Innholdsfortegnelse for March 29, 2023 i The Hollywood Reporter

Brett Mahoney & Courtney Kemp The showrunner and franchise creator of Starz’s Power series led Power Book II to the cabler’s biggest bow: 5.8 million multiplatform viewers over three days. Zachary Levi After his Shazam! sequel flailed in its box office debut with a $30 million bow, the actor ignited a firestorm with theories on how the plot was hampered by DC infighting. Christopher Landon Netflix’s horror comedy We Have a Ghost, from the director, tops Nielsen’s latest most streamed movie chart with 930 million minutes of viewing. Lindsay Lohan & Jake Paul The actress and influencer are among the latest charged by the SEC for touting cryptocurrencies “without disclosing that they were compensated for doing so.” Showbiz Stocks $4.47 (+5.7%) AMC ENTERTAINMENT (AMC) The original “memestock,” GameStop, beat its…

The Actors’ Equity Association is forming its own political action committee. The union that represents more than 51,000 stage managers and actors will be launching the PAC in the first week of April, with the goal of contributing money to federal candidates who support Actors’ Equity priorities. These include more arts funding, expanded health care coverage, protecting the right to organize and specific entertainment legislation such as the Performing Artists Tax Parity Act, which raises the income ceiling for artists to deduct certain performance-related expenses. The PAC will be a separate organization from the union and contributions will be voluntary (and not taken out of dues paid to the union). It joins a few other entertainment unions with PACs, including the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, the American Federation…

Inside a warehouse in an undisclosed location in Los Angeles’ South Bay, a shipment of clothes belonging to Chloë Sevigny recently arrived. They are being photographed, cataloged with barcodes and properly boxed and hung by The Wardrobe, a New York storage and preservation company that recently opened its first archive in the L.A. area. “I’d just been holding onto everything for so long now and not storing things properly, from my first communion dress to my Oscar dress [a YSL in 2000 for Boys Don’t Cry] and my Golden Globes dresses,” says Sevigny. “I have almost everything.” Sevigny connected with The Wardrobe founder Julie Ann Clauss over Instagram. The two met up at the actress’ storage unit in Connecticut and began sorting through her trove of clothes. The items include…

CHLOE TAKAYANAGI The Los Angeles native got her start assisting veteran stylist Jeanne Yang, with whom she continues to work on looks for Simu Liu and Kumail Nanjiani. “Jeanne has taught me to be confident in my decisions and trust my instincts,” Takayanagi says of her mentor. For awards season, she went out on her own, dressing Everything Everywhere All at Once Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan: “His style is classic and tailored but with a little twist of quirkiness,” says Takayanagi, who especially loved Quan’s red velvet Armani at the Critics Choice Awards. “It was the perfect style to bring a bit of Chinese culture in while keeping it elegant.” As for Quan’s signature lapel pins, she says it started with a DIY googly-eye pin on his Thom Browne…

“He helps make being a person in the public comfortable for me, which is no mean feat,” says Garfield of Baker. “He allows me to move through press and awards shows with some armor while also feeling very connected to my true self — quite an achievement. I get to fully express myself when interacting with public life, so when in my private life, I get to hibernate with my style, which is a gift.”…

Bill Lawrence has lost count of how many episodes of television he’s made at this point. There were 145 episodes of Spin City, he tallies, and another 182 of Scrubs. Before he co-created Ted Lasso (34 episodes) or Shrinking (10 and counting), he made one season of Clone High, three seasons of Undateable and six seasons of Cougar Town, with several other series mixed in. “So, it’s got to be close to a thousand by now,” he reasons. The real marker of career longevity, however, is the fact that the prolific showrunner can be watching a sitcom now and if any one of his three children are to hit pause after a joke setup, Lawrence can, nine times out of 10, deliver the punchline. “It’s like my magic trick for…

Somebody Somewhere is having a really good year. Its stars Bridget Everett and Jeff Hiller were nominated for Spirit Awards, it’s up for outstanding new TV series at the GLAAD Media Awards, and on April 23 the second season will premiere on HBO — something Hiller wasn’t sure would happen. “We had really good reviews the first season, but we don’t have a murder mystery or sci-fi elements,” he says. “We’re just a quiet, little show full of middle-aged, sweaty people.” Ahead of the GLAAD Awards, Hiller talked to THR about what makes the show so special. Can you tell us how you came to join Somebody Somewhere? Bridget emailed me out of the blue — we were friendly, but I wouldn’t say we were friends. We knew each other…

