Innholdsfortegnelse for Wednesday, October 9, 2019 i The Hollywood Reporter

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“Back in the day, horny women were to be feared — and now they’re given Emmys.”PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE Fleabag’s creator and star, during her Oct. 5 Saturday Night Live monologue, describing her recent wins as proof that “women can now speak openly about their desires without being burned at the stake.” “We too love money more than freedom and democracy.”TREY PARKER AND MATT STONE The South Park creators, in an Oct. 7 faux apology, reacting to China scrubbing references to their series from the internet following an episode that mocked Hollywood pandering to the communist country. “I’ve left more money on the table than any actor.”MATT DAMON The star, revealing in British GQ that he turned down a starring role (and 10 percent stake) in James Cameron’s $2.8 billion-grossing Avatar. “They didn’t…

Henry Golding checked out Pizzana in West Hollywood. … Peter Chernin sat with Tony Vinciquerra at the Sony commissary. … Over at Jon & Vinny’s on Fairfax, Johnny Knoxville, Will McCormack and Matthew Weiner shared the room. … Lisa Kudrow, Natalie Dormer and Lauren Bailey had dinner at Pacifique, separately. … Dylan McDermott lunched at A Votre Santé. … Gersh’s Brett Norensberg was at Cabana Restaurant at Four Seasons Los Angeles. … Jennifer Grey and Clark Gregg were at Brentwood Country Mart’s Farmshop. Mandy Patinkin sat nearby. Tokyo Guild The Quick Pitch Situated between Sony and Amazon in Culver City, this gastropub offers an array of street food small bites to start — miso pork fries, lightly battered octopus — as well as ramen and sando options using pillowy milk…

Tucked away in a cozy bungalow, steps from the crazy of Hollywood Boulevard, lies the tranquil kitsch of Fake Empire, the production company Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage founded nearly a decade ago. The longtime writing and producing partners, with a staff of five, opted for this homey office in a bid to keep their company as intimate as possible in a television landscape otherwise devoted to growth. Here’s where the showrunners behind such cultural phenomena as The O.C. and Gossip Girl cater to an industry thirsty for what they do best — programming for young adults, with an approach that flies in the face of what you’d expect from a company with five series and a groundbreaking two TV deals. For their broadcast-only pact with CBS TV Studios, there’s…

Adi Aloni, hair Clients: producers Jean Doumanian, Cindy Cowan “I make excuses to go to New York just so I can get a haircut from him,’’ says Cowan of the stylist who owns NYC’s Simadi salon. “For Keegan-Michael Key’s wedding, he gave me this amazing style. He has a way of cutting layers that brings out the glamour, so even when I wake up, it looks sexy.’’ Adds Doumanian, “He takes a look I’ve had and improvises it to keep me contemporary as time marches on.” Marilee Albin, hair Clients: NBCUniversal Cable chair Bonnie Hammer, actress-writer Brit Marling Working out of West Hollywood’s Mare Salon, Albin has seen a shift among her industry execs toward “more effortless and natural” hair: “These powerhouse women are getting their beachy, textured styles while…

DAVID ALTMAN, ANTHONY BONSIGNORE AND FRANK SELVAGGI ALTMAN, GREENFIELD & SELVAGGI New York-based Bonsignore and Selvaggi work with rising and established stars from Timothée Chalamet and Rachel Brosnahan to Jimmy Fallon and Anne Hathaway. Out West, the firm has shepherded Donald Glover as he jumped to full multihyphenate status. Says Altman, who heads the L.A. office, “It’s great to see the firm grow along with them.” Trick for surviving tax season Altman: “Knowing your limits.” Bonsignore: “I try to take a long weekend once a month and go somewhere warm for three days.” HOWARD ALTMAN, COREY BARASH AND WARREN GRANT GRANT TANI BARASH & ALTMAN “It’s not for us right now,” says Altman of the consolidation craze that’s hit the industry. The firm is busier than ever as clients are increasingly…

