Innholdsfortegnelse for April 24, 2024 i The Hollywood Reporter

I have no illusions,” Oscar winning-director Damien Chazelle said on a podcast in March. “I won’t get a budget of Babylon size any time soon, or at least not on this next one.” Chazelle was reflective about his 2022 Paramount Pictures epic that starred Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt, received mixed reviews and grossed $63 million globally against a reported budget of $80 million. “Certainly, in financial terms, Babylon didn’t work at all,” Chazelle said. “Maybe I won’t be able to get [the next] one made. I have no idea. We’ll have to wait and see.” That ambivalent sentiment isn’t an outlier. Directors — from Oscar winners like Chazelle to up-and-comers — are in a precarious position when it comes to major studio projects. Not that this is new. Stripped…

In 2014, Gayle Rankin made her Broadway debut in Sam Mendes’ revival of Cabaret, playing the supporting role of Fraulein Kost. Now, exactly a decade later, Rankin is playing the lead role of Sally Bowles opposite Eddie Redmayne in a new Broadway production that opened April 21. “I feel like a completely different person,” says Rankin, as she sits in her dressing room in a red dressing gown, with her blond hair clipped back. “It’s so rare that you get to see your life marked by something so actual, by a piece of work. And what a piece of work to be able to gauge where you are as a human being.” In recent years, the Scottish actress — who grew up south of Glasgow — rose to prominence with…

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce had a date night at Sushi Park. … Larry David and daughter Cazzie shared a meal at Lady Hawk. … Andy Richter and Jeopardy! host Ken Jennings were spotted dining together at Lustig. … In New York, SNL’s Bowen Yang and Sarah Sherman stopped by L’Avenue at Saks. … All of Us Strangers costars Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott reunited over a meal at Via Carota. … Jennifer Lopez and producing partner Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas broke bread at Carbone. Hot New Restaurant Origin The team behind Koreatown’s well-regarded Quarters and Terra Cotta debut this dialed-in Korean BBQ spot specializing in charcoal grilling that’s already brought in members of Blackpink. Origin, competing in a crowded neighborhood category, shines with its signature garlic bone-in short ribs. But it’s…

A Tennis Love Triangle Premieres Zendaya, Josh O’Connor, Mike Faist and director Luca Guadagnino brought their sexy tennis drama to Westwood Village on April 16, the latest stop on a press tour that has taken them around the world — with Zendaya making each red carpet her runway. Inside the L.A. event, the star, who also served as a producer, urged the crowd to “just have fun. Dance if you want to, because it will make you want to do that. And again, don’t judge the characters too hard.”…

Sabrina Impacciatore The White Lotus breakout follows up the HBO hit by landing a coveted role alongside Domhnall Gleeson in Universal Television’s The Office follow-up series. Scott Prendergast The creator’s So Help Me Todd is axed by CBS but may be one of the most watched shows — with 6.3 million viewers per episode — to get canceled this year. Daniel Ek The Spotify chief beats Wall Street expectations as the audio giant hits 239 million paying premium subscribers and notches revenue and profit wins in the quarter. Adam Fogelson After unveiling a new Blair Witch movie, the Lionsgate film chair is criticized by the original team over getting cut from sequels. Now they want retroactive residuals, too. Showbiz Stocks $12.74 (+21.3%) PARAMOUNT (PARA) With Sony joining Apollo in a…

“I’m going back to bed.” SNOOP DOGG The rapper, on Instagram, reacting to an AI-generated version of his voice appearing on Drake’s latest diss track in an ongoing spat with Kendrick Lamar. “25 years of disrespect.” JOSHUA LEONARD The Blair Witch Project actor, on Instagram, claiming he was only paid $300,000 for his work in the 1999 blockbuster as Lionsgate reboots the franchise yet again and Leonard and his fellow castmates seek retroactive residuals. “As is common with entirely innocent people, they are offering me an enormous sum of money to keep this matter out of court.” HUGH GRANT The actor, on X, announcing he was settling his privacy lawsuit against The Sun publisher News Group Newspapers to avoid likely astronomical legal fees. “How sad.” SYDNEY SWEENEY The actress, in…

