Innholdsfortegnelse for Wednesday June 6 2018 i The Hollywood Reporter

How can Shari Redstone possibly position CBS and Viacom to compete with Facebook, Google and Netflix? Maybe she won’t try. On May 29, the company run by CEO Leslie Moonves claimed in legal documents that Redstone wanted to merge Viacom with CBS, then sell the combined company for a premium the former couldn’t hope to command alone. Moonves is suing to dilute the Redstone-controlled National Amusements’ 80 percent stake down to 17 percent. If Redstone, 64, were to merge CBS and Viacom, NAI could offer to relinquish the voting control it holds over the merged entity in order to entice potential suitors. Still, no potential buyers likely will show much interest in purchasing CBS or Viacom — Redstone is vice chairman of both — until the lawsuits are settled, and…

ROSEANNE FALLOUT KILLS OFF FOREIGN: ‘BUYING U.S. SITCOMS IS RISKY ENOUGH’ Deal of the Week Most of the world won’t have the chance to get offended by Roseanne. As part of the comprehensive repercussions of Roseanne Barr’s tweet comparing former Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett to an ape, Disney Media Distribution will not be licensing the sitcom revival to foreign networks and global streamers. The company had only just begun international sales for the series before the fateful May 29 tweet, which led to the immediate cancellation of TV’s No. 1 show by Disney subsidiary ABC. Territories where deals already had closed quickly followed suit: Within 24 hours of ABC’s announcement, CBS Corp.-owned Australian broadcaster Network Ten pulled the show from its main network and youth-skewing digital channel Eleven. Spain’s…

Speeding in a 911 on Sunset doesn’t hold a candle to putting in hours on a track to shave a few tenths of a second off a lap time. Michael Mann — who is working on a biopic of Enzo Ferrari, the Italian race car driver turned brand founder — compares the sport (he drives a Ferrari F12 TdF) to directing a film. “Whatever impels me to make cinema — and some of the sequences in my films may have a similar dreamlike fluidity — comes from [what] makes me love being on a track,” he says. The director, 75, has raced the Ferrari Challenge and “did instruction with Skip Barber at Laguna Seca.” Here, other tracks where insiders put in their time: AUTO CLUB SPEEDWAY FONTANA Home to NASCAR…

In the five months since its New Year’s Day unveiling, Time’s Up, the gender equality movement that started in Hollywood, has been creating affiliated networks of thousands of women across various industries. Time’s Up Advertising was the first, launched by more than 150 agency executives March 12. The next day, Time’s Up announced a partnership with the Press Forward initiative (founded by female journalists in December) to combat sexual harassment in newsrooms. Press Forward will donate 10 percent of the money it raises to the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund, which on May 16 announced that it would award $500,000 (in grants of up to $50,000 each) to nonprofits that protect low-income women from sexual misconduct in the workplace. Meanwhile, Time’s Up/Venture is a partnership with female VC organization All…

In The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s pilot, viewers learn just how perfect 1950s housewife Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) used to be before embarking on an unlikely career in stand-up comedy. After her husband falls asleep, she sneaks into the bathroom, where she puts her hair in curlers, removes her makeup and applies an overnight mask. In the morning, she wakes up just before her husband, washes off the mask and returns to bed with a full face of makeup and a flawless coif — with her clueless other half none the wiser. Written by series creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, the scene is funny, but also undeniably sad: Midge goes to extraordinary lengths to be beautiful at all times, and her husband still leaves her for his secretary. That keen attention to how…

Marks chose to set his story in Berlin because “it became the allegory that we wanted to tell this show around — this idea that if you could create two equal worlds and then decide on an arbitrary division between them, what kind of drama would come out from that?” While the show shot 42 days in the German capital during season one to capture exterior scenes (like the one pictured at left), it’s primarily filmed at LA Center Studios in downtown Los Angeles.…

This year’s Tony Awards, like Broadway (which just wrapped a record $6.7 billion season), is taking on a pop music aura. That’s because the co-hosts June 10 at Radio City Music Hall are SpongeBob SquarePants score nominee Sara Bareilles and Josh Groban, music stars who recently made their Great White Way acting debuts. Can we expect some duets? GROBAN We’re hoping to sing in the opening, we’re hoping to sing throughout the night. Some stuff may be a little more serious, some stuff comedic. BAREILLES We’re both excited to use our voices onstage. But there are things about Josh that many people don’t know. He’s extraordinarily funny and has a wonderful, dry wit. He’s got a lot of tricks up his sleeve that people don’t know about. Is there anything…

