Innholdsfortegnelse for August 23, 2017 i The Hollywood Reporter

EMMY: THE RACE It’s Emmy season. The weeks leading up to the big day are always a mix of professional pride and sartorial anxiety. Top Chef luckily has been nominated every year since I took over as host in 2006. I find myself in the unique position of eating for a living while still being expected to look a certain way — let’s call it “red carpet ready.” While I can clearly point to the many ways our society constantly reinforces this pressure, the truth is, my own vanity also plays a big role. I want to look good, to be fit and to fit into those fancy couture dresses. Adding to this dilemma is the fact that in the last few years, we’ve filmed in the summer, just a…

“I disagree with the president with what appears to be a moral equivalence being drawn between the Nazis, who are shouting, ‘Kill the Jews,’ and the protesters who came to counter that statement,” says Haim Saban, the billionaire Univision chairman and Clinton backer. Still, “I do not believe that President Trump is a Nazi or anti-Semite.” Black Lives Matter, meanwhile, “is clearly an anti-Semitic, anti-Israel group,” he tells THR, citing BLM’s official platform that calls Israel “an apartheid state” responsible for “genocide.”…

Hamilton Hollywood, Aug. 18 Candidly Costumes Los Angeles, Aug. 16 Party Crawler Lin-Maniacs Come Out for the Show Fans of the Broadway juggernaut Hamilton packed into the Pantages Theatre for its L.A. kickoff. Creator/star Lin-Manuel Miranda (2) took to the stage to deliver a heartfelt speech, thanking the cast during the curtain call. Following the show, such Hollywood A-listers as Steve Martin (1), Amy Adams (5), J.J. Abrams, Shonda Rhimes (4) and Jimmy Kimmel partied alongside 1,500 guests, including original castmembers Miranda and Okieriete “Oak” Onaodowan and producer Jeffrey Seller (3). Guests enjoyed the L.A.-themed soiree at NeueHouse, with aptly named food stations like “Venice Beach Seafood” and a “Chica’s Taco” stand in honor of the show’s big Hollywood debut. — RAMONA SAVISS Emmy-Nominated Costume Designers Talk Shop THR and…

Just Sold! 125 N. VENICE BLVD. Actress Rhona Mitra (The Strain) has sold her threebedroom, three-bath, 2,500-square-foot Moroccan-themed retreat, located just one block from the beach. The twostory home, originally listed in May for $2.9 million, has an open floor plan, two bedrooms suitable as masters and multiple outdoor patios outfitted with fire pits. Mitra was repped by Justin Alexander with Tami Halton Pardee from Halton Pardee + Partners. On the Market 2624 NAPLES AVE. This newly rebuilt fourbedroom has sliding pocket doors that open out from the kitchen to a custom pool and waterfall; it’s listed for $3.6 million by Andrew Dinsky of PLG Estates.…

Jerry Lewis, a three-time Oscar host, landed that job for the first time in 1956, just days after turning 30, and shared his duties with Claudette Colbert and Joseph L. Mankiewicz; he was brought back in 1957, alongside Celeste Holm; and returned two years later, in 1959, as the final member of a rotation of six hosts (the others being Mort Sahl, Tony Randall, Bob Hope, David Niven and Laurence Olivier). But that third and — perhaps not coincidentally — final time, Lewis encountered a situation that no Oscar host before or since has faced: a ceremony at which the final award was presented 20 minutes ahead of schedule and the show actually ran short. With all of the evening’s winners and presenters gathered together onstage, Lewis, a celebrated improviser,…

With billions of hours of video streaming online, it’s hard enough to get discovered, let alone break out. But the 15 digital stars on THR’s new Disrupters list all have managed to catch Hollywood’s eye. Take Lilly Singh, one of YouTube’s biggest comedic draws, with 12 million followers, who’ll soon be stretching for a dramatic role in HBO’s adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. Or Adam Conover, who parlayed his snarky CollegeHumor series, Adam Ruins Everything, into a show for TruTV. Or Liza Koshy, who after only two years of posting YouTube videos has a gig hosting the reboot of Total Request Live. For Hollywood, this digital-first talent just might be the answer to the next-generation audience that is more likely to “Netflix and chill” than tune in for primetime…