Weddings Dempsey Marks, a public relations professional, married Jonathon Buckley, a Tasmanian actor and host, in Rockport, Massachusetts, on Aug. 23, followed by a celebration in Los Angeles on April 20. Births Jennifer Sims, director of publicity at imPRint, and Sam Resnik, director at Echo Design Group, welcomed Scarlett Blake Resnik on Dec. 26 in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Congrats Former Hallmark Media CEO Wonya Lucas joined Comcast’s board of directors April 15. Jeff Boone was tapped as vp scripted development for Fremantle on April 19. Jane Wiseman was appointed head of U.S. television for Sister on April 10. Skydance Sports named Nancy Cotton executive vp television, Danette Trosclair executive vp production and Sandino Moya-Smith senior vp feature films April 10. Chris Brearton joined the Russo brothers’ AGBO company as partner…

BEST Rihanna Meagher names his favorite Met Gala look of all time as Rihanna’s 2015 “golden Guo Pei shawl cape with such an extravagant train.” It “still gives me chills,” he says. Jackie Kennedy For the 1979 gala, showcasing the exhibit Fashions of the Hapsburg Era, she “stunned in a strapless organza Valentino gown with flounces and frills that perfectly showcased Valentino Garavani’s voluminous works.” Sarah Jessica Parker Her Christopher John Rogers dress in 2022, an ode to designer Elizabeth Keckler, who had been the dressmaker to Mary Todd Lincoln, “showed her dedication to fashion history [and] glamour in such a wonderful way,” says Meagher. Zendaya For the Heavenly Bodies-themed evening in 2018, the influencer says Zendaya — wearing an Atelier Versace chain mail gown — “channeled the patron saint…

Four decades after her feature debut in 1983’s BMX Bandits, Oscar and two-time Emmy winner Nicole Kidman is set to receive a history-making honor: the AFI Life Achievement Award, which for the first time in 49 years will go to an Australian performer. But the (American-born) Kidman considers herself a part of world cinema, having worked with such renowned filmmakers as Stanley Kubrick (Eyes Wide Shut), Jane Campion (The Portrait of a Lady), Park Chan-wook (Stoker), Sofia Coppola (The Beguiled), Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge!) and Jonathan Glazer (Birth). The actress and producer reflects on how the honor represents both a robust career and a life well traveled. You’ve received many awards throughout your career. What is so special about this honor? The list of honorees that have come before me.…

Twelve years ago, Zendaya netted her feature debut in Disney Channel’s Frenemies. The actress had been starring opposite Bella Thorne on the Disney series Shake It Up, about performers on a Chicago-based TV dance show. Zendaya was 14 when she and Thorne filmed the anthology comedy for director Daisy von Scherler Mayer, who had helmed the 1995 Parker Posey indie Party Girl and the 1998 feature Madeline. One of Frenemies’ three connected storylines saw Zendaya and Thorne as aspiring magazine editors competing for a gig with an NYC publisher. “Zendaya really wanted to have fun with the comedy and lean into it,” von Scherler Mayer says. “She chose to wear big glasses and be goofy, and it impressed me that she wanted to show off her comic chops and has…

Real Americans (KNOPF, APRIL 30) BY Rachel Khong AGENCY UTA The author (and former Lucky Peach editor) — whose debut novel, Goodbye, Vitamin, was a swift and devastating glimpse into a daughter’s experience watching her father succumb to memory loss — pivots into a more sweeping landscape for her sophomore follow-up. It opens with Lily, a 22-year-old second-generation Chinese immigrant navigating the particular hell that is a postgrad unpaid New York intern-ship, before jumping forward into the world of her teenage son and eventually her mother, who still grapples with the fallout of the way she fled Mao’s cultural revolution. The story, hefty enough for a series, grips that increasingly elusive balance of plot and heart.…

Caitlin Clark took the media world by storm during her record-breaking final college season, and after she was No. 1 in the WNBA Draft, ticket sales for her new team, the Indiana Fever, spiked. Despite all the interest the Iowa star and her highly touted draft class generated, they won’t be signing huge contracts with WNBA clubs. The league’s rookie wage scale pays the top four picks a salary of just $76,535 for their first year — a tiny fraction of the lowest-paid NBA rookie’s $1.12 million, or $44,782.52 per week of the regular season. The WNBA figure works out to a weekly pay of $4,502.06 for the 17-week season. To put it in Hollywood industry terms, Clark’s weekly pay falls between that of a rerecording mixer on a major…