Innholdsfortegnelse for September 13, 2017 i The Hollywood Reporter

BOB GREENBLATT In this Emmys preview issue, the 57-year-old chairman of NBC Entertainment pens a guest column in defense of broadcast television (page 70). Greenblatt, who was president of Showtime for seven years before leaving in 2010 for NBC, argues that network TV has successfully embraced time-shifted viewing and digital platforms. As an example, he reveals that the premiere of the hit drama This Is Us has been watched more than ER in its heyday. As he puts it: “The power, reach and resonance of broadcast television is still very much alive and kicking.” TOM HANKS With “A Junket in the City of Light” (page 142), the 61-year-old two-time Oscar winner adds fiction writer to a résumé that includes producer, director and actor. The story, debuting exclusively in THR, comes…

Andy Muschietti It, the Argentine director’s second English-language film, opens to a monster $123.4 million in the U.S., blowing past records for horror films and September debuts. Up next: a sequel. The Murdochs U.K. regulators hit pause on 21st Century Fox’s $15.5 billion bid for TV power Sky and question Fox’s commitment to the country’s broadcasting standards. Patty Jenkins The Wonder Woman helmer closes an $8 million deal (plus backend) for a sequel, making her the highest-paid female director ever. Marc Evans The Paramount motion picture president is replaced by Twilight producer Wyck Godfrey after a 2017 that has included flops Baywatch and Ghost in the Shell. Showbiz Stocks $17.66 (+4.7%) TWITTER (TWTR) BTIG analyst Rich Greenfield says on CNBC that “Disney needs to own Twitter,” given that the social…

Blood Brothers (SIMON & SCHUSTER, OCT. 24) BY Deanne Stillman AGENCY Paradigm Stillman reveals the little-known friendship between two iconic figures of the West, Buffalo Bill Cody and Sitting Bull, whose appearance together in Cody’s Wild West show was touted with the Little Big Horn-inspired slogan “Foes in ’76, Friends in ’85.” The Burning Girl (W.W. NORTON, AUG. 29) BY Claire Messud AGENCY The Wylie Agency The author of The Emperor’s Children (being developed by Imagine) has another New York Times best-seller with this coming-of-age novel about the friendship between two teens, said to resonate with adolescent girls as The Catcher in the Rye did with boys.…

“As the actor in the film, you just have to step away and say, ‘I don’t know anything, really.’ ” KATE WINSLET The actress, defending to The New York Times working with Woody Allen, accused by daughter Dylan Farrow of having sexually molested her as a child. “Not getting pinched. That’s the great advantage to getting older. You’re only there from the neck up.” SHEILA NEVINS The HBO Documentary Films head, telling Alec Baldwin on his Here’s the Thing podcast how things have improved for her since she started out in a male-dominated industry in the ’70s. “I can’t believe how much money they just gave me.” CURTIS “50 CENT” JACKSON The rapper, announcing on Instagram his new deal with Starz (after urging his 16 million followers to cancel their…

Don Ohlmeyer, who died Sept. 10 of cancer at 72, produced games for ABC’s Monday Night Football, ran NBC Sports and then guided NBC West Coast during a 1993-99 golden age, championing must-see TV like Friends, Frasier and ER, all while feuding with entertainment president Warren Littlefield and SNL star Norm Macdonald (whom he fired for making off-color jokes about his friend O.J. Simpson). Dick Ebersol, who worked with Ohlmeyer at ABC and NBC, recalls covering the 1972 Munich Olympics, during which 11 Israeli athletes were murdered by Palestinian terrorists, with his lifelong friend, “an original thinker and a fearless boss, somebody who just loved to work.” When we started together in the summer of 1967, ABC Sports had a total of 28 employees. Munich was a big turning point…

Who will win the Iron Throne on Game of Thrones? RICH ROSS, DISCOVERY Sansa Stark. ROB SHARENOW, HISTORY & LIFETIME Don’t ask me. I’m one of the few people who had their money on Hodor. KEITH COX, PARAMOUNT NETWORK & TV LAND Arya Stark. KEVIN REILLY, TBS & TNT Could a Joffrey resurrection somehow be possible? COURTENEY MONROE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Raising three kids as a single mom while holding down a highpressure job isn’t easy, and working moms gotta look out for one another. So, I’m pulling for Daenerys. NICK GRAD, FX HBO. CINDY HOLLAND, NETFLIX Daenerys Stormborn of the House Targaryen, First of Her Name, The Unburnt, Queen of the Andals and the First Men, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, Breaker of Chains and Mother of Dragons — not…

