Innholdsfortegnelse for Wednesday October 10 2018 i The Hollywood Reporter

FILM Margot Robbie (CAA, Australia’s Aran Michael, Management 360, Jackoway Austen) is in talks to star in and produce a Barbie movie at Warners. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before star Noah Centineo (CAA, Definition, Myman Greenspan) has joined Elizabeth Banks’ and Sony’s Charlie’s Angels. Rosie Perez (Innovative, Silver Lining, Meyer & Downs) will play Renee Montoya in DC and Warner Bros.’ Birds of Prey. Michelle Williams (WME, Brillstein, Bloom Hergott) is attached to star as astronaut Christa McAuliffe in Argent Pictures’ The Challenger. Armie Hammer (WME, Sloane Offer) will join Gal Gadot in Fox’s Death on the Nile. A Quiet Place producers Andrew Form and Brad Fuller (WME) have launched Fully Formed Entertainment, signing a first-look deal with Paramount. Jon Stewart (UTA, Dixon) will direct political satire Irresistible…

Olivia Twist (BERGER BOOKS/DARK HORSE, SEPT. 19) BY Darin Strauss and Adam Dalva AGENCY WME With gender-bent remakes of The Rocketeer and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels in the works, this comic book reworking of the Charles Dickens classic, following a teenage orphan girl in London, is on trend for Hollywood. House on Fire (ATRIA, MARCH 12) BY Bonnie Kistler AGENCY UTA The mystery from a lawyer turned author is reminiscent of a Jodi Picoult novel, centering on a blended family where one side is pitted against the other in court after a fatal incident of drunk driving.…

STAGE FRIGHT HALLOWEEN COMES EARLY Even by the standards of immersive theater, the latest show from filmmaker Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw II, III & IV), opening Oct. 11, pushes the envelope. Theatre Macabre promises guests a series of choices that morph the narrative, using a 400-plus-page script that employs about 40 characters. Bousman’s previous immersive shows, including 2016’s Tension Experience, have lured Neil Patrick Harris, Emma Roberts and Anthony and Joe Russo (who are developing a Las Vegas Tension show). Harris is such an enthusiast that his husband hired Bousman’s team to craft a personal production for his 45th birthday in June. “[Bousman] takes it to an emotional place so that you’re questioning whether this experience has gone off the rails in some way,” says Harris, “and he does it…

The country’s deep partisan divide was evident in the work celebrated at the 39th annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards on Oct. 1 in New York. Winners included HBO’s Vice News Tonight, which received four awards, including one for its coverage of the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville; Showtime’s Jackson, about Mississippi’s lone abortion clinic and the battle around reproductive rights; and Univision and Al Jazeera International, for their coverage of undocumented immigrants and the Trump administration’s travel ban, respectively. PBS took the most awards (seven), while CBS and HBO each earned six. Four of CBS News’ trophies went to 60 Minutes, with Bill Whitaker’s “The Whistleblower” winning for best investigative story. The piece is among several Whitaker has done on the opioid epidemic. “This is taking the lives of…

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The Facebook page of one of the most influential people in conservative media is unique in the United States of 2018. It makes absolutely no political statements. Instead it’s covered with pictures of her smiling with her four children in and around a home just off one of the canals in Venice, California, that was once used as a location in Garry Marshall’s 2010 romantic comedy Valentine’s Day. There is no indication that the woman in the pictures, Susie Bean Breitbart, wife of the late Andrew Breitbart, owns the largest stake in Breitbart News — a fact that has emerged in congressional testimony and news reports and was confirmed to THR by two people with knowledge of the business. She’s not a regular on Fox News, but Breitbart’s ownership of…

