Innholdsfortegnelse for Tuesday, April 30, 2019 i The Hollywood Reporter

MATTHEW BELLONI Editorial director, The Hollywood Reporter AJA BROWN Mayor of Compton MEGAN COLLIGAN President, Imax Entertainment ELIZABETH DALEY Dean, USC School of Cinematic Arts OLIVIA DIAZ-LAPHAM CEO, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles ARIEL EMANUEL CEO, Endeavor WAYNE FREDERICK President, Howard University ERIC GARCETTI Mayor of Los Angeles BONNIE HAMMER Chairman, NBCUniversal Direct-to-Consumer and Digital Enterprises BISHOP T.D. JAKES Author and pastor JON JASHNI Media Investor BARRY JENKINS Writer-director SHERRY LANSING CEO, Sherry Lansing Foundation MARTIN LUTHER KING III President, King Center KWEKU MANDELA Producer THELMA MELÉNDEZ State administrator, Inglewood Unified School District TINA PERRY President, OWN JENNIFER SALKE Head, Amazon Studios NICOLE SEXTON CEO, Entertainment Industry Foundation NINA SHAW Attorney DARREN THROOP President and CEO, Entertainment One CASEY WASSERMAN Chairman, LA28 Olympics/Wasserman Foundation STEVE ZIMMER Former…

After 22 movies and more than a decade, the gargantuan Avengers: Endgame was the last roll of the dice — or infinity stones, as it were — for several key characters. But figuring out which stars are staying in the fold at Marvel Studios or saying their final farewells isn’t as easy as a Thanos snap of the fingers. (Warning: Spoilers below.) Take the fate of Scarlett Johansson, aka Black Widow. Her story arc is definitive in Endgame, but the actress who plays the spy heroine will be returning for a 2020 stand-alone film, earning a figure in the $20 million range for both starring and producing. Or Chris Hemsworth, i.e. Thor, who signed with Marvel for five movies in 2010, then renegotiated in 2017 for Infinity War and Endgame,…

NETFLIX CHIEF DEFENDS DIVERSE SLATE: ‘ WE ARE COMMITTED TO THESE STORIES’ Deal of the Week After backlash over its March 14 decision to cancel One Day at a Time, Netflix is moving forward with another series revolving around Latinx (and black) characters, handing out a third-season renewal to the coming-of-age tale On My Block. “The season-one-to-season-two growth of On My Block was orders of magnitude bigger in terms of audience size growth than One Day at a Time,” Netflix originals vp Cindy Holland tells THR of the single-camera comedy from Lauren Iungerich, Eddie Gonzalez and Jeremy Haft. (Netflix does not release viewership data.) “People have fallen in love with the characters and that cast. It’s a great way to provide a window into that world for people who aren’t…

MAY 1 Wes Anderson, 50 Jamie Dornan, 37 MAY 2 Stephen Daldry, 59 MAY 3 Christina Hendricks, 44 MAY 4 Erin Andrews, 41 Ana Gasteyer, 52 Shameik Moore, 24 MAY 5 Henry Cavill, 36 Vincent Kartheiser, 40 Robert Rehme, 84 MAY 6 ICM’s Lauren Clark, 25 George Clooney, 58 Roma Downey, 59 MAY 7 Aidy Bryant, 32 Amy Heckerling, 65 To submit, send email to hhh@thr.com…

For years, if an actor went out for a part that didn’t state a specific ethnicity, chances were that studios and networks were looking for a Caucasian actor. Now, those same casting breakdowns increasingly note when a white person is wanted for the gig. It’s just one industrywide change that’s been ushered in by the rise of inclusive casting. Not only are more roles coming with the label “diverse only” attached, but writers, producers and executives are getting specific, seeking African American, Asian or Latinx talent to play characters with greater frequency. And that increased demand for nonwhite actors — along with writers and directors — has spurred a race at the major agencies and management firms to bring in new faces. “I absolutely feel like there is an increased…

Five months ago, THR ran a story about Black Women Who Brunch (BWB), a group created by writer-producers Lena Waithe (The Chi), Erika L. Johnson (Queen Sugar) and Nkechi Okoro Carroll (Bones) to help advance their underrepresented peers. “It’s been unbelievable,” says Carroll of the article’s ripple effects. “I’m hearing from people that ‘BWB inspired me.’ I’ve had producers and presidents of networks reach out, ‘Do you know if anyone in your group is looking to staff and at what level?’” With streaming services spiking the need for creators and a rising imperative to reach undertapped demographics, people who might have felt they were competing for the same few jobs are now more inclined to refer peers to projects and mentor assistants, often via networking groups. Most clubs vet membership…