Recession worries? Do this: Stay calm and don’t read the news (“everything cycles in and out”) Pay off or refinance debt now, and lock in low interest rates for later Put enough cash in savings to cover one to two years of expenses Stop asking to invest in … MARIJUANA RESTAURANTS CRYPTOCURRENCY Joke about the job What’s the difference between accountants and attorneys? Accountants know they’re boring.BRUCE SECKENDORF There are three types of accountants. Those who can count and those who can’t.MATT LICHTENBERG Who do farmers hire to count their livestock? An a-cow-ntant.JAMIE CHEEK Go ahead, splurge on … Moving to a tax-friendly state A relaxing vacation Self-improvement…

What weighs 65 pounds, measures 18-by-18 inches square, is signed by stars including Alec Baldwin, Jack Black, America Ferrera and Ben Stiller and costs $25,000? The Official DreamWorks Animation Opus Premiere “Anniversary” Edition celebrating the 25-year history of the studio, available in November (but limited to 25 copies). If that price tag’s a little steep, there are three other editions available, ranging from about $15,000 down to a mere $250 or so for the smaller (425 pages instead of 858) Classic Edition. Four years in the making, the tome features untold stories and extensive images from the studio’s 36-movie filmography. The more deluxe editions also bear the signature of studio co-founder and longtime leader Jeffrey Katzenberg, along with those of additional DWA stars and several filmmakers (Dean DeBlois, Jennifer Yuh…

It’s a measure of how much the entertainment industry has changed that a docudrama series about a sex predator who targeted young, poor, black women could become one of the biggest TV events of the year. Since its bow in January, Surviving R. Kelly, which gives voice to the alleged victims of the R&B artist — who denies all charges against him — has reached more than 26 million viewers in the U.S. and worldwide on A+E Networks’ Lifetime channel. Roughly a month after the show aired, Kelly was indicted on 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse and is being held in jail in the Chicago area. Surviving R. Kelly executive producers Dream Hampton and Brie Miranda Bryant will headline The Hollywood Reporter’s eighth annual MIPCOM Women in Global…

Todd Phillips The Joker director’s bold bet on the DC villain pays off with a $247 million global opening for Warner Bros. and an October box office record. Adam Silver As China suspends NBA broadcasts over a pro-Hong Kong tweet from a league official, its commissioner is caught between financial partners and a growing protest movement. Eric Shanks The Fox Sports chief presides over an 8 percent NFL ratings gain so far this season, as the league sacks its downturn of the past few seasons. Ellen DeGeneres The daytime host suffers so much backlash for taking in a Cowboys game with former President George W. Bush that she offers an on-air explanation. Showbiz Stocks $2.22 (+13%) COMSCORE (SCOR) The troubled measurement firm strikes deals to provide TV audience data to…

FILM Harry Shum Jr. (Paradigm, Triniti, Stone Genow) and Happy Death Day’s Jessica Rothe (WME, Authentic, Hansen Jacobson) will star in the Universal love story All My Life. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark’s André Ovredal (WME, Industry, Hansen Jacobson) will direct horror thriller The Last Voyage of the Demeter, now at Amblin. Saturday Night Live’s Mikey Day (ICM, Stone Genow) and Streeter Seidell (WME, Artists First) will write a live-action Inspector Gadget adaptation for Disney. TELEVISION Cynthia Erivo (UTA, Authentic, Peikoff Mahan) will play Aretha Franklin in season three of Nat Geo’s anthology series Genius. Brendan Gleeson (Ireland’s The Agency, Principal) and Jeff Daniels (ICM, Martino) will star as Donald Trump and James Comey, respectively, in an untitled CBS Studios miniseries based on Comey’s memoir. Tyler Perry (WME,…

Tyler Perry Studios’ Grand Opening Atlanta, Oct. 5 Party Crawler House of Perry Hollywood all-stars including Beyoncé (7) and Jay-Z (7), Oprah Winfrey (3), Ava DuVernay (8), Tiffany Haddish, Mary J. Blige and Samuel L. Jackson came out in full force for the grand opening of Tyler Perry Studios. “Why did it take so long?” Whoopi Goldberg (10) told THR of Perry’s milestone as the first African American creative to own a studio outright with no partners or corporate backing. Viola Davis (1) also beamed with admiration. “Tonight is an excuse to celebrate a historic moment, which is a black artist taking control of their artistic life and the vision that God has for their life,” she said. Winfrey added of Perry: “Tyler is my little big brother. To see…