GAME OF THRONES 1.2M PER EPISODE 1.2M PER EPISODE 650K PER EPISODE GoT stars Peter Dinklage, Kit Harington, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau will make $1.2 million an ep for the six-installment final season of the HBO fantasy. They secured bumps after banding together for raises ahead of last season ($500,000-$600,000) then renegotiated midway through. A next tier that includes Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams renegotiated multiple times to go from $8,500 per ep in the first season to $650,000 this go. STRANGER THINGS 350K PER EPISODE 250K PER EPISODE 150K PER EPISODE The Stranger Things cast scored big raises in renegotiations for the coming third season. Winona Ryder and David Harbour are said to be making $350,000 an ep, up from $100,000 and $80,000. Young stars Finn…

On a muggy late-September morning in Atlanta, a scrum of local journalists gather at the Atlanta Hawks practice facility for Media Day. Over several long, exhausting hours, players pose for photos, field dozens of questions from reporters and shoot hoops with a few lucky young fans. In other words, it’s just another typical day in the NBA. But then — making an anything but typical entrance — Jami Gertz strolls onto the court, all 5-foot-5 of her, wearing a skirt in fluorescent “volt green” (one of the team colors) and black stilettos, which click-clack on the polished gym floor as loudly as a drumroll. Yes, that Jami Gertz. The perky preppy from sitcoms like Square Pegs and The Facts of Life. The Shakira-esque bad girl from broody teen ’80s flicks…

Europe has become the battleground for the future of streaming television, and the battle lines between established broadcasters and the insurgent FAANGs (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google) will be drawn at this year’s MIPCOM. The global TV market comes in the wake of Comcast’s $40 billion deal to acquire European pay TV giant Sky, Disney’s recent announcement of its own direct-to-consumer online platform that will launch in 2019, and unprecedented investment in localized European programming by Netflix and Amazon. Sky has been upping its investment in such original series as a reboot of the German anti-war classic Das Boot, set just after the events of Wolfgang Petersen’s 1981 submarine epic. These developments come alongside efforts by regional broadcasting giants to boost their online presence. Germany’s ProSiebenSat.1 has linked up…

When it comes to tax breaks in Hollywood, Donald Trump giveth and Donald Trump taketh away. The Hollywood Reporter surveyed multiple payroll service companies — their accountants are hired by studios to cut the checks for the actors, crew and craftsmen who make their living hopping from film to film — and learned that the average on-the-set worker has seen about a 5 percent bump in his or her pay stub since the passage of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017. But those same accountants are quick to point out that in April, the federal government will be grabbing back that 5 percent and maybe a lot more, thanks to the law’s stingier freelancing rules and caps on property tax deductions (especially painful in pricey real estate zones…

Digital Snapchat Shows The struggling app launches original programs p. 22 ↑ Television Netflix Quota Europe requires streamers to make local content p. 24 Hope Hicks The Murdochs tap the former Trump White House aide as executive vp and chief communications officer for “new Fox,” guiding messaging for the company. Angela Kang The Walking Dead’s new showrunner can’t stop the AMC flagship from dipping to a premiere low with 6 million same-day viewers in its Oct. 7 return for season nine. James Gunn Disney’s loss is apparently Warner Bros.’ gain: The Guardians of the Galaxy filmmaker, fired over offensive tweets, lands as director of a Suicide Squad reboot. Megan Ellison The Annapurna founder mysteriously drops two A-List movie projects on the verge of shooting as her president of film abruptly…

Deal of the Week With Oct. 8’s confirmation that Peter Rice and Dana Walden would take top roles at the expanded Disney conglomerate after its $71.3 billion Fox acquisition, TV industry talk now turns to the remaining questions (including how Fox, with its edgier programming and flashier executives, will jell with Disney’s more conservative culture). WHO STAYS, WHO GOES? As Disney looks to shave $2.6 billion from exec overlap, several key players, including reality chief Rob Mills and head of casting Ayo Davis, are fielding interest from elsewhere. At the center of speculation is ABC’s Channing Dungey, who became the first black entertainment president when she entered the job in 2016. Now, Dungey reports directly to former rival Walden — but for how long? Already, there are whispers of Walden…

