Innholdsfortegnelse for Wednesday, February 26, 2020 i The Hollywood Reporter

A few hours after a jury declared Harvey Weinstein guilty of rape and a felony sex crime, a veteran (male) producer called me and said in a muted voice: “It’s a historic day.” The tone was hushed not because he didn’t believe that Weinstein deserved prison. But as someone who had lived through Weinstein’s glory years, through the Miramax Oscar dominance and the Cannes yacht parties and his seeming invincibility, Harvey’s fall still had the power to stun. It was a historic day; but it’s far from clear what its impact will be in Hollywood and beyond. The circumstances of the Weinstein case were unique — his conduct so pervasive and egregious — that a less aggressive abuser might easily look at it without seeing a cautionary tale for himself…

Box office source: Comscore; estimates in $ millions; () Weekends in release; *Territories. Broadcast source: Nielsen, live-plus-3, week of Feb. 17. 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).…

Don’t expect to see Laurie Metcalf holding court at Sardi’s after performing in one of the most anticipated shows of the spring Broadway season, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? That’s not just because the Broadway-adjacent bistro hasn’t been cool since the 1980s. Metcalf prefers to spend her free time holed up in whatever apartment producers have rented for when she’s on the stage in New York. “I’m kind of a hermit, so this just gives me an excuse. ‘Oh, rehearsal was so hard today. It’s my only day off this week. I have to stay in tonight. Sorry!’ ” says the L.A.-based actress, who stars with Rupert Everett in two-time Tony winner’s Joe Mantello staging of Woolf. (Previews begin March 3.) Metcalf, 64, has been a fixture on American TV…

NAACP Image Awards Pasadena, Feb. 22 DVF Awards Washington, D.C., Feb. 19 Party Crawler Unity Championed “You don’t have to worry if the Oscars are so white or not — it doesn’t matter because here we are all celebrating each other,” said Harold Perrineau, who won best supporting actor in a drama series for his role on TNT’s Claws, at the NAACP Image Awards. Held at the Pasadena Convention Center, the 51st annual awards recognized the achievements of people of color and those who promote social justice in TV, music, literature and film. The night’s big winners included host Anthony Anderson as Black-ish dominated the TV awards; Lizzo (2), who took home entertainer of the year; Just Mercy, which nabbed best film as well as actor and supporting actor for…

Jack Black Loses His Shirt Over Mount Rushmore Jack Black has been seen in countless hipster T-shirts over the years — in High Fidelity, he even sported a Yanni tee — but this is the first time he’s ever landed in hot water over one. On Feb. 18, the 50-year-old actor (and supporter of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, currently in fourth behind frontrunner Sen. Bernie Sanders in California primary polls) posted a photo of himself on Instagram wearing a Mount Rushmore shirt with Warren’s face inserted next to George Washington’s. The photo didn’t stay up long — a matter of hours — after multiple followers pointed out that Mount Rushmore has a complicated history with Native Americans (the 1941 monument, carved into sacred ground, is considered a desecration by some). In…

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Bob Chapek The Disney parks chief, who has been with the company since 1993, becomes the next CEO, replacing Bob Iger, who will remain as exec chairman until the end of 2021. Bob Bakish The ViacomCBS CEO sees shares fall 18 percent when it reports Feb. 20 a fourthquarter loss of $258 million and a weaker forecast for 2020. Kelly Campbell Disney promotes Hulu’s CMO, who joined the company from Google in 2017, to president, overseeing the streamer’s on-demand and live businesses. Chris Matthews The MSNBC host is forced to apologize on air to Sen. Bernie Sanders for likening his Nevada victory to when the Nazis stormed France during World War II. Showbiz Stocks $128.19 (-8.17%) DISNEY (DIS) With the coronavirus spreading, Disney faces a couple of pressure points between…

Disney’s studio results for 2019 include Fox from the close of the merger on March 20, making it a tale of two companies. Led by Avengers: Endgame, Disney reached an unprecedented $11.1 billion at the global box office before including Fox. The plan for 2020? Getting 20th Century Studios on track and making sure such tentpoles as Mulan, Jungle Cruise and Marvel’s Black Widow and The Eternals, plus Onward and Soul from Pixar, perform. “2020 is not going to be the same as 2019 for the studio,” Disney CEO Bob Iger told analysts Feb. 4. But given that Disney+ is a focus and that the company’s direct-to-consumer and international unit, which includes the streamer and Hulu, saw its operating final-quarter loss rise to $693 million due in part to the…