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Ten years ago, Nartey asked his former college teammate, star NFL tight end Tony Gonzalez, to do him a solid. “He was one of the first people I reached out to, and he gave me a shot at selling his house in Manhattan Beach,” says Nartey, himself a ex-standout wide receiver at Cal who has emerged as the “go-to” broker for a growing pool of pro athletes seeking to buy or sell in L.A. Last year, the 3-year-old Compass poached Nartey from The Agency and tasked the Pepperdine MBA with launching a sports and entertainment division, which now has more than $100 million in active pocket listings. Having worked as an actor for nearly a decade after college (he’s appeared on True Blood and Modern Family), the father of two…

Isaac Aptaker Co-showrunner HOMETOWN Cambridge, Mass. PRIOR GIG Grandfathered I’LL ADMIT “I’m still getting comfortable with people just breaking down crying to me once I’ve said what my job is.” Elizabeth Berger Co-showrunner HOMETOWN Queens, N.Y. PRIOR GIG Grandfathered I CAN RELATE TO “The mother-daughter storyline.” I’LL ADMIT “We usually end up crying in the room, too.” Tyler Bensinger* HOMETOWN Los Angeles PRIOR GIG The Good Wife FUN FACT Formerly wrote on NBC’s Parenthood, the series This Is Us is most often compared to, both in style and in fan base. Bekah Brunstetter HOMETOWN Winston-Salem, N.C. PRIOR GIG Switched at Birth FUN FACT One of three on staff who’s newly married or engaged. “We’re going through these things in life as we’re writing about them.” Vera Herbert HOMETOWN Johannesburg (then moved around) PRIOR GIG…

KENYA BARRIS Showrunner, Black-ish “Be bold. Be smart. But most of all: Be! Fucking! Funny!” TINA FEY Co-showrunner, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt “Start looking for your dress now. It’s a long process.” DAVID MANDEL Showrunner, Veep “Don’t forget, it’s a very pro-Trump crowd in the theater.” PETER MORGAN Showrunner, The Crown “Don’t use Pricewaterhouse.” BILLY EICHNER Billy on the Street “Ignore the haters and wear the stilettos!” BRUCE MILLER Showrunner, The Handmaid’s Tale “Check your fly and be yourself.” KATHRYN HAHN Transparent “Go hard! Please go hard. Don’t deny the huge orange-haired elephant in the room.” CHARLIE COLLIER President and GM, AMC/ SundanceTV “Sing like Leslie Moonves is listening. Love like ratings don’t hurt. Dance like John Landgraf is watching. And announce Better Call Saul even if the envelope says La La Land.” KENT ALTERMAN President, Comedy Central “Remember…

19 HBO Even without Game of Thrones, the cable net leads thanks to that other sci-fi epic, Westworld, which nabbed five awards. Winners also included The Night Of (four) and Big Little Lies (three). 16 NETFLIX’s $6 billion content push paid off with wins for eight projects, from Stranger Things (five awards) to doc 13th (four) to The Crown (one — so far). 9 NBC The network scored three guest actor wins (for SNL hosts Dave Chappelle and Melissa McCarthy and This Is Us’ Gerald McRaney).…

1 GRETA GERWIG Lady Bird Gerwig makes her directorial debut with this comedy, which stars Saoirse Ronan as a high schooler struggling to find her identity and connect with her parents (Laurie Metcalf and Tracy Letts). Says Gerwig of directing, “Every step of the way, there’s something difficult.” 2 YORGOS LANTHIMOS, COLIN FARRELL, BARRY KEOGHAN AND NICOLE KIDMAN The Killing of a Sacred Deer “You kind of just trust in the mystery of it,” says Farrell of the film, in which he plays a father whose family is threatened by a young boy out for revenge. 3 CHARLIE HUNNAM Papillon The King Arthur star plays Henri Charriere in a new take on Papillon — in the 1973 original, Steve McQueen had the role opposite Dustin Hoffman — the story of…

Exclusive Fiction By TOM HANKS The stories in Tom Hanks’ first book, Uncommon Type (Alfred A. Knopf, Oct. 17, $27), feature one of his favorite things: a typewriter. Hanks, who owns more than 50 vintage machines, began writing the book in 2015 (on a computer) after Knopf editor Sonny Mehta urged him to expand a single story in The New Yorker into a full collection. “In the two years of working on the stories,” Hanks said when announcing the book, “I made movies in New York, Berlin, Budapest and Atlanta and wrote in all of them. I wrote in hotels during press tours. I wrote on vacation … on planes, at home and in the office.” The story published here, with Hanks’ typesetting preserved, riffs on that experience, as a…

