Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check - Jun 23, 2020

No big surprise: Add the 2021 Golden Globe Awards to the list of awards shows delayed by the coronavirus. This year’s ceremony has been pushed back until Feb. 28, 2021, per the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Coincidentally, it’s the same date that the Academy Awards were originally scheduled to take place before THEY were pushed back as well.

Movie news: Paramount and Nickelodeon have decided that the latest Spongebob Squarepants movie, “Sponge on the Run,” will launch on premium digital rental services in early 2021 before heading over top CBS All Access. In other words: no theatre shows. It was originally supposed to hit theaters May 22 of this year.

In other movie news, the film version of LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA’s “Hamilton” is coming out on Disney Plus, but will get a PG-13 rating because of the “language and some suggestive material.”

And Variety reports none other than MICHAEL KEATON is talking to producers about coming back as Batman in the upcoming film about “The Flash.” Keaton was in “Batman” and “Batman Returns” as the Caped Crusader before VAL KILMER took over the role for the third film in the series.

Bad news for Muslims —the folks in Saudi Arabia have banned international visitors from coming to visit Mecca during the Islamic pilgrimage, or Hajj, this year in order to limit the coronavirus exposure. Normally, there’s about two million people coming to Mecca for the holiday. But only citizens from countries around the world who are already resident in Saudi Arabia will be allowed to attend this year.

While we’re on the coronavirus kick, the folks at Carnival Cruise Line have announced that their North American-based fleet ships won't be cruising again until October --at the earliest.

Finally, CNN reports that the statue of TEDDY ROOSEVELT in front of New York City’s Museum of Natural History is being removed because it features Teddy seated on a horse along with a Native American man standing on one side and an African man standing on the other. As you might know, Teddy once called racial segregation "a benefit" and defended the enslavement of Black people by saying slaves "were happy and well-cared for."