FILM Chris Evans (CAA, 3 Arts, Sloane Offer) is in talks to play the dentist in Greg Berlanti’s adaptation of Little Shop of Horrors for Warner Bros. Bette Midler (CAA), Goldie Hawn (ICM, Untitled, Jackoway Austen) and Diane Keaton (WME, Pearlman & Tishbi) will reunite for New Republic Pictures’ multigenerational comedy Family Jewels. Margot Robbie (CAA, Australia’s Aran Michael, Management 360, Jackoway Austen) and Michael B. Jordan (WME, Ziffren Brittenham) have joined Christian Bale in David O. Russell’s untitled New Regency drama. Dev Patel (WME, the U.K.’s Curtis Brown, Magnolia, Lichter Grossman) will star in financial thriller Flash Crash for New Regency and See-Saw Films. Rocketman’s Dexter Fletcher (CAA, Sloane Offer) will direct a Paramount reboot of spy thriller The Saint. Olivia Wilde (CAA, Untitled, Ziffren Brittenham) will direct Perfect,…

Rep Sheet Naomi Watts has left CAA for WME. Linda Cardellini has left ICM Partners for CAA. Amelia Gray and Delilah Belle Hamlin, daughters of Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin, have signed with UTA and DBA. Insecure’s Yvonne Orji has signed with Imagine Artist Management. TikTok-ers Avani Gregg, Andre Swilley and Tayler Holder have signed with Abrams. Next Big Thing REPS CAA, Circle of Confusion, Ginsburg Daniels WHY HE MATTERS Disney has tapped the writer-director of 2016 sci-fi thriller Sleight to develop a new Star Wars project with Luke Cage writer Matt Owens. Dillard, whose directing credits include Amazon’s Utopia and Blumhouse’s Sweetheart, worked in production support on The Force Awakens and cameoed in Rise of Skywalker.…

With days to go before Super Tuesday, which includes the California primary, the race to shore up industry support among the Democratic presidential candidates has reached a fever pitch, though some (such as Ava DuVernay) have yet to make up their minds. “It’s been really interesting talking to people on the road. It seems like if Pete [Buttigieg] is not their first choice — then he’s their second,” says Laurie David, who has been canvassing in early primary states with a group of women that includes Nicole Avant and Jamie Lynton, all supporting Buttigieg (who appeared at a fundraiser in L.A. hosted by Seth MacFarlane and Lee Daniels on Feb. 20). David says she plans to knock on doors for Buttigieg in California as well.… Current front-runner Bernie Sanders recently…

“I hope the handcuffs are tight.”GRETCHEN CARLSON The former Fox News anchor, on Twitter, reacting to Harvey Weinstein being taken into custody after a jury found him guilty on Feb. 24 of criminal sexual acts and third-degree rape. “I just got tired of working day to day in a way that wasn’t satisfying my soul.”MIKAELA SPIELBERG Steven Spielberg’s 23-year-old daughter, to The Sun, revealing that she is beginning a career as a porn actor (a disclosure she says made her parents “intrigued” but “not upset”). “I’m starting to see … a lot of friends being like, ‘Why would I ever want to be a showrunner?’”LILA BYOCK The Watchmen producer, in The New York Times, opining on how in the streaming age it’s more lucrative for TV writers to just write:…

Tiffany Haddish checked out Roku. David Schwimmer also was in.… George R.R. Martin enjoyed lunch at Sushi Sasabune. Boom! Studios’ Stephen Christy sat nearby.… Ringo Starr and Lionel Richie were at BG Lounge, separately.… Donna Karan and Tom Ford lunched at Mr Chow. UTA’s Ophir Lupu sat with NBC News’ Dylan Byers. On a different day, MGM’s Michael De Luca popped by.… Usher and Sarah Silverman were at Croft Alley Beverly Hills, separately.… Jimmy Kimmel stopped by Majordomo.… In New York, Larry David was at Buddakan.… Catherine O’Hara checked out Le Coucou.… Alexander Wang and Grace Coddington shared the room at Verōnika. Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura The Quick Pitch Michelin-starred Italian chef Massimo Bottura, whose Osteria Francescana in Modena has been among the top five of The World’s 50…

