Innholdsfortegnelse for June 7, 2017 i The Hollywood Reporter

Behind the Headlines Ahit TV show? Apple thinks it has an app for that. The tech giant screened its first original series, Planet of the Apps, for crowds of devotees at its annual developer conference June 6 before dropping the first episode of the unscripted series online. The rollout is meant to kick off a summer of releases for Apple, which plans to unveil its star-studded Carpool Karaoke show Aug. 8. Executives are relying on original video to bolster the 27 million paid users of the 2-year-old Apple Music service. But is Apple now a TV network? Does it want to be one? “It’s yet another reason to subscribe to Apple Music,” says Eddy Cue, the senior vp in charge of software and services. As he sees it, Planet of…

Good luck booking Barack Obama now, Bill. “This president has done virtually every other show in the known universe,” Bill Maher bemoaned in early 2016. His plea led to a sit-down with the thenpresident four days before the November election. Now, in the wake of the N-word scandal engulfing the host, Obama’s reluctance looks prescient as public relations experts polled by THR say booking Real Time’s five guest chairs will be an especially tough challenge for its three lead bookers who are based in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. Sen. Al Franken canceled a scheduled appearance on the June 9 episode — the first since Maher said he was “a house n—” in response to Sen. Ben Sasse’s invitation to come “work in the fields with us” in Nebraska. Franken…

Deal of the Week Scott Pelley’s removal from the CBS Evening News anchor chair, a shift in the works for months and confirmed May 31, reveals not only frustration at the perpetual third-place broadcast news division but also questions facing the continued viability of nightly half-hour newscasts. ABC World News Tonight, anchored by David Muir, is the most-watched broadcast but was down 2 percent in viewers and 7 percent in the critical 25- to-54 demographic during the first quarter of 2017. Meanwhile, NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt was off 4 percent in overall viewers and 6 percent in the demo (but still leads it). Pelley’s Evening News, which remains stalled at third by both measures, had the largest declines: 6 percent in overall viewers and 13 percent in the…

The World of Tomorrow (LITTLE, BROWN, SEPT. 5) BY Brendan Mathews AGENCY APA Set against the 1939 New York World’s Fair, Mathews’ debut, about three brothers caught up in blackmail and betrayal, made a splash at the May 31-June 2 BookExpo and is drawing comparisons to Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Genuine Fraud (DELACORTE, SEPT. 5) BY E. Lockhart AGENCY UTA Another BookExpo hit, the follow-up to 2014’s best-selling We Were Liars (under development with Imperative) is a YA Talented Mr. Ripley-esque story that skips around in time and hopscotches among beautiful locales in Mexico, New York and California.…

Mileposts Weddings Alissa Feldman, a manager at Authentic Talent & Literary Management, married Kenny Goodman, a manager/ producer at MGMT Entertainment, on May 27 at the Ritz- Carlton in Cleveland in front of 160 guests. The couple, who met at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, will honeymoon in Barcelona and Santorini this summer. Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel married model Miranda Kerr on May 27 at his home in Brentwood, California, in front of about 40 guests. The couple, who became engaged in July, were feted with performances by Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat. Shameless actress Emmy Rossum married Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail on May 28 at Central Synagogue in New York, followed by a reception at the Guggenheim Museum. Guests included Robert Downey Jr., William H. Macy, Shanola Hampton, Rami…

Digital Since revenue from film and TV is expected to grow at a snail’s pace in the U.S. in the next five years, Hollywood is looking to virtual reality for its next growth spurt. Sure, the $600 headsets are clunky and some early content isn’t much better, but a study out June 7 from PricewaterhouseCoopers suggests the technology will improve so rapidly that VR will soon go mainstream. It’s not far-fetched to envision consumers en masse strapping on goggles — made by such tech titans as Google, Sony and Samsung — to play video games or watch the latest incarnation of Sharknado, with the man-eaters swirling about their living rooms. “There’s no iTunes for VR content now, but our forecast anticipates that sort of marketplace in about three years,” says…

