Innholdsfortegnelse for July 12, 2017 i The Hollywood Reporter

When Fox Sports executive Jamie Horowitz was summoned to meet with a workplace investigator Friday, June 30, it was not necessarily cause for alarm. After all, he’d been given no indication anything was amiss with his job performance. Even when Horowitz, 40, was asked general questions about his interactions with colleagues — including if he’d ever gone for a drink or dinner with a female subordinate — he was not confronted with any specific allegation against him. But after the meeting, when Fox asked him to surrender his company ID and return to the West Los Angeles lot at 8 a.m. on Monday of that holiday weekend, he called Patty Glaser, the fiery L.A. litigator, who advised him to do as commanded. When Horowitz arrived, he and his agent were…

A gents aren’t the only ones poaching in Beverly Hills. The Waldorf Astoria hotel made waves even before its June 1 opening, hiring staff from neighboring haunts like the Peninsula. While it’s common for new hotels to scoop talent from established properties — particularly in Beverly Hills, where five-star offerings are limited — critics say Beny Alagem’s Waldorf aggressively recruited. Sources tell THR the hotel has proffered up to a 35 percent increase in salary to woo talent: six managers and four restaurant staff from the Peninsula and a dozen employees, including three guest-facing managers, from the Sunset Tower Hotel. Staff also was swiped from Montage, which indulged in its own poaching spree for its 2008 opening.…

Baldwin Bash Old-fashioned “30 on the Rocks” drinks and Schweddy Ball Bites were served and the F-bomb was dropped about every five minutes as Alec Baldwin (8) was honored at Spike’s One Night Only taping — with friends, including Robert De Niro and Julianne Moore (9), family, and President Bill Clinton (8) taking the stage to tell the veteran actor what they really think of him. Tracy Morgan (7), Jane Krakowski (7) and Jack McBrayer (7) each paid tribute to their former 30 Rock co-star, with Morgan revealing that he loved working with Baldwin because “for the first time in my career, I wasn’t the craziest motherfucker on set.” In the end, the Oscar nominee and twotime Emmy winner got the last laugh: “Tonight has been a pretty accurate representation…

The rain is dribbling over one of the fancier parts of London, Chalk Farm, at 9 on a mid-May morning as Woody Harrelson, 55, eases down the stairs of the narrow house he has been renting from a friend, publicist and former Rupert Murdoch son-in-law Matthew Freud, and yawns. He’s lean and fit, and rather taller than one might expect, but clearly not an early riser, having just been woken by his assistant and reminded that a guest has arrived. Rubbing his eyes, he glances warily at the reporter sitting in his living room and, after the briefest of handshakes, ambles toward the kitchen. “You had breakfast?” he asks, then proceeds to mix a mysterious blend of hemp, fiber, cocoa powder and berries from an array of bottles that looks…

DISNEY: MOST IMPERIOUS HISTORY As his celebrity grew in the mid-1950s with the debut of The Mickey Mouse Club and the opening of Disneyland, Walt Disney found a sanctum in the Coral Room, where he supped on a continental American menu befitting the time (think poached Colorado brook trout with hollandaise). Fastforward to the Eisner-Katzenberg era, when the Rotunda atop the dwarf sculpture-bedecked Team Disney executive building was completed in 1990. VIBE Come here for the sweeping views (Roy Disney loved a table looking north to the San Gabriel Mountains), mouse ear-emblazoned serviceware by architect Michael Graves and an anodyne corporate ambiance. It’s the most secluded of all the studio executive dining rooms (most plebes never see it, much less eat in it), in a separate building from the cafeteria…

$463M Lucy (2014) The action thriller with Scarlett Johansson reportedly cost only about $40 million to make. Besson has been flirting with a sequel since 2015 $263M The Fifth Element (1997) Milla Jovovich’s orangehaired alien with the screechy vocabulary was a modest success, but the $90 million film has become a cult favorite. $78M The Family (2013) Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert De Niro topline Besson’s mafia comedy set in France. Its reported budget was about $30 million. $45M The Professional (1994) Jean Reno and 12-year-old Natalie Portman star in Besson’s breakout drama about a hitman and an orphan girl. Cost: $16 million…

The volume of scripted TV may be at an all-time high, but you’d never know it from the Big Four’s summer schedules, with 11 new reality shows set to debut this summer — up from four last year. That reverses a trend launched by CBS’ scripted summer hit Under the Dome in 2013. One reason is money: Scripted programming is less and less financially appealing in the off-months. Hence it accounts for only about 20 percent of Big Four originals airing this summer. “When you have a hit reality show, you can scale [it],” says NBC Entertainment president of program planning, strategy and research Jeff Bader. “World of Dance can be like Ninja Warrior and America’s Got Talent and expand to many more hours. That’s not easy with scripted.” World,…

