Innholdsfortegnelse for August 9, 2017 i The Hollywood Reporter

Behind the Headlines Not so long ago, John Stankey could hardly answer when asked to name a TV show or movie that he liked. But the 54-year-old head of AT&T’s entertainment group — who will run Time Warner, assuming AT&T’s $85.4 billion acquisition wins federal approval, as expected — says it became clear to him in the past year or two that he had to buckle down and watch some entertainment. “I realized I had to spend more time getting exposed to what’s out there,” he tells THR in his first interview since he was tapped July 28 to run the to-be-renamed Time Warner. “It’s part of my work routine.” But he still doesn’t seem to have much of a list of favorites. Looking for programs to watch with his…

Goodman Elisabeth Moss proves labels are unnecessary if you make the writing (and anyone in a shared scene) better, which she does in each role. Pamela Adlon morphed through the trials and tribulations of her self-defining series Better Things, raw and honest in every moment. Thandie Newton’s slow-burn, transitive awakening in Westworld took her from deep ensemble character to changemaking star. Fienberg In a cast of Emmy royalty, Jackie Hoffman stole every Feud scene with withering glances and perfectly timed Hollywood weariness. The Leftovers was her leading-lady turn, but Carrie Coon’s Fargo work soared with a precise accent, priceless reactions and stealthy emotion. The beloved Star Wars actress appeared in only one Catastrophe episode this season, but Carrie Fisher’s acid wit loomed large.…

I didn’t understand the relationship between the son and the father,” says Callum Turner of his starring role in Marc Webb’s The Only Living Boy in New York (out Aug. 11 from Amazon and Roadside). “It was completely alien to me.” Raised by a single mother, a club promoter, in what he calls “the less shiny end” of West London’s affluent Chelsea, Turner hoped to someday play soccer professionally — but it was his mother who introduced him to movies. “She figured she could have a break if she put me in front of the TV,” he says, “and that’s where my love of film came from.” Now, after getting noticed in a string of indies — Queen & Country, Green Room and Tramps — he is making the leap…

n a town where the charity circuit once turned on six-figure bids for VIP experiences at industry galas, Omaze — the 5-year-old brainchild of Stanford grads Matt Pohlson and Ryan Cummins — has become a go-to philanthropy partner. Nearly every Hollywood shop, from AMC to Lucasfilm, has created an Omaze campaign (as have stars including Ben Stiller, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Charlize Theron), offering fans the chance to bid as little as $10 online for everything from lunch with Robert Downey Jr. on the Avengers set to a date with George Clooney. Pohlson and Cummins’ first campaign, in 2012, raised less than $1,000, but a breakthrough came in 2013 when they raised $1.8 million for anti-bullying organization Kind Campaign (the prize: a screening of the Breaking Bad finale with stars Bryan…

James Cromwell, the 77-year-old star of such films as L.A. Confidential and the upcoming Jurassic World sequel, has been an activist for environmental causes, animal rights and civil rights for five decades. He’s been arrested multiple times for protesting — most recently with PETA (a group he’s worked with since his Oscarnominated turn in 1995’s Babe) at San Diego’s Sea World on July 25 — and even slips his mission into his movies. “For Jurassic World, I fought to get a line in about why our systems tend to go haywire and we lose control of the science,” he says. “I’m hoping that it stays in.” His July 31 interview with THR is his first since serving three days at New York’s Orange County Correctional Facility, after refusing to pay…

In their second year at bat, James Corden, 38, and his Late Late Show executive producers, Ben Winston, 35, and Rob Crabbe, 42, nabbed their second consecutive variety talk Emmy nomination — and scored another repeat in the interactive program category for their breakout Carpool Karaoke (which won its race last year and is about to spin off on Apple Music). The three partners recently chatted about how they’ve evolved their winning formula. JAMES CORDEN We were all in different places when the Emmy nominations came in. Where were you and how did you feel? BEN WINSTON I was annoyed because I couldn’t get hold of Rob because Rob was in bed, fast asleep, not replying to any texts or picking up his phone. I was nervous that we might…