Founded in the 14th century, the Polish city of Bydgoszcz, home to Camerimage since 2010, offers appropriately picturesque charms SLONECZNY MLYN HOTEL The four-star hotel, which boasts art nouveau and art deco decor, occupies what once was a 19th century mill on the banks of the Brda River. WERANDA RESTAURANT Located in the Bohema Hotel & Spa, it is celebrating its 10th anniversary and offers dishes like goose leg on a bed of carrots with lentil dumplings. OLD MARKET SQUARE Cafes and restaurants, ideal for quick meetups or casual people-watching, line this landmark at the center of the city, which was established in 1346. TO TOAST THE AWARDS Want to drink like the Polish locals? Favorite libations include (from left) Zubrowka and Wyborowa vodkas and Zywiec beer.…

Digital TV Takeover Facebook, Apple, YouTube prep war chests p. 10 ↑ Film Wonder Deal Jenkins to be highest-paid female filmmaker p. 16 Elle Reeve The Vice correspondent’s chilling Charlottesville: Race and Terror gives the media company tens of millions of video views and its first breakout moment in years. Channing Tatum His NASCAR heist film Logan Lucky targets Middle America but flops with a $7.6 million debut, with seven of the 10 top-grossing theaters in Los Angeles. Morgan Freeman The legendary actor, 80, will be toasted with the Life Achievement honor at the SAG Awards ceremony in January. Michael K. Williams The Force isn’t with the actor, who gets cut from the upcoming Han Solo spinoff after production delays cause a conflict with a preplanned indie movie shoot. Showbiz…

Aday before Disney unveiled plans for a competing streaming service to Netflix, the digital giant made a pre-emptive strike in what may become a new intellectual property arms race, snapping up Mark Millar’s “mini-Marvel” imprint Millarworld. The prolific comic creator is said to have approached studios earlier this year offering a deal for his library and future stories. But because some of his marquee properties, such as Kick-Ass, Kingsman and Wanted, already are spoken for, it was difficult to determine the deal’s value, a studio source tells THR. Netflix, however, determined the answer was quite a lot. Terms of the Aug. 7 deal were not disclosed, but two sources pegged it in the $30 million to $50 million range. Complicating things were side deals Millar had to make with his…

Deal of the Week When the ink dries on Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman 2 deal, she will be the highest-paid female filmmaker in history. Jenkins had all the leverage when talks began in mid-June, the weekend after Wonder Woman’s $100 million opening (it’s since earned north of $800 million worldwide), but negotiations dragged on as Jenkins’ team fought for her to be paid on par with DC universe originator Zack Snyder. Sources say that Jenkins, 46, will earn directing and writing fees in the high seven figures on Wonder Woman 2 (Dec. 13, 2019) but, more significantly, will have a considerable backend. (At her peak, Nancy Meyers earned in the $5 million range, according to sources.) The deal is a superheroic leap for Jenkins, who is said to have been…

NYC PRESS TOUR Urbinati I’m very anti-fur, but Conor does look cool, and those pants are amazing. Anytime he wants to not wear a shirt it is fine by me. Rembert This is on the classic side for Floyd. For me, this is a win. Kim I love the black and white and the stars. Very real. Conor is just trying to be super flamboyant. A lot of fighting is a mental game. I love it. AWAY FROM THE RING Urbinati I don’t like it when grown men wear their pants tucked into their boots like Floyd does here, it’s a very boy band thing to do. Conor needs a better sneaker game — but this is how a guy should wear shorts. Rembert Designer Philipp Plein and Floyd is…

T he 44th Telluride Film Festival kicks off Sept. 1, and those who make the trek to the Rockies may well see the next best picture Oscar winner — as they did last year, when Moonlight debuted to an emotional reception. Traditionally, the event doesn’t announce its lineup until attendees are on their way, but choice titles expected to bow include the Angelina Jolie-directed First They Killed My Father, recounting the horrors of the Khmer Rouge; Battle of the Sexes, with Emma Stone and Steve Carell as Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs; Scott Cooper’s Western, Hostiles, starring Christian Bale; and Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird, with Saoirse Ronan in the title role. Some Venice Film Festival debuts — such as Alexander Payne’s satirical Downsizing, Guillermo del Toro’s spooky The Shape…

What’s a record label actually good for? That is a question implied in a lawsuit between Warner Bros. Records and Avenged Sevenfold, a heavy metal band from Huntington Beach, California, that is scheduled to go to trial this year and has the potential to upend the music industry. The dispute dates back to 2015, when the act notified its label that it was terminating the contract it signed in 2004, citing the “sevenyear rule,” which bars personal service contracts lasting longer than seven years. The law has its roots in a pro-labor statute put on the books after the Civil War to prevent long-term contracts from becoming the means for involuntary servitude. The modern version of the rule was famously tested in entertainment in 1944, when Olivia de Havilland used…

