Innholdsfortegnelse for November 8, 2017 i The Hollywood Reporter

In the month since the Harvey Weinstein scandal erupted, fashion insiders have wondered if his estranged wife Georgina Chapman’s fairy-tale-like eveningwear and bridal label can survive the association with the mogul, who wielded his power to help turn Marchesa into a must-wear for stars at the same time he was allegedly forcing himself on victims. “Next up is the Golden Globes, and no one is going to wear it because they don’t want to answer the question, ‘Why?’” says stylist Tod Hallman, who remembers Weinstein’s strong-arm tactics from the early days of Marchesa, which launched in 2004, including the time he pushed Felicity Huffman, then starring in The Weinstein Co.’s Transamerica, to wear Marchesa to the 2006 Globes. Since the Weinstein story broke Oct. 5, not a single star has…

17.9M Live-plus-7 audience for the Oct. 16 episode CBS’ Young Sheldon will have to up its game if there’s any chance of the comedy retaining No. 1 newcomer status this fall. The Big Bang Theory spinoff made a solid re-entry Nov. 2, a month after its massive sampling, but it joined a broadcast schedule now dominated by another freshman — ABC and Sony’s The Good Doctor. The medical drama is an absolute audience juggernaut, outpacing what last season’s comparable breakout (NBC’s This Is Us) was doing in November 2016 by 28 percent. Its latest feat? With an average 17.9 million viewers for the Oct. 16 episode — the most recent to see lifts from Nielsen’s live-plus-7 returns — it even topped The Big Bang Theory as the most watched series…

Bonfire (CROWN ARCHETYPE, NOV. 7) BY Krysten Ritter AGENCY WME With her debut novel landing a spot on the Indie Next List, the Jessica Jones star is earning strong reviews with this thriller about an environmental lawyer who returns to her small hometown on a case and gets caught in a conspiracy involving her past. Call Me American (KNOPF, JUNE 2018) BY Abdi Nor Iftin AGENCY UTA First heard on NPR’s This American Life, a Somali refugee’s inspiring journey starts in Mogadishu, where he learned English from Arnold Schwarzenegger movies before escaping to a slum in Nairobi and eventually winning a U.S. visa lottery.…

LACMA’s Art+Film Gala Los Angeles, Nov. 4 Hollywood Film Awards Beverly Hills, Nov. 5 Party Crawler State of the Art LACMA CEO Michael Govan (4) said the seventh annual Guccisponsored Art+Film Gala was like a “welcome party” of sorts for honoree George Lucas (4), now building his Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Exposition Park. Nearly 600 well-dressed guests turned up to fete the filmmaker alongside iconic L.A. artist Mark Bradford (4) — among them, gala co-chairs Leonardo DiCaprio and Eva Chow (4) with Brad Pitt, Bob Iger (2), Ava DuVernay and Elon Musk — raising $4.4 million in the process. Bradford, introduced by Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel (5), delivered the shortest acceptance speech, centered on the directive to “please share.” Later, David Geffen got a nearstanding ovation; Annie Lennox…

R ÉSU M É CURRENT TITLE President and CEO of Franklin Entertainment PREVIOUS JOB Senior vp production at Columbia TriStar Pictures BIG HIT Heaven Is for Real, which was made with a $12 million budget and grossed $101 million worldwide Friday night at sundown to Saturday night sundown, you’re not going to be able to reach me,” warns DeVon Franklin from his corner office on the 20th floor of Fox Plaza in Century City. The producer was brought up in Oakland, California, as a Seventh Day Adventist, and during his two decades in Hollywood — from interning for Will Smith in the late ’90s while attending USC to being named a Columbia TriStar senior vp in 2012 to today as the head of his own six-person, Fox-based production shingle — he…

When Chris Hemsworth’s God of Thunder returned to theaters Nov. 3 in Thor: Ragnarok, the colorful new planet Sakaar may have felt strangely familiar to fans of comic books. “Sakaar is retro and strongly influenced by the comic book art that Jack Kirby did in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s,” says production designer Dan Hennah, a five-time Academy Award nominee who claimed an Oscar for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Kirby, who died in 1994, didn’t actually dream up Sakaar himself — the planet wasn’t conceived until 2006 for the Planet Hulk comic book arc — but his visual imagination definitely influenced its look. “The original concept of Sakaar was that it was a place that collected space debris and basically nothing grows there. The…

