Innholdsfortegnelse for Wednesday March 21 2018 i The Hollywood Reporter

1 GAL GADOT (RIGHT) AND ELIZABETH STEWART Photographed by Sami Drasin on March 1 at the Beverly Hills Women’s Club. “Fashion comes and goes. But style is something that’s in you,” says the Wonder Woman star. Adds Stewart, her Santa Monica-based stylist: “Gal is very confident, so fittings go quickly. She’ll put something on, and she knows it looks good, and we are done.” 2 CHADWICK BOSEMAN AND ASHLEY WESTON Photographed by Zenith Richards on March 1 at 632 on Hudson in New York. The Black Panther lead tops best-dressed lists thanks to the bold hues and graphic prints chosen for him by his bicoastal stylist. “With Ashley, I don’t have to think about it — and that’s the whole point,” says Boseman. The pair have worked together since 2014.…

California’s new law banning employers from asking potential hires about their previous salary is helping to close the gender pay gap among actors this pilot season. It’s also uncovering a pervasive inequality in what non-white stars were earning as well as boosting the paydays for below-the-line employees. The legislation, which went into effect Jan. 1, bans studios from seeking salary history — aka an actor’s “quote” — in a bid to help narrow the gender pay gap and achieve parity. That instead forces the negotiation to focus on an actor’s skill, stature, social media profile and the demands of the role, among other factors. This is a fundamental change in how business has been done during the broadcast networks’ annual pilot season, when more than 70 comedies and dramas compete…

More than a month after his Feb. 11 no-show at a party to thank firefighters for saving his L.A. vineyard during the Skirball blaze, Rupert Murdoch is largely AWOL from 21st Century Fox as he recovers from a back injury suffered in January on son Lachlan’s yacht. Emails, phone calls and text messages he had been sending while recuperating from the compression fracture to his back are fewer and farther between, say insiders. Some employees are wondering if the 87-year-old media mogul might be testing retirement following the December unveiling of his $52.4 billion deal to sell most of Fox assets to Disney. (Murdoch also was absent when Fox reported quarterly earnings Feb. 7, leaving it to his sons and CFO John Nallen to speak about the company’s financial results.)…

Big Deal Could animation be the next genre to benefit from the explosion of buyers in the Peak TV era? Apple joined the animated arms race March 12, winning a bidding war for musical comedy Central Park from Emmy-winning Bob’s Burgers creator Loren Bouchard, Nora Smith and Josh Gad with a two-season, 26-episode order for the series featuring Kristen Bell, Stanley Tucci and Daveed Diggs. That came days after Amazon entered the adult animated comedy space with a straight-to-series order for Undone, from BoJack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg and Kate Purdy. Netflix, meanwhile, has the Tiffany Haddish starrer Tuca and Bertie, from BoJack duo Bob-Waksberg and Lisa Hanawalt; Matt Groening’s Disenchantment, which the streaming giant ordered for two seasons; and critical favorite BoJack, among others. Hulu also entered the space in…

“I’m Cynthia Nixon. I’m a New Yorker. And together, we can win this fight.” CYNTHIA NIXON The Sex and the City star, in a video announcing her intention to challenge Andrew Cuomo for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in New York. “I wanted to save it for my first relationship. I wanted it to be special.” BENJAMIN GLAZE The American Idol contestant, 20, telling The New York Times about his disappointment at having judge Katy Perry ambush him with a peck on the lips — his first — on the show. “You fucking deserve your kids to die! And when you find yourself in that position, think of me!” HEATHER LOCKLEAR The Dynasty star, allegedly, to police officers who’d entered her home to respond to reports of domestic battery. “I call…

Oprah Winfrey checked out Lucques. … Leonardo DiCaprio popped by Felix. … Jeffrey Katzenberg, Anita Hill and Andy Cohen shared the room at The Palm in Beverly Hills. … Over at TAO, Timothee Chalamet held court, while next door at Beauty & Essex, Lana Del Rey sat for dinner with friends. On a different night, Greta Gerwig stopped by. … Anthony Scaramucci greeted Nicolas Cage at a Polo Lounge booth. … Sally Hawkins and director Marc Forster lunched at Milo & Olive. … Andy Samberg was at Musso & Frank Grill. … RuPaul had lunch at WeHo Bistro. … Larry David was at Republique. HOT NEW RESTAURANT Native The Quick Pitch Chef Nyesha Arrington reigns at this hyperlocal ode to the nearby Santa Monica Farmers Market. The pedigreed vet of…