Busy Philipps doesn’t want to overshare. But it’s the actress’ bent for transparency that has made her a social media favorite, the Instagram everywoman with dozens of famous friends among her 1.1 million followers. From the banality of her struggles with sinus congestion to a blistering Sept. 27 reveal that she was raped at 14, Philipps’ candor has now propelled the supporting TV player to first on the call sheet of her own talk show: Busy Tonight will air on E! four nights a week, starting Oct. 28. That’s 12 days after her memoir, This Will Only Hurt a Little, arrives from Touchstone. “When it comes to public personas, you can tell when someone’s a phony,” says the 39-year-old mom of two (with writer-director husband Marc Silverstein), who plans to…

“It’s all bullshit. It’s a lie. It’s a Band-Aid lie to make them feel better.” ROSE MCGOWAN The controversial activist, deriding Hollywood women’s groups like Time’s Up in a profile in the U.K.’s Sunday Times. (She later clarified that her criticism did not include #MeToo, which “is about survivors and their experiences.”) “One is never really in or out of treatment. It is a full-time commitment.” BEN AFFLECK The actor, in a statement posted to Instagram after completing a 40-day inpatient program for alcoholism. “Women are the n-word of the world.” BETTE MIDLER The entertainer, in a tweet that drew widespread outrage. She apologized and deleted the tweet, saying she wrote it “without thinking.” “I didn’t realize I was to ask a simple question and then let the gentlemen go…

WME’s Ari Greenburg and ABC’s Patrick Moran dined together at Chi Spacca. … Nicole Kidman lunched at Soho House West Hollywood. … Gerard Butler checked out Mondrian Los Angeles. … Mickey Rourke was at E.P. & L.P. On another day, Mayor Eric Garcetti was in. … 20th Century Fox TV’s Howard Kurtzman and John Mayer rubbed elbows at Sasabune Beverly Hills. … Mel Gibson and Jessica Capshaw shared the room at Orto Santa Monica. … In New York, Derek Jeter was at Carbone. Brillstein Entertainment’s George Heller and Live Nation’s Rebecca Kipnis sat nearby. HOT NEW RESTAURANT Simone The Quick Pitch Jessica Largey, a James Beard winner and vet of the acclaimed Manresa, unveils one of the most anticipated openings of fall in a 1920s-era DTLA Arts District building. In a…

Author In quick succession, Baldwin published his own memoir and a bestselling parody in President Trump’s voice. The former has been described as a “265-page therapy session” — though Baldwin notes in the book’s preface that he wrote it because he “was paid to write it.” Impressionist Baldwin will return to SNL for another season as Trump. While it’s earned him an Emmy and many fans, he says he has detractors, too: “Like the A.V. Club and all these online guys who still live with their mothers. They’re like, ‘We can’t even find the words to describe how much we hate what he does.’” Game Show Host He was skeptical when ABC first approached him about hosting Match Game. But it’s easy work and good money, a portion of which…

I can still picture him sitting in my classroom. Do you remember that character in Peanuts, the one called Pig Pen, with the dust cloud and crumbs flying all around him? That was Stephen Miller at 8. I was always trying to get him to clean up his desk — he always had stuff mashed up in there. He was a strange dude. I remember he would take a bottle of glue — we didn’t have glue sticks in those days — and he would pour the glue on his arm, let it dry, peel it off and then eat it. I remember being concerned about him — not academically. He was OK with that, though I could never read his handwriting. But he had such strange personal habits. He…

$8.8B $70.6M $69.3M $43.9M Michael Rapino, the CEO of Ticketmaster parent Live Nation, earned $70.6 million in 2017, enough to make him the best-paid chief executive in the entertainment industry, edging ousted CBS CEO Leslie Moonves at $69.3 million. But both are pikers compared to the windfall Rupert Murdoch earned by agreeing to sell most of 21st Century Fox to Walt Disney. Fox disclosed Sept. 28 that Murdoch was paid $49.2 million for his work as executive co-chairman, but that’s a drop in the bucket compared to the $8.7 billion, including dividends, that he made on his 17 percent stake in Fox, shares of which have surged nearly 70 percent in the past 12 months as Disney and Comcast bid higher and higher for the privilege of acquiring the Fox studio,…