2010 Scott nails her first two auditions: She books a role on Disney Channel original movie Lemonade Mouth and Steven Spielberg’s big-budget Fox sci-fi series Terra Nova. 2012 Signs with WME. 2012 Terra Nova is canceled after one season. 2013 Is a final contender for the lead in Disney’s Tomorrowland (Britt Robertson books the role). 2014 Signs on and shoots a role in The Martian, but her scenes are cut from the final movie. 2014 Is in the running for Disney and Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens (role goes to Daisy Ridley). 2015 After her agent exits WME, Scott also leaves the agency (but continues to be repped by her manager at Echo Lake Entertainment). 2015 Is a frontrunner for Disney and Lucasfilm’s Solo (Emilia Clarke lands the role). 2015 After first auditioning for the Yellow Ranger (with a self tape),…

JEFF SHELL, CLASS OF 1998 Chairman, Universal Filmed Entertainment Group “Being ‘Next Gen’ is a lot more fun than being ‘Gen.’ Enjoy the ride and take advantage of all the interesting people and opportunities that you get.” SUE NAEGLE, CLASS OF 1998 President of Annapurna Television “To stop shopping at Ann Taylor.” PEARLENA IGBOKWE, CLASS OF 1999 President of Universal Television “I pretty much took any good advice that I received earlier in my career, and I like to think that has served me well.” KELLY KAHL, CLASS OF 1996 President of CBS Entertainment “That I’d be ‘Old Gen’ before I knew it.” Hear the Next Gen actors open up about whose career they most admire at THR.COM/VIDEO…

Style writer Vincent Boucher explores how execs can up their sartorial game by taking pointers from ICM agent Chuck James, known for his freewheeling fashion sense (page 62). “It was a blast to interview Chuck,” he says, “and discuss the finer points of men’s style.” Boucher relocated from L.A. to NYC in 2016 to focus on writing. He has contributed to British GQ. Ruven Afanador captured cover subject Drake in the hip-hop star’s hometown of Toronto, Ontario (page 66). “The concept of the shoot was to create a feeling of being backstage while making a film,” explains Afanador, who moved from his native Colombia to Michigan when he was 14. His work has appeared in Vogue and Vanity Fair and in three books.…

PICTURE Lady Bird Greta Gerwig’s solo directorial debut, starring Saoirse Ronan as a smart and restless teen, opened in four theaters Nov. 3 and scored the highest per-theater average of 2017: $91,109. The New York Times’ critic A.O. Scott proclaimed the movie to be “perfect.” LBJ The time might have seemed right for a reconsideration of Lyndon B. Johnson, who knew how to get things done, but Rob Reiner’s biopic of the 36th president starring Woody Harrelson attracted just $1.1 million when it opened Nov. 3 in 659 theaters. All the Money in the World Sony/TriStar still is planning to open Ridley Scott’s thriller, in which Kevin Spacey plays billionaire J. Paul Getty, on Dec. 22. But the film is being pulled from AFI Fest, where it was to have…

People, Places, Preoccupations It’s Halloween. Two evenings have passed since Anthony Rapp went public with Kevin Spacey’s alleged pedophilic advances. Tomorrow, Brett Ratner’s and Dustin Hoffman’s predacious behavior will make headlines. But for 90-year-old Hollywood enfant terrible Kenneth Anger — the pioneering gay underground filmmaker — the news since Harvey Weinstein’s fall collectively elicits a shrug. After all, aside from his noted contributions to avant garde film (hailed by everyone from Scorsese to Sontag), Anger also is the industry’s oldest living scandalmonger, the author of the 1970s bestseller Hollywood Babylon and its sequel — salacious and much disputed histories of Golden Age cinema. “Hollywood is very good for producing scandals; it’s been producing them since the very beginning,” says Anger over a burger and Coca-Cola at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel…