Models W hat do Paris Jackson; Tyler Clinton, nephew of former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton; transgender actress Hari Nef; and Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black have in common? They’ve all recently been signed to major modeling agencies (Clinton, Nef and Jackson to IMG; Black to Wilhelmina), many of which are setting up shop in Los Angeles, considered by industry insiders to be the hotbed for scouting millennial, camera-ready talent. And they all represent today’s new model of model: not just pretty faces or starlets but social media-sanctioned talent with entertainment ties and built-in name recognition. With its move to L.A.’s Pacific Design Center, revealed to THR, IMG Models will join the recently opened West Coast outposts of Wilhelmina and Lions Management. “It’s a natural extension that L.A. is…

1. Kristen Stewart May 20 | 3:40 P.M. Cannes regular Stewart, who in the past has attended the festival as an actress — in such films as Personal Shopper, Clouds of Sils Maria and Cafe Society — came this year for her directorial debut, a short film titled Come Swim. “Usually when I’m here, I worry about saying things the right way because I’m representing a director who wants things to be said a certain way,” she tells THR. “Holding that up for someone else makes me really nervous. But in this case, I’m like, ‘Ask me anything. I’ll tell you.’ ” 2. Joaquin Phoenix May 26 | 3:20 P.M. Starring as a hitman who attempts to rescue a young girl from a child prostitution ring in Lynne Ramsay’s You…

Composer Jeff Russo always is on the lookout for new ways to create music for such off-kilter shows as FX’s Fargo and Legion. His approach has been to “take something in the character of the story in order to tie my music to the narrative,” he says. In the first season of Fargo, a washing machine played a critical role in the plot, so he recorded one and created a musical theme out of it. Fargo’s latest season is about a parking lot owner and his bridgeplaying brother, so the sounds of cars and card shuffling have been synthesized into musical notes. Siddhartha Khosla has resorted to similar techniques for some of his work on NBC’s This Is Us. When he found himself slapping his hand against the side of…

30 ROCK Banks nabbed two Emmy nominations for playing Avery Jessup on the NBC comedy. SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE The onetime host would love to reteam with SNL’s Kate McKinnon on a project. PITCH PERFECT 2 She made her feature directorial debut with the sequel to the blockbuster. WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER In the cult comedy revived by Netflix, Banks returns as Lindsay. CHARLIE’S ANGELS Banks will sit in the director’s chair for the Sony reboot of the action franchise.…

Banff World Media Festival ABC IN THE SPOTLIGHT The Disney/ABC Television Group is this year’s “company of distinction” and will bring several top execs to the fest, most notably entertainment president Channing Dungey (above), who delivers the keynote address on June 12. Other speakers include ABC Studios president Patrick Moran, in conversation with showrunner of the year John Ridley (American Crime), and ABC News president James Goldston, who will discuss media in the Trump era on June 13. ANTHONY ANDERSON: IMPACT AWARD HONOREE THR will present the Impact Award to the ABC comedy Black-ish at the fest’s June 13 gala. Star Anthony Anderson will accept the honor and participate in a master class with chief THR TV critic Tim Goodman on June 14. DIVERSITY MASTER CLASS The Real World co-creator…

A fter a handful of modest originals, Hulu at last has a breakout hit with The Handmaid’s Tale. Much has been said about how the dystopian drama taps into current anxieties around women’s rights. “We knew it would touch a nerve, but we didn’t expect the volume of reception,” says Beatrice Springborn, head of original programming at the streamer, who’ll speak on a “Content Is King” panel June 10 at the Produced By Conference in L.A. While she’s mum on how the arrival of AMC vet Joel Stillerman as Hulu’s chief content officer could impact her day-to-day, Springborn did spill on how Handmaid’s is performing, Sarah Silverman’s new show and the advantage of not being Netflix. What’s your pitch for why creators should come to Hulu? We’re absolutely spending on…

Big Deal A $103.2 million domestic opening usually means a sequel is a no-brainer — but director Patty Jenkins has yet to sign on the dotted line for a Wonder Woman follow-up. While star Gal Gadot has an option deal in place and is expected to return, Warner Bros. hired Jenkins for just one movie, which is said to be its standard practice for helmers taking on studio gigs for the first time. Jenkins’ only previous feature was the 2003 indie Monster. Warners may have been unprepared for Wonder Woman’s success and acclaim; initial tracking reports predicted a $65 million opening, solid but hardly a reason to begin planning a long-range strategy. And the studio had been focusing on Justice League Dark, a supernatural team-up, and Batgirl, among other Bat-offerings,…

