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Kevin Kay The Paramount Network chief, who oversaw its rebrand- ing from Spike, is out after more than two decades with Viacom and is succeeded by Comedy Central president Kent Alterman. After an NBC News Fiasco, Where Does Megyn Kelly Go Now? Today’s $69 million star anchor proved a bust even before her blackface scandal, but with some Dan Houser time off and a few smart moves, she may be able to reinvent herself: ‘She needs to retreat a little’ The Rockstar Games co-founder launches Western BY MARISA GUTHRIE epic Red Dead Redemption 2 to $725 million in retail sales in t’s easy to forget amid the NBC News chairman Andrew needs to retreat a little,” suggests its first three days of release. uproar over her on-air com- Lack and her on-air colleagues, one well-connected crisis PR I ments endorsing blackface, Kelly’s personal brand has taken executive. “If I were her, I’d write but back in January 2017, landing an enormous hit. But is she done an op-ed. Start doing things on Megyn Kelly was considered a coup as an A-list anchor? social [media] to build up an

OUSER: MCMULLAN/GETTY PATRICK IMAGES. for NBC News. Her three-year “I don’t think a mainstream independent following. And then deal — worth a reported $23 mil- network is going to go anywhere just wait.” Louis C.K. The comic is greeted by lion annually — would weaken near her right now,” says crisis There has been speculation that protests (and later removed Fox News, where Kelly became PR expert Eden Gillott Bowe. Kelly could return to Fox News; from a lineup) at his first advertised set at New York’s one of the biggest stars in cable in “Because then it looks like they but the network threw cold water Comedy Cellar, nearly a year after admitting to sexual part by challenging Republican are endorsing her [statements].” on that narrative with a statement misconduct. newsmakers (including then- But that’s “right now.” Most professing extreme satisfaction candidate Donald Trump on his industry observers and insiders with its current primetime lineup, history of misogyny). And it would polled by THR believe that Kelly, which includes Tucker Carlson, Showbiz Stocks allow NBC to launch a prime- 47, will not land somewhere else Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham. time newsmagazine to challenge immediately. That could be one Still, Fox News, CNN or another AYLOR HILL/FILMMAGIC.AYLOR FRAZER KAY: HARRISON/GETTY IMAGES. H 60 Minutes as well as upgrade an reason why NBC lawyers did network eventually could come $32.39 (+11%) TWITTER (TWTR) hour of the network’s cash-cow not press for a lengthy noncom- around, especially as the 2020 Strong ad sales help the Today franchise. pete clause in her exit election cycle kicks into platform grow its revenue 29 percent to $758 million Now, as Kelly’s 9 a.m. pro- negotiations, according high gear, though few in the most recent quarter. Kareem on gram ends in scandal and lower to sources. Kelly expect her to command ratings than when she arrived, But many believe NBC is complicit in anything close to the $66.16 (-21%) her racism, and WORLD WRESTLING and as the onetime star broad- Kelly can make a yes, she should be eye-popping salary she ENTERTAINMENT (WWE) caster finalizes terms of her comeback if she plays fired, writes THR’s secured at NBC News or The firm sees soft sales and contributor on p. 38. backlash after it refuses to exit amid open criticism from her cards right. “She the reported four-year, cancel its Crown Jewel event in Saudi Arabia following the killing of Jamal Khashoggi. Illustration by Larry Jost

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Behind the Headlines Kelly’s Ratings Fall Short Megyn Kelly Today didn’t measure up to the third hour of Today in the year before her arrival $100 million contract Rupert his work on behalf of wounded Sept. 2016-Sept. 2017 Today’s Take Murdoch was willing to pay to veterans. And she already had 946,000 2.75 million keep her at Fox. alienated a wide swath of adults 25-54 viewers “Eric Bolling was fired from Hollywood thanks to her habit Fox News for sexting. You of mining interviews for Sept. 2017-Oct. 2018 Megyn Kelly Today Down still see him being booked hot-button issues. (Jane 13.5% on CNN, commenting Fonda and plastic surgery, 698,000 2.38 million adults 25-54 viewers on the issues of the day,” for instance.) Source: Nielsen Media Ratings notes Roland Martin, who Freedman But Kelly’s blackface appeared on what would remarks (for which she be the last episode of Megyn Kelly apologized twice, once in an Today to discuss Kelly’s remarks email to her staff and again on about blackface being “OK” as a her program the next morning), say it was appropriate. There is 2017 with a timely sit-down with Halloween costume when she while underscoring how ill- a stark racial divide, as might be Russian President Vladimir Putin was a kid. “I do think Megyn Kelly suited she was for the softer focus expected; 40 percent of African- that was watched by a respectable can come back from this, she can of morning TV, are only one fac- Americans have a less favorable 6 million viewers. But then Kelly redeem herself. People make mis- tor in her prospects. And there view of Kelly after her blackface interviewed Infowars conspiracy takes. The question is, do you learn is evidence that the viewing comments, while 42 percent of theorist Alex Jones. And while from those mistakes?” public may be primed to welcome white respondents said it made she pressed him on his abhor- Kelly had lost a slew of book- her back to TV. Nearly half of no difference. rent claims about the massacre ings in the wake of the remarks, Americans (45 percent, accord- The bigger issue for Kelly is of 20 children at Sandy Hook including the cast of House of ing to an exclusive THR/Morning that well before her flameout, Elementary school, she never Cards, director Ron Howard and Consult poll) believe the cancel- both of her NBC shows were per- diligently explored the toxic actor Gary Sinise, whom Kelly has lation of Megyn Kelly Today was ceived as failures. Sunday Night gun control debate at the heart interviewed in connection with too harsh, while only 26 percent With Megyn Kelly bowed in June of Jones’ “false flag” conspira- cies. Jones preemptively leaked a pre-interview with Kelly during which she assured him she would About Those Megyn Kelly Projects … not portray him as “some kind of bogeyman.” And a picture of Showtime’s planned Roger Ailes series is cutting a character based on the star anchor, the duo in sunglasses smiling but Lionsgate’s Fox News film is already shooting (and sticking to the script) BY TATIANA SIEGEL suggested an uncomfortable hat to do when your film’s real-life protagonist level of coziness. The primetime W becomes embroiled in scandal? Sixteen days show was quietly pulled after after Lionsgate picked up Jay Roach’s untitled film eight episodes. about the Fox News women who brought down Roger Then her Today hour — which Ailes with their claims of sexual harassment, the proj- was far more expensive than ect’s central character, Megyn Kelly, was on her way Today’s Take, the show it replaced out of NBC following her comments about blackface. — shed nearly 400,000 viewers

Though the filmmakers have been calling the drama and dropped 26 percent among GETTY IMAGES. an ensemble piece, Charlize Theron, who plays Kelly, viewers in the critical 25-to-54 is top-billed and also a producer. demo, according to Nielsen. The Production on the film began in Los Angeles on Charlize Theron is portraying Megyn Kelly in Lionsgate’s feature. fact that black anchor Tamron Hall, Oct. 22, three days before NBC canceled Megyn who co-hosted Today’s Take with Kelly Today, leaving the filmmakers in an awkward series from producer Jason Blum, based on Gabriel Al Roker, had left NBC rather than position — move forward with a tarnished heroine or Sherman’s book The Loudest Voice in the Room. Her accept a diminished role to make delay production by tweaking Charles removal required minimal adjustments because, unlike room for Kelly became another Randolph’s script and refashioning in the Roach film, which plays up Kelly’s role in Ailes’ thread in Kelly’s demise. In reality, Theron’s Kelly into a roman à clef. The demise, she was a minor character in the eight-episode daytime audiences skew female : JON KOPALOFF/FILMMAGIC. LACK: DIMITRIOS KAMBOURIS/ movie already dodged one bullet earlier Showtime series, appearing in only a few scenes. Her and African-American. And many Kidman in October when it was dropped by character had not been cast yet (Naomi Watts will play within NBC News argued from the Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures, Gretchen Carlson). beginning that the steely Kelly was leaving the filmmakers scrambling to find a new distrib- “Megyn Kelly was a peripheral participant in Ailes’ a poor fit at 9 a.m. “There wasn’t utor. On Oct. 9, Lionsgate stepped in to release the film, downfall,” says Sherman, who co-wrote the first a piece of research that suggested which also stars Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie and episode with Spotlight writer Tom McCarthy. “It was that Megyn Kelly had a warm bone John Lithgow (a source says the deal is not oficially Gretchen Carlson and her lawyer Nancy Erika Smith in her body and could go from closed yet but is very near the finish line). who drove the events that led to Ailes’ ouster. … By primetime to mornings,” says one Meanwhile, Kelly is getting the boot from a compet- the time [Kelly] spoke to investigators, Ailes’ fate had NBC News insider. ing project about Ailes’ downfall. Sources say Kelly no been sealed. Any dramatization that makes her a cen- Indeed, Kelly’s persona at Fox longer will be featured in the untitled Showtime limited tral character in Ailes’ takedown is pure fiction.” News was as a tell-it-like-it-is FREEDMAN: COURTESY OF SUBJECT. KIDMAN: GEORGE PIMENTEL/GETTY IMAGES. THERON

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 10 OCTOBER 31, 2018 maverick with a take-no-prison- ers interview style. And it served her well, earning her accolades from liberals even if it likely alienated a portion of the older, white male audience for Fox. But at NBC News, the attempt to refashion her as a daytime host led to awkward on-air moments and a rancorous rift between the anchor and her employer. Kelly’s reporting on misconduct allegations at NBC, particularly those against ousted Today host Matt Lauer, did not go unnoticed by Lack, 71, while many of her NBC News colleagues were outraged when chief Andrew she extended an invitation to Lack and Megyn Kelly. Lauer and his accusers for a joint interview on her show. To that end, one sticking point in her Blame Andy Lack for exit negotiations is that Kelly balked at signing an NDA. When Megyn’s NBC Mess her lawyer, Bryan Freedman, The network news chairman’s $69 million bet on a celebrity journalist who came released a statement Oct. 30 to prominence at Fox News was fundamentally flawed, writes the independent analyst denying a report that Kelly BY ANDREW TYNDALL demanded a bigger payout than the remainder of her $69 million The hiring of Megyn Kelly by NBC That a hard-news weekly magazine is a contract, he also called out Lack: Guest News two years ago was a $69 mil- 3 viable format for broadcast television “This is clearly planted by NBC Column lion gamble by the news division’s in primetime. The third miscalculation is nearly News to continue its mission to chairman, Andrew Lack, on four as old as NBC News itself. The history of the harm Megyn and gain some sort separate propositions. Lack, it turns out, lived up Peacock network’s attempts to create a weekly of leverage. It won’t work. Andy to his last name, and his bet resulted in failure in hard newsmagazine that could rival 60 Minutes is Lack needs to stop.” all of those areas. endlessly long and littered with failures. Sunday If, or wherever, she lands, Kelly Night With Megyn Kelly, the show that intro- likely will focus on rebuilding That star power of a celebrity journalist duced Kelly to NBC viewers in summer 2017, was her brand as a strong politi- 1 would increase ratings. A dozen years ago, doomed from the start. The perennial success cal interviewer and hard-news CBS News threw its checkbook at Katie Couric. At of 60 Minutes turns out to be the exception that anchor, something she was said the time, Couric was far more popular than Kelly proves the rule. Its previous rivals — Dateline to be leaning toward at NBC even was when she was hired from Fox News, yet Couric NBC and 20/20 — have long since abandoned the before the blackface scandal made no impact whatsoever on the evening news- magazine format for documentary-style true- broke. “Megyn is good at what she cast ratings race. If Katie could not do it, why on crime re-enactment storytelling. These narratives does, but she has to understand earth would Megyn be able to? Celebrity journalists are a cost-eficient use of a news division’s talent who she actually is,” says the PR come and go (look at the minimal change in audi- and resources. They are a viable programming exec. “She has a conservative ence numbers surrounding the recent departures genre. However, they do not require a figurehead female perspective, and that’s of ABC’s Diane Sawyer or NBC’s Matt Lauer or anchor who prides herself on her hard-edged not a bad place to be. The Sheryl CBS’ Charlie Rose), but the size of news audiences questioning style and hard-to-obtain sit-downs Sandbergs of the world loved her shifts with the speed of molasses, not with a jolt of with controversial interview guests. because she was speaking up star power. against Trump. And a lot of peo- That the skills of a Fox News star work Kelly spoke ple thought that made her part of about That NBC News’ Today show would be 4 in the mainstream media. The history of the club. But she was never part blackface improved by a single personality at its television journalism at the national level had on Today on 2 of the club.” Oct. 23. halfway point. NBC executives realized that the always been that the various news divisions and prestige of the Today brand was being under- cable channels were efectively in the same busi- exploited with just a two-hour time frame. The ness. Many of the original famous names at Fox show’s gradually changing logic — from hard News — Brit Hume, Chris Wallace, Greta Van news to household tips, from politics to pop Susteren — learned their craft at the broadcast culture — could be extended over a four-hour networks or CNN. The hiring of Kelly at NBC was arc, culminating with Kathie Lee & Hoda, as the first time the reverse move had been tested ladies who lunched. This longer arc required an on an anchor rather than a generic correspon- interchangeable team identity rather than dent. In these polarized political times, it turns the reliance on a pair of stars. So what did Kelly out that the two news ecosystems have drifted so do when she arrived for her eponymous solo far apart that the worldview required to thrive at hour? She broke up that team spirit halfway Fox News no longer is transferable to the main- through its arc. stream media.

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 11 OCTOBER 31, 2018 The Report secure the right director. Though whose work ethic fell short. Tom Behind the Headlines some critics have argued that the Hollander, who plays Queen man- film should have been dark and ager Jim Beach, was said to be so R-rated, King set out to make a upset with Singer that he quit the PG-13 celebration of Queen that project briefly. would not dwell on drugs and Tensions escalated into an on- Mercury’s 1991 death from AIDS. set altercation between Singer and King hadn’t worked with Singer his star (by all accounts, one of when they had a general meet- the nicest actors in the business). ing a couple of years ago. He With reports of a piece of electri- wasn’t exactly an X-Men buff, but cal equipment thrown by Singer when the conversation turned (though not at anyone), a com- to Mercury, Singer’s eyes lit plaint — apparently from Malek up. After that, the director was — prompted Fox to dispatch obsessed with the project, calling several execs to London. Singer’s and texting relentlessly. (While conduct was deemed not action- the film was in production in able. With principal photography Why Fox Gave London, Singer’s hotel room was about two-thirds done as the holi- Another Shot to covered wall to wall with images days approached, the studio hoped of Mercury.) to power through. Bryan Singer The surviving bandmembers But around Thanksgiving, were won over. And Malek was Singer declared that he needed to already keen to play Mercury; return home — for several weeks. ‘How many at-bats do you get?’ asks one insider about a troubled at one point, he recorded an He asked the studio to pause the filmmaker whose on-set chaos and odd behavior had concerned impressive interview in char- production. Snider admonished execs long before he was fired from Bohemian Rhapsody acter as the rock legend. Singer him not to get on a plane; he left BY KIM MASTERS presented a strong pitch to Fox anyway. “He said he was exhausted or executives who had Nevertheless, the price for Fox executives, who could imagine and something got thrown in worked with — and suffered was high, at least in psychologi- that maybe this time things that his mom was not well,” says a F through — Bryan Singer, cal costs. Not only did the studio would be different. Besides, Fox source involved. the question was: Why? Why give have to take the extraordinary wouldn’t be on the hook for the Production was shut down him a shot at making Bohemian step of firing Singer with weeks whole budget — in the $55 mil- Dec. 1 and Snider fired him soon Rhapsody when the director had left to shoot, but in the run-up lion range — as it split the cost after. A studio source now notes such an established reputation to Rhapsody’s Nov. 2 opening in with New Regency. that despite his claim at the time for causing chaos on set? What the U.S., Fox has been cringing Still, Fox chairman Stacey that he hadn’t been permitted won the argument, sources say, in anticipation of an exposé of Snider had reservations based on to care for “a gravely ill parent,” was that this was Singer’s passion Singer’s personal conduct what she’d heard about Singer’s Singer — whose 85-year-old project. Given his enthusiasm, in Esquire. behavior on Apocalypse and other mother lives in New Jersey — was taking a risk even on a deeply Reports of Singer’s erratic projects. Before in L.A. just days later. troubled talent might have led to behavior on set go back more than approving the deal, Fox hired Dexter Fletcher to rich rewards for 20th Century Fox. a decade, but Fox lived through she and studio vice shoot the final couple of weeks. But apparently, artistic rewards some of the worst of it on 2016’s chairman Emma While the DGA has credited Singer were not delivered in this case. X-Men: Apocalypse. While Singer, Fletcher Watts sat down for as the director, Fox stripped him Reviewers are praising Rami 53, had some good moments, one a talk with Singer of producing credit. Malek’s portrayal of the late insider says, he was “emotionally and King, according to multiple Whatever happens with Freddie Mercury, but the movie is very frail,” often unprepared and sources. Snider didn’t mince Rhapsody at the box office, was at just 55 percent fresh on Rotten late to set. If challenged about his words, telling Singer: Don’t break the harrowing experience worth Tomatoes at press time. Still, pow- behavior, he sometimes cried. the law. Show up to work every it? One executive involved in the ered by Queen hits, the film looks Meanwhile, there were the usual day. Failure to comply will bring project says no. Still, this person to open strongly. And even before distractions, this source says. consequences. says risks can be worth taking those numbers are in, Avi Lerner’s Singer had visitors constantly Snider’s admonitions had no on even troubled talent: “There Millennium Films already is coming and going — “People fly- effect. “From the beginning, he are artists we work with who are prepared to take another gamble ing in and out of town, put up in was up to his old tricks,” says a complex and raw in their behav-

on Singer, who is in talks to direct hotels, all on his dime.” Given all project insider. “He would shoot, ior. Do we tolerate any of that : ALEX BAILEY/TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX. a Red Sonja reboot. that, this person adds, “I was kind he’d be exhausted, [cinematog- kind of behavior going forward? I

of shocked when they went for- rapher] Tom Sigel would shoot.” don’t think Bryan is an interest- BOHEMIAN ward with Rhapsody. How many (Sigel had shot in Singer’s place on ing debate anymore. There are a at-bats do you get?” previous films.) bunch of other people who are.” Fox’s decision to make the film There was great tension on the But King remembers who begins with showman-producer set, caused in part by Singer’s launched this project, however Graham King, who had labored for tardiness and absences. Malek, troubled it turned out to be. years to bring Freddie Mercury taking his seat in the makeup “Bryan Singer got this movie to the big screen and had man- chair at 6:30 a.m., would find greenlit for me,” he says. “There’s

At center, Rami Malek stars as Queen singer aged to win over the surviving himself and other cast and crew no doubt about it. For that, I’ll Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody. members of the band if he could waiting around for a director always be grateful to him.” SINGER: JASON LAVERIS/FILMMAGIC. FLETCHER: J HOGAN/GETTY DAVE IMAGES.

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Amber Heard and Jim Sturgess in London Fields, which has grossed just $169,000 since its Oct. 26 release.

Heard, for instance, reached a settlement just as she was about to testify in a judge- ordered deposition about whether her rocky relationship with Johnny Depp (who has a cameo in the movie) factored into the fuss over the film. Through the settlement, she was given veto power on nudity in the final cut. While Heard said in late October that The Bizarre Backstory she’s happy London Fields is finally out and that the issues “are behind us now,” Hanley of A Near-Record Bomb is investigating whether she colluded with Hoffman to interfere with contracts, accord- Amber Heard’s London Fields is a disaster years in the making as producers sued, ing to one insider. its star claimed she was exploited and its director secretly released multiple versions As for Cullen, the director traded conten- BY ERIQ GARDNER tious emails with Hoffman for months about his is the story of a murder. It hasn’t and Hanley’s claim that directors, stars and the film. He invested his own money to finish happened yet. But it will.” So began agents had conspired to undermine the film. sound mixing and to have his version rated T the unreliable narrator in Martin Amis’ London Fields spent the next two years in by the MPAA. A few weeks before London celebrated 1989 novel London Fields. The pas- legal purgatory, until Peter Hofman, founder Fields came out in the U.S., where it was sage also describes the Oct. 26 release of the of Seven Arts Pictures, attempted a rescue distributed by GVN Releasing, Hoffman’s cut film version, which has earned just $169,000, mission. Hoffman was convicted in 2015 debuted in Russia, where it earned scathing a near-record worst for a wide release. of a movie credit tax fraud scheme in New reviews. Cullen begged Hoffman to take it as “I’ve read the reviews. I agree with them,” Orleans and was sentenced to probation, but a sign. That effort was unsuccessful, but in says director Mathew Cullen, speaking for the in August, an appeals court ruled that the mid-October, a deal was worked out to allow first time about the failure of the film, which judge had been too lenient under Cullen’s version to play in a select few theaters received a rare 0 percent on RottenTomatoes. sentencing guidelines. He’s throughout the nation. That’s not the cut being He also reveals some extraordinary details, now facing roughly 15 years in widely exhibited, nor is it the one screened to including how a convicted felon became prison. But while dealing with his critics. Despite the odd arrangement to release involved and how there were actually multiple Cullen personal drama, Hoffman with multiple versions in theaters — and remark- versions released in theaters. his new company, Blazepoint, ably, Hanley assisting Cullen in achieving In 2015, the $8 million movie starring bought London Fields distribution rights and this while the two are still in court with each Billy Bob Thornton and Amber Heard enjoyed financed a new cut. According to court docu- other — Blazepoint filed a new lawsuit against high expectations when it was set to screen ments, Blazepoint invested $2.4 million into Cullen on Oct. 19 accusing him of slander. at the Toronto Film Festival. But London London Fields and leveraged the debt to force Far from running from the movie, Cullen Fields was pulled from the lineup as producer the film’s production company into adminis- consciously chose to get murdered by critics. Christopher Hanley fought Cullen over money tration, a type of bankruptcy in the U.K. The Now considering retiring from feature films, and final cut and the stars refused to promote newly appointed administrator then set out to he says, “Under DGA rules, I could have used it. Then came a flurry of lawsuits, including settle lingering litigation, essentially pulling a pseudonym, but in that process, I wouldn’t Cullen’s allegation that his creative vision was back the Hanley-directed lawsuits. (A lawyer ever be allowed to talk about the film again hijacked, Heard’s contention that racy scenes representing both Hoffman and Blazepoint and I wouldn’t have had the ability to release with a body double had exploited her sexually, declined comment.) my vision of the film.”