MARK CUBAN Owner, Dallas Mavericks; star, ABC’s Shark Tank “He would be the most fun to watch because Trump can’t intimidate him and Cuban’s just as quick and just as biting,” says Luntz, who sees the mogul as the “first truly electable independent.” Feldman notes that Cuban could “throw a grenade and say: ‘Trump was the inauthentic billionaire. I’m the real billionaire,’ using Trump as a model and as a foil.” BOB IGER CEO, The Walt Disney Co. “He legitimately could be president on day one,” says Luntz. “And Disney is the most important ambassador for America of any brand.” Feldman, who calls Iger “the insider’s outsider,” adds, “In 2020, maybe people will be looking for more gray hairs, not orange ones, somebody who’s more sober, stable, methodical — but…

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After splashy roles in Atlanta and the hotly anticipated Deadpool spinoff, Zazie Beetz agonized over her next move. With her star quickly rising, she wasn’t lacking for offers, with at least a few larger projects coming her way. But she and her agent, Gersh’s Lindsay Porter, both focused on the long game, weren’t sure another tentpole was the best next step. “We were like, ‘Is that really the right move in terms of balancing it out?’” says Beetz, who decided diversifying was more important. “It’s about a mix of doing franchise films that go global and then doing something weird, showing you have versatility.” Indeed, multiple talent reps guiding the next A-list agree that the road to stardom for emerging talent today does, in large part, hinge on a varied…

JOE ALWYN I 26 The British breakout stepped in front of a camera for the first time in 2015 as the lead in Ang Lee’s risky 3D drama Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. Also making headlines for being Taylor Swift’s latest beau, the actor has a packed slate of historical dramas: Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite with Emma Stone, Chris Weitz’s Operation Finale with Oscar Isaac, the Beau Willimon-penned Mary Queen of Scots with Margot Robbie and Joel Edgerton’s LGBT title Boy Erased with Nicole Kidman. DIRECTOR I’M DYING TO WORK WITH Paul Thomas Anderson. HOLLYWOOD WILL REALLY CHANGE WHEN … “Decisions aren’t just based on someone’s name, and the most talented person for the role gets the job.” MAMOUDOU ATHIE I 28 The Yale grad broke out playing Grandmaster Flash…

ASHTON SANDERS I 22 Playing the middle third of the lead in Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight, Sanders jumped from Venice to Toronto to the Oscars, where his first big feature was awarded best picture. The Carson, California, native — the youngest of five brothers — has chosen to follow up the art house drama with some bigbudget fare: the Rupert Wyatt-directed sci-fi thriller Captive State and Antoine Fuqua’s The Equalizer 2. MOVIE OR TV SHOW I WOULD HAVE LOVED TO STAR IN The Color Purple BIGGEST PROBLEM HOLLYWOOD NEEDS TO FIX “We need to change what the representation of what Hollywood is. It’s not about suits and ties. You should be able to come from a different background and wear whatever clothes and still be Denzel Washington.” KELLY MARIE TRAN I 28 “I…

SHAY HATTEN (Ballerina) An internship with Robert and Susan Downey’s Team Downey near the end of his Loyola Marymount tenure led to a writers assistant gig for Hatten — not that he kept it long. In July, at just 23, he sold the action script Ballerina to Lionsgate. The feature is being pitched as part of the “universe” of John Wick, the studio’s R-rated sleeper hit franchise that already has grossed $260 million worldwide. “The thing I’ve missed most since leaving to write full time is the amazing beverage selection in their kitchen,” jokes Hatten, who signed at CAA earlier in 2017 after his black comedy script Maximum King! landed high on the 2016 Black List. (He penned that script, a surrealist flick about the making of Stephen King’s Maximum…