People, Places, Preoccupations S ofia Boutella may not have been hidden for 2,000 years like the character she’s playing in Universal’s The Mummy (June 9), but the former professional dancer has re-incarnated herself as a leading actress. Born in Algeria and raised in Paris by a musician father and architect mother, Boutella has been dancing since she was 5. In 2007, at 25, she was chosen as the face (and body) of a Nike campaign; she went on to star in a slew of music videos and dance with Rihanna — the last time she was onstage was at Madonna’s 2012 Super Bowl halftime show. That year, Boutella landed the lead in StreetDance 2; since then she has built up her career with a breakout role as Kingsman: The Secret…

AIRLINE WARS “We don’t have the menu figured out yet, but there is a strong likelihood of meatballs,” says Jon Shook, who with Vinny Dotolo (the chef duo behind L.A.’s Animal and Jon & Vinny’s) has partnered with Delta to enliven dining on Delta One business class from LAX to JFK and Washington, D.C. (the collaboration launches in November). “We are going to conceive the food, source the food and prepare the food,” says Dotolo, adding he’s planning to bring fresh ingredients (“like the perfect peaches at the Santa Monica farmers market now”) to 30,000 feet. “First-class food is often too fancy, too precious. People just want delicious food they can connect with.” Shook (right) says he and Dotolo aren’t “just selling their name.”…

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HALIMA ADEN The Somali refugee turned IMG model, 19, graces the cover of June’s Vogue Arabia. DESTRY ALLYN At DT Management, Steven Spielberg’s daughter, 19, walked for Dolce & Gabbana in February. DUSTIN LANCE BLACK “He has something to say,” says Wilhelmina CEO Wackermann of the scribe and LGBT activist, 42. TYLER CLINTON The 22-year-old nephew of Bill and Hillary Clinton (IMG) grew up playing lacrosse in SoCal. MILO GIBSON Mel Gibson’s 22-yearold son (Hacksaw Ridge) signed a Wilhelmina modeling contract in May. PARIS JACKSON Calvin Klein’s newest face, Michael Jackson’s daughter, 19, says her career goal is activism. ABBEY LEE The Australian NEXT model turned actress, 29, appears in Columbia Pictures’ The Dark Tower. GABRIEL DAY-LEWIS Son of Daniel Day- Lewis and Isabella Adjani, the musician (IMG), 22, models…

Inever imagined it would be like this,” laments Chris Licht, executive producer of CBS’ The Late Show. “My training on CBS This Morning has helped, but I thought my days of urgently changing content were over.” He’s hardly the only one having trouble keeping up with the headlines these days. The fact is, the producing and writing staffs at pretty much every late-night talk show haven’t had a normal week since Trump took office in January. If the president has been a boon to late-night comedy — and clearly he has, particularly for Stephen Colbert and The Late Show, which, since the election, has overtaken Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show to become No. 1 in the time slot (though Fallon still owns the 18-to-49 demo) — Trump also has taken a…

Most of the time, TV music hovers in the background, but then there’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, where the music often is the real star of the show. “It comes to a point where what you say can’t be spoken. It must be sung and danced,” explains star/cocreator Rachel Bloom, who also has co-written the nearly 60 original songs featured in the CW comedy’s first two seasons. Whereas a traditional series might use the sound of trombones or timpani to instill excitement or dread in viewers, Bloom and songwriting partners Jack Dolgen and Adam Schlesinger prefer their music to be a more literal interpretation of the characters. When Rebecca (Bloom) belts out a classic musical-theater number, it’s because that’s what she already loves. When her boss Darryl (Pete Gardner) sings something that sounds…

MIRA NAIR BMW Dorothy Arzner Directors Award The Indian-American filmmaker, who helmed Queen of Katwe in 2016, is receiving the directing honor. TRACEE ELLIS ROSS Lucy Award for Excellence in Television The Black-ish star will take home the top TV honor, to follow her comedy actress Golden Globe earlier this year. DAN RATHER Norma Zarky Humanitarian Award The host of The Big Interview recently launched media outlet News and Guts to combat fake news. ZOEY DEUTCH Max Mara Face of the Future Award The daughter of Lea Thompson and Howard Deutch has a string of films coming up, including Rebel in the Rye. MICHAEL BARKER & TOM BERNARD Beacon Award The Sony Pictures Classics execs will receive this new award for their efforts to advance gender equity.…

