Innholdsfortegnelse for Monday May 9 2018 i The Hollywood Reporter

FILM Scott Eastwood (UTA, LBI, Stone Genow), Caleb Landry Jones (ICM, Untitled, Bloom Hergott) and Orlando Bloom (ICM, the U.K.’s Independent, Lighthouse, Felker Toczek) will star in Millennium Media’s Afghan war film The Outpost, based on Jake Tapper’s 2012 book. Mandeville Films/TV has signed a first-look deal with Universal Pictures after 20-plus years at Disney. Transformers: The Last Knight star Isabela Moner (CAA, Peikoff Mahan) will play a teenage Dora the Explorer for Paramount’s live-action adaptation. Paul Giamatti (UTA, Kipperman, Sloane Offer) has joined Dwayne Johnson in Disney’s Jungle Cruise. Gidden Media is developing Donald Trump movie The Apprentice with journalist Gabriel Sherman. John Cena (ICM) will star in Universal action-thriller The Janson Directive from executive producer Johnson. Issa Rae (UTA, 3 Arts, Hansen Jacobson) is joining Black-ish actress Marsai…

The Lifters (KNOPF BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS, APRIL 24) BY Dave Eggers AGENCY Gotham Group The McSweeney’s founder, who has had multiple novels optioned and adapted Where the Wild Things Are, pens a supernatural children’s story, illustrated by Aaron Renier, about two young friends trying to solve the mystery of why their town is sinking. “The Spy Who Came Home” (THE NEW YORKER, MAY 7) BY Ben Taub AGENCY UTA Fueled by a belief that protecting Americans starts at home, Patrick Skinner in his mid-40s quit his CIA counterterrorism post abroad to become a cop in his Savannah, Georgia, hometown, applying his training to improve policing and community relations.…

In the end, perhaps you always work for somebody else. Martin Sorrell, the creator and longtime absolute ruler of the global advertising conglomerate WPP, found that out in April. His board, citing undisclosed financial “irregularities,” forced him out after more than 30 years. The true nature or outer limits of power is the existential quest of moguldom. Mark Zuckerberg, taking a page from Rupert Murdoch’s and Sumner Redstone’s mogul biographies, designed a voting-control structure for Facebook that gives him virtually unchallengeable control of the company. Barry Diller, said to be working on a book about his mogul life, ran Paramount in the days when it was an asset in Charles Bluhdorn’s Gulf and Western empire. Then Diller traded up to running 20th Century Fox under Murdoch. Diller deserved much of…

Madison Avenue executives who convened on the morning of April 30 for The New York Times’ annual pitch to advertisers didn’t just hear about the newspaper’s devoted subscriber base and fast-growing podcasting division. They also were treated to lengthy opining about the future of the paper’s brand on TV, including a Showtime docuseries following Times journalists during the first year of Trump’s presidency, a show based on the New York Times Magazine’s Diagnosis column that is coming to Netflix in 2019 and maybe one day a game show based on the crossword puzzle. “The interesting story in digital video is that the real winners to date are not all these new video social brands, it’s the broadcast players,” says Sebastian Tomich, global head of advertising and marketing at the Times.…

Fifteen years ago, New York designers Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch transitioned from set design (Addicted to Lover, Zoolander) to homes (Ben Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow), hotels (The Standard, Ace) and restaurants (Le Coucou, Facebook’s Menlo Park cafeteria). In December, they launched a SoHo outpost, Roman and Williams Guild, which also houses La Mercerie, a cafe with fans including Meg Ryan and Blake Lively. Visitors can road-test wares (from a $12 zinc glass to a $15,000 dining table) while feasting at the cafe run by Marie-Aude Rose (wife of Le Coucou chef Daniel Rose). “Isn’t that a better way to shop?” says Standefer. “It’s the guild of the senses — touch it, feel it, sense it and sit on it.” Lively, who has been “obsessed” with the designers, says: “A menu…

They’re proliferating in the city like nail salons: spas with infrared saunas, which raise the body temperature to fight energy-sapping bacteria, and cryotherapy (a Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel fave), which lowers temps to speed metabolism and boost energy. “Within the past year, so many new places have popped up,” says Erin Hamilton of NKD NYC, which opened in February on West 57th Street and offers cryo and infrared beds. “People want a quick fix; when you go into such a cold temperature with a sprained ankle, you see the swelling and bruising visibly reduce.” Kathy Butters, owner of CryoVigor, which opens on West 46th Street in May, will do cryo facials. “When you step into the cryo, it’s minus 200 to 256 degrees, which sends blood to your core…