ELLEN POMPEO* (Meredith Grey) We have an episode coming up about domestic violence, and it manages to have a lightness to it but also touch on the gravity that is domestic abuse. JUSTIN CHAMBERS* (Alex Karev) The powerful stuff that’s coming up may be my favorite. 1 CHANDRA WILSON* (Miranda Bailey) When McDreamy was shot on the hospital’s catwalk in season six. That episode ran the gamut of emotions. 2 JAMES PICKENS JR.* (Richard Webber, aka The Chief) The hospital shooting, when the Chief — in a bid to save his colleagues — tells the shooter that his wife died and he’s done his thing and they can both go together. 3 KEVIN MCKIDD (Owen Hunt) When Sandra Oh left, and Owen and Cristina’s roller coaster came to an end.…

1 ARRIVAL (2016) Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi mind-expander is built four-square around Adams’ utterly committed, subtly nuanced lead performance as linguist Louise Banks. 2 THE MASTER (2012) Adams’ reunion with Philip Seymour Hoffman in Paul Thomas Anderson’s chronicle of a California cult leader and his agonized acolyte provided the actress with arguably the most challenging and complex role of her career so far. 3 DOUBT (2008) Many seasoned actors would struggle to hold their own opposite the superheavyweight duo of Streep and Hoffman, but a then-33-year-old Adams, now 43, did just that, and her second Oscar nomination duly followed.…

Governors Awards Nov. 11 Dolby Ballroom, Hollywood R emedying past oversights, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will hand out honorary Oscars on Nov. 11 at its annual Governors Awards to four filmmaking talents who have each left a distinctive mark on the art form. DONALD SUTHERLAND | ACTOR During his 55-year career, the chameleon-like Canadian actor, 82, has created a gallery of indelible characters, from the freewheeling Hawkeye Pierce in 1970’s M*A*S*H to the buttoned-down detective in 1971’s Klute to the distressed dad trying to hold his family together in 1980’s Ordinary People and the dictatorial President Snow in the Hunger Games franchise. But Sutherland insists the role he’s most recognized for is the spaced-out tank commander Oddball from 1970’s Kelly’s Heroes. “I don’t know what it…

$80M Blade Runner 2049’s losses Alcon Entertainment’s Blade Runner 2049 had everything going for it — an acclaimed director (Denis Villeneuve), A-list stars (Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford) and a fresh 88 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes. But the 164-minute sequel, opening 35 years after Ridley Scott’s cult classic hit theaters, didn’t deliver. Alcon and its investors are facing about $80 million in losses, according to insiders close to the project, after Blade Runner grossed $240.6 million worldwide through Nov. 5 as it winds down its run. That’s a poor showing for a film that cost $155 million to produce after rebates and tax incentives and before marketing. But Sony is expected to recoup its $110 million investment in the Alcon production because of the agreement brokered by Sony Motion Picture Group…

AFM WRAP: GLOBAL PLAYERS LEARN TO SHARE WITH STREAMERS AND STUDIOS Deal of the Week This year’s American Film Market, which wrapped Nov. 8, didn’t hit the nine-figure global sales highs of markets past, but a few standout deals showed how much the indie industry is changing. While the traditional system of agencies and producers packaging projects for sales companies to pre-sell (with foreign distributors committing when the movies get made) isn’t exactly dead, one of the biggest deals at AFM was Netflix’s global (outside of China) buy of A.I. flick Tau from Ken Kao and Alex Walton’s Bloom, which itself became part of a novel paradigm of making and distributing indie movies when it was acquired by Endeavor in August. Endeavor Content also brokered the other major AFM deal:…

“I’ve been waiting to feel less angry. And when I’m ready, I’ll say what I have to say.” UMA THURMAN The Kill Bill star, in response to a red carpet request for her reaction to the allegations of sexual assault made against producer Harvey Weinstein, with whom she made seven movies. “At the time, it seemed a reasonable accommodation for a client, but it was not thought through.” DAVID BOIES The lawyer for both Harvey Weinstein and The New York Times, acknowledging to The New Yorker that his contracting of Israeli spies to help kill a Times report on Weinstein constituted a conflict. “A grave betrayal,” said the Times. “It’s petty, vindictive, and it makes the company look small.” JAKE TAPPER The CNN anchor, tweeting about Disney banning the L.A.…

