Innholdsfortegnelse for Wednesday, January 10, 2018 i The Hollywood Reporter

A sale of the embattled Weinstein Co. may be imminent. But the leading bid — fronted by Obama administration alum Maria Contreras-Sweet and backed by billionaire Ron Burkle — is raising eyebrows in Hollywood. Sources say Burkle has remained in contact with Harvey Weinstein, who has kept a low profile since the first allegations surfaced in articles in The New York Times and The New Yorker in early October. And if Contreras-Sweet’s bid wins at auction, it gives Burkle, who would be a minority investor, a foothold in a company that has been rocked by dozens of women claiming that the disgraced mogul sexually assaulted and harassed them. “I find it profoundly disturbing, leaning toward sociopathy,” says Rose McGowan, who was one of the first to call out Weinstein for…

Will she actually run? Post-Trump, nothing can be ruled out as Oprah Winfrey’s emotional Cecil B. DeMille Award acceptance speech at The Beverly Hilton on Jan. 7 electrified both Hollywood and the Beltway at the prospect of a presidential candidacy. Whether she intended to or not, the 63-year-old OWN mogul set off a frenzy after a nine-minute speech during which she spoke of meeting with and portraying those with the “ability to maintain hope for a brighter morning, even during our darkest nights.” The outsized response seems to have taken her aback, say sources close to Winfrey. On Jan. 9, her longtime best friend, CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King, said on the air that Winfrey is “intrigued” but that “I don’t think at this point she is actively considering…

FX CHIEF’S STATE OF PEAK TV: STREAMING SPIKES, LINEAR FLAT Deal of the Week The Peak TV bubble isn’t bursting quite yet. According to a new FX study, the total number of Englishlanguage scripted originals released in 2017 hit a new high, growing 7 percent to 487 (up from 455 in 2016). As has been the case in the past four years, subscription-video-on-demand platforms like deep-pocketed Netflix and Amazon led the charge, growing from 90 in 2016 to 117 last year. That’s more than double the 49 total series on the streaming services in 2015. “Virtually all the growth is and will be coming out of streaming services,” FX CEO John Landgraf, who coined the term “Peak TV,” tells THR. “Everybody is going to try to maintain their investment posture…

L.A. ART SHOW, JAN. 10-14 Now in its 24th year, the event draws more than 90 galleries from 18 countries and had a record attendance of 70,000 in 2017 that included the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Collins, James Brolin and Anne Hathaway. This year, the Littletopia section honors Margaret Keane, 90, the subject of Tim Burton’s 2014 film, Big Eyes (Amy Adams won a Golden Globe for her portrayal of the artist). And Matthew Modine will mark the 30th anniversary of Full Metal Jacket with an exhibit of photographs. The star, who next appears in June’s Sicario 2: Soldado, played a correspondent for Stars and Stripes in Stanley Kubrick’s brutal take on the Vietnam War. Modine took photos on the set with an old Rolleiflex; those snapshots and his…

“Now she doesn’t have a choice.” MERYL STREEP The actress, telling The Washington Post that Oprah Winfrey’s rousing speech at the Golden Globes means she’ll be a presidential candidate in 2020. “James Franco just won. Please never ever ask me why I left the film/tv business.” ALLY SHEEDY The actress, implying in a tweet — later deleted — that Franco had a part in her ending her acting career. He directed her in a 2014 off-Broadway production of The Long Shift. “We have to operate as if this deal might not go through.” GARY NEWMAN The Fox Television Group co-chairman, saying at the TCA press tour that the sale of much of 21st Century Fox to Disney has not changed the network’s plans. “I think I’ve wasted enough of my…

Births Brent Montgomery, CEO of ITV America, and wife Courtney welcomed daughter Piper Belle Montgomery on Dec. 19 at Stamford Hospital in Connecticut. Congrats Walter Hamada was named president of DC Films on Jan. 4. Mark Pedowitz extended his deal as CW president Jan. 3. King, Holmes, Paterno & Soriano promoted Joe Carlone to partner Jan. 2. Dawn Olmstead and George Cheeks were upped to copresidents of Universal Cable Productions and Wilshire Studios and Bill McGoldrick was upped to president of scripted content at NBCU Cable Entertainment. Deaths Darlanne Fluegel, who starred in To Live and Die in L.A. and TV’s Crime Story, died Dec. 15 in Orlando of Alzheimer’s disease. She was 64. Billy Harbach, the first producer of The Tonight Show, died Dec. 18 in Connecticut. He was…