“Our job is not to take care of people’s feelings,” says Whitney Cummings, the 35-year-old stand-up and self-identified “lib-tard” who was brought in to co-run ABC’s revival of Roseanne. “Our job,” she continues, with Pamela Adlon, 51, creator-star of FX’s Better Things, nodding beside her, “is to make people think and make them laugh and make them talk.” Those were the motivations for Cummings and her writing staff to wrap themselves, narratively speaking, in such charged topics as guns, drugs, parenting and the election of President Trump for the controversial working-class comedy reboot. And her staff is not alone. Dear White People creator Justin Simien, 35, parlayed his Sundance indie into a Netflix dramedy, through which they unspool unflinching racial commentary in half-hour pops. “Our job,” Simien adds, “is to make…

JILL SOLOWAY The Transparent creator, who identifies as “gender non-binary,” says that Tambor “made enemies, and I don’t think he realized he was making enemies.” FAITH SOLOWAY According to Tambor, Jill’s older sister, a producer on the show, sent him an email describing the allegations against him as a “coup” on the set. VAN BARNES Tambor’s former personal assistant says the actor subjected her to sexual propositions and attacks on her self-esteem: “It became some type of Stockholm syndrome.” TRACE LYSETTE The actress alleges Tambor had a tendency of kissing her on the lips and humped her against a wall. “As trans women, we are survivors,” she says. “You endure what you have to.” ZACKARY DRUCKER Tambor and the two accusers briefly lived together in a home owned by the…

↑ Business Spotify Effect More music giants are plotting IPOs. p. 14 Games Leveling Up A hit league aims to bring players to (huge) arenas. p. 16 Kim Yutani The Sundance veteran scores the festival’s director of programming job, making her one of the most important gatekeepers in the independent film world. Evan Spiegel The Snap CEO’s messaging app misses revenue and growth expectations as the company swaps out its current CFO with Amazon finance veteran Tim Stone. Donald Glover The Atlanta auteur’s SNL host gig spikes ratings as his alter ego Childish Gambino’s incendiary new video “This Is America” racks up 37 million YouTube views in 72 hours. Next: Solo in theaters May 25. Eric Schneiderman The New York attorney general, a #MeToo advocate and foe of The Weinstein…

Deal of the Week With concerns about brand safety on YouTube at an all-time high, the company is putting more emphasis than ever on big names that advertisers trust. The Google-owned platform’s new slate of ad-supported original series, announced May 3 during its annual Brandcast pitch to advertisers, includes projects from Will Smith, Priyanka Chopra and LeBron James. Kevin Hart’s What the Fit? workout series has been renewed for a second season, and Demi Lovato also is returning to the platform with a new series following the release of her documentary Simply Complicated in 2017. This isn’t the first time YouTube has courted traditional stars — it gave more than $100 million in 2012 to such names as Amy Poehler and Ashton Kutcher through its short-lived original channel initiative —…

It’s very rare and unusual to see a female comic perform pregnant,” Ali Wong says in Baby Cobra, her 2016 Netflix special. The San Francisco native was seven months along — and 10 years into her standup career, still putting her shows on Groupon to fill seats — when she delivered the raunch-filled set, riffing on STDs and even her own miscarriage. Fast-forward two years, and Wong, 36, is selling out venues, has a book deal with Random House, will voice a character alongside Tiffany Haddish in the Netflix animated comedy Tuca & Bertie and will star opposite Randall Park in a rom-com she co-wrote for the streamer. The former Fresh Off the Boat writer — who’s pregnant again in her second stand-up special, Hard Knock Wife (out May 13,…

“I know you don’t believe in climate change, but a storm’s a-comin’!”STORMY DANIELS The adult film actress, to Alec Baldwin’s President Trump, in a surprise cameo in a Saturday Night Live cold open. “It’s critical that we’re on the right side of history.”SUSAN WOJCICKI YouTube’s CEO, addressing the proliferation of inflammatory and extremist videos on the platform at the company’s Brandcast event in New York. “A half-hour show will give me the time to do a higher percentage of the comedy.”CONAN O’BRIEN The late-night host, in a statement arguing why TBS’ decision to reduce his show from 60 to 30 minutes is a good thing. “It just occurred to me that the plot of Willy Wonka is really messed up.”ELON MUSK The Tesla and SpaceX mogul, in a series of…

