Innholdsfortegnelse for Oct-30-15 Double i The Hollywood Reporter

AMEMORABLE DINNER party is more about who’s at the table than what’s on it, and increasingly it also is about who chooses that table — and the lighting, the carpet and even the artwork to convey your host’s just-right mix of moneyed power and can’t-puta-price-on-it taste. That’s where THR’s list of Hollywood’s Top 20 Interior Designers comes in, as they feather the nests of stars, entertainment execs and tech moguls. As the town enters the homestretch of LArchitecture Month (not a typo), this issue also explores the architectural charms of Silver Lake, the city’s most competitive real estate market, and offers a look at film’s ultimate bachelor pad: James Bond’s apartment. Elsewhere, we visit the Murdoch brothers at their new Fox lot work digs and explore how California’s Fair Pay…

WITH THE HIRING OF Washington Post editor Kevin Merida to lead The Undefeated, its long-delayed race and sports site, ESPN has quieted some uncertainty (for now) about its strategy of building digi tal verticals around stars and subjects. On Oct. 19, Marie Donoghue, ESPN executive vp global strategy, who also oversees Grantland and Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight, noted that the hire “represents a key step in the evolution” of the vertical, which lost founder Jason Whitlock. ESPN’s digital hubs have generated outsize attention relative to their P&Ls. (Wall Street has given ESPN a $51 billion valuation, while annual revenue exceeds $10 billion.) And a stream of public digs from Grantland founder Bill Simmons, who was jettisoned in May and since has landed a rich deal at HBO, has been a source…

KA-CHING! WHO’S INKING ON THE DOTTED LINE THIS WEEK DEAL OF THE WEEK NBC’S PRIMETIME lineup includes only two comedies, but the company is investing big in the genre online. On Oct. 15, NBCUniversal unveiled the comedyonly subscription video service SeeSo, a $3.99-a-month, ad-free offering set to launch wide in January with more than 20 original series and stand-up specials from creators including Dan Harmon (Community), Wyatt Cenac (The Daily Show) and Upright Citizens Brigade. “If you want to find out if we get you the good shit, you need to see so for yourself,” explains NBCU executive vp digital enterprises Evan Shapiro of the unusual name. The site will leverage NBC’s catalog of comedy brands, including The Tonight Show, Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock and Parks and Recreation, to…

Tom Cruise’s Fridge Wars Movie sets often create a family-like atmosphere, and that was what happened on the new Universal movie Mena. Lead actor Tom Cruise, director Doug Liman and scribe Gary Spinelli shared a house during filming, sources tell THR, with each taking his own floor and using the kitchen and living room communally. No word on why the trio opted for such a living situation — the film centers on an American pilot, played by Cruise, who worked for the late drug lord Pablo Escobar — but apparently it presented some refrigerator conflicts as Cruise follows a much more strictly healthy diet than Liman and Spinelli. A rep for Cruise didn’t respond to a request for comment. Why Don Draper’s Office Got Donated to a Museum Mad Men’s…

MOST BASEBALL FANS KNOW THAT MLB OFFERS A GREAT digital product, streaming nearly all games via its overthe-top subscription service, MLB.tv, and its At Bat mobile app. But fans might not know that MLB Advanced Media, the digital arm of MLB that is owned equally by the 30 MLB teams, has become a leader in streaming video for nonbaseball services. MLBAM handles the backend for everything from ESPN’s streaming app to HBO Now to WWE matches, Turner’s March Madness college basketball tournament coverage and NHL games (the six-year deal, revealed in 2014, has MLBAM paying the NHL $100 million annually for rights to all NHL digital platforms, with the NHL taking a 10 percent stake in MLBAM). Presiding over it all is Bob Bowman, president and CEO of MLB Advanced…

AGENTS FROM LEFT Louise Ward, Lisa Stein UTA’S SENIOR MOTION picture agent Ward and director of corporate communications Stein exemplify agent style with designer fitted dresses, neutral jackets and heels with some height. “We have to be versatile,” says Stein. “You never know what last-minute meeting you might be pulled into or who’s in the building. I have lunches and after-work events at least three times a week, so I have to keep a Smashbox makeup palette in my office for touch-ups.” LET’S FACE IT: Hollywood’s female power players confront their share of unique sartorial challenges. They’ve got to look presentable and powerful through 15-hour-plus days that take them from meetings to business lunches to on-set visits to the red carpet. “We’re representing, we’re looking after geniuses,” says UTA senior…