Some of the most influential women in the international TV industry will meet at THR’s annual Women in Global Entertainment Power Lunch to discuss how far the movement toward gender parity has progressed in the past year. “We are now in the throes of the second wave of the #MeToo reckoning, and it is in many ways much more ferocious,” says THR East Coast TV editor Marisa Guthrie, who will host the Power Lunch panel session with A&E Investigates host Elizabeth Vargas and French social media activists Elise Goldfarb and Julia Layani. News anchor Vargas, who ended her 14-year run on ABC’s 20/20 this year to segue to A&E, where she will bring her investigative docuseries and specials to the cable network, will share her female perspective on recent developments…

Agree or Disagree? “Sometimes I learn about news and current events through celebrities.” 50% don’t really know the political views of the celebrities they follow MEANWHILE … 29% Think that celebrities should not express their opinions about political and social issues to the public When celebrities express their opinions about political or social issues they care about, their influence, in general, is … Very effective 7% Somewhat effective 17% Not very effective 20% Not at all effective 40% Don’t know/No opinion 14% The THR/Morning Consult poll was conducted Sept. 27-Oct. 1 from a national sample of 2,192 adults with a margin of error of 2 percent. Some percentages may not add up to 100 due to rounding. Have you ever … Donated to or volunteered for a cause because a celebrity you like…

Employees at Netflix and Amazon Prime better get used to reading subtitles. Because the U.S. streaming giants may be about to get a lot more European. The new directive, passed by the European Parliament on Oct. 2 and set to be formally adopted in December, will require that 30 percent of content on all VOD platforms in 28 countries be of local origin. The regulation is likely to spur Netflix and Amazon to boost their investment in Europe by increasing both original productions and local acquisitions. Netflix plans to spend about $1 billion on original and co-produced content in Europe this year, according to a Financial Times report. This summer, the Reed Hastings-led company rolled out plans for its first European production hub, in Spain, and unveiled a trio of…

Big Deal The latest bid to cut through TV’s increasingly cluttered landscape is to lean on familiar fantasies. That push is a key factor behind Netflix’s Oct. 3 pact to partner with Entertainment One and The C.S. Lewis Co. for multiple films and shows based on C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia. The deal marks the first time the rights to all seven books in the series are held by the same company. Sources say Netflix beat Apple for Narnia in the deal that, in success, could be worth a low nine figures. Netflix and eOne are searching for filmmakers and showrunners to oversee the sprawling Narnia universe, which boasts thousands of worlds and whose source material sells upward of 1 million box sets of books annually. Netflix’s Narnia deal…

Like all mothers, I think my kids are fabulous. But mine really are,” says Polly Draper with a laugh. The Thirtysomething actress is, of course, talking about her actor sons Alex and Nat Wolff, who appear with Mom in Stella’s Last Weekend, which Draper also wrote and directed. The comedy (opening Oct. 12 via Paladin in New York and L.A.) revolves around brothers who reunite at their childhood home to put their beloved dog, Stella, to sleep — and are blindsided when they discover they are in love with the same woman. “I knew that I could probably get the movie made just based on their steam,” she says of 23-year-old Nat (The Fault in Our Stars) and 20-year-old Alex (Hereditary). Fred Roos, who has produced all of Francis Ford…

Bespoke” can refer to anything from suits to websites to bikes to shoes. The word comes from “bespeak,” which means to speak for something. If I’m making a custom suit, I’m speaking for me, for who I am, for what my business is. But it’s not showing off — that’s not it. When you’re ordering something to be made the way you want it, you’re speaking to the world. With bespoke, you start from scratch. You’re building a garment with the experience and guidance of the person making it for you. That’s the difference between bespoke and made-to-measure. You can get a good result with M2M, but you’re adapting a garment from an existing block pattern. It’s the designer’s vision, not yours. The shoulder will be the same, the lapel…

