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By the Sea and the Perils of HEAT INDEX the Star Relationship Movie ‘It’s playing chess with your stars’ as passion projects from Angelina Jolie Pitt and Sandra Bullock fail at the box office and ‘favor’ films face off against the new Hollywood frugality By Tatiana Siegel BARRY DILLER IAC, the billionaire’s NGELINA JOLIE PITT’S BY THE SEA OFFERS spot was cut by her or her group.” The move ultimately will digital-media conglomerate, spins off its collection of an art house-style rumination on a failing backfire on Jolie Pitt and Pitt, who each are said to have dating sites (Match.com, Tinder) marriage. Ironically, it provides a more reveal- taken $1.5 million upfront in exchange for a hefty backend as The Match Group, and the stock rises 22 percent its first ing glimpse into the perils of a different type that never will materialize. day of trading … Aof relationship: the so-called “favor” movie. But even if Universal loses tens of millions of dollars on For years, Hollywood studios have lined up to back By the Sea, the studio is gambling that by backing Jolie projects with limited commercial appeal as a way of keep- Pitt’s artistic whim, she will be amenable to starring in IMAGES. BANKS: JON KOPALOFF/FILMMAGIC. BANKS: IMAGES. ing the biggest stars and directors in their fold. Call it the its tentpole Bride of Frankenstein from producer Brian “One for me, one for you” principle. But with the failures Grazer or a long-hoped-for sequel to Wanted. “Following of Universal’s By the Sea and our successful collaboration SEAN RAD Warner Bros.’ Sandra Bullock with Angie on Unbroken, we … However, ahead of Match HOT political drama Our Brand Is SCRIPT jumped at the opportunity Group’s IPO, Tinder’s 29-year-old CEO gives such a sexually Crisis, many believe the major to work with her again,” says provocative interview that it studios will be a bit more a studio rep in a statement. prompts an SEC filing distancing hesitant to finance a passion “Her script and vision for an Match from the comments. project better suited for intelligent and sophisticated the specialty marketplace. film appealed to us, and we In July 2014, in a com- wanted to be part of it.” petitive situation, Universal Likewise, Warner Bros. will acquired worldwide rights take a significant loss on MY STORY to By the Sea and set Jolie Pitt Crisis — starring Bullock and DICK WOLF (who was finalizing the stu- produced by George Clooney’s The megaproducer’s NBC dramas Chicago Fire and dio’s Unbroken) to direct and Smokehouse — which cost Chicago P.D. score early star with husband Brad Pitt, $28 million to make and has renewals for next season as new spinoff Chicago Med enjoys prompting Jolie Pitt to invoke earned a feeble $6.9 million a solid debut in the ratings. the ‘R’ word. “I am very happy as of Nov. 20. Despite poor to continue my relation- reviews at the Toronto Film ship with Donna and the entire Festival, Warners is said to G. AIKEN/GETTY IMAGES. DILLER: ILLYA S. SAVENOK/GETTY IMAGES. RAD: CHARLES NORFLEET/WIREIMAGE. WOLF: PASCAL LE SEGRETAIN/GETTY WOLF: PASCAL RAD: CHARLES NORFLEET/WIREIMAGE. IMAGES. SAVENOK/GETTY S. DILLER: ILLYA G. AIKEN/GETTY IMAGES. Universal team,” she said at have spent between $40 mil- the time, referring to Universal lion and $50 million to market chairman Donna Langley. the film. (The blow to the “They have created a very spe- studio was softened by finan- TYRA BANKS The FABLife host exits cial place for storytellers.” cial partners Participant her own daytime lifestyle show But now the studio stands to lose as much as $40 mil- and RatPac-Dune). In offering an explanation for the dis- after just two months of poor ratings and behind-the-scenes lion on By the Sea, according to two knowledgeable sources aster, marketing chief Sue Kroll also underscored the drama. Not fierce! who place the film’s budget at closer to $25 million than relationship factor. “We cherish our relationship with her,” the $10 million Universal insists it cost (and the marketing said Kroll of Bullock. “Ultimately, neither the concept SHOWBIZ STOCKS expense at $15 million). One source scoffs at the $10 mil- of the story nor our campaign connected with moviegoers.” lion figure, noting that her directorial debut,In the Land Even with Bullock in the lead, the film probably was a $9.11 (+4.7%) of Blood and Honey, a Serbian-language war film with a better fit for the indie-financed model, as has been the case TIVO (TIVO) no-name cast, cost $13 million. with many of Crisis director David Gordon Green’s films. Investors react positively to the news that the DVR pioneer And if By the Sea’s poor reviews and low-appeal concept But Warners was looking to curry favor with both Bullock will seek a new CEO after Tom wasn’t enough to damage the film’s box-office prospects, and Clooney, who co-starred in the studio’s megahit Rogers steps down in January. the marketing sealed its fate. “If you have two of the hot- Gravity. And the studio has been courting Bullock for test movie stars on the planet, you might want to put a female-centric Ocean’s Eleven reboot that Clooney $15.96 (-1%) TIME INC. (TIME) them on the poster,” says Rentrak’s Paul Dergarabedian. would produce. The parent of Time magazine Behind the scenes, Jolie Pitt instead fought to use a one- Paramount, too, invoked the relationship raison d’etre says it will delay repurchasing some of its stock if the sheet featuring two hats. “Universal wanted to sell it as when explaining Michael Bay’s 2013 bodybuilding passion $630 million sale of its Blue Fin something sexy, but she wanted it to be sold as European project Pain and Gain. Bay, who has made Paramount bil- Building in London falls through.

BULLOCK: MICHAEL TRAN/GETTY IMAGES. CLOONEY: JASON LAVERIS/FILMMAGIC. JOLIE: KEVORK S. DJANSEZIAN/GETTY IMAGES. FOOTBALL: PETER FOOTBALL: IMAGES. DJANSEZIAN/GETTY S. JOLIE: KEVORK LAVERIS/FILMMAGIC. JASON CLOONEY: MICHAEL TRAN/GETTY IMAGES. BULLOCK: art house movie,” says an insider. “Every trailer and TV lions of dollars with the Transformers franchise, also was Nov. 13-20

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PASSION PROJECTS GONE AWRY

Pain and Gain After Earth Our Brand Is Crisis By the Sea COST $26M | BOX OFFICE $49.9M COST $130M | BOX OFFICE $60.5M COST $28M | BOX OFFICE $6.9M COST $10M-$25M | BOX OFFICE N/A* Source: Box Oﬃce Mojo, domestic gross; By the Sea expanded wide Nov. 20

given a long leash on his Benghazi movie 13 Hours (Jan. 15), and the film “With these types of movies, you’re not swinging for the box-office still may end up a hit. “We’ve had an amazing relationship with Michael fence,” adds Dergarabedian. “You’re swinging for the relationship-build- Bay,” Paramount vice chair Rob Moore recently told THR. “And this is a ing fence and looking toward the future. Passion projects are a way to story he was excited to tell.” Therefore, a wide-release movie with a rela- play chess with your stars. It’s the 10-year plan for these studios, not tively unknown cast about an overseas siege with politically divisive the one-weekend plan.” implications could be justified. But a Paramount source insists that But are studio relationships key to or killing Hollywood? the studio was bent on making the film even before Bay stepped in. As marketing expenses skyrocket for even modestly budgeted

Perhaps the biggest blow to the studio favor film happened this year Bay movies and studios make fewer films, many say the leverage has when Amy Pascal stepped down from her top post at Sony. Pascal long shifted away from stars. Plus, some of the best examples of passion had been a champion of the back-scratcher, including the 2013 debacle projects that have worked were self-financed, likeMel Gibson’s The After Earth, a film that was intended to makeJaden Smith a star like his Passion of the Christ ($612 million worldwide) and Magic Mike (star Channing father, Will Smith. As with By the Sea, the elder Smith pushed back on Tatum and director Steven Soderbergh put up the $7 million budget for LAVERIS/FILMMAGIC. JASON BAY: OF PARAMOUNT. GAIN: COURTESY IMAGES. Sony’s marketing campaign that originally played up his image. The final the film that earned $167 million worldwide). Notes one producer who poster for the $130 million film instead used a split face of the father and has worked with many of the above names, “The need to do favors doesn’t son, leaving one of the world’s biggest stars barely recognizable. make sense anymore.”

season, the Sept. 17 TNF opener set a record for NFL Targets a Touchdown in the franchise, with more than 21 million viewers watching the Denver Broncos and Kansas City Chiefs. But Thursday Night TV Deal critics say the Thursday games often feature inferior Long-term pact is expected as NBCU seeks to outbid CBS matchups, and the fluctuating ratings reflect those and others for the last major sports package available for years hit-and-miss contests. Plus, the Thursday package may not be the only By Marisa Guthrie rights deal for the NFL: The league also might look to NE OF THE LAST BIG SPORTS RIGHTS has been aggressive in acquiring and keeping live package global digital rights for its international series. opportunities for several years is about to contests. Last year, the company agreed to pay The NFL pulled in $20 million from Yahoo for the rights Obecome available to TV networks. The NFL’s $7.75 billion for six Olympics, locking up to the Oct. 25 Buffalo Bills-Jacksonville Thursday Night Football — which for the past two the Games through 2032. Turner Sports Jaguars game from London’s Wembley seasons has aired on CBS via one-year deals — is also has indicated a strong desire for Stadium. Yahoo’s first free global generating intense interest as the league is likely to Thursday Night Football. live stream of an NFL game notched

extend the length of the package signiﬁcantly to bring Last year, TNF averaged a little 15.2 million unique viewers. The league MEDIA. CENTER FOR PETER AIKEN/GETTY FOOTBALL: PALEY FOR IMAGES MCCARTHY/GETTY JAMIE MCMANUS: AGOSTINI/INVISION/AP. EVAN ARUS:

it in line with other TV rights pacts, most of which run more than 12 million viewers a game on McManus Lazarus may expand its international series through the 2022 season. (ESPN’s eight-year, $15.2 bil- CBS and NFL Network, where they are from three games next season, possibly lion Monday Night Football deal extends through 2021; simulcast. (CBS’ Sunday afternoon package aver- adding a fourth game in Mexico. It is expected to contracts for Sunday afternoon games on CBS and aged 18.7 million viewers last season.) This announce its 2016 international series Nov. 25. Fox and NBC’s Sunday Night Football expire in 2022.) Analysts predict a long-term Thursday Night Thursday Night Football’s Back-and-Forth Ratings 2014 Football arrangement could go for $600 million annu- Viewership this season is about even with 2014 and depends on the team matchups 2015 ally and potentially much higher. “Thursday night RATING will sell for less than Sunday night, though how much 7.5 7.5 4.5 6 6 6.9 5.9 5 5.4 4.9 5.4 5.9 6.7 6 3.9 N/A less depends upon how ﬁerce the competition,” Total viewers notes Patrick Rishe, founder and CEO of analyst 20M 20.8M 21.1M ﬁrm Sportsimpacts. 19.4M 20.2M 17.5M CBS, Fox, NBC and Turner have signaled interest 15M 16.9M 16.3M 16.6M 16.1M 17.1M 15.1M 15.9M 14.8M in the Thursday package. As the incumbent, CBS 13M Sports chairman Sean McManus would seem to have 10M 11.8M an advantage. (The net paid $275 million for the eight- game Thursday package last season and re-upped this 5M season for about $300 million.) But the games are said to be a top priority for NBCUniversal CEO Steve GAME 1GAME 2 GAME 3 GAME 4 GAME 5 GAME 6 GAME 7 GAME 8

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12 | THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER | 12.04.15 the REPORT BEFORE THE DEATH STAR ATTACKS McNamara’s Nov. 6 cross complaint alleges Joan’s in Santa Monica served mac and cheese at an What’s hot and cold “incorrect depth and portion size” compared with the original at the Third Street location (below). at the box oﬃce in advance of Star Wars’ Dec. 18 domination By Pamela McClintock

THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY — PART 2 Nov. 20 Despite a franchise-low bow, it could top out at about $350 million domestic, ahead of the THE GOOD previous film. DINOSAUR Nov. 25 Pixar’s latest should debut Joan’s vs. Joan’s in Bizarre Lawsuit at around $60 million over The owner of Hollywood’s favorite lunch spot fights investors over a new Santa Monica outpost the long holiday — low-ish with allegedly ‘rancid’ food, unauthorized products and inferior mac and cheese for the studio, By Gary Baum but it will play through the holidays. ASS THE PEPTO-BISMOL. JOAN’S ON labeling. The situation allegedly turned worse for the Third, the comfort-food cafe whose locations detail-oriented McNamara once operations com- CREED Nov. 25 in L.A. and Studio City are lunchtime staples menced: She claims her representatives found spoiled The $35 million of the entertainment industry, has found and rancid dishes (tarragon chicken salad), improp- Rocky spinoff has strong reviews Pitself embroiled in an odd licensing-agreement lawsuit erly prepared menu items (“chocolate cupcake with and is tracking to open to a solid involving its newest outpost in Santa Monica. The unapproved milk frosting”) and a variety of products $30 million-plus. dispute reveals how expansion plans can lead to seri- she never signed off on (think: gummy peach rings). Warner Bros. wants awards ous indigestion. What’s more, McNamara asserts Perkowetz buzz to help. On Nov. 6, a note was posted on the Facebook page ignored her concerns, even when she personally had for the two-decade-old restaurant brand stating that begun fielding quality complaints from longtime the coastal location, which opened this summer, “is customers. (Katy Perry, Will Ferrell, David Lynch and LEGEND no longer a licensed Joan’s on Third,” going on the writing staffs of such shows as Modern Dec. 11 The $25 million to explain that the only places “to get Joan’s Family and Family Guy are among her loyal crime thriller, with Tom Hardy real recipes, prepared the way [founder] Joan patrons.) For his part, Perkowetz’s attorneys as two [McNamara] believes they should be,” is at the complain that McNamara’s representatives characters, expands other two locations. News of an “imposter Joan’s” would appear at the Santa Monica location nationwide but McNamara could be lit up L.A. social media. without warning, “measuring tables while cus- hurt by mixed Turns out, the salvo was timed to the filing of a cross tomers were sitting at them.” reviews.

complaint in quiet litigation between McNamara and Exhibit A of McNamara’s filing is a disapproving KRAMPUS her majority-holding business partners at the Santa photographic comparison of mac and cheese offer- Dec. 4 The post- Monica outpost — led by managing partner Walter ings, which the cross complaint terms her “signature Thanksgiving weekend Perkowetz, a restaurant-industry veteran with chains dish” and notes “was served at an incorrect depth is a notorious such as Ruth’s Chris Steak House. The investors sued and portion size” in Santa Monica. In another instance, graveyard — bad news McNamara on Aug. 13 for breach of contract and other the new location’s manager, Michael Miranda, is lam- for Legendary’s low-budget claims. Neither side is talking, but the legal papers basted for “knowingly permitting” staff tostray from horror pic. tell a delicious story. the established Joan’s omelet technique of utilizing VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN The investors’ attorneys portray McNamara as low heat to create “a light, fluffy, French-style” dish, Nov. 25 unreasonably difficult and disorganized, too upset that, instead “leaving the eggs in the pan unstirred to Fox twice delayed this retelling of for instance, a “community table” was “three inches be finished under a broiler, resulting in a tougher, the horror classic. Despite stars wider than the one in Studio City,” and negligent by not heavier” effect. Daniel Radcliﬀe ensuring that her team provided “sandwich diagrams,” “While we may laugh about a dispute about the fluff- and James IN THE HEART McAvoy, it likely OF THE SEA “look books” (pamphlets with pictures showing how iness of an omelet, it really could ruin a Los Angeles won’t break a $20 million debut Dec. 11 over the holiday. Ron Howard’s completed dishes should appear) and “retail pack- dining institution if its reputation is built on the quality whale adventure aging specifications” in advance of the debut of the of its food,” says Jesse Saivar, a litigator at Greenberg cost nearly $100 million $2.5 million Ocean Avenue restaurant. McNamara’s Glusker who has worked on restaurant licensing dis- and has only one week to itself legal team, meanwhile, alleges that Joan’s had encoun- putes. But he says the case isn’t so clear: “You’ve also before Force tered problems during a walk-through inspection in got to give credence to what the licensee is alleging: Awakens steals its screens the weeks before the Santa Monica opening, including ‘How can you tell us the omelet isn’t fluffy enough (and audience).

unapproved retail products for sale and incorrect when you won’t tell us how to make the omelet?’ ” MCNAMARA: JO STOUGAARD. THIRD: COURTESY OF SUBJECT. STAR: DAVID JAMES/LUCASFILM/DISNEY. HUNGER: MURRAYDINOSAUR: CLOSE/LIONSGATE. PIXAR/DISNEY. CREED: BARRY WETCHER/WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT. LEGEND: SIMON MEIN/UNIVERSAL PICTURES. KRAMPUS:UNWIN/UNIVERSAL STEVE PICTURES. FRANKENSTEIN: ALEX BAILEY/TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX. HEART: COURTESY OF WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT.

14 | THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER | 12.04.15 “IT’S BEEN A LONG DAY WITHOUT YOU, M Y FRIEND, AND I’LL TELL YOU ALL ABOUT IT WHEN I SEE YOU AGAINN”.

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION BEST ORIGINAL SONG “SEE YOU AGAIN” WRITTEN BY JUSTIN FRANKS, ANDREW CEDAR, CHARLIE PUTH, CAMERON THOMAZ

As the holidays near, tensions are rising: With the ﬁeld still wide open, everyone is hoping the wishbone is breaking in their favor By Scott Feinberg

BEST PICTURE

The Danish Girl Secret in Their Eyes In the wake of Toronto, it struggled to gain Based on 2009’s foreign-language Oscar a foothold, with stars Eddie Redmayne and winner from Argentina and starring Oscar Alicia Vikander oﬀ ﬁlming new projects. But winners Julia Roberts and Nicole Kidman, they arrived in L.A. for its Nov. 20 premiere it has pedigree. But it got a critical beating

and jumped right into a barrage of promos. that’s knocked it out of the conversation. : COURTESY OF DISNEY WALT PICTURES.

