Innholdsfortegnelse for March 14, 2024 i The Hollywood Reporter

Abbott Elementary (ABC) 3.78M viewers | DOWN 4% from 2022-23 The Emmy-winning comedy has dipped in linear ratings this season, though it’s a modest decline. The audience hasn’t gone away so much as switched to platforms outside the reach of Nielsen’s linear ratings. Per ABC, the show frequently doubles its first-night audience after three days of cross-platform viewing, with most of that coming from Hulu. The Floor (Fox) 3.47M viewers | FIRST SEASON The Rob Lowe-hosted game show quietly became one of Fox’s best-performing shows of the first quarter. The Floor consistently — and substantially — added viewers from its lead-in, Name That Tune, and had the second-highest viewer tally of any show on the network in January and February, behind Next Level Chef. Next Level Chef (Fox) 3.97M viewers…

The 96th Oscars capped the 2024 awards season with the show’s biggest audience since before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The March 10 broadcast on ABC drew slightly less than 19.5 million viewers, its best showing since 2020. That rise was in keeping with gains for the two other biggest awards telecasts this year, the Grammys and Golden Globes. Both CBS broadcasts also hit four-year highs, with the Grammys drawing 17.09 million viewers and the Globes snagging 9.47 million in their new home after moving from NBC. Smaller awards shows like Critics Choice (1.04 million) and People’s Choice (3.92 million) posted modest gains, too. The Oscars and Grammys have improved for each of the past three years after bottoming out in 2021. The Globes, after not being televised in…

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While much of the focus of Victoria Monét’s triple-Grammy haul was on her best new artist win, another trophy represents a historic victory that could help break down more barriers for all women in the music industry — her win for best engineered album. The white-hot singer-songwriter is the first Black woman to win the award in the show’s 66-year history, since she co-engineered her major-label debut album, Jaguar II. Previous women to take home the coveted Grammy are Imogen Heap, Trina Shoemaker and Emily Lazar. When Monét — who writes and produces her music and has crafted hits for Ariana Grande, Blackpink, Chloe x Halle and Chris Brown — speaks to THR a few weeks after that magical night to reflect on the groundbreaking milestone, she says, “It’s a…

A few weeks before this year’s Golden Globes, Kristen Wiig went over to Will Ferrell’s house in L.A. to brainstorm how they might co-present an acting prize at the show, which was reinventing itself as new and improved after a series of scandals. The event was among the first major Hollywood gatherings since the actors strike ended in November, with a guest list of stars hoping to fit six months of thwarted awards campaigning into one night, and Wiig and Ferrell were expected to lighten the mood. “We wrote stuff out, and then we would be like, ‘Wait, how does this end? Is this funny?’ ” Wiig says. “And then I was like, ‘I have this song on my phone that really makes me laugh. Can I just play it…

Niecy Nash-Betts will take the GLAAD Media Awards stage in Los Angeles on March 14, bringing the Emmy Award-winning actress back into the organization’s fold after she hosted the show in 2021. At the time, the veteran star of such shows as Reno 911! and Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story was fresh from revealing to the world that she’d married musician Jessica Betts, and since then, Nash-Betts has, in her words, lived her life out, proud and with absolutely no shame. The couple was featured on the cover of Essence — a first in the magazine’s 50-year history — and played lovers on broadcast television courtesy of Nash-Betts’ series The Rookie: Feds. Now, the actress will receive the Stephen F. Kolzak Award for helping raise the visibility of LGBTQ people…

In July 2023, near the peak of animosity between scribes and studios during the writers strike, a picket outside ABC’s The View in New York welcomed an ally: Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan. Behind closed doors, the writers union had been sharing concerns of a wave of mergers that it said left just a handful of studios like Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Amazon as the lone arbiters of which movies and TV shows are made, what consumers watch and how they can watch it. Flanked by protest signs name-checking WBD boss David Zaslav to “just give up one yacht” and chants embracing themes of “exploitation,” “concentrated power” and “corporate giants,” Khan delivered a fiery speech that also effectively served as a signal to moguls seeking more mergers…

A legal showdown is brewing between Michael Kassan and UTA over the MediaLink founder’s departure, with the agency saying it fired him for stealing company funds and Kassan claiming that he resigned after being lied to about his responsibilities and privileges at the firm. In an arbitration action initiated by Kassan on March 13 against UTA that names chief executive Jeremy Zimmer, he claims that UTA fraudulently induced him to agree to a sale of MediaLink “only to then walk back the very promises made” regarding what he would oversee at the agency and allowances for his special expenses budget. He resigned on March 6, preempting the agency terminating him the next day. UTA, in a lawsuit filed in L.A. Superior Court the same day Kassan filed for arbitration, accuses…

Weddings Morgan Di Stefano, vp publicity for Disney Branded Television, married Eliot Sakhartov, an account director at Microsoft, on Jan. 20 at Castle Green in Pasadena. Births Janet Baum, vp of broadcast at iProspect, and husband Matt Michalowski, U.S. managing director at Tommy, welcomed Eleanor Claire Michalowski on Feb. 8 at Cedars-Sinai. Congrats Ravi Ahuja was named president and COO of Sony Pictures Entertainment on March 6. Greg Siegel and Ryan Polun joined the digital media department at CAA as agents March 10. Former Amblin Partners president Jeb Brody was tapped president of Imagine Features on March 5. Kathy Goodman was appointed CEO of Funny or Die, effective March 18. Braden Currier was upped to partner within WME’s unscripted TV department March 7. Interscope Capitol Labels Group promoted  Gary Kelly…