On March 10, the French master of the little black dress, Hubert de Givenchy, died at age 91. His partnership with Audrey Hepburn in the 1950s and ’60s, which forged a bond between Hollywood and haute couture, lives on. That legacy was front and center this awards season. Long black dresses — evocative of the dark, languorous Givenchy gown that Hepburn, as Holly Golightly, wears in the opening scene of her best-known film, Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1958) — dominated the run-up to the Oscars as the formal garb of Time’s Up. The protest movement’s sartorial ethos also resonates with Hepburn’s decision to exclusively wear Givenchy onscreen and at the Oscars through much of her career. After she visited Givenchy’s Paris atelier in 1953 — to secure him as her designer…

ON DEC. 18, JOHN SKIPPER suddenly resigned as president of ESPN and co-chairman of Disney Media Networks, citing his desire to seek treatment for what he called a “substance addiction.” The announcement shocked employees at ESPN and its parent company, and was met with disbelief and confusion throughout the sports and media worlds. Skipper, 62, the married father of two sons, was raised in North Carolina and had worked at Disney for 27 years, 13 of them under Bob Iger. He became president of ESPN in January 2012 and spearheaded the company’s aggressive campaign to secure long-term rights deals for live sporting events from the NBA, college football and many other sports. But cord cutting, rising programming costs and other challenges during Skipper’s presidency resulted in several rounds of layoffs and…

With Ready Player One, Steven Spielberg now has his own VR epic. He’d probably be happy if his estimated $175 million-budgeted film made more than five times its cost the way 1992’s The Lawnmower Man did ($6 million to $32 million box office). But he’d probably like to avoid other aspects of the first VR-themed movie’s release. Like the THR review: “Frankenstein meets Virtual Reality in The Lawnmower Man, an otherwise unexceptional sci-fi feature,” was the first sentence. (And he has: Ready was hailed as a “rollicking adventure through worlds both bleak and fantastic” in its THR review.) And then there was the problem of the source material. Spielberg’s film is based on a novel by Ernest Cline. Lawnmower sprung from a short story by Stephen King, who sued for…

FILM Elisabeth Moss (WME, the U.K.’s Independent, Ribisi) will join Melissa McCarthy and Tiffany Haddish as stars of New Line mob drama The Kitchen. Ava DuVernay (CAA, Del Shaw) will direct Warner Bros. and DC’s The New Gods adaptation. Lucas Hedges (CAA, Anonymous, Bloom Hergott, Glick and Weintraub) will play a pseudonymous version of Shia LaBeouf in Honey Boy, a biopic about, cowritten by and co-starring the former child star. Linda Cardellini (ICM, Mosaic, Jackoway Tyerman) and Matt Dillon (UTA, Untitled, Wendy Heller) have joined Tom Hardy along with Kyle MacLachlan in Josh Trank’s Al Capone biopic Fonzo. Kristen Stewart (Gersh, McKuin Frankel) will star as actress Jean Seberg in Automatik’s thriller Against All Enemies. Madonna (CAA, Maverick, Untitled, Greenberg Glusker, Grubman Shire) will direct MGM’s Taking Flight, a biopic…

A Higher Loyalty (FLATIRON, APRIL 17) BY James Comey AGENCY Javelin Donald Trump’s Twitter attacks have propelled the former FBI director’s book to No. 1 on Amazon. The story of a straight arrow FBI legend tangling with a potentially corrupt president, with Russian meddling in the background, has an irresistible lure. A Child Went Forth (HIGH-TOP PUBLISHING, MAY 18) BY Boston Teran AGENCY Kern Literary/Donald V. Allen Teran’s other books in development include The Creed of Violence at Universal, with Leonardo DiCaprio to star and Todd Field to direct, and God Is a Bullet, with D.J. Caruso (Disturbia) attached to direct. Here, a boy smuggles money to abolitionists in the 1850s.…

FX All-Star Talent Party New York, March 15 Fulfillment Fund Hollywood, March 13 In FX We Trust The casts of FX’s returning and upcoming series took over Lucky Strike Manhattan for the network’s annual upfront event. Such stars as The Americans’ Keri Russell (1), Better Things’ Pamela Adlon (5) and American Crime Story’s Darren Criss took to the bowling lanes and pool tables, while all eyes were on Trust leads Donald Sutherland (3) and Brendan Fraser (3) as the soiree followed an SVA Theatre screening of the upcoming Getty drama, which depicts the 1973 kidnapping of John Paul Getty III. If the show’s exec producers have their way, it will continue on for two more seasons. “There’s so much to say and do about three generations of Gettys,” creator Simon…