ALEC BALDWIN MATCH GAME (ABC) After he signed on for this revamp of a show he watched as a kid, Baldwin got more film offers than he expected. “Don’t they know I’m doing Match Game?” he told his agents. The nom is his 18th (he has another one for SNL this year). MARTHA STEWART AND SNOOP DOGG MARTHA & SNOOP’S POTLUCK DINNER PARTY (VH1) The odd couple first met when he guested on Martha in 2008. An unlikely friendship ensued, capped by the announcement last year that the duo would host this “halfbaked” cooking show. GORDON RAMSAY MASTERCHEF JUNIOR (FOX) Known for being a cussword-loving jerk on shows like Hell’s Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares, the Scottish chef turned things down a notch for this kid version of one of his successful cooking shows. It landed him his first…

On Aug. 7, the HBO data breach took a troubling turn as hackers leaked emails of a network executive in what they dubbed a second wave of dumps. To that point, the company had kept the leaks contained by deploying an army of bots to pull down leaked content. But with pilfered emails, HBO has fewer options to fight the spread. “There are a lot of tools now to rapidly respond when something that violates copyright law pops up on the internet, thanks to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act,” says Nathaniel Gleicher, former director of cybersecurity policy for the Obama White House and ex-senior counsel for the U.S. Department of Justice’s computer crimes division. “With emails, it’s not exactly clear.” With the first wave of dumps, HBO was able to…

Though they might be among the most reviled figures by Hollywood’s largely liberal crowd, the Koch brothers have been silent investors in Warner Bros.’ slate of movies for four years. Sources say Charles G. Koch and David H. Koch — who are worth a combined $96.2 billion and wield enormous power in backing conservative politicians — took a significant stake valued at tens of millions of dollars in RatPac- Dune Entertainment, the finance vehicle fronted by Brett Ratner and Len Blavatnik (formerly James Packer). As part of a $450 million deal struck in 2013, now-Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin brought the brothers in — a move that was never disclosed because RatPac- Dune is a private company. Though Mnuchin is no longer involved with the slate financing facility, having recently put…

HOW WME-IMG WILL SPEND ITS NEW $1.1B INVESTMENTS IN FILM, TV AND THEATER Deal of the Week What to do with $1.1 billion in cash? For WME-IMG, the answer is to invest in content. After closing a deal for $1.1 billion from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and the Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC, agency co-CEOs Ari Emanuel and Patrick Whitesell are putting a sizable chunk into financing films, television series and even Broadway plays. Insiders say the super-agency — now valued at $6.3 billion, up from its $5.5 billion valuation last year — is backing client Michael Moore’s Broadway show The Terms of My Surrender, which opens Aug. 10, and client Steve Harvey’s new syndicated daytime talk show, Steve. WME-IMG also is funding CAArepped Beau Willimon’s upcoming Hulu space…

People, Places, Preoccupations S he spent more than two decades as a gossip columnist for New York and, later, MSNBC, but once Jeannette Walls published a best-selling memoir about her harrowing childhood, The Glass Castle (Lionsgate’s film adaptation opens Aug. 11), she started picking up a different kind of intel about her subjects. “I stuck a microphone in this celebrity’s face and asked her who designed her outfit, and she told me,” she recalls of one night on the red carpet. “Then she — a very famous woman — asked me to turn the microphone off and thanked me for writing the book, saying it really helped her come to terms with her own father’s alcoholism.” Walls, 57, laid down the poison pen soon after. “I don’t condemn anybody who…

“I play a character in movies, but I also play a public character.” ANNA FARIS The Mom star, in her podcast days before announcing her split from husband Chris Pratt, revealing “it never feels like me” on the red carpet. “There’s definitely a loneliness.” “We think there’s a way to have our cake and eat it too.” LESLIE MOONVES The CBS CEO, telling analysts on an Aug. 7 earnings call that “Netflix getting 50 million international” subscribers inspired him to take CBS content direct to consumers via CBS All Access. “[He] let me know that his office was his favorite place to have sex.” CAROLINE HELDMAN The politics professor, in a Facebook post detailing unwanted sexual advances from Fox News host Eric Bolling after she was a guest on his…