AVRA MADISON ESTIATORIO WHO David Geffen, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Leo DiCaprio WHERE Booth 72. “It has a view of everything,” says partner Nick Tsoulos. 14 E. 60th St. LE BERNADIN WHO Martha Stewart, Yoko Ono, Helen Mirren WHERE Table 1 in the first row. Diners “fight for it, that’s where you’re seen,” says chef Eric Ripert. For privacy, try No. 36. 155 W. 51st St. MICHAEL’S WHO Elton John, Ronan Farrow WHERE Table 6, or “a catbird seat at Table 24 or 27, against the wall,” says GM Steve Millington. 24 W. 55th St. PER SE WHO Oprah Winfrey, Ava DuVernay WHERE Nos. 2 and 3, by the fireplace, or if you’re a shyer VIP, Nos. 25 and 26, out of sight lines, says GM Sam Calderbank. 10 Columbus Circle…

Rose McGowan is camped out at Brother Jimmy’s BBQ, a divey New York institution across the street from Penn Station, waiting for her train to Washington, D.C. The 44-year-old actress turned activist is accompanied by attorney Jennifer Robinson and a publicist from E!, the home of McGowan’s docuseries, Citizen Rose, which returns May 17. Their ultimate destination: Leesburg, Virginia, a 45-minute drive from D.C., where tomorrow, on May 3, McGowan must appear before a judge at the Loudoun County courthouse on a felony cocaine charge she’s facing. The train is delayed; it was supposed to be 15 minutes, but now the holdup has been extended long enough that the table is littered with glasses of white wine, baskets of hush puppies, fried pickles, pulled chicken sliders, a half-emptied ramekin of…

GLEN MAZZARA The Dark Tower “There’s a tree house in the yard. It’s maybe 75 square feet, big enough for a built-in desk and a tiny bathroom. It’s got a rustic cabin feel. The tree house does lend itself to certain rituals. I have to literally sweep away the cobwebs, wipe up detritus and create ‘a clean, well-lighted’ space. It’s a Gothic process that mirrors going into my imagination and finding the story with its particular scenes and rhythm.” GLORIA CALDERON KELLETT One Day at a Time “Before I work I usually put together a playlist. Songs that inspire the mood of whatever I’m writing. Then I choose a scent of candle. Usually a different scent for a different show. Writing for me is about all the senses. And coffee.…

Is now the time for the next wave of music IPOs? Spotify’s April 3 debut on the market may have whetted the appetite of investors for music company stocks in a sector that mostly features privately held firms or businesses hidden inside bigger conglomerates, like Sony or Apple. China’s largest music streamer, Tencent Music, which is majority-owned by Chinese social media giant Tencent and has a 7.5 percent stake in Spotify (which in turn owns 9 percent of Tencent Music), is reportedly planning an IPO by the end of the year, targeting a U.S. stock exchange as its home and eyeing a valuation of $25 billion. The company has 700 million-plus monthly users, including an estimated 15 million paying subscribers. And French conglomerate Vivendi is exploring an IPO of Universal…

Big Deal ITV America wants to give buyers two things they’re anxious for: crime shows and clarity. Under new CEO David George, the stateside arm of the U.K. TV giant is moving away from being a format broker and toward better defining its many labels as buckets for specific genres, including the launch of Good Caper Content, a shingle dedicated to crime programming. “I’ve got all these different production companies, and the marketplace needs to know what each is best-in-class at,” says George, who took the reins in January. “We need to define what ITV means in the U.S.” Good Caper will cater to an aggressively growing segment of the market, one that prompted Oxygen to rebrand as a crime-exclusive network in 2017. Veteran unscripted producer Kathryn Vaughan (Oxygen’s Cold…

Met Gala New York, May 7 Lupus LA Orange Ball Beverly Hills, May 3 GLAAD Media Awards New York, May 5 Holy Night The fashion world found religion at the 2018 Met gala celebrating the exhibit “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.” Faithful to the “Sunday Best” dress code, Rihanna (3) arrived as a pope, alongside her gala co-chairs Amal Clooney (1) and Donatella Versace (3). Host of the annual Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute fundraiser Anna Wintour (6) called herself “Cardinal Chanel” and donned an all-diamond rosary. Stars among the pious included Gary Oldman, Bradley Cooper, Scarlett Johansson, Lena Waithe and the allfemale Ocean’s 8 ensemble. — RAMONA SAVISS Utley Honored “As I’ve lived with this diagnosis for 27 years, it took some time to grow from…