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TV’S ANIMATION BOOM SPARKS NEW STUDIOS AT NETFLIX AND CBS Netflix and CBS TV Studios are building up their Deal own Toon Towns. of the As adult animation continues to explode (more Week than 10 new series orders in 2018 to date), Netflix is launching an in-house studio to better monetize what can be hugely lucrative programming. As it has with live-action scripted, the streamer will scale Netflix back on outsourcing the costly process to animation renewed BoJack companies like Bento Box, which is handling the Horseman Krentz recently ordered Hoops. Netflix’s studio, say sources, for a sixth will animate kids programming, originals and season Oct. 30. films, working with writers including Alex Hirsch (Gravity Falls) and Shion Takeuchi (Disenchantment) is one of those animated shows pops and becomes a to create new projects. big success with not only viewers but also merchan- CBS TV Studios, meanwhile, is launching produc- dising.” Indeed, franchises like The Simpsons spawn tion arm CBS Eye Animation as it enters the space multibillion-dollar empires that include video with CBS All Access’ Star Trek: Lower Decks. The David games, movies and theme park rides. Stapf-run studio plans to expand its offerings with The push arrives as adult animated comedies Tilda the help of former 20th TV and Cartoon Network — both originals (BoJack Horseman, Paradise PD, Swinton animation exec Katie Krentz, who inked an overall Disenchantment) and licensed fare (Bob’s Burgers, deal there in January. Rather than turning away Rick and Morty, Family Guy) — are among the most animation pitches, as it previously did, the goal is to streamed series on platforms like Netflix and Hulu. FILM sell content to streaming outlets, cable and, possibly, In fact, the latter says its viewers are watching nearly WS. Idris Elba (WME, the U.K.’s even CBS — which hasn’t featured a primetime ani- 20 hours of adult animated series per month, with Artists Partnership) and mated series in decades. Still undecided is whether Family Guy and Rick and Morty the most watched Tilda Swinton (UTA, the CBS will handle the actual animation itself. combo of shows on Hulu in September. U.K.’s Hamilton Hodell, “You can do five animated shows for the price of Says Stapf, “Things tend to get replicated when Peikoff Mahan) are one live-action drama,” Krentz tells THR. “The hope they’re successful.” — LESLEY GOLDBERG attached to star in George Miller’s Three Thousand Years of Longing. Power to the People’s Choice in Multiplatform Play : COURTESY OF PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE. SWINTON: NBCUniversal will be mak- final five years on CBS, the show averaged Chris Rock (ICM, Untitled, ing the most of its newly 8.2 million viewers and a 1.9 rating among Morris Yorn) will direct PRESIDENTS Big Deal acquired awards show. adults 18-49.) “This show fits in perfectly Kevin Hart in Universal The TV giant hopes a with what [NBCUniversal CEO] Steve comedy Co-Parenting.

cross-portfolio push for Burke says about owning not renting,” says CHOICE AWARDS. the People’s Choice Awards, formerly network executive producer of live events Allison Janney (Gersh, S/GETTY IMAGES. TINASHE: GABE GINSBERG/FILMMAGIC. COBAIN: SPLASH NE owned by Procter & Gamble, will be a high and E! executive vp marketing Jen Neal. Thruline, Nelson Davis) note in a rough year for televised kudos. And even if it flops, that NBCUniversal and Laura Dern (CAA, The 43-year-old populist celebration will owns People’s Choice in perpetuity ofers Untitled) will star in Tate air Nov. 11 simultaneously on E!, Syfy, USA, E! acquired the People’s Choice Awards in April. a cushion in the space. “We’ve built a huge Taylor’s Breaking News Bravo and Universo, plus E!’s 160 interna- business out of filming people walking in Yuba County from tional territories. And at least four marquee NBCUniversal’s purchase, which is said through a parking lot, but we’ve never gone AGC Studios and Jake advertisers have been secured since the to have cost a modest $8 million to $10 mil- in the building,” says E! president Adam Gyllenhaal’s Nine Stories. parent company made the show a point lion, gives E! freedom to change the show Stotsky, who had long sought a tentpole of emphasis during its Rockefeller Center to suit the celebrity-centric outlet without event for his red carpet brand. “This is Anya Taylor-Joy (CAA, EDWARD GETTY BFI. FOR SHUM: AMANDA IMAGES pitch to media buyers in May. losing any of its brand recognition. (For its already a win for us.” — MICHAEL O’CONNELL the U.K.’s Troika, Felker

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THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 20 OCTOBER 31, 2018 Rep 2M Sheet Daily active users that Snapchat lost in the third quarter, the Harry Shum Jr. of Big Crazy Rich Asians Number company reported Oct. 25, sparking and Freeform’s a stock slide. Shadowhunters has signed with Paradigm.

Pitbull has left WME for UTA.

Into the Badlands cre- ators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar have signed with WME.

Charmaine Bingwa, winner of 2018’s Heath Ledger Scholarship in Australia, has signed with UTA and Artists Gigliotti Carell First.

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Tinashe REPS CAA, CESD WHY SHE MATTERS The R&B singer, 25, who has worked with Cobain purchased the home in 2011 for $1.8 million. everyone from Chance Toczek) will star as the Phil McGraw (UTA, the Rapper to Maroon 5, title character in Working Ginsburg Dunn) has inked will make a transition Title’s adaptation of the a new deal with CBS TV to the screen, starring Jane Austen novel Emma. Distribution to continue his in Fox’s next live event, series through 2023. Rent. Tinashe will Girls Trip writer Tracy play Mimi, the exotic Oliver (ICM, Artists First, Power creator Courtney dancer struggling with A film by Myman Greenspan) will A. Kemp (CAA, Gendler & addiction, in Jonathan write a Clueless remake Kelly) has inked a multiyear Larson’s beloved musi- Brian Kohne at Paramount with GLOW overall deal with Lionsgate cal. Vanessa Hudgens, grad Marquita Robinson. that includes potential Kiersey Clemons and Power spinofs. Brandon Victor Dixon Rio director Carlos will also star. Saldanha (WME, Amy Poehler (WME, 3 “Maui” Film Screening Newhouse Porter) Arts, Sloane Offer) will Jacobson) and Billy Friday, November 2, 3:30 P.M. will direct TriStar’s live- lead Fox animated series Crudup (CAA, Lighthouse) action adaptation Duncanville from The will join Apple’s morning AMC Santa Monica 7, heater of children’s novel The Simpsons duo Mike and show drama starring Phantom Tollbooth. Julie Scully. Reese Witherspoon and Distribution an Licensing: Jennifer Aniston. Chris Pratt (UTA, Rise, DIGITAL American Cinema International (ACI) Sloane Offer) will star Jessica Williams (UTA, B Netflix has renewed Loews Hotel Rooms 521 and 523 in Warner Bros.’ untitled Company, Morris Yorn) will Atypical for a third season action-thriller from Taylor lead Hulu’s Four Weddings and Disenchantment for Sheridan. and a Funeral series two more seasons. re make from exec producer Destin Daniel Cretton Mindy Kaling. REAL ESTATE (WME, Stone Genow) will Frances Bean Cobain direct an adaptation of Guillermo del Toro (WME, (The Agency) has sold a graphic novel The Sculptor Hirsch Wallerstein) will vintage Spanish bungalow for Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps write, direct and produce in the Hollywood Hills for and Warner Bros. a stop-motion Pinocchio $2.3 million. movie for Netflix. TELEVISION Jefrey Katzenberg’s Quibi Donna Gigliotti (Bloom Steve Carell (WME, has set its headquarters Hegrott) will produce the Ziffren Brittenham) at JH Snyder Company’s 91st annual Oscars telecast Gugu Mbatha-Raw (CAA, Hollywood 959 property. for ABC, with director the U.K.’s Curtis Brown, — COMPILED BY MIA GALUPPO Glenn Weiss co-producing. Anonymous, Hansen AND REBECCA SUN

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SOCIAL ACTION How a For-Profit Developer Could Create a Hollywood Ending for Homelessness in L.A. Greg Germann and Diane Keaton are among the industry backers of a unique housing partnership By Peter Kiefer

hen The Soloist a milestone: Starting Nov. 1, a 5 percent return on his invest- Health Services. Case managers was released in 32 formerly homeless people ment. By relying solely on private will be on site every day to W 2009, the film, will move into the first privately funding, the construction process provide counseling, addiction which starred funded supportive housing avoids some requirements that treatment and access to health Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie facility forged from a partner- can send costs soaring — most and employment resources. It’s Foxx, shined a much-needed spot- ship between TPC and for-profit notably, the need to pay a prevail- these “wrap-around” services light on the intertwined issues of developer FlyawayHomes. ing wage. According to TPC, the that have inspired Germann to homelessness and mental health With L.A.’s homeless popula- project was built at a quarter of devote the past two decades to in Los Angeles. What no one could tion hovering around 60,000, the price and in a quarter of the the agency (TPC was formed in have predicted back then, includ- housing a few dozen may seem time it would take for an equiva- 2016 by the merger of Ocean Park ing the movie’s producer Gary trivial. But the $3.6 million lent structure built with public Community Center and Lamp Foster, is that nine years later, project, built from shipping funds. “These guys are like, ‘Let’s Community). “There is such a those challenges would crest into containers on Colden Avenue in go, let’s do this — we can build broad spectrum of what can hob- a full-blown humanitarian crisis. South L.A., could provide a road it in a year,’ ” says Foster. “It just ble any community,” Germann Now Foster and other map for a long-term solution. made sense to me.” says. “You have to approach this Hollywood activists — including “The time is now to stop talk- Residents will pay rent, much systematically and holistically.” Diane Keaton and Grey’s Anatomy’s ing about building housing and of which will be drawn from their Ten percent of the chronically Greg Germann, all supporters of to start building housing,” says Social Security disability, aided homeless population is consid- social service agency The People Foster. As one of 61 equity holders by a sizable contribution from ered “high acuity,” according Concern (TPC) — are celebrating in the project, he can expect about the L.A. County Department of to TPC’s John Maceri, but that

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segment uses up nearly 50 per- → Mourners gathered at a cent of public resources, which vigil Oct. 27 is why the organization focuses in Pittsburgh where 11 on the labor-intensive needs of people were killed that that group. “This is one of the day at the biggest opportunities that L.A. Tree of Life Tribute Synagogue. has to offer in terms of help- ing the homeless,” says Jhakil Doyle, who’ll be the facility’s on-site manager. Doyle, 27, spent Joyce Fienberg two years as a child in a county- ‘SHE CAUGHT EVERYBODY AT THEIR BEST’ funded transitional housing facility with his single mother. Among the 11 people killed by a gunman at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue on “Now, hopefully I’m Oct. 27 was the aunt of THR TV critic Daniel Fienberg, who writes about the tireless able to provide some energy she devoted to celebrating and documenting the large family she loved help,” he says. FlyawayHomes’ Keaton debut comes at a par- obody loved chronicling our family like needed a headshot from me and I ticularly raw moment N my Auntie Joyce, a pursuit she followed didn’t have anything I liked. The cor- IMAGES. POST/GETTY N as frustration mounts over the from Michelin-starred restaurants to the rect item turned out to be a close-up slow rollout of funds from 2016’s savannas of Africa. Over the years, she transitioned that Auntie Joyce captured at my $1.2 billion HHH ballot mea- from piles and piles of photographs to being able J. Fienberg cousins Tifany and Selena’s bat sure in L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti to pull out her laptop or iPad, with new technol- mitzvah party in Paris — exactly the recently faced a four-hour barrage ogy allowing her devoted documentation of my sort of crowded, chaotic event that can get the best of criticism from Venice Beach late Uncle Steve, her sons and daughters-in-law, of a professional, but where Auntie Joyce shone residents over his plan to open grandchildren, nieces and nephews to become because she was surrounded by dozens of her a bridge housing facility there. literally limitless. She never went anywhere without nearest and dearest (who had probably followed her FlyawayHomes’ next project (at her latest collection of happy memories to share, legendary, highly detailed instructions and lengthy 88th Street and Vermont Avenue) without a camera or a smartphone to accumulate emails to get to the venue in the first place). is financed and set to break the next memory. The picture ran in the magazine, and I don’t ground, and the long-range plan Sometimes she’d set the dozens or hundreds or think I ever told Auntie Joyce that she was is to build 450 sites, housing possibly thousands of images oficially a photographer for 20,000, by 2028 (in time for the to music, sometimes she’d just The Hollywood Reporter, Olympics). “People say this is such narrate. Nobody had photo an unexpected change of THORP: COBURN. TIM VIGIL: WASHINGTO MERRIMAN/THE JUSTIN GIESBRECHT/NETFLIX. DAVID : a huge, intractable problem and veto power with Auntie Joyce, professional course from her HOUSE they don’t know what to do,” says but the occasional blinks or decades as a researcher at Maceri. “We want to help create half-smiles would get lost in the the University of Pittsburgh. a different paradigm — a differ- blur of the slideshow and she She definitely wouldn’t ent model. The conversation is somehow caught everybody at have wanted to be credited or their best. paid, but I wish I could have shifting because people see a way Toronto-born Joyce Fienberg, a mother of forward.” A couple of months ago, THR two and grandmother of six, was 75. shown her that issue. AXELLE-BAUER/GETTYKEATON: IMAGES.

REALLIFE D.C. ‘GRAVITAS’ FOR HOUSE OF CARDS

t wasn’t Elizabeth Thorp’s idea to get into Underwood’s (Robin Wright) Cabinet. “Elizabeth I acting — or politics — but she’s becoming has a diferent kind of gravitas,” says Frank the first female U.S. secretary of defense Pugliese, who co-runs the show with Melissa on the final season of Netflix’s House of Cards. James Gibson. Adds star Michael Kelly, “When In 2014, during her tenure as editor of Capitol you have that chemistry with real people from that File, a glossy pub for the D.C. glitterati, she was world — it lends authenticity.” This wasn’t Thorp’s approached by HoC to audition for a small role. first encounter with Wright: She interviewed the “I just totally blew it,” recalls Thorp, star for a 2015 Capitol File story. “At the time, who nevertheless cemented a spot Robin said that D.C. was so much more corrupt on the creative team’s radar — read- than Hollywood, and I thought, ‘No way’ — I was ing for small parts over the next few a little protective,” says Thorp. “But now I feel years and, last May, getting cast like she’s 150 percent right. There’s some really Thorp as a member of Madam President sketchy shit happening.” — ADRIENNE WICHARDEDDS Robin Wright is the POTUS in House of Cards’ final season.

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 24 OCTOBER 31, 2018 The Official Launch of the Awards Season® NOVEMBER 4, 2018

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“Netflix’s fundamental “There’s something business more powerful than bombs, model seems unsustainable.” and that’s your vote.” ASWATH DAMODARAN ROBERT DE NIRO The New York University finance The actor, in a statement issued the day after his ofices in Manhattan professor, expressing skepticism in were found to be one of the recipients of more than a dozen mail bombs The New York Times that the allegedly sent by Cesar Sayoc to critics of President Trump. streaming giant, which is borrowing billions, has a sound financial strategy.

“I think those “Sometimes I’d go, “Some consider us individuals ‘Fuck yeah, I want overly permissive; probably know to see that!’ ” others insist who they are.” SARAH SILVERMAN we are prudes.” The comedian, telling Howard Stern SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS that years ago she would allow CHARLES H. RIVKIN The White House press secretary, her friend Louis C.K. — accused by The MPAA chairman, in a 46-page responding to a question several women of sexual misconduct report ofering a rare glimpse about who in the media are Trump’s — to masturbate in front of her. She into the workings of the movie ratings “enemies of the people.” later apologized for the comment. board, issued on its 50th anniversary.

“I’ve been keeping “This is the most “We both have a lot

my mouth shut, ETTY IMAGES. CURTIS: JASON MERRITT/FILMMAGIC. of things in common unbelievable cover because I just don’t story since Blake trust anything from that we like to talk Shelton won Sexiest that organization about that generally Man Alive.” whatsoever.” annoy other people.” HASAN MINHAJ JILL SOLOWAY The comedian, joking on SOPHIE GAYTER The Transparent creator, revealing at his new Netflix show about the The former 60 Minutes stafer, who a TimesTalk what she likes about new Saudi government’s frequently accused Charlie Rose of groping her girlfriend Hannah Gadsby, the changing explanation of journalist in 2013, telling The New York Times feminist comedian behind the hit Jamal Khashoggi’s killing. why she refuses to cooperate with Netflix special Nanette. CBS’ internal probe. M SPELLMAN/WIREIMAGE. SOLOWAY: GREG DOHERTY/G GREG SOLOWAY: SPELLMAN/WIREIMAGE. M

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Britannia Awards Beverly Hills, Oct. 26

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2 Emilia Clarke 1 8 Cate Blanchett (left) and Viola Davis From left: Elizabeth Blake-Thomas, Daniel Kaluuya, Isabella Blake-Thomas and BAFTA LA deputy chair Kathryn Busby

Election Fundraisers Los Angeles and Nashville, Oct. 9-20

14 15 16 13 Tom Freston (left) and Sheryl Crow at Brian Grazer at the From left: Musicians Lucie Silvas, Casey Wasserman Amanda Shires and Jason Isbell WME and Endeavor and wife Laura California Candidates Impact’s Nashville Wasserman Victory Fund event event

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 28 OCTOBER 31, 2018 4 Party Jim Crawler Carrey Brit Wit “We’re all fucked up,” honoree Cate Blanchett (1) said from the Beverly Hilton 10 podium before urging the Steve Soborof (right) crowd at the BAFTA with his Little Brother Britannia Awards to “give Terry Williams the person beside you a hug.” The evening also honored Emilia Clarke (2), Big Bash Gala Steve McQueen (9), 6 Beverly Hills, Oct. 19 Damian Lewis (7), Kevin From left: Hilary Roberts, host Feige (3) and Jim

Jack Whitehall and BAFTA Los RIS: COURTESY OF UTA. Carrey (4). — JENNA MAROTTA

Angeles CEO Chantal Rickards ODRIGUEZ/GETTY IMAGES. $1M for Kids at Risk Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater L.A. raised a record-breaking $1 million at its Big Bash Beverly Hilton gala, honoring Chris Silbermann, Michael B. Jordan, Shark Tank star Lori Greiner (12) and L.A. Police Commission presi- dent Steve Soborof (10). “You can’t relate to what . SILVAS: ERIKA. SILVAS: GOLDRING/GETTY IMAGES. SILBERMANN: CHARLOTTE BUHLER. BAR

GETTY IMAGES. CLARKE: TOMMASO BODDI/FILMMAGIC. KALUUYA: ALBERTO E. R being underserved really 5 7 means,” Soborof told THR Elizabeth Damian Lewis (left) and of being a mentor. “You Debicki Matthew Macfadyen can’t feel it. And that’s 11 what being a Big Brother allows you. It’s a heart From left: Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Tony experience.” — ALEX CRAMER Steve Vinciquerra, Sherry McQueen Lansing and Dana Walden Political Parties . WASSERMAN, GRAZER: LAWRENCE/ABIMAGES LILLY Hollywood rallied for the upcoming elections as ICM Partners hosted an Oct. 9 fundraiser for the

RICH FURY/GETTY IMAGES. CARREY, ROBERTS, MCQUEEN: EMMA MCINTYRE/ Democratic Attorneys General Association; CAA’s Darnell Strom and Simon Kinberg held an Oct. 14 fundraiser for Sen. Cory Booker; Kenya Barris (18) and UTA’s Jay Sures (18) teamed up for a Gavin 12 Newsom (18) for Governor From left: BBBSLA president and CEO Olivia LGBTQ party Oct. 15 Diaz-Lapham, Lori Greiner, THR’s Stephen at Sures’ Brentwood Galloway and BBBSLA board chair Laura Lizer home; Laura and Casey BLANCHETT: KEVIN WINTER/GETTY IMAGES. DEBICKI, FAVERAU, LEWIS: WILLIAMS: LEON BENNETT/GETTY IMAGES. WALDEN, GREINER: VINCE BUCCI/ COURTESY OF BBBS Wasserman (13) co-hosted an Oct. 16 event at their Beverly Hills home with Laura Wasser, Dana and 17 Matt Walden, Chrisette Chris Hudlin, Laura Shell and Silbermann (left) and Suzy Shuster Eisen. Ted Chervin The evening raised more than $600,000 for the California Candidates Victory Fund. On Oct. 20, WME and Endeavor Impact hosted a concert and voter turnout rally at Nashville’s Ascend Amphitheater, the brainchild of Endeavor’s 18 Amos Buhai and WME From left: Rainbow trainee Marissa Smith, an Edwards-Barris, Kenya alum of Stoneman Douglas Barris, Jay Sures, Gavin High in Parkland, Florida. Newsom and Karamo Brown — RAMONA SAVISS

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Heard Around Hollywood

reported in September that Kavanaugh was up for member- Power ship and was being supported Dining in his bid by ex-William Morris Jeffrey Katzenberg Snider CEO Jim Wiatt, a former Relativity and Stacey Snider board member. Not anymore. rubbed elbows at But what happened depends on Craig’s. … Peter whom you believe. An anonymous Chernin and Bob Iger had dinner at Toscana. source says that Kavanaugh did … LeBron James and James not receive enough votes, while Fergie were at Acai his rep counters that Kavanaugh Nation in Brentwood, “America’s fittest CEO,” Strauss Zelnick, preaches a four-pronged approach to “an ageless life.” withdrew his application before separately. … Hayden the voting even happened. Panettiere checked out D’Amore’s Pizza. … Jonathan Club does not comment Bruno Mars stopped Rambling Reporter on its members or policies. by Crustacean Beverly Hills. … Chelsea

