Innholdsfortegnelse for March 15, 2017 i The Hollywood Reporter

Kate Young (left) and Michelle Williams Photographed by Austin Hargrave on Feb. 23 at a residence in Beverly Hills. There was no shortage of Louis Vuitton options on hand for Williams, the face of the brand. Says Young (who topped THR’s list in 2012 and 2016), “We both know right away if things are going to work or not.” THR style editor Carol McColgin, who spearheads the annual Stylists issue, calls the pair “two of the chicest people I can think of.” On Young and Williams: Louis Vuitton sweaters. From left: Celine Dion, Law Roach and Zendaya Photographed by Dewey Nicks on Feb. 26 with Caesars’ private plane in its hangar in Las Vegas. “When I was looking for someone to work with, I said, ‘Who do I like?’ ”…

LEAH REMINI AFTER THE AFTERMATH: ROUND TWO OF SCIENTOLOGY SHOWDOWN Deal of the Week Leah Remini isn’t backing down. Nearly four years after leaving the Church of Scientology, the controversial religion’s most high-profile defector is ramping up her effort to blow the whistle on stories of abuse, misconduct and retribution — and now is negotiating an expanded second season for her A&E exposé, Scientology and the Aftermath. “The way the organization has responded without taking responsibility for what they do to people, I need to continue,” Remini tells THR. “It would be another [scenario] if they stopped trying to discredit everyone’s stories and said, ‘If you don’t like it, don’t be part of Scientology.’ ” Though there has been no formal action taken by the notoriously litigious organization, Scientology reps…

Off the Radar (BLUE RIDER PRESS, 2015) BY Cyrus Copeland AGENCY UTA Copeland’s 2016 Chautauqua Prize-winning memoir recounts his childhood in 1979 Tehran, where his father was the first American tried for espionage and was defended by his mother, the Islamic Republic’s first female lawyer — who wasn’t sure if he was guilty. “You May Want to Marry My Husband” (MODERN LOVE, THE NEW YORK TIMES, MARCH 3, 2017) BY Amy Krouse Rosenthal AGENCY Storied Media Group A dying woman’s heartbreaking dating profile for her husband of 26 years instantly went viral and caught Hollywood’s interest, but Rosenthal’s March 13 death will put a deal on hold for the moment.…

Crime Watch Is L.A. in the midst of an Instagram crime spree? After a string of stars’ home burglaries, a new LAPD task force is grappling with what it characterizes as an extremely sophisticated crime syndicate. “It’s usually a lone individual trying to service their addiction. This is different. This is organized crime,” Lt. Todd Hankel of the San Fernando Valley Knock Knock Task Force tells THR. In recent weeks, the homes of Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig, Lakers guard Nick Young and singers Nicki Minaj and Alanis Morissette have been hit (a safe stolen from Morissette contained items valued at $2 million). But this is no sequel to the “Bling Ring” of teens who struck A-listers’ homes in 2008 and 2009 (events loosely chronicled in Sofia Coppola’s 2013 film satire),…

Producer Jason Blum is having a bloody good time. The purveyor of low- and micro-budget horror movies has had a hit-and-miss track record since redefining the genre film business with 2007’s Paranormal Activity, but his philosophy is paying off this year: M. Night Shyamalan’s Split (budget: $9 million) has grossed $136 million domestic, while Jordan Peele’s Get Out ($5 million) has passed $100 million while generating a 99 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and sparking a conversation about race. Blum, who was an exec for the Weinsteins before striking out on his own in 2000, hit pay dirt with Paranormal, which showed that studio movies could be made for tiny budgets and marketed like full-freight genre pictures. It paved the way for Blum, 48, to build a company 70…

MEN’S VAN VAN ALONSO + Best supporting actor winner Mahershala Ali, 43, killed it on the red carpet in sharp three-piece suits with unique details, courtesy of the L.A.- based fashion designer/stylist — which led to the Moonlight actor’s next starring role: in Calvin Klein’s underwear ads. MICHAEL FISHER + The NYC stylist had a packed schedule with War Dogs’ Jonah Hill, 33, and Nocturnal Animals’ Michael Shannon, 42. Fisher also suited Grammys host James Corden, 38 (“We try to top our last look,” he says). ANNIE PSALTIRAS + When it comes to nailing men’s style, “it’s about fit, proportion and hem length,” says Psaltiras, who culled the finest Tom Ford for Trolls nominee Justin Timberlake, 36, including a dot-jacquard cocktail jacket for his “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” Oscar performance.…