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1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 In Hollywood’s portrayal of natural disasters, hurricanes have trailed earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, epidemics and even tidal waves. But one storm movie ranks as a classic — Key Largo. The Hollywood Reporter called the John Huston film noir “a tense and vigorous drama that is inevitably headed for a leading position on Warners’ list of top grossers this year.” (It took in $8.1 million domestic — $82 million today — and ranked 12th among all films in 1948.) Largo’s plot centered on a World War II veteran (Humphrey Bogart, then 48) visiting a Florida Keys hotel run by an Army buddy’s widow (Lauren Bacall, then 23). While an anonymous hurricane…

Cheers! The Hollywood Reporter and SAG-AFTRA are teaming to honor this year’s Emmy nominees at the inaugural Emmy Nominees Night on Sept. 14. The celebration, presented by American Airlines, Breguet and Dacor, marks the first time that THR and SAG-AFTRA have joined forces to celebrate nominees and will serve as the unofficial kickoff to Emmy weekend. The invitation-only event will also be the first major industry red carpet gathering to be held at Jean-Georges Beverly Hills, the first Los Angeles restaurant of James Beard Award-winning and Michelin star chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten, located in the new Waldorf Astoria, which opened June 1. “Emmy nominees have all worked so hard,” says THR editorial director Matthew Belloni. “This is a night to come together and celebrate.”…

Deal of the Week TORONTO ACQUISITIONS REPORT: LOUIS KNOWS BEST IN TOUGH MARKET Leave it to Louis C.K. and his politically incorrect comedy I Love You, Daddy to inject some energy into a somewhat lethargic market at the Toronto International Film Festival. Undeterred by the risque material (C.K. dropping the N-word, Charlie Day making child rape jokes and multiple characters using the word “retard”), The Orchard plunked down $5 million for worldwide rights to the film about the most inappropriate May- December courtship since Woody Allen’s Manhattan (C.K.’s 3 Arts manager Dave Becky and APA’s Mike Berkowitz negotiated the deal). C.K., 50, is unfazed by the controversy. “Some artists get so upset when they get criticized,” he tells THR, “in the same way that the people criticizing say, ‘I shouldn’t…

People, Places, Preoccupations Jordan Klepper has been waking up to Fox & Friends, going to bed to Sean Hannity and taking in a healthy portion of Breitbart, TheBlaze and Alex Jones’ Infowars in between. The alt-right media diet is preparation — not for the next Trump rally but for the Sept. 25 debut of Klepper’s Comedy Central show. The Opposition With Jordan Klepper will slip into the 11:30 p.m. slot once occupied by Stephen Colbert then briefly by another Daily Show veteran, Larry Wilmore. The network is billing the series as “the voice of the new America,” one of “paid protestors, Obama’s birth certificate and the certainty that CNN is fake news.” Rather than shake his fist at the absurdity of the day’s news, as do so many of his…

Party Crawler Creatives Have Issues For anyone who thought Hollywood might be tiring of political talk on the awards circuit, the Creative Arts Emmys proved otherwise. Exhortations to speak out took center stage at Microsoft Theater as Stranger Things casting director Carmen Cuba accepted her trophy with a call for everyone to fight for acceptance of all voices — no matter how the “Demogorgon finds ways to separate us.” Leah Remini (3) was near tears as she accepted an Emmy for her A&E series Scientology and the Aftermath — dedicating the award to the “brave contributors who [worked on the series] despite ongoing risk and repercussions.” Taking a lighter touch, Tom Hanks (1) opened night two of the honors with, “If tonight is the celebration of awarding, I guess next…

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Josh and Matt Altman Douglas Elliman Unlike many top brokers, the Million Dollar Listing: Los Angeles stars pull their $400 million in annual sales from all over the city: The brothers are the agents for an $80 million, 15,000-square-foot Malibu home with panoramic ocean views and just closed on a $25 million, 40,000-square-foot estate in Bradbury Canyon, north of Monrovia. “It has a shooting range and a pool you can see from space,” says Josh. The duo helped producer Caryn Mandabach (Peaky Blinders) sell her home on the Riviera golf course for $10.8 million and new Rams head coach Sean McVay, 31, buy a $2.7 million Encino abode. F. Ron Smith and David Berg Partners Trust Smith and Berg have become a go-to team for Westside developers. “Many brokers would…

It’s a Peak TV Party preview: Join THR for a deep dive on all things Emmy, plus one voter’s brutally honest ballot and a chat with your host, this guy Just under two years ago, Stephen Colbert debuted as host of CBS’ The Late Show. And it hasn’t even been a year since sluggish ratings, an Emmy snub and a lack of buzz prompted some to begin writing off the onetime Comedy Central star whose Colbert Report had previously picked up two series Emmys. His Late Show was so challenged that there even were whispers he’d be asked to swap time slots with James Corden. What a difference a year — and a presidential election — can make. The Late Show finished the season atop the late-night ratings for the first time…