By Chris Gardner ANDREA D’AGOSTO. OF URTESY Why A Star Is Born Won’t Handler was at Compete for 2019 Grammys The Abbey in West Hollywood. … Jennifer CBS’ New Beefcake Board Chairman As A Star Is Born shoots past Lopez and Alex Although Strauss Zelnick’s book, Becoming Ageless: The Four Secrets to $250 million at the global box Rodriguez dined at Looking and Feeling Younger Than Ever, came out in September, now that office, its soundtrack sits atop Avra Beverly Hills. … the former 20th Century Fox COO has been named chairman of the CBS Billboard charts for the third In New York, Kathie board of directors, insiders are poring over the wellness tome. Zelnick, consecutive week since drop- Lee Gifford shared the room at Michael’s with 60, replacing Richard Parsons, 70, who is stepping down due to com- ping Oct. 5. A release date of Lawrence O’Donnell, plications from cancer, also owns his nickname of “America’s fittest only five days earlier would have Monica Crowley and CEO” with shirtless photos in the book that he notes are not retouched. made the 34-track album eligible UTA’s Nancy Gates. Zelnick, who also shares that he’s 6-foot-1 and 160 pounds with 8 per- for Grammy nominations, so cent body fat, says that in his late 30s, he began applying the same why did the filmmakers hold out? “rigor” that he does in his professional life to his workouts. As for the Producer Lynette Howell Taylor ELLE/BAUER-GRIFFIN/FILMMAGIC. JAMES: JIM SPELLMAN/GETTY IMAGES. ALTA: CO ALTA: IMAGES. SPELLMAN/GETTY JIM JAMES: ELLE/BAUER-GRIFFIN/FILMMAGIC. four secrets to an “ageless life”? Zelnick says they are fitness, nutrition, tells THR that it was all about health and soul. He tells THR, “Try to move, eat a moderate diet, have spoilers: “The soundtrack is the some kind of spiritual life and go to the doctor.” story of the film. There are mul- tiple tracks that are sound bites Sam Esmail’s Wonderfully mantis — that begin in a corpo- from the film, and it was impor- Weird New Website rate park and extend into space. tant to [director] Bradley [Cooper] NEW Sam Esmail — who tells THR that The site “took about a year,” that audiences experience the HOT he’s back in the writers room says Esmail, 41. “When we were movie first, or at least alongside.” RESTAURANT for Mr. Robot’s fourth and final talking about it, there was the The lone Grammy-eligible track Alta Adams season as well as Homecoming’s lame template. I was like, ‘Guys, is “Shallow,” sung by Cooper and The Quick Pitch AGES. GAGA: NEILSON BARNARD/GETTY IMAGES. SNIDER: AX second season — is just as proud let’s do something interesting,’ Lady Gaga, which made the cut by Daniel Patterson of of another creation, his produc- and the web developers pitched coming out Sept. 27. San Francisco’s three- tion company’s EsmailCorp.com right up my alley in terms of Michelin-starred Coi makes his L.A. foray in website. Users can scroll through weirdness.” Users must click on a low key. Chef Keith many mind-bending images — one of several oversized eyeballs Corbin, Patterson’s including a centaur in a business for actual business info about protege, has built a suit, a shark plane and a praying upcoming projects (American menu of California soul Lady Gaga Radical with Emmy winner Rami food — black-eyed pea fritters, pig’s foot salad, Malek; Briarpatch starring Rosario candied yam gratin, Dawson; an Angelyne project shrimp and grits — in a based on a THR article by Gary stylish, lively room on Baum) and intel like staff bios. a grafitied stretch of West Adams for diners

from Beverly Hills and : COURTESY OF SIMON AND SCHUSTER. CBS: MICHAEL NAGLE/BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IM Ryan Kavanaugh Bids Adieu Baldwin Hills alike. to Jonathan Club The Inside Dish Corbin AGELESS Jonathan Club members can and other stafers are breathe a sigh of relief. Ryan alums of Patterson and Roy Choi’s recently Kavanaugh, the notorious ex-CEO closed Watts healthy of Relativity Media, will not be fast-food concept, joining Santa Monica’s vaunted Locol. 5359 W. Adams A small part of Sam Esmail’s company site. private social club after all. THR Blvd. — GARY BAUM

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Deaths 2 Ntozake Shange, who wrote the celebrated play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf, died Oct. 27 in Bowie, Maryland, of stroke complications. She was 70. 1 Alie Rivier and Jonny Danny Leiner Gutman , who 2 Jessie directed Dude, James Where’s My Car? and 1 3 Swaden 3 James Harold & Kumar Go Karen to White Castle, died Oct. 18 in Los Angeles Hitched, Hatched, Hired of lung cancer. He was 57. Inside the industry’s celebrations and news

James Karen, the Weddings director of litiga- president of interna- added oversight of promoted Sahar character actor seen Jonny Gutman, a tion services at tional television and Paramount Network Vahedi to director of in Poltergeist, The scripted televi- BakerHostetler, digital distribution after Kevin Kay development Oct. 23. China Syndrome, The sion agent at WME, welcomed daughter Oct. 17. exited Oct. 25. Return of the Living married Alie Rivier, Jessie James Swaden Tom Ara and Robert Dead and scores director of develop- on Oct. 15 at Riverside Blumhouse Sherman joined DLA of other projects, ment at Full Fathom Community Hospital. Television tapped Piper as co-chairs died Oct. 23 in Los Five, on Oct. 6 in Lisa Niedenthal of its entertain- Angeles. He was 94. Brooklyn in front Congrats executive vp produc- ment finance of 120 guests. The David Nevins was tion, Tevin Adelman practice Oct. 25. Nicholas Korda, an couple met in 2015 elevated to CBS vp production, Emmy-winning when Rivier was Corp. chief creative Hunter Alexandra Perez Nickelodeon tapped sound editor who working at ABC officer Oct. 18. manager of produc- Shauna Phelan worked on E.T. the Signature and tasked Jamila Hunter was tion, Anne Pedersen senior vp live-action Extra-Terrestrial and with obtaining a Adam Townsend was tapped president of senior vp business scripted content Fatal Attraction for ONNEAU/SKYDANCE MEDIA. RIBEIRO: SLAVEN VLASIC/GETTY IMAGES. last-minute ticket to named executive vp television at Kenya affairs and Kyle Oct. 29. the big screen, died WME’s Emmy party. and CFO at Showtime Barris’ Khalabo Ink Chalmers vp develop- Oct. 8 in Los Angeles Gutman delivered Networks on Oct. 19. Society on Oct. 25. ment and original Matt Farrell joined of brain cancer. He and she took him to programming, and Golf Channel as was 73. drinks to thank him. James Farrell was They will honeymoon named head of inter- in Greece and Italy. national originals at Amazon Studios on Entertainment Oct. 19; Chris Castallo Hollywood Marketing Kudos

events executive was tapped head of Ribeiro to host the 47th annual Clio event Nov. 15 Ribeiro /GETTY IMAGES. HUNTER: CRAIG SJODIN/ABC. OH: ERIC CHARB Jordan Kaye married Oh unscripted Oct. 22. Leor Ram in Seattle he 47th annual Clio Entertainment Awards (THR is a partner) are set for Nov. 15 on Sept. 29 in front of Skydance named Discovery Channel T at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, with 200 guests. Jun Oh head of named Sean Boyle America’s Funniest Home Videos host Alfonso theatrical and inter- senior vp develop- Ribeiro serving as emcee. The show, launched Births active business and ment Oct. 23. in 1971 as the Key Art Awards to celebrate the Jonathan Swaden, legal affairs Oct. 22. best in film marketing, has expanded into TV, gaming and other arenas. Some 1,500 execs a television agent Kent Alterman, head from across the entertainment spectrum will be at CAA, and hus- Lionsgate promoted of Bellator, TV Land there, with nominees including 20th Century band James Bekier, Agapy Kapouranis to and Comedy Central, Fox, Netflix and Sony Interactive.

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Brian Robbins The child star turned exec on building Paramount Players from scratch, his new gig heading up Nickelodeon (‘It’s in my blood’) and why All That deserves a reboot (‘I would have never canceled it’) By Mia Galuppo

A painting from Robbins’ wife, Tracy. Together they have daughter Stella, 4. He also has two sons: Justin, 18, a student, and Miles, 20, a chef.

Paramount Players is developing a live-action Rugrats movie, due out Nov. 13, 2020. Nickelodeon will reboot the animated series.

im Gianopulos lied to me,” discuss starting a studio label of Hancock Park, where he has ↑ “When you get over $30 million, you get to that rarefied air [where] you’ve got to says Paramount Players that would develop features with spent the past year remodel- make a $100 million. That’s not easy,” says J founder Brian Robbins Viacom brands including MTV, ing). In that same year, he has Robbins, photographed in his Paramount Players ofice on Oct. 12. from his office on the lot’s BET and Nickelodeon. Robbins put more than 20 movies into Redstone building. In early 2017, had an important question for development — everything from beginning of October, a week Robbins had left the success- Gianopulos, who lived around a remake of the racy Indecent after the announcement that he ful digital company he founded, the corner from him on L.A.’s Proposal to a new live-action would be heading to Burbank to Awesomeness, after its major- Westside. “I said, ‘Dude, how Rugrats movie. He has two fea- head Viacom’s struggling kids ity stakeholder DreamWorks long does it take you to get to tures currently in production, network, Nickelodeon, where he Animation was sold to Comcast. Paramount from Brentwood?’ including a live-action Dora the made his start as a producer and He was figuring out next steps And he said it took 20 to 25. Total Explorer, two in post, and one director on shows like All That. when he was asked by Viacom lie. It’s 45 on a good day.” — the Tiffany Haddish-starring Robbins, who began his CEO Bob Bakish to sit down Robbins, 54, took the job Nobody’s Fool — set to hit the- Hollywood career as an actor on with newly instated Paramount (and purchased a house in the aters Nov. 2. He finally made the ABC’s ’80s sitcom Head of the Class, Pictures chief Gianopulos to studio-adjacent neighborhood move to Hancock Park at the spoke to THR in mid-October

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THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 34 OCTOBER 31, 2018 to me, which I’m stealing now for Kenan & Kel and The Amanda Show, the rest of my life. He said, “We so I sort of have Nickelodeon in either have to make movies for RÉSUMÉ my blood. I really, really want the everybody or you have to make a brand to win and succeed, and so CURRENT TITLE movie for somebody.” So if that President, Nickelodeon I feel like it’s almost weirdly my somebody is teen girls, make sure Group duty to go do this and try to bring we make the best movie for teen PREVIOUS JOB it back and win. girls; we could go really deep in Founder and president, Paramount Players that quadrant and you get The What is the biggest obstacle facing Jefrey Katzenberg Founder, drank this can of Diet Fault in Our Stars. If you’re going kids programming right now? Coke while he was AwesomenessTV in the Awesomeness to make an African-American BIG HIT (Slides his phone across the table.) ofices, prior female movie, then you make Girls Selling AwesomenessTV We live in an on-demand world, to purchasing the company in 2013. Trip. You could make more niche to DreamWorks meaning it’s not driven by Tuesday Animation in 2013 for as audience movies as long as they night at 8 o’clock anymore. If I’m a much as $150 million. are broad in the niche. kid and I want to watch SpongeBob, I can get SpongeBob in a lot of dif- You were in the digital space for ferent ways. You have a generation so long with Awesomeness. Did Did you ever consider of kids who are the first genera- you have any worries about coming acquiring films? tion to grow up with iPhones and back into a studio system? Yeah. I don’t want to say which connected devices and streaming Not at all. When I started movie because I don’t want to services. You used to come home Awesomeness, it was really a side make anybody feel bad, but there and it was either Nickelodeon or project to my production company. was a movie at Sundance that I the Disney Channel and maybe I saw an opportunity to experi- [had] read the script for, and I got Cartoon Network and that was ment. It wasn’t like I woke up one these guys to approve a big check it. But now there’s all these “I am day and said, “Oh, I’m going to for me to go buy. It would’ve been other choices and games and probably friggin’ 29 or something,” build a digital company and it’s a massive sale. And then when I mobile games and console games says Robbins of the going to go from no valuation to saw the movie I was like, “Ehhh.” and Instagram. photo (center) of him on the set of a billion dollars.” No. It wasn’t a I mean, I went [to Sundance] and the Good Burger master plan. It was never going literally I had the cash in my back You started your career at movie with actor Kel Mitchell. to be my life’s work. [Paramount pocket to buy the movie. My team Nickelodeon. Are there Players] was the first job I’ve ever actually wanted to buy it. As it any projects that you would had. I’ve only ever worked for turns out, I was very right. It’s not like to see rebooted? myself. So I looked at this as I like it used to be, there’s not a lot I was actually at Saturday Night did everything else in my career: of surprises anymore at festivals. Live this weekend in New York I wanted to be entrepreneurial, with Kenan Thompson, who grew and they set it up so I could be Over the past year, have you up on All That and Kenan & Kel. entrepreneurial. seen the studio’s reputation in It was my first time seeing him the industry change? on the show and I really wanted Why were you putting films Oh yeah. Between Wyck [Godfrey, to cry. I was so proud. I’ve known into development at such a Motion Picture Group president] the kid since he’s 14 years old. All frantic pace? coming on, and our guys, we are That ran for 10 years. I would’ve We didn’t have any movies to making movies. Jim’s appetite is never, ever, ever canceled the show. begin with. We started a divi- large, and he wants to get to 16, It should’ve been [Nickelodeon’s] Robbins sion from scratch but also the 18 releases a year. We have a ways Saturday Night Live. All That was will oversee all of Viacom’s Nickelodeon studio — Jim started probably to go to get there. My hope is that a very sophisticated show. Young feature business, which includes an Are two or three months before I did. this division keeps kicking. The humor, but the level of comedy on You Afraid of the So the truth of the matter is the development slate we have should that show was sophisticated. Dark? movie. cupboards were bare. We really carry through for a few years. had to just be entrepreneurial. You could bring it back now. about turning his fledgling studio And we also weren’t the first stop After building the Paramount Don’t be surprised. Don’t be label into a production power- in town. The reputation wasn’t Players brand for a year, why did surprised. house and what was behind his great, so Jim had to rebuild the you decide to leave? choice to leave. executive team, and it was up to I hate to say “leave.” It’s all in the us to get some movies going. I same company and I’m going to What makes a Paramount told my guys, “Let’s not develop to hold on to the Nickelodeon part of Players movie? develop. Everything we develop, the movie business. Nickelodeon I was trying to be diverse for the we should be thinking, ‘That’s a is a very, very important asset to brands, so I was targeting the movie we are going to make.’ ” A the company, to Viacom. One of audiences of the brands. I was lot of people in the movie busi- the most important assets. I was making a Dora the Explorer movie ness just buy stuff defensively, struggling with the decision, but for Nickelodeon. Nobody’s Fool and I think we have only bought ultimately Bob [Bakish] convinced Early in his career, and [director] Tyler [Perry] was stuff that we’re passionate me to do this because of the Robbins transitioned from actor to director, for BET. The diversity of the slate about, which is why we got stuff importance of it. My first TV show helming Varsity Blues and Coach Carter comes from something Jim said going so fast. that I produced was All That, then for MTV Films. GROOMING DEW BY SU HAN BEAUTY AT

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have coveted as both a network programmer and studio executive dependent upon ratings and research testing, and more recently as a producer wanting to know as much as I could about the audience.

3 Respect the creative process. Producing premium content is complicated and requires specific knowledge, but tech companies have frequently made the mistake of not bothering to learn or understand the production pro- cess. Not distinguishing what it means to be a studio or a network. Not knowing the nuance that differentiates business affairs from busi- ness development dealmaking. Believing in a one-size-fits-all approach. Not appreciating GUEST COLUMN | JORDAN LEVIN the need to adapt. The result has been untold dollars spent by unseasoned outsiders and far too green underlings put in positions of Dear Big Tech, Don’t Keep authority. Stories abound of needing vendor approval to hire freelancers and purchase Your Talent in the Dark orders to pay vendors, money being held from Silicon Valley giants like Amazon, Apple and Facebook are spending billions preproduction until longform contracts are on original programming to muscle their way into Hollywood, but these companies signed, fights over employee classifications shouldn’t be a black box to their creative partners, writes a top media executive and corresponding responsibilities, confusion over terminology and the never-ending mys- teries that arise when speaking in acronyms. s Amazon, Apple and Facebook bulk up on streaming video and Netflix nears escape velocity fueled by $10 billion in debt, there’s a growing awareness that Hollywood is 4 Don’t reinvent the wheel. The best chance to A caught in the tractor beam of big tech. These companies have been a boon for the cre- create an original entertainment portfolio ative industry so far, catalyzing a content arms race resulting in a bubble for original content. starts with building a creator-friendly environ- But as tech giants move further into Hollywood and the industry repositions itself in the ment and an experienced infrastructure to over-the-top era, cautionary tales abound. AOL, Yahoo!, Microsoft — the latter of which I was enable a creator’s vision. This means sur- intimately involved with for the blink of an eye as executive vp/GM of Xbox Entertainment rounding talent with people who know what Studios — all had dreams of disrupting entertainment. In June, Verizon shuttered its Go90 they’re doing. Consider those people talent in mobile video service as part of a shift away from content, a move that altered the trajectory of their own right: creative executives who know companies including Awesomeness, of which I was recently CEO (again short-lived). how to identify unique storytellers, nurture The merging of Hollywood and tech is going to have to result in a blended common culture. their ideas, sharpen their POVs and hone their Yet big tech is a black box for producers and creators, many of whom are deciding whether to distinctive voices. Production execs, busi- sign deals with these companies or stick with traditional players. The rules of engagement are ness affairs and legal, finance and accounting unclear, but it doesn’t need to be that way. Here are a few sensible proposals for tech compa- personnel — all are needed to put the proper nies as they court A-list talent. systems and processes in place.

1 Explain your content strategy to partners. will live and how they will get seen. Worse 5 Be accessible. Tech companies, generally, Netflix, Amazon and Hulu rarely, if ever, share yet is when the newly hired entertainment tend to take a binary approach to business: either the insights or performance metrics executives don’t even know themselves. Some They’re either all in or all out. To succeed in that inform decision-making. This makes it are unfortunately tasked with building a piece Hollywood, these firms need to appreciate that nearly impossible for content providers to of the larger enterprise, without having been entertainment is a relationship-based busi- understand why a series was ordered, renewed presented the full plan. ness. Dealmakers need to stand by their word, or even canceled. For many creators, it feels not hide behind legions of corporate lawyers as though the goalposts keep on moving. Even 2 Be more transparent. As part of its quarterly attempting to renegotiate every point up until more difficult is when a tech company comes earnings report on Oct. 16, Netflix singled out the signature pages are executed. And humil- calling for original content for a new enter- To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before as one of its ity is key. Even if buried underneath layers of tainment service, but can’t clearly explain the “most viewed original films ever.” It should false bravado, I’m convinced that most every- value proposition, or how it will work. Creators be noted that we funded and produced that one in Hollywood knows that if they’re honest justifiably want to know where their shows film all by ourselves at Awesomeness. We were with themselves deep down, they know they fortunate that Netflix acquired it and marketed got lucky. Everyone has a hit they thought was JORDAN LEVIN is the former CEO of it brilliantly. But the ability of streamers to going to flop, just as they have sure things that The WB, Awesomeness and Generate and an capture and structure data provides invaluable fizzled. No matter how successful you are, luck Emmy-winning producer and director. insights into audience behavior that I would and timing matter.