Alex Gibney couldn’t give away his first documentary feature. The Trials of Henry Kissinger, a brutal indictment of the former secretary of state culled from Christopher Hitchens’ controversial tome, had no distributor in the U.S. But after a buzzy run at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in 2002 (“People were hawking tickets,” recalls Gibney), a small distributor took it. “It played at [New York’s] Film Forum four or five months. It made me realize, wow, if you can make something entertaining enough, then it can be seen by a lot of people.” Gibney’s films are as entertaining as their subjects are consequential: sex abuse in the Catholic Church (Mea Maxima Culpa); CIA black sites (2006’s Oscar-winning Taxi to the Dark Side); corporate chicanery (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the…

The $70 billion television advertising market is at a crossroads — buffeted by peripatetic consumers and deep-pocketed Silicon Valley players many years into an incursion on content and distribution. But legacy media companies are fighting back and are gearing up to present their battle plans. During the upfront presentations in New York — beginning May 14 — the broadcasters (ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, The CW and Spanish-language net Univision) as well as ESPN and the Turner networks will present a dizzying array of charts and graphs to demonstrate their scale and efficacy in an effort to get media buyers to commit an estimated $9 billion to the 2018-19 season. These players go into the annual sales bazaar amid a roaring economy and high consumer confidence that network ad sales chiefs…

If you can, steal away from the TV upfronts (May 14-17) and check out New York’s latest food hot zone: a corridor between 28th and 39th streets, from Park Avenue to the Hudson River, and overlapping with Hudson Yards, the 28-acre mini-city that will house HBO, Warner Bros. and Turner Broadcasting. New restaurants abound, including upcoming outposts from Thomas Keller and David Chang. Says Cindy Tenner, HBO vp special events, “The West 20s and 30s are definitely experiencing a restaurant renaissance.” Henry Chloe Grace Moretz is among those who have enjoyed dishes at this well-received venture. “Your eye moves around nonstop; it’s full of mirrors, nostalgic photos and innovative light fixtures,” says David Korins, the Hamilton and Dear Evan Hansen set designer who won a 2017 Emmy for Grease: Live.…

The other night I was on a Tinder date at a bar in L.A. I liked the guy — and he, I think, liked me — but there was something I needed to tell him about myself if there was going to be a second date. He needed to know that I was one of the women who accused Dustin Hoffman of sexual harassment. I hate this part of dating. My role in the #MeToo movement — I wrote an essay for THR in November detailing Hoffman’s lewd comments and groping when I was a 17-year-old intern on the 1985 TV adaptation of Death of a Salesman — is something I want potential boyfriends to know about me, but without me having to tell them. But it’s also something I’d rather not share with…

The 10:15 to Katonah arrives from Grand Central Terminal precisely on schedule at 12:03 p.m. Standing across from the train platform on a chilly Monday in April is Jeffrey Tambor, the 73-year-old veteran actor best known for a trio of roles on groundbreaking series: The Larry Sanders Show, Arrested Development and, most recently, the critically adored and zeitgeisty family dramedy Transparent. It’s in this picturesque suburban hamlet just 47 miles north of the chaos of midtown Manhattan that Tambor and his wife, Kasia, 49, raise their four children, who range in age from 8 to 13. And since being fired three months ago from Transparent, it’s here where Tambor has been exiled in what will surely go down as the darkest chapter of his four-decade career. Moments later, he is…

1989-1993 Doogie Howser, M.D. After NBC's L.A. Law, Kelley teamed with his mentor, the late Bochco, on a medical dramedy starring Harris for ABC. 1997-2002 Ally McBeal He wrote five 22-episode seasons of McBeal largely on his own. The Fox dramedy instantly became a cultural lightning rod. 1992-1996 Picket Fences In 1992, he launched his eponymous company, signed a CBS deal and delivered Fences, his first solo creation. 2004-2008 Boston Legal During a drier period professionally (see NBC’s scrapped Wonder Woman pilot), he debuted his Practice spinoff on ABC. 1997-2004 The Practice With Chicago Hope in its fourth season on CBS, he added The Practice. Though slower to take hold, it won back-to-back Emmys in 1998 and 1999. 2017-Present Big Little Lies Kelley was given the book by CAA, and…