Ben Affleck stopped by Cafe Vida in the Pacific Palisades. … Gwyneth Paltrow and Brad Falchuk had date night at Son of a Gun. … Laverne Cox checked out Soho House. … Salma Hayek had dinner at Barton G. … Michael De Luca and power lawyer Jeff Frankel were at Cabbage Patch Beverly Hills. … Stacey Snider was at The Palm. Nearby, Jeffrey Katzenberg sat with Chris Albrecht. … Kristen Stewart was at The Rosy Oyster. … John Burnham had lunch at Hinoki & the Bird. … Jessica Alba and Cash Warren popped by Norah. … Ellen Goldsmith-Vein lunched at Hedley’s. HOT NEW RESTAURANT The Quick Pitch Ricardo Zarate — who was at the helm of Mo-Chica and Picca before they both suddenly shuttered in a business implosion — has…

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Giorgio Baldi “Come for the risotto or sogliola al limone, but there’s no liquor license, so have a drink first at the Shore Bar.” 114 W. Channel Road, Santa Monica Cafe Vida “Always packed for breakfast, brunch and lunch. The turkey burger salad and teriyaki salmon bowl are favorites.” 15317 Antioch St., Pacific Palisades Norris Hardware “Everything you need for any weekend project, which I’ll invariably screw up — forcing me to call a professional.” 15140 Sunset Blvd., Pacific Palisades…

After Nell Newman — daughter of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward — started her foundation in 2010, she gave away up to a half-million dollars a year. She also helped direct more than $40 million in giving during the course of more than two decades as the founder of Newman’s Own Organics, a licensee of the Newman’s Own brand that her father co-founded (with writer and editor A.E. Hotchner) in 1982. But when Newman’s Own and its president and CEO Bob Forrester chose not to renew the license in 2015 — against Nell’s desires — she was left without a job or a means to fund her giving. Donations from the Nell Newman Foundation have since declined to a few tens of thousands a year. But now there is an…

fSroomme Lmeaohm Renetms ini’s cwhiillld nheovoedr fade. Like the afternoon she rode a graffiti-covered B Train with her big sister, Nicole — at ages 8 and 10, their first time alone on New York City mass transit. Their journey took them from Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, to Times Square — a seedy porn-theater mecca in the late ’70s — and the Church of Scientology building on 46th Street. There, they met their mother, Vicki, a divorcee whose new boyfriend had indoctrinated the family in the self-fulfillment movement. “We went all-in, because Scientology is an all-in proposition,” says Remini. “My mother thought she’d found the answers to her life and, you know, our future.” Three decades later, Remini is going home again. The 47-year-old actress and anti-Scientology activist is currently relocating from Los…

VARIETY SKETCH SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (NBC) SNL topped off its most watched season in 23 years with its biggest nomination haul (22 in all, tying HBO’s Westworld for the most this year). Alec Baldwin also got in on the action, hosting for a record 17th time and scoring an Emmy nom for playing Donald Trump so many times that he ended up in the supporting comedy actor category — as opposed to guest, where SNL hosts usually are nominated. SNL hasn’t won a series Emmy since ’93. VARIETY SKETCH BILLY ON THE STREET (TRUTV) Billy Eichner’s street-smart brand of comedy gets some recognition with Billy on the Street’s first nomination in this category (previously, the Funny or Die version of his show received short-format live-action and game show host nominations). Mining Trump’s anti-immigrant and pro-gun rhetoric for laughs,…

The Emmy race for outstanding reality competition program used to run like a Swiss watch. Six series would be nominated, an assortment of usual suspects (CBS’ Survivor, Fox’s American Idol) among them, and come the big night, the prize would always go to CBS stalwart The Amazing Race. Producers Jerry Bruckheimer and Bertram van Munster offered perfected pageant waves, and the gang would all come back the following year with the assumption of a repeat. It was a streak that essentially lasted a decade before The Voice finally quashed it with consecutive wins in 2015 and 2016. Frontrunner status in the once-locked category now belongs to Mark Burnett’s NBC singing competition, and the field has finally opened up to more than just legacy shows. In 2016, NBC’s American Ninja Warrior swiped a slot from Fox’s aging So You…