DRAMA SERIES I’m the only person I know who hated House of Cards from the start. It’s too impressed with itself. But I dip a toe in every season to see if it has gotten any better, and it’s like, “Nope!” I really tried with Westworld, but while I was watching it — which I did because my wife loves it and I’m a good husband — I kept thinking to myself, “This is pretentious bullshit.” I know I’m supposed to be wowed by The Handmaid’s Tale — I liked it, but it was a little too monotone for me. I kind of wanted to vote for Better Call Saul because it hasn’t gotten the love it deserves — it’s not like anything else on television. And I loved Stranger…

Like well-tended balconies, the hills of the Pacific Palisades rise abruptly from the sea in sloping terraces, giving the place a dreamy quality. Houses with floor-to-ceiling windows and gently swaying chimes preen westward. Tesla SUVs park in clean and quiet driveways. J.J. Abrams, Reese Witherspoon and honorary mayor Kevin Nealon — the list of Hollywood folks who live here is dizzying. Much of it is leafy and green, nestled in the foothills of the Santa Monica mountains. Police reports reflect the area’s relative security: a laptop stolen from an unlocked car, a phone swiped through an open kitchen door. “We’d always joke that this was Mayberry,” says Frances Sharpe, who, for two years starting in 2013, served as the editor of the Palisadian-Post. The newspaper’s stories were charming. An ice…

Larry David didn’t set out to make an HBO sitcom, let alone a groundbreaking one that would garner 38 Emmy nominations (including six for outstanding comedy series) and two trophies (for directing in 2003 and for editing in 2012). All he wanted to do after Seinfeld was a stand-up special. But, Larry being Larry, things got a little out of control. And now, after eight seasons spread out over 17 years, Curb Your Enthusiasm might well outshine even Seinfeld. Its mix of cringe comedy and mockumentary verite — David, Ted Danson, Richard Lewis and others play fictionalized versions of themselves — has influenced a generation of comedies from The Office to Louie and minted a dictionary’s worth of catchphrases. That’s a “pretty, pretty, pretty good” legacy for a show whose…

With Stranger Things nominated for 18 Emmys and season two set to drop Oct. 27, the series is pulling Netflix into a new business and into a new negotiation with key players, including the show’s child stars. After the homage to 1980s horror movies became a surprise sensation in summer 2016, Netflix — with unauthorized merchandise selling on the internet — made quick licensing deals with clothing company Hybrid Apparel and retailer Hot Topic. The streaming giant subsequently began a search for an executive to run a licensing effort and in August hired Jess Richardson, WWE’s former licensing vp for North America, as director of global licensing, merchandising and promotions. A source tells THR that Netflix is making deals for the second season of Stranger Things that will dwarf the…

Big Deal The British are coming back, the British are coming back! The iconic 1970s ITV drama Upstairs Downstairs, a progenitor to Downton Abbey, is being revived as a stage musical. Composer Stephen Endelman (De-Lovely) nabbed the rights from co-creator John Whitney after striking up a friendship with his daughter, Fiona. “We have to protect the brand and make sure it’s in the right hands,” Fiona tells THR, adding that various parties have approached her father and fellow rights holders Eileen Atkins, Jean Marsh and the late John Hawkesworth in the past. “I felt comfortable with Stephen; we have similar backgrounds and understand each other.” Endelman has assembled a creative team of fellow Los Angeles-based British expats: Producer Adam Matalon is writing the book, and singer-songwriter Matt Goss is penning…

Screenings, Soirees and Shia Shia LaBeouf (9) was on his best behavior Sept. 7 as his Borg/ McEnroe kicked off the Toronto Film Festival. Director Janus Metz said the fiery John McEnroe is “the role he must have been born to play.” As such star-directors as Angelina Jolie (4) and George Clooney (8) debuted new films, beyond the screen, LeBron James and Drake hosted an intimate dinner Sept. 9 at the rapper’s Fring’s restaurant to support The Carter Effect, a doc about Vince Carter’s impact on basketball in Canada. Idris Elba stopped by after the premiere of Molly’s Game as James gave a toast to the Drake-produced film. Down King Street, Harvey Weinstein assured THR at the RBC House bash that The Upside will receive an awards-qualifying run this year.…