THR awards editor Rebecca Ford (left) and senior reporter Rebecca Sun curated THR’s first-ever “Agents of Change” list (page 70) to highlight talent, executives and others creating opportunities in the industry for those from marginalized backgrounds. “The difference between this and other power lists is people are using their power to elevate others,” says Sun. “We wanted to find those who are willing to push for change even when it is beyond the scope of their job title.” In December, THR profiled the Black Women Who Brunch writers networking group, founded by Lena Waithe (The Chi), Erika L. Johnson (Queen Sugar) and Nkechi Okoro Carroll (Bones). In this issue, Nisha Gopalan, former staffer at Entertainment Weekly, reports on similar groups that have since sprung up (page 58), including the Asian…

Netflix is releasing more and more animated shows, and an estimated 50 series in production or on the platform are now unionized with The Animation Guild (TAG). But on at least one high-profile show, there’s a fight brewing over representation. That would be BoJack Horseman, which is going into its sixth season and features the voice talents of Will Arnett, Amy Sedaris and Alison Brie. Animation house ShadowMachine, which produced the series for Michael Eisner’s Tornante Co., is said to be resisting a push for union wages and benefits, though a management-side source disputes this. “There’s no reason to not be paying guild minimums” for the show, says TAG business rep Jason MacLeod. The fact that BoJack doesn’t adhere to these minimums makes it an outlier on Netflix. But while…

Pride, Prejudice … Flavors (WILLIAM MORROW, MAY 7) BY Sonali Dev AGENCY ICM Partners Like Crazy Rich Asians, the latest from Dev tackles romance through a non-Westernized lens, centering on the relationship between the neurosurgeon daughter of an immigrant Indian family and their chef, who comes from a rough past. The Last Resort (GRAYDON HOUSE, JUNE 11) BY Marissa Stapley AGENCY CAA As a tropical storm descends on the Harmony Resort, a couples retreat, Johanna and Ben attempt to work out their marital issues. The contained mystery with heartwarming elements is reminiscent of a New Line offering.…

“We all evolve.”PETE BUTTIGIEG The presidential candidate, to the Los Angeles Times, reassessing a now-viral 2003 college newspaper column he wrote in which he complained that 9/11 ruined the Dave Matthews Band for him. “I suspect a personal smear or two might be headed my way.”ABIGAIL DISNEY The Walt Disney heiress, producer and social activist, on Twitter, claiming that she’s heard “rumblings” of retaliation from Disney because of her criticisms of CEO Bob Iger’s high compensation. “As a white woman, it wasn’t my place to give those notes.”AMY POWELL The fired president of Paramount Television, reflecting to Forbes on racially insensitive comments she made during a writers meeting for the company’s all-black version of The First Wives Club. “This is my calling in life — for the ladies.”TAYLOR SWIFT The…

Tracee Ellis Ross, Reese Witherspoon, Natalie Portman, Kerry Washington, Eva Longoria, America Ferrera, Tessa Thompson and Emma Watson brunched together at the Sunset Tower. … Bryan Lourd was at Mr Chow Beverly Hills. … Bradley Cooper and Bobby Flay stopped by San Vicente Bungalows, separately. … Gwyneth Paltrow and Brad Falchuk popped by Nightshade. … Diane Keaton and Mike Medavoy shared the room at Toscana. … Halle Berry enjoyed dinner at Norah. … Pamela Adlon was at Nerano. … Courtney Love checked out Chateau Hanare. My Little Dumpling The Quick Pitch Chin Chin founder Robert Mandler and his son, prominent music video director Anthony, have opened this irreverent nouveau-Chinese restaurant just a dumpling’s toss away from far more traditional Beverly Grove offerings. Expect ahi tuna egg rolls, cream cheese wontons…

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In 1988, Patrice Coleman became the first African American makeup artist in her union in Georgia, and she has worked steadily since on Georgia-based film and TV shoots, including Lionsgate’s Insurgent, multiple projects for Tyler Perry and HBO’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Nevertheless, she was surprised last year when a line producer she’d never met, Mike Drake, asked her to meet about a Warner Bros. feature starring Michael B. Jordan, Brie Larson and Jamie Foxx. “I was amazed at how Mike found me,” Coleman says. “He said it was just by going through the union roster.” Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and based on attorney Bryan A. Stevenson’s 2014 memoir, the legal drama Just Mercy (slated for 2020) stars Jordan as Stevenson, an attorney who takes the case…