Weddings Spencer Spaulding, co-founder and operating partner of Forward Artists, married Tiyson Reynolds, a communications executive at Rotten Tomatoes, on Aug. 17 at the Sunset Tower Hotel. The couple honeymooned in Greece, Croatia and Italy. Elyse Seder, senior vp alternative and syndication programming for Sony Pictures Television, married Dane Lillegard, vice president of Boardwalk Pictures, on Aug. 17 at an estate on Fox Island in Washington. The couple honeymooned in Bora Bora. Births Chris McLaughlin, publicity principal at Amazon Studios, and wife Kaylie McLaughlin welcomed son Grant Dae Hwan McLaughlin on Sept. 9 at Kaiser Permanente in Anaheim. Congrats Kristine Belson renewed her contract with Sony Pictures Animation with the new title president of features and series on Oct. 2. Tina Tchen was named president and CEO of Time’s Up…

“[I had] the privilege to work with her in Peeples. She was generous, supportive and as elegant as I imagined she would be. And she was hilarious. She had a deep understanding of who she was, but she also understood the larger-than-life phenom who was Diahann Carroll. She embraced the complexity in that dance with her own legacy.”Kerry Washington She was a huge influence. I was a young girl from the hood, and when you live in the hood, it’s hard to dream. We didn’t see many African American women on TV. And then here was this woman [on Dynasty] who was just so beautiful and classy and strong and fierce. It was great to see that as a young girl. And then when I started studying acting — I…

1 What suit has garnered you the most positive response in Hollywood? I wore a gold Givenchy suit to the Golden Globes and got a lot of reaction on the carpet, but the most response was for a custom suit made by a company called ESQ — started by an Asian American designer who DM’d me on Instagram. He made the suit lining pattern out of the Crazy Rich Asians logo. Every party I went to that night, people wanted me to open the jacket and take pictures with it. Talk about pride! 2 Do you have a style guru whom you would recommend? My secret weapon is my friend Liat Baruch, who is an absolute under-the-radar tastemaker in town. She makes sure whatever I choose to wear is on…

When Lou Taylor walks into a room, people tend to notice. Maybe it’s the blingy Lakers championship ring (a gift from client Metta World Peace) on her finger or the bronze Saint Laurent platform heels on her feet. Or, perhaps, it’s that with a name like Lou, most people are expecting a man. “I always love that,” she says. A New York native who is running one of the top business management firms out of Nashville and L.A., Louise has gone by Lou for as long as she can remember. “I was Lou Lou, and as I got older, I was like ‘I need to drop one,’ ” she says. Taylor, 54, found her calling by happenstance. In 1990, her husband relocated to South Florida for work and she needed…

Shortly after TPG made its initial investment in CAA in 2010, Jim Coulter, the Texas investment firm’s co-CEO, attended the talent agency’s all-hands retreat in Carlsbad, California. In his 20 years of investing, Coulter had been to countless such gatherings, but after hearing CAA’s presentations, Coulter was convinced he had invested in one of the most influential businesses not only in Hollywood, but maybe in the world, people familiar with the meeting recall. The CAA investment was notable as TPG’s coming-out party in Hollywood, and it since has become arguably the premier private investor in media and entertainment, its nearest rivals being Japanese conglomerate Softbank and Silver Lake, the firm that backs CAA competitor WME by way of its major stake in Endeavor Group. Since 2010, TPG not only increased…

Oct. 12, 1994 The animation studio is founded as a division of Jeffrey Katzenberg, Steven Spielberg and David Geffen’s DreamWorks SKG. Oct. 2, 1998 DWA’s first movie, Antz, featuring Woody Allen as the voice of an anxious worker ant, grosses $171.8 million worldwide. March 21, 1999 DWA wins its first Oscar, best original song for “When You Believe” from The Prince of Egypt. May 18, 2001 The animated fairy tale Shrek is released; it will go on to capture the Academy’s first animated feature Oscar and to launch DreamWorks’ first franchise, ultimately ending up with five films (including Puss in Boots) that gross more than $3.5 billion worldwide — so far. Shrek is among the DWA properties now under Illumination chief Chris Meledandri’s purview, and star Eddie Murphy tells THR,…