How’s your new fame? It’s a little surreal. It’s a weird combination of totally normal — I just sit at the desk behind the computer like always — and all you do is hear your own name in the background. There was a paparazzo outside this morning. That was a weird feeling. I assume Trump feels very betrayed by you? I don’t think he thought about this in any way. I literally think you go in there and say, “I’m writing a book,” and they go, “Oh. A book.” It’s like a cloak of invisibility. And then also, they would do this thing that would be like, “Oh, this is off the record.” And I would say, “I would like to use it for the book.” And they would say,…

Drake Wins Battle of the Streamers’ Party DJs Inside the Netflix fete at the Waldorf Astoria, Drake — an executive producer for the streamer’s revival of Top Boy — added “top DJ” to his multihyphenate status. Event DJ Daisy O’Dell dared the hip-hop artist and producer to spin, and he took her up on it. Spotted at 11 p.m. waiting patiently for his turn at the DJ booth — “They’re trying to figure out the Wi-Fi situation,” explained a reveler — Drake had stars like Zoe Kravitz and Alia Shawkat grooving for an hour to tracks like Kelis’ “Millionaire,” Outkast’s “She Lives in My Lap” and Missy Elliott’s “Oops (Oh My).” Chief content officer Ted Sarandos — presiding over Netflix’s first solo Globes bash after co-hosting for many years with…

Martin McDonagh was on a Greyhound bus somewhere in the South — it was 20 years ago, he can’t remember exactly where — when he spotted something on the side of the road that has haunted him ever since. He was a 27-year-old playwright at the time, making his first marks on the London stage, and had decided to go on an exploratory journey into the American heartland so that he could soak up some of the culture he’d read about in the works of William Faulkner and Tennessee Williams. But as his bus rolled along a stretch of rural highway, his eye was drawn to a series of jarring road signs, one after another. Somebody was apparently angry with the local police and had erected billboards to take out…

Millie Bobby Brown Brown jumps to No. 2 with a 156 percent boost in all social media, led by 147,000 Instagram comments. The actress known for playing Eleven on Stranger Things came across the number yet again as she celebrated 11 million Instagram followers in a Dec. 29 photo. Mark Hamill Two weeks after his chart debut (No. 13, Dec. 27), Hamill returns to the ranking, garnering 1 million Twitter likes and 234,000 retweets, after a Dec. 31 tweet with a beginning of 2017/end of 2017 meme depicting him as a young and old Luke Skywalker. Roseanne Barr The comedian and actress tweeted Dec. 30 that she was “extremely proud and excited for the world to see Roseanne on ABC,” garnering a 204 percent boost in Twitter likes. The revival…

Wonder Woman is adding another award to her shelf. Gal Gadot, who played the Amazonian warrior in the Warner Bros. blockbuster, will be the second #SeeHer Award honoree at the Critics’ Choice Awards. Viola Davis received the inaugural honor, which was organized by the Association of National Advertisers, the largest marketing and advertising group in the U.S. The award “recognizes a woman who embodies the values set forth by the #SeeHer movement — to push boundaries on changing stereotypes and recognize the importance of accurately portraying women across the entertainment landscape.” Patty Jenkins, who helmed the film (which earned $821.8 million worldwide), will present the award to Gadot. The duo have been trading tributes during awards season, with Jenkins most recently honoring her star at the Palm Springs International Film…

For his decades of work as a labor organizer and justice advocate, William Lucy will be honored with the NAACP’s Chairman’s Award, which recognizes those who “demonstrate exemplary public service and use their distinct platforms to create agents of change.” Previous recipients have included Bono, former Vice President Al Gore and then-Sen. Barack Obama. Lucy served as the international secretary-treasurer of the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees for nearly 40 years, helping the union grow from 200,000 to more than 1.4 million members. In that time, he worked with Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike and led a fundraising effort to bring Nelson Mandela on a U.S. tour after the anti-apartheid revolutionary was freed from his 27-year imprisonment in South Africa. “I am…