MEN’S MICHAEL FISHER The stylist draws inspiration from his clients and the roles they’re promoting. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’s Sam Rockwell, 49, had an awards season wardrobe built around his “Tony Manero, Saturday Night Fever” vibe. “Sam has some slick moves, and his suiting reflected that,” says Fisher. For Stronger’s Jake Gyllenhaal, 37, it was all about “very classic, strong leading-man looks,” and for Star Wars: The Last Jedi’s Adam Driver, 34, it was “all-black everything” as it only could be for the actor playing Kylo Ren. CHRIS HORAN Director Jordan Peele, 39, looked sharp throughout awards season in a range of tailored looks by Burberry, Paul Smith and Zegna Couture. Most notable was his classic white Calvin Klein tuxedo jacket with a Get Out-themed deer-antler lapel pin when…

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Television ‘No Quotes’ How a new law is impacting talent negotiations p. 24 Moguls Where’s Rupert? Injured Murdoch may be testing retirement p. 28 Kevin Mayer (left) and Bob Chapek The Disney executives earn expanded portfolios in a reorg that puts them in competition to replace CEO Bob Iger when his contract expires in 2021. John Bailey The Academy president stays mum as the organization begins an investigation into claims of harassment leveled at the cinematographer. John Oliver HBO’s Last Week Tonight host hits No. 1 on Amazon with his gay bunny children’s book taking aim at Vice President Mike Pence. Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg The Facebook founder and COO face a harsh spotlight from Congress after reports reveal 50 million user profiles were accessed by a U.K.- based…

Even by Hollywood standards, MGM’s firing of CEO Gary Barber on March 19 was dramatic, catching Barber himself off-guard. While the company remains mum, insiders tell THR that an unbridgeable gap had grown between Barber and board chairman Kevin Ulrich, whose Anchorage Capital Management is MGM’s largest investor. When Barber was hired to run the then-struggling home of the James Bond franchise in 2010, it was on the assumption he’d whip the studio into shape, then sell it. But eight years later, Ulrich has had a change of heart, while Barber still believes a sale is in the best interest of shareholders, which include himself, Highland Capital Management and Solus Alternative Asset Management. Ulrich had been sizing up an exec to replace Barber about a year ago, but unable to…

Deal of the Week The Stranger Things kids have hit a growth spurt — and so have their paychecks. The castmembers of the Netflix hit scored major pay raises following an intense renegotiation ahead of the sci-fi drama’s eight-episode third season, set to begin production April 23. Sources say the new deals for the young actors are worth about 12 times their previous salaries; Netflix declined comment. According to sources, the cast is divided into different pay tiers. In the “A tier” are adults Winona Ryder and David Harbour, now making $350,000 an episode. The “B tier” consists of the boys — Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin and Noah Schnapp — each collecting $250,000 an episode, while the actors in the “C tier” — onscreen teenagers Natalia Dyer, Charlie…

Leading men on Hollywood’s red carpets have a new reason to high-five. Power stylist Ilaria Urbinati — whose clients include Armie Hammer and Donald Glover — has designed a suit collection, debuting in April, in collaboration with millennial focused brand Strong Suit. “Honestly, it was all really selfish,” says Urbinati of the initial inspiration. “I work with 40 different men and I need stuff all the time, so I was thinking, ‘What do I need for fittings that I can’t get?’” Such needs included spezatto suits (in which the trousers and sport coats are different colors); pleated pants that aren’t too baggy (“We always have to tailor them,” she says); and a higher-waist trouser, which prevents an awkward gap between the pants and vest of a three-piece suit. True to…

If ever there was an awards season that tested the mettle of Hollywood stylists, it was this one. When Time’s Up orchestrated a red carpet “blackout” before the Golden Globes, stylists had just days to find all-black options, as everyone from show producers to nominated talent struggled with what was fashion-appropriate for the politicized mood. One of the upsides of Hollywood’s gender-equality reckoning has been the beginnings of a serious discussion about inclusion. In that spirit, THR hosted its first Stylist Roundtable to discuss how the red carpet itself is becoming more inclusive, among other topics. The guests March 6 were Jason Bolden, 35, who helped director Ava DuVernay become her own style icon; Law Roach, 39, who transformed Mudbound’s Mary J. Blige from music diva to leading lady; Tara…