Innholdsfortegnelse for March 16, 2023 i The Hollywood Reporter

Nearly a year before Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert collected the best picture Oscar, the team behind Everything Everywhere All at Once was onstage at The Paramount Theatre in downtown Austin, debuting the movie at the South by Southwest film festival. The best picture win marks a first for a feature premiering at SXSW. Toronto and Telluride have long been considered launching pads for awards runs, while recent best picture winners CODA, Nomadland and Parasite have had their premieres at Sundance, Venice and Cannes, respectively. Of this year’s best picture nominees, two had Cannes debuts (Elvis, Triangle of Sadness), two bowed at Telluride (Women Talking, Tár), two more at TIFF (All Quiet on the Western Front, The Fabelmans), and there was Venice provenance for good measure (The Banshees of Inisherin).…

Quentin Tarantino is back for the last time, putting together what sources tell THR is being billed as his final movie. The Movie Critic is the name of the script that the Pulp Fiction director wrote and is preparing to helm this fall, sources say. Logline details are being kept in a suitcase, but sources describe the story as being set in late-1970s Los Angeles with a female lead at its center. It is possible it focuses on the late Pauline Kael, one of the most influential movie critics of all time who also was known for her pugnacious fights with editors and filmmakers. In the late 1970s, Kael had a brief tenure as a consultant for Paramount, a position she accepted at the behest of Warren Beatty. The timing…

As the return of Yellowjackets looms, there’s one question on avid viewers’ minds (one that also was asked by Colleen Wheeler’s Suzie in the first-season finale): “Who the fuck is Lottie Matthews?” For Courtney Eaton, it’s complicated. The actress has now spent more than a year filming the blockbuster Showtime drama about a group of teen girls stranded in the woods 19 months after a plane crash (and the struggles of their adult counterparts to reconcile, among other things, the cannibalism they committed before their rescue). In the cliffhanger episode of season one, the current-day Lottie was — to the sinister delight of viewers — revealed to be a cult leader seemingly responsible for the death of Travis, another survivor. “It doesn’t come from not knowing her well, but I…

Everything Everywhere Team Packs Into Party Bus for Oscars The makers of Everything Everywhere All at Once had a celebratory solution for the task of transporting everyone everywhere all at once on Oscar night: a fleet of party buses. The best picture-winning team hit the town in supersized rides, traversing from the 95th Oscars to afterparties including Vanity Fair’s event and A24’s private bash at Soho House West Hollywood. Producer Jonathan Wang detailed the plan days before the show, saying “the legendary icons with big, beautiful gowns” (aka Michelle Yeoh) had to ride separately. Wang credited Daniel Kwan, one half of Daniels directing tandem, for the convoy idea. “Dan Kwan loves a party bus; who doesn’t?” Good point, but it’s also worth noting that the idea has roots in the…

Weddings Little Miss Sunshine actress Abigail Breslin married Ira Kunyansky on Jan. 28 after getting engaged in February 2022. Births Kia Brooks, deputy director of The Gotham Film and Media Institute, and Nick Brooks, senior footwear designer at Design Brands Inc., welcomed Grace Azalia Brooks on Jan. 23. Congrats Michele Imperato Stabile was named president of worldwide physical production at Warner Bros. Pictures on March 10. Former Twitter exec Sarah Rosen joined Reddit as senior director of content partnerships March 13. Jenna Santoianni was tapped as MRC’s president of television March 7. Sonia Coleman was named senior executive vp and chief human resources officer of The Walt Disney Co., effective April 8. Claudia Russo was hired as senior vp corporate communications at UTA on March 8. Producer Gail Berman and Reddit…

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In 2023, anti-drag laws are being debated in at least 14 states, including Tennessee, the first to officially ban “adult cabaret performances” — which includes male or female impersonations — in public spaces or in the presence of children. But in 1980, drag formed the centerpiece of a new ABC sitcom. Bosom Buddies is notable for being the first big break for Tom Hanks, then 24, and paired him with relative newcomer Peter Scolari, then 25. They played Kip Wilson and Henry Desmond, respectively — two pals who assume female alter-egos named Buffy and Hildegard in order to live in an affordable women’s hotel in New York City. The show was conceived almost by accident by Thomas L. Miller and Robert L. Boyett, the duo behind a raft of 1970s…

The failure of Silicon Valley Bank has sent shock waves throughout U.S. financial institutions. And nowhere was that felt more than at other regional banks. At New York’s Signature Bank — which is one of the two main banks that works with Broadway productions — the board spent days grappling with the repercussions. Yes, there were outflows on Friday, March 10, as some clients sought to move cash to “safer” banks, but former Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Barney Frank, a Signature Bank board member, says he believed they would be able to open Monday, March 13, without issue. Nonetheless, he spent the weekend lobbying federal officials to guarantee all deposits. It’s an area Frank knows well, having co-authored the landmark 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, a bill that reformed Wall Street by dramatically…