BEST ACTOR SANJAY’S : KERRY HAYES/OPEN ROAD FILMS. : COURTESY OF A24. SPOTLIGHT

IAN MCKELLEN JESSE EISENBERG Mr. Holmes The End of the Tour He is the toast of the town — Guillermo The scathing satire of critics he penned del Toro feted him at the Aero Nov. 17, and for the Nov. 23 issue of The New Yorker hasn’t Elijah Wood and Patrick Stewart hosted won him any media pals at a time when a Nov. 18 Chateau Marmont dinner for him. his indie ﬁlm needs all the support it can get.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR BEST ANIMATED SHORT : AGATHA A. NITECKA/COURTESY OF MIRAMAX AND ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS. TOUR : KAREN BALLARD/STX PRODUCTIONS. HOLMES

MICHAEL KEATON Sanjay’s Super Team Spotlight Pixar animator Sanjay Patel’s semi- Judging from the standing ovation he autobiogrpahical film, which is screening got during a solo appearance for a Nov. 18 with The Good Dinosaur, was the SAG Q&A, he has a strong shot of highest-profile entry on the Academy’s breaking out of his film’s ensemble pack. animated short-film shortlist. : COURTESY OF FOCUS FEATURES. SECRET DANISH

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ITS FIRST THEATRICAL FEATURE, BEASTS Buried and Gus Van Sant’s The Sea of Trees — wrote and will direct. James DEAL of No Nation, might have grossed just $90,777 in limited Wolk and Masters of Sex’s Caitlin FitzGerald will star in the home invasion OF THE release, but Netflix is ramping up its movie ambitions, thriller, which just completed filming. “We’re excited to expand our WEEK scooping up two new indie films as it campaignsBeasts independent film slate and work hand-in-hand with some of today’s great for Oscars. creators,” says Netflix content chiefTed Sarandos. The streaming service is planning a day-and-date Netflix’s push into the original indie space is a boon to film theatrical release for Girlfriend’s Day, a noir comedy featuring producers, who often have trouble finding theatrical distribu- Bob Odenkirk as a down-on-his-luck greeting card writer who tion for small-scale projects. It’s also a shot against Amazon, attempts to clear his name after he’s framed for murder. The which has positioned itself as an indie platform, bringing Kathy Bates Better Call Saul star co-wrote the script with Philip Zlotorynski in veteran executives Ted Hope and Bob Berney. In addition to and Eric Hoffman and is producing with Marc Provissiero of bigger-budget offerings fromAdam Sandler, Netflix has a four- Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment and M. Elizabeth Hughes. Sparling picture deal with indie heavyweights Jay and Mark Duplass (two The film, directed byMichael Stephenson (Best Worst Movie) and of their films, 6 Years and Manson Family Vacation, already co-starring Amber Tamblyn, continues Netflix’s relationship with Odenkirk, are streaming) and recently acquired psychological thriller Rebirth from whose sketch series W/Bob & David (in which he stars with his Mr. Show writer-director Karl Mueller. Rebirth, Girlfriend’s Day and Mercy will be With Bob and David collaborator David Cross) premiered Nov. 13 on the released in all Netflix markets worldwide in 2016. Adds Sarandos: “Given The Oscar streaming platform. our global scale, Netflix is uniquely positioned to allow these high-qual- winner will Netflix also has nabbed a previously unannounced project titled ity niche titles to be viewed and enjoyed by the biggest possible audience play Billy Bob Mercy, which Chris Sparling — who penned the 2010 Ryan Reynolds thriller around the world.” — REBECCA FORD Thornton’s foulmouthed mother in Bad Santa 2. FILM T.J. Miller (CAA, Eugenio Derbez (UTA, Behr Off the Boat. … Fox will develop Warner Bros. and Brad Pitt’s 3 Arts, Jackoway Tyerman) Abramson) has launched the horror series Haunted Plan B have teamed to adapt will star in and write the 3Pas and signed a deal with with The Devil Inside’s William Illuminae, a YA sci-fi novel action comedy Ex-Criminals Universal Television and Brent Bell. ... CBS has ordered from authors Amie Kaufman for DreamWorks. will develop the comedies additional episodes of and Jay Kristoff. Don’t Judge Me for ABC and Code Black. … Syfy has ordered 24’s Brad Turner (APA, The Great Brown Hope for NBC. two seasons of the horror Emma Stone (WME, Ziffren Brittenham) will anthology Channel Zero. … Anonymous, Ziffren direct the thriller Penance. Liberty Global will acquire Adult Swim has ordered to Brittenham) will star in the Caribbean firm Cable & series the animated comedy adaptation of Matthew Broad Green has inked a Wireless Communications Dream Corp, LLC. from Quick’s novel Love May Fail for development deal with for $5.3 billion. John Krasinski and Stephen /WIREIMAGE. HAWLEY: GABRIEL OLSEN/FILMMAGIC. UTHAUG: EMMA MCINTYRE/GETTY IMAGES. WRIGHT: STEVE JENNINGS/WIREIMAGE. Noah Hawley TriStar and play Billie Jean Storyscape, the new com- Merchant. … ABC Family King opposite Steve Carell in pany of producers Bob Cooper Harold & Kumar’s Jon Hurwitz has ordered to series the horror the tennis drama Battle of and Richard Saperstein. and Hayden Schlossberg anthology Dead of Summer the Sexes for Fox Searchlight. (CAA, Hansen Jacobson) from Once Upon a Time’s Romany Malco (Kohner, have signed a multiyear deal Adam Horowitz, Eddy Kitsis Alexandra Daddario Principato Young, with Lionsgate. and Ian Goldberg. … FYI (UTA, Untitled, Jackoway Ziffren Brittenham) will join has ordered the real estate Tyerman) will join Dwayne Gabrielle Union and Danny NBCUniversal International reality series Nicole & Johnson and Zac Efron Glover in Universal’s comedy has formed a joint venture Jionni’s Shore Flip starring in Paramount’s Baywatch. A Meyers Christmas. with Harry Potter producer Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi. David Heyman. Roar Uthaug (UTA) will direct TELEVISION MUSIC Alexandra Warner Bros. and MGM’s Johnny Knoxville (CAA, ABC has ordered additional STX Entertainment has Roar Uthaug Daddario Tomb Raider reboot, with 3 Arts, Sloane Offer) will episodes of The Middle, The signed a soundtracks deal with Transformers 5’s Geneva develop NBC’s detective comic Goldbergs, Black-ish and Fresh Universal Music Publishing. Robertson-Dworet writing. adaptation Hawaiian Dick. REAL ESTATE Edgar Wright (CAA, the U.K.’s John Cena (ICM) will headline PMK*BNC and Rogers & Cowan Independent, Anonymous, the military competition parent IPG has signed an Nelson Davis) will direct an series American Grit for Fox. 11-year lease to relocate the animated film about shadows firms to Century City. for DreamWorks Animation. Fargo’s Noah Hawley (CAA, McKuin Frankel) Fury producer Anton Kathy Bates (ICM) has joined and FX will develop a limited- Lessine (Keller Williams) Bad Santa 2 for Miramax and series adaptation of Kurt PMK*BNC’s Century City has bought a home in Pacific offices will add signage. Edgar Wright Broad Green. Vonnegut’s novel Cat’s Cradle. Palisades for $4 million. SPARLING: AP PHOTO/THIBAULT CAMUS. DADDARIO: DAVID LIVINGSTON/GETTY IMAGES. BUILDING: COURTESY OF PMK*BNC. BATES: STEVE GRANITZ

18 | THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER | 12.04.15 the Vital Stats REPORT Age 32 Born Los Angeles Big break Playing civil rights activist Diane Nash in Selma Reps Greene & Associates, Mosaic and Jackoway Tyerman

NEXT BIG THING Tessa Thompson Creed’s leading lady on awards buzz, comparisons to Adrian and learning to love acting on Cold Case By Rebecca Ford • Photographed by Tawni Bannister

ESSA THOMPSON SPENT HER childhood bouncing between L.A. and New York, where her father, singer-songwriter Marc Anthony TThompson of the band Chocolate Genius Inc., is based. Now, after impressing in supporting roles in Selma and Justin Simien’s Sundance breakout Dear White People, she’s winning strong reviews for Creed, playing an aspiring singer and Michael B. Jordan’s love interest.

Was the music in the ﬁlm a challenge for you? THOMPSON I worked [on it] for two weeks straight for 15 hours a day. [Composer] Ludwig Goransson and I also had some guest artists come in. We had Donald Glover and an indie artist I really love called Moses Sumney.

How do you feel about being compared to Talia Shire’s Adrian character in the ﬁrst Rocky? I guess that’s good. … But it isn’t something we thought too much about. Sylvester Stallone took care of that [reference] for us because he’s in the movie and satisfies that.

When did you know you wanted to act? When I got my first job in television, an episode of Cold Case, where I played a boot- legging lesbian in the 1930s. I fell in love.

What’s your pet peeve about Hollywood? The fanfare around awards now. The year Audrey Hepburn won the Academy Award for Roman Holiday, her acceptance speech was basically “thank you” and that’s it.

“As an actress, I don’t feel comfortable being put in a space where I’m the hot girl in a movie,” says Thompson. She was photographed Nov. 11 at Industria Studios in New York.

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“I always knew that women find it YES, I very difficult at times — some women — to DID SAY find music. And this helps make it easier THAT! with playlists, curated A look at who’s saying by real people.” what in entertainment Edited by Andy Lewis and Brian Porreca JIMMY IOVINE The Apple music executive, implying Nov. 19 on CBS This Morning that women have more trouble with streaming music services than men. He later apologized. “I’m neither so thanks 4 that.” “Someone sent me a DM of his very VERY ANNA PAQUIN large penis.... That’s The Good Dinosaur actress, tweeting her anger at commentators who suggested she all. definately do NOT looked fat or pregnant in the loose-ﬁtting dress she wore to the ﬁlm’s premiere. know him/it.”

DEBRA MESSING The Mysteries of Laura actress, revealing that an unknown man had sent her the unsoliticited picture on Instagram. She later tweeted a censored version of it with the tag, “RESPECT WOMEN. RESPECT YOURSELVES.”

“I already knew “You get pissing “Because I’m “I genuinely because she tells me and moaning on not gon’ do it, should believed if I had one everything.” the Internet — sexist I deprive you procedure I would comments — but, of not having it?” suddenly look like JOHNNY DEPP you know, f— ’em.” Brad Pitt.” The Black Mass star, revealing that he was aware of daughter Lily-Rose’s MO’NIQUE

sexual orientation — “anywhere The actress, on why she gives her E. RORIGUEZ/GETTY IMAGES. TAKEI: DESIREE NAVARRO/WIREIMAGE. on the LGBTQI spectrum” — before she TOM ROTHMAN husband a “pass to cheat” on REID EWING announced it on Instagram. The Sony Pictures chairman, responding her with other women if he wants. The Modern Family actor, to critics of his studio’s all-female opening up about his struggle Ghostbusters movie, set for July 15. with body dysmorphia, which resulted in him undergoing multiple plastic surgeries.

“You demonstrably have failed to learn the most basic of American civics or history lessons.”

GEORGE TAKEI The Star Trek actor, responding on Facebook to Mayor David Bowers of Roanoke, Va., who suggested putting Syrian refugees into internment camps as were Japanese-Americans during World War II.

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MoMA Film Benefit New York City, Nov. 17

HEN ASKED TO DESCRIBE THE NIGHT’S honoree Cate Blanchett, Rose Byrne kept her praise simple: “She’s the best there is.” And it seems the Academy might agree: A two-time Oscar Wwinner, Blanchett is believed to be in the running for a third statuette thanks to her performances in Carol and Truth. “She is so ver satile,” said Carol’s director Todd Haynes at MoMA’s eighth annual film benefit, which held its post-award dinner in the museum’s Agnes Gund Garden Lobby. The night — which drew a formidable crowd, including Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, Diane Kruger, Ralph Fiennes and Bobby Cannavale (who arrived hand-in-hand with Byrne) — celebrated Blanchett’s ability to disappear into various roles. Said Blue Jasmine co-star Cannavale, “She is one of those actresses that, if you love acting, you don’t miss anything that they do.” — LAURA ENTIS 1

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1 “All my efforts ... do feel very insignificant in view 4 Carol producers Elizabeth Karlsen (left) and of what’s going on ... in Europe and the Middle East Christine Vachon. and the thousands of refugees who travel across the borders,” said Blanchett (with Fiennes). “Their plight ... 5 Event co-chair and director Martin Scorsese. has become even more precarious and difficult.” 6 “She is ready to go at all times. I really appreciate 2 Kruger (in Chanel) hit the carpet. that because ... I’m not there to f— around and get 3 sociable, I’m there to work, and she’s there to work,” 3 Mara (in Givenchy). said Cannavale (with an expectant Byrne) of Blanchett.

Miss Golden Globe Announcement 2 West Hollywood, Nov. 17

Aziz Ansari (left) and O’Shea Jackson Jr. at the 1 party at Ysabel, which was thrown by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and InStyle. 24 | THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER | 12.04.15 The Night Before Los Angeles, Nov. 18 2

1 From left: Sony Motion Picture Group president Doug Belgrad, the ﬁlm’s Anthony Mackie, Sony president of worldwide marketing and distribution 4 Josh Greenstein and Dwight Caines, president of theatrical marketing at Columbia TriStar Motion Pictures Group.

2 Co-stars James Franco (left) and Randall Park at The Theater at Ace Hotel. 3 Said Seth Rogen of a character: “The idea that there’s our high school weed dealer — that is very much inspired from my real life because sometimes I do go home to Vancouver, [and] there is that thing where you’re like, ‘Who do you buy weed oﬀ of?’ ” 4 The ﬁlm’s Lizzy 3 Caplan (in Thakoon).

Shining a Light 2 Los Angeles, Nov. 18

1 From left: HFPA president Lorenzo Soria, Miss Golden Globe 2016 Corinne Foxx and her father, Jamie Foxx. “I could have graduated from high school and gotten into acting, but I wanted a college degree, so I’ll do acting after I graduate,” said the USC student and sometime model, who recently appeared in a Ralph Lauren campaign. “My dad has been supportive because I think he really wants me to get into acting. But any decision I make, he says: ‘You’re right. Do whatever makes you happy.’ ” 2 From left: 1 Sia performed at A+E Networks’ and iHeartMedia’s two-hour beneﬁt concert Shining Perrey Reeves, Lisa a Light: A Concert for Progress on Race in America, which was spurred by the June 17 killing Edelstein and of nine people at the historic black Emanuel AME church in Charleston, S.C. Constance Zimmer. 2 Bruce Springsteen (left) and John Legend at the broadcast special that also drew Pharrell 3 3 The Aﬀair’s Joshua 1 Williams and Sting. Produced by Grammys exec producer Ken Ehrlich at the Shrine Auditorium, Jackson hit the carpet. it aired across all six A+E Networks (A&E, Lifetime, History, H2, LMN and FYI) on Nov. 20.

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Matthew Weiner Directs by having fun with the color of an OITNB Episode his cast, replaced weekly. The As his first post-Mad Men project, DreamWorks Animation CEO wore Matthew Weiner is directing a a pink cast for the GLSEN Respect season-four episode of longtime Weiner joined Awards on Oct. 23; red for his the OITNB roster friend Jenji Kohan’s Orange Is the of name Oct. 30 American Cinematheque directors. New Black. Marking the first time honor and a trip to China; gold Weiner has helmed a project he for the Nov. 14 Governors Awards; didn’t write (he directed nine Mad and blue for the late-October Men episodes and the 2014 feature birth of his first grandson. He was Are You Here), the Emmy-winning looking at black and white to showrunner joins Jodie Foster, mark DWA’s Kung Fu Panda 3 pre- Nicole Holofcener and Allison Anders Ava DuVernay Responds “I was surprised by how surprised miere in January, but he’ll likely as directors on the Netflix series. to Quentin Tarantino Diss everyone was. When you look at his be cast-free by then. An on-set source tells THR that The uproar was swift whenQuentin work and his persona, there’s noth- Weiner is “loving it,” and OITNB’s Tarantino dismissed Ava DuVernay ing surprising about what he said,” Laura Prepon confirmed she did and Selma, telling Bret Easton Ellis she tells THR. “But it didn’t bother Power Dining a scene helmed by him. “We filmed in T: The New York Times Style me like so many assumed it would.” Ryan Kavanaugh joined Mark Canton at Soho a huge day, and a lot of directors Magazine that the Oscar-nominated House. Bill Prady, Ben Silverman and Bela might have been overwhelmed, but civil rights drama “deserved an Katzenberg’s Cast of Bajaria stopped in another day. … At Mr Chow: he knew exactly what he wanted Emmy.” (He later clarified he never Many Colors Terry Semel, Diane Lane and Avi Lerner with Emanuel Nunez. … Warren Beatty took a seat at to do. With a huge cast like ours, had seen the movie.) But DuVernay Jeffrey Katzenberg is making the The Polo Lounge near Kourtney Kardashian. … that makes everything go a lot now is responding to Tarantino’s best of a broken arm from his Matt Lauer hit The Garden at New York’s The Four smoother.” insult, taking a swipe of her own. Oct. 19 car accident in Beverly Hills Seasons after his Charlie Sheen sit-down.

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“ DEEPLY MOVING AND BOASTS IN ALL CATEGORIES INCLUDING AMAZING SOUND DESIGN.” -Anne Thompson, INDIEWIRE BEST PICTURE BEST ACTOR Géza Röhrig BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Mátyás Erdély, HSC BEST FILM EDITING Matthieu Taponier BEST SOUND EDITING Tamás Zányi BEST SOUND MIXING Tamás Zányi BEST COSTUME DESIGN Edit Szücs BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN SON OF SAUL László Rajk

FOR SCREENING INFO VISIT WWW.SONYCLASSICSAWARDS.COM CONGRATS Jeff Rice Films promoted producer Courteney Monroe was promoted Matthew Lamothe to vp Nov. 17. to CEO of National Geographic Global Networks; Ward Platt was named Ovation appointed John Malkin COO and Jeffrey Schneider executive executive vp content distribution vp business of National Geographic Nov. 18. Partners; and National Geographic magazine editor-in-chief Susan Zoe Katz was promoted to director Emma Skye Tobler Goldberg was given the added title of entertainment philanthropy at of editorial director. Weinstein Carnegie Philanthropic EMMA SKYE TOBLER Group on Nov. 18. Warner Bros. Television publicity executive Jeff Tobler and his wife, Jeff Gregor was upped to chief catalyst singer, songwriter and jewelry designer Kim DiVine, welcomed officer at TBS and TNT on Nov. 17, DEATHS daughter Emma Skye Tobler on Nov. 3 at Cedars-Sinai Medical and Michael Engleman is set to come Ritch Brinkley, who Center in Los Angeles. aboard in early 2016 as executive played Carl the vp entertainment marketing and brand cameraman on the innovation. CBS sitcom Murphy Brown, died Nov. 5. HITCHED, HATCHED, HIRED Showtime Networks appointed He was 71. Brinkley Vinnie Malhotra senior vp Inside the industry’s celebrations and news documentaries, unscripted and Artist and producer Michael C. Gross, sports programming Nov. 16. who created the iconic Ghostbusters WEDDINGS logo, died Nov. 16 of cancer at his home Tim Pastore, president of original Josh Reinhold joined Matt Alvarez’s in Oceanside, Calif. He was 70. programming and production at Nat Broad Green Pictures Nov. 17 as a vp to Geo, married Gretchen Palek, oversee development and production. Saeed Jaffrey, who appeared in head of talent relations at Leftfield such films as Gandhi, A Passage to Pictures, on Sept. 26 at Vinegar Kate Mitchell was upped to India and My Beautiful Laundrette, Hill House in Brooklyn. The newlyweds senior vp ad sales at OWN: Oprah died Nov. 14 of a brain hemorrhage in honeymooned in Italy. Palek and Pastore Winfrey Network on Nov. 17. London. He was 86. CAMERA: JOHANNES SIMON/GETTY IMAGES. WEINER: NEILSON BARNARD/GETTY IMAGES. ADUBA: JOJOCOURTESY WHILDEN/NETFLIX. OF WARNER BROS. PASTORE: TOBLER: COURTESY OF BECK MEDIA. BRINKLEY: BUENA VISTA PICTURES/PHOTOFEST.

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PRESIDENT OF DISTRIBUTION, UNIVERSAL PICTURES INTERNATIONAL Duncan Clark Universal’s foreign-release guru on France’s ‘boundless resilience,’ setting global records and why Fifty Shades didn’t work in Japan By Georg Szalai

A gift from BAFTA thanking Clark for his “It’s a very exciting year that “dedicated service” we have ahead of us, and as we look on the board. forward into 2017, the company looks like it will have another pretty spectacular year,” says Clark, photographed Oct. 6 at the NBCUniversal oﬃces in London.