Party Crawler Spidey Senses Tingling Summer school was in session when a youthful crowd swung up to Hollywood Boulevard, where such social media mavens as Mariale Marrero and Liza Koshy (unfamiliar to many on the press line, they drew screams from the teens in attendance) rubbed shoulders with stars including Robert Downey Jr. (8), Marisa Tomei (2) and Michael Keaton (1) at the Spider-Man: Homecoming premiere at the TCL Chinese Theatre. Director Jon Watts (3) told THR it only made sense to send Tom Holland’s (2) Spidey back to high school — and to have him take on Keaton’s much older nemesis, the Vulture, who is the first supervillain Spidey fought in the comics: “It’s a really good way to make it feel like we are starting back at page…

What Les and Julie Gave the Clooney Twins George and Amal Clooney’s twins — a boy, Alexander, and girl, Ella, born on June 6 — were photographed for the first time in early July inside respective bassinets after their parents stepped off a private plane in Italy. Now their jet-setting young lives come with wardrobes to match — courtesy of the couple’s good friends Leslie Moonves and Julie Chen. The host of Big Brother tells THR that Alexander and Ella were gifted with “three sets of different things according to the weather that they’ll be in when they travel.” Adds Chen, who broke the news on The Talk that the Clooneys were expecting not one, but two babies, “I’m picturing that they’ll be [at home] in London or in Italy…

The success of Wonder Woman may give the impression that this is the Summer of Female Empowerment, with Hollywood firmly leading the feminist charge. Not so fast. While Wonder Woman exhibits the admirable traits of courage, moral commitment and self-reliance, Hollywood has been, in general, less kind with how it portrays average American women, especially their relationship to alcohol. Bad Moms, Rough Night, the women vs. shark film 47 Meters and the upcoming Girls Trip (July 21) all feature women for whom alcohol is the obligatory catalyst to fun. When Amy Schumer joked on Stephen Colbert’s show in May that she would go home and drink herself into a blackout, the audience cheered. On Today, Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford call Tuesday “Boozeday” and Wednesday “Winesday.” Watch any TV…

It may not appear on this year’s list — it opened June 1 — but Jean-Georges, on the lobby level of the new Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills (top chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten also is responsible for the hotel’s rooftop cafe), certainly will be a contender for 2018’s power lunch roster. Having already hosted many a dealmaker powwow (Richard Plepler, Bob Greenblatt and Dr. Dre are among those who have lunched or had dinner here), it was the natural choice for a June 21 meeting between HBO programming president Casey Bloys and married Westworld showrunners Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan. Like many Hollywood collaborators, the trio is geographically far-flung — Bloys is based out of HBO’s Santa Monica headquarters, and Joy and Nolan spend most days in their Burbank writers room. But meals have…

Brian Kilmeade was on a soccer field in Maryland on June 30 when his Fox & Friends co-hosts Steve Doocy and Ainsley Earhardt began debating President Donald Trump’s latest Twitter outburst. In a multipost tirade a day earlier, Trump had attacked Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski with the bizarre claim that she was “bleeding badly from a face-lift” when she visited Mar-a-Lago over New Year’s. The swipe drew condemnation from the usual Trump detractors (much of the media, women’s groups, Hollywood, Democrats) but also from Republicans, and it pointedly reignited the debate about Trump’s history of misogynist statements that had many predicting the demise of his presidential bid. Much to his (professional) disappointment, Kilmeade — who lives with his wife and three children on Long Island, where he grew up…

Pulp masquerading as prestige, Netflix’s new Ozark is a series in the most familiar of moody and murky cable crime-drama veins. Marty Byrde (Jason Bateman) is a Chicago financial adviser laundering money for a Mexican drug cartel under the watchful eye of vicious Camino Del Rio (Esai Morales). When Del discovers Marty’s partner has been skimming, things get violent — and Marty makes a last-ditch plea to move the operation to the Missouri resort area Lake of the Ozarks, where he bluffs that there will be less regulation and more disposable cash to move around. This desperate uprooting to a place he has never even visited doesn’t play well with Marty’s unfaithful wife, Wendy (Laura Linney), and teenage kids Charlotte (Sofia Hublitz) and Jonah (Skylar Gaertner). In the Ozarks, Marty…