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TELEVISION | KAREEM ABDULJABBAR Megyn Kelly and NBC’s ‘Hate Crime’ Problem The network’s misguided news division is complicit in the racism of its highly paid anchor, and, yes, she should be fired for her ‘blackface’ comments, writes the NBA great and Hollywood Reporter columnist

ost sentences that begin “When I was a kid …” M to complain about the crazy modern world don’t end well for the speaker. If it’s just a blowhard uncle at Thanksgiving, his grudging audience of maybe a dozen family members has already tuned him out after those five words. But if you’re Megyn Kelly, with an audience of 2.4 mil- lion on NBC, the ending of that sentence will live on long after Uncle Know-It-All is on the sofa in a pumpkin-pie-induced coma. What she says matters because it enters the culture as a splinter that festers into an infection. Kelly’s doe-eyed defense of wear- ing blackface for Halloween as not being racist is classic: “When I was a kid, that was OK, as long as you were dressing up as, like, or purple.” That’s a lie no matter The complication is that informed; which means she a character.” who says it. We all see color and there are two major categories deliberately, without regard to the Her statement is the common we all make snap, often inap- of racist: ignorant and deliber- harm she would inflict on people logical fallacy of “appeal to tradi- propriate judgments. This isn’t ate. The ignorant racist may of color, chose to pull out this tion” that suggests that because racism, but racial awareness. behave in bigoted ways because old controversy. Not quite a hate something happened in the past, The Broadway musical Avenue they don’t realize that what they crime, but hate crime adjacent. it’s true or beneficial: like women Q says it well in “Everyone’s a are doing or saying is genuinely NBC was right to cancel Kelly’s not voting, bleeding people when Little Bit Racist”: “Look around offensive. They could be a warm Today hour. Should it fire her they’re sick, or slavery. Nostalgia and you will find, no one’s really and wonderful human being but altogether? Yes. Either she delib- is not an excuse for promot- color-blind/Maybe it’s a fact we completely clueless about how erately was racist in order to juice ing bad behavior. If it were, we all should face/Everyone makes they are negatively affecting her flagging ratings, or she was wouldn’t have made marital rape judgments … based on race.” others. Often, when they learn too dumb to know her comments illegal — which we didn’t start to It’s part of our innate fight-or- that they’re inadvertently behav- were racist, which is inexcusable do in the U.S. until the mid-1970s flight response to identify what’s ing badly or holding inaccurate for a newsperson. Either reason is (with it being illegal in the entire safe and what’s a potential threat. beliefs, they will feel shame and grounds for dismissal. However, country by 1993). Why? Because That’s why some black people change their behavior. The delib- NBC might have sent her a mixed legal and biblical “tradition” held have one way they act around erate racist is proudly ignorant message when hiring her. Kelly that it was a wife’s obligation white people and another when and wishes harm to their target. made consistently racist state- to have sex, and therefore she they’re around other black people. In Kelly’s case, it would be ments while at Fox News, so when couldn’t withhold it. It’s less important that we all difficult to sustain an argument NBC recruited her in 2017, it was “What is racist?” Kelly asked. have that initial reaction than that she was ignorant of the rewarding her racism by paying That’s a fair question, because what we do about it. I look at it blackface controversy. We’ve had her $69 million over three years. the answer can sometimes seem the same way I look at heroism. many examples of it in the past Then when she does the same complicated. Some people like to A hero feels fear, but overcomes few years (Ted Danson, Luann thing that got her that mega- declare they are color-blind with that fear to act nobly. We may de Lesseps, Kylie Jenner, etc.), payday, NBC suddenly expresses statements like, “I don’t see color. feel that twinge of bias, but then with all the usual pundits, myself socially conscious outrage. Not I don’t care if you’re black, white we overcome it to act compas- included, explaining why this is a quite racist, but racist adjacent. sionately. Acting out of moral hurtful display. She’s an educated Firing Kelly does not wash away KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR is a THR conviction rather than childish person with a news background, everyone’s past sins, but it’s still a contributor and NBA Hall of Famer. fear is the basis for civilization. so it’s hard to believe she is not cleansing moment. TAYLOR HILL/FILMMAGIC TAYLOR

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Academy members resent for blurring the line between theatrical and home video releases. “Once you commit to a television format, you’re a TV movie,” Steven Spielberg said in March. “You certainly — if it’s a good show — deserve an Emmy, but not an Oscar.” So is there any way Roma can win? Yes, says Larry Gleason, a veteran exhibitor and dis- tributor: “If Netflix can get people to see it. It’s a beautifully shot movie, and ultimately this is about excellence in filmmaking.” First step is to have the most authorita- tive voices vouch for its quality — and Roma couldn’t come better armed, with Cuaron’s close friends Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro G. Inarritu lending their support. Together, the “three amigos” have won four of the past five directing Oscars (Cuaron for Gravity; Inarritu for Birdman and The Revenant; del Toro for The Shape of Water). Second, maximize the underdog appeal of the cast and leading lady Yalitza Aparicio. Netflix strategist Lisa Taback has already started, borrowing a page from the campaign she led for The Artist, when she had actor Jean Dujardin study English on his way to a best- How Roma Can Beat actor Oscar. Aparicio, a former schoolteacher, embarked on her English lessons almost as soon as Roma hit the festival circuit. Oscar’s Curse of the Third, tap into the swelling ranks of indie- minded and international Academy members Foreign-Language Film who have changed the nature of the orga- nization, leading to upsets like Moonlight’s An all-subtitles movie has never won best picture, so for Alfonso Cuaron’s personal drama to victory over La La Land. With more than 2,300 make a successful bid, it must employ a specific campaign to overcome its weaknesses members added in the past three years, vot- By Stephen Galloway ers now include helmers such as Italy’s Luca Guadagnino (Call Me by Your Name) and actors such as Mexico’s Damian Alcazar (El Crimen del Padre Amaro). These newbies may gener- lfonso Cuaron’s semi-autobio- campaign is complicated when you’re compet- ally object less to subtitles, but they still need graphical drama Roma, about ing in two picture categories — best picture to be persuaded to see the many competing a middle-class family and its and best foreign-language picture — as Roma films. That’ll mean beefing up foreign screen- maid in 1970s Mexico City, (Mexico’s entry) is doing this year. There’s a ings with high-profile guests to help lure enters awards season with the real danger you’ll split the vote. voters, as Roman Polanski and Leslie Caron Akind of hoopla that usually precedes near- Foreign-language contenders have paid the did with La La Land. certain winners such as 2007’s No Country for price for straddling two categories: 2000’s Fourth, give them a backstory that draws Old Men and 2008’s Slumdog Millionaire. And Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon won foreign- the film closer to their hearts. Again, Netflix yet, says one veteran strategist, “If I had to language at the 73rd Academy Awards but lost seems to be doing this, reminding audi- bet, I’d say its chances of winning best picture best picture to Gladiator. France’s The Artist sig- ences that Roma is rooted in a true story, are one in a hundred.” nificantly avoided such vote-splitting because and even bringing the real-life maid on That’s because the Netflix release is in France submitted Declaration of War for whom the movie is based to a New York Film Spanish, and none of the 10 foreign-language foreign-language that year; The Artist, named Festival screening. features that have earned a best-picture best picture in 2012, wasn’t actually foreign- Most important: Link the film to the current nomination in the past has gone on to win the language since it had no dialogue. political debate. With its sympathetic portrait top award, though four of them did land the Roma has other strikes against it. It was of a hardworking young Mexican woman, Roma foreign-language Oscar. filmed in black and white, and there’s been throws down the gauntlet at the president’s There are reasons besides prejudice. First, only one black-and-white best-picture winner anti-Mexican, anti-immigrant comments. some Academy members don’t like to read since 1993’s Schindler’s List — again, The Artist. Without hammering us over the head, Netflix subtitles; second, some older members still The Cuaron film lacks stars to promote it and should remind Hollywood: A vote for Roma is a feel a Hollywood picture should win; and any also comes from Netflix, a company that many vote against Trump.

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Only 1,000 Candles Were Needed to Light Up Disney’s New Nutcracker For an updated retelling of the classic holiday tale, production designer Guy Hendrix Dyas gave Drosselmeyer’s estate a vibrant look and a tree that towers over young Clara By Carolyn Giardina

o draw audiences into Disney’s (Morgan Freeman), who will gift her with a The Nutcracker and the Four Realms — Nutcracker doll on Christmas Eve, the film’s T the latest retelling of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s look comes to vibrant life “to uplift the audi- classic holiday tale that inspired the famous ence and give them a swell of excitement.” ↑ An 18-foot-tall Christmas tree, decorated with real candles, Tchaikovsky-scored ballet — production The estate’s entry hall, filmed at Minley greets Clara when she visits her well-to-do godfather. designer Guy Hendrix Dyas, a two-time Oscar Manor in England, is dominated by an 18-foot nominee (for Inception and Passengers), relies Christmas tree “with almost a thousand can- grand ballroom, where the focus is an elaborate on a sudden burst of color. dles all lit on it. Real candles,” says Dyas. “That swan sleigh “that sums up who Drosselmeyer The film, opening Nov. 2, begins in the was tricky, lighting all of those and getting the is — a wealthy, educated and well-traveled home of its young heroine staff and the stepladders gentleman who indulges himself in elaborate Clara (Mackenzie Foy) out of the way, before the mechanical toys.” that is “sort of cold and candles burned down The ballroom itself was built in a large devoid of red,” says Dyas. to their nubs! We were assembly room at a school in South London. It’s drained of warm very authentic about how “All the paintings on the walls, which are colors so “the audiences we did all the dressing.” actually hand-painted, are mounted in front can sympathize with the Since the year is 1889, the of the existing walls,” Dyas says, adding that actors.” As soon as Clara lightbulb was not yet in the production created everything from the arrives at the estate of her wide use in London. 8-foot-wide chandeliers to large picture win- godfather Drosselmeyer A London school became a grand ballroom. Then, it’s on to the dows to bring the luxurious set to life. LAURIE SPARHAM/ DISNEY INC. ENTERPRISES, (2 SPARHAM/ LAURIE

Style Beauty

Eye-Popping Color Makeup artist Autumn Moultrie predicts statement eyes with bright eyeliner will rule the red carpet, saying they’re “a knockout” on client Viola Davis (Widows) “because her doe-shaped eyes look phe- nomenal when emphasized.” Moultrie’s liner picks: Highly pigmented Dior Diorshow On Stage Liners in (from top) Matte Blue, Matte Rusty and Matte Purple; $30.50 each, at Saks Fifth Avenue The 5 Hottest Red Carpet Beauty Trends Glam-squad pros behind some early awards-season faves (Viola! Gaga!) forecast the looks poised to dominate the race By Meg Hemphill

New Takes on Old Hollywood Dos Hairstylist Cervando Maldonado, who coifs Felicity Jones (On the Basis of Sex), envisions “big, roller-set hair from the ’60s and ’70s” that’s “more done and more modern than old Hollywood glam.” He uses Sachajuan Dry Powder Shampoo to get texture and boost roots; $35, at Barneys New York, Beverly Hills

Photographed by Joseph Shin PROP STYLING BY ANGELA CAMPOS. ZIEMBA/WIREIMAGE. TARA DAVIS: DOMINIQUE CHARRIAU/WIREIMAGE. GAGA: TANG/WIREIMAGE. KARWAI JONES: NEWTON: HOBSON/FILMMAGIC. TIBRINA SPELLMAN/WIREIMAGE. JIM BLUNT:

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 44 OCTOBER 31, 2018 Less-Is-More Makeup Sarah Tanno, makeup artist to Lady Gaga (A Star Is Born), expects to see natural, glowing skin: Light foundation, instead of heavy- handedly “covering the entire face, [will] only correct what needs it.” She uses Marc Jacobs Shameless Youthful-Look 24H Foundation in shade Y270 on Gaga; $46, at Sephora

Super-Sleek Hair Hair pro Laini Reeves foresees shiny, stick-straight hair with one added element for 2019: a Blunt cut. She uses a GHD platinum+ flat iron ($249; at Sephora) and Shu Uemura Sheer Lacquer hairspray ($39; shuuemuraartofhair-usa.com) to get the look, one she calls perfect for client Emily Blunt (Mary Poppins Returns).

Shimmer on the Lids “Glitter!” says Georgie Eisdell, who would love to see client Thandie Newton (The Death and Life of John F. Donovan) rock the look. Eisdell, who uses Lemonhead Spacepaste, says glitter is best as an eyeliner or soft “wash on the eyelid”; here in shades (from top) Gunshow, Gildebeest and Dirty Penny; $22 each, getlemonhead.com Style

Costumes FILM  FASHION Rami Malek as the Queen lead singer, who performed in a shirt made from the top of a wedding dress. ‘It’s Not a Concert. It’s a Fashion Show’ Freddie Mercury could have been speaking of Bohemian Rhapsody’s couture glam or Lady Gaga’s eye-popping A Star Is Born costumes By Booth Moore

ock ’n’ roll style is light- seeing, it’s a fashion show.” In jacket with winglike shoulder R ing up the big screen addition to doing research at details (his bandmates mock it this fall, from the 1970s the Queen archives in London, mercilessly). “That white jacket and ’80s androgynous glam of which contain a wealth of news was found in Jimi Hendrix’s flat Bohemian Rhapsody, opening clippings, costumes and more, when he died, or at least that’s Nov. 2, to the contemporary coun- Bohemian Rhapsody designer what I was told,” says Day of the try western and rock-pop stylings Julian Day tapped a who’s who of vintage rental from Carlo Manzi of Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is British fashion to help with the in London — noting that, if true, Born, which has scored well over style icon’s gender-bending looks, it’s a fitting tribute because $200 million at the global box starting with decadent (and long Mercury was heavily influenced office since its Oct. 5 bow. shuttered) rock ’n’ roll London by Hendrix. Both films deal with the pro- boutique Biba, where Mercury’s cess of becoming a music icon, female love interest Mary Austin 5 with the former chronicling (Lucy Boynton) worked when the flamboyant life of Queen’s they met. “Biba owner Barbara leather- and spandex-loving Hulanicki put Mary at the front of Freddie Mercury (Rami Malek) and the store because she dressed the the latter meta-musically strip- best,” says Day, who sourced vin- ping back the artifice of one of tage Biba for Malek and Boynton. the greats of our time, Lady Gaga, “Freddie went to art school and who plays wannabe-turned- had a clothing stall at Kensington supernova act Ally. Market. He loved clothes.” Mercury was so keenly aware During a scene when the band 4 of his stage image, he famously is first signed to a record label, said, “It’s not a concert you are Malek rocks a white leather

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BOHEMIAN ↓ Gucci square-frame RHAPSODY glittered acetate sunglasses; $360, net-a-porter.com

1 3

1 Hair and makeup artist Jan Sewell touched up Rami Malek for a scene depicting 1985’s Live Aid show at Wembley Stadium; ↑ Rag sketch by Bohemian Rhapsody costume and Bone designer Julian Day. 2 Malek as Freddie lightning Mercury, with Gwilym Lee as guitarist Brian T-shirt; May. 3 Sketch of a regally costumed $95, rag- Mercury, who came up with the band’s name. bone.com 4 A sketch by Day of a batwing top by fashion designer Zandra Rhodes. 5 The film’s Queen. 6 Day’s sketch of a glittery jumpsuit.

jump around and interact with his audience in a way Day believes made him more accessible than ↑ Military contemporaries David Bowie and jacket; $3,649, Elton John. (Day also is design- farfetch.com 2 ing costumes for the Elton biopic Rocketman.) Re-creating one of Mercury’s harlequin jumpsuits Day reproduced many of the that sold for more than 22,500 performer’s most memorable pounds (about $29,000) at auction looks from scratch, starting with in 2012 was “an incredible feat of ↑Veja multiple pairs of black velvet engineering,” says Day, “since each gold metallic pants. “We cut so many, we nick- diamond [pattern] had to be cut leather 6 sneakers; named them the Freddie flare.” and sewn together; it required 30 $120, moda In the 1970s, Mercury was a to 40 fittings.” operandi.com frequent patron of pink-haired By the 1980s, Mercury had come British fashion designer Zandra out as gay, and his look evolved → Halpern tiger-print Rhodes, who made the white into something more macho, with sequined pleated batwing top he wore dur- leather jackets, BDSM-inspired tulle jumpsuit; ing a 1974 performance. “Freddie stud accessories, tight jeans and $4,550, net-a- went to her studio and saw her tank tops inspired by gay club porter.com making a wedding dress. He said culture and reminiscent of Mercury had FAR FETCH. FAR SNEAKER: COURTESY OF MODA OPERANDI. Tom of Finland an interest in ballet he’d like to have the top, so she ’s artwork. “He and donned chopped off the skirt and gave it to had visited a club in New jumpsuits, leotards and ballet shoes : ALEX BAILEY/COURTESY OF 20TH CENTURY GUCCI, FOX (4. JUMPSUIT: COURTESY him,” says Day. “I went to Zandra York called Mineshaft in the onstage for aesthetics and got her to reproduce the exact Meatpacking District … His and greater range

BOHEMIAN of motion. top in lighter fabric.” eyes were opened,” says Day. Mercury had a love of theatrics “The idea of fetish wear, now (“If anything, we have more in Dior and all the high-end fashion ↑ Valentino common with Liza Minnelli than brands do it. But back then, to Garavani Rockstud Led Zeppelin,” he said of Queen) dress like that onstage and in pub- bracelet; $195, and relished wearing spandex lic, it’s easy to forget how radical farfetch.com jumpsuits that allowed him to that was.” OF MR. PORTER. COURTESY OF T-SHIRT: RAG AND BONE. BRACELET: JACKET: COURTESY OF SKETCHES: OF JULIAN 20TH CENTURY DAY/COURTESY FOX (4.

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A STAR Costumes IS BORN Rock the Look FILM  FASHION A Star Is Born ↓ Gold costume designer and turquoise Erin Benach avoided ↓ Partow leather star studs; recognizable vest; $1,595, moda $390, jennifer brands; pants by operandi.com meyer.com Miaou.

↓ T by Alexander Wang leopard jeans; $295, neiman marcus.com EST: COURTESYEST: OF MODA OPERANDI.

↓ Marfa suede boots; $695, tamara mellon.com

“We started with Jim Morrison but realized quickly we’d need to tone it down,” says Benach of Bradley Cooper’s Western-style shirts, pants and belts, which she made herself.

The most challenging look to came to him shortly before film- started: a blank canvas, wearing MARCUS. V NEIMAN OF COURTESY WANG: AMARA MELLON. create was also the most simple, ing started and said, “I’ve been a simple black dress. It was about says Day of Mercury’s 1985 Live Aid looking at the Live Aid footage, taking her from zero to 100.” jeans-and-tank-top performance and I think the neckline needs to When Ally begins touring with look. Day contacted Wrangler, be slightly lower,” recalls Day. “We Jack (played by Cooper), she finds which provided the original style shaved off half a centimeter or her voice and her style, picking of jeans the star wore, and Adidas, less. But that detail made him feel up vintage pieces along the way which reproduced the sneakers. “I better, and it looked right.” for “a country Stagecoach Festival sourced the studded belt and arm A Star Is Born costume designer vibe,” says Benach, noting the ↓ Tom Ford aviator-style silver-tone sunglasses; $415, band from the place he got them Erin Benach says of Gaga’s Ally performance when Ally wears mrporter.com in London, but the white tank and her style evolution in the a white embroidered jumpsuit was the hardest. We did so many film: “We were telling a story reminiscent of cowboy couture screen tests. It needed to be tight, through costumes, carefully plot- label Nudie Cohn, which has but not too tight, and I ended up ting each time we saw her to be dressed Gram Parsons, Hank making 20 or 30 of them.” Malek one notch away from where she Williams and Jenny Lewis. “That MEYER. SUNGLASSES, JACKET, MAISON: COURTESY OF MR PORTER. MARFA: COURTESY OF T OF COURTESY MARFA: PORTER. MR OF MAISON: COURTESY MEYER. SUNGLASSES, JACKET, was the apex of when she started to feel like a star,” explains the designer, adding that Ally’s pop-tastic solo stage looks (clear plastic pants and crop top) were THR Hosts Costume Designer Panel inspired by In Living Color’s Fly Girls of the ’90s. ← BEVERLY CENTER is She and Gaga tried not to use partnering with THR to kick of the shopping hub’s too many recognizable labels opening after a $500 mil- (pinstripe pants with silver chain

lion renovation. THR style detailing are by Instagram-fave A/GETTY IMAGES FOR CENTER. BEVERLY STUDS: COURTESY OF JEN and fashion news director brand Miaou, and a fringed Booth Moore will lead shawl was Gaga’s own) and shied ↑ Berluti suede “Candidly Costumes,” an jacket; $4,150, invitation-only discussion away from actual star motifs. mrporter.com Nov. 2 in the Grand Court The exception is a high-fashion with designers including moment in the form of a gold Day, Benach, Ruth Carter Gucci custom gown worn during a (Black Panther), Alexandra fateful Grammy scene. Byrne (Mary Queen of “As a performer herself,” says Scots) and Sandy Powell ↑ Maison Margiela suede boots; 2017’s panel of costume designers (from left): Perry Meek, $995, mrporter.com Zaldy Goco, Ane Crabtree, THR’s Booth Moore, Lou Eyrich, (Mary Poppins Returns, Benach, “Gaga knew what cap- Alix Friedberg, Trish Summerville and Marie Schley. The Favourite). tured well on camera.” : CLAY ENOS/WARNER: CLAY BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC. (2. MOORE: SARDELL DONATO STAR

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BY NATALIE JARVEY • PHOTOGRAPHED BY MEREDITH JENKS HYPE, SEX APPEAL AND THE PROMISE OF YOUTH TURNED SHANE SMITH’S BRAINCHILD INTO ONE OF THE HOTTEST MEDIA BRANDS ON THE PLANET. THEN CAME SCANDAL AND SKEPTICISM. NOW IT’S UP TO CEO NANCY DUBUC TO CLEAN UP THE DIGITAL PIONEER’S CULTURE AND BALANCE SHEET  WITHOUT DESTROYING ITS OUTLAW CRED VICE’S NEW SHERIFF

“Bravo has Watch What Happens. We have ‘Anything Can Happen,’ ” says Nancy Dubuc, photographed Oct. 19 at Vice Media in Brooklyn. “I don’t want anything to happen — well, within reason.” Styling by Eric Turon Vince coat, Victoria Beckham sweater, Frame jeans and Jennifer Fisher earrings.

into an enterprise that can live up to its eye-popping $5.7 billion valuation. Smith had lured investors like Disney ($400 million), Fox ($70 million) and private equity firm TPG ($450 million) by touting his Svengali-like ability to deliver millennial eyeballs and “become the biggest fucking media company in the world.” Now Dubuc has to deliver on those promises amid widespread skepticism. It’s a blustery October afternoon in To do so, she needs to rally troops that Brooklyn, the kind of day that sends peo- have been largely without a leader since ple digging into the back of their closet Smith relocated to Los Angeles in 2016 for a winter jacket, and Nancy Dubuc and clean up a corporate culture that is anxious. We’re seated in the corner many have painted as tolerant — if office at Vice Media’s Williamsburg not outright encouraging — of sexual headquarters, which Dubuc has called misconduct. Moreover, she has to do home since the end of May, when she this during an industrywide digital replaced the company’s bearded, bear- downturn: Vice laid off several dozen ish and controversial founder, Shane employees in mid-2017, months before Smith, as CEO. Gone are the dark leather it missed its revenue target for the year, couch and hunting-lodge-style furnish- and Dubuc says she’s “not going to rule Dubuc, with In terms of actual content, her first Shane Smith in ings that the once hard-partying Smith out more” layoffs in the near future. 2015, joined Vice’s major swing will be a two-hour nightly preferred; in their place, a pair of pink After five months on the job listening, board after A+E live show that will air four nights a made a $250 million velvet chairs and a neon sign hanging learning and assuring people that she investment. week on the Viceland cable network. on the wall that declares, boldly, “Who has a plan, it’s time for her to put one in She also plans to bolster Vice Studios, dares, wins.” place. “Of course, there’s pressure,” she which finances and produces films and I’ve just asked the former A+E says. “Like any good Hollywood story, television shows for third-party buyers Networks CEO if Smith should have sold people look for the Caped Crusader. The (including a feature drama called The Vice before the market for new-media reality is never as simple.” Torture Report, starring Adam Driver businesses had cooled and a series of Primary among her tasks is taming and Jon Hamm, set to make a festival sexual harassment allegations swept the a culture shaped by a leader who once debut in 2019) and marketing agency company into the #MeToo moment. She told the Financial Times that his lifestyle Virtue (behind Google’s recent “Don’t Be brushes off the question in her signature priorities were to “get wasted, take coke a Browser” campaign). And while Vice no-bullshit style. “It’s sort of irrelevant and have sex with girls in the bath- Digital — a collection of web verticals to me,” she says. More pressing is the room.” Dubuc must simultaneously rein like Noisey (music), Munchies (food) and gathering she has scheduled with her in an unwieldy business, one that has Broadly (women’s issues) that hovers senior management team. “I really don’t expanded from a niche print magazine around 27 million monthly visitors — want to be late to this,” she says, clearly founded in Montreal in 1994 to 3,000 remains central to her plan, she calls on edge. “It’s a rattling one for me.” employees in 39 offices around the Smith prescient for diversifying when Dubuc has good reason to be tense. world, with units devoted to cable TV, he did, arguing that Vice no longer can The first outside CEO in Vice’s 24-year film, news, music and branded content. be called a “digital media business.” history, the 49-year-old former televi- So far, a lot her of energy has been spent Dubuc is making all of these moves sion programmer was hand-selected on the unseen (and unsexy) challenge of with the blessing of Smith, who since by Smith to help transform his com- bringing structure and order to an orga- kicking himself upstairs to the role pany from a skyrocketing startup nization that was built chaotically. of executive chairman has cut off

VICE NEWS VICE DIGITAL VICE STUDIOS DUBUC’S Vice’s international newsroom is Verticals like Noisey, Munchies The year-old studio was MAKE-OR- responsible for reporting stories and Motherboard still drive established to turn Vice into a that appear on the Vice News trafic for Vice to the tune of producer of content for outside BREAK website, to which Dubuc plans 68 million monthly uniques. buyers like HBO and BBC. In the BUSINESSES to devote more resources, and But as Vice has diversified, it works are feature Beach Bum, While Vice has its twin HBO series: fate-to-be- doesn’t rely on its digital busi- directed by Harmony Korine and determined Vice weekly and the ness as much as it used to. Now starring Matthew McConaughey grown to include a daily Vice News Tonight, which Dubuc says she wants to be (March 22) and the docuseries record label and has 560,000 total viewers per more strategic about how Vice 1994 for Netflix. “Our business London bar, its new episode. “We have the youngest distributes its content: “If we’re models tend to be conservative,” leader is focused audience in nightly news,” says on platforms with much older says studio head Danny Gabai. on five divisions exec vp news Josh Tyrangiel, audiences, then maybe that “It gives us more flexibility to tell Weediquette is a docuseries on Viceland “and it’s not all that close.” platform’s not right for us.” ambitious stories.” that follows host Krishna Andavolu.