The launch of new subscription video streaming services by Disney and Apple in November — soon to be followed by the likes of WarnerMedia’s HBO Max and NBCUniversal’s new SVOD service Peacock — will dominate discussions and impact dealmaking among the executives who’ll descend on Cannes en masse this year for MIPCOM, the world’s largest television market and confab. The new streamers — joining such global players as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video alongside the currently domestically focused CBS All Access and Hulu — are a boon for producers and sales agents, providing a whole new market for top-end series. But they also raise the bar in terms of audience expectations and, by further increasing the sheer volume of series available, make it even harder for any new show to…

Martin Scorsese raised the hackles of Marvel fans when he recently told Empire magazine that the franchise “isn’t the cinema of human beings trying to convey emotional, psychological experiences to another human being.” But it turns out he saw cinematic potential in the DC Universe. The Irishman helmer was involved with Joker — which opened in the U.S. to $96 million over Oct. 4-6, an October record — as a producer when the project was first unveiled by Warner Bros. in 2017 with Todd Phillips directing. Although he eventually dropped the credit, his contribution has been a mystery. A source close to Scorsese tells THR he originally eyed Joker as a potential directing vehicle before Phillips approached the studio with his own take on the nihilistic villain. (Warners declined comment,…

Deal of the Week NBCUniversal’s Peacock has a new head. In an Oct. 7 announcement that signals the prioritization of product and technology, Comcast veteran Matt Strauss is replacing Bonnie Hammer as chairman of the forthcoming direct-to-consumer streaming service. Hammer now will oversee the newly created NBCUniversal Content Studios as its chairman. Strauss may not be a familiar face in Hollywood, but his appointment could give Peacock a leg up in the streaming wars. “They’re bringing in someone who has built products for the consumer,” says LightShed media analyst Rich Greenfield. “There’s a lot more that goes into the direct-to-consumer business than just programming. Content matters a lot, but you have to have a great user experience and technology backbone.” A 15-year veteran of Comcast, Strauss led the development and…

Rep Sheet Simu Liu, star of Marvel’s upcoming Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, has signed with CAA, as has The Good Place’s Manny Jacinto. Saturday Night Live’s Aidy Bryant has signed with Kovert Creative. When They See Us’ Emmy nominee Asante Blackk has signed with Mayhem Entertainment PR. Nick Creegan of OWN’s new drama David Makes Man has signed with Abrams. Next Big Thing Tiffany Boone REPS ICM Partners, LINK WHY SHE MATTERS After leaving Showtime’s The Chi in the wake of alleged harassment by co-star Jason Mitchell, Boone, 32, will join George Clooney, Felicity Jones and Kyle Chandler in Netflix’s sci-fi feature Good Morning, Midnight. The actress, who recurred on Fox’s The Following, also will star in Amazon’s Nazi hunter series The Hunt from Jordan Peele.…

Sports Scene Beyond being a utility pitcher for the L.A. Dodgers, Ross Stripling has added podcaster to a résumé that also includes certified investment adviser. With The Big Swing 40 episodes in, Stripling and co-host Cooper Surles are delivering strikes in the form of unfiltered interviews with the likes of ace Clayton Kershaw (an episode that drew 15,000 listeners) and broadcasters Joe Davis and Tim Kurkjian. With his team in the hunt for a World Series title, Stripling, 29, spoke with THR about his voice venture. Does the podcast take your focus away from the game? One of the first things I said to Cooper was, ‘If this takes my mind and effort away from baseball, it’s not going to work.’ It’s like a stress release. It takes your mind…