TONY VINCIQUERRA Sony Pictures Entertainment’s chairman/CEO gets grilled by Soledad O’Brien during the 9 a.m. keynote. ELAINE FRONTAIN BRYANT A&E’s head of programming joins a handful of reality TV vets to discuss the evolving genre at 1:45 p.m. JANE FONDA The 80-year-old actress sits down for a one-on-one that’s sure to cover #MeToo and Time’s Up-related matters at 3:30 p.m. BYRON ALLEN The Entertainment Studios exec sits down with colleague Andrew Temple to discuss inclusivity in entertainment at 4:15 p.m.…

Seth Meyers NBC’s Golden Globes host wins raves for a pitch-perfect monologue that took on the #MeToo moment with humor and sincerity, even as telecast ratings dip slightly. Sue Kroll The Warner Bros. marketing chief steps down to become a producer after 23 years at the studio amid a restructuring that gives full film control to Toby Emmerich. Katherine Pope The former NBC and Chernin exec is tapped by Charter to head original content and oversee the cable giant’s new effort to create its own TV shows. Arie Luyendyk Jr. ABC’s latest Bachelor fails to reel in viewers, with ratings for the venerable reality show down more than 30 percent from 2016. Showbiz Stocks ↑ $1,246.87 (+5%) AMAZON.COM (AMZN) Research firm Baird ups its target price, saying the streaming-media and…

Big Deal Politicians typically keep their private lives out of public view. But a new HBO documentary will chronicle the breast cancer odyssey faced by Sandra Lee, the de facto first lady of New York. The Daytime Emmy-winning lifestyle guru and her longtime partner, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, gave director Cathy Chermol Schrijver unfettered access to their homes, doctors’ appointments and hospital rooms for the short RX Early Detection: A Cancer Journey With Sandra Lee, which will make its world premiere Jan. 21 at the Sundance Film Festival. “The film was a wonderful collaboration of like-minded people focused on making a difference,” says Lee, 51, of RX, which goes from the routine mammogram that detected cancer in March 2015 to Lee’s double mastectomy that May. Lee and Cuomo, 60, whose daughter…

Tech World With its hordes of backpack-toting tech bros, CES might be the last place you’d expect to find folk heroine Jewel. But the singersongwriter will be in Las Vegas for the annual conference Jan. 10 to speak about her new Whole Human platform, which focuses on workplace mindfulness (she’s teamed with Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh for the venture). “I spoke at SALT — [Anthony] Scaramucci’s hedge fund investment thing — and got a standing ovation,” says the 43-year-old, who’s now planning a Whole Human curriculum addressing sexual harassment. “We’re telling men that how they behave isn’t acceptable, but we’re not telling them what is acceptable,” she adds of the allegations that have roiled Hollywood. “We have to think about what information we’re filling that void with.”…

Build-Up Cycle Meals had 40 grams protein, 40 grams carbs and 30 grams fat; snacks had 30 grams protein. Drinks: water, beetrootlemon- ginger shots and veggie juices with fruit. BREAKFAST • 4 eggs in any form (such as an omelet or a frittata with vegetables, or poached) • Half avocado • Coffee SNACK 1 • All snacks are protein-centered (examples: beef or chicken skewers, sashimi, or grilled octopus) LUNCH • 40 grams beef, chicken or fish • 40 grams slow carbs (such as brown rice, quinoa, barley, yams or sweet potato) • 30 grams good fat used in cooking, dressing or as a garnish (examples: coconut oil, olive oil, avocado) SNACK 2 • Same options as Snack 1 DINNER • 40 grams protein • 40 grams slow carbs • 30…

Perhaps it’s not surprising that Hollywood men are feeling stress these days and turning to wellness resorts and active retreats. The iconic Golden Door Resort in Escondido, California — which has increased the frequency of its men’s weeks since the first one was held in 1959 — is where the “uber-rich go for a full wellness week,” says Ehsan Ali, concierge doctor to Liam Hemsworth. The all-inclusive getaway, with grounds overseen by Steve Jobs’ former gardener ($8,850/ week), has hosted Liev Schreiber and talent manager Eric Emery, among others. “Finding a time and place for introspection is essential to me,” says Schreiber, who visited in June. Founder Terri Havens of San Diego’s Cal- A-Vie — where industry figures like Josh Brolin, Steve Tisch and entertainment lawyer Kevin Morris use such…