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 52 OCTOBER 31, 2018 involvement with day-to-day opera- tions — except, of course, when Dubuc HOW VICE STACKS UP TO DIGITAL RIVALS chooses to loop him in. “We’re rabid A comparative look at web trafic for one recent month shows that the youth brand texters,” she confides. “If I’m telling the is big but still lags behind legacy news companies and a lower-profile peer board stuff, I want him to know. Plus, it’s the right thing to do. So far he’s been CNN DIGITAL 115M like, ‘Your call.’ ” VOX MEDIA 89.6M An uncharacteristically toned-down Smith, who since announcing the NEW YORK TIMES DIGITAL 85.2M transition in March has largely retreated from public view, concurs: “It’s her ship.” Total reach including VICE MEDIA 68.5M Vice Media sells ads for social platforms Ranker.com, MetalInjection.net, FUSION MEDIA GROUP 60.3M ModernFarmer.com and many iven her success at A+E, Dubuc’s others whose trafic it includes 176M decision to abscond to Vice may in its comScore. (On its own, UNIQUES Vice trafic was 27.1M.) have shocked many in Hollywood, but BUZZFEED 52.7M Millennial audience (25-34) Smith long had considered her his lifeline. The pair first forged a bond 20M 40M 60M 80M 100M 33% of total when A+E invested $250 million in Vice Source: September 2018 comScore, Vice in 2014, paving the way for A+E to later turn its low-rated H2 network into the millennial male-focused Viceland, which airs shows with names like Most Expensivest, Bong Appetit and Fuck, even Smith could talk his way out of. At literal. And I know he’s not. It’s not like

IMAGES. That’s Delicious. As part of the deal, the same time, Dubuc’s contract at A+E, he’s not smart enough to know how Dubuc became Vice’s first female board a joint venture of Disney and Hearst, the movie ended. But I didn’t mind it. I member. was nearing its end, and she had become much prefer that than the canned corpo- As early as 2015, Smith began to speak restless at the company to which she’d rate speak. I’m over that.” publicly about his plans to one day step given 20 years (starting at History So far, Smith seems to be enjoying his down as CEO. The following year he even Channel, where she greenlighted the time away from the spotlight. It takes relocated his wife and two daughters network-defining Ice Road Truckers). me weeks to get him on the phone due, PREAD: BUSACCA/GETTY SMITH: LARRY (they later had a third) to a $23 million Though she was leading a 1,100-person I’m told, to his travel schedule. And Santa Monica mansion, a move many business with about $1.75 billion in when he does finally appear, it’s with employees learned about in the press. annual profits, her keen eye for content, Dubuc on the line. “How’s the mountain, By 2017, with a New York Times exposé on including megahit Duck Dynasty, hadn’t Shane?” she asks him once he patches in the company’s toxic bro culture loom- helped her stanch subscriber losses from the undisclosed remote location ing, Smith began to suggest to Dubuc as viewers cut the cord. And while she where he’s filming his next Vice news that she take his place. Dubuc, a married had been in the running for the top segment. (It’s a policy of his never to mother of two, shared his ambition, his role at Amazon Studios, also in need of reveal where he’s shooting before it airs.) confidence and his brazen approach to a culture fix following the departure “It’s high up,” he responds. management. of Roy Price over a sexual harass- Asked why he was willing to hand After Vice’s #MeToo issues were ment allegation, that job went to NBC his company over to Dubuc, Smith says: exposed — the Times story, which Entertainment president Jennifer Salke. “You have to have content in your blood, landed in December, and a preceding Dubuc needed a bit of a lifeline, too. and Nancy does. Also, she’s a hell of an Daily Beast piece resulted in the firing Despite the growing seriousness of operator.” When I wonder aloud whether of several top executives — it became her conversations with Smith and the Dubuc being a woman had anything to clear that the company needed to make Vice board, Dubuc organized a series of do with the decision, he pushes back:

PREVIOUS SPREAD: HAIR BY JOHN RHAMANI AT SALON AKS, MAKEUP BY LAURA COSTA AT ENNIS INC. S THIS ENNIS AT LAURA COSTA BY MAKEUP AKS, SALON AT JOHNPREVIOUS RHAMANI SPREAD: BY HAIR a change or risk a brand crisis that not town halls with her employees at A+E “There was nobody else, no other candi- in which she told them she was stay- date. It had to be her.” ing. It was only after a reporter called Smith says he’s spending time over- A+E board members in March that they seas as the company prepares to invest learned she was going. “It was a shock,” more in countries like India, Singapore, Dubuc reflects now, adding: “I know a lot Vietnam and throughout the Middle VICELAND VIRTUE of people were not pleased with me.” East. He’s also working on new report- The TV network hasn’t had a Vice’s creative agency works on But she didn’t have much time to dwell ing and, he teases, a few content deals. breakout hit despite eforts at custom ad campaigns for clients on the decision. Almost immediately, Smith declines to provide specifics, but docuseries (The Hunt for the like Google and Park MGM. eyebrows raised at the metaphor Smith he can’t resist drumming up a little Trump Tapes), talk (Desus & And though, say sources, some Mero) and scripted (What Would marketers pulled back spending used to describe his relationship with hype: “It’s going to make some noise.” Diplo Do?). But Viceland, in just following sexual harassment Dubuc: “We are a modern-day Bonnie 70 million homes, has grown its allegations against Vice execs, and Clyde, and we are going to take all ubuc’s journey at Vice officially 18-to-49 audience by 8 percent chief revenue oficer Dominique your money.” After all, everyone knows began at 9 a.m. May 29, when she since 2017 and sees boosts in Delport says that Dubuc’s hiring how that story ends. “I didn’t approve sent a companywide email that she on-demand viewing, especially “has been very well perceived.” on Hulu, where it has a licensing He adds, “There was a concern the quote,” Dubuc says with something hoped would set the tone for her tenure. deal. Dubuc hopes a new weekly from some brands, and we just between a laugh and a sigh. “Maybe Unfortunately, employees focused more live show will draw more viewers. had to meet them and explain.” that’s the punchline, right? I’m really on the fact that the note was written in

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 53 OCTOBER 31, 2018 Comic Sans. It took her a month to includes TPG partner David Trujillo, realize that Vice’s hip employee base, Disney’s Kevin Mayer and former one that averages 30 in age, had been MTV CEO Judy McGrath — was get- snickering behind her back about the ting restless for the company to turn older-skewing font choice. It was her a profit. assistant who finally broke the news. “They’re still finding their footing. “Nick was brave enough to go, ‘They’re Vice has to define what it wants to be laughing at you ’cause of the font,’ ” she when it grows up,” says BTIG media says. “I was like, ‘Oh God.’ ” analyst Rich Greenfield. “The hopes of a Vice may have needed “a mature massive takeout by legacy media seems grown-up” to lead the company, as increasingly unlikely. They have to be one senior television executive puts prepared to go it alone.” it, but that brings risk. Dubuc’s great- Dubuc insists the picture isn’t est challenge will be striking the right nearly so dreary. “The question isn’t balance between building a sustainable if we’re going to be profitable but how business and retaining the edge that Vice News Tonight’s On June 10, not even two weeks after soon,” she says, “and it’s sooner than “Charlottesville: is Vice’s calling card. She knows this Race and Terror” Dubuc’s arrival, New York magazine most people think.” She also still and has become fond of saying that she episode documented published an eviscerating piece assert- believes that “a strategic sale” is the the 2017 rally that can’t “un-Vice Vice.” left one dead. ing that Vice was built on a “bluff” by most likely result for the company. Smith, with his penchant for F-bombs Smith. Dubuc quickly fired off a note to “You never really know when that call and a take-no-prisoners style of report- staff (this time not in Comic Sans): “We is going to come or who it’s going to ing the news, was a galvanizing force have a lot to be proud of and let’s just come from,” she says, “But I’d like to for the scores of young creatives who let this one roll off our back.” By her see a good couple of years of continued went to work for him long before the estimation, it worked: “Just physically growth under our belts first.” big media investments and sky-high being there was really important.” In addition to solving the financial expectations, when hard work was Vice’s top executives still find puzzle, Dubuc must simultaneously rewarded with drug-fueled parties and, themselves countering the piece’s tackle Vice’s culture problem. Among maybe, one of the coveted gold Vice thesis that the company is all pretense. her first tasks was a listening tour that rings handed out to Smith’s top lieuten- “People don’t imagine the scale of Vice,” took her to outposts in Los Angeles, ants (Dubuc now wears one). “A huge says chief revenue officer Dominique Toronto and London to see for herself amount of their mojo was around this Delport, whose hiring was announced what kind of a company she had inher- cultlike workforce. People go to work at just days after Dubuc’s. “It’s a big-rev- ited. What she found, she says, was a Vice for $25,000 for sweat equity and enue company with very strong assets young, diverse, enthusiastic workforce the rings,” says a prominent executive all over the world.” A Wall Street Journal that had been in desperate need of a at one of Vice’s rivals. “That culture story from February reported that hands-on leader. obviously metastasized into something Vice missed its 2017 revenue goal of To that end, she quickly made her really unhealthy. Now you have an army $805 million by more than $100 million presence known. The blinds that hung that you have to kill and rebuild.” and suggested that the board — which in Smith’s office were removed. “The first couple of weeks people would come in the office and then leave and shut the door. And I would get up and I’d open the door. And then people would shut the door, and I would open it,” Dubuc says. VICE’S CONSTELLATION OF INVESTORS In response to more specific allega- Since 2011, the company has raised more than $1.4 billion from a who’s who of media, tions of harassment in the workplace, quickly boosting its valuation to $5.7 billion she says she has drawn a clear line with employees: “It won’t be toler- WPP ated.” Several employees named in the Times piece, including chief digital TPG Undisclosed 21ST CENTURY FOX officer Mike Germano and documen- 10% at an undisclosed valuation in 2011 tary film head Jason Mojica, were let go $450M $70M before Dubuc came on board. President 8% at a $5.7B valuation in 2017 5% at a $1.4B valuation in 2013 Andrew Creighton was cleared of the allegation levied against him in the Times — a former employee said she was fired for rejecting an “intimate rela- DISNEY A+E tionship” with him and later received $400M TECHNOLOGY $250M a settlement from the company — but CROSSOVER VENTURES opted not to return from his leave of 10% at a $4B valuation in 2015 10% at a $2.5B valuation in 2014 absence. “I need to go forward with my $250M team,” Dubuc says. 10% at a $2.5B valuation in 2014 By the time Dubuc arrived at Vice, a Source: THR Research Diversity and Inclusion advisory board

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 54 OCTOBER 31, 2018 Amid this work, Smith and is Viceland Live, a mix of commentary, co-founder Suroosh Alvi, the men who guest interviews and prepackaged propagated an anything-goes culture, segments that will tape in front of an have deliberately receded into the back- intimate studio audience each night ground. (A third Vice co-founder, Gavin from Vice HQ in Brooklyn. The show McInnes, left the company in 2008 is expected to cover everything from and two years ago created the far-right “Kavanaugh to Cardi B,” says Viceland group Proud Boys.) “We raised our hand development exec Nomi Ernst Leidner. and took responsibility and commit- The hope is that the live show will ted ourselves to this sort of unwavering give the network’s viewers (median goal of creating the best workplace for age 45) a reason to tune in each night. our employees,” Smith says when asked After all, Viceland is still only in if his decision to step down as CEO was 68 million U.S. households, and linear the result of sexual harassment allega- ratings are so low, most series don’t tions against the company. “This means appear on Nielsen’s top 150 shows. “It taking action, and that’s exactly what creates consistency in a schedule,” we’re doing.” says Dubuc of the strategy. “Bravo has Such acts of contrition may service Watch What Happens. We have ‘Anything Vice well with its changing audience, Can Happen.’ ” She stops herself. “I too. As its core millennial demo ages don’t want anything to happen — well, up, the company needs to make sure within reason.” it is attracting Generation Z, which While Dubuc and her Viceland team currently makes up 37 percent of its haven’t run the live show plan by HBO, audience. To do this, Dubuc commis- they’re confident that it won’t breach sioned a just-completed study on the Vice’s agreement that news remain group that Vice will use to map future exclusive to the premium cable chan- strategy. The report revealed, among nel. HBO airs around 200 episodes of other things, that the younger audience Vice programming per year, but that isn’t as attracted to the punk ethos that number could soon change. HBO execu- Vice has long espoused. To Gen Z, it’s tives won’t confirm, but sources say hip to be square. “The [Gen Z] audience that Vice’s weekly newsmagazine show wants to feel hopeful and have a sense of is expected to end after this season. optimism about the future,” says chief Daily sister show Vice News Tonight is brand officer Spencer Baim. “I do think expected to continue, however, and there needs to be some shifts, one being HBO CEO Richard Plepler says he is still in tone. We are a youth media brand, bullish on the Vice brand: “If you do and if we lose that, I think we lose.” smart context on news and information in a world that is so filled with misin- ubuc is lounging on a leather formation and confusion, there’s a real couch in a conference room that audience for that.” overlooks the dozens of young employ- Back in Brooklyn, Dubuc invites me ees typing away at Vice’s Venice, to her office to pick up where we left off. California, office. It’s been a hectic day, and to unwind, Danny Gabai, a longtime employee content strategy executive, CBS veteran tapped to run its new studio division, Marsha Cooke, joins us for a glass of has just launched into a slide presen- wine. Dubuc shows Cooke a picture on that includes Gloria Steinem, former “We’ve never been tation showing off their slate of film her phone of an Edie Parker-designed less of a digital Michelle Obama chief of staff Tina media company and TV projects (including a Gareth gold purse, “Vice” emblazoned across Tchen and Time’s Up lawyer Roberta than we are today,” Evans-created TV crime drama Gangs its front in bold, black lettering: “That’s says Dubuc. Kaplan had already been conducting its of London and the documentary feature going to be my version of the ring,” she Brunello Cucinelli jacket, own meetings with staff and presented Anthony Thomas Melillo Fyre, about the failed music festival). says “Because that’s just for women.” shirt, Yigal Azrouel several recommendations, like providing pants, Pluma earrings, But first Dubuc, dressed down in a I ask where Dubuc hopes Vice will be Zoe Chicco necklace, better paid leave to new parents and set- Alexandre Birman shoes. chunky sweater and sneakers, wants to in a few years. “On the cover of Time ting up affinity groups (People of Color; see their sizzle reel. “In general we’ve magazine,” Dubuc jokes — a callback Parents). In Kaplan’s view, however, got to take another pass at reels,” Dubuc to another of her predecessor’s boasts, hiring Dubuc was the most important says after the clip — all flashy images that within a year of Viceland’s launch change. “Nancy has a huge symbolic role and bumping music. “One of the things he would be on that magazine’s cover as at a company in which there had been we have to work on externally is ‘What the man who brought millennials back a sense that it was a male-dominated, is Vice?’ That narrative has been lost.” to television. (He wasn’t.) But that’s a macho place, particularly among the old She now has to figure out how to stitch Smith response, not a Dubuc one, so she guard,” she says. Meanwhile, Dubuc says all of Vice’s disparate businesses into reconsiders. “Bigger but hopefully not Vice is putting the finishing touches on something cohesive — a phrase she has any less nimble and any less creative,” its plan to reach gender pay parity by been testing out lately is “One Vice.” she says. “And still very much Vice, you year’s end. And one manifestation of her strategy know? It’s got to be Vice.”

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THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 55 OCTOBER 31, 2018 hat does it mean to be “digital” in 2018? Is Netflix, which will release hun- THE OLD DOGS WITH NEW TRICKS dreds of film and TV projects this year, still digital? Or, with its $134 billion market cap, is it simply the second-largest media company in the world? And Jefrey Katzenberg: chairman, Quibi what about Disney? The $170 billion entertainment conglomerate is planning Meg Whitman: CEO, Quibi one of the most buzzed-about subscription streaming services of the year. People may snicker at the company’s Does that make it digital? name, but they once laughed at Hulu Tech companies that were once considered disrupters — like YouTube and Google — have as well, and that turned out OK. Quibi grown into media giants in their own right. In 2017, online advertising reached $209 billion, — a combination of the words “quick” for the first time surpassing the TV ad market. So, in this new media environment, where virtu- and “bite” — is what Katzenberg and ally every studio is launching its own streaming service and every tech company is getting into Whitman are calling their subscription the TV show-producing business, exactly who is disrupting who? service for shortform content that will This year’s Digital Disrupters list cuts through the confusion by focusing on the people stream “chapters” of less than 10 min- straddling the very edge of the digital wave, the startups that could one day grow into the next utes each, designed with the on-the-go generation of giants. The folks on these pages are developing new online technologies (like viewing pleasure of 25-to-35-year-olds Yoni Bloch and Nancy Tellem’s interactive streaming platform), experimenting with new in mind. “Every morning you leave storytelling techniques (like Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s upcoming shortform home with a TV in your pocket and you video play) and inventing whole new ways to make money (like the microtransactions in Tim have all these in-between moments,” Sweeney’s Fortnite). Then, of course, there’s Will Smith. Old media or new? In his case, both. says former Hewlett Packard CEO Whitman, 62, explaining why she and Katzenberg are betting on the short attention spans of younger consum- ers. With $1 billion in seed money from Alibaba, Goldman Sachs and all the THE CHOOSE-YOUR-OWN-ADVENTURE personalities mouthing the words to Bob major studios, including Disney, Fox, STORYTELLERS Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone”). The New Sony and Viacom, and orders for series York and Tel Aviv company, which in from creatives like Jason Blum, Antoine Yoni Bloch: CEO, Eko 2015 tapped CBS veteran and longtime Fuqua, Guillermo del Toro and Lena Nancy Tellem: chief media oficer, Eko adviser Tellem as chief media officer and Waithe, Quibi is scheduled to launch Someday soon, streamers like Netflix executive chairman, will help Walmart as a two-tiered subscription service in and Amazon will likely offer content create original interactive content — late 2019 or early 2020 ($5 a month that lets viewers pick their own plot think a cooking show or toy catalog. with commercials, $8 without). In the twists in interactive adventures — and Eko is also expanding into ambitious meantime, it’s rapidly staffing up its that someday just got a little closer. In interactive storytelling, partnering with headquarters in Hollywood’s Media UL MORRIS/BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAGES. October, Walmart invested a reported Sony Pictures Entertainment and talent District. Among first big hires is former $250 million in a new joint venture with like Mark and Jay Duplass on develop- THR editor Janice Min. Says Katzenberg, Bloch and Tellem’s Eko, a startup laying ing what could turn out to be a whole 67: “This can and should be a new the technological foundation for the new species of pick-your-plot program- golden age of storytelling. My dream is future of interactive streaming. “It’s a Bloch ming. Says Tellem, 64: “What we’re that we’ll come back here 10 years from deal that puts more money than ever trying to accomplish here is really being now and we’ll have been through the era before into this platform,” says Bloch, 37, embraced by Hollywood.” of movies, the era of TV, and now we’ll a former recording artist in Israel who THE THING GEN Z IS INTO THAT I DON’T be in the era of Quibi.” started Eko in 2010 as a way to create UNDERSTAND Bloch: “Tide Pods and influ- WHAT I DO WHEN I WANT TO DISCONNECT interactive music videos (like the one encer marketing, but I’m coming around Katzenberg: “I don’t know. I’ve never where viewers can choose various TV Tellem on one out of two.” — NATALIE JARVEY wanted to.” — BRYN ELISE SANDBERG

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THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 56 OCTOBER 31, 2018 A MOVIE STAR TURNED YOUTUBE PERSONALITY. THE HOLLYWOOD MOGUL REIMAGINING DIGITAL VIDEO. AND YES, THE GUY BEHIND FORTNITE. ALL ARE ON THR’S LIST OF THE YEAR’S 10 BIGGEST, MOST BUZZED-ABOUT, INDUSTRY-SHAKING ONLINE OPERATORS

GAMING’S GAME CHANGERS ← Ninja often spends all day live- streaming on Twitch. Bobby Kotick: CEO, Activision Blizzard Nate Nanzer: Overwatch Year’s event that will League commissioner stream for 12 straight Whether it’s an actual athletic pursuit hours from Times is debatable, but there’s little doubt that Square. “I just don’t video gaming is becoming a supersized burn out,” Illinois-based spectator sport. When, in 2016, Kotick, Ninja boasts. “I keep 55, and his team at Activision Blizzard trucking, man.” decided to create a professional league While Ninja may be for their game Overwatch — a first-per- Twitch’s most famous son shooter with more than 40 million streamer, he isn’t the players — they attracted backing from only personality on the investors including NFL owners Robert service, which has been Kraft and Stan Kroenke and had no THE SHOW AND TELLERS aggressively courting trouble finding an audience, both at live internet stars and media events (where thousands pack stadiums Emmett Shear: CEO, Twitch and Ninja: gamer brands to make more to watch gamers fiddle with joysticks) One day early this year, video gaming. More than videos exclusively for and online. The first season of the Ninja (aka 27-year-old 650,000 tuned in to its 15 million daily users. Overwatch League, in which 12 teams professional gamer watch, a new record for Even more ambitious, competed throughout 2018, culminated Richard Tyler Blevins) was the 7-year-old platform Twitch is also moving in July with its Grand Finals pulling in playing Fortnite on Twitch and a huge boost to into non-gaming content, more than 10 million online viewers (it — as he does virtually its biggest star. Within like hosting Doctor Who also broadcast on ESPN and DisneyXD). Katzenberg every day, all day — when months, Ninja’s Twitch marathons. “[Viewers] Next year, with 20 teams competing, he got a message that following blew up from are conversing with each should be even bigger. “With our first Drake was now following 500,000 to more than other in Twitch’s chat 12 teams, we were selling a vision and a him on Instagram. “My 11 million, he appeared about what’s happening, plan,” says Nanzer, 39. “This year, we’re entire chat [room] started on the cover of ESPN creating a completely selling a successful product.” New fran- freaking out,” Ninja The Magazine (the first diferent experience,” chises have been valued at $30 million to Whitman recalls of the moment. “I e-sports athlete to do so) says Shear, 35, explaining $60 million, and analysts anticipate that ended up following him and he partnered with the appeal of watching a those numbers could increase over the and Drake DM’ed me Red Bull to host a New campy British sci-fi series next few years, with total global e-sports and asked to get some on the site. projected to exceed $1.5 billion in value games in.” Still, for Ninja, Twitch by 2020. “What we’re really looking to do Flash-forward to will always be about next year is continue to expand the audi- March, when Ninja and gaming. He’s not all that Kotick ence,” says Nanzer, adding that he wants Drake actually did get interested in parlaying “to create a product that’s accessible together — remotely, at his newfound fame into to both e-sports fans and fans of more least — to play Fortnite a career in Hollywood. traditional sports.” on Twitch, the Amazon- “The whole spiel of living THE INVENTION I WISH I COULD TAKE CREDIT FOR owned streaming site that there and being in that Nanzer: “Alexa. It’s the only adult voice ofers viewers real-time world? I’m going to pass my kids listen to.” — PATRICK SHANLEY Nanzer peeks at other people’s Shear on that.”  P.S.

