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It doesn’t take a 200-page issue of The Hollywood Reporter to tell you that this Oscar season was different. The Harvey Weinstein sexual misconduct claims broke in early October, just as the awards race was beginning to take shape. As the guild and critic accolades arrived, they competed for headlines with disturbing harassment allegations and calls for industrywide reform. By the time THR’s annual Producer Roundtable, shot on Oct. 7, ran in print just a few weeks later, Ridley Scott’s laudatory comments about his All the Money in the World star Kevin Spacey had to be edited out because Scott had disappeared Spacey from the movie. Throughout this reckoning (and no, I don’t think it’s nearly over), prominent industry figures have used the global platform of the Oscar race to…
For the cover, conceptual illustrator Hanna Barczyk, 34, depicted women breaking barriers in Hollywood with an image of a female shattering the Oscar statuette. “It conveys patterns of patriarchy cracking and women fighting in unison to be heard,” she notes. On its 60th anniversary, documentarian/author Cari Beauchamp, 67, looks back at the first Governors Ball in 1958 (page 114), when such stars as Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward attended the dinner dance. “It was a smash success,” she says. Novelist Walter Mosley, 66, considers the legacy of In the Heat of the Night (page 174) 50 years after its best picture win. He says his recent book, Down the River Unto the Sea, catches “the spirit and the hope for freedom,” not unlike, say, Heat in 1968. Fashion icon Diane…
The “fake news!” chants started without a prompt on Feb. 22, filling the cavernous meeting room at Gaylord National Hotel and Convention Center outside Washington, D.C. There, a pugilistic Sean Hannity, hosting his Fox News show live at the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference, told the crowd that CNN had “scripted” a question for a Parkland, Florida, student to ask at a Feb. 21 town hall on gun violence. An hour before Hannity, fellow Fox News host Tucker Carlson had interviewed the student who originally made the accusation, and President Trump used Twitter to amplify what quickly became a narrative for right-leaning media: CNN, rather than providing an open forum for expression, had effectively rigged the debate. That the incendiary claim was subsequently debunked — with CNN releasing emails among…
John Oliver A judge dismisses a lawsuit by coal baron Robert Murray over an in-depth segment by the Last Week Tonight host that described the mogul as a “geriatric Dr. Evil.” Maria Contreras-Sweet and Ron Burkle The potential Weinstein Co. buyers’ $500 million bid seemingly collapses as the company instead chooses to file for bankruptcy after being sued by the New York attorney general. Adina Pintilie The Romanian director’s provocative sex-and-bondage drama Touch Me Not is the surprise Golden Bear winner at the Berlin Film Festival. Liz Gateley The Lifetime head of programming exits without a job lined up as owner A+E Networks taps two execs to fill the void. Showbiz Stocks $246.78 (+9%) MADISON SQUARE GARDEN (MSG) Activist shareholder Silver Lake takes a 4.9 percent stake in the owner…
In March 2017, Bernie Sanders and other lawmakers penned a letter insisting that the SEC enact a long-awaited rule requiring companies to disclose how much their CEOs earn relative to the staffers they employ. With the Feb. 21 revelation that Snap CEO Evan Spiegel earned $638 million in 2017, it appears Sanders may have been onto something. While Spiegel’s eye-popping paycheck can be considered an outlier — the result of a one-time stock award granted for taking the company public in March — it has reopened the debate over pay equity, perhaps especially in media, where CEOs typically earn more than their counterparts in every other industry, even when stock in their companies underperforms. Witness: Philippe Dauman, who made $93 million in 2016, the last year he was CEO of…
Twentieth Century Fox is developing more new X-Men film properties than ever. But will these projects still fit at the studio after Disney’s $52.4 billion megamerger closes? When Fox film execs hired Brian Michael Bendis on Feb. 12 to pen an X-Men project for Deadpool director Tim Miller, it signaled to the town that the studio is moving full steam ahead on its Marvel properties. Fox has several other “secret” projects in development, including a Silver Surfer stand-alone feature that is being written by comics creator Brian K. Vaughn. “We are going 100 miles per hour,” says one executive involved. But while the Disney-Fox deal, unveiled Dec. 14, had many rejoicing that Fox’s Marvel characters soon would be reunited and integrated with their colleagues at Disneyowned Marvel Studios, execs, filmmakers…