As the midterms loom and the town mobilizes (and panics), THR probes the intersection of power, policy and the media’s role in it all, plus the emerging players and rising influencers who will shape the November elections (or collapse trying) On Sept. 24, with just 44 days to go before the Nov. 6 midterm elections and a $60 million hill to climb, Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum did what nearly every serious Democratic candidate running in this election cycle has done: He boarded a plane and headed to Hollywood. In the ensuing 24 hours, the 39-year-old Tallahassee mayor, who stunned the country with his surprising primary victory (he trailed in the polls just weeks before the election), would traverse L.A., stumping for money at six entertainment industry fundraisers in a…

HOWARD ALTMAN COREY BARASH WARREN GRANT Grant Tani Barash & Altman “We limit the number of clients we represent in order to maintain a high level of service,” says Grant. He, Altman and Barash may have a lean list, but the notoriously tight-lipped moneymen are known to keep good company. Some of Hollywood’s heaviest hitters — Dwayne Johnson, Tom Hanks and Brad Pitt, among others — have been linked to them. Says Grant, “We do our homework and evaluate who we want to represent.” SHARON ALTMAN Clifton Larson Allen Altman’s firm NSBN rang in 2018 by following the accounting industry’s M&A trend and merging with national powerhouse CLA. “It brings a lot of additional expertise and services to our clients,” says Altman. “Most of our clients in the entertainment industry…

DAVID BOLNO, RICHARD FELDSTEIN NKSFB Drake, Pharrell Williams, will.i.am and Selena Gomez top a roster that keeps this duo busy handling world-class tours. TODD GELFAND, MELISSA MORTON Gelfand Rennert & Feldman Gelfand’s firm serves as auditors for the Recording Industry Association of America. Reported clients include Bob Dylan, Neil Diamond and Will Smith — and, rumor has it, Bruce Springsteen, too. BERNIE GUDVI, MICHAEL OPPENHEIM NKSFBGO Gudvi and Oppenheim were shocked when jailed ex-partner Jonathan Schwartz admitted in 2017 to embezzling millions. But the two, who rep Katy Perry, Beyonce and Eminem, have landed on their feet as their firm was absorbed by NKSFB in April. MARY ANN MCCREADY Flood Bumstead McCready & McCarthy Country queen McCready has been linked to Thomas Rhett and Kelsea Ballerini as well as performers…

Data Compiled By Source: The week’s most active and talked-about entertainers on leading social networking sites Facebook, Google Plus, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube for the week ending Oct. 2. Rankings are based on a formula blending weekly additions of fans as well as cumulative weekly reactions and conversations, as tracked by MVP Index.…

MIPCOM Oct. 15-18 Palais des Festivals, Cannes As U.S. studios, international broadcasters and independent producers descend on Cannes for MIPCOM, the global TV business, once erected on seemingly stable and unchanging foundations, appears both more volatile and more diverse than ever. It used to be Leslie Moonves’ world. The former CBS Corp. chief, who resigned in September amid sexual harassment allegations, stood for the kinds of shows — good guy/bad guy cop procedurals like CSI and NCIS, typically with white male leads and always nicely wrapped up at the end of each episode — that played on big national broadcasters, in primetime, around the globe. Those series are still finding audiences, but now they are competing with programming diverse in both content and talent, with women and people of color…

POWER RANGERS In 2010, MarVista landed international distribution rights to the Power Rangers TV series (it had more than 700 episodes at the time) after Haim Saban bought back the rights from Disney, which had inherited them with its 2001 purchase of Fox Family Worldwide. “He could have picked anybody,” says Szew. “From a business perspective, I was really proud that we were able to do that.”…