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 57 OCTOBER 31, 2018 THE EAR BUDS

Alex Blumberg and Matthew Lieber: co-founders, Gimlet Media The podcasting boom hit a few bumps in September — podcast network Panoply cut its editorial department and BuzzFeed got rid of its in-house production team — but the two guys who started Gimlet Media, producer of such pod- casts as Reply All and Heavyweight, say they couldn’t feel better about the industry. “Some say there is a bubble in podcasting and it is beginning to deflate,” says Lieber, 39. “Nothing could be further from the truth.” The co-founders point to the 120-person company’s move to a new ofice in downtown Brooklyn, which Lieber likes to call “the biggest podcast production facility on the planet,” as a sign of its upward trajectory. What’s changed, they contend, is that “dabbling” in podcasts no longer works. “When you focus on audio, it’s a great business to be in,” says Blumberg, 51, the former co-host of NPR’s Planet Money. “We’re one of the few media companies that’s not pivoting to video. We’re where we want to be.” But Gimlet is pivoting to Hollywood. The company — which has raised more than $27 million from investors including WPP and Lowercase Capital — has established an entertainment arm, Gimlet Pictures, to translate its audio stories into moving pictures. Its latest adapta- tion, the psychological thriller Homecoming, based on Gimlet’s first fictional podcast, debuts Nov. 2 on Amazon with a cast including Julia Roberts and Bobby Cannavale (Catherine Keener and Oscar Isaac voiced the original, which has more than 10 million downloads). Though it comes on the heels of the cancellation of the company’s first TV show, ABC’s Alex, Inc., Lieber isn’t worried. “I wouldn’t say Homecoming is make or break for us,” he says. Another adaptation is already in the works: An epi- sode of Reply All is being adapted into a feature film, with From left: Alex Blumberg, vp new show development Robert Downey Jr. attached to play notorious 1920s scam Nazanin Rafsanjani, artist Dr. John Brinkley.  JEREMY BARR Matthew Lieber and executive producer, scripted, Mimi O’Donnell were photographed Oct. 18 at Gimlet Media in Brooklyn.

THE ENABLER DIGITAL VIDEO: THE NEW AD FRONTIER Michael Paull: president, Digital ad spending has finally surpassed TV — with social giants like Facebook Disney Streaming Services leading the way — but online video advertising still has some catching up do Live-streaming a single sporting event is TV and Digital Video Ad Spending Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat’s complicated enough. Try live-streaming Projections for video ad spending on TV and online over Percentage of 2018 Revenue 10 or 12 at the same time on the same the next five years show the gap is tightening From Video platform. That’s what Disney’s ESPN TV Digital Video has been doing since April, when it Facebook $69.9B $69.2B $69.5B $68.8B $68.1B 29.8% launched its subscription streaming VIDEO A MEYNERS. $70B 70.2% service, ESPN+. “When you have dozens OTHER of live events going on, having to cap- 60B $50.6B ture, encode and stream them all, in real $45.3B Twitter 50B $40.1B time — operationally, it takes a really 55% $33.6B VIDEO well-oiled machine to make that happen 40B $27.8B 45% OTHER flawlessly,” says Paull, 47, whose job is 30B to develop the tech that makes flawless Snapchat happen (he worked on Amazon’s video 20B 60% VIDEO team before becoming CEO of Major 10B 40% League Baseball’s BAMTech stream- OTHER ing business in 2017, just months before 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Source: eMarketer

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THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 58 OCTOBER 31, 2018 THE ANTI-DETOX DIGITAL DETOX An award-winning ‘mindset mentor’ who advises top execs and teams at Google, Facebook and YouTube downloads his plan to manage (not eliminate) digital overload BY JAY SHETTY

Digital detoxes are often designed Take a breather around being reclusive, but the real We get out of sync: challenge comes when you’re done Your mind may unplugging. You need new habits to be thinking of the Shetty prevent another inevitable digital 100 emails you need to overload. While senior executives respond to while your are challenged by managing their email inboxes, body is saying, “I just junior executives rely on technology for social want to relax.” I sug- outlets, making the switch from personal and gest to executives that professional difficult to manage. The following when they open or send tips for incremental detox — as you work and an email, they simply live your life — help with both scenarios. breathe in for three seconds and breathe Use a real alarm clock Keep a phone diary out for three seconds When you don’t have a of your usage to bring the mind and phone next to your bed, Even if it takes body back in sync. For your morning changes. 0 entries a day: Clock executives who receive You’re getting up with- in and out for three hundreds or thou- out sifting through days and monitor what sands of emails daily, emails or social media you’re doing (on paper, I recommend taking and letting 100 noti- preferably) to see what three minutes every fications enter your your focus is on various hour wherever you are mind. Would you let platforms. Awareness to just pay attention to 100 people walk into leads to changes. Then, your breathing. your bedroom first for three days after thing in the morning? that, limit usage so Make no-tech zones Just as it takes time that you’re using your Keep phones out of the for our bodies to wake phone only in certain kitchen and bedroom. up and feel ready to rooms of your house or It’s more fun to eat interact with people, at certain hours of the and sleep with other it takes time for our day. Or use it only when people than to sleep minds, too. walking (but not in and eat with your the street!), so there’s phone. Take the phone Try a consumption movement. People say, to another room, schedule “I can’t get away from lock it up or leave it In the morning, look at my phone because in your car if you’re news — scroll Twitter, that’s where my job is,” having difficulty. It Disney purchased a majority stake valu- catch up on headlines. but what they’re actu- creates self-discipline. ing the company at $3.75 billion). So far, At lunch, respond to ally doing is wasting 30 Weekends are a great it’s mostly a platform for slightly niche short emails. In the eve- minutes on Instagram. time to plan such digi- sports, like soccer and boxing — the ning, take more time tal breaks as outdoor streaming rights to big-ticket events like with longer emails. Do Declutter your feed activities. NFL or NBA weren’t available — but it’s the same thing at the What’s on your news already picked up 1 million subscribers, same time every day. feed feeds your mind. When the phone’s of who pay $5 a month. Paull’s next project: For urgent matters, I went from follow- If you’re not looking helping launch the highly anticipated make a phone call. Or ing 3,000 people on at social media, find Disney subscription service in 2019. try this: Set aside to Instagram to 700 and an alternative place Compared to ESPN+, Paull thinks it will 10 minutes of every it changed my life. If for your eyes to rest. be a cakewalk. “Based on what we’ve seen, hour on the hour for you’re scrolling through It might be books, art doing live events is harder than doing on- responding to emails. your feeds and don’t or the outdoors, or demand,” he says. “So I think many of the Your team will get in see a purpose in an even the kitchen. Start mechanisms we’ve put in place to operate the habit of expecting account you’re follow- exploring what you’re in that environment are going to be more email during those ing, click unfollow. The attracted to. The oppo- than sufficient for the SVOD service.” times. Most of us are most expensive real site of distraction is THE THING GEN Z IS INTO THAT I DON’T leading reactive lives. estate isn’t in London focus, and once you put UNDERSTAND “Snapchat. I’ve used it, We need to take a pro- or Dubai, it’s in your the phone down, other I’ve played with it, and I don’t get active approach to our mind. Don’t let people things become clearer. it.” — REBECCA SUN Paull technology. rent it for free.  AS TOLD TO CHRIS GARDNER

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 59 OCTOBER 31, 2018 Riot Games

The video game developer (League of Legends) is five years into a 15-year lease for its 284,000-square-foot West L.A. campus, which the company moved into from Santa Monica. The property boasts a giant outdoor chess set, Bilgewater Brew bar and basketball court.

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Snapchat

For years, Snap was the corporate bogeyman for Venice Beach’s old guard. The harassment paid off. In February, Snap abandoned more than half of its once-extensive presence along the Venice boardwalk, now residing in 300,000 square feet at a Santa Monica business park near the airport. Its commissary is a former Carrows in the parking lot.

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SILICON BEACH OFFICE WARS: In 2016, the social media giant expanded in Playa Vista when it took over a neighboring 35,000-square- THE INVASION’S NEW FRONT foot Gensler-designed office with two studio spaces Early L.A. pioneers like Facebook and such new entrants Facebook designed for live-streaming and 360-degree video. as Apple and Amazon are jockeying for Hollywood-adjacent Old digs 12035 Waterfront Drive BY PETER KIEFER  MAP BY JASON LEE position with flashy digs New digs 12777 W. Jefferson Blvd.

THE BILLIONAIRE PENNY-PINCHER multiple consoles so that gamers on features. If professed Hollywood fans Xbox can compete against friends on like Illumination’s Chris Meledandri Tim Sweeney: founder & CEO, PlayStation, and then suck up tens of aren’t already thinking about ways to Epic Games millions of dollars a day from in-game lure its millions of players back into It’s not just that his company is behind microtransactions. The tiny charges theaters with a film version of Fortnite, the most successful multiplayer shooter — usually for cosmetic upgrades to they should be. — P.S. game ever to appear on the inter- the game’s avatars and other digital net — with 78 million active monthly tchotchkes — are small change to players — but also that Sweeney, 47, has players but add up when multiplied THE KEN BURNS OF YOUTUBE figured out a way to monetize Fortnite across the game’s huge fan base. In July to the tune of $1 billion in revenue this alone, for instance, Fortnite pulled in Sweeney Shane Dawson: vlogger and year. Epic, which is valued at almost $316 million worth of microtransac- documentarian $15 billion after a major investment tions, per Super Data. Not surprisingly, After YouTube star Jake Paul got kicked round of about $1.25 billion, announced the business model is being rapidly off his Disney series Bizaardvark — fol- in October, has devised a revolution- copied across the industry, with games lowing a series of stunts, like setting ary strategy: Make the game free to like Assassin’s Creed and Call of Duty furniture on fire in his jacuzzi, that download, support it for cross-play on implanting new microtransaction Dawson sparked a public nuisance lawsuit from RIOT: COURTESYRIOT: OF SUBJECT. AMAZON: COURTESY OF EYRC ARCHITECTS.

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Will Smith: actor and vlogger Yes, that Will Smith, the movie star. Throughout 2018, the two-time Oscar nominee and action hero has been pivot- ing to a new career as a social climber, A rendering proving you’re never too old to reinvent of the yourself for the digital age. For his 50th Culver Steps development. birthday, for instance, Smith teamed with YouTube to videotape himself bun- Amazon gee jumping from a helicopter over the Grand Canyon and the live stream on his Not to be outdone in its arms race with Apple YouTube channel. It got 17 million views. to gobble up as much space as possible in Culver City, Amazon Studios announced in March that The Bright actor joined Instagram only it would take over Culver Studios and lease 75,000 last December, but he’s already racked square feet at Culver Steps, to be completed up 24 million followers, dwarfing Tom in 2019. Total footprint? 350,000 square feet. Cruise’s 2.7 million and Mark Wahlberg’s 10.8 million. Not all Smith’s vlogs are Old digs 1620 26th St., Santa Monica New digs Culver Steps at Culver & Washington action-packed; he also posts personal videos about his family, such as A Smith Family Vacation, which has garnered Apple 13 million views in just the past three months. — LINDSAY WEINBERG The Cupertino giant — in the midst of a billion-dollar push into original programming — announced in January that it will lease all THE ROBOT of a four-story, 128,000-square-foot building in Culver City, which HBO was rumored to be eyeing. With a move-in date expected in late 2019, Miquela Sousa: influencer the new space adds to Apple Music and Her account doesn’t look much differ- Beats Electronics HQs at nearby Hayden Tract. ent from that of any other 19-year-old aspiring model, with the usual mix of Old digs 8600 Hayden Place New digs 8777 Washington Blvd. selfies and #TBT posts, except that her skin tone is way too glossy and her bone structure isn’t like anything found in Google nature. But since her first post in April 2016, this CGI character, developed by Since 2011, it called the Frank Gehry-designed Binoculars a mysterious downtown L.A. startup building in Venice home — until this month, when it moved called Brud, has become an internet into Playa Vista’s 525,000-square-foot Spruce Goose hangar. sensation, amassing more than 1.5 mil- “People love to work where Howard Hughes once innovated,” says developer Brookfield Residential’s Alison Girard. lion Instagram followers and attracting partnerships with designers like Prada Old digs 340 Main St., Venice and Giphy while modeling fashions by New digs 5865 Campus Center Drive, Playa Vista Chanel and Diesel. Miquela isn’t the only artificial Instagrammer — in a bit of postmodern performance art, she spent much of 2018 feuding with another Brud his Beverly Grove neighbors — Shane who’s spent most of the past decade CGI creation, the Trump-supporting Dawson decided to dig into the dude on YouTube doing things like movie Bermuda, who “hacked” into Miquela’s behind the bro. Dawson, 30, a YouTube star impersonations and music video account in April, supposedly wiping sensation in his own right with more parodies (“The Shane Dawson from eight all her posts — and she won’t be the than 18 million subscribers, made an years ago is cringe-y,” he admits). Over last. Her success has inspired startups eight-part, eight-hour docuseries called the past year, along with his producing working on ways to cash in on virtual The Mind of Jake Paul that included, partner Andrew Siwicki, Dawson has humans, from customer service droids among other things, interviews with trained his documentary lens on other to digital doubles for celebrities. And she Paul’s friends and family, a discussion digital stars, like Tana Mongeau and continues to attract fans: She released with a therapist about whether Paul has Jeffree Star. But his dream subject is a new single over the summer and was a personality disorder and finally a chat Smith Kelly Clarkson, although he isn’t con- recently “seen” hanging out with Tracee with Paul himself. It’s racked up nearly vinced the singer would “take my call.” Ellis Ross in L.A. when the Black-ish 140 million views since it went online MY FAVORITE HOLLYWOOD PORTRAYAL OF THE actress attended the American Music Sept. 25 and turned Dawson into the Ken FUTURE “Wall-E, where they’re all eating Awards. They posted a photo together Burns of online influencers. “This feels in pods and floating around. I know that on Instagram. like a fresh start for me, making things was supposed to be a cautionary tale, but THE INVENTION I WISH I COULD TAKE CREDIT FOR I’m not embarrassed of,” says Dawson, Sousa God, that would be great.” — ASHLEY CULLINS “Fries.” — N.J.

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 61 OCTOBER 31, 2018 The first thing you notice about Logan Paul is his size. He’s 6-foot-2 with biceps like grapefruits. On YouTube, he looks smaller. But his hair is exactly as advertised on the internet, a big blond cirrus cloud blowing westward. “I don’t gel it — it just goes,” the 23-year-old says of his signature do during break- fast at a cafe near his Encino home, a 9,000-square-foot bachelor’s paradise he purchased slightly more than a year ago for $6.5 million. For a brief time in 2017, Paul was an online star with infinite possibilities. Sure, his younger brother, Jake Paul, also a massively popular internet personality (Logan had 23 million YouTube sub- scribers, Jake 17 million), went through a rough patch, getting fired from the Disney Channel show Bizaardvark after making a public nuisance of himself in his Beverly Grove neighborhood. But Logan’s career was on fire. He was worth $13 million, earned mostly through YouTube ad revenue and merch sales of his Maverick clothing line. He was getting pals like Kevin Hart and Dwayne Johnson to appear in his videos. He had a few movies in the can, including star- ring roles in MGM’s Valley Girl remake and two YouTube features, The Thinning and The Thinning: New World Order, and was making his first late-night appearances, sharing an anecdote about damaging his testicle in a stunt mishap on Jimmy Kimmel Live! But then, in December, he took a trip to Japan, uploaded footage from Aokigahara, a sacred suicide forest near Mount Fuji, and overnight became one of YouTube’s most infamous cautionary tales. In the 10 months since that fateful trip, Logan has kept a relatively low profile — though not always low enough. When his name does surface in pop culture, it’s usually as a punchline (like when a character on Netflix’s Big Mouth defended sex with a couch cushion as being “Logan Paul-level hilarious”). But Paul has had enough of that. Between forkfuls of egg-white scramble, he will spend the next several hours tearfully unloading about his horrible year, “I had never had a crisis before, ever,“ says Logan Paul of the controversy over his YouTube video of a Japanese suicide forest. “Everything had been a smooth-sailing ride to the top.” He was photographed Oct. 11 at the Kim Sing Theatre in L.A. Styling by Jenny Ricker ATM shirt, Theory jacket, All Saints pants, Clarks shoes.