As a new CEO seeks to reverse a ratings slide and expand six core brands, he’s shaken up the exec suites and given specific marching orders. Can they execute? DEBRA LEE Chairman and CEO BET is shuttering its longtime home in Washington, D.C., for New York, while Lee, 62, will relocate to Los Angeles. New GM Michael D. Armstrong (who replaced president Stephen Hill), however, will work from BET’s base in the Big Apple. BIG TASK Turn BET back into a destination for black viewers. CHRIS McCARTHY President (Replaced Sean Atkins) McCarthy, 41, who has added Logo and VH1 to his portfolio, is MTV’s third president in as many years. He has merged MTV’s and VH1’s development teams, with Nina L. Diaz replacing Michael Klein as head of unscripted, while…

War, Apes and President Trump The world premiere of the final installment of Fox’s sci-fi trilogy was a bittersweet celebration. “I’ve spent the last five years of my life doing nothing but making these movies, so this is exciting, but it’s very emotional,” director Matt Reeves (5) — who also helmed the 2014 sequel Dawn of the Planet of the Apes — told THR before the SVA Theatre screening. In the third film, Andy Serkis (2) reprises his performancecapture role as Caesar, the reluctant rebel leader, who faces off against Woody Harrelson (2), a villain who uses enslaved apes to build a wall to ward off enemies. “When we started writing this script, Donald Trump hadn’t even announced his presidency yet,” said producer Peter Chernin (5) alongside fellow producer Dylan…

Weddings Alina Akram, a producer for Extra, married Raphael Separzadeh at the Four Seasons Hotel in Westlake Village on June 24. The couple will honeymoon in St. Tropez. Births Nat McCormick, executive vp of distribution at The Exchange, and Sara Peterson, production coordinator for NBC’s Days of Our Lives, welcomed daughter Josephine Karvi McCormick on June 13 at Cedars- Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Congrats Sidney Kimmel Entertainment selected Mark O’Connor to head its feature film development and production division July 6. Paramount Pictures named Mireille Soria president Paramount Animation on July 10. Gary Frenkel joined Turner’s TBS and TNT as head of digital products and operations July 6. Carl Folta joined Abernathy MacGregor as senior counselor July 6. Rani Hancock was named president of Sire Records and will…

1. THE AMERICANS ASCEND Three top U.S. fashion houses ditched September’s New York Fashion Week for Paris Couture Week (July 2 to 6) to make a bigger splash among the more intimate audiences. Rodarte, Proenza Schouler and Monique Lhuillier held their own against French createurs with archly romantic ready-to-wear collections, signaling a potentially heavier Hollywood red carpet presence for the coming months. 2. COVER UP ALREADY! Pivoting from last season’s nearly nude looks, top houses pushed maximum coverage, from Karl Lagerfeld’s sculpted coatdresses and suits in heavy tweeds at Chanel; to Pierpaolo Piccioli’s liturgical hooded capes and robes inlaid with feathers at Valentino; to Maria Grazia Chiuri’s tailored coatdresses and culotte jumpsuits a la Amelia Earhart and Wonder Woman alter ego Diana Prince at Dior. 3. INDIA IS THE NEW…

Before landing his current job at Gwen, Curtis Stone’s year-old Hollywood hotspot, Steven Ransom, 34, struggled to find employment. “I had a record,” Ransom says. “You know how that goes.” But at Gwen — and at Stone's Beverly Hills restaurant, Maude — the chef, 41, also a star of reality shows including Top Chef Masters, has implemented a hiring policy that gives a second chance to those who have battled homelessness, incarceration and drug addiction. “You have to throw the whole notion of a background check away: I know you’ve been homeless. Now you may have gone to prison. That’s all right with me,” says Stone of his staffing approach, run in partnership with L.A. homeless organization Chrysalis. The chef has now hired around a dozen employees, nearly 15 percent of…

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The last time Luc Besson made a sci-fi film (1997’s The Fifth Element), it cost $90 million and contained 250 special effects shots, including Bruce Willis’ famous flying taxicab. Now, 20 years later, he has spent twice as much on Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, but for nearly 10 times the eye candy, with a whopping 2,355 visual effects shots, some 600 more than Rogue One. “We were filming basically every day in front of a bluescreen,” says actress Cara Delevingne. “Out of six months, only two weeks were under normal circumstances.” Effects include a 500-floor, cavern-like alien marketplace; a crab monster called a Megaptor; a space station known as Alpha; and a luxury spacecraft, the Lexus Skyjet, designed with the help of real-life Lexus engineers. There’s…