Kickflip Boys (ECCO, MAY 15) BY Neal Thompson AGENCIES Rob Weisbach Creative, CAA In this My Three Sons for millennials memoir praised by Tony Hawk and Michael Chabon, journalist Thompson struggles with his less-is-more style in the age of helicopter parenting while raising two rebellious boys hooked on skateboarding. Followers (GRAYDON HOUSE, FALL 2019) BY Megan Angelo AGENCIES Janklow & Nesbit, CAA The former Glamour contributor imagines a post-Kardashian world in which celebrities live their entire lives on camera with product placements and instant viewer feedback. With its dark twist, the debut is pitched as Black Mirror meets Station Eleven.…

FIRST LOOK Two years ago, Bill and Melinda Gates Investments (BMGI) purchased the Four Seasons Resort Nevis, prized for its privacy by the likes of Meryl Streep, Oprah Winfrey, Michael Douglas and Justin Trudeau (Gates owns Four Seasons with Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and individually owns two of its hotels). To reinvent the intimate Caribbean retreat, they turned to TAL Studio’s Todd-Avery Lenahan. His vision: “energize the destination while honoring its exclusivity and pristine location.” Perhaps surprisingly, that did not mean focusing on tech touches, unless you count doubling the length of the dock to allow superyachts to pull right up to the resort, a rare perk. “We’re moving the energy out closer to that magic space where the land meets the sea,” says Lenahan, who’s also ushering in…

PwC Annual Report For a third consecutive year, the traditional TV and home video market will fall in the U.S., and it is expected to decline through at least 2022 as cheaper offerings from Amazon, YouTube, Hulu and especially Netflix take their toll, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers study released June 5. Traditional TV and home video, which includes pay TV subscriptions, DVD rentals and sales, and VOD, appears to have peaked in 2015 at $110.3 billion. This year, it will hit $102.5 billion and will sink to $96.1 billion in 2022, according to the study. Netflix-inspired cord-cutting is the culprit, says the research firm, noting that at the end of last year, 73 percent of U.S. households subscribed to a cable, satellite or telecom TV service, down from 79 percent…

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Pictures and Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. This follows decades of condescension or outright dismissal. (The previous highvisibility marker for memorabilia reverence in the public sphere was the 1990s, when patrons of Planet Hollywood franchises convened under typically zeitgeistdriven chazerai on the order of Tom Arnold’s getup from The Stupids.) James Comisar, a collectibles consultant recognized for his authentication expertise, describes how, in an increasingly “seismic” market, collectors “with unlimited spending potential are trying to club each other to death” for a limited number of the most “iconic pieces — the pieces that you recognize from across the room, the ones that don’t need a descriptive plaque, the instantly recognizable ones where you creep up to the display case, your voice drops, and you go, ‘Holy shit!’” As a result,…

On Feb. 7, when the Pentagon revealed that President Trump had requested a military parade be planned, late-night hosts and writers around the country went on high alert. That evening, each of the hosts had his or her own take on the president’s latest harebrained idea, with Seth Meyers saying, “No one comes up with dumber ideas — at this point he’s really his own competition. He’s the Usain Bolt of stupid.” That was not the first time the president’s actions changed the course of a late-night monologue, nor would it be the last. Each time POTUS tweets at Kanye West, fires his latest staffer, rants about the economy to children on Easter or gives out “fake news awards,” late-night shows are faced with figuring out how to cover it…

When it comes to creating powerful music for a TV series — limited, scripted, whatever the genre — timing is everything. Some composers, like Will Bates, who created the music for Hulu’s The Looming Tower, enjoy coming on board very early in the process, before a single frame has been shot. Because the project was based on Lawrence Wright’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Bates was able to read it in order to get a sense of the main character, FBI agent John O’Neill. “It was such a broad, far-reaching story that I needed time to figure out how the instrumentation was going to go,” says Bates. “And I wanted to nail John’s theme right away. It would give me a springboard for other melodic ideas.” Once he started seeing footage from…

The United Kingdom could be on the verge of having its own version of MoviePass. Set up by venture capitalist brothers Puya and Pedram Vahabi and launched in trial format this year, cPass is much like MoviePass in that it gives its subscribers a card offering them all-you-can-eat (OK, one movie a day) access to any cinema for a monthly fee, in this case £9.95 ($13). “But the final idea is to move to a plan of one movie per week,” they say. There are currently around 10,000 beta users, and only in London. The Vahabis claim there’s a “four-digit waiting list” to join (which people can sign up for online), but they don’t plan to open up any further — and with the new weekly plan — until September…