COMCAST OWNS Universal Pictures WOMEN ON BOARD 1 of 11 Dr. Judith Rodin was the Ivy League’s first noninterim female president (University of Pennsylvania, 1994-2004) when she joined the Comcast board in 2002. Now president of the Rockefeller Foundation, she also is a director at Citigroup. THE WALT DISNEY CO. OWNS Walt Disney Studios WOMEN ON BOARD 3 of 10 Sheryl Sandberg (above) was Disney’s youngest director, at 40, when she was elected in 2010, joining Carlyle Group exec Susan Arnold and U.S. Hispanic Media board chair Monica C. Lozano, whose 15-year tenure is Disney’s longest. 21ST CENTURY FOX OWNS 20th Century Fox WOMEN ON BOARD 1 of 12 Louis Vuitton executive vp Delphine Arnault, who joined Fox’s board in June 2013, also serves as a director for her own…

THIS YEAR, FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE honorees at the CLIO Key Art Awards — which recognize accomplishments in entertainment advertising and communications (like movie posters) — will receive an actual CLIO trophy, one of the ad world’s most coveted prizes, previously given only to print, radio and TV admen (Don Draper had one!). “It holds so much prestige in the advertising world,” says veteran marketer Jenny Wall, who is serving as one of eight jury chairs for the awards. Wall, who heads marketing at Hulu (and who used to work at Netflix), spoke to THR about the event, which Black-ish star Anthony Anderson will host Oct. 22 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. Thanks to the merger of CLIO and the Key Art Awards, winners this year are getting…

AN INSIDE LOOK BEHIND THE HEADLINES JAMES BOND IS ABOUT TO BECOME A FREE AGENT, setting off a scramble among Hollywood studios eager to win distribution rights to the seemingly gold-plated franchise. Sony Pictures opens Spectre, the 24th official Bond movie, on Nov. 6 in North America (the Brits get an early look Oct. 26), as the 007 adventure chases box-office records established by 2012’s Skyfall, which grossed $1.1 billion worldwide to become the biggest film in the series’ 53-year history. With tracking pointing toward an $80 million-plus domestic bow, the movie has Skyfall’s $88 million debut in its sights. But even if the film proves a big success, it could mark the end of the Sony/MGM collaboration since Spectre is the last in a two-picture deal that Sony struck…

NOW THAT SNAPCHAT’S ORIGINAL programming push has disappeared as quickly as its messages do, content creators are debating the potential fallout. Nine months after the Venice, Calif.-based messaging app launched the Snap Channel for daily editorial and videos such as its Literally Can’t Even series, Snapchat abruptly shuttered it Oct. 12, laying off most of its staff and bidding farewell to Marcus Wiley, the Fox comedy exec hired to run the initiative. Insiders say the channel, which was launched as part of the Discover platform (which also works with such publishers as ESPN and CNN), was an experiment that generated insights about its young users and that the Evan Spiegelled company doesn’t plan to give up on content. But media observers say it’s no surprise Snapchat left creative endeavors to…

““I found out when I was 6 and then all my friends found out, too. It was a dark time in my childhood.” ” BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD The Jurassic World actress, joking about how she found out she was named for the city she was conceived in, as she introduced her father, Ron, who was honored at the DGA Honors Gala in New York on Oct. 17. “Last week I bought my second pair of underwear.” BERNIE SANDERS The Democratic presidential candidate, responding to Larry David’s impersonation of him on SNL (“I own one pair of underwear — that’s it!”). “I feel super violated. Like, I feel like I can’t step outside and feel like I can go outside naked.” JUSTIN BIEBER The singer, breaking his silence on nude paparazzi…

OVER THE PAST TWO DECADES, RUPERT MURDOCH has grown his film and television business into a behemoth with a $58.5 billion market cap as of Oct. 18. But a general sell-off in media stocks this summer due to fears about cable ratings and cord-cutting hit Fox shares. A close look at the company’s fiscal 2015 financials reveals that a record year at the box office (X-Men: Days of Future Past and The Fault in Our Stars) boosted the film studio while ratings struggles at the fourth-place Fox network led to a 19 percent drop in television profits.…