Tucked away in a corner, Jim Parsons is quietly coaching Ryan O’Connell on how to do video interviews — “work the question into the answer,” he says. But it turns out that O’Connell, the writer and star of Netflix’s Special, also has had a hand in advancing Parsons’ career, helping the Emmy-winning actor transform into an executive producer for the first time. The pitch for Special started four years ago when Parsons and his husband and producing partner, Todd Spiewak, read O’Connell’s memoir, I’m Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves, which details the complexities of living with cerebral palsy. The couple raced to option the title as their first producing project. Four other studios bid on it, but O’Connell — who wrote for MTV’s Awkward and NBC’s Will &…

“I don’t want to be in this program. I need to be.” Those are the words of Ty, 15, one of 120 high school sophomores who applied for THR’s Young Executives Fellowship. The program aims to prepare L.A. teens from diverse and low-income backgrounds for careers in Hollywood’s executive suites — providing them with high-level mentors, private tutoring and scholarships to top colleges. Pictured here are 10 members of the inaugural group of 20 (including Ty), who’ll start their journey at THR’s Empowerment in Entertainment gala April 30.…

Lil Nas X The rap-country artist tops the Billboard Hot 100 for a fourth frame as his “Old Town Road” draws 114.4 million U.S. streams in the tracking week, per Nielsen Music. Drew Barrymore/Timothy Olyphant The actors’ zombie comedy, Santa Clarita Diet, becomes the latest Netflix series to get axed after just three seasons. Daniel Ek The Spotify CEO leads the service to the 100 million paid subscriber mark — topping rivals including Apple Music — while losses in the first quarter narrow to $158 million. Michael Lang The Woodstock 50 concert organizer scrambles to salvage the all-star event amid backers pulling out. Showbiz Stocks $50.25 (+6%) SONY (SNE) The parent of Sony Pictures reports better-than-expected quarterly earnings on strong revenue related to its PlayStation gaming platform. $82.48 (-14%) WORLD…

For a while, it looked as if Wall Street was ready to unfollow the social media giants. Concerns about such issues as data privacy, the spread of misinformation and user growth weighed on the stocks of Facebook, Twitter and Snap. But this year, these companies are largely impressing investors. Facebook, which has been dogged by the threat of regulation amid criticism over its handling of user data, grew its base of daily active users (DAUs) to 1.56 billion during the first quarter. And while it revealed April 24 that it expects an FTC fine of between $3 billion and $5 billion, its first-quarter profit would have risen 8 percent to $5.4 billion when excluding a legal expense accrual. Twitter, meanwhile, kept its momentum going, reporting April 23 its sixth profitable…

Box office source: Comscore; estimates in $ millions; () Weekends in release; *Territories. Broadcast source: Nielsen, live-plus-3, week of April 15. Cable TV source: Nielsen, live-plus-3 scripted series. BILLBOARD HOT 100: The week’s most popular current songs, across all genres, ranked by audience impressions, sales data and streaming activity by online music sources tracked by Nielsen Music. BILLBOARD 200: The week’s most popular albums across all genres, as compiled by Nielsen Music, based on multi-metric consumption (blending traditional album sales, track equivalent albums, and streaming equivalent albums).…

Ask Second Home Hollywood co-founders Rohan Silva and Sam Aldenton what the mission of their new co-working campus in Hollywood is and they explain it using the other. Is it like Soho House? (“We have no dress code and we’re open to the public.”) San Vicente Bungalows? (“Our members don’t have to put a sticker on their phone.”) And they’re no fans of omnivorous behemoths like WeWork, now bowing its new L.A. space (see next page). So when Second Home’s third campus — and first in the U.S. — opens late this summer in East Hollywood, how will it fit into Los Angeles’ blooming collaborative workspace and private-club ecosystem? Creatively. “We’re interested in incredible design and color but also curating a community. But what’s different is that we’re all about…