Behind the Headlines As Donald Trump wages war against “fake news,” his administration has been elevating conservative media to fill the void — and not just the Murdochs’ Fox News Channel. One of the outlets now getting White House attention? The Christian Broadcasting Network, dedicated to preparing “the nations of the world for the coming of Jesus Christ.” While CBN’s news division has had a Washington, D.C., bureau since the 1980s, the office recently was renovated and 10 staff positions — including correspondents, videographers and producers — have been added since Trump’s election. CBN founder Pat Robertson, 87, interviewed Trump on July 12 in what CNN noted at the time was the president’s first non-Fox News interview in two months. Trump said he’s mistreated by the mainstream media, but, he…

Behind the Headlines EMMY: THE RACE Iheard the term very early in my career. It was at lunch with an agent — not my agent but one of several on my team at the time — and at one point she just looked over at me and said: “Well, let’s face it. You’re a character actor.” This was not meant as a compliment. What she was saying, what most people mean when they call you a character actor, is that you’re going to live off of small parts. There are no lead roles in your future. Whatever is meant by it and regardless of who it comes from, it’s come to have no relevance to me. It’s a label, a category. And what most actors come into the world with,…

Chasing Space (AMISTAD, MAY 23) BY Leland Melvin AGENCY CAA In this inspirational memoir about his adventure-packed life, Melvin, an NFL player turned astronaut, traces his journey from the football field to outer space and the struggles he had to overcome (including a severe injury that left him deaf) along the way. The Talented Ribkins (MELVILLE HOUSE, AUG. 8) BY Ladee Hubbard AGENCY Paradigm Toni Morrison gave a glowing endorsement to this magical realism spin on W.E.B. Du Bois’ 1903 influential leadership essay “The Talented Tenth.” In Hubbard’s debut novel, a family of superpowered civil rights activists turns to petty crime.…

For nearly five years, Hollywood has been buoyed by a flood of cash from China in the form of both surging box-office revenue and multibillion-dollar investments in studio slates and independent film companies. The most high-profile pacts have involved some of the biggest brands in both China and Hollywood, such as real estate behemoth Dalian Wanda, which bought Legendary Entertainment for $3.5 billion in 2016 and owns leading U.S. cinema exhibitor AMC Entertainment; internet giant Alibaba, which in October took an equity stake in Steven Spielberg’s shingle Amblin; China Media Capital, which owns part of Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment; and Fosun, financiers of Jeff Robinov’s Studio 8. With a largely stagnant domestic movie business — so far this year, box-office receipts in North America are down 2…

The red-hot writer, producer, di rector, rapper and now mov ie s tar takes a brea k f rom Lando dut ies in London (where the Star Wars ’ Han Solo spinof f is underway) to d issect h is ext raordinar y r i se (‘you have t o conv ince them that you spea k old white man’), t hose Atlanta Emmy noms and h is planned Hol lywood takeover: ‘They don’t know what I know’ “It was hard to get FX to understand what I was doing [with Atlanta] at first. I had to, for lack of a better term, lie about it in a lot of ways because I was like, ‘If you hear this, it’s not going to sound good. It’s going to sound crazy,’…

There’s a new belle at the Emmys ball. Coming off a dark-horse win last year for outstanding host for a reality or reality competition program, RuPaul, 56, now sees his Drag Race enter this year’s Emmys as a heavyweight. In its first outing since graduating from Logo to VH1, Drag Race was showered with seven nominations (plus an eighth for its aftershow, RuPaul’s Drag Race: Untucked, in the unstructured reality category). They include, not surprisingly, nods for the show’s eye-popping hair and makeup; a second nom for RuPaul’s hosting duties; and, most significantly, a shot at the competition prize. As a fog of intolerance rolls over America, the timing feels especially right for a show like Drag Race — a cross-dressing decathlon with a punk-rock spirit — to take the…