NANCI RYDER CAN’T SPEAK. SHE can barely eat (a bowl of Haagen-Dazs vanilla is about all her mouth can handle). Swallowing is difficult, even dangerous. So Ryder has a gastrostomy feeding tube connected to her stomach. It’s called a Mic-Key, and it’s discreetly concealed under her shirt. But near the end of our 75-minute interview at the kitchen table inside her hilltop Los Angeles home, Ryder lifts her top just enough to show it off. It’s a button-sized implant that looks just like the air valve on a beach ball, complete with a little plastic stopper When Ryder, 63, first sat down with THR in October 2014 to announce that she was suffering from bulbar onset ALS — an almost always fatal neurological disorder that gradually destroys the body’s motor…

CHARA Hearing Dog Originally trained as a service dog for her hearingimpaired owner, Chara later showed an uncanny ability to detect epileptic seizures in humans up to 45 minutes before they happened. She also once saved an infant’s life by alerting the mother to her child’s having stopped breathing in a crib. DAX Law Enforcement Massachusetts police officer Chris Alberini owes his life to Dax: On July 2, 2013, the K-9 unit discovered a wanted man hiding in an attic with a loaded shotgun. Dax lunged at the suspect just as he attempted to fire a round into Alberini’s chest. Minutes before, the suspect had sent a text saying he was about to “kill a cop.” GLORY Arson Glory is trained to sniff out even the smallest traces of accelerants…

REESE WITHERSPOON IS known for her lovable comedic characters in Legally Blonde and Sweet Home Alabama and her critically acclaimed work in last year’s Wild and 2005’s Walk the Line, which earned her a best actress Oscar. But it’s her work behind the scenes as a producer through her Pacific Standard banner, which she and Bruna Papandrea founded in 2012, that has made her a true industry force. “One of the best parts of our job is we’re buying books and helping authors navigate the process of getting a book all the way to the screen,” says Witherspoon, 39, who will receive the 29th American Cinematheque Award on Oct. 30. AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE AWARD OCT. 30 HYATT REGENCY CENTURY PLAZA After the successes of Gone Girl and Wild, are publishers flocking to you…

STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS DOESN’T open in the U.S. until Dec. 18, but the ticketbuying frenzy is putting Disney and Lucasfilm in the enviable but still challenging situation of managing expectations. Online sales began Oct. 19 for J.J. Abrams’ sequel based on George Lucas’ series, even before the full trailer debuted on ESPN’s Monday Night Football, with ticket sites like Fandango crashing under demand fueled by social media buzz. According to Twitter, between 11 a.m. Oct. 19 and 11 a.m. Oct. 20, there were 1.1 million Star Wars-related tweets. By the morning of Oct. 20, Fandango had recorded record presales, selling eight times as many tickets as it did on the opening day of sales for the first Hunger Games movie. Imax, which will show the film in about…

IF A HIT MOVIE, AN EMMY, A HUGE book deal and a friendship with Jennifer Lawrence aren’t enough to prove Amy Schumer has arrived, consider her new film deal: Sources say Schumer, 34, has scored between $4 million and $5 million to star in a Fox mother-daughter comedy to be directed by Jonathan Levine (50/50). It’s a giant leap from the $300,000 the then-obscure comic got in August 2013 to star in Trainwreck (she likely earned more in backend and bonuses when the film grossed $138.3 million worldwide this summer). Schumer and sister Kimberly Caramele also are executive producing the Fox and Chernin comedy as well as polishing Katie Dippold’s original script. The ribald comic, who recently signed with manager Guy Oseary, has enjoyed a meteoric rise in 2015. Besides…

DGA Honors New York, Oct. 15 THE DIRECTORS GUILD OF America celebrated Ron Howard, Tyler Perry and film editor Thelma Schoonmaker at a celebrity-heavy dinner that inclu ded host Alan Cumming and such guests as Leonardo DiCaprio and Alec Baldwin. Both Perry and Howard were awarded for contributions to film and television. Howard was given a touching speech by daughter Bryce Dallas Howard, who recounted her experience working as a young PA on the set of Apollo 13. “Every day of my childhood felt like Bring Your Daughter to Work Day. I got to ride to and from set with my dad, and he would share the challenges and the wins of the day … as he scribbled the shot list on the back of an imagined buck slip. My…