Time 100 Gala New York, April 23 Party Crawler Kushner Called Out Stars from Emilia Clarke (7) to Rami Malek (8) were among those celebrated at Time’s 100 Most Influential People at Jazz at Lincoln Center. As one of the six honorees selected to be on the cover, comedian Hasan Minhaj (8) delivered a speech that indirectly called out White House senior adviser Jared Kushner (9), who made the list and was also at the event. “I’m very lucky that I get to be here in America and I can make jokes about very powerful leaders,” Minhaj said, adding that others like Loujain al-Hathloul, a Saudi activist who helped lift the women’s driving ban only to be imprisoned, aren’t so lucky. He went on to mention that he was in…

Weddings Adam Rosenberg, co-president of production at MGM, married Alexandra Neal, a creative executive at Akiva Goldsman’s Weed Road Pictures, in front of 110 people at SmogShoppe in Culver City on March 23. The couple became engaged at the Palmilla resort in Los Cabos, Mexico, during the 2018 Memorial Day weekend and honeymooned in Morocco. Births Filmmaker Emily Ting (Go Back to China) and husband Evaldas Imbrasas welcomed twins Celeste and Austin Imbrasas on March 23 at Providence Tarzana Medical Center. Congrats Joe Ianniello had his term as acting CEO of CBS Corp. extended for an additional six months April 23. UTA named Adam Gross director of internal communications April 23. 3Beep tapped Dominic Dunn voiceover director April 24. HGTV tapped Jane Latman president April 24. Viacom’s Music Group named…

$200M+ Contributions to her Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa. As of 2018, more than 430 OWLAG grads have attended college. $21M + Donations to Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, which opened its doors in 2016. 32,000 Square footage of the Oprah Winfrey Boys & Girls Club of Kosciusko/Attala County in Mississippi. Proceeds from The Path Made Clear will support her hometown’s chapter. 700+ Students supported through the $12 million she has gifted via her scholarship program at Morehouse College.…

PHOTOGRAPHED BY Martha Galvan ON APRIL 20 AT MACK SENNETT STUDIOS IN LOS ANGELES. In 2006, when director Gina Prince-Bythewood was looking for an assistant as she headed into postproduction on The Secret Life of Bees, she interviewed Lena Waithe, then a recent grad from Chicago’s Columbia College media arts program, on the recommendation of friend Mara Brock Akil. “She came in and —” begins Prince-Bythewood, with Waithe interjecting: “Stayed. And then popped up for a few Thanksgivings, too.” Since Waithe, 34, became the first African American woman to win an Emmy for writing on a comedy series (for Netflix’s Master of None), she’s acted in Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One, set up a feature (Queen & Slim) at Universal, created a series at Showtime (The Chi) and co-created another one…

Finally!” exclaims Janet Mock with a flourish, as she walks over to Tracey “Africa” Norman and embraces her in a warm hug at New York’s Ophelia Lounge. “I’ve known about Tracey for a really long time,” says Mock, 36. “But spending time with her today? She doesn’t disappoint.” Longtime fashion runway fixture Norman — who in the mid-’70s became the first black trans woman to be featured on a Clairol hair color box — occupied Mock’s mind as a fabled figure during her teen years in Hawaii. “During my own transition, I had heard about a model in New York who was trans, so Tracey was always this enigma — but also a heroine for brown trans girls.” These days, Mock is the one breaking barriers. The New York Times…

Admit it: You’ve tripped over your-self when discussing an actor of Latin descent. Is it Hispanic? Latino? Latinx? Comprehending and using inclusive identifying language in entertainment business settings has become both a necessity and, for some, a challenge. To help clarify the current vernacular, THR spoke with experts from six communities about the preferred terminology. Note: Consensus within communities can be difficult to achieve, and accepted terms change rapidly. BLACK “While ‘African American’ often is used to describe black people living in America, the use of ‘black’ tends to be preferred to describe all black people, including from the Caribbean, Africa, South America, etc.,” says Sarah Glover, president of the National Association of Black Journalists. For people of more than one race or ethnicity, “ ‘biracial’ or ‘multiracial’ ” —…

‘There is Not a Caucasian Face in the Movie’ Sean Bailey, president, production, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Obviously, we work a lot in the fairytale space and, often, people think of these worlds as European and Caucasian. We work hard to honor what is timeless about these stories but also to re-imagine them. Sometimes it’s telling a traditional European tale in a new way with new faces and sometimes it’s telling stories from other parts of the world in a modern way. Celebrating other cultures is one of the things that excited us about Aladdin and Mulan. For Aladdin (out May 24), we looked in more than 15 regions, including places like Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Egypt and Morocco. Randi Hiller, who heads up casting for our live-action group, was…