AST FALL, UNIVERSAL PICTURES Beyond a strong slate, what are the tricks that back to over two years ago, when we decided to International expanded the role of London- have driven the international box office this year? build our own company [there]. We built a based Duncan Clark as president of dis- Between the L.A. office and the London head- superb office and team led by a very talented, Ltribution, giving the dual British and quarters, we have a very integrated approach. It’s experienced and knowledgeable executive American citizen full oversight of the company’s very global. We don’t talk North America and called Jo Yan. There are challenges in China international operation after the departure of Canada and then, “What about international?” that don’t come around in many other mar- veteran David Kosse. Roughly a year later, Clark kets, clearly, but it is one we have developed and has much to celebrate: Universal has passed Furious 7, a co-production with China, grossed worked with to maximize our position. $6.67 billion in worldwide box office this year as nearly $400 million there, but some have raised of Nov. 20, marking the highest-grossing year concerns about the stock market and consumer Any interest in creating local-language films in China? for any film studio ever. That’s thanks in large spending. Are you worried about that market? Those tend to do very well. part to its international gross of $4.32 billion, There are fluctuations and pres- There is a very strong cultural also a new industry record (with six weeks to go sure points on economies all imperative for the Chinese pro- in 2015). Universal also has become the first the time. There is probably not duction community to make studio to release three billion-dollar grossers any one year where there isn’t their own movies, and they have in a single year: Minions, Jurassic World and a crisis of sorts. China has done it very successfully this Furious 7. The youngest of six kids, Clark lived seen an incredibly meteoric rise year. That I see as something in the U.S. for about 20 years. Back in the U.K. in both the building of screens that one day we may be part of. from 1980 until 1986, he was head of marketing and box office. The infrastruc- and distribution at UIP, at the time a joint venture has gone from 6,000 Are local-language films a ture with Paramount Pictures that distributed screens to 27,000 screens in a key opportunity for Universal films for Universal, Paramount and MGM. Clark short period of time, and they across the world? joined Universal in 2006 and helped create its are continuing to build them. It It is definitely part of our own distribution operation, then was elevated to obviously came home in a strategy. We had Der Medicus president of distribution in 2011. The 63-year- major way for Universal with the in Germany, which was a old cricket and soccer enthusiast, who lives with gigantic success of Furious 7 and huge hit for us [$42.8 million his wife and son, spoke with THR about the Jurassic World. Dealing with in local box office]. And we impact of the Paris attacks, the outlook for China the market in China was a very Clark snagged this poster at a charity have had successful titles in auction: “I’m a fan of film memorabilia, and the wisdom of local-language productions. clear objective of ours going and this one was particularly brilliant.” France and Spain and many

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markets. Identifying those opportunities is part 1 of our overall remit. If we can use that dimen- sion to supplement the main slate that is being built by the studio, it makes absolute sense.

India is famously insular. Is that market becoming easier to crack? Any other foreign markets with much upside? India is a market that continues to be domi- nated by the local titles, and that’s something that is a fact of life. We have had enormous success this year with our two movies, Furious 1 On his desk Clark has a 2 7 and Jurassic World, and we’ll continue to “brain teaser” (left), intended to stimulate the look at that. It is a market of over a billion peo- mind, which he got from a friend in Japan, and a ple, and we have not yet integrated ourselves small container designed into making Hindi movies. There are many parts to look like a cricket ball. “I used to play and coach of Asia where we have to be patient, where the it,” he says. 2 A fan of English soccer exhibition infrastructure hasn’t been built out as club Arsenal, Clark has well as the Chinese market has been built out. a coffee mug with a picture of himself and In Indonesia and Vietnam, there are huge popu- Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger (“a mutual lations, and there is a sign of economic growth. friend introduced us”). Director Alan Parker gave Brazil is a market that we see as having poten- Clark a toy bus bearing tially enormous growth. the insignia of a boys’ Christian organization that both were members of as kids. Its motto: “Sure How long will the French box office take to recover and steadfast.” after the recent Paris attacks? 3 Three of Clark’s favorite movies, from top: The The boundless resilience of the French character Blues Brothers, Scarface and The Jerk. alongside their enormous passion for cinema 3 will prevail. The box office will return in a matter of weeks, but if it takes a little while longer, it there are certain common factors. But then Will the international rollout of Steve Jobs be limited will be because of the unprecedented, vile and there are other markets that lean in, and there because it didn’t perform in the U.S.? loathsome attack on their capital. are some that lean away. So you have to be very We were always opening in England and realistic about that. We had enormous success Germany as the two main international markets What makes a global hit these days? with Fifty Shades of Grey. It worked virtually before Christmas and the rest of the markets in We have to recognize that there are certain terri- in every market of the world except for a couple. January and February [hopefully riding awards tories that lean in more to the American culture One being Japan, where the book wasn’t pub- buzz]. It’s sobering to see some underwhelm- than others. Clearly, England and Australia are lished to any great degree and didn’t have any ing returns, but nothing has changed, this was among those that lean in, linguistically, and kind of foundation. always the plan. We will determine as we go whether we narrow the release, perhaps. At some How did Universal market Fifty Shades overseas? point, if audiences aren’t turning out to see this Universal’s Foreign Dominance Fifty Shadesthrived in most markets where really special film, we will make further changes, After a dip in 2014, a record-setting recovery the book was a huge best-seller but was less well- but as of now, we remain optimistic. received in areas where the book was not as DOMESTIC INTERNATIONAL TOTAL popular or censor ratings were very restrictive. What was the international input on Universal’s $5B Specifically in Southeast Asia, the film never plan to reboot the classic monsters universe? $6.67B reached blockbuster levels, but aside from Japan, Our involvement in the development of this new it was still a successful release everywhere. production endeavor to expand and unify a 4 network of classic monsters was very early in the What was the strategy for Straight Outta Compton process. The DNA of these classic titles is very internationally? Where did it work? strong. The Mummy is the first up in 2017, and Bottom line: Straight Outta Compton was an that is a very exciting prospect for us everywhere. 3 amazing story beautifully crafted that found $3.69B resonance wherever we screened it. We took the Give us an update on the piracy problem and which talent on the road in markets where the music international markets are most affected by it. $3.13B 2 and history had the strongest footprint, and the In certain markets, there is a real political will $2.28B $2.54B standout successes were in the U.K., Australia, to fix it and police it: France, Australia, England. $2.05B Germany, France, Holland and Switzerland. All But there are other markets where there isn’t markets have degrees of positive interest and quite that political will, and it’s a nonstop battle. 1 awareness in the story and genre, but the process Some of the Asian markets — Russia has been of mining for box office has to be balanced a minefield for the piracy program. It’s about against the marketing investment required, and political will, and we are very connected with in many [markets], it was not strong enough all our fellow studios to do what we can to fight 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 to sustain a full theatrical release. that fight.

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Why Networks Are Throwing Money at Stand-Ups The Netflix Effect hits comedy specials as Amy Schumer, Aziz Ansari and more command top dollar in a booming market filled with new players. Why the allure? ‘With the exception of porn, there’s nothing cheaper to do’ By Lacey Rose

ETFLIX UPENDED MOVIE content on a tiny budget. “With ancillary opportunities in inter- and it gets put into a search engine distribution, then scripted the exception of porn, there’s national or syndication. (Comedy forever and, no matter what, television. Now the streaming nothing cheaper to do,” adds Volk- Central’s work-around often is your material is there to be seen,” Nservice is contributing to a Weiss. Which is not to say the to package a special into a devel- says APA agency partner Mike growing arms race to land top com- girl or guy on stage is paid poorly; opment deal, as it did with Amy Berkowitz, who counts Louis ics in the increasingly competitive increased demand has proved a Schumer and Hannibal Buress.) C.K., Schumer, Hart and Ansari world of stand-up specials. boon to comics. According to one For Seeso chief Evan Shapiro, among touring clients. “From By year’s end, Netflix, which industry veteran, roughly 80 per- relying so heavily on stand-ups — in the artist’s perspective, we just debuted John Mulaney’s The cent of comics are making between January, his $3.99-a-month ser- want to go where the most Comeback Kid on Nov. 13, will have $50,000 and $500,000 for an hour- vice will offer exclusiveseach eye balls are, and right now released 18 original stand-up long special; 15 percent make day along with specials that’s Netflix.” specials, with comics including Aziz between $500,000 and $2 million; from comics including Rory Netflix content chief Ted

Ansari, Chris Tucker and Chelsea 4 percent make between $2 mil- Scovel, Jay Pharoah and Shapiro Sarandos says he first Peretti. And while many credit lion and $6 million; and 1 percent Cameron Esposito — wasn’t a rec ognized the opportunity the 69 million-member service for (think: Kevin Hart) make more given. But the feedback from back when he was offering a sec- jump-starting the market, others, than $6 million. 11,000 potential users interviewed ond-window for Comedy Central specials. “There were only two options before we started doing it: You either get on HBO or Comedy Central, and in both cases you’ll be on the air a few times and then disappear,” he says. “I’d go to comedy clubs and the come- dians would say, ‘Oh my God, all of a sudden my show just came on Netflix and everyone is talking about it.’ ” Artists aren’t as quick to write off HBO. Though the network makes fewer specials, it offers comics like Schumer, who premiered hers Oct. 17, both a broad audience (6.6 million viewers) and prestige. Says Berkowitz, “To some, there’s nothing that says you made it like having that billboard on Sunset.” Harder hit in the new world order is Comedy Central, which is including NBC’s forthcoming “Stand-up comedy has always was that the core Gen Y audience, criticized for ads and lower vis- comedy streaming service Seeso, worked well on TV,” notes raised in the ashes of 9/11 and the ibility. “For me and many comics, also are opening wallets. Showtime president David Nevins, financial meltdown, has an appe- there’s a frustration that we can’t “There’s never been a better who wants an original special tite for comedy-club fare. “They’re get repeat eyeballs after [the] ini- time,” says Brian Volk-Weiss, each month, with such names looking for soothsayers to help tial airing,” explains Berkowitz. whose Comedy Dynamics has as Steve-O, Jermaine Fowler and, them navigate through the chaos,” The network’s programming pres- produced 40-plus specials deal permitting, W. Kamau explains Shapiro. “So they go to ident, Kent Alterman, seems this year, nearly doubling its Bell on deck. “It has [even] these ‘churches,’ so to speak, and surprised to hear of frustration, or output from two years ago. more value in an on- someone gets up on the pulpit “misconception” as he calls it, “We’ve been selling specials demand, libraried world, and starts speaking the truth to pointing to his net’s authenticated since 2007, and for the first which is how we, HBO them, and I think it gives them a app where specials appear in full. five years or so, the buck Sarandos and the streaming services sense of place in the world.” But even as Alterman competes slip I have taped to my desk program.” He points to his Of all the new players, Netflix is in the overheated stand-up space – said Comedy Central, Showtime older specials from Hart and Dane the most sought-after, according with nine originals and 12 acquired and HBO,” he says. “Now, it says Cook, adding, “Those still play.” to the dozen or so comics and reps in 2015 — he fears oversaturation, Netflix, Comedy Central, Epix, Though basic cable networks have interviewed. Not only is the ser- recalling the last stand-up boom in Showtime, HBO, Seeso, Amazon, sniffed around, the format is vice willing to shell out top dollar, the ’80s: “It would be a shame Vimeo and a few others.” less friendly to ad-supported outlets it also makes its specials readily for the word ‘special’ to be rendered

Among the draws: evergreen because the genre doesn’t provide available. “Put it on Netflix contradictory.” SHAPIRO: JEMAL COUNTESS/GETTY IMAGES. SARANDOS: NICHOLAS HUNT/GETTY IMAGES.

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Surviving Holiday Screeners. And Your Family. At Once As your houseguests settle in for a marathon of Oscar wannabes, a few words of caution: Grandma is not suitable for every grandma, don’t watch Truth with Trump-loving Uncle Jack, and Steve Jobs could oﬀend any Apple fan By Gregg Kilday

O YOU’RE SPENDING THE LONG Church pedophiles, and Beasts of No holiday weekend with the Nation probably will send her into extended family. Yikes. Once the a diatribe about how the Western Sturkey carcass has been picked nations have ignored the horrors over and all the pies inhaled, how will taking place in Africa. you pass the time? Sure, there’s the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade (for → FOR COUSIN MILLIE She certainly folks who enjoy chorus boys and car- looks the worse for wear, what with toon characters cavorting at 9 in the her late arrival and that half-empty morning) and the National Dog Show bottle of vodka she was clutching, (for anyone who feels a need to mea- but, tempting though it might be sure their own Bouvier des Flandres since the family already is assembled, against the breed standard) and, of the holiday’s no time for an inter- course, there’s a full menu of football vention. Better to delicately suggest games, from the Philadelphia Eagles watching Amy Schumer in Judd facing off against the Detroit Lions to Apatow’s Trainwreck with all of you. the Chicago Bears versus the Green In between the laughs, she might Bay Packers. But after that, there are pick up a few hints about how to get three more days to go. So how to fill the control of her life. And if she seems time once conversation grinds to a halt? receptive to the idea that you can turn Fortunately, at least for those in the your life around, you could con- industry or on its fringes, it’s awards sider moving on to Love & Mercy, Bill season: Finally, serious-minded mov- Pohlad’s look at the decline and res- ies are crowding into the multiplex and, urrection of the Beach Boys’ Brian even better, screeners are arriving at Wilson. Of course, Wilson was a the door. But though you’ll be tempted musical genius, which probably isn’t to grab the nearest DVD and shove it true in Millie’s case. in the Blu-ray, not every movie in the stack is suitable for the entire family. → FOR NEPHEW EDDIE Yup, we get In fact, you’ll need this handy guide: it. He’s an Android fan. He won’t stop playing with his Samsung Galaxy S6 → FOR GRANDMA MAE Careful, now, edge. He dissed your Apple Watch because titles can be deceiving. Just because Robert Redford. He’ll never buy the movie’s and treated your new iPod Pro as if it were a Paul Weitz’s Grandma stars Lily Tomlin and sympathetic treatment of Dan Rather and pro- serving tray. You’re never going to win the argu- your own grandma loved Tomlin as Edith Ann, ducer Mary Mapes. Instead, why don’t you set ment, though, so if you just want to shut him up, that doesn’t mean this movie is right for her. him up in the back den with Denis Villeneuve’s opt for Steve Jobs. Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s If your grandma’s a true firecracker — she is Sicario? He’ll probably miss the fact that it points warts-and-all triptych portrait of Apple’s co- rooting for Bernie Sanders and has Gloria to the futility of battling drugs on the U.S.- founder doesn’t have any fans among the top Steinem’s new book on her Kindle — then OK, Mexican border, but it will fuel his Trump-stoked brass in Cupertino, Calif. And even if you find she’ll enjoy Tomlin as an acerbic poet trying paranoia about the need to build a wall. If yourself quibbling with Sorkin’s choices, there’s to raise the cash to help her granddaughter get you’d just as soon drive him out of the house no denying his way with words. an abortion. But if your granny is more of a altogether, pop in Straight Outta Compton and traditionalist — she spent most of dinner picking turn up the volume — director F. Gary Gray’s → FOR THE KIDS You’ve already taken them the kale out of her helping of butternut squash re-creation of the early days of the California to The Peanuts Movie and an outing to The Good and kale quinoa stuffing — then instead steer hip-hop group N.W.A should send him to the Dinosaur is planned, but right now the little her to Brooklyn, starring Saoirse Ronan as an nearest exit. monsters are all at home, bouncing off the walls. Irish immigrant torn between two lovers in 1950s So how about treating them to Shaun the Sheep New York. She’ll probably exclaim approvingly, → FOR COUSIN CECILIA She, on the other Movie? They’ll get a kick out of the silent-movie “They don’t make movies like that anymore” hand, is committed to MSNBC and won’t stop antics of Shaun and his barnyard friends. — except, of course, they just did. talking about what a great job Rachel Maddow And the best news for you: Shaun doesn’t have did interviewing Hillary — while refusing her any dialogue (he speaks only in various “baaas”), → FOR UNCLE JACK If he had to be told to serving of white meat because the turkey and that means no cartoon catchphrases for turn off Fox News and come sit down for din- isn’t free range. She’ll be happily outraged by them to run around repeating ad nauseum for ner, you definitely don’t want to be sitting Trumbo’s look at the injustice of the Hollywood the remainder of the weekend. Happy holi-

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see was what they see through their night-vision system.” The solution the filmmakers devised was to adopt the characters’ point-of-view by shooting the sequence as seen through their thermal imaging camera and night-vision goggles. Deakins incor-

Left: A drug agent silhouetted against porated a thermal camera made the night sky in Sicario. Above: Emily Blunt, by Flir, which is used for scientific as an FBI agent, in the tunnel shoot-out. studies: “Denis thought Alejandro Filming in Mexico City and (played by Benicio Del Toro) could Albuquerque, N.M., Villeneuve says have the thermal imagery, with he wanted “the light to be as natu- the other members of the team hav- ral as possible. Instead of fighting ing a regular night-vision system. it, let’s embrace it. Let’s create sil- We structured the whole film as houettes in the desert, let’s embrace though it’s subjective except this shadow in the faces — let’s create one scene where the SWAT leader tension with that.” is coming into the tunnel. We But one crucial sequence lead- shot that at the entrance to the set ing to a tunnel shoot-out proved and made it look like there was an exception, since it takes place absolutely no light; it’s just a sil- in near darkness. Recalls Deakins, houette against the dark sky. who shot the film with an ARRI So you don’t break the idea that Alexa digital camera: “It was two night is black.” Shooting in the Dark exteriors, and the interior of the How Sicario cinematographer Roger Deakins tunnel was a set onstage. The pro- put a version of night-vision goggles on his camera blem with that sequence was that DEAKINS it was written as though you’re see- ’ 12 OSCAR for a tense tunnel sequence by Carolyn Giardina ing it happen objectively: You NOMINATIONS

start with people getting out of their 1. Unbroken (2014) HARSH LIGHT SHINES ACROSS Seeking to bring authenticity SUV on a hilltop at twilight and 2. Prisoners (2013) 3. Skyfall (2012) the parched desert setting and tension to the $30 million thril- they walk down the hill into black- 4. True Grit (2010) of Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario, ler, which Lionsgate released in ness, and then it’s written as 5. The Reader (2008) which tracks American opera- September and which has grossed though you see them objectively 6. The Assassination A of Jesse James by tives battling drug dealers on both $79 million worldwide to date, going about their work, going to the Coward Robert Ford (2007) sides of the U.S./Mexico border. Villeneuve knew the movie required this tunnel.” 7. No Country for Old Visually, it’s a stark contrast to the “bursts of strong violence but a Deakins was afraid the sequence Men (2007) 8. The Man Who director’s previous film, 2013’s lot of waiting, apprehension. That wouldn’t make visual sense. Wasn’t There (2001) Prisoners, which was all damp and why I thought I must convince “You lit the night exterior so that 9. O Brother, Where dark. But for both, Villeneuve Roger to do the movie — Roger has you could create an image the Art Thou? (2000) 10. Kundun (1997) turned to the celebrated cinema- that strength to create strong audience could see, but why did 11. Fargo (1996) tographer Roger Deakins, 66, who images that you can stretch in the that make sense, because they 12. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) has amassed 12 Oscar nominations editing room and they don’t lose were working in blackness?” he says.