‘I WAS SO USED TO PEOPLE LIKING ME’ The YouTube star turned cautionary tale comes clean about what exactly happened in that Japanese suicide forest, how his $13 million empire collapsed and the plan to redeem himself with his 24 million followers BY SETH ABRAMOVITCH  PHOTOGRAPHED BY CHRISTOPHER PATEY explaining what exactly went wrong in Japan. He will swear up and down “I’m like, wow, I really fucked up, to a degree that he’s a new man. He will say things that this may be the only thing people remember like, “The first question I asked myself at the beginning of the year was, ‘How me by, and that is my worst nightmare” do we fix this?’ — when the question I should have asked myself was, ‘How do I kung-fu moves in a kimono, tossed a fix me?’ ” plush Pokemon ball at locals and, in one That’s right, Logan Paul is here today clip, wandered around a department to ask for one more chance. store wielding a dead fish (8.5 million views). More than 40,000 people com- had never had a crisis before, mented, the majority of them expressing ever,” Paul says. “Everything had some version of the sentiment “Never been a smooth-sailing ride to the top.” come back to Japan again.” Paul insists But the descent was akin to the he intended no disrespect to Japanese Hindenburg, with the Aokigahara culture. “I was disrespectful everywhere 1 incident catapulting Paul to a degree of — U.S., Italy, France,” he says. “The old notoriety that not even he was seeking. Logan was plain old insensitive.” Like his brother, Paul had built his He set out with three friends and a army of loyal young followers, the security guard the following day for a 2 “Logang,” by posting an astronomical New Year’s Eve excursion to Aokigahara amount online — mostly personality- Forest, a two-hour drive from Tokyo at driven videos, first in catchy six-second the base of Mount Fuji. The locale first morsels on the now-defunct Vine, then hit his radar in a 2012 Vice video, which in longer YouTube dispatches. At his follows a soft-spoken Japanese geolo- peak, Paul estimates he was document- gist who surveys the region. Much of the ing 90 percent of his life on the internet, geologist’s job involves the grisly task of posting a video a day, without fail, for tagging the remains of suicide victims, more than 400 consecutive days. With as the forest is a popular destination each entry, his delivery grew a little for those seeking to end their lives. The more obnoxious, the stunts a little more video, viewed 19 million times, ends with outrageous — breaking plates, blow- the discovery of a long-dead victim. It’s ing up stuff, sending a friend to Paris macabre stuff, but the geologist’s con- inside checked luggage (that one turned templative narration somehow renders it out to be faked). Looking back, it was palatable, even profound. a recipe for disaster. “We have a show Paul’s visit to the forest was neither. 1 Paul in his somber-than-usual New Year’s Eve. The notorious Japanese that’s being watched more than some of He arrived at the site sporting a Toy Story suicide forest video, edited footage came at 7 a.m. on New the biggest shows on TV, with no budget, alien-shaped hat and a $7,500 embroi- shot in December. Year’s Day. Paul had some reservations: 2 “I’m, like, fucking no producers, no actors, no writers, no dered Gucci denim jacket, the purchase tired. It was The victim’s face had been blurred out, horrible,” he says of review team,” he says. “Something was of which was documented in a video his apology video, but did they show too much of the body? bound to go wrong, and it did, for me, to titled “I Spent $12,000 on Two Bags of posted less than 24 Did the squeaky-toy sound effect that hours later. the largest degree possible.” Clothes Nooooooo” (5.8 million views). kept bleeping out his curse words hit the The idea for the trip to Japan came He also brought along a carload of new wrong note? But he brushed his con- from his on-again, off-again girlfriend, camping equipment, a pair of bin- cerns aside, christened his creation with Chloe Bennet, a 26-year-old actress oculars (“so we can see the ghosts,” he a click-baity title — “We found a dead on ABC’s Agents of SHIELD. whom Paul explains on the video) and, for reasons body in the Japanese Suicide Forest …” had met on the set of Valley Girl. They unexplained, a football. “Just a couple — and hit publish. and a small group of friends were to fly of dumb Americans going camping in a Almost instantly, the video elicited a to Tokyo for New Year’s Eve and shoot suicide forest,” he cheerfully announces tsunami of global outrage. Much of the some travelogue footage while there. A as the group stomps into the woods. condemnation came from Hollywood, week before the trip, Paul and Bennet The party ends about 100 yards in, when with Game of Thrones’ Sophie Turner had a fight. “She wanted to stay in one they stumble upon a male victim in his tweeting that Paul was a “gargantuan hotel, I wanted to stay in a different 30s hanging from a tree. arsehole” and Aaron Paul (no rela- hotel,” he recalls, adding that he “just “My first feeling was just dis-fucking- tion) calling him out as “pure trash” on ART DEPARTMENT. AT ER wanted my space.” Miffed, Bennet told belief,” Paul explains. He realizes now Twitter before telling him to “go rot in Paul she wasn’t going and delivered an that probably did not play well on cam- hell.” That tweet — which drew 380,000 L: WELLS/GETTY TASIA IMAGES. ominous prediction. “She’s like, ‘Yo, era. “I should have felt empathy. I should likes — was the low point, what Logan this behavior is going to bite you in have been like, ‘Hey, this is wrong. Let’s calls a “stab in the back.” The Breaking the ass. I don’t know how, I don’t know not do what we’re doing.’ ” (In fact, one Bad star had always been friendly to him. when, but you’re going to crash and of his cohorts can be heard on the video “He came up to me at whatever event we burn,’ ” he recalls her saying. saying, “Turn off the cameras, let’s go.” were at, shook my hand, patted me on The warning went unheeded. By Paul ignored him.) the back, ‘Dude, love what you’re doing,’ ” Dec. 30, Paul had posted videos from He sent the footage to his editor in Paul says. “Then this shit happens, and the streets of Tokyo in which he did Paris and returned to Tokyo for a more Aaron Paul is telling me to go to hell? PREVIOUS SPREAD: GROOMING COX FOR BY DAVID KEVIN MURPHY AND BEAUTYCOUNT THIS SPREAD: BOXING: ANDY KELVIN/KELVINMEDIA/MEGA/NEWSCOM. J. PAU

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 64 OCTOBER 31, 2018 I’m like, ‘You told me you were my boy create the next Axe! And here we are just for another platform — say, Snapchat — when we met! It was all good! We have trying to wrap our heads around what he shakes his head. “I don’t want to be a the same publicist!’ ” happened.” His agents laid out the dam- Snapchat star,” he says. “I barely want to Meanwhile, his phone was practi- age points to his career: “Valley Girl is be a YouTube star.” cally emitting smoke. “I’m getting being pushed,” they told him. “YouTube’s Podcast star, on the other hand, has texts from friends, family, colleagues, not releasing the Thinning sequel.” Plans a nice ring to it. Paul’s new life plan is accomplices,” he recalls of those frantic for his Axe-like Logan Paul body spray to taper off from YouTube and focus on first hours. “I’m like, wow, I really were put on hold as well. The best strat- a podcast he’s preparing to launch in fucked up, to a degree that this may be egy the team could come up with was for the near future. He named it Impaulsive the only thing people remember me by, Paul to film a suicide-prevention PSA. — “a play on my last name and my ten- and that is my worst nightmare.” For Paul sat there stunned, absorbing the dencies,” he says — and had a broadcast most of New Year’s Day he “wobbled 3 Paul (left) and new normal. “I was so used to people lik- studio installed in his home. “If I’m around [his] hotel room, not sure what vlogger KSI in ing me,” he says. “But being hated? I hate going to do something,” he says, “I might their Aug. 25 pay- the fuck to do.” By 2 a.m., after the video per-view boxing it. I hate being hated!” as well go for it.” had racked up more than 24 million match, which drew The bad news kept coming. On Jan. 10, There are signs, however faint, that 800,000 viewers. views, Paul made the decision to take 4 With his brother YouTube removed Paul from Google’s things might be turning around for Jake (right) at it down. He replaced it with a tearful an L.A. nightclub preferred partner program, where the Paul. On Oct. 17, YouTube released The apology in which he admits to a “severe in 2016. site’s top talent draw the highest ad Thinning: New World Order after all, rates. Paul estimates the punishment suggesting his stay in vlogger jail may 3 cost him $5 million, but he gets it: “I be ending. And then there’s the fact mean, YouTube had to take a stance. that, since the suicide forest video, his They’re not going to let some kid fuck up follower count has actually increased by their ad platform.” After a three-week a million. hiatus, Paul launched the PSA, “Suicide: Seated on a sprawling leather couch, Be Here Tomorrow” (30 million views). snacking on homemade granola bars Whatever goodwill it elicited was prepared by his personal chef, Paul squandered, however, when he uploaded contemplates his chances for a second a video Feb. 9 in which he used a taser chance. I suggest a new direction he on a dead rat found in his backyard, a might take — one that might lead to move that led the streaming giant to redemption — is to encourage the yank his ads completely. (They’ve since Logang to get motivated politically. They been reinstated.) now number 24 million, enough to sway, 4 “One of the dumbest things I’ve ever say, a presidential election. done in my life,” he says of the rat video, “It’s tough,” he says, almost as if the which drew PETA condemnation. “I notion had never occurred to him. “I thought, ‘I don’t know what to do right try not to get too political.” I point out now. I’m already hated. I guess I’ll give that these days, even apolitical stars them a reason to dislike me.’ ” like Taylor Swift are taking stands. As if to demonstrate that he bears no “You know what I found, though,” he ill will toward God’s creatures, Paul later replies, “and this is unfortunate, but a introduces me to the menagerie at his lot of viewers are brainwashed, often- Encino home. There’s Maverick the par- times by their parents.” After a little rot, Pancake the albino soft-shelled turtle more thought, he adds, “Maybe it is and Kong the Pomeranian frolicking in my responsibility to force these kids and continuous lapse in judgment” the backyard with the newest addition, to think independently, which is what (54 million views). “You could tell in the Pearl the spotted pig. Then he gives me a I always try to do. There comes a time video, I’m like, fucking tired,” he says. tour of his house, which includes a wine when you have to grow up and start “It’s horrible.” cellar, recording studio, trampoline thinking for yourself.” The next day, he boarded the longest (“Girls love trampolines”), pimped-out In our final moments together, I men- flight of his life — in first class, mind school bus in the driveway and full-scale tion a New York Times Magazine article I you — from Tokyo to Los Angeles. “Just boxing ring. read that listed Paul among a number of hood up, hat down, sunglasses on.” He Paul is still vlogging on YouTube, but stars who’d been “canceled” by the inter- went directly from the airport to his not as outrageously as he used to. One net — alongside Bill Cosby, Louis C.K. home, where 10 of his handlers — includ- recent video is about buying a pump- and Roseanne Barr. For a brief moment, ing manager Jeff Levin, CAA agents Paul kin for Halloween (2.3 million views). the browbeaten gooall disappears, Cazers and Jack Whigham and other His most flamboyant online adventure replaced by a flash of the pay-per-view assorted lawyers and publicists — had since the Aokigahara scandal was a warrior. “Good luck trying to cancel me,” gathered around a stretch dining room pay-per-view YouTube boxing match in he says with a sniff. “It’s so easy for any- table for an emergency meeting. It lasted August with KSI, a trash-talking British one to be like, ‘Logan Paul just ended his eight hours. vlogger, that drew 800,000 viewers at career, he’s done.’ But the only person “Can you imagine,” Paul says. “We $10 a pop. Paul took home between one who will ever decide whether that’s true [were] building the biggest fucking brand and two million of the profits, though he is me. Like, if I sleep for the rest of my in the world. We’re on the verge of, like, says that after expenses he broke even. life, maybe. But, like, dog — I love this product launches. We were about to When asked if he’d ever leave YouTube shit. This creating? It’s my passion.”

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 65 OCTOBER 31, 2018 efore she arrived on the Vancouver It was 9:30 in the morning, and her very first set of Deadpool 2 in mid-August stunt would also be her last. B 2017, Joi Harris had never per- For as long as there have been stunts, the formed a stunt. She’d never been men and women performing them have been anywhere near a movie or TV set, hurting themselves, sometimes fatally. The for that matter. Producers and 1980s was a particularly lethal decade, with studio 20th Century Fox wanted an African- 40 stunt-related deaths, after which increased American double for Zazie Beetz, who’d been diligence on film and TV sets led to improve- cast in the role of Domino. They hired Harris, ments. Nonetheless, Hollywood stuntpeople 40, who had done some motorcycle racing, and agree that the past several years have brought flew her in a couple of days before the shoot. about a troubling change when it comes to The sequence was pretty straightforward. It safety. The primary driver is the huge increase called for a rider, sitting astride a powerful in streaming content, which has led some Ducati 939 Hyperstrada motorcycle, to coast productions and stunt coordinators — whose down a set of planks that had been laid over job it is to oversee all aspects of a production’s a few stairs. Harris would be traveling about stunt work — to cut corners. An FX study 5 miles an hour, though onscreen it would be from January estimated more than 520 TV made to look as if she were going much faster. shows would appear in 2018, a 7 percent As the day approached, several experienced increase from 2016, and more than double stunt performers who had been training the 200 or so programs in 2010. “The demand Harris all weekend say they told producers and for content is so extreme that productions the stunt coordinator they believed Harris are just hiring whomever,” says Jim Vickers, a wasn’t ready. They warned the production 30-year stuntman who has worked on Training that racing on a track was very different from Day, Lucifer and Scorpion. The trend is set to performing in front of cameras and an audi- continue with such platforms as Facebook and ence. Producers stuck to the plan. Canada’s Apple expanding into scripted content. workplace safety agency, WorkSafeBC, hasn’t On sets from Atlanta to Vancouver to L.A., released its final report on what happened stunt workers have been getting injured in next, but three people familiar with that serious and seemingly preventable acci- day’s shoot say they watched in horror as dents. A month before Harris’ accident, an Harris, on the first live take, lost control of the up-and-coming, well-regarded stunt per- bike. She hung on as it sped across a street former named John Bernecker, 33, died in at high speed before hitting a planter, which a troubling fall while filming an episode of sent her hurtling headfirst through a plate The Walking Dead in Georgia. It was the first glass window. She wasn’t wearing a helmet. stunt death since 2002. Bernecker’s case is still being investigated as questions linger As the content boom strains the ranks of seasoned about whether proper precautions were taken. In August, stuntman Justin Sundquist on stuntpeople, productions are hiring haphazardly and CBS’ MacGyver suffered a head injury and cutting corners. The result: more injuries and a fell into a coma. Sundquist, who also was few deaths as the industry plays catch-up with rules injured in 2016 while working on CBS’ Hawaii and oversight that may not go nearly far enough Five-0, has emerged but has yet to return to work and has not spoken publicly about the By Scott Johnson / Illustration by Owen Freeman accident. That same month, stuntwoman Laurie Harper filed a lawsuit against Sony Pictures Entertainment and other produc- ers of the 2017 comedy Rough Night, alleging negligence. According to the complaint, producers and stunt crew failed to place safety pads under the sand on the New York beach where Harper, after crash-landing a Jet Ski traveling 28 miles an hour (the industry recommendation is 14 mph), fell and injured herself, suffering traumatic brain injury and leaving her “sick, sore, lame and disabled.” To add insult to injury, the complaint states, the actual footage of Harper’s accident was ultimately used in the film. “We’ve been seeing a lot of injuries lately,” says Vickers. STUnTED “There are no requirements within SAG

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[the guild covering stunt performers] that or years, the stunt community stipulate what you need to be a performer or was a small, tight-knit group. a coordinator.” F Most of them knew one another. An official from SAG-AFTRA says that with The work could be dangerous, but the jump in both the number of productions people tended to come up learn- and their geographical dispersion, there comes ing from experienced peers. These “an increased risk of unqualified stunt coordi- days, “the person who was a waitress yester- nators” who might be putting people’s lives at day could tomorrow be in charge of safety risk. Given the backdrop of mounting injuries, with weapons,” says Armstrong. “If that’s not Harris’ death “was an eye-opener,” says Cort absurd, nothing is.” A Facebook group called Hessler, chair of the guild’s Stunt and Safety the Sarah Jones Safety Verification System, Committee. (According to their lawyer, Harris’ created in the wake of the 2014 death of cam- family is in discussions with 20th Century era operator Sarah Jones, who was killed on Fox, which appears interested in negotiating a the Georgia set of Midnight Rider, has become a financial settlement.) repository of terror-inducing videos showing SAG-AFTRA in mid-October issued a new unsafe practices. One clip shows a camera- measure to address concerns. The Stunt man being dragged behind a fast-moving car. Coordinator Minimum General Standards (A commenter posted, “This is an example of Eligibility Process Guideline, an online how not to operate a camera.”) Another video registry for coordinators who can prove they shows someone standing in the middle of a have worked at least 500 days on set, will go road filming two high-speed motorcyclists online in January 2020. And while it has been and ducking out of the riders’ way just centi- lauded as a good first step, some acknowledge meters away from being hit. it doesn’t go nearly far enough. For one, the Stuntwoman Melissa Tracey remembers new measure isn’t mandatory, meaning any receiving a phone call a few years ago that ter- production, anywhere in the country, can rified her. A young woman identified herself continue to hire anyone it wants without fear as the “stunt coordinator” for a show in pro- of penalty or fine. duction and asked whether Tracey knew any “Everybody and their brother is now saying available stuntpeople. They got to talking, and they’re stunt coordinators,” says Jane Austin, it turned out the woman had just graduated president of SAG-AFTRA’s Los Angeles local, from film school. When Tracey asked about who concedes that the new guidelines are her background doing stunts, she confessed meant to provide producers with a reference that she didn’t have one. It turned out she was point for finding the most qualified candi- someone’s P.A. “The producers told me all I ↑ Stuntman John Bernecker, seen on the show Into the dates, and nothing more. “We’re not keeping Badlands, died on the set of The Walking Dead in July. have to do is line up some stuntpeople,” she anyone from working. This is not a qualifica- said. Recalls Tracey, “I told her she shouldn’t tion in any way.” Nothing similar exists in the U.S., where SAG- take this job.” Even if it were, experience isn’t always a AFTRA has placed the onus of safety on the SAG-AFTRA won’t reveal safety-related sta- guarantee of safety. Harris’ death, for instance, producer, who is contractually bound to create tistics on injuries, saying it only tallies them occurred on a set full of experienced stunt a “safe” atmosphere on set. with a “manual” system that is “in the process coordinators. The director, David Leitch, is a “If you have a SAG card, you can work as an of being updated,” and that there isn’t enough former stuntman himself. “Every one of them actor, a stuntperson or a stunt coordinator,” data to establish meaningful trend lines. Even on Deadpool 2 was highly qualified,” says Pete says Andy Armstrong, a British coordinator. if there was, veteran stuntpeople say it would Antico, a former SAG-AFTRA board member “Every other person in L.A. has a SAG card. almost certainly not be representative of the who for years has been critical of the guild’s It’s absolutely insane. It’s like having a flight reality. The fear of not getting jobs, or losing approach to safety. “And you want to know the attendant and saying she’s so nice, she can existing work, or being blacklisted, is real. “A MAGAZINE. CRASH: R CHIANG/SPLASH NEWS. horror of it? Nobody said no.” Longtime stunt pilot the next flight.” The union provides lot of injuries get covered up, quite frankly,” coordinator Conrad Palmisano says experi- comprehensive “guidelines” for how stunts says Antico. When Lauro Chartrand, a stunt ence counts but that “the most important should be conducted, but these are little coordinator in Canada, went to his local union BLACK GIRLS RIDE thing a stunt coordinator must possess is the more than nonbinding advisory bulletins. (affiliated with SAG-AFTRA) to ask how he ability to say no to a producer.” SAG-AFTRA counters that the bulletins are could find out more about injuries across the The U.K. and Australia maintain strict “widely respected” throughout the industry. industry and see whether the union would be ER24 RACING AND requirements for stunt workers. British They include recommendations on every- willing to publicly post all reports of injuries, stuntpeople have to obtain skill-specific cer- thing from how venomous snakes should be he was met by a wall of silence. “They balked,” tifications, and then they have to perform for handled (“The snake handler should have a he says. “They said there was no legal way they several years before they can even be consid- snake pinner”) to smoke, cars and high falls. could do it. So much is getting swept under ered for coordinating jobs. Even then, there “It’s complete B.S.,” rails Antico. “There are the carpet.” are restrictions. Coordinators in the U.K. must no teeth in it. No fines. No suspension. It’s And, anecdotally at least, there is evidence prove they can plan their own stunts before like their sexual harassment guidelines. With of a trend toward more tolerance of injuries, they’re allowed to supervise other people. no teeth, what good is it?” at least in certain markets. 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THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 68 OCTOBER 31, 2018 “IF YOU HaVE A SaG CaRD, YOU Can DO STUnT WORK. EVERYOnE In L.a. HaS a SaG CaRD. IT’S aBSURD.” Andy Armstrong, British stunt coordinator

Shaun Vickers (Jim Vickers’ son) tells a sensitive topic. Adds Monique Ganderton, one Nonsense, say critics like LaFaye Baker, who story of attending a recent dinner party in of Hollywood’s most successful female stunt insists there are plenty of qualified women Atlanta, where AMC’s The Walking Dead, Fox’s coordinators, “Two people I know don’t work and people of color in the stunt world who The Gifted and Netflix’s Stranger Things are in film anymore because of what happened to are ready and willing to work. The issue, says filmed. The issue of safety came up. “Almost Joi. They just said, ‘I’m done.’ ” Baker, who is African-American, is that there everybody I talked to, 10 or 12 mostly young Some stunt workers also say the push for isn’t a system to bring them up through the stuntpeople, had been injured within the diversity in Hollywood occasionally has led ranks. Baker says Harris is a case in point. first couple of years of their career,” notes productions to overlook experience. Jim “It was her first opportunity, yes, but she did Vickers. One told a story about having to jump Vickers, who is half Latino, recalls a recent have experience riding a motorcycle,” she over a balcony onto a structure that hadn’t episode where he hired a very experienced says. “When people say she wasn’t a stunt- been erected properly and hitting the floor. but light-skinned African-American stunt girl, I say, well, we all started somewhere.” Another got thrown into a solid oak chair performer to double for a darker-skinned Others, like veteran stuntwoman Jadie Davis, and tore his shoulder in three places. A third African-American actor. The producers told also African-American, scoff when produc- broke his jaw during a fall. One after another, him to find someone else; they didn’t want ers claim they can’t find qualified people. they told him about their injuries on set and Vickers to “paint down” — which refers to the “I’m stunned people are still saying that,” she said they thought this was nothing unusual. use of makeup to alter a person’s skin tone says. “If you want to have diversity and people “I’m sitting there listening to this going, — the double. “I had to go with another aren’t qualified, then give them smaller jobs ‘How does this happen?’ ” recalls Vickers, who stuntperson who wasn’t as qualified to do the to get qualification. It’s not so much about is from L.A., where he says safety is taken sequence,” he says. No one got hurt, but it left race as it is about opportunity.” Which, to more seriously. The locals replied, simply, a bad taste in his mouth. Notes Hessler, “In be fair, could have been what the producers “It’s stunts.” They chided him for having an today’s society, we’re always trying to hire for on Deadpool 2 might have been thinking. They “L.A. attitude.” Vickers was stunned. “They race, gender and skill, and a lot of times it’s declined to comment for this story. think this is normal because they’re inexperi- hard to hire all three.” Still, common sense would seem to dic- enced. But the coordinators obviously weren’t tate that stunt workers should meet some ↓ Joi Harris, a stunt double for Zazie Beetz on Deadpool 2, doing their jobs.” SAG-AFTRA says it has was killed filming her first-ever take, a motorcycle scene. basic qualifications, just as hairstylists, grips conducted meetings in Atlanta with “packed and camera operators do. But in practice, it’s rooms of stunt performers” and sees the city not that simple. SAG-AFTRA officials have as a hot job market for stunt workers, which been debating qualification requirements it certainly is. “We might have seen some since at least the 1980s. “It’s very difficult growing pains there,” says one guild official for unions, especially for an actor’s union, on background. But without any hard data to to describe prerequisites,” says Hessler. For prove or disprove the claims, the guild says years, stuntpeople have discussed the idea of there’s no evidence to support the contention a systematic qualification process, but talks that Atlanta is any different from any other always break down over details. “Everybody market when it comes to safety. has a different idea of how to qualify a stunt- Regardless, even the perception of increased person,” says Davis. “You’d have to take each danger has become an issue. In the weeks individual skill and break it down, and that immediately following Harris’ death, for could get very sticky. Who is going to qualify instance, two other members of the Deadpool 2 you? And what if you go out and screw up? crew died. One of them, Clay Virtue, a stunt Who polices you?” performer on set the day of Harris’ death (he No one seems to have clear answers for was one of the first at Harris’ side after the these questions. What everyone does seem accident), overdosed. A second, Natasha Denis, to agree on is the need for a better system. died in an apparent suicide at home. SAG-AFTRA established a blue-ribbon safety It is impossible to know how Virtue or committee, and it is in talks with studios to Denis were affected by witnessing Harris’ keep the conversation moving. The guild also accident. But several other stunt workers who increased the number of field representatives knew them are convinced that their deaths checking on sets around the country. It recently were directly related to what happened to added a training protocol so that union locals Harris. “Those people are gone, and the one could deliver safety reports. But the shadow thing you can definitely say is that they were of Harris’ death hovers over these discussions seriously traumatized by what they saw,” like a tragic coda. And people in the stunt says one coordinator intimately familiar community are confused. As one prominent with the circumstances but who asked to coordinator laments, “I think the industry remain anonymous while discussing such a failed her.”