FILM Denzel Washington (WME) and Barry Keoghan (WME) are in talks to join Paul Mescal (CAA) in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator sequel for Paramount. Robert Downey Jr. (CAA) is eyeing the starring role in a Vertigo remake set up at Paramount, with Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight (CAA) tapped to write the screenplay. Knight also will step in to write a Star Wars feature script for an untitled project from director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. The writer is joining the project following the exit of Damon Lindelof. Moses Ingram (Innovative Artists) and Michael Shannon (CAA) have joined Tilda Swinton (UTA) and George MacKay (UTA) in Joshua Oppenheimer’s musical The End for Neon. Kristian Mercado (UTA) will direct a biopic centering on Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong from a screenplay by Danya Jimenez and Hannah…

Community Board (MARINER BOOKS, MARCH 28) BY Tara Conklin AGENCY Hotchkiss Daily and Associates The author’s previous novel was Jenna Bush Hager’s first book club pick. Her new book ponders the age-old question, “Can you go home again?” It finds the answer is yes, but you’ll probably get addicted to the anonymous postings on the town’s message board. My Last Innocent Year (HENRY HOLT, FEB. 14) BY Daisy Albert Florin AGENCY WME This twisty campus novel follows a New Yorker from the Lower East Side who’s a fish-out-of-water at her bougie New England college. Her affair with her rather famous professor shakes up her life and threatens the balance of the entire school.…

“If he said, ‘I have two more seasons in me,’ I would have said yes.”CASEY BLOYS The HBO CEO, at France’s Series Mania, on his bittersweet feelings about the fourth season of Jesse Armstrong’s Succession — which premiered March 26 — being its last. “Boy, was I wrong.”AARON SORKIN The writer, in The New York Times, revealing that he suffered a stroke in 2022 and had been naive to think he could eat what he wanted and smoke without consequences. “We can be serial killers, too.”JANINE NABERS The Swarm co-creator, on Sam Sanders’ Into It podcast, lamenting that Black women have not been able to play villains in horror. “It’s time to graduate from the dance floor to the stock market floor.”TYRA BANKS The media personality, in a statement, announcing…

Brendan Fraser kept the Oscar celebrations going with a group lunch at Craft Los Angeles. … Jamie Lee Curtis also toasted her win with friends at the Beverly Hills Hotel. … Rihanna and A$AP Rocky were spotted at Bottega Louie. … B.J. Novak dined at Jar. … Judy Greer paid a visit to Vernetti. … Lukas Haas stopped by Juliet. … In New York, Nicholas Braun lunched at S&P Diner ahead of the Succession season premiere. … Jimmy Fallon celebrated St. Patrick’s Day at Mulconry’s Irish Pub upstate in Fairpoint, New York. … John Mayer and Andy Cohen reunited at Pastis. Café Basque The Quick Pitch James Beard-winning chef Daniel Rose brought buzz and a 2019 Michelin star to Le Coucou — his stylish Parisian bistro at Manhattan’s 11 Howard…

It’s been six months since Chris McCarthy added Showtime to his portfolio, and he knows what a healthy swath of Hollywood has said. He’s read the network eulogies and seen the variations on “RIP Showtime” tweets. He’s even sat with folks who have bemoaned his stated plan to lean into franchises, be it more Billions or Dexter. And it would all probably irk him more if it weren’t exactly what he needed. “People not thinking it’s going to work is the motivation. Like, great, perfect,” he says as he dives into a rotisserie chicken salad. It’s a rainy March afternoon, and The Terrace at The Maybourne Beverly Hills, which McCarthy has selected for lunch (and lodging), lacks its usual bustle yet still has a smattering of soggy stars like Halle…

Meghan Grimm, Jennifer Lawrence’s personal assistant, is now helping other stars find just the right match. The seasoned assistant (who also has worked for Madonna) is the founder and CEO of Clyde Staffing (clydestaffing.com), a first-of-its-kind staffing agency dedicated to training and matching prospective assistants with top talent. Grimm says she started the company as a way to connect “good people with good people” and “pave the way for other people to work in entertainment jobs, create community [and] normalize being a career assistant.” Since quietly launching in 2020, Clyde’s clients have included Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson and Brian Tyree Henry, who tells THR, “Meghan does her job with so much care and finesse that you can absolutely trust that anyone she sends your way will do the same.” Grimm…

