Innholdsfortegnelse for February 28, 2024 i The Hollywood Reporter

Gemma Garcia The Spanish-language media veteran is tapped to oversee NBCUniversal-owned Telemundo’s news programming, editorial units and digital news. Sean Bailey Disney’s live-action film chief exits after 15 years with a producing deal but no job publicly lined up. (Netflix is said to be still looking for its Scott Stuber successor.) Josh Griffith The Young and the Restless exec producer and head writer nabs a four-season renewal of the daytime soap that will take the show through its 55th season in 2027-28. Sara Ramírez The star’s lightning rod character Che Diaz won’t be returning as a regular to Max’s Sex and the City offshoot And Just Like That for its third season. Showbiz Stocks $2.96 (+47.3%) ALTICE (ATUS) The midsize cable company is now a reported acquisition target by Charter…

When Mark Ford turned up at Wendy Williams’ apartment in the late summer of 2022, he’d planned to chronicle her comeback. Sure, she’d lost her daytime talk show of 12 years and there were well-documented health concerns, from Graves’ disease to lymphedema, but now she’d be returning to the public eye with a splashy new podcast. “But as we filmed, it became evident that this wasn’t going to be a career comeback story,” says Ford, whose two-night Lifetime documentary event, Where Is Wendy Williams?, aired Feb. 24 and 25. “This was going to be a deeper story, and there was something ultimately disturbing going on in Wendy’s life.” For the better part of the next year, Ford’s cameras kept rolling, capturing the increasingly fragile state that Williams found herself in,…

Meryl Streep and Martin Short had a night out at Giorgio Baldi. … Meghan Markle met up with friends at Cipriani Beverly Hills. … Lady Gaga and boyfriend Michael Polansky had a lunch date at Little Beach House Malibu. … Tobey Maguire dined at the Conca Del Sogno pop-up at Norah. … Kelly Rowland and Jennifer Hudson paid a visit to Catch Steak LA. … Lauren Sánchez lunched at E Baldi. … In New York, Andy Cohen grabbed dinner at Pastis. … Alan Cumming stopped by Ambra. Hot New Restaurant Amour This refined French brasserie in West Hollywood is the most lushly romantic L.A. restaurant to open in years, from its hushed, ornate interior to its enclosed garden, which may outrival The Little Door a few blocks away. Parisian hospitality…

When it comes to corralling viewers, Taylor Sheridan is hardly all hat, no cattle. The ultra-prolific writer-director’s Yellowstone universe shows and his other Paramount+ dramas perform quite strongly, helping to heavily prop up the streamer with its 63 million subscribers. Naturally, however, some shows outpull others. Here, THR takes a closer look at all the titles Sheridan has wrangled so far and how they’ve fared during their rollouts. 1 Yellowstone (2018) Streaming minutes viewed: 5.58B* Episodes: 47 | Rotten Tomatoes: 84% The show that started it all. Sheridan’s Montana-set dynastic crime drama/soap opera gradually addicted so many fans over the course of five seasons, it became the biggest hit on cable TV. First the show found an audience on Paramount Network, then popped again when it shifted to streamer Peacock,…

Reneé Rapp is running late. Blame it on Beyoncé. “I’ve had the greatest morning of my life. I’m gassed. Beyoncé sent me flowers today,” says Rapp, her mouth wide open, still in shock. The gift arrived at her hotel room in Amsterdam, the fourth stop of her first European tour, four days after the 24-year-old performer covered Queen Bey’s country-tinged “Daddy Lessons” at her Feb. 13 show in Paris, where Rapp also acknowledged that Black artists created country music. “I’ve never been speechless in my life. It’s literally going to make me cry,” says Rapp. “She is everything — and the reason that I know how to sing. I would sit down and listen to her different tonalities and phonics and phrasing styles and be like, ‘Please, Jesus, let me…

NETFLIX Episodes: 6 1.59B minutes viewed The limited series starring Sofía Vergara as a notorious drug lord had a strong opening in the U.S., scoring 1.59 billion minutes of viewing in its first four days — the fourth-highest single-week total of the year so far, according to Nielsen’s rankings. Griselda’s appeal goes well beyond the U.S., though: Its domestic viewing time was only about a quarter of its first-week tally worldwide, based on Netflix’s public data. It topped the charts in 24 of the 25 countries in the Americas (Canada was the outlier), all seven African territories that Netflix tracks, and across large swaths of Europe as well. Also potentially boosting awareness of the show: A lawsuit from the Griselda Blanco estate claiming the family did not authorize Netflix to…

“I thought I could get drunk. I’m making a fool of myself, but thank you so much for this!”PEDRO PASCAL The actor, at the SAG Awards, accepting his statuette for male actor in a drama series for The Last of Us. “I think the perspective from an agency standpoint was, ‘This is beneath you.’ ”JOHN CENA The actor, on The Howard Stern Show, recalling his rep’s advice not to appear in the Barbie movie. “I don’t think it’s a failure.”JODIE TURNER-SMITH The actress, to The Times of London, speaking about her divorce from Joshua Jackson. “I can’t tell if someone is at home right now going, ‘My design worked perfectly and everyone’s talking about it.’ Or if someone’s brutally offended by the response.”TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET The actor, to The New York…