Ronan Farrow is dressed in a black tuxedo jacket and blue silk pajama bottoms. Showing a bit of stubble, his blond hair mussed, he’s holding court at the bar at Mama Lion, a sleek supper club in L.A.’s Koreatown. It’s a Saturday in early December, and Farrow is among the guests of honor at a joint birthday party with his friends Shannon Woodward — the Westworld actress and Katy Perry pal — and Juliet Liu, a fellow Yale alum and the executive assistant to Universal Pictures chairman Donna Langley. The theme is “black tie and pajamas.” Farrow, who lives in New York, won’t turn 30 for a few days, but he’s in L.A. running down sources for his next New Yorker piece. (He won’t reveal the topic.) And the trip…

↑ Hotel Mumbai TWC picked up the rights to the India-set terrorist thriller at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. Dev Patel and Armie Hammer star. Mary Magdalene Early footage of the biblical drama starring Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix was shown at Cannes in May. The Upside Based on TWC’s 2012 French-language hit The Intouchables, the comedy stars Bryan Cranston and Kevin Hart. The Current War Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon star as Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse, respectively, in this drama. The War With Grandpa Robert De Niro stars in this comedy, which also features Harvey Weinstein critic Uma Thurman in a supporting role.…

E! News is being whiplashed by changing red carpet norms. After a Jan. 7 Instagram callout by Amy Schumer, actresses Debra Messing, Natalie Portman and Eva Longoria used pre- Golden Globes airtime on E! to bring attention to former network host Catt Sadler’s claim of a “massive” pay disparity between her and colleague Jason Kennedy. Sadler’s exit has put E! in the ironic position of seeing its personalities become the story. Sadler, 43, is the latest in a string of high-profile hosts who have left the network in the past two years. In 2015, Giuliana Rancic stepped down from dayto- day duties at E! News after more than a decade (but still appears on specials), and she has been followed out the door by Terrence Jenkins and Maria Menounos. E!…

BEST PICTURE Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri The Hollywood Foreign Press gave it lots of love at the Globes, naming it best drama and singling out Frances McDormand for best drama actress, Sam Rockwell for supporting actor and Martin McDonagh for his screenplay. The Post Despite possessing all the star power in the world — which the HFPA historically finds hard to resist — this timely film about the power of the press went 0-for-6 at the Globes. And when the Writers Guild announced its noms Jan. 4, The Post also was glaringly snubbed. Lady Bird The National Society of Film Critics crowned it 2017’s best picture on Jan. 6, and the next day Greta Gerwig’s semi autobiographical film celebrated at the Globes, where it won best picture (musical or…

People, Places, Preoccupations When Aldis Hodge DM’d artist Harmonia Rosales on Instagram to compliment her paintings, he never expected to kick off a collaboration. But the Hidden Figures actor, 31 — who next stars opposite Kevin Bacon in Showtime police pilot City on a Hill — showed Rosales some of his paintings, and she told him they held a beautiful sadness. “I was surprised someone responded to my work in that way who was not named ‘Mom,’” he says. Now the duo is bowing two new works via the Simard Bilodeau gallery at the L.A. Art Show, Jan. 10 to 14 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Chicago-based Rosales, 33, had a viral moment in May after, at Hodge’s urging, she Instagrammed her painting The Creation of God — a…

NIMBY Fleets of touristpacked buses will roam the Hollywood Hills less freely thanks to regulations approved by the L.A. City Council in November that took effect Jan. 1. The new rules ban loudspeakers on the buses and restrict access to narrow, twisty streets, where they clog traffic. “Our hope is that the city will agree to disallow the buses from entering any small streets in the neighborhood,” says Anastasia Mann, president of the Hollywood Hills Neighborhood Council, which was instrumental in passing the new regulations. Hollywood & Highland, where most Hollywood tours originate, has 25 million visitors annually, more than 1 million of whom board a tour bus. A spokesperson for industry leader Starline maintains the outfit is “never the tour company that residents complain [has] drivers blasting their commentary…