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HOW TO DO SINATRA AT 100 2 IN VEGAS 3 Tina Sinatra conﬁrms John Legend is among those hitting the desert Dec. 2 to celebrate her dad’s star-studded centennial By Laurie Brookins

RANK SINATRA DIED IN at his Encore resort. Among other 4 1998, but you wouldn’t memorabilia loaned by the family, know it from the celebra- you’ll find Sinatra’s Oscar for 1953’s Ftions taking place in From Here to Eternity here. Wynn’s Las Vegas on and around history with the entertainer dates to Dec. 12, the day the legendary the 1980s, when Sinatra struck a crooner would have turned 100. Ol’ deal to perform four times a year, a Blue Eyes’ spirit remains alive total of 16 shows, at Wynn’s Golden and well in the desert oasis. “Without Nugget Casino in Atlantic City, for dad, Las Vegas’ history would be the then-princely sum of very different,” saysTina Sinatra, $50,000 per show. “It was a the youngest of Sinatra’s three small, intimate room, only children. “He epitomized a life- 500 seats,” remembers Wynn. style and an idea of glamour Moonves “Frank couldn’t understand that made a genuine impact on how I could afford to pay him Las Vegas in the 1950s and ’60s.” that much. I told him, ‘I’m 5 That impact will be on star- not going to charge people; it studded display at the Encore will be invitation-only. diners can sit at Sinatra’s favorite 1 The lobby of the Encore features Jeﬀ Koons’ Tulips, which Wynn bought for $33.7 million in 2012. 2 Theater at Wynn Las Vegas, Tina Sinatra Because with Frank Sinatra in booth — Table 22, which accommo- Legend will sing “Young at Heart” at the tribute concert, using the arrangement by Nelson where “Sinatra 100 — An All- my showroom, I’ll make it up dates four — and order “Frank’s Riddle, who introduced Sinatra to the song. Star Grammy Concert” will tape in the casino.’ ” In the second year, Menu,” which includes clams casino 3 Gaga (pictured), Usher, Adam Levine, Alicia Keys and Carrie Underwood also will perform. Dec. 2 to air as a two-hour special Sinatra asked if Dean Martin could join and a New York strip steak, for 4 The Wynn Las Vegas. 5 Wynn (left) with Sinatra in 1984. Dec. 6 on CBS. Tina, together with the show. “Frank Sinatra and Dean $100 a person. On Dec. 12, Table 22 longtime Sinatra family attorney Martin in my showroom? Are you kid- can be booked for $1,000 for a four- Bob Finkelstein, brought the idea of ding me?” Wynn recalls thinking. person reservation, with only three includes 120 photos, many rarely the concert to CBS Corp. president At Sinatra at Encore, a series of seatings, at 4:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m. seen, from the archives of the Las and CEO Leslie Moonves two years dinners have taken place throughout and 10:30 p.m.; the night will include Vegas Convention & Visitors ago. Tony Bennett, Lady Gaga and 2015 featuring Italian dishes that live entertainment. Rat Pack-era Authority’s News Bureau. “In our GETTY IMAGES FOR A+E NETWORKS. HOTEL: ETHAN MILLER/GETTY IMAGES. Garth Brooks are among those set to ranked high among Frank’s favor- standards can likewise be found at efforts to digitize the millions of GES FOR SIRIUSXM. ENCORE: COURTESY OF WYNN. appear; Tina confirmed exclusively ites, including “Ossobuco My Franklin at the Delano, where images we’ve collected, we’ve come to THR that John Legend will perform Way” and a custom “Sinatra Smash” “Frank’s Drink” (two fingers of Jack across photos we never knew we “Young at Heart,” and Jamie Foxx Jack Daniel’s cocktail. Two special Daniel’s, four ice cubes and a had,” explains Lisa Jacob, the News will sing “In the Wee Small Hours.” “Sinatra 100” seatings, featuring a splash of water) will be served in a Bureau’s director. “You’ll recog- The location for the concert four-course prix-fixe menu ($195 commemorative glass for $15. nize outtakes from performances and was a natural — few people in Las per person), are planned for 6 p.m. Sinatra’s life in Las Vegas also is iconic Rat Pack moments at the Vegas are as respectful of the and 9 p.m. on Dec. 12. explored in a photo exhibition at Sands, but we’ll also show the side he Sinatra legacy as Steve Wynn: With Through Dec. 31 at the Golden the Las Vegas Convention Center. rarely discussed, the quiet phil- the cooperation of the family, in Steer Steakhouse, on Sahara Avenue “Sinatra’s Centennial” (free and anthropic efforts that made a real 2008 he opened Sinatra, a restaurant just west of the Strip since 1958, open to the public through May 31) contribution to the community.”

“Patsy” Scognamillo and the third generation to helm the kitchen. For Sinatra’s The Chairman’s No. 1 NYC Hangout 99th birthday in 2014, Tony Danza, Danny Aiello, Vincent Pastore, Nick OR DECADES IT WAS NOT UNCOMMON TO FIND FRANK SINATRA Jonas and Marky Ramone (yes, of those Ramones) turned up, while an on- at Patsy’s Italian Restaurant, located since 1954 on W. 56th St. in New York site broadcast of Sirius XM’s “Siriusly Sinatra” included call-in interviews FCity. The spot held a table for him upstairs, in a corner partially hid- with Michael Buble, Frankie Valli and Frank Sinatra Jr. Demand for this den from prying eyes, and once famously opened on Thanksgiving when he year’s 100th birthday celebration became so intense — at one point, the mentioned he had no other plans. Since the singer’s death, the restaurant Actor Vincent wait-list topped 500 — that Scognamillo decided to expand the event to five has celebrated his birthday each year with a menu featuring his favorite dishes, Pastore (left) and TV dates: Dec. 7 and Dec. 11-14; the prix-fixe menu is $175 per person. You’re too host Bill Boggs at including fusilli with fileto di pomodoro and veal Milanese, “sliced very thin, Patsy’s for Sinatra’s late to book a reservation for Dec. 12, says Scognamillo — Sinatra’s birthday just the way he liked it,” says Sal Scognamillo, grandson of founder Pasquale 99th birthday has been sold out since last year. — L.B. WYNN: CHUCK FISHMAN/WOODFIN CAMP/THE LIFE IMAGES COLLECTION/GETTY IMAGES. GAGA: DIPASUPIL/GETTY D. IMAGES. LEGEND: MIKE WINDLE/ MOONVES: FREDERICK M. BROWN/GETTY IMAGES FOR BAFTA LA. SINATRA: JAMIE MCCARTHY/GETTY IMAGES. PASTORE: ASTRID STAWIARZ/GETTY IMA

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Do you still get nervous? CAINE Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. EDGERTON I don’t get nervous on a movie set so much, unless I’m putting pressure on myself for what’s WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RACISM AND PREJUDICE? WHAT needed on that day. But theater, do you do to reboot your career when you’ve lost your fire? And why do I definitely get nervous. Those first you need to learn how to pee in a sink (or poop, for that matter)? These few performances, I get terrified. are some of the metaphysical questions that were debated Nov. 15 (two That five or 10 minutes before step- days after the Paris attacks) at THR’s annual Actor Roundtable, featuring ping out onstage, I actually think six of the year’s most acclaimed actors working in film, in a conversation I’m going to have a little bit of a that ranged from funny to frivolous to fearsome: “This man slaughtered heart attack. 13 women, and Hitchcock wanted me to play it [in Frenzy], and I refused JACKSON I get frustrated with the it, and he never spoke to me again,” says Michael Caine (Youth), 82. He was rehearsal process. I want to see joined by Will Smith (Concussion), 47; Benicio Del Toro (Sicario), 48; Joel how people are going to react to Edgerton (Black Mass), 41; Samuel L. Jackson (The Hateful Eight), 66; and this. But I’ve never had stage fright. Mark Ruffalo Spotlight( ), 47. SMITH Never done theater. What we did on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air What advice about acting would you was never going to make it to the English director, even if he was a was [before] a live audience give your younger self? West End. And then an American left-wing communist, would have on Fridays. So it had that effect. CAINE No matter how bad it gets, director called Cy Endfield cast cast me as an officer. you’re going to get there. Nine years me as an officer inZulu , which was JACKSON I was a kid sitting in the Do you get nervous or afraid? in little theater, and I thought I the start of my movie career. No movie theater watching that SMITH I live in complete terror.

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(Laughter.) Everything for me the first time where it didn’t work would ever cheat on me again. And SMITH I was trying to avoid that about this business and about what the way that I wanted was Wild Wild the way I was going to do that was by [topic]. It was about the creative I’ve been trying to build and what West. I was coming off of Men in being the biggest actor on Earth,” direction of the story. To me, it’s I’ve been trying to do with my life Black, and everything was like, “Oh, right? So there’s been this weird psy- as perfect a story as you could ever keeps me in terror. I am deeply we can’t lose,” you know? I was chology that I have always felt want: a guy that learns how to motivated by fear. With a movie, it’s like, “Oh! Tragedy!” like: If my movies are number one, kill to retrieve his wife that has been like you never know; you can love JACKSON It’s ’cause you didn’t use my life is going to work out great. taken as a slave. That idea is per- it, you can have done what you think Kool Moe Dee [whom Smith JACKSON Been there. fect. And it was just that Quentin is the best work you’ve ever done, sampled for his 1999 song “Wild [Tarantino] and I couldn’t see [eye and you put it out on that Friday, Wild West”]. (Laughter.) Mark and Sam, in your superhero to eye]. I wanted to make the and everybody hates it — and ﬁlms, do you feel personal validation greatest love story that African- you’ve taken a year. And they don’t How do you deal with that fear? because they’re so popular? Americans had ever seen — just dislike it, you know? They SMITH I’m trying to develop a more JACKSON Those movies have very JACKSON They did that already. It’s want to be really creative with how realistic perspective of what this little to do with us. They have to Love Jones. they let you know they hate it. business is. I told my mother this do with the event. People love SMITH We talked, we met, we sat the other day, and she thought it superheroes, and fortunately we’re for hours and hours about it. I What’s your biggest disappointment? was hilarious. I said: “When I was in them, but they’re not depen- wanted to make that movie so badly, SMITH There’s been disappoint- 15 years old, my first girlfriend dent upon us. They could put that but I felt the only way was, it had ments, but every time I came back cheated on me. And I remember eye patch on somebody else, and it to be a love story, not a vengeance with a newer, fresher attitude. But making a decision that nobody would work the same way. The green story. I don’t believe in violence as guy could be anybody. You turn the reaction to violence. So when I’m

“I felt this debt to my Terrence Howard to Don Cheadle looking at that, it’s like: “No, no, father to make out like and nobody notices. no. It has to be for love.” We can’t I was going to do something responsible with my life. I look at what happens in Paris was terrified to tell him that what I really wanted to Do audiences ever confuse you with [the terrorist attacks] and want to do was either paint pictures the parts you play? f— somebody up for that. Violence or become an actor. And he found out, and he RUFFALO Yeah. I had a 1972 Dodge begets violence. So I just couldn’t said, ‘You should follow your dreams, and money Dart. It was just a bag of bones, connect to violence being the and all that other stuff, it comes as a byproduct.’ ” just a broke-down old horse here in answer. Love had to be the answer. JACKSON Joel Edgerton L.A., back in the day. And my first It would have balanced out Louis Vuitton suit and sweater acting part was on a television series that Wild Wild West scale. called Due South. And of course SMITH Yeah, right. Exactly. I get pulled over by a cop, and she JACKSON It would have fixed that says, “Don’t B.S. me, I know you’re for you. wanted.” And I said, “Listen, babe, RUFFALO Has Quentin talked to I’ve gone on hundreds of audi- you since then? tions here and not gotten one. I’m SMITH No, no, we haven’t talked not wanted.” And she said, “No, about it, but we — I’ve seen you on a wanted ad.” I said, JACKSON He did the Alfred “Well, I was on a show last night Hitchcock on you. where I played a petty criminal.” She gave me a ticket anyway. Sam, in Quentin’s movies, the N-word is everywhere. Does that give Have you turned down roles because you pause? they conveyed a message you didn’t JACKSON No. No more than life. It’s believe in? a movie. But, I mean, life is what CAINE I did. When I first came life is, and in my world, it’s a pretty to America, I was at Universal, and common word. my bungalow was next to Alfred Hitchcock’s, and he offered me a What about the violence? Has that part in a movie [Frenzy] to play a bothered you in his ﬁlms? sadistic woman killer, which was JACKSON No, man. I don’t have issues a real story in England — this man with violence in movies. I like those slaughtered 13 women and cut them stories. I watched Hong Kong movies up — and he wanted me to play it, all the time; I spent a third of my life and I refused. And he never spoke just sitting around watching Asian to me again. film. I read violent novels, spy novels and mysteries and murders and hor- Will, weren’t you oﬀered Django? ror stories. I have always liked that JACKSON (Mock outrage.) Django stuff. We grew up with that. I grew Unchained?! (Laughter.) up watching Westerns on television.

52 | THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER | 12.04.15 SET DESIGN BY WARD ROBINSON AT WOODEN LADDER. ON-SET STYLING BY SIMONA SABO. STYLIST ASSISTANTS: MARCUS FABRO, UNA BASSILLI, JANELLE LOPEZ, KYLE EDWARD. PREVIOUS SPREAD: DEL TORO GROOMING BY NATALIA BRUSCHI, SMITH GROOMING BY PIERCE AUSTIN AND JUDY MURDOCK AT CRITERION GROUP. THIS SPREAD: EDGERTON GROOMING BY LUCY HALPERIN AT STARWORKS ARTISTS, RUFFALO GROOMING BY SYLVIA VIAU AT CLOUTIER REMIX. YOUTH: GIANNI FIORITO/TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX. SICARIO: RICHARD FOREMAN/LIONSGATE. MASS: COURTESY OF WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT. EIGHT: ANDREW COOPER/THE WEINSTEIN CO. SPOTLIGHT: KERRY HAYES/OPEN ROAD FILMS. CONCUSSION: COURTESY OF COLUMBIA PICTURES. before! through allthattoprepare? Did youtalktopeople whohadgone of the day, no. with Iagree Do him?At the end Iunderstandthatter? So ch not, doyou understandthe charac- a character that you with agree or the matter Whether is: you play very elegant with hisviolence. But [Villeneuve, the director,] was SMITH SMITH RUFFALO CAINE RUFFALO EDGERTON DEL TORO DEL TORO explode. ( I wanted thosekids’ toheads see was sitting there, watching I was really disappointed when I their andfell chests grabbed down. guys gotshotonTV, they just to botherIt used methat when about violence in Benicio, didyoutalktothedirector ner table. falling people oversee fromthe din- onthe blood to wall; see Iwant to there Idon’t with dudes, these want When you’respoiler alert! sitting tive tissue. And Iwant to give Sony with the Sony NFL; noconnec- has and [Universal] both have affiliations noaffiliationwithhas theNFL. Fox movie we because were atSony. Sony that they couldputto modifythe to modifyyourmovie? Will, didtheNFLputpressure onyou It’s going to beeaten alive. like ahunk ofbreadinakoi pond. it’swise justgoing to be picked apart have to getthat story right, other- and the stakes arevery high. You being afather sometimes. talking aboutreal pe he plays in [journalist Mike whom Rezendes, for meto goandmilkhim. and Ijustfelt like itwas awrong idea and Ihad tons offootage ofhim, Italked So to alotofhiscolleagues, ing something completely different. Andthe moviescapegoated. was say- about those events, that hewas feels He dishonest. was very vocal and say that you’re abadguy,” but I’m going to gomake amovie you have oneversion ofevents, andthenin prison say, “Hey, Iknow 40 years. Butto goandvisitaguy Mass real-life character heplays in with to access John Connolly [the FOR EXCLUSIVE VIDEO OFTHEACTORS TALKING ABOUT THEIRCHARACTERSANDMEETINGTHEREAL PEOPLETHEYPLAY, GOTO THR.COM ORTHR.C ]. John isinfederal for prison No. Therewasn’t realpressure I’ve felt like that. I’ve never heard that one That’s how Ifeel about Ispent alotoftimewith Well, Iknew that Denis Yeah, yeah. Ihad abitofproblem Laughter Spotlight Sicario .) Oh,I’m sorry, ,] because we’re,] because ople’s li ? aracter. ves, Sicario Black . SMITH that Ireally believe in. Americais American values, anditwas things an immigrant, itwas astory about movie. [But]itwas astory about was doing the “football isnotgood” I wanted to dowas bethe guy who loved it,Iloved it.Andthe thing last ball player for four years —andI role because you’re afootballdad? Were youconﬂicted abouttakingthe have to sueus.” Sony saying: “Just it.They’ll use all ofthat, anditcamedown to real footage, we the NFLlogo, used we their also, because props, used “ We’re talking aboutreal life/after/denim jacket, Albiate shirt Mark Ruffalo be eaten alive.” in akoi pond.It’s going to like ahunkapart ofbread it’s justgoing to bepicked that story right, otherwise journalist. “You have to get actor aboutplaying aliving are very high,” says the people’s lives, andthe stakes Ohyeah. My was son afoot- CAINE Michael, do you agree with that? Michael, doyouagree withthat? global [impact]. me andallowing them to have a is producing that people like look exist. No other country onEarth the that only placeonEarth Icould you were growing up was the same what your experience was when had working-class people. Andso We didn’t have we blackpeople; Iwas the actor.I started, “black” ofhiscolor.back because When sake, he’s so notexactly squashed could beJamesfor Bond, Pete’s bit behind[inEngland]. Idris Elba We’reAlmost. alittle OM/IPAD. But Ihave definitely One of felt it. there’s prejudice, and it’s evolving. of the United you States, know that the history. Ifyou read the history DEL TORO Has prejudice aﬀectedyourcareers? I lived through it. stand your very position well because blacksinEngland, Iunder-so first always thatsaid Cockneys were the talked what we AndI call“posh.” the working Everybody class. theater never didanything about oftiming.but because English ofanybecause talent onmy part, for me.not My started, career Allyou’ve gotto doisread of the stuff I read yesterday — I actually posted a thing, “praying for Paris.” People went berserk. I couldn’t believe what some of those people were saying. Just hateful stuff about “the Parisians deserved it.” It’s just horrid.

Can you as actors do anything to combat that? JACKSON No. SMITH As actors we have the ultimate power. Historically, story combined with imagery moves humanity forward. What we do — not that it’s a responsibility, but it is the ultimate forum for changing people’s hearts and minds. So when I’m choosing a movie, I understand the global power of being able to send imagery around the world. A large part of the way that America is viewed globally is from the historical imagery that we have sent around the world through cinema. Any time I put something in the world, I am always connecting to an idea. I’m always asking, “Why am I making this?” With Concussion, Dr. Bennet Omalu was deeply connected to tell the truth. And he said that truth doesn’t have a side. I thought that was such a powerful idea. Whose side are you on? Are you a Republican or a Democrat? I’m just trying to tell the truth. The truth doesn’t have a side.

Would you have felt diﬀerently if you hadn’t been famous actors? CAINE I should have been a fish- market porter because for 300 years, that’s what my family had been. My mother was a cleaner, “I was down in Miami Beach that woman you see in a hotel who with Jack Nicholson, and he got a script, and he said, comes in after you go out. ‘Do it with me.’ And so I did

it. And he brought me out of MENT. this ‘slough of despond,’ as they say. I don’t get the girl; I What would you have done if you had get the part now,” says Caine not been an actor? about getting older. CAINE I would probably have tried to Michael Caine be an architect. I loved architecture, and my heroes are architects. I would the first things that they said to “prejudice” versus “racism.” And the times I have come in have been some kind of dumbass me when I came here was, “Change Everybody is prejudiced. Everybody contact with it, you get away from in the back room at some great archi- your name.” has their life experiences that make those people. tect’s office or something just to be CAINE I changed mine. But mine them prefer one thing over another close to my idols. was Maurice Micklewhite, which — it makes them prefer blond hair Have you come in contact with it? DEL TORO One thing I was doing was awkward. over a brunette; if you see somebody SMITH Oh, God, yes. Yeah, right before I turned to acting was DEL TORO Maybe that’s one of the with dark skin walking down the absolutely. painting. biggest mistakes I’ve ever done, not street, you have a different reaction EDGERTON When you’re faced CAINE Real painting or walls? changing my name. than you have [with] someone with it, too, with social media, like DEL TORO Well, I did some of that, RUFFALO No, you’ve got a great who is 5-foot-1 and white. But there what happened recently with too. (Laughter.) Painting on canvas. name, man. is a connotation with racism of Michael B. Jordan in Fantastic Four Imagery. But I wasn’t that good. If CAINE When they say your name, superiority: You feel that your race [who played a character who is you liked mud, I was your man. But they think you speak like a Mexican generally is superior. And I have white in the comic] — people actively I would have tried hard to be good. or Spanish. to say, I live with constant prejudice, being racist, making those sort EDGERTON I was almost going to go to DEL TORO Which I do. (Laughter.) but racism is actually rare — some- of comments about Star Wars [cast- art school. I still paint, and I do it SMITH My wife and I were just one who thinks their race is superior. ing a black star]. Some of it is very, as a personal thing. The thing with having this conversation, and we I don’t want to work for them. I very alarming. me was, my father had started very

were going to the dictionary for don’t want to work at that company. JACKSON It’s quite alarming. Some CONTINUED ON PAGE 69 CAINE GROOMING BY KERRIE URBAN EXCLUSIVE AT ARTISTS MANAGEMENT, JACKSON GROOMING BY AUTUMN MOULTRIE EXCLUSIVE AT ARTISTS MANAGE

54 | THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER | 12.04.15 “ I’m constantly evolving. I’ve grown as an actor. I’m getting older, I’m a little less patient with people. I speak my mind a lot more than I used to ’cause I used to think I’d get fired, and now I know I’m not.” Samuel L. Jackson ANIMATION

It’s a rumble in the playground with the popular kid (Pixar) competing against itself for the first time with two contenders, the comeback kid (DreamWorks Animation) scoring a hit with Home and the new student (Peanuts) suddenly popular BY CAROLYN GIARDINA

IXAR’S BACK IN Pixar’s movies have been nominated, debut of Pixar vet Peter Sohn, THE PEANUTS GALLERY the game. After a two- and seven have won. But the John who turned out the 2009 short When it comes to popular charac- year absence from Lasseter-led studio didn’t release a Partly Cloudy. ters, The Peanuts Movie, from Fox and the animated feature film during 2014, and its 2013 release, Blue Sky Studios (the makers of Ice Pcategory, Pixar Cars 2, failed to make the cut. This AARDMAN’S ANIMAL Age), is full of them. Director Steve Animation Studios year, though, the imaginative Inside The U.K.’s Aardman Animations, Martino brings Charles M. Schulz’s returns to the Oscar arena with Out — directed by Oscar-winning the world’s most lauded stop- wise-beyond-their-years kids to life in two original CG films: its wildly suc- Up helmer Pete Docter — already is motion animation studio, also has the 3D computer-animated film cessful Inside Out and The Good considered a front-runner. A box- a strong track record at the Oscars, that has the look and feel of the ven- Dinosaur, which opens Nov. 25. But office hit ($851 million worldwide) with five wins — four in the ani- erable comic strip. After just two there’s an eclectic group of com- and critical darling, Inside Out mated short competition and one weeks of release, the $100 million petitors among the 16 submissions goes inside a young girl’s head, where for a theatrical feature. One of its movie has crossed the $100 mil- that should give the Disney divi- five different emotions compete for Oscar-winning shorts, 1995’s A Close lion mark at the worldwide box office. sion a run for its money. Among them control of the 11-year-old. Shave, featuring its trademark are a 3D version of the iconic The Good Dinosaur — which Pixar team of Wallace and Gromit, was the MORE MINIONS Peanuts comic strip, a typically askew pulled back from its original 2014 project that introduced Shaun the Speaking of box-office breakouts, Charlie Kaufman-penned stop- release date in order to retool the Sheep, the hero of this year’s Shaun Universal’s release of Illumination motion dark comedy and even the story — follows young dinosaur Arlo, the Sheep Movie. Co-directors and Entertainment’s Minions tops this globally recognized Shaun, the who is lost in the wild and forms a co-writers Mark Burton and Richard year’s list. Directed by Pierre Coffin adventurous sheep from Aardman bond with a grunting boy, Spot. It’s a Starzak sent the Chaplin-esque and Kyle Balda and featuring a voice Animations’ stable. sort of boy-and-his-dog role reversal. Shaun, Blitzer the sheepdog, the cast that includes Sandra Bullock, It also features gorgeous land- Farmer and his flock on a trip to Jon Hamm, Michael Keaton, Allison PIXAR’S PICS scapes inspired by research trips to the Big City. Produced on a budget Janney and Coffin as those gibber- Since the animated feature category Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. of $20 million, the movie has topped ing minions, the movie has siphoned was introduced in 2001, most of And it marks the feature directing $100 million worldwide. up $1.15 billion worldwide.

1. Home’s purple- colored Oh. 2. Joy and Sadness in Inside Out. 3. Snoopy takes ﬂight 1 in The Peanuts Movie. 4. Almitra in Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet.

2 LITTLE FEATS 20 contenders on the Academy’s short-film shortlists DWA’S HOME PLAY a trio of films from indie distributor AN ADULT ALTERNATIVE Sanjay’s Super Team Earlier in the year, DreamWorks GKids, which crashed the Oscar race If the animation branch is look- Animation’s Home, Tim Johnson’s last season when two of its movies — ing for something different, it need computer-animated tale about The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (from look no further than Anomalisa, a the unlikely friendship between a Japan-based Studio Ghibli) and stop-motion tale of alienation writ- young girl (Rihanna) and the mis- Song of the Sea (Ireland’s Cartoon ten by Oscar winner Kaufman fit alien Oh (Jim Parsons), attracted Saloon) — earned nominations, in (Being John Malkovich) and directed $386 million worldwide. And Sony the process denying a nom for by Kaufman and Duke Johnson. ANIMATED SHORTS Pictures Animation’s release of direc- what had been the presumed front- Featuring the voices of Jennifer Jason tor Genndy Tartakovsky’s CG runner, The Lego Movie. Since 2009, Leigh, Tom Noonan and David BEAR STORY AN OBJECT sequel Hotel Transylvania 2 has col- GKids has scored six animated fea- Thewlis, the Starburns Industries (Historia AT REST lected more than $420 million to ture Oscar nominations — second and Snoot Entertainment produc- De Un Oso) director director Seth Boyden date. Reprising the original’s Looney only to Disney during that period. tion was picked up by Paramount in Gabriel Osorio Tunes-like animation style, the This year’s GKids lineup includes September and is scheduled for a

: PROLOGUE sequel finds Dracula growing anxious producer Salma Hayek’s passion proj- Dec. 30 limited release. The R-rated CARFACE director MINIONS when his half-human grandson ect, Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet, movie’s protagonist is Michael Stone, (Autos Portraits) Richard doesn’t show vampiric traits. Adam based on the collection of philosophi- a husband, father and respected director Williams Claude Cloutier Sandler, Andy Samberg and Selena cal poems by the Lebanese author. self-help author who is crippled by SANJAY’S

: COURTESY OF GKIDS. Gomez are among the returning voice Directed by Roger Allers (The Lion the mundanity of his life. IF I WAS GOD … SUPER TEAM : COURTESY OF DREAMWORKS OF COURTESY : castmembers. King), the film serves up both a director director MARNIE HOME , Other films that brought famil- framing story about a mischievous FOREIGN FLICKS Cordell Barker Sanjay Patel PROPHET

: COURTESY OF GI FILM FESTIVAL. iar characters to the big screen are girl and eight of Gibran’s poems, each Rounding out the field are such LOVE IN THE WE CAN’T DAY Paramount’s The SpongeBob Movie: animated with a distinctly unique foreign-produced submissions as TIME OF MARCH LIVE WITHOUT Sponge Out of Water, a 3D animation/ look by a different animation direc- Japan’s The Boy and the Beast from MADNESS COSMOS live-action comedy directed by tor — among them, Academy Award writer-director Mamoru Hosoda; directors director Paul Tibbit and Mike Mitchell that is nominees Tomm Moore of Ireland Finland and France’s Moomins Melissa Johnson Konstantin : COURTESY OF DISNEY WALT PICTURES. based on the Nickelodeon TV series (Song of the Sea, The Secret of Kells) on the Riviera, a hand-drawn effort and Robertino Bronzit Zambrano SANJAY’S , and serves as a follow-up to 2004’s and Bill Plympton of the U.S. (Your based on Tove and Lars Jansson’s WORLD OF SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, and Face, Guard Dog). comic strips and directed by Xavier MY HOME TOMORROW : COURTESY OF SONY PICTURES ANIMATION. DINOSAUR , J.Q. Quintel’s Regular Show: The GKids also is handling distribu- Picard and Hanna Hemila; and director director HOTEL INSIDE Movie, an animated sci-fi film based tion for Hiromasa Yonebayashi’s Japan’s The Laws of the Universe — Phuong Mai Nguyen Don Hertzfeldt on the Cartoon Network original When Marnie Was There, which, like Part 0, an anime sci-fi story directed : COURTESY OF TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX & PEANUTS WORLDWIDE LLC. series Regular Show. Princess Kaguya, was created by by Isamu Imakake and written by Day One

PEANUTS Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli, and Ryuhu Okawa, founder of the con-

: COURTESY OF LIONSGATE. GKIDS’ INDIE OFFERINGS The Boy and the World from Brazilian troversial Happy Science religious

SHAUN ANIMATION. PICTURES. UNIVERSAL OF COURTESY Voters also will be closely watching artist Ale Abreu. group.

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AVE MARIA EVERYTHING 5. Assorted minions in Minions. 8 director WILL BE OKAY 5 6. When Marnie Was Basil Khalil (ALLES There’s Marnie. 7. Spot rides Arlo in The WIRD GUT) Good Dinosaur. BAD HUNTER director 8. The Mummy in Hotel director Patrick Vollrath Transylvania 2. Sahim Omar Kalifa THE FREE MAN BIS GLEICH (ZI YOU REN) (TILL THEN) director producer Quah Boon-Lip Philippe Brenninkmeyer SHOK director 7 CONTRAPELO Jamie (AGAINST Donoughue THE GRAIN) director STUTTERER Gareth director Dunnet-Alcocer Benjamin Cleary

DAY ONE WINTER LIGHT director director 6 Henry Hughes Julian Higgins PRODUCTION & COSTUME DESIGN

HOW TO MAKE ANY MOVIE FEEL LIKE CINDERELLA Rebuild the Berlin Wall for Bridge of Spies? Restage the iMac’s debut for Steve Jobs? No sweat for production designers used to finding ingenious solutions for the impossible BY CAROLYN GIARDINA Ethan Tobman, Dante Ferretti, Production Designer Production Designer CINDERELLA ROOM Disney A24 “The palace had to be magical, so I looked at a lot of “Room” is a 10-by-10-foot shed French architecture, like the Louvre, the Palais Garnier where Ma (Brie Larson) and and the Palace of Versailles, which all had these great her 5-year-old son, Jack (Jake long staircases. So we started with the stairs, and then Tremblay), are held by a created everything from there, like the main entrance kidnapper. Production designer with its big arch and the fountains inside,” says produc- Tobman started the project tion designer Ferretti. For the iconic ballroom scene, a by researching captivity — every- 30-foot-high set was built on the 007 stage at Pinewood thing from solitary confinement Studios in the U.K., with an additional 60- to 70-foot to concentration camps. “The digital-set extension. “Then we added our own touches, first thing we were looking at like the frescoes, the sconces and all of the set dec- was texture. In solitary confine- oration, which included 5,000 oil candles that had to be ment, you find scratches on lit by hand and 17 enormous chandeliers,” says Ferretti. the walls that convey time and “For the chandeliers, which adorn the corridor leading into the ballroom and the ballroom itself, set decorator Francesca Lo Schiavo wanted to make sure they were over the top, so we had them custom-made in Venice, and they are works of art themselves.”

Mark Ricker, Production Designer TRUMBO Bleecker Street

A scene in Trumbo, a biographical drama about Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston), takes place on the set of a black-and-white Edward G. Robinson gangster movie, and the set was built in a New Orleans warehouse. After production designer Ricker researched gangster films of the period, he created a New York alley, circa the 1930s, “with cobblestones, brick, fire escapes, single lampposts. It was a wharf on the edge of New York, so we found an old photograph of the Brooklyn Bridge that we made for the backdrop. We gave it as much texture as we could get because we saw it in both black-and-white and color; we see the film as it’s produced and then on a TV.” Adds Ricker: anxiety. If there were children, we “Because of budget restrictions, I designed it in a way so that all saw evidence of children doing the scenery would be recycled into a prison wall. We also shot art projects with found objects the scene of the filming of Spartacus using the back of the scenery. as methods of expression.” But Francois Seguin, Production Designer It was literally designed as a puzzle piece that would come while Ma and Jack are prisoners, BROOKLYN apart, turn upside down and be reoriented into something else.” “Room is warm and full of love Fox Searchlight to Jack because that’s all he’s ever known, so he feels comfort- When Irish immigrant Eilis (Saoirse Ronan) able and safe. From Ma’s comes to New York during the 1950s, her first perspective, you feel a sense of job is in a department store, which was a set claustrophobia.” For its spare built on location at the Saint-Sulpice Library in furnishings, “We shopped at low- Montreal. “It was a big set. We wanted it to look income stores and followed like a big movie without it being a big movie,” a budget.” Then there were the says production designer Seguin, noting that practical elements of the set, the library was vacant and pillars and other such design elements were added, though there were some which was built like a Rubik’s restrictions on how much they could change the room since it has to be preserved as a landmark. Cube, according to the designer, “One of the challenges was that, in the script, there are changes of season, Christmas or summer, so we with modular tiles that could had to change the dressing of the store. We have 46 to 50 mannequin dresses for the different sea- be removed to make room for the sons.” The setting also was designed to show that Eilis was fulfilling the American dream. In contrast crew while still creating intimacy with the tiny shop where she was employed in Ireland, “now she’s in the big world. I wanted to say for the actors. that she arrived in the big city and is going to make it.”

58 | THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER | 12.04.15 Adam Stockhausen, Production Designer BRIDGE OF SPIES DreamWorks/Disney

Steven Spielberg wanted to shoot as much of the Cold War drama on location as possible, and for production designer Stockhausen, finding the right 123 location for the Berlin Wall scenes was particularly tough. “We were scouting in Berlin, and we weren’t finding it; we’d find bits and pieces but not 45 Costumes for enough for a big sequence — until we went to Wroclaw, Poland,” says Stockhausen. Originally a German town, Wroclaw became part of Poland after World War II. “We use it for when Pryor (Will Rogers) goes across the wall and is unable to return, and we redressed it for Jennifer Lawrence?! the scene when Tom Hanks crosses the wall and also for Checkpoint From fantasy ball gowns to ‘vibrantly abnormal things,’ Charlie.” The wall itself was made from wood, foam and blocks that film’s inventive fairy godparents created were a mortar mix with insulation product as well as razor wire. Adds Stockhausen, “There were some contemporary structures [in the vicin- memorable looks for a wild range of characters ity], so we built some facades to cover what would have stood out.” BY CATHY WHITLOCK

HAT IS THE WORLD clothes to express her determi- 1. Powell’s sketch they inhabit?” That’s the for Cinderella’s fairy nation,” says costume designer Guy Hendrix Dyas, Production Designer W godmother (Helena STEVE JOBS question director Todd Bonham Carter, Michael Wilkinson: “quietly rebel- who suggested the Universal Haynes posed to his third-time col- wings that were lious jeans and T-shirts, a wedding laborator Sandy Powell as she added to this gown). dress, expensive tailor-made suits 2. Wilkinson’s vision The stage used for the movie’s third and final act — the iMac launch developed the costumes for Carol, his for a toughened- and a tough, intimidating leather in 1998 — is in the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, up Joy (Lawrence). postwar lesbian love story. To find 3. jacket and sunglasses.” Intimidating the location that Apple’s founder actually used for his NeXT Computer Carol’s structured, the answer, Powell drew on the 1940s ladylike looks also is an apt word for Merchant/ launch, which comprises the film’s second act. Explains production announce her wealth designer Hendrix Dyas: “The San Francisco Opera House was actually and ’50s street images of Manhattan and privilege. Ivory alum Jenny Beavan’s cos- 4. Saoirse Ronan’s best for the NeXT launch because it was a more traditional and clas- photojournalists Ruth Orkin and Brooklyn character’s tumes for the post-apocalyptic Mad sic theater setting, and this felt like a revenge act.” By contrast, “The green cardigan Vivian Maier, as well as magazines is a nod to her native Max: Fury Road. “I loved the free- Davies really screams modernity as it was in the ’90s,” he adds. “Parts from the period, for the title char- Ireland. dom of creating vibrantly abnormal of the design recalled the iMac and its transparent backs. In some way, the Davies reflected the feeling of the product and the time frame.” To acter’s high-fashion looks. Maier’s things,” says the nine-time nominee. : JAAP prepare the stage, a screen photos also were a source of inspiration for Imagining a more ethereal world for SPIES that would have been Odile Dicks-Mireaux’s work on Brooklyn, Kenneth Branagh’s Cinderella was a two-year used in 1998 was put up. which captures the elegance and conserva- design process for Powell, who created nine “We also needed to tism of the era through waist-cinching A-line different versions of Cinderella’s iconic lilac- remove updated technol- dresses, three-quarter-sleeve cardigans and blue ball gown, requiring more than 270

: COURTESY OF DISNEY (2). (2). DISNEY OF COURTESY : ogy that wouldn’t have been there in 1998 — digi- slim suits. “There was so much craftsmanship yards of fabric, three miles of hem and more : WILSON WEBB/THE WEINSTEIN CO. tal features and control and invention in the 1950s,” says Dicks- than 10,000 Swarovski crystals. “I wanted CINDERELLA CAROL panels,” says the designer. Mireaux, who also looked to Woody Allen’s it to look like a watercolor painting,” she says. documentary on his own Brooklyn youth Kate Hawley, who wardrobed a darker fairy for couture cues. A third mid-20th cen- tale in Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak, Judy Becker, Production Designer tury contender, Bridge of Spies, evokes the also was inspired by art — a Klimt paint-

: GEORGE KRAYCHYK/A24. KRAYCHYK/A24. GEORGE : CAROL The Weinstein Co. style of Jackie Kennedy for Amy Ryan’s ing — for Mia Wasikowska’s character’s ROOM character — a brilliant green coat and delicate “Heartbreak Dress,” while

: MICHAEL WILKINSON/COURTESY OF FOX. Shopgirl Therese (Rooney Mara) works in the toy department of a strand of pearls in one scene — and Jessica Chastain’s costumes were JOY Manhattan store in 1952, and that set was built in a now-closed dresses Tom Hanks in suits tailored designed to echo the angular Cincinnati department store. Explains production designer Becker: to the era. “They were constructed architecture of the film’s gothic set. “I looked at a lot of toy departments from the ’50s and earlier for reference. We didn’t want it to be too fancy — FAO Schwarz — more in an older tradition, with a different Also building buzz in the cos- middle-of-the-road, Lovers and Lollipops in 1956.” She adds that the body shape, a different sleeve and tume category are Jane Petrie for : COURTESY OF FOX SEARCHLIGHT (3). selected color palette was “appropriate to 1952 — a lot of dirty pinks, a thicker weave in the fabric,” says wardrobing British suffrage activ- mauves, yellowed greens. I wanted to avoid the traditional pink and BROOKLYN designer Kasia Walicka-Maimone. ists in Suffragette, Paco Delgado blue. I also wanted the feel of being a little worn on the edges. New The true story of Joy Mangano, 4 for his part in Eddie Redmayne’s : FRANCOIS DUHAMEL/UNIVERSAL PICTURES. PICTURES. DUHAMEL/UNIVERSAL FRANCOIS : York was coming out of the JOBS postwar and not yet into the inventor of the Miracle Mop, starts gender transformation in The sunny Eisenhower years in the ’60s and spans three decades Danish Girl, South Dakota native of the ’50s. Most of the dolls — with Joy star Jennifer Lawrence Jacqueline West’s work on snowy were vintage and refurbished undergoing 45 costume changes Western The Revenant and Daniel to look new; we also used during her evolution from strug- Orlandi’s vivid re-creations some contemporary toys that looked period. We repainted gling mom to mogul “as she of Old Hollywood glamour (plus : COURTESY OF OBSCURED PICTURES. them and designed and finds different ways of using her some prison grit) for Trumbo. BUITENDIJK/DREAMWORKS 2000 PICTURES/FOX PICTURES. TRUMBO manufactured the toy boxes.”

