian Stan as a young Donald Trump and Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn.