Innholdsfortegnelse for Wednesday, January 16, 2019 i The Hollywood Reporter

Big Deal Brooklynn Prince is growing up so fast. “Today my journey as a director begins,” the Florida Project star, 8, wrote Jan. 3 on Instagram. Prince is making her directorial debut with Colours, one of a trio of vertically shot short films financed by Curated by Facebook, a multi-surface channel launched in June to highlight “what’s happening at the intersection of technology, creativity and community,” says Facebook global creative director Andrew Keller. “We were blown away by her passion and vision,” says Instagram global creative director Kay Hsu of Prince, who wrapped Jan. 6, while DJ Steve Aoki and Mid90s co-producer Mikey Alfred are now in production on the other two Curated Originals. The shorts are expected to debut on Curated by’s Facebook and Instagram channels in February, and…

Critics’ Choice Awards Santa Monica, Jan. 13 L.A. Film Critics Association Los Angeles, Jan. 12 Sopranos Reunion New York, Jan. 9 National Board of Review Gala New York, Jan. 8 L.A. Online Film Critics Association Los Angeles, Jan. 9 Party Crawler Choice Lineup The buzz at Barker Hangar during the 24th Critics’ Choice Awards was all about the possibility of a host-less Oscar ceremony, as Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse producer Phil Lord noted, “Perhaps it will speed it up.” Inside, stars mingled as Julia Roberts embraced Bradley Cooper, Timothee Chalamet geeked out over Christian Bale (3) and Laura Dern chatted with Ryan Gosling. The ceremony saw ties between Amy Adams (4) and Patricia Arquette (4) as well as Glenn Close (7) and Lady Gaga, who drew roaring applause with her…

Have you now or have you ever tweeted anything offensive? That’s the question that Hollywood awards strategists may need to start routinely asking their clients now that a 2015 tweet from Green Book writer-producer Nick Vallelonga — in which he agreed with then-presidential candidate Donald Trump that Muslims in New Jersey cheered the 9/11 attacks — has threatened to derail that movie’s Oscar campaign. While shrewd strategists spend months doing everything they can to promote films — from seeking impressive endorsements to throwing seductive soirees — they have yet to take proactive measures to bury any potentially explosive tweets. “Every single company except Netflix is just so understaffed or overworked,” says one strategist. “Who has the time to do this?” Old news stories, reflecting negatively on an awards hopeful, have…

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ALFONSO CUARON’S UNCLE WAS A COMMUNIST. He also was a meticulous record keeper. Mexico City, where they both lived, was, in early 1971, frequently the site of violent clashes between students and government forces. While visiting him one day in the summer of that year, Cuaron found a startling black-and-white photograph among his uncle’s newspaper clippings. The image showed a terrified young man in a white shirt running, looking back over his shoulder at a group of men chasing him with a bamboo stick. From above, several frightened onlookers watched from the windows of a furniture store. “He’s unsure how this is going to end,” Cuaron recalls of the man in the image. The uncle explained to the 10-year old Cuaron that the people being beaten, and sometimes killed, were…

October 2014 Premiere of the Serial podcast, investigating the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee. It becomes the first podcast to achieve 5 million downloads on iTunes. The Maryland Court of Appeals is now reviewing whether to grant the subject of the series, Adnan Syed, a new trial. February 2015 The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst premieres on HBO and gains widespread exposure when, the day before its finale airs, Durst is arrested on first-degree murder charges in connection with the 2000 death of his friend Susan Berman. December 2015 Making a Murderer, which examined whether Steven Avery and his nephew Brendan Dassey had been framed for murder, premieres on Netflix and is seen by 19.3 million viewers per episode in its first 35 days, according to…

In theory, no group has reaped the benefits of a 500-plus scripted series TV universe more than SAG-AFTRA, but the diversity of the landscape is lost by the peculiar lack of TV supporting categories at the SAG Awards. It’s a system that forces voters to weigh the merits of a showy supporting performance against a meaty lead. And sometimes it doesn’t even have to be a showy supporting performance, such as Joseph Fiennes’ occasional appearances on The Handmaid’s Tale, which don’t really seem comparable to a single show anchor like Bob Odenkirk or John Krasinski. It also can force a choice between performances that have both been found winner-worthy. For Barry, voters will be forced to pick between Bill Hader, an upstart writer-director-star, and Henry Winkler, consensus choice as Hollywood’s…

One year after Toby Emmerich ascended to chairman of Warner Bros. Pictures Group and consolidated his power, his team’s 2018 slate of films has gone a long way in restoring the studio to stability. The success follows a difficult era with big misses like King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017), Jupiter Ascending (2015) and Pan (2015) punctuated by a win here and there, such as 2017’s Wonder Woman, It and Dunkirk (Emmerich was president and chief content officer at the time after jumping from New Line to Warners in late 2016). On Jan. 19, Emmerich, 55, will be feted with the Producers Guild of America’s Milestone Award on the heels of awards frontrunner A Star Is Born ($398.4 million), the ground-breaking Crazy Rich Asians ($238.2 million) and the superhero…

HOLLYWOOD DEALMAKERS Lionsgate Entertainment’s Sandra Stern leads an all-female panel about evolving pacts. 11:20 a.m., Jan. 22 LINEAR LEADERSHIP TLC’s Howard Lee and other decisionmakers meet about the strained quest to retain platform-agnostic viewers in an OTT-dominated climate. 11:15 a.m., Jan. 23 IN CONVERSATION Discovery lifestyles chief Kathleen Finch will have a one-on-one about her cable portfolio and viewers’ evolving tastes. 3 p.m., Jan. 23 KEYNOTE NBC Entertainment co-chairmen George Cheeks (pictured) and Paul Telegdy discuss their plans four months into the job. 10 a.m., Jan. 23…

Television Reality Hits New launches are a ratings boon p. 15 Film Ratner’s Deal Did Warner Bros. overpay for RatPac-Dune? p. 16 Bob Iger The Disney CEO’s compensation soars 80 percent to $65.6 million, though he misses out on a $60 million bonus. Chris deFaria The DreamWorks Animation chief is out as owner Universal taps Margie Cohn to run the division and streamline film and TV. Alicia Keys CBS and the Recording Academy tap the singer to host the 61st annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 10, succeeding James Corden. Harvey Weinstein The disgraced mogul loses his top defense lawyer Ben Brafman as he prepares to go to trial in New York over a sexual assault claim. Showbiz Stocks ↑ $29.88 (+6%) VIACOM (VIAB) The conglomerate is reportedly in talks to…

FILM Christopher McQuarrie (CAA, Key Creatives, Myman Greenspan) will write and direct two new back-to-back Mission: Impossible movies. Henry Winkler (Management 360) will join Timothee Chalamet in Wes Anderson’s French Dispatch. Stellan Skarsgard (CAA, the U.K.’s Curtis Brown) has joined Denis Villeneuve’s Dune remake at Legendary. Jumanji star Karen Gillan (UTA, the U.K.’s Troika, Jackoway Austen) will topline action thriller Gunpowder Milkshake. Tony winner Liesl Tommy (WME, MGMT) will direct Jennifer Hudson in the Aretha Franklin biopic Respect for MGM. Deadpool’s Brianna Hildebrand (ICM, 23, Bloom Hergott) is in talks to join John Cena in Paramount’s family comedy Playing With Fire. Jon Bernthal (WME, Sloane Offer) and Vera Farmiga (CAA, Authentic, Peikoff Mahan) are in final talks to join New Line’s Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark. Patrick Melton…

Watch Us Rise (BLOOMSBURY, FEB. 12) BY Renee Watson & Ellen Hagan AGENCY UTA Intersectional feminism meets homeroom in the novel about best friends who start a Women’s Rights Club at their progressive NYC high school. The YA book, with its larger sociopolitical themes, is reminscent of Fox 2000’s The Hate U Give. The Space Between Worlds (CROWN, SPRING 2020) BY Micaiah Johnson AGENCY ICM Partners The high-concept sci-fi novel is the debut for Johnson, a current Ph.D. candidate in race and robotics. Set when traveling between parallel realms has become possible, it follows a woman as she unravels the truth of her world by jumping between others.…

Dining Scene Nate ’n Al has found its white knights: Music moguls Irving and Shelli Azoff have purchased the legendary Beverly Hills deli together with a group of investors including UTA’s Jay Sures, NBCUniversal’s Jeff Shell and Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber. The plan, according to two sources, is to move the restaurant from its Beverly Drive location to a new spot in Beverly Hills’ commercial district, possibly the space occupied by Wolfgang’s Steakhouse on Canon Drive. The deal is expected to close April 1. In early 2018, the fate of Nate ’n Al was called into question — causing existential angst across Hollywood — when news spread that longtime owners Mark and David Mendelson were considering selling the 73-year-old Hollywood mainstay where Larry King used to breakfast almost daily.…

I don’t enjoy exercising on my own, but sometimes it’s too difficult to find a partner for tennis or a group for basketball. I stumbled upon Upgrade Labs about a year ago when I was next door having a Bulletproof coffee. I went inside this science-fair fun house and was greeted by an incredible group of well-informed staffers. I had a chronic neck injury from a film stunt, and one of the guys, Matt Reed, explained the benefits of PEMF (Pulsed Electromagnetic Field) on injuries and inflammation due to helping bring oxygen to the injured site. I was a bit skeptical, but after one treatment, the pain was dramatically reduced [all one-off treatments are $75 each]. This is treatment a chiropractor can’t offer; it’s not an adjustment, it’s cellular. Matt…

The Jan. 6 Golden Globes, determined by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s 90 or so members, provided a few surprises (Bohemian Rhapsody!) while establishing which films are leading the race toward Oscar’s best picture. Now, it’s the actors’ turn to give out the Actors. More than 121,000 voting SAG-AFTRA members are now penciling in their favorites for the SAG Awards (ballots are due Jan. 25). SAG-AFTRA’s top prize is the ensemble-focused outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture category, and this year’s finalists are five very different films. Winning the SAG Award does not always lead directly to the best picture Oscar (in the past 10 years, five films — Spotlight, Birdman, Argo, The King’s Speech and Slumdog Millionaire — have won both), but only two films (1995’s Braveheart…

There aren’t many true-crime sagas that have been investigated as frequently on the big and small screen as the so-called Black Dahlia murder that shook Los Angeles in 1947. If you’re going to try to approach the case anew, you’d better have a good angle. TNT’s Black Dahlia-adjacent limited series, I Am the Night, has some things going for it — including a strong star turn from Chris Pine, reuniting with Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins — but it lacks that angle. After watching five of its six hours, I can’t tell you whose story it is, nor the mystery it’s unfolding. I Am the Night was created by Sam Sheridan and is “inspired by the life of Fauna Hodel.” Hodel (India Eisley) discovers in 1965 at age 16 that…

KENYA BARRIS The Black-ish creator (who signed a huge deal with Netflix in August) will receive the Visionary Award. KEVIN FEIGE The David O. Selznick Achievement Award will go to the Marvel Studios chief and Black Panther producer. JANE FONDA The actress will be recognized for her activism and philanthropic work with the Stanley Kramer Award. AMY SHERMAN-PALLADINO The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel creator will receive the Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television.…

When Prohibition first went into effect 100 years ago — the 18th Amendment was ratified Jan. 19, 1919 — Hollywood thought movie theaters would be flooded with former barflies. But the real gains were felt by screenwriters. “The stories that resulted from Prohibition were irresistible,” says Ken Burns, director of the 2011 docuseries Prohibition. “The gangster, the flapper, the G-man — it opened unlimited new plotlines with kingpins and Al Capones and a more open sexuality. Hollywood couldn’t help but make movies about the glamorous mistakes that Prohibition created.” The era’s films were certainly pro-“wet.” A study done by the Alcohol Research Group showed that of the 115 films released between 1929 and 1931, 66 percent showed drinking and three-quarters of those films treated intoxication as humorous. (The Hollywood Reporter…

Deal of the Week An Apple TV show on a Samsung TV? The iPhone maker, which has a history of keeping consumers within its ecosystem of devices and apps, figured in several announcements at the Jan. 7-10 CES consumer tech show that indicate it is opening up its walled garden, including letting Samsung pre-install iTunes on some TV sets. Apple also has OK’d Sony and LG to use its AirPlay technology, which allows video on an iPhone, iPad or MacBook to be simulcast onto a TV screen. These pacts come as iPhone sales have slowed, causing Apple to disclose in early January that fiscal first-quarter revenue could come in $9 billion lower than previously forecast. Facing pressure to find new ways to make money as customers hold on to devices…