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Extinction features two songs penned by 2013 nominee J. Ralph: TOP 40 AND THE TROPHY “One Candle,” written and performed with Sia, and “Manta Ray,” written and performed with DON’T MIX … UNTIL NOW Antony Hegarty. Wiz Khalifa’s triple-platinum ‘See You Again’ and an anti-rape Leon Bridges’ gospel-oriented R&B track “So Long” concludes song by Gaga might put pop music back on the Dolby stage Concussion, a drama about the doc- BY MELINDA NEWMAN tor who linked pro football with debilitating brain injuries. “Though here was a time when best That could change this year with by Sumi Jo in Youth, which stars no one is ever going to be able to Toriginal song contenders Furious 7’s triple-platinum “See Michael Caine as a retired orches- write a song as good as [Sam easily took up residence on You Again,” performed by rapper tra conductor. Cooke’s] ‘A Change Is Gonna Come,’ top 40 radio: 1977’s “You Light Up Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth, Issue-oriented films also offer reso- I was inspired by that,” says Bridges. My Life” (from the film of the same which spent 12 weeks atop the nant contenders: “Til It Happens And the fight for equality for same- name) was one of five Academy Billboard Hot 100. And two other to You,” written by seven-time nomi- sex couples motivated “Hands of honorees from the decade to top the candidates also had strong Hot 100 nee Diane Warren and Lady Gaga Love,” the end-title track to Freeheld, Billboard Hot 100, and seven more showings this year: The Weeknd’s and performed by Gaga, is the coda performed by Miley Cyrus and Oscar recipients reached No. 1 in the “Earned It” and Ellie Goulding’s to college sexual assault documen- written by Linda Perry, who wrote ’80s. But Eminem’s “Lose Yourself,” “Love Me Like You Do” — both from tary The Hunting Ground. “Before I the song within an hour of seeing from 2002’s 8 Mile, was the last Fifty Shades of Grey — each peaked saw any footage, I heard about these a rough cut of the film. Oscar winner to top the charts. And at No. 3 on the chart. (A third Fifty stories, and I was like ‘Holy shit, I Brian Wilson’s descent into and the 2014 champ, John Legend and Shades contender, Sia’s “Salted have to be involved,’ ” says Warren, escape from mental illness are Common’s “Glory” from Selma, Wound,” didn’t chart). who adds that she hears from abuse chronicled in the biopic Love & halted at No. 49, further evidence Generating buzz on the other end survivors almost daily about the Mercy, which includes — along with of an amicable separation in of the musical spectrum is the decep- song’s impact. “I don’t think I’ve ever Beach Boys hits — “One Kind of recent years between radio play tively named “Simple Song #3,” a had a song that’s had this kind of Love,” co-written by Wilson (with and the Oscars. stunning operatic track performed power.” Fellow documentary Racing Scott Bennett) about wife Melinda.

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Johnny Joel Harlow, Makeup Department Head Lesley Vanderwalt, Dave Elsey, Hair and Makeup Designer Gloria Casny, Hair Department Head Hair and Makeup Designer MR. HOLMES BLACK MASS MAD MAX Roadside Attractions Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Depp Ian McKellen, 76, plays Sherlock Holmes As James “Whitey” Bulger, Johnny Depp Nicholas Hoult portrays Nux, a war boy from at two ages decades apart: 63 and 93. “In needed a receding hairline. Casny says the Citadel. Vanderwalt says such boys profile, I wanted the ‘hawk-like’ classic sil- Menacing the look was created by punching individual “are not well educated. They live to fight for houette, so we used a prosthetic on the hairs into a silicone prosthetic — a pro- their warlord.” To reflect this, “Nux’s face bridge and tip of his nose to sharpen it,” says Setting vanity aside, leading cess that took 22 hours (40 were made was skull-like with scars on his cheekbones. Elsey. For age 93, Elsey also used an old- men like Eddie Redmayne because they’re not reusable). Harlow And they are covered in white paint to age stipple on McKellen’s face. “Ian and I and the star of Black Mass adds that Depp’s look also included a pros- emulate their leader. His body is white with worked out a series of moves and facial thetic nose and forehead and contact black eyes. And he had tumor growths expressions to maximize the wrinkles we disappeared thanks to lenses: Bulger “had piercing blue eyes, and on his neck.” Vanderwalt adds that as Nux could get. I also added sun-damage detail, hair and makeup that’s what Johnny wanted,” even though falls in love, “I gradually reduced the inten- as this is a more relaxed Holmes who spends BY CAROLYN GIARDINA it meant two hours each day getting ready. sity of his makeup, softening it.” time in his garden.”

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Though Jonathan Demme’s tale of a washed-up rocker, Ricki and the Flash, didn’t perform at the box office, the Academy may look favorably on the movie’s one original tune, “Cold One,” written by Johnathan Rice and Jenny Lewis and performed at a pivotal “ MAGGIE SMITH IS point in the film by Meryl Streep. SPECTACULAR. THE KIND The Hateful Eight The 33 If voters are looking to the OF TOTAL DELIGHT SO lighter side, Pitch Perfect 2’s sweet RARE IN MOVIES TODAY.” -Rex Reed, NEW YORK OBSERVER “Flashlight” fits the bill, as do the bouncy “Feels Like Summer” “ ACTING LEGEND from Shaun the Sheep Movie, MAGGIE SMITH’S Meghan Trainor’s lilting “Better TOUR DE FORCE AS A When I’m Dancin’ ” from The CANTANKEROUS OLD Peanuts Movie and Keegan DeWitt’s BRITISH BAG LADY.” gentle, ukulele-based “I’ll See -Lou Lumenick, NEW YORK POST You in My Dreams,” from the indie ill the Force be with John Williams once again come Oscar time? film of the same name. Should the maestro’s score for Star Wars: The Force Awakens land “ MAGGIE SMITH IS SUPERB.” W -Catherine Shoard, THE GUARDIAN an Academy Award nomination, it will be his 50th overall and his It’s never wise to count out 007, so expect Spectre’s “Writing’s fourth go-round in the category for Star Wars material. But some early specula- “ DAME MAGGIE DELIVERS AN on the Wall,” performed by Sam tion about the film’s music centers on how heavily it relies on Williams’ original AWARD-WORTHY TURN. Smith and penned by Smith and Star Wars score (for which he won his third of five Oscars): Audiences likely will THE 80 YEAR OLD ACTRESS Jimmy Napes, to be a contender. love a recognizable sound for Episode VII, but the Academy’s music DOESN’T DISAPPOINT.” branch could frown on too much of a good, overly familiar thing Several Bond themes have been - Frank Scheck, nominated over the years, but — possibly disqualifying the score for relying on preexisting music. THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER Adele’s “Skyfall” is the only one In another interesting plot twist, potentially spoiling Williams’ to take home the trophy. trip to the winner’s circle is Thomas Newman, who stepped in to Newman score Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies when Williams, 83, had to bow out for since-resolved medical issues. With 11 previous best score noms, Newman has the dubious distinction of most nominations in the category without a win, but his elegant, somber score for the Cold War-set drama could remedy that. Morricone Incredibly, renowned composer Ennio Morricone also is looking for his first Oscar in the category (he received an honorary award in 2007) for his work on Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, his BEST ACTRESS first full Western score in 40 years. Horner Maggie Smith The reigning champ, prolific Alexandre Desplat (he won last year Jan Sewell, Hair and Makeup Designer for scoring The Grand Budapest Hotel), again is a strong contender for The Danish THE DANISH GIRL Girl and Suffragette, with his delicate work for the former more likely to get him Focus Features a nomination. THE Though totally worthy on their own merits, both Harry Gregson-Williams’ Reteaming with Eddie Redmayne — who wide-ranging score for The Martian and Howard Shore’s subtle, tension-filled plays transgender pioneer Lili Elbe — work for Spotlight also could benefit from their films’ front-runner status. after working with him on The Theory of LADY Everything, Sewell says the two “talked Among the other contenders are Johann Johannsson for his often pulsating, about feminization of someone who is tran- dark score for Sicario, the previously un-nominated Carter Burwell for his lush IN THE sitioning.” Their research convinced them work on Carol, Ryuichi Sakamoto for The Revenant (potentially along with Alva Lili “would overfeminize in the beginning, so Noto) and — although he may be hurt by the movie’s poor performance at we gave Eddie access to wigs” and gradu- the box office and its uneven reception among critics — Daniel Pemberton, who ally reduced the amount of makeup. They VAN realized that Eddie’s skin tone matched Lili’s pulled off an admirable hat trick on Steve Jobs by giving each of the film’s three in the original paintings by her wife, Gerda. acts its own distinct score. The late James Horner, who earned eight best score “And the iconic red wig was born.” nominations and one win (for Titanic), also could receive his final nomination for his work on The 33.

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N EARLY SUMMER 2014, PRODUCTION perfection to the simplicity of the environ- designer Arthur Max placed two pho- ment. There’s no vegetation. It’s crisp tographs on a table in Ridley Scott’s and magnificent. I knew it was the one ILos Angeles office. Both looked much place to do a strange planet.” the same, revealing vast, desolate, This particular strange planet has been reddish-coppery landscapes that seemed done by Hollywood before. Val Kilmer equally hostile to human life. One pic- landed on it in Red Planet, as did Don ture was of Wadi Rum, the high desert in Cheadle in Brian De Palma’s Mission southern Jordan. The other, shot by the to Mars, while Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Curiosity Rover, showed an even more head almost exploded on its airless sur- remote location. face in Total Recall. But this time, with “Which one is Mars?” asked the director. The Martian, one of Hollywood’s most “Exactly,” answered Max. successful sci-fi auteurs set out to create And that’s how The Martian, Scott’s the most scientifically realistic, visu- $108 million sci-fi drama (or comedy, if ally accurate replica of the planet ever put you’re a voting member of the Hollywood on film. “I wanted to get it right,” he Foreign Press Association), starring tells THR. “The way Stanley got it right Matt Damon as an astronaut marooned on 2001.” Yes, as in Kubrick. on Mars, ended up shooting its third act The film’s authenticity is likely one on the location that Omar Sharif described of the reasons it’s performed so well, as “the sun’s anvil” in Lawrence of Arabia. earning nearly $500 million as of Nov. 20, “I’d gone to Jordan before, when I making it the biggest hit of Scott’s career. was making G.I. Jane,” says Scott, 77. “In But that verisimilitude required more than summer, it’s 120 degrees. But there’s a just shooting at inhospitable locations

62 | THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER | 12.04.15 in the desert; it also meant building true- “It was more difficult doing this 1. Damon on the desert set in Jordan. to-life Martian landscapes inside Earth’s movie,” says Max, half-joking, “than “Sometimes the oxygen tube would largest soundstage — located in the actually going to Mars.” ﬂop out of the back of the helmet and suburbs of Budapest — and trucking in you would suddenly thousands of pounds of red-tinted DAMON’S JOURNEY TO MARS BEGAN become aware that you couldn’t breathe,” sand and rocks. It meant putting the cast with a blog. In 2009, an ex-AOL program- says the actor. “I don’t think anyone into 80-pound space suits so realisti- mer named Andy Weir began posting escaped that ugly experience.” cally designed, the actors needed oxygen chapters on his website of a novel he was 2. Damon in his Mars pumped into their helmets in order to writing about an astronaut left behind habitat, or “hab.” 3. “Over the years, I breathe. “Sometimes the air supply would during a mission to the planet. The blog got pretty good at casting,” says Scott, get shut off if you turned a certain way,” kept going for three years, with Weir who spent years making ads before notes Jessica Chastain, who plays one of adding more and more research on what, moving into directing Damon’s fellow astronauts (along with features. “I was scientifically speaking, living on Mars never trained in drama Kate Mara, Sebastian Stan, Aksel Hennie really would be like. Eventually, the book school and was very nervous about actors. and Michael Pena; Jeff Daniels, Kristen drew a small following, and Weir got I didn’t understand their language.” Wiig, Donald Glover and Chiwetel Ejiofor requests to put it on Amazon. He did, sell- 4. Damon in his space suit. play members of the ground crew). And ing it for 99 cents a copy. Within six 5. From left: Damon if all that weren’t difficult enough, it was months, he’d sold 35,000 copies. Within and fellow astronauts Chastain, Stan, impossible to find potatoes in Budapest another year, Crown Publishing had put Mara and Hennie. “I really used this ﬁlm during the winter. Those space spuds that it out as a hardcover (which spent 55 weeks as an opportunity to geek out as much Damon’s character grows in his Martian on the best-seller list). as I could,” says greenhouse? They had to be cultivated in But in early 2013, while The Martian Chastain. a special high-tech hothouse on the set. was still a cult e-book, a young producer named Aditya Sood downloaded a copy and shared it with his boss, Simon Kinberg, a producer on X-Men and a creative con- sultant on Star Wars: The Force Awakens. “A studio’s fear is always that science fiction will be cold and alienating,” says Sood. “But this was a real character story.” The producers took the e-book to Fox, where Kinberg’s Genre Films is based, and convinced the studio to make Weir’s story into a movie. They hired Drew Goddard — who previously had penned Cloverfield — to write and direct. In October 2013 Goddard submitted his first draft, which Kinberg rush-delivered to Damon (the 12 two had worked together on Elysium). The actor, who had just finished being res- cued from an alien planet in Interstellar, loved what he read. Just as important, he had an opening before he started shooting his next Bourne movie in September 2015. He signed on as The Martian’s star in April 2014. Then, a snafu. Goddard, a comic book fanatic, got another offer — the Spider-Man spinoff Sinister Six — and left The Martian just as Damon was coming aboard. With the clock ticking before Damon’s window closed, Fox executive vp production Steve Asbell hurried a script

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care much about N. DAMON: GILES KEYTE/TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORPORATION. ing fun with it like a companion,” explains tume loosely based on the Zed models. it. Scientiﬁc post, since the only CGI in the film — accuracy was Scott. Meanwhile, his longtime produc- “The most difficult thing for me was get- one of the reasons aside from inserting Damon’s head on a the book was so tion designer (Max and Scott have been ting them on and off,” says Damon. “I’m popular.” skeletal body double in the scenes where working together since 1997) took a trip not as flexible as Jessica.” his character is starving — involved color- to the Johnson Space Center in Houston ing the sky butterscotch to learn everything he could about trav- 3 and adding mountains and eling to Mars. “[Max] must have taken some carbon dioxide clouds. several thousand pictures of Mars habitats, The new debut date rovers and space suits,” recalls Dr. James turned out to be fortuitous. Green, NASA’s Planetary Science direc- Just days before the film’s tor (everyone calls him Mr. Mars), who release, NASA made the advised on The Martian. “He clicked every- startling announcement thing he saw for eight hours.” that liquid water had been Max used those pictures to assemble discovered on Mars. There his sets outside Budapest at Korda Studio. were cheers at the Johnson The flight deck of the Hermes space- Space Center — and inside ship that takes Damon and the others to Fox’s marketing depart- Mars occupied one soundstage, while ment. But all Scott could the world’s biggest stage — larger than a think about were possibili- football field — was transformed into ties missed. “He would have the Martian surface. “We had to bring in found the edge of a glacier, about a thousand metric tons of custom- definitely,” he fantasizes colored sand and soil,” says Max. “It took about reshoots. “It would be

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Hollywood’s Big Queer COMPANY. WEINSTEIN WEBB/THE WILSON : Year That Wasn’ t CAROL Don’t be fooled by the A-list actors and Oscar buzz; LGBT cinema in America is suﬀering a major creative crisis. THR reviews editor Jon Frosch and critic David Rooney take out their scalpels for a conversation that leaves no one uncut (not even you, Carol)

JON FROSCH David, a few months ago you used this space to praise reinforcing gay “otherness” (promiscuous sex, drugs, sassy queens and

Hollywood for its history of thoughtful depictions of transgender charac- various tropes and trappings of queer representation). But this year’s LGBT : WALTER THOMSON/THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY. RAY ters, but now we’re back and the news isn’t as good. This was a huge year films made me weirdly nostalgic for what now seem like guilty pleasures for LGBT folks in the U.S.: The Supreme Court made same-sex marriage of gay cinema past — movies like The Birdcage, Bound and, gulp, even that a nationwide right; Caitlyn Jenner was the country’s favorite cover girl; Out dated circus of gay male dysfunction The Boys in the Band. As Freeheld scribe magazine named President Obama “Ally of the Year.” And the film industry Ron Nyswaner recently said at the Vanguard Awards, in a veiled disavowal of seemed poised to reflect this new American moment with a bunch of his own film: “[As] we become mainstream … we must resist the tendency buzzy gay-themed fall releases. What a sense of deflation, then, to discover to be de-gayed.” Equally relevant was his statement that “We need … to insist the squarest, stodgiest group of movies imaginable. Freeheld and Stonewall that our gay characters are created within the fullness of their humanity.” were bland, gloppy slices of history. About Ray (starring Elle Fanning as a DAVID ROONEY Jon, you hit the nail on the head about the discord between trans teen) was sniffed at in Toronto and scratched from The Weinstein Co.’s developments of the past year in LGBT rights and the toothless recent autumn slate. The Danish Girl (Nov. 27) is a yawningly polite portrait of the crop of queer-themed American movies. I’m more of a fan of Carol than first gender-reassignment surgery patient. And you and I are less enamored you, but I admired it as a beautiful, if gelid, art object — exquisitely of Todd Haynes’ chilly lesbian romance Carol than most of our colleagues. acted though emotionally quite muted for a drama about a love that blooms This is a relentlessly somber, self-important group of films — all tears, tor- in hiding. But overall, this year’s LGBT films don’t match the storytell- ment and tragic poses, with characters who register more as causes and ing assurance, vivid character detail or thematic universality of relatively

symbols than flesh-and-blood humans. As a happily wedded gay man who mainstream American movies like Milk, Brokeback Mountain and The ATTRACTIONS. ROADSIDE OF COURTESY SIGN: ATTRACTIONS. STONEWALL BOSSE/ROADSIDE PHILIPPE : shuddered at old-guard arguments about marriage as a bourgeois betrayal Kids Are All Right, which examined gay and lesbian lives without being

of our “alternative” roots, I’m uneasy with the idea of movies systematically bogged down by their own mission to Tell an Important Story. It’s STONEWALL