I first met him many years ago, when he took over for Mickey Rooney on Sugar Babies. We had very similar experiences — we both started our careers working at strip clubs, though for me it was a male strip club. And you have to learn to work a little harder to get the audience’s attention in a strip club. But he loved to work. He lived to work. I don’t know where the confetti thing came from, but he said he couldn’t stop because people expected it: “Where’s the confetti?” But he was so much fun. He’d be like, “Judy, let’s try on some wigs!” He was very open about wearing wigs. I think his made him feel more clownish. And then, of course, there was the mustache. But…

SUITS Veronica Beard, Rag & Bone and Victoria Beckham are preferred by stylist Andrea Lublin, while Dana Walden’s stylist Dana Asher Levine likes “Nordstrom’s basics because they last and dry clean very well,” like its Halogen black pant. Adds Jordan LaValle, part of a styling duo with Meg Chapman: “We love suits from A.L.C. because they have a bit of fashion and go up to a size 18.” Stylist Tanya Gill counts Blase (“different, European”), Valentino, Dior and Alexander McQueen among her favorite suiting brands. NON-SAMPLE SIZES “A lot of boutiques in L.A. don’t sell anything bigger than a 6 or an 8,” says Lublin, whose go-to’s include Net-a-Porter, Matches and Moda Operandi. 11 Honoré does “great designers in larger sizes and are so accommodating,” says Asher Levine. Stephanie Gisondi-Little…

It was September 2017, and Harvey Weinstein was huddled at a corner table at New York’s Loews Regency hotel alongside Dylan Howard, chief content officer of National Enquirer publisher American Media Inc. Weinstein had become increasingly alarmed about a story that Ronan Farrow — then a correspondent for NBC News and most famous for being the son of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen — was vigorously pursuing about the powerful producer’s long-rumored sexual predations. Weinstein had worked to suppress variations of that story for decades, and he was desperate for it to stay secret. But Farrow (along with a team at The New York Times) was closing in. Weinstein wanted to bully NBC News into killing the story. He needed leverage. Howard pulled out several thick manila envelopes and laid…

JOE BIDEN He’s declared that his first move as president would be to reverse Donald Trump’s reductions of the tax rate for the top bracket from 37 percent back up to 39.6 percent. Another bummer for one-percenters: He’s also promised to tax capital gains as ordinary income (they are currently capped at a 20 percent rate), while capital gains for heirs would be taxed based on how much the asset has appreciated since it was originally acquired, not when it was inherited. Still, of the major candidates, Biden is the one who is least likely to give Hollywood moguls major headaches. “There’s a sense that [he’s] going to be more moderate,” says Kevin Klowden, executive director of the Milken Institute’s Center for Regional Economics and California Center. “Your Bidens, your…

2010 Takes 35 percent stake in CAA, creates $500M TPG-CAA co-venture fund. 2014 Launches STX Entertainment with producer Robert Simonds. Pays about $225M to up its stake in CAA to a majority 53 percent. 2015 Leads a $186M investment in learning company Lynda.com. Acquires a majority stake in Cirque du Soleil. 2016 Spotify raises $1B in debt from TPG and others. Pays $1.6B for RCN and $650M for Grande Communications Networks and combines them. 2017 Invests $450 million in Vice Media. 2018 Leads a $100M investment in Bigtree Entertainment, operator of ticket distributor BookMyShow. Invests $20M in sports media brand The Athletic. Invests $15M in media company ATTN. Participates in an $80M investment in online educator MasterClass. 2019 Becomes majority owner of Graydon Carter’s Air Mail newsletter. Acquires Entertainment Partners,…

INTERNATIONAL AWARDS LUNCHEON Among the honorees at the Oct. 14 event celebrating global talents in the exhibition space is Warner Bros.’ Monique Esclavissat (pictured), who will receive the distributor of the year award. KNIVES OUT Many of the major distributors will tout their wares with a presentation. And a few films with awards buzz will be screened in full, including Lionsgate’s Knives Out, Fox Searchlight’s Jojo Rabbit and Fox’s Ford v Ferrari. AWARDS CEREMONY The conference wraps with this Oct. 17 fete. Honorees include David Linde (pictured), CEO of Participant, the company behind Roma and Green Book; Bow Tie Cinemas’ Joe Masher; and Promotion in Motion’s Michael Rosenberg.…