Memorable moments from a storied history Disney’s lock on the Beauty and the Beast myth should be safe for generations to come: The beloved 1991 animated version returns March 17 for a live-action adaptation. But in 1987, millions fell for a very different take on the ultimate odd couple, with CBS’ modernized version of the 18th century French fairy tale. In that Beauty and the Beast, Linda Hamilton, then 31, played a New York City assistant D.A. who is savagely beaten, slashed and left to die in Central Park. (The “Preppy Murder” case had grabbed headlines the year prior.) She is rescued by Vincent, a lion-faced subterranean dweller with an Andre Agassi mane and a taste for the Romance-era arts; he nurtures her back to health and can telepathically sense…

↑ Film PG Power Family-friendly is the new hot rating p. 32 Television Midseason Mess Why no breakout broadcast hits this winter? p. 32 Scott Stuber The veteran producer and executive lands the top film job at Netflix, which has plans to disrupt the movie business just like it has TV. Wang Jianlin The Wanda chairman’s planned $1 billion purchase of Dick Clark Productions is called off as his company is sued to recover a $25 million breakup fee. Gabrielle Carteris The SAG-AFTRA leader celebrates as Telemundo’s Spanish-language performers vote to join the union, ending a yearslong battle with the NBCU-owned network. Terrence Malick The reclusive director makes a rare public appearance at SXSW, but his new film, Song to Song, is ridiculed by critics as a “humiliating wreck.” Showbiz…

The year 2017 hasn’t been forgiving to the broadcast networks. With a whopping 17 scripted launches since Jan. 1, nearly all new series are languishing with low ratings, even by today’s modest standards. But that may not be entirely the new shows’ fault: The root of midseason’s problem, some say, is the middling fall that preceded it. “In the past, midseason success was typically built on the foundation established in the fall,” says Sam Armando, lead investment director at MediaVest-Spark, noting all but NBC (and sportslifted Fox) are down this year. “Since only This Is Us popped in the fall, there just aren’t any coattails to ride on.” Even Fox’s Super Bowl-launched 24: Legacy, a seemingly safe bet, can’t crack a live 1.0 rating in the key demo on Monday…

Big Deal First Look Media made an auspicious debut with Spotlight, its first produced and co-financed feature after launching in 2014. Now the New York-based company will tackle another true story with tragic results: the making of the atomic bomb. Inside Amy Schumer co-creator Dan Powell is shifting genres to write Brotherhood of the Bomb, based on Gregg Herken’s 2002 book of the same name. The film will explore the tumultuous relationship between physicists Robert Oppenheimer and Edward Teller; the former was stripped of his U.S. government security clearance for alleged communist ties after the latter testified against him. “This is a passion project for Dan, and he brought us in,” says First Look executive vp programming and content Adam Pincus. “It’s a devastating story in terms of divided loyalties.”…

Jeffrey Katzenberg, actor Simon Helberg and filmmaker Gabe Polsky shared the room at Madeo. … Scarlett Johansson dined at Kali. … WME’s Christian Muirhead sat with Jessica Savarese at Mr Chow. On a different day, Brian Grazer and Jill Smoller were there. … Damien Chazelle lunched at Canter’s Deli. … Franklin Leonard and producers Bruna Papandrea and Cassian Elwes checked out Soho House separately. … At The Palm, Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren were at different corners. Amy Pascal, John Stamos and Bob Daly also were there, separately. HOT NEW RESTAURANT The Ponte The Quick Pitch L.A. restaurateur Stephane Bombet has pivoted his Cali-French brasserie Terrine into this elegant Italian spot that recalls the Beverly Grove address’ years-ago industry prominence as Pane e Vino. Chef Scott Conant is in charge,…

I know from reading the trade websites that many in Hollywood observed A Day Without a Woman on March 8 — though I did see several females at the studio and network I visited that day. The talent agencies certainly treated it as a special event, which makes sense, since all of them have women at the pinnacle of their management committees. (That’s true, right? I didn’t dream it, did I?) In any case, this honoring of females caused me to think about how ridiculous it is that in 2017, women, or any other group of people, should be paid less for the same job — save for guys with comb-overs, since they absolutely should get less. While the result of this inequity is simple to understand, the sources are…