66 | THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER | 12.04.15 FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION BEST DOCUMENTARY distressing that there’s so little happening in American film that comes close to the ballsiness and complexity of TV’s depictions of queer lives. I’m thinking Looking, Orange Is the New Black, Transparent and Steven Soderbergh’s delicious Liberace biopic, Behind the Candelabra. I’m seeing a similar trend in new American plays, where attempts to take the temperature of gay life in large, liberal cities like New York OPENING NOVEMBER 27 seem depressingly vanilla. There’s a parallel with comments Milos Forman and other Czech New Wave directors made about movies AT CINEMA VILLAGE that followed the fall of communist regimes in Central Europe — that IN NEW YORK creativity burns brightest in cinema of dissent, and once you take away forces of marginalization and oppression, artists have to develop an authentic new voice grounded in a new reality. Not that anyone’s arguing for a return to outsider status as an artistic stimulant, but that seems not a million miles from what Nyswaner was saying, don’t you agree? FROSCH If you’re asking if I think gay-themed American movies have been more boring since we’ve acquired more rights, my answer is yes. Brokeback, Milk and The Kids were semi-mainstream — as you point out — Oscar-friendly and headlined by stars. But they were above all superior entertainment, works of deep feeling and artistry that were — I think this is crucial — made before the tides of law and public opinion had decisively turned in favor of LGBT rights. So in addition to being good movies, they were propelled by a sense of cultural and political urgency; their very accessibility — their presentation of potentially controversial material in classical packages of Western-melodrama (Brokeback), biopic (Milk) and comedy (The Kids) — felt purposeful, even subversive. Now that many hearts, minds and laws have changed, why are LGBT movies still so pleadingly honorable? Carol is unim- peachably well crafted. But the film feels aestheticized to the point of asphyxiation. I get it — it’s about containment and the closet. But with its painstaking production design, precious score and gorgeous actresses in traffic-stopping vintage garb, the movie seems to be saying: “How could anyone oppose this lesbian love? It’s so very pretty!” I have to add: Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett’s sex scene was, for me, far more uncomfortable than the much-maligned spanking session in Blue Is the Warmest Color. I was utterly conscious that these were A-list actresses pretending to make love; maybe it’s because I barely believed the characters even liked each other. Also, amen to your point on TV. I’m still depressed about Looking’s cancellation. ROONEY I spent much of Carol asking, “Why would anyone leave Kyle Chandler?” But that’s just me. Seriously though, I hear what you’re saying about a lack of urgency. It feels like these recent movies are sliding back to the default (and retrograde) position of noble suffering rather than bringing a contemporary or — God forbid — provocative perspective. Even the politics feels pat rather than impassioned. What became of the defiant voices that made the New Queer Cinema of the 1990s so exciting, yielding audacious work from the likes of Gus Van Sant, Gregg Araki, Tom Kalin, Rose Troche and Todd Haynes in his less manicured pre-Carol days? This year’s big gay movies also fail to measure up to the most memorable recent LGBT indies, a list I’d

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top with Andrew Haigh’s Weekend (OK, it’s British) and And are studios and filmmakers willing to make them? Dee Rees’ Pariah, which manage to be simultaneously Depressingly, I think high-profile, acclaimed gay raw, real and poetic. The only recent American work that TOP 5 films of the past — Sunday Bloody Sunday, Personal Best, comes close is Sean Baker’s wonderfully scrappy trans- Kiss of the Spider Woman and others — still would be gender girlfriend movie Tangerine, which cost a fraction HIGHEST-GROSSING risky propositions today. of the titles you mentioned at the start of our exchange GAY-THEMED FILMS* ROONEY I can’t imagine in today’s climate who would and has exponentially more grit, heart and playfulness. finance edgy projects like those, or Bill Condon’sGods 1. The Birdcage, 1996 I want more of that kind of LGBT filmmaking. ($124.1 million) and Monsters (old dude preys on hot young gardener?!), FROSCH I also love Weekend and Pariah, and think that 2. The Imitation Game, 2014 Lisa Cholodenko’s High Art (lesbian junkies lead a nice indies have sporadically been a sanctuary for smart ($91.1 million) girl astray?!) or John Cameron Mitchell’s queer porno gay-themed filmmaking. (Those disappointed by Freeheld 3. Brokeback Mountain, 2005 experiment Shortbus (auto-what?!). Frankly, the stron- ($83 million) should seek out Ira Sachs’ Love Is Strange and Patrick gest queer-themed films are coming from abroad. This 4. Philadelphia, 1993 Wang’s In the Family, far more authentic and nuanced ($77.4 million) year’s Venice Golden Lion winner, Desde Alla, was a looks at how laws and logistics have tripped up gay 5. In & Out, 1997 transfixing probe into conflicted sexual psychology, couples.) And I’m with you on the fabulous Tangerine, the ($63.9 million) with the kind of rich ambiguities the new American shining exception when it comes to 2015’s queer films. I *domestic grosses Source: boxoﬃcemojo.com films are lacking. And I can’t think of a more immersive also would recommend two others: Desiree Akhavan’s trip inside the trans experience than Francois Ozon’s Appropriate Behavior and Sebastian Silva’s Nasty Baby — the former a droll The New Girlfriend. Even a little Swedish movie at Toronto, Girls Lost, study of a Brooklynite navigating the competing pulls of her bisexuality about a 14-year-old wrestling with gender identity, had a freshness and her Iranian immigrant parents, the latter a twisty tale of a gay hipster absent from most of the movies we’re talking about here. couple who helps a friend (Kristen Wiig) get pregnant. Both wring real FROSCH The best gay films definitely ear coming from overseas and have drama — and comedy — from LGBT life as it’s lived today, without under- been for a while via Almodovar, Ozon, Andre Techine and many others lining their themes or intentions. Maybe the lesson is that now that gays who explore not just homosexuality, but the fluidity of human sexuality largely are seen as people “just like everyone else,” gayness is no longer in general. I would argue that it’s not because those countries are more some exotic, movie-worthy novelty in and of itself. Filmmakers must progressive than we are on LGBT issues, but because their film industries find new narrative or stylistic spins to put on LGBT stories — as Baker, are less numbers-driven and squeamish about sex.

Akhavan and Silva did. But do audiences want to see those movies? ROONEY And less obsessed with awards potential. ARTISTS/PHOTOFEST UNITED

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Learn more: pepperdine.edu/emc ROUNDTABLE SMITH What did I need? 1996’s Blood and Wine], and he I’m preparing to do a role or how CONTINUED FROM PAGE 54 JACKSON A play. said, “Do it with me.” And so I did to sit down and read a script and SMITH I’ve always been really prod- it. And he brought me out of this figure out who that person is much working class when I was uct-oriented. I want to win. When “slough of despond,” as they say. I — write an autobiography, give him growing up. I came from a very poor I do something, I want to be number don’t get the girl; I get the part now. a complete life from birth, fam- family, but by the time I graduated one, and I want to smash it. And I ily, educational backgrounds. And high school, they were quite well off. have a 15-year-old daughter, and she Who taught you the most about acting? those things have served me, and He had become a lawyer. He had got me and shifted my focus from CAINE Marlon Brando, [though] I I continue to do them. been on his way to become a sheep product to people. It took a couple of didn’t understand him at all. I met RUFFALO My teacher at Stella Adler, farmer, and some guy said, “Oh, years, but as soon as I got knocked him under strange circumstances: her name was Joanne Linville. we’re going to go and enroll in law,” off of product and started shifting to He had just lost a girlfriend, and it She was that rare acting teacher and he just did that on a whim. So people, the whole world opened up was weird, and I was like a young girl who knew how to act. by the time I finished high school, he for me again, and acting opened up with Elvis Presley. I was completely JACKSON That is rare, isn’t it? was quite wealthy. And I felt this in a whole new way — to not go into overwhelmed. A friend of mine got a RUFFALO It is rare. debt to him to make out like I was day one of a movie trying to figure message from him that was 15 min- JACKSON It’s incredibly crazy. I had going to do something responsible out what everybody has to do so utes long on the phone and used up all these friends in New York that with my life, something that would we win versus opening up and every all his battery. were going to class. I would ask guarantee an income. I was terri- person is a whole new world. [Before JACKSON Two days before 9/11, them, “What’s that person been fied to tell him that what I really that,] when I went into a meeting Michael Jackson was having these in, that you take classes from them?” wanted to do was either paint pic- with a director, my focus was: Can concerts in New York, and for some RUFFALO [My teacher] taught me tures or become an actor. And he this guy win, can this girl win? And reason I was introducing Usher the truth, and to feel what it was like found out, and he took me aside and it was a pathology that broke for me and Whitney Houston. And I was to have the truth, and to constantly said, “Look, I think you should fol- a couple of years ago, and I fell standing backstage, waiting to strive for it. And then the other thing low your dreams, and money and all in love and then I couldn’t imagine go and introduce them. Somebody is: You’re always working. It’s never that other stuff, it comes as a bypro- what else I could do that could add comes up behind me and starts done. I can’t watch anything that I duct.” I found out that, deep down, so much to my life other than acting. doing the Ezekiel speech [from Pulp do without sitting there and tearing he had wanted to be an actor. it apart. RUFFALO I was well on my way to SMITH Absolutely. being a bartender. “When I was 15, my first girlfriend cheated JACKSON I can’t watch anything JACKSON A mixologist? on me. And I remember making a decision that you do without doing that, either. RUFFALO I don’t know if you know this, nobody would ever cheat on me again. And (Laughter.) but me and Benicio started act- the way I was going to do that was by being the RUFFALO It’s that old [joke]: How ing school together — Stella Adler, biggest actor on Earth. So there’s been this many actors does it take to screw here in Los Angeles — and I could in a lightbulb? Twenty — one to see the talent flying off of him, and I weird psychology that if my movies are number screw it in, and 19 to say how they said to myself, “I’ll never be able to one, my life is going to work out great.” could have done it better. do what that guy can do.” SMITH JACKSON When I see people going DEL TORO You’ve done pretty damn to acting class, it’s like, “Well, I’m good, brother. He was traveling two JACKSON I’m constantly evolving. Fiction]. People do that to me all the doing a scene today.” I said, “What hours every day, back and forth, to I’ve grown as an actor. I’m getting time. “Arrgh, Ezekiel, da da da.” do you mean, you’re doing a scene go to school, and I went, “This kid older, I’m a little less patient with And I turn around, and it’s Marlon today? How long has it been since is strong.” people. I speak my mind a lot more Brando. I’m like, “Oh my God!” you did a scene?” “Well, other peo- RUFFALO You were my hero. than I used to ’cause I used to We end up having this conversation. ple are doing scenes, too, so it’s been EDGERTON We can all leave, if you think I’d get fired, and now I know He gives me a phone number. He about 10 days.” I’m like, “That’s want. (Laughter.) I’m not. says, “Call me, we need to talk.” So I not acting class. You’re learning to JACKSON Get a room. go back, and I call that number, and be a critic.” DEL TORO We already did. What surprised you about your Hateful somebody answers the phone. It’s Eight character? a Chinese restaurant. (Laughter.) What’s the biggest mistake young Was there ever a point where you fell JACKSON That he was the smartest “Is Mr. Brando there?” “Hold actors make? out of love with acting? person in the movie. I mean, people on, hold on.” And the next thing, he CAINE Thinking that they’ve got CAINE Oh no, never. say a lot of things about Quentin comes to the phone. And we spent to have a masterpiece every time. Go SMITH I had a brief period, four — that he’s racist, he’s this, he’s that. an hour talking. ahead and do the bloody thing. If years ago. In retrospect, I realize I But every character that he has RUFFALO That was his office. it flops, you’ve had the experience had hit a ceiling in my talent. I ever written for me has been a very JACKSON The next time I called, anyway. I had a friend who shall be had a great run that I thought was intelligent, very driven person. it was a Chinese laundry. And I nameless, and he always said, “You fantastic, and I realized that I had CAINE There was a very specific said, “Is Mr. Brando there?” And can’t do that, it’s going to be a load done everything that I could do with moment for me, when I got a script then I realized he just filtered of crap,” and waited for great direc- the “me” that I had. And I didn’t and sent it back to the producer his calls by doing that, and then tors, and every two years some great work for about two years, and I [went and I said, “The part is too small.” he’d come to the phone. director would give him a role, and through] marriage counseling, So they sent it back and said, come Monday morning, he’s in front 50 parenting books, all of that stuff. “I didn’t want you to read the lover. Who else has taught you the most? of the camera and he didn’t know And I really dived into me, and I wanted you to read the father.” JACKSON Lloyd Richards, who was what in the bloody hell he was doing. then all of a sudden it was like, “Oh!” And I suddenly went, “Oh my God. the director of the Yale Drama You must experience it. And I found the connection. Your I know where I am now. I no longer School — even though I didn’t go to JACKSON That’s why I just couldn’t work can never really be better than get the girl.” And I sort of retired Yale Drama School, I did two plays imagine not acting. you are, you know? Your work can’t for a couple of years. I kept getting for him — and Douglas Turner Ward SMITH That is the killer for an actor. be deeper than you are. a load of crap, you know? And I at the Negro Ensemble Company. Because the camera feels that JACKSON You know what you needed was down in Miami Beach with Jack They both taught me how to ask you’re uncertain and not sure. Let for that? Nicholson, and he got a script [for myself the right questions when it rip. Fail hard and fail loud.

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The Juilliard School UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music 1 | New York’s prestigious insti- 4 | The National Research tution maintains its bragging rights Council gave UCLA’s Department as the go-to music school, with a of Musicology the highest rating stingy 8.4 percent acceptance rate of any nonperformance music pro- that has crept up just slightly in gram. The Herb Alpert School of recent years (and you have to audi- Music — an outgrowth of the L.A. tion). Not only has the school university’s vaunted ethnomusicol- produced legendary composers ogy program that was established and musicians (Bernard Herrmann, in 2007 with a $30 million grant Marvin Hamlisch, Barry Manilow, from the Herb Alpert Foundation — Wynton Marsalis, Philip Glass), but has been so successful that UCLA also all its music, dance and has requested its establishment drama classrooms are housed in as the UC system’s first indepen- the same building, exposing student music school, with its own dents to a variety of disciplines and dean and academic departments. inspirations. And 77 percent of The proposal could be approved full-time undergrads receive finan- by early 2016. cial aid (averaging $28,000). Notable alumni James Horner, Notable alumni John Williams, Don Davis Michael Giacchino Oberlin Conservatory Berklee College of Music 5 | Founded in 1833, Oberlin is 2 | This Boston school ranks close the oldest conservatory in the U.S. to Juilliard in terms of prestige and shares a unique association but embraces more mainstream with Oberlin College, a liberal bas- popular music disciplines, jazz tion in northeast Ohio. With only and music production, including around 600 students and an admis- student-run record labels and sion rate of 25 percent, the school concert venues. Composer and offers a cloistered, rural setting and orchestrator Kevin Kaska found small class sizes. Oberlin is the school’s connections with for undergrads only, which TOP 25 MUSIC SCHOOLS the Boston Symphony and limits competition for Boston Pops helped him work placement in its ensembles

with conductor John Williams Williams and opera productions. and later establish his career in Notable alumni Liz Phair INSTRUMENTAL Hollywood. Says Kaska: “No other music school in the world New England Conservatory could hold a candle to Berklee’s 6 | With a 30 percent admission dedication to film scoring, music rate, the conservatory is com- INSTITUTIONS synthesis, contemporary writing petitive but not exclusive. Students From New York to Nashville (not to mention Seoul concepts and music production.” can earn a bachelor’s in music, a and London), a new generation of ﬁlm scorers, Notable alumni Howard Shore, master’s and a doctoral degree, and songwriters and music industry execs will come Quincy Jones can study classical, jazz, world and early music. Located in Boston, out of these 25 schools By Jeﬀ Bond USC Thornton School of Music the conservatory also offers training RT VS. COMMERCE CONTINUES TO BE AN ISSUE IN A WORLD 3 | The Thornton School of Music and performance study for those where students studying music hope someday to make a living. is older by 20 years than Juilliard, from kindergarten to high school, Traditional conservatories such as Juilliard still rank high in the but its proximity to the L.A. movie as well as adults and seniors in its Aoverall picture, even in a world in which many big-name composers and music scene has allowed it Preparatory School. and musicians make an impact without any formal training at all. For those to flip the script from the classi- Notable alumni Sean Callery, who do want a traditional music education, a conservatory is still an cal canon to the modern music Cecil Taylor effective way to develop skills without the pressures of the business side business and technology. Record of the industry. “I think the school of music was formative for me in that producer Jimmy Iovine and hip- Juilliard respect,” says film composer Marco Beltrami (The Homesman) of his experi- hop producer Dr. Dre launched the ence at Yale’s conservatory. “It was a very academic institution rather Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young than a trade school — it’s more about expanding the creative processes Academy for Arts, Technology and of the brain.” But composer Jeff Beal, who recently won an Emmy for his the Business of Innovation with work on House of Cards and is creating a program for the Eastman School a $70 million cash infusion last year of Music, says the key to making a living as a musician lies in diversifying. in an effort to smooth out the “I’ve met so many young composers who’ve come straight out of Juilliard, synergy between technology and and so many of them are wonderful concert composers, but [they] have liberal arts. an interest in doing film. My sense of the future of music-making is that’s a Notable alumni Bruce Broughton,