COMPANY OF DISTINCTION KEYNOTE NBCUniversal’s chairman of global distribution and international, Kevin MacLellan — who oversees 36 offices with more than 2,600 employees and a port-folio of 120,000 TV episodes — will speak June 11. WINNING THE WAR FOR CREATIVE TALENT CAA’s Rob Kenneally, Endemol Shine’s Lisa Farenholt, Fremantle’s Dante Di Loreto and writer producer Tassie Cameron powwow June 12 about luring and fostering creators in the Peak TV era. ROCKIE AWARDS Kristin Chenoweth hosts the gala honoring Emmy-nominated director Jeremy Podeswa, Elizabeth Vargas and others. ABC’s The Good Doctor will receive THR’s Impact Award. “We strive to offer a sense of hope to everyone with differences,” says showrunner David Shore of the drama centered on a medical resident with autism. “Freddie’s [Highmore] portrayal of Shaun communicates innocence and brilliance…

PREMIERES & FIRST LOOKS HBO kicks things off June 7 with its Sharp Objects premiere and panel (star Amy Adams, director Jean-Marc Vallee, showrunner Marti Noxon). Other debuts include Hulu’s Castle Rock (a clip of the Stephen King anthology will be screened); FX’s Sons of Anarchy spinoff Mayans MC (also a first-look clip); Hulu’s The First (a first look at Beau Willimon’s Sean Penn drama); ABC’s Whiskey Cavalier (with star Scott Foley and showrunner Bill Lawrence); Lifetime’s Greg Berlanti drama You (with star Penn Badgley); and OWN’s Love Is. REUNIONS ATX is perhaps best known for its reunions — 2015’s Gilmore Girls gathering even helped spur a Netflix revival. This year, the main event is June 10’s 20-year Felicity reunion featuring stars Keri Russell, Scott Speedman, Scott Foley, Tangi Miller,…

KEVIN FEIGE With Avengers: Infinity War closing in on $2 billion, Marvel’s mastermind takes questions June 9. MARTA KAUFFMAN Having produced the Gloria Allred doc Seeing Allred, she’ll join the June 9 panel “What Makes a Doc a Doc?” LARRY GORDON In a June 9 session billed as “uncensored,” the producer will offer his candid assessments of the industry. BILL HADER Along with Barry co-creator Alec Berg, he’ll be on hand June 10 to discuss his new HBO series. MARY PARENT Legendary’s production head will take part in the June 10 Producers Mashup.…

As Hulu begins to get traction with its live TV service, CEO Randy Freer is restructuring its content teams with the hope of better integrating the new product with its existing on-demand business. On June 1, Freer unveiled a reorganization that resulted in the exit of three senior executives, including chief content officer Joel Stillerman, whom Hulu had poached from AMC only a year ago. The changes come amid a period of uncertainty for the company. Thanks to breakout The Handmaid’s Tale, Hulu is in the middle of the biggest growth in its history, but it is awaiting changes to its ownership structure as Disney and Comcast fight to acquire assets of 21st Century Fox, including a minority stake in Hulu. “There’s no way to look at Hulu distinct from…

The headlines are — depending on whom you talk to and what day it is — exhausting or galvanizing. Since the name Weinstein went from synonymous with Oscar contender to synonymous with sexual assault, Hollywood doesn’t quite know which way is up. For example, there was a piece on The Hollywood Reporter’s website June 1 — covering an extended Twitter thread from writerproducer David Slack — about agents telling their unemployed male writer clients that the #MeToo movement is responsible for their lack of a job. The idea that some agents are doing that is super funny — and by funny I mean painful. And by painful I mean so incredibly false and damaging it makes me want to stay in bed all day. #MeToo is an international movement comprising…

Cannes wrapped May 19, but stars kept the glamour going in France, where three fashion powerhouses held Resort 2019 runway shows — Dior in Chantilly on May 25, Gucci at a cemetery in Arles on May 30 and Louis Vuitton at a museum in Saint-Paul-de-Vence on May 28. BlacKkKlansman star Laura Harrier, 28, shares her travel diary from three days on the Riviera with Vuitton. After Cannes, I spent a week bopping around the South of France, then checked into the Hotel du Cap-Eden Roc. It felt really Old Hollywood glamour with that pool over the ocean that I’d seen from pictures of Elizabeth Taylor and Audrey Hepburn. Cruise collections are cool because they usually involve traveling somewhere amazing (last year, I went to Kyoto). Preshow pool time with my…

“C—ts are powerful, beautiful, nurturing and honest.” SALLY FIELD The actress, mocking the outrage over Full Frontal host Samantha Bee’s controversial on-air insult of Ivanka Trump by suggesting on Twitter that the C-word is not really a slur. “I should be the poster boy for the #MeToo movement.” WOODY ALLEN The director, on an Argentinian news program, bragging that he has “worked with hundreds of actresses and not a single one — big ones, famous ones, ones starting out — has ever, ever suggested any kind of impropriety at all.” “You not only wiped your semen on a young girl’s dress, you left a stain on society.” ROSE MCGOWAN The activist, tweeting her reaction to President Bill Clinton’s contentious NBC interview in which he admitted to never personally apologizing to…