W hen Chuck James, founding partner and senior motion picture talent agent at ICM Partners, started in the entertainment business in the early 2000s, talent agencies still embraced conformity. “If you were not in a dark suit, red tie, black shoes and black socks, you stood out like a sore thumb,” he says. “It was about falling in line and being conservative.” James, who began in the mailroom a little later than most after playing competitive tennis, distinguished himself by wearing items like a black-and-white houndstooth shirt (“I was able to cobble together enough to buy an Etro dress shirt,” he says). “Now, over the last decade, but more so the last five years, Hollywood has opened the door for people to have their own personality,” says James, who reps…

Booze In June 2016, Drake launched Virginia Black whiskey, which sold 30,000 cases worldwide in its first year and has more than 64,000 followers on Instagram (not too shabby, unless it’s compared with Drake’s 38 million). His father, Dennis Graham, is the face of the ad campaign. Endorsements The rapper's endorsement deals with Sprite and Nike Brand Jordan contributed to his $94 million in earnings in 2017, according to Forbes. Music label Drake’s OVO Sound (OVO for October’s Very Own, the rapper’s birth month) is distributed through Warner Bros. Records. This fall, the label released albums from Canadian rapper PartyNextDoor and Canadian R&B duo Majid Jordan (pictured). Restaurant Launched in 2015 with Toronto chef Susur Lee, Fring’s on King Street offers Asian delicacies and a potential glimpse of the artist, known…

MILLIE BOBBY BROWN I 13 The British teen was catapulted into superstardom when Stranger Things became a global phenomenon after it debuted on Netflix in summer 2016. As the mysterious and powerful Eleven in the drama, Brown quickly became one of the most pursued young talents in Hollywood, drawing interest from all the major agencies before eventually signing with WME. The actress continues to play a key part in the sci-fi drama’s second season, which dropped Oct. 27, and will make the leap to the big screen in Warner Bros.’ tentpole sequel Godzilla: King of Monsters, due out in 2019. As for her future work, Brown says: “It can be a comedy, a romance — it doesn’t matter what it is — if I feel emotionally connected to the role,…

CHARLIE PLUMMER I 18 The New York native will have his biggest role yet starring as the infamously kidnapped John Paul Getty III in Ridley Scott’s family drama All the Money in the World (Dec. 8). Beginning his career in community theater and later landing recurring roles on such TV shows as HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, he didn’t officially break out on the indie filmmaking scene until his starring turn in the Toronto Film Festival standout Lean on Pete. Next up: He’ll continue his indie feature run, co-starring in the family drama Behold My Heart with Marisa Tomei. WORST ON-SET HABIT “Touching my hair. It’s a nervous thing. The hairdresser’s job is a lot harder.” I’D LOVE TO HAVE STARRED IN ... “One of Christopher Nolan’s Batman movies.” NAOMI SCOTT I…

American Cinematheque Nov. 10 Beverly Hilton The toughest act in show business is how to maintain your core central living self while submitting yourself to not only the (sometimes) alien persona of a fictional character but to the relentless forensics that is modern showbiz promotional flogging. Amy has cannily managed this better than most, partly because of her unflagging, goodnatured work ethic, but mostly because of a level-headed, uninflated sense of herself, her priorities and what is real and what is bullshit. She has a geiger counter of a bullshit meter, and for such a polite person is not afraid to hold it up to the bloated face of this business and let us all hear the ticking as loud as she does. She won’t perform what is not real,…

Memorable moments from a storied history 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 The Hollywood Reporter was prophetic about 1988’s Rocket Gibraltar, the Columbia Pictures film in which then-28-year-old future Oscar winner Kevin Spacey had his first major role. (Previously, he’d had a small part as a thief in 1986’s Heartburn and done episodic TV work.) THR said Gibraltar’s box-office prospects “seem dismal.” That was an understatement. The film’s $187,349 domestic gross would be $390,881 today. And it came at a time when Columbia was enduring flop after flop, most spectacularly with 1987’s Ishtar. (Owner Coca-Cola sold the studio to Sony in 1989.) In the Daniel Petriedirected Gibraltar, Spacey plays the “nippy but insecure son-in-law,” in…