“Ali has taught me you can absolutely have fun even in stressful fashion moments — let’s drink some champagne, blast some David Bowie, laugh and enjoy the process,” says Monáe of her collaboration with Mandelkorn. Adds the stylist, “Janelle’s red carpet style is bold, artful, daring, intentional, enchanting. I hope our work stirs emotion in all those who experience it.”…

It’s well known by now that Matthew Macfadyen is nothing like Tom Wambsgans. In Succession’s early years, comparisons focused on the juxtaposition between the refined British actor — a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and notorious for his role as one Mr. Darcy — and the bumbling Midwesterner he portrays. But now, as the high-octane family drama launches its fourth season, Wambsgans has transformed into billionaire Logan Roy’s double-crossing right-hand man — all much to Macfadyen’s delight. “In a word, I thought it was great,” he says of the season-three cliffhanger that saw Tom cutting his wife out of her family’s company. “It’s such a bold, calculated move for someone so seemingly spineless.” Shortly before the March 26 premiere, showrunner Jesse Armstrong announced that this would be…

Rewear, repeat, three-peat … The verbiage summing up what’s new on the red carpet in the past year happens to center on what’s old, or at least previously worn. Sustainability and vintage were at the forefront of Hollywood fashion throughout awards season. THR’s Stylist of the Year Elizabeth Stewart worked with Tár best actress nominee Cate Blanchett to create a red carpet campaign with the smallest environmental footprint possible. “The theme is Cate’s closet and celebrating it,” says Stewart, “and being as conscious as possible of the impact our choices can have.” Law Roach, who made worldwide headlines when he announced his retirement from styling March 14, outfitted Zendaya in internet-shattering 2002 Versace for the NAACP Image Awards. Also trending? A return to megawatt glamour, as evidenced by both Anne…

“It’s surreal to feel something really register in the cultural zeitgeist — there is something quite magical that really resonates with the public in what we do together,” says Walsh of her often-viral collaboration with her star client. Adds Hathaway, “Erin introduced me to the concept of grounded exaggeration, which I am having the best time exploring with her.”…

ROGER BENNETT, THE INDEFATIGABLE co-founder of the soccer podcasting franchise Men in Blazers, has never played a second of competitive soccer. Since 2011, when he launched a lo-fi weekly (ish) gab session with fellow bald British-expat soccer obsessive Michael Davies, a successful game show producer, Bennett has focused on the human stories behind the game rather than intricacies of field strategy, of which he admittedly knew little at first. But as he demonstrated on a recent Zoom meeting with a current member of the U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team who shall remain nameless, he has mastered the X’s and O’s of the charm offensive. His objective for the meeting was to persuade the player to join the growing roster of voices featured on Men in Blazers as it seeks to…

The intersection of late-stage capitalism and late-stage Peak TV has made prophets of people normally fixated on profits. It would be borderline madness if, on a weekly basis, the Walt Disney Co., Warner Bros. Discovery, Amazon and Apple were to send shareholders an email with the subject line: “The End Is Nigh.” But the television industry, which has normally explored issues of class with the same skittishness it reserves for religion, has started to treat the economic realities of our American experiment with far more pessimism than you would expect. The irony is plain: These content producers/unlikely doomsday preachers are putting out a steady stream of shows about the corrosive impact of a system that treats workers as interchangeable cogs existing only to fatten the bottom line; at the same…

The makers of Flashdance hoped for a hit, but no one had a feeling it would become a generation-defining sensation. The Paramount film marked the first collaboration of producers Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson, later known for blockbusters like Beverly Hills Cop and Top Gun. With a script co-written by Joe Eszterhas (Basic Instinct), Flashdance centered on Alex, a teenage welder in Pittsburgh who spends her nights performing at a cabaret bar but dreams of becoming a professional dancer. Bruckheimer remembers the film’s team struggling to choose the lead, but that director Adrian Lyne was sold on newcomer Jennifer Beals. “The bosses at Paramount couldn’t make up their minds, so they brought all the secretaries in to view the screen tests, and they all picked Jennifer,” Bruckheimer tells THR. Just…