HOT NEW RESTAURANT Lady Gaga and beau Christian Carino shared a dinner table with Margot Robbie and husband Tom Ackerley at Jon & Vinny’s. … Randy Jackson stopped by the Loews Hollywood’s H2 Kitchen & Bar. … Rachael Ray checked out Jaffa. On a different day, Billy Crystal popped in. … Publicist Melissa Kates and her sister, entertainment attorney Wendy Heller, lunched at Porta Via. … Catherine Hardwicke had dinner at Flower Child…. Over at The Palm, Bob Daly sat with Vivi Nevo. Lindsay Sloane and Andre 3000 were also there, separately. … Ken Jeong was at Terroni West Hollywood. Barbette The Quick Pitch Sean MacPherson and Jared Meisler — the hospitality duo behind Bar Lubitsch, The Roger Room and The Pikey — crank the charm up to 11 at…

Total The U.S. already has hit the saturation point, and the rest of the developed world is close behind. In 2017, 872 million households subscribed to a TV service. That figure will grow modestly to 943 million by 2022. Over-the-Top Video Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and CBS All Access will be getting competition from a yet-to-be named Disney product to launch next year. Physical Home Video Blu-ray Discs and DVDs will decline 10 percent annually until they account for just 4 percent of the TV market. Public License Fee Consumers in many countries (but not in the U.S.) pay these fees. Digital entertainment is usually exempt. Television Advertising The U.S. accounted for 42 percent of all TV ad revenue in 2017, but it will fall to 40 percent in 2022 amid…

Styling by Elizabeth Stewart Gabriela Hearst trench coat, Frame slip dress. “The socially conscious part [of me] is just everywhere. In my personal life and in my work life. I don’t think that’s a different hat. It’s just who I am.” “Do unto others,” Jessica Chastain says, raising the brows on her lineless forehead in emphasis. She is delivering her homily from the corner booth of a restaurant in a small town outside New York City, a location she has requested be kept as classified as the coordinates of a CIA torture site. Terrence Malick is the one who brought the previously religion-free Chastain the Word, during the production of Tree of Life. “Terry is an incredible thinker and a very religious person,” Chastain tells me. “And working on that…

A lot of people love to create their own “mix tape” to share with the world, collecting favorite songs in one place in order to convince others of how brilliant their musical taste is. Unlike the rest of us, though, Maggie Phillips has turned this hobby into a career as a television music supervisor. “I have always been the one saying, ‘Check out this new song,’” explains Phillips, whose credits include FX’s Legion and Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale. “Doing what I do, I get to share the songs with the whole world.” While the job of music supervisor has been around for years, it’s a relatively unsung gig. In fact, the Emmys officially started honoring the discipline only last year. And while her personal musical input is important, Phillips says…

Closer Look After J.K. Simmons won the best supporting actor Oscar in 2015 for playing the raging jazz band leader in Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash, he signed on to play Howard, a character he describes as “a kind, gentle, sad-sack, lowly cog.” It would seem like a big departure from the intensity of his Academy Award-winning performance if it weren’t for the fact that in Counterpart, there is another Howard — a slick, confident secret agent living in a parallel universe — whom Simmons also plays. Created by Justin Marks, Starz’s Counterpart, which premiered Dec. 10, sees Simmons’ Howard (the mild one) uncover a world where duplicate versions of every person on Earth are living different lives. After his discovery, Howard must work with his “other” to prevent an attack on…

GRANT HESLOV, PRODUCING PARTNER AT SMOKEHOUSE PICTURES “George’s success as an actor came a little bit later, and I think that he knew, like, ‘This could be fleeting. And I want to be able to make movies and produce movies and write movies.’ You just never know when all that stuff is going to go away. He has a very strong point of view and incredible taste. He’s a real student of film and has been for as long as I’ve known him, which is a long time. He got that from his father. And he’s a really down-to-earth, humble guy. He’s somebody who does his own dishes.” — ANDY LEWIS JULIANNA MARGULIES, ER CO-STAR “On the ER pilot, I was just a guest star — my character died. I…

NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt, 58, isn’t worried about the future of broadcast. The executive, set to deliver a June 12 keynote at the 39th Banff World Media Festival, has turned the No. 4 network into No. 1, thanks to TV’s No. 1 drama (This Is Us) and No. 1 unscripted show (America’s Got Talent). “It’s alive and well,” he says of the oft-maligned platform, adding: “There are a lot of people watching TV on their own time and we’re getting better at monetizing that and tracking it.” Heading into the 2018-19 season, his network will look to defend its rank atop the advertiser-coveted 18-49 demographic without the double boost it got from Super Bowl LII and the Winter Olympics. For a guy who loves “the creative side, first and…