I went back with Jerry Lewis longer than anybody. In 1947, I was part of the road company of Call Me Mister, and a guy comes up to me in the street in Boston and says, “My name is Jerry Lewis and this is Dean Martin and we got our first big payday to play a nightclub tonight. Last time we got $150, this time we’re getting $1,500, which is the most we’ve ever made, and I would like to pay for your whole cast to come see us, just to spread the word.” I invited the whole cast, he paid for everyone, and I saw what I thought was the funniest ad-libbed thing I have ever seen. It was a riot, and we never stopped laughing. That was my…

When it came to welcoming women into the comedy pantheon, Jerry Lewis drew a line, one that increasingly put him at odds with the growing ranks of female comics. At the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado, in 1998, during a Q&A conducted by Martin Short, Lewis was asked whether he liked Lucille Ball. His response: “A woman doing comedy doesn’t offend me but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world.” Judd Apatow, for one, never forgot, and years later, appearing at the 2012 Critics’ Choice Awards, the Bridesmaids producer went off on an expletive-deleted rant that concluded with, “Jerry Lewis once said that he didn’t think that women…

AIRDATE Friday, Aug. 25 (Netflix) CAST Kathy Bates, Aaron Moten, Elizabeth Alderfer, Tone Bell, Dougie Baldwin, Elizabeth Ho, Chris Redd, Betsy Sodaro, Nicole Sullivan, Michael Trucco CREATORS Chuck Lorre and David Javerbaum The title of Netflix’s Disjointed, a comedy about the oddballs working at a marijuana dispensary, is a pun. It also could be a one-word review for a likable show that attempts to break from its multicam constraints in ways that are admirable, if not always successful. Created by Chuck Lorre and David Javerbaum, Disjointed is largely set at Ruth’s Alternative Caring, a Los Angeles facility dedicated to the myriad uses of weed and populated by an assortment of genial, frequently high employees, or “budtenders.” Proprietor Ruth Whitefeather Feldman (Kathy Bates), once a fearless legalization outlaw, is now facing…

If there was any doubt about whether the industry has reached the outer limits of the age of Peak TV, it has been put to rest by a series of aggressive summer moves by stalwarts and digital newcomers. First, there was Apple’s surprise play to snag Sony TV top brass Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg as it prepares a $1 billion programming war chest. Then, Disney dealt a blow to Netflix, unveiling plans to remove its movies from the streamer and build a competitor. Netflix and Ted Sarandos, in turn, poached Shonda Rhimes from Disney-owned ABC with an overall deal estimated at about $100 million. Facebook rolled out its ambitious new video platform, Watch, after striking content deals with dozens of publishers and production companies. Meanwhile, YouTube has upped…

“I remember my dad saying to me, ‘There’s no tomorrow in filmmaking, so get it today, get it when you’re there,’ ” says Meyers-Shyer, photographed Aug. 15 at The London West Hollywood at Beverly Hills. Hallie Meyers-Shyer’s first memory from a film set was at 3 years old, walking down the aisle as a flower girl in the first Father of the Bride movie; behind the camera sat her mom and dad, writer-directors Charles Shyer and Nancy Meyers. Some two decades later, the Brentwood-raised Meyers-Shyer is the one behind the camera for Home Again (out Sept. 8 via Open Road). “It was my parents’ job, so it felt like a real adult’s job to me,” says the first-time director, 30, of the career in entertainment that seemed inevitable for her.…

“There were two significant reasons” for the unprecedented decision to air live coast-to-coast for the final four episodes of Saturday Night Live this season, show boss Lorne Michaels tells THR. “One was [NBC entertainment chief] Bob Greenblatt wanted it and the other was that social media was so [focused] on the show that if you were following Twitter you were hearing about it before you could see it.” Now the experiment, which initially caused “standards fears” (due to airing in primetime in some markets), will be permanent. “Yeah, I think it is,” Michaels says, noting that the shift worked for ratings. “We had the same number that we’d had when we were doing the Palin-McCain-Obama thing.” In fact, the May 20 finale, hosted by Dwayne Johnson, capped off a record…

“Order a cake with the American flag on it … and just eat it.” TINA FEY The Saturday Night Live alum, in a Weekend Update Primetime segment in which she wolfed an entire sheet cake while discussing headlines about white supremacists. “A lot of women like him because he’s wealthy and he’s charming and good-looking.” PARIS HILTON The heiress, in Marie Claire, defending family friend Donald Trump against women who have come forward to accuse him of sexual assault. “I think they are just trying to get attention or fame,” she added. “That’s actually not true at all about Scientology.” ELISABETH MOSS The actress, responding on Instagram to a commenter who compared the world of her Hulu series, The Handmaid’s Tale, to Moss’ religion. She went on to say that…