For the SAG Awards, The Holdovers’ winning star Da’Vine Joy Randolph continued her string of glam red carpet appearances, working with stylists Wayman + Micah and stunning in a draped ivory mermaid gown by Kosovo-based Valdrin Sahiti that features exquisite hand-stitched 3D roses at the neckline. “This dress is romantic, feminine and soft. It reminds me of magnolia flowers, New Orleans and the South,” says Randolph, who did her usual awards-show prep: a FaceGym facial workout, a gua sha routine and lymphatic massage. Makeup artist Sheika Daley used Lancôme for her dreamy look, while Randolph paired her gown with Dauphin earrings and an Omega Constellation watch. “The new Mae West of the carpet,” says stylist Micah McDonald, underscoring her team’s “modern” take on Old Hollywood glamour. “Mae West was a…

Oscar nominations were announced in Los Angeles at 5:30 a.m. on Jan. 23. The backlash began by sunrise. Barbie received eight nominations, including for best picture, but where were individual nods for director Greta Gerwig or star Margot Robbie, the A-list architects who constructed a billion-dollar blockbuster out of an $18 plastic doll that was born in 1959? Barbie fans went berserk online, denouncing the Academy for what they saw as a sexist snub. Breathless press coverage of the controversy dominated the news cycle for days, and even Hillary Clinton weighed in to support her shunned sisters. By Jan. 26, producer Lynda Obst had heard enough. “I have to write about this misplaced horror,” Obst unloaded on Facebook, offering a history lesson pulled from personal experience, reminding her readers that…

As it preps for an IPO, the social media platform boasts 73 million daily active users and $804 million in revenue last year, but it’s still losing money — $90 million in 2023 alone. It has since taken a bullish approach to artificial intelligence, inking a $203 million deal, reportedly with Google, to help train its AI system with content drawn from users. 6.8% Ben Mahdavi The former NFL player turned venture capitalist’s Tacit Capital and Quiet Capital each own a stake in the company. 8.4% Fidelity One of the largest asset managers in the world, Fidelity led Reddit’s 2021 investment round via its Blue Chip Growth Fund. 35% Other 8.7% Sam Altman The OpenAI founder invested in Reddit when he led Y Combinator, but Reddit’s IPO filing revealed a…

Berlin’s European Film Market was the first big test of the post-trike indie film market — and there were encouraging signs for its health. Executives were cautiously optimistic ahead of EFM, reporting a “flood” of big, star-stocked projects that came together just ahead of the market, including A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (Margot Robbie’s first film post Barbie), The Materialists (Celine Song’s first film post-Past Lives, which has Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal circling) and action packages featuring box office draws Will Smith, Dave Bautista, Channing Tatum and Bob Odenkirk. “It was a really productive market,” notes one U.S.-based seller. “There wasn’t that much presold in Sundance, and most of the deals there were for smaller films. In Berlin, we saw a real appetite for bigger-budgeted movies, the…

Molly (ARCHWAY EDITIONS, DEC. 5) BY Blake Butler AGENCY The Clegg Agency Butler’s memoir, about the lead-up to and aftermath of his first wife’s suicide, is one of the most staggering books to hit shelves of late. The author, previously known for his literary thrillers, uses empathy and honesty to lay bare the realities of his 3-yearlong marriage to poet Molly Brodak, and his own struggles to make sense of her choices. But the story of Molly continues after its publication — it kicked off a heated (and still ongoing) debate about what memoirs are allowed to reveal and who is allowed to do the revealing. And, not for nothing, the first run — including the ebook — sold out in a record two weeks.…

THR TITAN You’d be hard-pressed to find a filmmaker who has put together a finer body of work than Denis Villeneuve has since making his U.S. debut in 2013. From the mold-breaking thrillers Prisoners, Enemy and Sicario to a murderers’ row of sci-fi films including Arrival, Blade Runner 2049 and Dune, the French Canadian director’s films have amassed over $1.1 billion in worldwide box office and landed him three Oscar nominations. Now, Dune: Part Two (March 1) is poised to be his new top grosser after effusive early reactions and reviews. Renowned cinematographer Roger Deakins, who won his first Oscar for Blade Runner 2049, says of the filmmaker: “Like the two great masters of cinema Andrei Tarkovsky and Andrey Zvyagintsev, Denis allows a scene to play out in the time…

The Rookie has graduated from primetime newbie to veteran TV show as it reaches its 100th episode, a milestone star and executive producer Nathan Fillion says tells you, “Whatever you’re doing, you’re doing something right.” Since debuting in 2018, the ABC police procedural has sustained faithful viewership amid both internal and industrywide obstacles, from allegations of racial discrimination and sexual harassment in 2019 from actress Afton Williamson, who left the series after season one, to the pandemic and most, recently, the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Fillion, who portrays John Nolan, the oldest rookie in the LAPD, credits the drama’s longevity to creator and showrunner Alexi Hawley, with whom he also worked on ABC’s Castle from 2009-16. “I think what keeps people coming back is the time they spend with these…