EMMYS: THE RACE At the first-ever Transparent table read, Jill Soloway stood up and declared that her purpose for creating the show was to make the world a safer place for her own transgender parent. The mission was imminent and quickly expanded to safeguarding and empowering all transgender people (and eventually all marginalized/underrepresented voices). This revolution in artmaking and culture changes everyone who comes in contact with the show. Even my character, Josh Pfefferman, whom Jill refers to as “the roving male id” of the show, opens to the idea of gender fluidity in season three. In the fallout from losing his greatest love and future child with Rabbi Raquel (Kathryn Hahn), Josh finds chemistry with Shea (Trace Lysette), a gorgeous trans woman who shows up at a messy Pfefferman…

Big Number Hot Lot Angelina Jolie has purchased the Cecil B. DeMille estate in Los Feliz for $24.5 million. The 2-plus-acre property, where the legendary filmmaker lived for four decades, boasts 11,000 square feet of interior space, including the classical-style main house. The six-bedroom, 10-bathroom home, whose original 1913 details have been restored alongside modern renovations, includes four fireplaces, a grand foyer and a formal living room. The grounds feature formal gardens, a pool with built-in fountains, a pool house and a guest house with a separate entrance. The property, which has views of the ocean, hit the market in March for $24.95 million. Atlanta‘s Brian Tyree Henry (CAA, JWS, Jackoway Tyerman) and Zachary Quinto (CAA, Untitled, Jackoway Tyerman) have joined thriller Hotel Artemis, along with American Crime Story’s Kenneth…

“I really don’t like being duped.” ROBIN WRIGHT The House of Cards actress, revealing that she never got the money she was promised to match co-star Kevin Spacey’s salary. “They told me I was getting a raise. But ... I don’t think so.” “He will not be back on the Sony lot anytime soon.” DAN AYKROYD The actor, criticizing Ghostbusters director Paul Feig for his spending on the reboot, including “$30 million to $40 million” for reshoots. “For those asking, no, of course we didn’t know about the offensive tweets.” CHRIS HARRISON The Bachelorette host, claiming producers weren’t aware of racist and homophobic tweets — likening the NAACP to the KKK — allegedly posted by Lee Garrett before the contestant was cast. “All I felt was rage.” TREVOR NOAH The…

Tallula’s, a new Santa Monica restaurant from Rustic Canyon Group’s Zoe Nathan, Josh Loeb and Jeremy Fox (Cassia, Milo and Olive, among others) already has seen Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Meyer and Courteney Cox for a girls’ night out dinner. Shawn Levy was at another table, while Will Arnett was table-hopping. … Jake Gyllenhaal made a quick stop at Blue Bottle Coffee in Beverly Grove. … Over at The Palm, Richard Lovett sat with Jason Bateman. Brillstein Entertainment Partners’ Cynthia Pett and WME’s Richard Weitz were nearby. Charlize Theron also was there. … Eric Garcetti dined at Odys + Penelope. … Bob Daly and Terry Semel rubbed elbows at Mr Chow. Fox Networks’ Peter Rice dined with STX chief Robert Simonds. Linda Ramone popped by as well. … Judd Apatow stopped…

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Now 69, O.J. Simpson has served nine years at the medium-security Lovelock Correctional Center for a 2007 armed memorabilia heist. The infamous NFL star’s second appearance before a Nevada Board of Parole is slated for July, with the date to be finalized by mid-June. At his first parole hearing in 2013 — seen in the opening shots of the Oscar-winning doc O.J.: Made in America — Simpson, who works as a gym custodian and mentors inmates, described himself as a model prisoner. Parole on some of his counts was granted at that hearing, but Simpson still had four mandatory years remaining. In the interim, Hollywood’s Simpsonheavy 2016 spurred a renewed appetite for all things Juice. “We’ve had close to 50 different requests for media access to this hearing,” says Nevada…

