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Three images were chosen to cover THR’s fourth annual Red Carpet Designers issue, featuring Hollywood’s top fashion designers alongside their A-list muses. They are: Zoe Kravitz with Oscar de la Renta’s Fernando Garcia and Laura Kim; Evan Rachel Wood with Joseph Altuzarra; and Jennifer Meyer, the first jewelry designer to make the list, with Jennifer Aniston, her close friend of more than a decade. “Since launching in 2005, Meyer has steadily grown her brand each year to become a shimmering fixture at major awards shows,” says THR fashion and beauty director Carol McColgin, who curated this year’s list of Top 20 Red Carpet Designers (page 84) with style and fashion news director Booth Moore. “Despite all the turmoil in the fashion industry — store closings, management changes and masthead shake-ups…
If there is one thing Paramount chairman and CEO Jim Gianopulos could use right now, it’s the hope of a few hit movies. He inherited a pretty bare cupboard when he took over the studio in April, and the crushing failure of Darren Aronofsky’s mother! over the Sept. 15 weekend did not help in terms of revenue or perception. One promising thing Gianopulos found waiting for him at the studio was the prospect of a movie directed by J.J. Abrams. The filmmaker has made his home at Paramount since 2006 with a deal now said to be worth a hefty $10 million a year in overhead and development. It is very possibly the last, richest deal of its kind. But if Gianopulos hoped that pact soon would bear fruit in…
Hulu Streamers don’t need a $6 billion budget to break through, after all. The Handmaid’s Tale was crowned series of the year, and Elisabeth Moss scored her first Emmy after six Mad Men snubs. A remarkable feat. Hulu CEO Mike Hopkins and actress-producer Moss HBO Despite Stephen Colbert’s cracks against Bill Maher and Confederate, HBO still is TV’s uncontested Emmy force — boasting more wins (29) than any outlet thanks to John Oliver, Veep and Big Little Lies. HBO CEO Richard Plepler and Lies’ Nicole Kidman Saturday Night Live More relevant than ever, Lorne Michaels’ SNL took its first top variety prize since 1993. Alec Baldwin, Kate McKinnon, Melissa McCarthy and Dave Chappelle also swept supporting categories. SNL creator Michaels Donald Glover He secured his status as FX’s golden boy…
As Megyn Kelly prepares to launch her Today hour Sept. 25, the host has been on a media tour heavy on reshaping her image. In August, the former Fox News anchor visited 19 NBC affiliates in five days — a slog even with a chartered plane. These appearances are meant to introduce a new Kelly, 46, to a new audience. But can the unflappable former lawyer who proved a sharp interlocutor on cable news appeal as a self-deprecating working mom navigating some of the same real-world issues as her morning TV audience? Jackie Levin, executive producer of Megyn Kelly Today, positions Kelly’s 9 a.m. show as an antidote of sorts to the ideological skirmishes of cable TV. “This is going to be where people can connect, where they can have…
As it preps to open its 50th season Sept. 24, 60 Minutes is hoping that enlisting Oprah Winfrey as a contributor will help the newsmagazine continue to stand out in a crowded Sunday night television landscape. “She wants to do stories with an impact,” says executive producer Jeff Fager. “And that’s what’s going to work here.” Winfrey’s first segment will examine the deep political divisions in the country in part through a panel made up of ideologically opposed Americans. It is similar to a feature Winfrey did in O Magazine in February, for which she brought together 10 women at a diner in Maspeth, New York — half of them Donald Trump supporters, half Hillary Clinton supporters. But Winfrey, 63, is no bystander in the political arena. Unlike the full-time…
At the Toronto Film Festival market, not one veteran distributor — including Fox Searchlight, Sony Pictures Classics or Focus Features — made a move. Every significant acquisition was done by a buyer who didn’t exist five years ago, from A24 to The Orchard to Netflix. Among the most active newbies was 30WEST, a hard-to-define company launched in April by auto scion Dan Friedkin and former co-head of CAA’s Finance and Sales Group Micah Green (they both buy and sell films). At Toronto, 30WEST sold one (Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken! to YouTube Red for $3.5 million) and bought two (I, Tonya with Neon for $5 million and Beast for slightly less than $1 million). “Assembling a significant theatrical distribution partnership remains as challenging as ever,” says Green, who bought…