IN APRIL 2013, REPUBLICAN National Committee chairman Reince Priebus secretly met about a dozen writers, directors and producers in a suite at Loews Hollywood Hotel. The topic: How could the industry’s quiet network of conservatives help elect more Republicans? GOP fans in Hollywood tend to hold their political activities close to the vest. This reporter was thrown out of a fundraiser for Rick Santorum at a $35 million mansion on Sunset Boulevard after celebrity attendees feared they would be “outed” as supporters. But a conservative network does exist even within the famous liberal enclave, and since the meeting with Priebus, the largely underground effort has picked up steam as the field of 2016 presidential hopefuls has narrowed. “They’re holding back to see who emerges. No one wants to back a…

1. The Mexico scene required 1,500 extras, 10 giant skeletons and 250,000 paper flowers. “We had to make everything,” says set decorator Daniela Rojas. “Nothing was in season.” 2. Q (Ben Whishaw) in his gadget lab. “It was an opportunity to give insight into Q’s world,” says set decorator Anna Pinnock, “including the cat-litter tray.” 3. 007’s digs. “It was a process of elimination, of adding and taking away to get the right look,” says Pinnock. “The set ended up being more about what wasn’t there.” 4. Gassner (left), whose first film job was 1979’s Apocalypse Now, with director of photography Hoyte Van Hoytema. THE LAST TIME AUDIENCES GOT A GLIMPSE OF James Bond’s apartment was in 1973’s Live and Let Die, when 007 made an espresso for M in…

When did you first meet Nanci? When I was on Family Ties. Nancy was Michael J. Fox’s publicist and Justine Bateman’s and basically everybody else’s, too. She was just a powerhouse — a really strong woman — and I was desperate for her to represent me. I liked her right away. She said no because it was a conflict of interest to represent so many people on the show. Many years later when I was on Friends, we started working together. We worked together for many years, but always had been really close; we just had a very easy relationship. I love her honesty, her directness — and she makes me laugh. Nanci says you go to the lab with her, that you’re very interested in the science of the…

Cast of STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON Corey Hawkins, O’Shea Jackson Jr. and Jason Mitchell Breakout Ensemble Robert De Niro Career Achievement Will Smith Actor, CONCUSSION Carey Mulligan Actress, SUFFRAGETTE Benicio Del Toro Supporting Actor, SICARIO Jane Fonda Supporting Actress, YOUTH Joel Edgerton Breakout Actor, BLACK MASS Alicia Vikander Breakout Actress, THE DANISH GIRL Saoirse Ronan New Hollywood, BROOKLYN Amy Schumer Comedy, TRAINWRECK Ridley Scott Producer, THE MARTIAN Tom Hooper Director, THE DANISH GIRL Adam McKay Breakthrough Director, THE BIG SHORT Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer Screenwriters, SPOTLIGHT Inside Out Animation Asif Kapadia Documentary, AMY Janusz Kaminski Cinematography, BRIDGE OF SPIES Alexandre Desplat Film Composer, THE DANISH GIRL and SUFFRAGETTE Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth Song, “See You Again,” from FURIOUS 7 Sandy Powell Costume Design, CINDERELLA Lesley Vanderwalt Makeup & Hairstyling, MAD…

“He’s kind of a gentle giant. But when he played, he was a terror.” Lakers fan and former Capitol-EMI Music chief JOE SMITH TO SAY LAMAR ODOM HAS had a tough life would be an understatement. The former forward for the Lakers and Clippers — who at press time had regained consciousness and was improving after spending several days in a medically induced coma following a drug-fueled binge in a Las Vegasarea brothel — had a father who was a heroin addict, and his mother died of colon cancer when he was 12. But Odom, 35, was a basketball star almost from the moment he set foot on a court in Queens, N.Y. As a 17-year-old, 6-foot-9 guard averaging 25 points a game, he was named Parade’s 1997 high school…