MTV UNPLUGGED 1993 THE MTV ERA His first cable experience came at MTV, where he ran the net’s studio-based programming. Highlights included Unplugged’s Nirvana episode and an inaugural ball for President Clinton. BLOW 2001 THE SPANKY PICS ERA Next, he partnered with his pal, late director Ted Demme, to form Spanky Pictures. There, they made films (Rounders, Blow) and Emmy-winning TV movies (A Lesson Before Dying). HOLES 2003 THE WALDEN MEDIA ERA His next act was more family-friendly, running production and development for Walden Media. There, he made Holes (starring a young Shia LaBeouf) and helped land the Narnia film rights. SOMETIMES IN APRIL 2004 THE YOLO FILMS ERA After Walden, he founded Yolo Films, where he produced for HBO, MTV and VH1. The standout: HBO’s Sometimes in April, about…

CBS hopes to put its stand-alone subscription service All Access into warp drive with the Sept. 24 premiere of the high-stakes original drama Star Trek: Discovery, an attempt to boldly go where no broadcaster has gone before: building a streaming business that escapes the cable subscriber losses and ratings declines that have beset the television industry. While most broadcaster forays into streaming, including apps from ABC and Fox, have been based on giving cable subscribers online access to programming, CBS has turned that strategy on its head. It’s using its broadcasting heft to market its stand-alone streaming service by giving Discovery a post-football premiere on CBS. After that, fans will have to pay at least $6 a month for All Access to watch the rest of the series. It’s the…

B etween Jay Z and Beyonce’s purchase of an $88 million Bel Air spec house and Angelina Jolie’s $24.5 million buy of the Cecil B. DeMille estate in Los Feliz, there were plenty of headlines coming out of L.A.’s white-hot luxury real estate market the past year, and signs point to more of the same. In the second quarter of 2017, the median sales price of a luxury home reached $9.5 million — a 3 percent increase from the same period last year, according to Douglas Elliman. Meanwhile, the number of luxury sales in the second quarter jumped 26 percent from a year ago, even though those homes are staying on the market longer (seven days). THR’s annual list of top real estate pros — 25 solo artists plus five…

Just curious, who got [the part of] Kate?” That question, posed in an email to This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman by his producing partner, hangs framed in Chrissy Metz’s Los Angeles home, a reminder of the trajectory her life could have continued on. When the actress first auditioned for NBC’s family drama in 2015, she only had 81 cents in her bank account. She had been living off ramen noodles from a nearby Dollar Store, scraping together gas money with a résumé on which the biggest credit was “the fat lady” on American Horror Story: Freak Show. Fogelman’s script, loosely based on his own sister’s weight-loss journey, tapped into something that Metz had rarely seen, and she was desperate to be a part of it. “Here was this woman…

JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS 22 nominations; 8 wins The first time I was nominated, which was for Seinfeld [in 1992, for comedy supporting actress], I had given birth to a baby a few weeks prior — let’s just say the dress was a tight fit. As the limo was out there waiting to take us to the thing and I was getting zipped into my dress, the whole thing gave way. And we had to improvise and figure out a way to sew me into it, so the whole night I was in an absolute panic about this thing splitting, which it didn’t. Plus, I was breastfeeding, so I had to go pump during the commercial break. So I wouldn’t say it was the most glamorous night of my life — and…

Bill O’Reilly has scores to settle — with his accusers, the media and the “far-left precincts” that have “viciously attacked” and plotted to “destroy” him. But on this September afternoon, the former king of conservative cable — host for 20 years of Fox News’ top-rated The O’Reilly Factor — is trying his best to play nice. He (gently) chides President Trump for his comments about some neo-Nazis being “very fine people” before coming to his old friend’s defense (“He acts and he speaks emotionally, OK?”). He compliments Megyn Kelly’s interview with Vladimir Putin (“She asked the right questions”), albeit in a backhanded way (“but I’d get right into his face”). He shows restraint when asked about his former employers at Fox, who in April fired O’Reilly, then making $25 million…

‘THE GROUP’ (Season 1, Episode 10) This show is what Curb is all about: brazen stories that intertwine, leading to a great end. The comedy geometry here is stellar, and Larry pretending to be an incest survivor is exactly the right kind of wrong. ‘THE DOLL’ (Season 2, Episode 7) Maybe my favorite Curb moment of all time: Larry goes to the bathroom; the door won’t lock. He can’t make it to the toilet and man the door. Then Larry realizes he can hold the door shut if he pees in the sink. This is the moment I realized Larry speaks for all of us. ‘KRAZEE-EYEZ KILLA’ (Season 3, Episode 8) Probably the all-time best guest star appearance by Chris Williams. “Delicious!” ‘THE ANONYMOUS DONOR’ (Season 6, Episode 2) The…