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Curtis Institute of Music school with their tuition fully paid. the university’s 61 percent admis- Conservatoire de Paris 7 | With a student population Notable alumni: Marco Beltrami, sion rate means you’ve got a good 21 |Founded in 1795 and of around 150 and an acceptance John Mauceri chance of being accepted. operated under the super- rate of 4 to 11 percent, Curtis is one Notable alumni Andy vision of the French of the toughest conservatories to University of Miami Frost Summers, Diane Warren Ministry of Culture and get into; live auditions are required. 12 | School of Music Communication, the Established in Philadelphia in 1924 Frost maintains strong con- Middle Tennessee Warren Conservatoire de Paris has by an heir to the Curtis Publishing nections to the L.A. movie scene 17 | State University been responsible for more family, the school counts Leopold and the world of contemporary With faculty members hailing from than a few classical music lumi- Stokowski as one of its early music through the Henry Mancini every corner of the music business, naries —Camille Saint-Saens, patrons. Institute, which trains classical students get the opportunity to Jean-Pierre Rampal, Edgard Notable alumni Leonard Bernstein and jazz students in disciplines that hobnob with industry professionals Varese, Hector Berlioz, Georges prepare them for film and popular and gain experience in working on Bizet, Claude Debussy — and Eastman School of Music music performances. major record and performance proj- even Japanese Godzilla composer 8 | One of the top conservatories Notable alumni Ben Folds, Bruce ects happening right in Nashville. Takayuki Hattori. Music con- in the country, Eastman accepts Hornsby, Joel McNeely Notable alumni Gary Overton, servatories don’t get much more only 13 percent of applicants. Blake Chancey renowned—or tougher to get Though expensive, the Rochester, University of North Texas into. With a brutal three-round, N.Y., school is generous with finan- 13 | If you’re studying jazz, you Manhattan School of Music competitive selection process, cial aid, and nearly every student could do worse than to attend the 18 |In the fall of 2016, the school the school’s admission rate is a receives some form of scholarship. first university to offer a degree in will join the Boston Conservatory punishing 2 to 3 percent. Notable alumni Alexander Courage, this distinctly American musical as one of the only two conservato- Notable alumni Maurice Jarre, Laurence Rosenthal genre. The Denton, Texas, school ries offering a degree in musical Michel Legrand has become known as one of the theater. New York University leading institutions in the study of Notable alumni Angelo Badalamenti, Syracuse University Setnor 9 | Located in the heart of New jazz, and as far back as 1890, Elliott Goldenthal 22 | School of Music York City, NYU can take advan- music was part its founding core Syracuse was the first U.S. univer- tage of the city’s enormous range of disciplines. Indiana University Jacobs sity to offer a music degree, and of top-flight concert halls and Notable alumni Kristopher 19 | School of Music the Setnor School of Music has set other performance spaces, Carter, Norah Jones Jacobs boasts one of the top 10 its sights on readying students for with many classes centered voice schools in the U.S. and a “portfolio careers” that include not around presentations in Guildhall School of student body that includes repre- only skills in performance, com- these venues as well as intern- 14 | Music and Drama sentatives of every state as well as position and arranging, but also Menken ships with performing arts One of the top conservato- more than 55 countries. But getting teaching and business acumen. organizations, music periodicals ries in the U.K., Guildhall’s London into the Bloomington, Ind., school Notable alumni Michael Croiter, and record labels. campus serves more than 800 is a challenge: Admission is by live Jessica Kuhlman Notable alumni Alan Menken, Elmer students from more than 40 coun- or recorded audition only, and the Bernstein tries around the world and is the acceptance rate for undergrads is Seoul Institute of only conservatory to teach music, 25 percent. 23 |the Arts Royal College of Music drama and theater in one location. Notable alumni Joshua Bell The SIA is one of the most presti- 10 |London’s RCM boasts a Notable alumni George Martin, gious arts conservatories in Asia, Hogwarts-sized student body of Dario Marianelli California Institute and foreign students can qualify for about 1,000 undergrads and 20 |of the Arts scholarships that will reduce their postgrads. It houses a huge library San Francisco Conservatory of Music Opportunities for study and tuition by 50 percent. of recorded music and films, 15 |The longest-standing con- performance involve tonal and Notable alumni Lee Bo Ram, Bae Suzy written scores and manuscripts, servatory on the West Coast since atonal music, hip-hop, jazz, pop, and a museum of ancient musical its founding in 1917, the conserva- voice arts and rock, with instruc- Belmont University Curb College instruments. tory offers bachelor’s and master’s tors like guitarist Larry Koonse 24 | of Entertainment & Business Notable alumni James Horner, degrees in composition, instru- and tenor Timur Bekbosunov. 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California State University, 25 | The show production The 8 percent acceptance rate is 16 |Northridge bachelor’s degree program at this 59 percent lower than the overall On a good traffic day, Hollywood Winter Park, Fla., school offers average, but a staggering $100 mil- is only about 40 minutes away, and an extensive grounding in live audio lion donation by billionaire alumnus Northridge’s $8,208 tuition for and lighting production for con- Stephen Adams and his wife, California residents is 23 percent certs and music tours. Denise, allows accepted students to less pricey than the average for Notable alumni Sebastian Krys, Guildhall School of Music and Drama

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AST YEAR, THE INAUGURAL chairman of the SMF advisory to digital distribution. Speakers 1 The Marina Bay Sands, home to the SMF. 2 From left: Director Woo and actors Singapore Media Festival board and managing director of will include Bing Chen, a former Binoche, Zhang and Tong Dawei at the opening night of last year’s festival. craftily rebranded its various The Walt Disney Co., Southeast vp at YouTube who now heads 3 The new Adrift restaurant. fall TV and film events into a Asia. Here’s THR’s guide to navi- new-media platform Victorious, 4 The Man Who Knew Inﬁnity stars Irons L (left) and Dev Patel. splashy, one-stop media showcase, gating the myriad screenings, YouTube star Alfie Deyes and attracting the likes of John Woo, seminars and awards shows during YouTube director of content and TAP INTO ASIA’S BOOMING TV SECTOR Juliette Binoche and Zhang Ziyi — as the 11-day event. operations Gautam Anand. D.J. Lee, president of media con- well as redoubling its links to tent at CJ E&M, will give this year’s China with the launch of a GET INSIDERS’ TIPS ON CHINA SEIZE INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES ATF keynote, “Into the Future $100 million media fund for ScreenSingapore and ATF, Singapore has emerged as of Television: An Asian Empire’s investments. In addition to running Dec. 1-4, expect an attractive production Move Forward.” He plans to speak

an inaugural event devoted to Weerasethakul more regional power hub for Hollywood talent, about his experience at South new media (Digital Matters), players to take to the sales with local authorities Korean media giant CJ, which pro- this year’s fest includes the fifth floor. Last year saw a record enforcing strict intellec- vides about 3,000 hours of ScreenSingapore film market, number of attendees (4,800) tual property laws and content per year across Asia. The the 16th annual Asian Television and exhibitors (1,300), dangling cash rebates Asian TV Awards, which aired to IMAGES. WEERASETHAKUL: TACCA/GETTY MARCO EMBERLEY/INVISION/AP. YEOH: RYAN OF TIFF. RTESY Forum and Market, the 20th and the events registered of up to 50 percent about 50 million households across Asian Television Awards and the more than $250 million in of qualifying expenses Asia last year, will run Dec. 2 to 26th Singapore International sales. Maggie Xiong, senior incurred during film- 3 and reach an estimated 80 mil- Film Festival — which will include director of international making in the territory. lion households. a master class by Thai auteur acquisitions at Chinese But the island city- Apichatpong Weerasethakul and a online video giant Youku state also offers invest- WIND DOWN AT ADRIFT tribute to Malaysian-born actress Tudou, will provide tips ment capital for Juggling a film festival, a movie Michelle Yeoh. “The Singapore on tailoring media content filmmakers in the and TV market, two awards Media Festival serves as a platform in ways that can help West: Singapore- shows and dozens of panels and for creative, content and com- attract regional buyers. based Xeitgeist business meetings will surely merce leaders from Singapore, Asia Entertainment Group be enervating. Recharge at Adrift, and other regions around the GLIMPSE ASIA’S has backed a number a new eatery that opened this globe to come DIGITAL FUTURE of English-language year at the festival hub, the Marina together to form The inaugural edition titles, including IFC’s Bay Sands. Recently ranked fruitful partner- of Digital Matters will The Man Who Knew one of the top 10 interior designs ships that place explore various aspects Infinity, starring Jeremy at the 2015 Inside World Festival Singapore as of Asia’s rapidly Irons. Says Xeitgeist’s of Interiors, the space is modeled Asia’s leading hub evolving online enter- Tan Min-Li, “There are after a traditional Japanese NOV. 26-DEC. 6 for content tainment industry, great opportunities izakaya bistro and was designed MARINA BAY Yeoh SANDS RESORT, creation,” says from brand here for international by one of Los Angeles’ own, chef SINGAPORE

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74 | THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER | 12.04.15 backlot INTERNATIONAL EMMYS THE NEXT WAVE OF GLOBAL TV IS HERE As foreign shows go mainstream, the International Emmys shine a light on Latin America, the Middle East and Africa Angola’s Jikulumessu is up for best telenovela. By Scott Roxborough

INCE THEIR LAUNCH IN 1973 TO HONOR decades to a nonbelieving U.S. audi- but we do know that while there still the best in small-screen entertainment from ence, the International Emmys find are several British nominees this outside the U.S., the International Emmys themselves in the strange position of year — notably Rafe Spall for his turn Shave been the gold standard for global TV, the missionary who has few heathens as a tortured criminal on the dysto- consistently ahead of the curve on worldwide left to convert. They seem a victim of pian anthology series Black Mirror and viewing trends. Indeed, they predicted the boom their own success. Sheridan Smith as the late Brit enter- in U.K. drama well before Downton Abbey took “Well, I haven’t felt victimized,” says tainer Cilla Black in the ITV miniseries over PBS (not to mention Wolf Hall), honored Bruce Paisner, president and CEO of Fellowes Cilla — the International Emmys Israeli talent before Homeland made it cool and the International Academy of Television remain a cosmopolitan affair, explor- praised Nordic noir when few stateside viewers Arts & Sciences, which nominates and ing new global TV hotspots not yet had heard of The Killing and Detective Chief awards the International Emmys. “But colonized by the U.S. networks. Those Inspector Sarah Lund. it’s absolutely right that something include Brazil, which received five nom- But this is 2015, and America finally has we have believed for years would hap- inations including two for HBO Latin read the memo on foreign TV. Downton Abbey pen is happening: that much more America’s Psy, a drama that revolves

draws as many as 10 million viewers an episode, money is flowing into television around Spall around a psychiatrist and his troubled and Netflix’s Colombian drug dramaNarcos , the world, the programs are getting patients; Turkey, which picked up a Germany’s spy thriller Deutschland 83, France’s better, and some of it is beginning to play on best actor nom for Engin Akyurek of the cop . zombie chiller The Returned and the BBC U.S. television.” actioner Black Money Love; and oft-neglected TIME sci-fi seriesOrphan Black are cult favorites with Why aren’t the shows you’ve heard of Africa, represented with three noms includ- slavishly devoted U.S. fans. (and binge-watched) competing ing best comedy for the South African political /GETTY FOR IMAGES However, if you’re one of those global INTERNATIONAL for International Emmys? The satire Puppet Nation ZA and best telenovela TV addicts, don’t expect to find your EMMYS International Academy of Television for Jikulumessu, a serial drama from Angola. favorite foreign show among this year’s NOV. 23 Arts & Sciences does not reveal “There’s been a real balancing out in terms NEW YORK CITY International Emmy nominees. details about submissions, but one of nations represented,” says Paisner. “Look at (Although not nominated, Downton theory is that increasingly the Brazil or Argentina or Germany or even the Abbey creator Julian Fellowes will receive the international Emmys are finding themselves [United Arab] Emirates: There’s a real commit- ceremony’s lifetime achievement prize, the in competition with their big brother, the ment to national television in these areas now. Founders Award.) U.S. Primetime awards. This is truly the era of international television, After preaching the gospel of global TV for The academy has been mum on the subject, and we are the people to showcase it.”

Emmys must seem like a breeze. What, if anything, do you ﬁnd know if they should stay DICTATORSHIP VS. A BAD REVIEW Being in the face of a dicta- funny about the current situa- or leave because either way Bassem Youssef on the pressures torship can cost me my show, tion in the Middle East? they are doomed. Now, on of hosting the International Emmys my freedom of expression The whole thing is a farce. a lighter note … well, there and life as ‘Egypt’s Jon Stewart’ or, in a worst-case scenario, We, as Middle Eastern, seem isn’t any. Compared to facing my freedom. But sucking to be cursed. It is not going down authoritarian gov- at the Emmys will give me well for us there, and it seems Jon Stewart was the inspira- ernments, as you did bad reviews at The Hollywood it won’t be going well for tion for your show. Any advice on your Egyptian satire Reporter. I can’t handle us where we are escaping to on what he should do with his show Al-Bernameg, newfound spare time?

that — this is definitely my — it seems the planet doesn’t BUSACCA LARRY YOUSSEF: IMAGES. WHITBY/GETTY TIM P. SPALL: IMAGES. REDMOND/GETTY PAUL FELLOWES: OF SEMBA COMUNICACAO. : COURTESY Youssef, 41 hosting the International worst nightmare. want us anymore. Many don’t Hire me. JIKULUMESSU

76 | THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER | 12.04.15 “Live Stronger”

Can you feel us from where you are right now? I hope you know that we miss you, that we love you that there’s an empty space in our world I hope you know you brought us so much joy just by being you

You see, I can’t seem to put on your smile today and I can’t stand to see these people we love in pain I feel so powerless; there’s nothing I can do, other than:

Live stronger, laugh longer, breathe deeper than I ever have before Be prouder, sing louder, try harder And love the people here with me

Can you see me from where you are right now? Are you watching when I find myself drifting away then suddenly snapping back again I ask them, yet again, to repeat what they just said ‘cause all that I can think about is you

I don’t feel like wearing a smile today I can’t stand to see these people we love in pain If only you could come back to dry our tears …no, I can’t start thinking like that, I know I gotta

Live stronger, laugh longer, breathe deeper than I ever have before Be prouder, sing louder, try harder And love the people here with me

Can you hear me? Are you there? Do I tell it to the sky or write it on a page? I wish you could tell me, I wish we could know What you would say to us if we could only hear Knowing you, it would probably be… Nick Trela 09/29/91 – 11-19-2014

Live stronger, laugh longer, breathe deeper than I ever have before be prouder, sing louder, try harder And you’d tell me to love the ones you had to leave behind…

Music and Lyrics by Jeremy Moll Video Production by Kylor Melton Portrait by Parker Stevenson Please visit NickTrela.com for photos and video backlot

THE GOTHAM

AWARDS GO AWARDS GOTHAM BEYOND FILM By recognizing cutting-edge series like Transparent, the indie movie fete brings TV under its tent By Hilary Lewis

OR THE PAST 24 YEARS, THE GOTHAM Independent Film Awards, true to its name, has celebrated indie film, but this year, as Fit marks its 25th anniversary, the New York- based awards ceremony, which will be held Nov. 30, is doing something new — opening its doors to honoring both serialized television and web content. The Independent Filmmaker Project, which presents the Gothams, announced in September that it had decided to add two “Breakthrough Series” prizes for continuing or limited longform programming (whose episodes run 30 minutes or longer) and for shortform programming (which consists of more than five episodes, with the majority running less than 20 minutes). Nominees in the longform category consist of the acclaimed new series Jane the Virgin, Mr. Robot, Transparent, Unbreakable Kimmy Gotham nominees, clockwise from Schmidt and UnREAL. top left: Jane the Virgin, The new categories reflect a growing Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Transparent, UnREAL and Mr. Robot. Vicente awareness that independent film “is not just happening in film anymore,” says IFP executive director Joana Vicente. “So many of spotlight on, IFP used criteria similar to the be eligible, even though it might meet some of the filmmakers that we support are really mov- guidelines it uses to determine its film nomi- the category’s other criteria. ing very fluidly between TV and the web,” she nees. The rules state that the series “should The IFP also added another requirement, adds, citing as an example David Fincher’s work be realized with an economy of means, and restricting the field to series that premiered IGER/LIFETIME. ROBOT: DAVID GIESBRECHT/USA NETWORK. GERSHOFF/WIREIMAGE/ VICENTE: GARY GIESBRECHT/USA DAVID IGER/LIFETIME. ROBOT: on Netflix’sHouse of Cards. characterized by innovation, risk-taking, between Sept. 1, 2014, and Aug. 31, 2015. Vicente IMAGES. MCCARTHY/WIREIMAGE/GETTY JAMIE REDFORD: ASUPIL/FILMMAGIC/GETTY IMAGES. “It is our 25th anniversary, and I think with creative freedom and vision and the says honoring new shows, rather than any big anniversary, you kind of look back and introduction of new voices and non- GOTHAM considering established programs, sim- look forward, like, ‘What is the future?’ and traditional subject matter that enrich AWARDS ply reflects the way the Gothams ‘Where are we now?’ and ‘Are we still relevant?’ the landscape or push the boundaries NOV. 30 treat films, where the focus always has CIPRIANI and ‘How can we really continue with our of ‘television.’ ” In 2006, the Gothams WALL STREET been on movies released during a given mission and our mandate to bring attention and were criticized for nominating the NEW YORK year. The Gothams’ focus on new pro- awareness to independent film?’ ” says Vicente $90 million-budgeted The Departed but gramming, Vicente notes, will prevent of the decision to venture into a new category. since have stuck more to the lower-budgeted the same shows from being nominated year after “It just felt like a good reflection of where end of the film world. And, as they surveyed year — as they sometimes are at the Emmys. the independent filmmaking community is.” the current television scene, that meant a lav- Have the indie-minded Gothams become part To decide exactly which series to shine its ish show like HBO’s Game of Thrones wouldn’t of a trend? The more mainstream Broadcast Film Critics Association’s Critics’ Choice Awards are combining their film and TV awards for the first time at their January ceremony. And A QUARTET the Golden Globes and many guild ceremo- nies also now honor TV alongside film during OF GOTHAM the weeks leading up to the Oscars. STEVE GOLIN HELEN MIRREN TODD HAYNES ROBERT REDFORD Says Vicente, “We’re going to try to evolve with FILM Producer Actress Director Actor storytellers to honor their work however they’re His two ﬁlms this Her latest ﬁlms His period love He stars year: Spotlight and are Woman in Gold story Carol is just as Dan Rather doing it. It’s a living thing. It’s not like we have

TRIBUTES The Revenant. and Trumbo. hitting theaters. in Truth. an agenda. This feels right for the time and for UNREAL: DITT JAMES STUDIOS. OF AMAZON COURTESY OF NETFLIX. TRANSPARENT: UNBREAKABLE: COURTESY EVERETT SCOTT WHITE/THEJANE: CW. D DIP HAYNES: IMAGES. GREY GOOSE VODKA. LAVERIS/FILMMAGIC/GETTY FOR GETTY IMAGES GOLIN: CHRIS WEEKS/GETTY MIRREN: JASON IMAGES. our members and for independent film.”

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8 Decades of The Hollywood Reporter The most glamorous and memorable moments from a storied history

Rowlands and When TV Quinn in NBC’s An Early Frost . “Don’t you know there’s Tackled HIV nothing you could do that would in Primetime make me stop loving you?” ROWLANDS, recounting her HE NEWS THAT CHARLIE favorite line of dialogue from the movie Sheen is HIV-positive T has brought the immuno- deficiency virus back into Hollywood headlines — but not with the same impact An Early Frost had in 1985. Other TV shows had addressed HIV, the virus that causes AIDS but is now not always fatal and is treatable, as a plotline. An episode of CBS’ Trapper John, M.D. devoted to the subject aired a week before Frost’s Nov. 11 showing. Showtime’s Brothers introduced an HIV-positive character in 1985, but Frost was the first made-for-TV movie with HIV/AIDS at its center. The NBC film focuses on a young Chicago lawyer (Aidan Quinn) who learns he has AIDS and goes home to Pennsylvania to tell his parents (Gena Rowlands and Ben Gazzara). THR called it “a sensitive and powerful fictional scenario” in its review. “It was one of the more rewarding, or most rewarding, jobs I ever had because of the effect it had on ele- vating the education about the AIDS epidemic,” says Quinn, now 56. “I get stopped on the street to this day, like an old woman will grab my hand and say it really helped her understand her son.” The movie was a critical and ratings success, but advertisers shied away. The late Perry Lafferty, the network’s senior vp movies, once said: “The first time it aired, NBC lost $600,000. Brandon [Tartikoff, then-network president] decided to broadcast it again about six months later. That time, it lost $1 million.” — BILL HIGGINS

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