In 2000, the Primetime Emmys’ comedy race consisted of four broadcast sitcoms with a laugh track and one black sheep — Sex and the City, which lost to Will & Grace. That group, indicative of the TV ecosystem for that season (and the five preceding decades), is now impossible to imagine. The genre has turned its back on the multicamera (“filmed in front of a live studio audience!”) sitcoms of yore, replacing them with a sprawling group whose only unifying trait often is the category in which they compete. While dramas are generally either prestige or procedural, comedies can now fit into an almost infinite number of buckets — making comedy TV’s most diverse genre by far. Yes, there are still a few classic sitcoms (CBS’ toprated The Big Bang…

10/4 SPECIAL FEATURE On October 4th, The Hollywood Reporter will pay tribute to the American Film Institute on its 50th anniversary with an expanded special issue. In 1967, the American Film Institute was created in the White House Rose Garden to establish and preserve the art of film in America. The AFI preserves the heritage of motion picture as it honors the artists and their work as well as to educate the next generation of storytellers. Over decades the AFI has evolved to be the home of the world class AFI Conservatory where notable industry alumni teach. The AFI hosts many programs and events that celebrate film and television, including the revered and prestigious AFI Life Achievement Award, AFI Docs program, the hugely successful AFI Film Fest and the AFI…

WIF Crystal + Lucy Awards June 13 Beverly Hilton E lizabeth Banks is having a bit of a Crystal + Lucy Awards deja vu. Women in Film, which is handing her its Excellence in Film accolade, also recognized her eight years ago. “In less than a decade, I went from being the Face of the Future to getting the old-ladyin- the-business award, which maybe says more about our business than Women in Film, of course,” she jokes. In addition to being a franchise regular (The Hunger Games, Power Rangers), Banks, 43, has become a prolific producer via Brownstone Productions (her husband, Max Edelman, is a partner). She’s added directing to her résumé, too, with Pitch Perfect 2 and next helming a Charlie’s Angels reboot for Sony — the details of…

Despite being based in the capital of Madrid, Telecinco Cinema’s head, Ghislain Barrios, is a Barcelona regular. With his 12-strong Telecinco family, he’ll be making the journey again in June to accept CineEurope’s international producer of the year honor. ELS PESCADORS “It’s my favorite restaurant in Spain, not only in Barcelona,” says Barrios of this modest yet much adored fish eatery (pictured) a few blocks from the conference hall. After discovering Els Pescadors about 25 years ago, the producer has returned again and again. “It’s magical — not pretentious at all — and the food is superb.” Try the “suquet” (fish stew), starting with the Galician clams. Dinner for two costs between $100 and $120. Plaça de Prim, 1 ARTS HOTEL Although Barrios admits he’s stayed in this luxury hotel…

Le Grill After a two-year absence, the famed Le Grill reopened in May on the eighth floor of the Hotel de Paris following an extensive renovation. The rooftop restaurant now boasts retractable ceilings and an expansive outdoor terrace with views over the Mediterranean. Chef Franck Cerutti has taken inspiration from just across the border in Italy, with locally caught seasonal seafood at the core, while sommelier Patrice Frank will help select the perfect pairing from a cellar of 7,000 French and Italian wines. Try the “homestyle” cassareccia vongole and calamari pasta and the San Remo shrimp and spelt salad. Place du Casino, 377 98 06 30 00 Rampoldi The art deco Monegasque landmark reopened in time for its 70th birthday in December. Revived after a four-year closure by 30-year-old Italian…

Memorable moments from a storied history In 1932, THR was certain Carl Laemmle Jr.’s Universal Pictures was going to have a hit with The Mummy. The film stars Boris Karloff, the then-44- year-old English actor who THR said “steals the picture. He is weird, terrifying.” While the newest version of The Mummy, out June 9, has an ancient avenging princess going up against Tom Cruise, Karloff played the Egyptian priest Imhotep returning to life. The reanimated 3,700-year-old mummy immediately goes looking for his love, Ankhesenamon, who he believes has been reincarnated as a Cairo woman named Helen. “My love has lasted longer than the temples of our gods,” is one of Imhotep’s many pickup lines. (The relationship ends badly.) It featured the directorial debut of Karl Freund, who had done…