“I don’t want to be seated next to a rapist.”KATHY GRIFFIN The comedian, overheard at The Polo Lounge, asking to have her seat moved away from former CBS CEO Leslie Moonves. “Streaming services are the new keto.”JASON HIRSCHHORN The former MySpace co-president, on Twitter, comparing the explosion of OTT startups to the low-carb fad diet. “[We] have experienced firsthand the Academy’s graceless pressure tactics.”SAG-AFTRA The actors guild, in a statement, accusing the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences of “extraordinary and unwarranted” pressure to prevent talent from presenting at awards shows other than the Oscars. “If we’re gonna tear down artists, let’s go ahead and take da Vinci out of the Louvre.”KANYE WEST The rapper, in an Instagram stream widely interpreted as a defense of R. Kelly. Kim Kardashian…

Lorne Michaels was at the Polo Lounge. Kris Jenner sat nearby. … Janelle Monae celebrated Pose’s Mj Rodriguez’s birthday with the show’s cast, Transparent’s Trace Lysette and others at The Abbey…. L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti lunched with LAUSD superintendent Austin Beutner at Honor Bar. … Usher checked out Doheny Room. … Mira Sorvino was at Norah. … Tiffany Haddish stopped by Alta Adams. … Michael B. Jordan was at Hyde Sunset. On a different day, Dolph Lundgren was there. … West Hollywood cafe/bakery La Conversation will close Jan. 20 after 23 years. Fiona The Quick Pitch Baker Nicole Rucker’s (Gjusta, Smorgasburg) pies are the centerpiece of an all-day homey-modern cafe, where she’s working in tandem with chef Shawn Pham (The Bazaar), who’s sending out dishes like brioche toast with Japanese…

Historical movies are never about history. Nor are they meant to be. Current historical films like First Man, The Favourite, On the Basis of Sex, Vice, Bohemian Rhapsody, BlacKkKlansman and Mary Queen of Scots purport to tell us about important historic people and events, to present the facts that explain why the subject is so significant. Yet a Google search of each of these titles will produce a long list of factual inaccuracies. And that’s OK — because these films are not about facts, they are about something much more elusive and important: truth. Specifically, they are about how the events of the past illuminate the choices we face in the present. That’s why the fuss around the historical accuracy and perspective of Green Book, a small film with a…

Pedego, which says SoCal represents 30 percent of its market, specifically targets the 50-plus demo, with William Shatner, 87, as its spokesman. “It happened organically,” says CEO Don DiCostanzo. Explains Shatner: “I saw Pedegos in my local [North Hollywood] store and said, ‘This is what I need,’ and then I met the company people.” In exchange for two bikes that DiCostanzo personally delivered, the CEO requested “one picture that I can use for one year.” Six years later, “Mr. Shatner said, ‘I want Pedegos for my family’” of 14; DiCostanzo replied, “I want a video.” A new deal was struck. In 2018, in return for the actor filming commercials at Universal Studios, Shatner received company warrants or stocks. Says the CEO: “Bill told me it’s the one thing his whole…

Andrew Colborn was leading a quiet life as a police officer in the Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, Sheriff’s Department when his face first flashed across millions of screens around the world. It was December 2015 and the docuseries Making a Murderer had just premiered on Netflix, becoming one of its first genuine unscripted hits. Making a Murderer helped establish Netflix as a destination for bingeable non-fiction programming, earned its makers Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi four Emmys and turned tens of millions of viewers into avid armchair detectives. The docuseries also turned Colborn’s life upside down, along with those of his wife, Barb, a retired pediatric nurse, and their five grown children, ages 26 to 35. “Barb and I … have always strived to lead a quiet and private life,” Colborn…

A STAR IS BORN The musical drama has the most SAG Award nominations with four, including nods for its leading lady (Lady Gaga) and man (Bradley Cooper, who also directed), plus a supporting nom for Sam Elliott. While many were surprised that the Warner Bros. film didn’t land the Golden Globe for best drama, the movie is a crowd-pleaser that has earned Cooper (who was nominated for best actor in 2013 for Silver Linings Playbook) and Gaga plenty of attention. And while it could be viewed as a two-hander, the ensemble is rounded out with Elliot and comedians Dave Chappelle and Andrew Dice Clay, who showed off their more dramatic sides. BLACK PANTHER Now the No. 3 movie of all time in North America, Black Panther touts a large, star-studded,…