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F OR ITS THIRD ANNUAL Top 25 Red Carpet Designers issue, THR surveys the creative drivers of the fashion world following a tumultuous year of musical chairs within its top houses. Among the movers and shakers on this year’s list: Anthony Vaccarello, who took over the top design position at Saint Laurent; Raf Simons, who departed Dior for Calvin Klein; and Maria Grazia Chiuri, who left Valentino after 17 years to become the first female creative director in Dior history. In the main story (page 80), senior fashion editor Booth Moore explores how the red carpet is affected by the new political correctness, the “see now, buy now” runway model that debuted at New York Fashion Week and the fashion world’s embrace of millennials. “It was challenging — figuring out…
ON SEPT. 15, THE THR TV TALKS SERIES DEBUTED, WITH THE New York Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, at the 92nd Street Y. Janice Min moderated the panel with the SNL alums, who dished on their IFC show (revealed: how they got Helen Mirren to host), impersonated what Barack Obama would say in L.A. and talked — what else — Trump (“I gave Bane his origin story,” joked Seth Meyers of his epic takedown of Trump at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner). Watch at THR.com/TVTalks and look for the next installment with The Americans cast and crew, moderated by Tim Goodman, at 7:30 p.m. ET on Oct. 30.…
AS THE CLOCK TICKS DOWN TO THE FIRST presidential debate on Sept. 26, network and cable news divisions tasked with moderating the three face-offs between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are girding for an especially tricky candidate in Trump, a likely surplus of animosity from both sides and unprecedented attention being placed on the moderators themselves. “If you look into the abyss of social media, it’s just fulminating hate all the time,” complains one news executive. “The environment is so toxic.” Moderating a presidential debate should be an honorific, a chance to showcase a network’s anchor in front of an enormous TV audience. More than 67 million people across networks watched the first 2012 tussle between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, a viewership high not seen since 80 million people…
DAMIEN CHAZELLE The La La Land writer-director, 31, scores the Toronto Film Festival’s coveted audience award, which has preceded an Oscar best picture nomination each of the past four years. ROB FRIEDMAN The Lionsgate film co-chairman steps down amid a string of disappointing releases and failure to launch franchises after Hunger Games and Twilight. TERRY PRESS The CBS Films chief’s low-budget Western Hell or High Water hits $23 million domestic thanks to a sky-high Rotten Tomatoes score and the summer’s savviest platform release. Is an Oscar campaign next? TED HARBERT The NBC Broadcasting chairman exits after a 40-year career in television amid chatter at 30 Rock that his job effectively was eliminated months ago. SHOWBIZ STOCKS $82.88 (+2%) ELECTRONIC ARTS (EA) Benchmark analysts raise their price target on the maker…
DURING THE SPRING OF 2005, Mr. & Mrs. Smith was only months from release when Brad Pitt left then-wife Jennifer Aniston for his co-star Angelina Jolie. At the time, executives at 20th Century Fox and New Regency feared the affair might hijack box-office returns for the big-budget tentpole. But that summer, the film — thanks in part to a publicity deluge for “Brangelina” — amassed a huge $478 million globally. Cut to 11 years later, and Paramount executives apparently don’t feel similar anxiety. The studio dropped a new TV spot for Allied, Pitt’s romantic thriller with Marion Cotillard, on Sept. 20, the day Jolie’s filing for divorce from Pitt was made public and gossip websites blamed an alleged Pitt-Cotillard affair. Paramount insiders say the timing of the teaser trailer was…
Can HBO Keep Its Throne Without Thrones? IT’S BECOME ONE OF THE FEW SURE THINGS IN television: For a 15th straight year, HBO topped all networks, this time with 22 Emmy wins. But how long can the reign last? Despite HBO taking two of the three most coveted awards (Veep as outstanding comedy, Game of Thrones as best drama) on Sept. 18, the gap is narrowing with FX, which came within four wins this year. That marks the lowest margin of victory during the past five years and puts pressure on HBO’s new programming chief, Casey Bloys, who will compete for Emmys in 2017 without Game of Thrones — the drama that has collected the most statuettes the past two years won’t air during the eligibility period because of a…