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The underground fight club in Dev Patel’s directorial debut feature Monkey Man is a dilapidated space crowded with bodies. No amount of overhead lighting can shake the shadowy atmosphere of the venue, run by a slippery figure (Sharlto Copley) who rakes in rupees with unnerving greed. In this claustrophobic environment, one young man regularly subjects himself to humiliating defeats. The fighter, a scrawny guy whose swagger looks put-on, hides his face in a monkey mask. They call him the Kid (Patel), and it soon becomes clear that these beatings are, for him, a masochistic ritual. Memories of his dead mother haunt him, and early flashbacks reveal a tranquil childhood interrupted by violence. The young man expects to lose each night, but he is biding his time. Monkey Man traces the…

The advertising business has bifurcated, with tech companies seeing booming growth year-over-year, and video (like at YouTube and Amazon) among the strongest drivers. That comes even as the traditional media and entertainment companies see their ad revenue decline from last year. The only green shoots? Sports and streaming, suggesting that those might be a path back to growth. Media Ad Revenue % Change Year-Over-Year Tech Ad Revenue % Change Year-Over-Year The big tech companies already dominate the ad market, and they just keep getting bigger. But with YouTube growing and Amazon throwing ads on Prime Video, they could steal even more market share. Source: Advertising: Corporate SEC filings.; Ratings (opposite page): Nielsen live +7 linear ratings for this season, through March 4.…

While David Zaslav and Bob Iger’s tax-optimization strategy of deleting films and TV shows from their streamers has triggered plenty of agita among creators, the custodians of Hollywood’s digital era have an even greater fear: wholesale decay of feature and episodic files. Behind closed doors and NDAs, the fragility of archives is a perpetual Topic A, with pros sweating the possibility that contemporary pop culture’s master files might be true goners, destined to the same fate as so many vanished silent movies, among them Alfred Hitchcock’s second feature, The Mountain Eagle, and Ernst Lubitsch’s Oscar-winning The Patriot. For the business, these are valuable studio assets — to use one example, the MGM Library (roughly 4,000 film titles including the James Bond franchise and 17,000 series episodes) is worth an estimated…

Julia Roberts is sitting on a cozy sofa in a villa at West Hollywood’s Sunset Marquis two days before the Oscars, gazing affectionately at her newest project. “This is all me,” she says, pausing for a moment and then flashing her unmistakable megawatt grin to confirm that she is, in fact, only kidding. The Oscar winner did, however, have a hand in the creation of what’s elegantly placed on a luxe tray in front of her: a three-piece Chopard high jewelry set comprising a necklace, earrings and oversized ring (all one of a kind) featuring emeralds, turquoise and rubellite gemstones. The star here — aside from the A-lister who signed on to co-design the collection — is an emerald. Specifically, Chopard’s ethically mined Insofu emerald, a 6,225-carat Zambian stone purchased…

Have You Seen These Movie Stars? When Oppenheimer won top prize Sunday night, it looked like half of Los Alamos climbed the podium to accept the award. Chris Nolan, Emma Thomas, Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., Emma Blunt, Florence Pugh and a slew of others crowded around the mic. But one major castmember was notably absent: Matt Damon. Nor was he the only A-lister missing on Oscar night. Where was Killers of the Flower Moon star Leonardo DiCaprio? And what happened to Michelle Pfeiffer, who was slated to present best picture with Al Pacino? Even some winners were no-shows, like Wes Anderson and animation legend Hayao Miyazaki. As it happens, there are reasonable explanations for all the MIAs. DiCaprio (notably not nominated for his part in Moon) was busy shooting…

Tig Notaro has never had to tell the same jokes for so long, but her latest comedy special, Hello Again, arrives March 26 on Prime Video — well over four years after she first started touring the material. “My God, it just would not end,” says Notaro. “I couldn’t wait to be home with my family, see friends, do my ridiculous podcast and just work on new material around Los Angeles. I’m maybe doing one show once a week, and that feels so manageable.” Such a time loop is especially odd for a woman whose career changed so much over such a short period. Twelve years after her now-famous Largo set, during which Notaro walked onstage and revealed a breast cancer diagnosis, she’s gone from cult comic to household name.…

THR and TikTok teamed up March 7 on a “Get Ready With Us for Awards Weekend” bash. The event, sponsored by Heineken Silver and held at Ardor in the West Hollywood Edition, welcomed Shameik Moore, David Krumholtz, Victoria Justice and Blue Beetle director Angel Manuel Soto as well as digital creators James Charles, Reece Feldman and Josh “Bru” Brubaker. TikToker Carter Gregory also captured content for THR throughout the night.…

Peacock’s Apples Never Fall is practically brimming over with secrets. The biggest one, sitting right in the center, concerns what really happened to Joy Delaney (Annette Bening), a recently retired tennis coach whose disappearance sends her family into a tailspin. The search for that truth uncovers deeper ones still, in the process unearthing hatchets that had seemed buried and reopening wounds that had appeared healed. Yet once all the dirt has been dug up, it’s difficult not to feel a twinge of disappointment at how shallow this world still feels. Apples Never Fall has plenty to recommend it, including some fine performances and a shrewd grasp of the Delaney clan’s complicated dynamics. But in the absence of a strong perspective or a compelling backdrop, Melanie Marnich’s adaptation of the novel…