The big four awards shows had decidedly mixed results this season. The Oscars and Grammys grew by double digits (albeit from much lower-than-usual numbers last year), but the Emmys tumbled to an all-time low, dipping below 6 million viewers for the first time. The Golden Globes only beat its worst-ever showing on NBC, with about 250,000 more viewers than the starless announcement of winners in the writers strike year of 2008. Source: Nielsen. Globes ratings percentage is compared to 2021…

For so long we’ve been kind of a hidden gem,” says Connie Butler, chief curator of the Hammer Museum, which opened in 1990 at the base of an office building in Westwood. In the more than three decades since, the Hammer has gained an international reputation for its talked-about contemporary art shows and culture-shifting programming, including its biennial Made in L.A. exhibition, but the museum always lacked a marquee street presence. That changes March 25 when the final phase of a multiyear revamp will be unveiled. L.A.-based architect Michael Maltzan, who was first commissioned in 2000 to create a master renovation and expansion plan for the Hammer, has designed what he calls a new “welcoming porch” at the corner of Wilshire and Westwood boulevards to welcome visitors. “For the first…

Before Los Angeles was overtaken by Oscarweek events, Apple snuck in the season three premiere of Ted Lasso, held March 7 in Westwood. As stars Jason Sudeikis, Brett Goldstein, Hannah Waddingham, Brendan Hunt and Phil Dunster walked the carpet — with an appearance by Apple CEO Tim Cook — the cast told THR what Sudeikis has been like as a boss. “The Jason that you see in the press, making jokes and being silly, that’s the Jason we get at work, so sometimes Ted Lasso doesn’t feel like a job,” said Toheeb Jimoh. “It feels like I’m just with my friends on set, telling jokes, kicking the ball around, getting paid and feeling like I’m stealing money.”…

Somewhere along the way in Jon S. Baird’s fleet and compelling fictionalized look at the invention of Tetris, you forget you’re watching a film about a video game. Zippy car chases, farcical negotiation scenes and a tour of 1980s-era conference rooms around the world make Tetris, which premiered at SXSW and airs on Apple TV+ at the end of March, more than an ordinary origin story. Baird (Stan & Ollie) uses the convoluted licensing battle around the game to frame a sturdy and occasionally amusing drama about capitalism, intellectual property and the specter of the Soviet Union’s dissolution. Tetris’ willingness to tackle these themes makes it more absorbing than your average streamer film, but it also makes you wish the movie further developed its ideas about the relationship between creative…

This time last year, all I was hoping for was just a job.” That’s how Ke Huy Quan opened a tearful acceptance speech at the Gotham Awards in November, when the possibility that the Vietnam-born, Chinese American actor might be nominated for — and even win — an Oscar for his performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once was starting to crystallize. Quan would go on to help drive a wildly successful Oscar night for Everything Everywhere All at Once’s indie producer and distributor, A24, which became the first studio in history to sweep the top six awards in a single year. The studio’s stunning Oscar haul, which also included Brendan Fraser’s win for The Whale, owes a lot to the appeal of its actors, and to the deft deployment…

As the global streaming business underwent a surprise secular reassessment last year, Sony’s anime service, Crunchyroll, found the whole industry suddenly contemplating the same strategies it had been prioritizing for years. Out was the gusher approach to content spending in pursuit of limitless subscriber growth. In were financial discipline, multitiered subscription options and a more diversified approach to revenue generation. Today, Crunchyroll is a merged service comprising two former U.S.-based entities: Funimation, an anime platform founded by industry pioneer Gen Fukunaga in 1994, which Sony snapped up for $143 million in 2017; and Crunchyroll, the then-second-largest dedicated anime service, which the Japanese entertainment giant bought from AT&T in 2020 in a deal valued at $1.18 billion. Sony was thought to be paying a steep premium in the latter acquisition, but…

MILESTONE Twenty-five years ago, Liz Garbus pulled out her Cover Girl compact at the Oscars just before the winner of best documentary was announced. The Manhattanraised filmmaker didn’t think her 1998 doc, The Farm: Angola, USA, would win, but wanted to be prepared. Caked powder spilled all over her gown. “As soon as they did not call us, I thought, ‘Phew, I don’t need to go up there with powder all over my dress,’ ” she says of the fleeting moment when losing felt like a blessing. “And then being like, ‘Wait, no,’ ” she recalls of the disappointment settling in. Adam Del Deo, Netflix vp original documentary features and series, had kept close track of Garbus since seeing The Farm at Sundance, captivated by her deep curiosity and ability…

Dominique Fishback’s stretch as one of our most reliable and overlooked actresses should reach a turning point with Amazon’s Swarm, a new seven-parter from Janine Nabers and Donald Glover. Anchoring nearly every second of the horror-comedy, Fishback (HBO’s The Deuce, Judas and the Black Messiah) is scintillating, giving the sort of performance that had me instantly rewatching individual laugh-out-loud or heartbreaking moments. The series itself is audacious, provocative and hard to describe. It commits fully, but goes after its satirical targets with a sledgehammer when occasionally a precision tool might have been preferable. It’s also the kind of show that you want to sit with for a while, to allow it to marinate. I would be equally unsurprised if, with a bit more distance, it emerged as one of my…