Former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus enjoyed S.Y. Kitchen in Santa Ynez. … Jon Hamm stopped by Trois Familia. … Pam Levine was at Mr Chow in Beverly Hills. Music producer Jerry Moss sat with Richard Donner. On a different day, Bill Gerber was in. Jeffrey Katzenberg shared a table with Peter Rice. … Ty Burrell checked out Eataly. … Jaclyn Smith had dinner at Farmshop. … Arianna Huffington shared the room with Howard Kurtzman for dinner at Toscana. Patrick Wachsberger and Rob Reiner also were in, separately. … Charo had lunch at Il Fornaio in Beverly Hills. … Riley Keough was at Delilah. … Larry Flynt enjoyed dinner at Lawry’s on Christmas Eve. … Kristen Stewart checked in at Maru Coffee. … Zoey Deutch lunched with family at…

Makeup designer Arjen Tuiten admits he “can’t think of any child who has worn full prosthetics as a lead” in a film before Wonder, the surprise hit that has grossed nearly $200 million on its $20 million budget since it was released in November by Lionsgate. Based on R.J. Palacio’s New York Times best-seller, Wonder is the story of Auggie Pullman, a young boy — played by Room’s Jacob Tremblay, who was just 9 during filming — with Treacher Collins syndrome, a genetic condition that affects the face and eyes. The young actor wore full silicone head, neck and face prosthetics with individually punched eyebrow hairs. “Underneath the wig, Jacob wore a skullcap made of carbon fiber, which contained a mechanism to pull his lower eyelids down so they appear…

A chieving a flawless glow is arguably more important than ever, what with black formalwear dominating the red carpet and putting more focus on the face. Tech-forward treatments have taken up residence inside two of the industry’s favorite Beverly Hills hotel spas, just in time for awards season. $1,500 ULTIMATE INDULGENCE FACIAL Featuring diamondtip microdermabrasion, radio frequency and Biologique Recherche products, the In-Skin facial machine is the heart of the 120-minute facial promoting a dewy complexion favored by Salma Hayek, Sharon Stone and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. At Peninsula Beverly Hills. $1,100 OXY-PEEL ANTIPIGMENTATION TREATMENT White truffles, L.Raphael products and a high-tech oxygen blast fade sun and age spots. Emma Watson and Julianne Moore are fans of the 60-minute treatment. At Spa Montage Beverly Hills (pictured).…

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Mira Sorvino and Ashley Judd starred together in the 1996 HBO movie Norma Jean & Marilyn, for which both scored Golden Globe and Emmy noms. Little did they know they had something else in common: Shortly before, both say, they were targets of then-Miramax mogul Harvey Weinstein’s advances. After such promising early work and recognition, the actresses should have seen their stars rise through the rest of the ’90s. Instead, neither drew real awards buzz again — nor, with the exception of Sorvino’s 1997 Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, a hit. A survey of their projects over the next few years — wan indies, camp thrillers, straight-to-video animation — seems to point to a series of very bad choices. But perhaps those choices were limited by Harvey’s power: In…

70% of those polled think more highly of women who have named their accusers, like Ashley Judd and Asia Argento. “Admiration for A-listers like Angelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow has skyrocketed,” says Sehdev. “They’ve got more to lose. Audiences respect that.” 50% of those polled think less favorably of actresses who have spoken generally about sexual assault without naming names, including Jennifer Lawrence, Blake Lively and Kate Winslet. “They are seen as trying to jump on the bandwagon but are still perceived as enablers,” explains Sehdev. “They want to have their cake and eat it too.” 70% of those polled think less favorably of women who worked with Harvey Weinstein and have not addressed any negative experience or say they didn’t know, like Meryl Streep. Millennials in particular “have turned…

Memorable moments from a storied history The Jan. 12 release of Screen Gems’ Proud Mary, starring Taraji P. Henson as a Mafia hitwoman, pays more than a little homage to “blaxploitation” films of the past. The genre — which featured mostly African-American characters, extreme violence and irresistible R&B soundtracks — went mainstream with 1971’s Shaft. Max Julien, one of blaxploitation’s biggest stars (he appeared opposite Richard Pryor in 1973’s The Mack), was laying low in Rome in the early ’70s when a voice in his head told him to “go home and write about something called ‘Cleopatra Jones.’” Two days later, he was in Hollywood selling the idea to producer Peter Guber. “Everyone was looking for a black film at the time,” recalls Julien of his pitch, which centered on…