Yifei, star of Disney’s live-action remake of Mulan, lives in Beijing, but she is originally from Wuhan, epicenter of the coronavirus. In January, the 32-year-old actress left China for Los Angeles to begin press for the film, weeks before the virus’ outbreak, which has now infected more than 77,000 people, killed more than 2,500 and wreaked havoc in her home country. She says she doesn’t have any family or close friends personally affected by the disease — she left Wuhan when she was 10 — but the epidemic has added an impossible-to-fore-see variable to her film’s March 27 worldwide release. Liu pauses when asked about the outbreak. “It’s really heavy for me to even think about it,” she says. “People are doing the right thing. They are being careful for…

I run my house and it’s a full-time job running this studio,” Edith “Edie” Mayer Goetz said in 1967, settled in her Holmby Hills mansion, the epicenter of Hollywood social life for more than 20 years. Her father, Louis B. Mayer, had built MGM into the most prestigious studio during Hollywood’s golden age. Her sister, Irene, married Gone With the Wind producer and studio exec David O. Selznick. And Edie’s husband, Bill, ran 20th Century Fox and then Universal-International, where he gave Natalie Wood, then 7, her first credited role, in 1946. Edie’s legendary dinner parties, held within pastel interiors designed by actor-turned-decorator William Haines and where more than 60 Impressionist paintings hung, echoed the smooth elegance of her father’s musicals. Irene (who became a Broadway producer after divorcing David…

I’m sitting on my bed and I have my arm around my puppy Pearl Kali, a Havanese from Cuba named after the warrior goddess Kali. A therapist told me that I needed a puppy for chronic PTSD, and so, here we are. I’m looking at her while staring at a horizon that I haven’t seen since I was raped in 1997. I haven’t had a free moment from this man since then. God bless the women who testified: Annabella Sciorra, Miriam Haley, Jessica Mann, Dawn Dunning, Tarale Wulff and Lauren Young. I can imagine what it felt like for them to be on that stand because essentially, it’s like standing there naked in front of the world, allowing people to put tiny pinpricks in you as they try to pull…

Deal of the Week With Asian and Asian American actors and filmmakers gaining prominence in Hollywood — the latest example: Parasite and The Farewell winning top honors at the Oscars and Spirit Awards — their counterparts in the executive suites are stepping up as well. Nina Yang Bongiovi, who runs Forest Whitaker’s Significant Productions, revealed Feb. 24 that she has teamed with a coalition of film and tech veterans including Bing Chen, chairman of the Asian American nonprofit Gold House, and Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin to launch the film fund AUM Group. Although founded by Asian Americans, the fund will back an array of multicultural film projects, starting with Rebecca Hall’s directorial debut, Passing. Now shooting, the drama is an adaptation of Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel about the evolving relationship…

AUG. 3, 2016 “He’s on to something … everybody’s getting tired of political correctness: We’re in a pussy generation.” CLINT EASTWOOD The conservative director, in an Esquire Q&A, endorsing Donald Trump. In a Feb. 21 interview with The Wall Street Journal, Eastwood backed Democrat Michael Bloomberg, adding that he wished Trump acted “in a more genteel way, without tweeting and calling people names.”…

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FRANK LAWLIS POSSESSES A DEEP TEXAS DRAWL, ONE THAT MAKES THE NOW-ICONIC intonation of Dr. Phil McGraw — his decades-long friend and business associate — seem almost city-slicker by comparison. His down-home voice, along with the bolo ties, pale eyes and unkempt white hair, are a comfort to the clients who travel to his private practice from all over the country in the hope that he can help mend minds — even those minds that other doctors cannot. The Lawlis Peavey PsychoNeuroPlasticity Center, in suburban Lewisville north of Dallas, primarily caters, by his estimate, to troubled adolescents as well as people decades older “who’ve never been able to launch themselves,” he says. A battery of tests, including brain mapping, is administered in an attempt to pinpoint the problem during a…