Chrissy Metz was at Beauty & Essex. Jamie Foxx sat nearby. On a different night, Halle Berry held court. … Ted Sarandos stopped by Paley. … Melanie Griffith celebrated her birthday at Craig’s. … Brian Grazer popped by Norah’s. … Ashley Greene and Ryan Rottman shared a table at The Highlight Room. Jeremy Piven, Lukas Haas and Nicole Scherzinger also were in. … Dennis Quaid lunched at Cafe Vida in the Pacific Palisades. … Ari Emanuel sat with Jimmy Iovine for lunch at The Palm. … John McIlwee met with director Matt Reeves at Bouchon for lunch. … Tobey Maguire checked out Estrella. Rossoblu The Quick Pitch Bestia’s in the Arts District. Drago Centro’s in the Financial District. Now chef Steve Samson — who made his mark with Sotto —…

‘Fasting to the Bone for Freedom for All’ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar met Gregory only once, but the impact lasted a lifetime Most people can name a book or two that they read in their youth that changed their lives in a significant way. I can name four: The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965) with Alex Haley, Soul on Ice (1968) by Eldridge Cleaver, The Fire Next Time (1963) by James Baldwin and Nigger: An Autobiography (1964) by Dick Gregory. Each of those books helped articulate my frustration with the prevalence of racism and social injustice, and each showed a path from that frustration to helping change things. The title of Dick’s book alone felt freeing to me, as if seeing that word on the cover of a book in a bookstore…

“If you don’t get Jerry Lewis, you don’t understand comedy.” Jerry Seinfeld, Aug. 21 on Instagram Jerry Lewis ducked a lot of bullets — he’s had so many things wrong with him over the years — but I just didn’t expect to hear that he had died. I thought he was going to make it to 100, which he said he was going to try to do. Jerry was remarkably funny, and he was a good friend to me. I’ve known him for 56 years. I watched him shooting The Ladies Man when I was out here in Los Angeles for the first time in 1961. Then the editor of Esquire asked me if I would do a profile of Jerry. I said yes, came back to California and spent…

“Looking back, I see why everyone was like, ‘Yo, this kid sucks,’ ” says 20-year-old social media phenomenon Jake Paul. “ ’Cause I look super immature.” He’s referring to a local Los Angeles news report from mid-July that went viral — as so many things do for YouTube personalities with more than 9 million followers — and led to his abrupt dismissal from the Disney Channel series Bizaardvark, announced July 22 in a statement that offered the departing star “best wishes.” KTLA had sent a crew to investigate reports that Paul and his YouTuber housemates were making a nuisance of themselves, lighting fires in a drained swimming pool, mounting dirt-bike drag races outside their $18,000-per-month rented house in Beverly Grove and drawing crowds of fans outside the Kilkea Drive residence.…

It’s true: Cooper Hefner, youngest son of Hugh and newly ascended chief creative officer of Playboy Enterprises, did enjoy a youth that was the stuff of teenage wet dreams. Celebrities and scantily clad bunnies wallpapered his life. He and his schoolmates could order anything they could think of, and the Playboy Mansion kitchen would send it right out. There was a private zoo. ¶ Yet the good times came with a Freudian twist. His mom, 1989 Playmate of the Year Kimberley Conrad, hung in the library, depicted nude in a large portrait frame. “Yeah, that was weird,” Cooper explains over lunch at the mansion. “It was like the elephant in the room.” ¶ The photo’s long been put away. (Dad, now 91, divorced Conrad and dated a harem of blondes…

Building on the success of its 2016 VR screening room, Venice is expanding further into the genre by launching a dedicated competition this year. Spanning everything from fine art to gang warfare, three entries look like standouts: Gomorrah VR — We Own the Streets DIRECTOR: ENRICO ROSATI Based on the popular Italian TV series (it’s been called the best mafia show since The Sopranos), Gomorrah VR offers fans the opportunity to roam the paths of Naples’ infamous drug slums in a full 360-degree experience alongside the show’s characters. Bloodless DIRECTOR: GINA KIM Kim’s harrowing short looks to test the boundaries of VR by chronicling the last living moments of a sex worker brutally murdered by a U.S. soldier at the Dongducheon Camptown in South Korea in 1992. Probably not for…