1 Nicki Replaced Kim K. One outcome of the Kim Kardashian jewel heist in October was a gaping hole in the front row at Balmain and Balenciaga. The week saw brand faces Rihanna at Dior, Pharrell and Lily-Rose Depp at Chanel and a pasty-sporting Nicki Minaj (above) at Haider Ackermann. That’s one way to get attention. 2 French Politics Have Drama, Too The April 23 presidential election could usher in anti-immigration candidate Marine Le Pen, who has style opinions of her own. “France is not burkinis on the beach; France is Brigitte Bardot,” she said on 60 Minutes, adding she’d also ban religious headscarves, yarmulkes and turbans. 3 Headgear Is Having a Moment Following the “Make America New York Again” baseball caps on the Public School runway in New York…

When it comes to accessorizing, Karl Lagerfeld is embracing gender equality. For spring 2017, the 83-year-old Chanel creative director is rolling out the Gabrielle handbag — named after the house’s founder, Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel — a unisex style inspired by increasing fluidity between masculine and feminine roles. The brand hopes it will become as instantly iconic as the classic quilted flap bag that debuted in 1955. For the campaign, Lagerfeld photographed four Chanel faces — Kristen Stewart, 26; Pharrell Williams, 43; Cara Delevingne, 24; and French model Caroline de Maigret, 42 — all wearing the brand’s same little black jacket. “They are very different personalities, and each gives their own attitude to the Gabrielle bag,” Lagerfeld tells THR. The bag’s shape was inspired by virtual reality goggles, so Lagerfeld focused…

The Motion Picture Academy’s 54-person board of governors is set to convene March 28 for the first time since the chaotic ending of the 89th Academy Awards. That follows a brief phone conference, when the governors were told that accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers is creating new protocols for handing out award envelopes because of the error that tarnished the Feb. 26 show. With those proposals, to be presented at the board meeting, PwC and the Academy’s leadership believe the matter will be put to rest. But there’s a split between those who attribute the snafu to “human error” (as Disney CEO Bob Iger put it to shareholders following a damage-control call from PwC chairman Tim Ryan) and others who see deeper flaws. “The Academy was at fault for not doing a…

Big Number Common (CAA, Myman Greenspan) will star in Content Media and Lorenzo di Bonaventura’s revenge thriller Quick Draw. Stanley Tucci (CAA, the U.K.’s Curtis Brown, Anonymous, Theodore L Blumberg) has joined the psychological thriller Nomis, along with Nathan Fillion and Minka Kelly. Tom Hanks (CAA, Loeb & Loeb) and Meryl Streep (CAA, Gendler & Kelly) will star in Steven Spielberg’s Pentagon Papers drama The Post. T.J. Miller (CAA, Jackoway Tyerman) is in final talks to join Kristen Stewart in Fox’s action-thriller Underwater. Anna Faris (UTA, Anonymous, Sloane Offer) and Eugenio Derbez (UTA, Behr Abramson) will star in MGM’s Overboard remake. Margot Robbie (CAA, Australia’s Aran Michael, Management 360, Jackoway Tyerman) will star in Sony’s Robin Hood standalone drama Marian. Eva Green (UTA, the U.K.’s Tavistock Wood) and Danny DeVito…

“Whatever I did onstage kind of spoke for itself.” BRIE LARSON The Kong: Skull Island actress and advocate for sexual-assault victims, addressing why she didn’t clap for Casey Affleck when presenting him with his best actor Oscar. Affleck settled two lawsuits accusing of him of sexual harassment in 2010. “There’s an opportunity to have a voice in ‘the room where it happens’ to speak for our company and its investors.” BOB IGER The Disney CEO, quoting a Hamilton lyric during a shareholders meeting to defend his participation in President Donald Trump’s business advisory council. “I really don’t know what my tits have to do with it.” EMMA WATSON The Beauty and the Beast star, firing back at critics who accused her of not being a feminist after appearing semi-topless in…

Irecently watched the highly entertaining thriller Get Out and the deeply disturbing documentary I Am Not Your Negro. Turns out they’re the same movie. Both films deal with the subjugation of the unpopular voice through the enslavement of the body. Get Out uses a medical-horror genre, and I Am Not Your Negro uses James Baldwin’s passionate outrage at the martyrdom of his friends Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Both explore the differences between the end of legal slavery and the lingering effects of institutional slavery. And the urgent message in both is that unless the body is free from others controlling its actions and free from constant threat of injury or death, that body, that person, that people are still enslaved. Get Out’s well-deserved 99 percent…