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 69 OCTOBER 31, 2018 By Rebecca Ford Photographed by Meredith Jenks From left: Nina Jacobson, Bill Gerber, Ceci Dempsey, Paul Greengrass, Kevin Feige and Gabriela Rodriguez were photographed Oct. 15 at Quixote Studios in West Hollywood. Social media spoilers. Inclusion riders.

Fighting for release dates.

That ‘patronizing’ popular Oscar. ou have to be a bit mad,” concedes The Favourite producer Ceci Dempsey of a key commonality among those in her nutty profession. After all, many would consider it madness to pursue one elusive project for two decades — which is how long Dempsey, 65, spent trying to get Yorgos Lanthimos’ quirky Queen Anne period film made. For Bill Gerber, it took about half that (11 years) to bring Warner Bros.’ remake of the showbiz classic A Star Is Born to the screen, with a previous version (Clint Eastwood was once attached to direct, Beyonce to star) slippingY through his fingers before the Bradley Cooper-Lady Gaga musical finally took form. And while it was only two years ago that Gabriela Rodriguez, 38, signed on to produce Alfonso Cuaron’s ambitious autobiographical drama, Roma, it was a project that the Oscar-winning director had been wanting to make his whole life. Joined by Black Panther producer (and Marvel Studios chief) Kevin Feige, 45, 22 July producer-director Paul Greengrass, 63, and Nina Jacobson, 52 — who guided both Ben Is Back and Crazy Rich Asians to the screen this year — these pros spoke to THR Gabriela, Roma is a true story but a very per- in early October (their conversation has been condensed and edited here) about how sonal one based on Alfonso’s life. How did that they shepherd a helmer’s dreams, what’s next for representation in Hollywood, that shape your responsibilities? popular Oscar snafu and the unique acrobatics of their work behind the scenes. “I GABRIELA RODRIGUEZ He wanted this creative used to watch The Ed Sullivan Show, and there was a guy who had 12 plates spinning freedom in this process that there was no — it feels like that all the time,” says Gerber, 61. “It’s like until you get all 12 plates studio involvement or anyone flying in to say, spinning, you’re not getting a movie made.” “You’re spending too much.” At the begin- ning, the fact that we didn’t have a script and we did this whole process that was based on his memories and him just telling us what he wanted felt like that was going be the most What’s the biggest disagreement you have ever CECI DEMPSEY I also think if there’s a philoso- difficult thing of all. had with a director, and how, as a producer, did phy of making a virtue out of a problem and you fix that problem? if you’re in sync with your director, that’s Was there a time when you had to put your foot N MASON FOR FOR MASON N

PAUL GREENGRASS I have that all the time. the best part of your relationship. There may down and say, “We can’t do that”? AN GROSSMAN. BILL GERBER With yourself. (Laughter.) be stomping around and a bit of a tantrum, RODRIGUEZ I tried to tell him “No, we can’t do GREENGRASS Yeah, exactly. So I fire the writer, but ultimately you think, “We’re going to this” a lot, but he always gets his way some- that’s me, and then I always want to fire the make a virtue out of this.” There have been how. (Laughter.) We had a meeting with all director, that’s me. so many instances on the last two films I’ve the neighbors, the ones who used to live made [she also produced Lanthimos’ The there when he was young, and they were like, As a director, what makes a great producer? Lobster] where ridiculous things happen out “Remember there was this bear that used to GREENGRASS The relationship between a direc- of the blue. play a tambourine that used to stand on the tor and a producer is absolutely fundamental, corner.” And Alfonso goes, “I want a bear speaking from a director’s point of view. The What’s an example from The Favourite? playing a tambourine.” I’m like, “I’m not going most important thing is that you need to be DEMPSEY There was a cockfight that figured to get you a bear playing a tambourine.” And working with a producer who, in some inde- quite heavily in the beginning of the film, but Nico Celis, my co-producer, who is Mexican, finable sense, you want to please that person. you can’t do a cockfight, and I had to say no. he’s like, “Oh, I love this challenge, I’m going And you always know whether you have that It’s not legal, you can’t even fake it. And he’s to do it.” After calling every zoo, every place chemistry or not. It comes very, very quickly, into very authentic ... everything has to be around that could possibly, Nico goes, “Well, and you never lose it, actually — no matter authentic. So this was a massive tragedy from maybe I’ll wear a bear suit and stand on the STEVE BY HAIR JACOBSON AGENCY. CELESTINE AT LYON JUANITA BY GROOMING GERBER FEIGE, what your arguments are. which I thought we would never come back. He corner.” I’m like, “This is getting out of hand. THE MAKEUP GROUP, WALL BY NICOLE THE ON-SET GROUP. WALMSLEY WALL AT STYLING BY JORD NINA JACOBSON When you have an honest back- and [screenwriter] Tony [McNamara] rewrote Someone tell him he’s not getting a bear.” and-forth and you feel like you actually go into it as a duck race, which is now one of our the conversation with both receptivity and favorite scenes. It’s funny and it’s witty and The industry has changed so much in the past conviction, that’s the most pleasing part of the it’s silly, whereas a cockfight would’ve been few years. What is required to be a success- job. When it’s least pleasing is when you have very aggressive and quite serious. ful producer today that wasn’t a requirement a a filmmaker who doesn’t actually want your few years ago? AGENCY. BEAUTY DEW AT TOMPKINS TAYLOR honest opinion — they are so sensitive that in GERBER You have to be aware of a lot more now order to get to the thing you want to say, it has in terms of this social media aspect. You had LUSIVE ARTISTS. RODRIGUEZ HAIR BY IAN JAMES AT to be couched in a whole bunch of preamble. The Hollywood Reporter no idea how great that was, when you could KEVIN FEIGE I’ve been very lucky to not be in this Roundtable Series 2018 keep things secret. Now, nothing is a secret. position very often, when it seems like, “Wait, Everything is now under a microscope. Throughout awards season, read JACOBSON are we making different movies?” It’s almost candid conversations among actors, Navigating a slate — knowing that never happened to us. It’s usually a very specific writers, directors and film’s top to get a movie made and released, every movie thing you’re talking about, and it comes down craftspeople. You can also watch the needs to have its own intricately plotted path. to, “Why am I getting that note? Am I getting discussions in action on SundanceTV, To get it developed, who cares? It doesn’t really that note because you want to wrap early? Is which will air seven episodes of Close Up matter if you’ve developed something, it only With The Hollywood Reporter starting this a budgetary note?” And I start to get upset, Jan. 13 (check local listings). Catch matters if you’ve gotten it made. And so with but if you talk it through and [they] realize, “No, the full, uncensored Roundtable videos each movie, having to decide and anticipate this is about the movie,” you get through. on THR.com after they air on TV. very early on in the process — what is the path

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THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 72 OCTOBER 31, 2018 biggest movies you’ve made.” It had a budget smaller than Black Panther.” And in the case that matched that. At no point was there a of every single crewmember that he brought question about this market or that market or to us, they blew us away, they were incredible. where does it play. It was a big movie that we And it was because we were open to listening

“I have a 5-year-old were going to make with an almost entirely and giving people an opportunity. And now, son and a 9-year- African and African-American cast. you know, we’re desperate to work with them old daughter, and they have just started all on all of our films going forward. to ask what I do,” Nina, what was your strategy to get Crazy Rich GERBER But there is a bottleneck problem, says Feige (with Rodriguez). “ ‘Do you Asians to the screen? there is a studio issue, there’s not enough draw the costumes?’ JACOBSON No. ‘Oh, you write We made a very specific decision opportunities for people coming from differ- the story?’ Nope. A in that case, which was we’re not going to ent backgrounds to get into the business. producer sort of does everything and develop it inside the studio system because it JACOBSON I do think sometimes people need nothing all at the will be too easy for somebody to not make it or a push and they need pressure because it is same time.” to have to make a concession that was funda- very easy for people to say, “I just want to work mentally not true to the movie. We went to with the people I know and trust.” (To Feige) that will actually result in this movie being studios and streaming services with what was Not everybody will take the initiative that you released, being valued by the people who are a yes-or-no proposition: “Here is our $30 mil- guys took in saying, “Yeah, we have an incred- releasing it and being seen by hopefully as lion with an all-Asian cast.” And we could ible organization that can help support people many people as possible? — is a huge challenge. then say: “Who is the best, who wants this the who are taking a big step up in budget, we have Because it’s not like studios are lining up to most, believes in it the most, is the best home confidence that if you have the talent, we’ll make a giant slate of films — many of those and can find the biggest audience for it?” have the scaffolding to help you scale it up.” If films are already decided upon, there are fran- Hollywood and the system need a kick in the chises taking up a good chunk of the schedule, When we’re talking about diversity in Hollywood, pants and a bit of coercion to move the needle, so what are going to be the slots? a big topic of conversation has been the idea of then so be it. Because it’s time. And the bottle- GERBER Don’t look at Kevin when you say that. an inclusion rider. What do you think of putting a necking issue, well, what better reason to try JACOBSON It might have something to do with representation requirement in writing? to undertake opening doors, educating people somebody at this table. I’m not mentioning FEIGE Well, one question really is: Should peo- at a much earlier stage about jobs that exist, any names. (Laughter.) ple be forced to do it? And maybe the answer creating apprenticeships and mentorships so GERBER Yeah, 2023 July Fourth. is yes, maybe the answer is no. If you’re in a that it’s not just that you have to know some- JACOBSON So threading the needle so that you position of power and you’re the one doing the body in order to get a chance to be a grip or still end up mattering is a real challenge. hiring, we have learned — on our last num- to work in the makeup department. Pressure ber of movies and a number of movies that does have to be applied. And if it’s applied in Two big studio movies this year, Black Panther haven’t come out or haven’t been announced the form of an inclusion rider, I’m down. and Crazy Rich Asians, featured really diverse — that the more diverse the group of people casts. Was there a big fight you had to take on to around the table, the better the movie. [Black In this #MeToo era, how do you ensure that there get these two movies made? Panther director] Ryan Coogler actually said, are no issues of bullying or harassment on set? FEIGE We had Black Panther on our schedule “Do you have production designers, costume GERBER Our crew, it wasn’t 50/50, but there for a while. (Laughter.) We had amazing sup- designers that you like to work with?” And we were many, many women as heads of depart- port, [Disney’s] Bob Iger and Alan Horn at said, “Sure, but if you have some let us know.” ments on A Star Is Born. And that was really no point questioned it. Quite the opposite: And he said, “Well, I’ve worked with various Bradley Cooper’s lifestyle. He is very close They said, “This needs to stand alongside the people on films that were excellent but much with a lot of professional women — my pro- ducing partner, Lynette Taylor, on the movie, whom he did Place Beyond the Pines with, [production designer] Karen Murphy and [costume designer] Erin Benach and our first AD, Shelley Ziegler. So if anybody even thought about doing something inappropri- ate, they probably would think twice. But I think producers and directors who care about these things need to make it very clear from the onset, even just when you’re in the office, prepping: There is no tolerance for that. And when the filmmaker is very vigilant about those things and takes it very, very seriously, it just permeates the production. JACOBSON We did [FX series] Pose this past year, and we knew that on the one hand we populated the production at every level with as many trans people of color as we could and as many people who had been from the scene, the [1980s underground drag] ballroom scene, and knew it well and could help educate every- body about the realities of that time as well as

“[The theatrical experience] is still the best bang for your buck when it comes to entertainment,” says Gerber (with Dempsey). this time. But we also knew that we’re going to “You can see something that cost $250 million for $15, you know? You can’t drive a $250 million car for $15.” have people on our crew who probably haven’t

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 73 OCTOBER 31, 2018 worked with any trans people before, and so The Producers’ Films Bill, Clint Eastwood and Beyonce were at one you educate and you make sure that you’re not time attached to A Star Is Born. What happened afraid to talk about anything in the beginning and how did you deal with starting over? so that people feel more confident and more GERBER Time happened. Beyonce got preg- secure about how to be with people who are nant, and then Clint went off and did another different than them. There is a component of movie. At the time I thought, “I’m going to be education and creating a safe space and mak- able to make a movie with my old dear friend” ing sure everything gets talked about early so — not old, my young dear friend — and I was that people aren’t just guessing and not sure so excited about it. And I called Beyonce’s what’s expected. people, and she came out, she met with Clint, RODRIGUEZ Alfonso hadn’t shot in Mexico since Ceci Dempsey and I’m sitting there and I think I’m watch- Y Tu Mama Tambien [2001], and he wanted to The Favourite ing something historic about to happen. And be — I don’t want to say anti-establishment, then it didn’t. It’s just the movie business. but a little bit. He didn’t want to necessar- ily trust that whoever is the biggest Mexican How do you know when it’s the right time to gaffer or the biggest Mexican AD is the right make a movie? person for this job. He wanted to say, “Who GREENGRASS Speaking for myself, I tend to are the young people, who is new? Send me make films that are kind of about the world what you’ve been doing, give me some options out there. So you try and think about the because I don’t care how old you are, I don’t things that you care about most. In my case care how many movies you’ve done before.” it was the rise of the far right and where that I mean, it was very unorthodox, so honestly Kevin Feige was leading us. But I think the hardest thing Black Panther whatever experience you had (laughs), maybe is to identify what you care about most as you had to unlearn it and adapt to this new opposed to what you ought to care about. If process. I don’t know exactly the ratio of you can identify that and sing the song that women or men. There were loads of Mexicans only you can sing, if that’s the right expres- (laughter), so maybe that helps the quota in the sion, then it shows because the film has an : ERIK AAVATSMARK/NETFLIX.

U.S., minorities all the way. And there were inner truth and an inner passion. JULY loads of young people. I think Alfonso was the JACOBSON With Ben Is Back, we were really hell- oldest person on set. bent on having the movie released this year, which is unusual because I read the script for This year we almost had a new category at the Bill Gerber the first time last summer. So it’s the fastest Academy Awards, the popular Oscar. What A Star Is Born that I have ever made a film. [Director] Peter : NEAL PRESTON/WARNER BROS.

were your thoughts when this was announced Hedges and I go way back to my days as an BORN and during the uproar that made it go away? executive at Disney, and he sent me a script DEMPSEY I thought I’d heard something wrong. that he had written for himself to direct, I thought I was hallucinating — it was some and I read it on a plane ride home from New sort of, like, X Factor mentality. I thought it York, right after he had given it to me — and was a terrible idea. I mean, popular? How do by the time I got off the plane, I was like, “I you define popular? want to do it with you.” And we had a sense

GREENGRASS Do you have an unpopular of real urgency given the subject matter and : MARK SCHAFER/ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS. category? how profound the crisis is in our country with BEN RODRIGUEZ The fact that a movie is popular Paul Greengrass the prevalence of opiates that are crushing so doesn’t mean it needs to not be good. I mean 22 July many lives. why can’t two worlds come together, no? GREENGRASS It was pretty much the same. FEIGE Black Panther came up a lot in those con- 22 July we made really, really fast. And there is versations. But — a testament to Disney and something thrilling about that. Particularly DISNEY/MARVEL. OF COURTESY :

to everyone involved — we just kept talking like your film and our film, where you’re want- PANTHER about best picture. ing to address what’s going on out there and it’s JACOBSON It feels patronizing. And especially a rising situation, to make it fast and put it out this year — it felt like a way of ghettoizing fast gives it an energy and an inner resilience, movies that succeeded with people of color, which I think is good.

which is to say, “Well, these films can’t be : SANJA BUCKO/WARNER BROS. Nina Jacobson

judged just on their own merits, but they were 22 July and Roma are both being released by CRAZY Ben Is Back and Crazy Rich Asians popular.” The work that you end up making Netflix, which is obviously known for stream- and believing in, it comes from the inside out ing. What conversations did you have about — you don’t think, “What will other people ensuring your movie is seen on the big screen? like?” You think about, “What does it mean GREENGRASS In my case it was pretty straight- to me? What does it mean to the filmmaker? forward. I finished the screenplay, and we sort What does it mean to the writer? What does it of went out with it on Monday, and I spoke to mean to the actors?” The idea is meant to be Scott Stuber on a Wednesday. What he basi- : YORGOS LANTHIMOS/20TH CENTURY FOX. that we’re humans, and if we dig deep enough, cally said was, “We’re going to try and create those emotions are universal and will be a proper theatrical side to the Netflix offering FAVOURITE received by others if it moves the people who Gabriela Rodriguez alongside the streaming side; we think that’s are telling the story deeply. Roma the way the business is going to go.” From my : CARLOS SOMONTE/NETFLIX. ROMA

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 74 OCTOBER 31, 2018 point of view, this particular film, I wanted it dreaming about for years, whether they read brought her father in to meet us. When you’re watched by young people. And the challenge the comic book or not. Because a lot of people at a studio and you’re having a zillion meet- that we faced was that young people sadly said “Wait a minute, this is a hero that looks ings a day and you’re working on hundreds of don’t go to see art house movies. I remember like me,” and the importance of that really projects — they’re movies, it’s not life or death talking to my son, who’s a college-age young can’t be understated. People get so excited to necessarily. But facing the father of someone man, and he said, “Well, if you do it art house, see themselves on that big screen, and you you want to make a movie about, who’s been my friends will never see it. If you put it on take that very, very seriously. tragically murdered, it’s very, very sobering. Netflix, we’ll all see it.” GREENGRASS And movies are held to a much RODRIGUEZ Same for us. Netflix was involved Black Panther may not be real, but Paul, higher standard, which is, I suppose, fair after we were already in the end stages of you often make films about real people — in enough because it’s such a powerful medium. postproduction. And Alfonso felt the same 22 July, the survivors of the 2011 massacre GERBER Because they live forever. way — this is a movie in Spanish, in black- in Norway. How heavily does their reaction and-white, about Mexico City in the 1970s. It’s weigh on you? What’s the most backhanded compliment not like we had all the big studios knocking GREENGRASS A lot. The people who are caught you’ve received about one of your films? on our door. And like Paul was saying, Scott up in these events always feel, in my experi- FEIGE We have a joke at Marvel Studios that also and Ted [Sarandos] are committed to a ence, quite a bit different to what you would oftentimes, we try to do a lot in a movie. We theatrical release for the film. It will have that think. It’s an interesting phenomenon of screen all of our movies in the testing pro- combination of having the platform experi- terror and political violence in democra- cess — we always learn something, usually ence and the experience of people seeing it cies [Greengrass also helmed the 9/11 drama learn something you’re not expecting — but online and the theaters for those who love the United 3.] Because when these events when people see early cuts of our films, they theater and want to see it on the big screen, which I’m hoping a lot of people will. GREENGRASS And Disney and Fox, the first thing they’re going to do is set up streaming. It’s going to be the future. GERBER And it’s a great thing for filmmakers ultimately because there’s a lot of movies that, like you were saying before, don’t fit into nec- essarily the blockbuster format, and they should be seen. GREENGRASS But I don’t think it’s going to affect the theatrical experience, do you? GERBER I hope it doesn’t. I mean, I go to the movies all the time, my friends go to the mov- ies all the time. You go to see Black Panther, any of the movies we’re talking about here, there are packed theaters to see them. It’s an exciting experience. It is kind of still our campfire in many ways.

Kevin, what are your thoughts on the Disney/Fox merger and how it will afect Marvel? “While the director is there worrying about everything, the producer is making sure the entire experience captures the young person’s imagination as we were captured,” says Greengrass (with Jacobson). “The producer is the person who sees it all.” FEIGE Well, it’s not a hundred percent complete yet, so there’s only so much I’m allowed to say, or so much they even tell me. But Paul men- happen, they affect us all because they’re come up and they go, “That’s a lotta movie.” tioned the streaming service, and I think that public events — they’re meant to terrorize us (Laughter.) “That’s a loootttaa movie.” is something that we’re going to be adding and weaken our faith in each other and our DEMPSEY My brother said to me — and it was a content to, which is exciting. I love your anal- faith in our institutions. But of course, for couple of years after The Lobster came out — ogy with the campfire, right? As many people the people directly involved, it’s an intensely “As a viewer, did you actually like that movie?” as you can get around the campfire and tell private moment of grief and pain. So there is I mean, he couldn’t help himself. (Laughter.) It stories. Campfires can be different: We are a tension between the public and the pri- had been bothering him for years, you know, going to tell stories for the streaming service vate. Then later you find — and I’ve seen this ’cause he didn’t. that we wouldn’t be able to tell in a theatri- before, and it was certainly true of 22 July — JACOBSON “It’s a brave film” is the worst — cal experience — a longer-form narrative, that the roles reverse but the tension remains DEMPSEY That’s a killer, yeah. that’s what comics are, it’s about as longform in the sense that for those of us not involved, JACOBSON Because it’s a code word for stupid, a narrative as exists. But also maintaining we have to get on with our lives. And our foolhardy, poorly chosen, unlikely to succeed that theatrical experience, which is our bread political and religious leaders tell us that we in the marketplace. There was a movie I got — and butter, and the lines around the block, if need to, and we tell our children that we need as an executive, The Life Aquatic — and I loved you’re lucky. Black Panther is not real, he is not to carry on as normal, and that’s important that movie. I loved that movie so much. And a real person, but — so we don’t surrender to these things. But for I started to be concerned when many people JACOBSON What? (Laughter.) those directly involved, there is no getting on commended it for being brave. (Laughter.) But FEIGE He represents real hopes and real with it — their lives are changed forever. I still really love it. dreams and real representation. And so there GERBER The first time it happened to me I was GREENGRASS Good for you. is a certain amount of pressure that came working at Warner Bros., and we wanted to JACOBSON But it did not make money. So brave with that, delivering on what people had been do the Selena movie. [Director] Greg Nava is the word, I think.

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MAKING OF ROMA Alfonso Cuaron re-created his youth with a cast of nonactors, an obsessive attention to detail and a script so secret, nobody was allowed to read it BY REBECCA FORD

lfonso Cuaron Unlike most autobiographical was nearly half- projects, Roma doesn’t center on way through a younger version of its creator. shooting Roma, the Although Cuaron does replicate a black-and-white version of himself as a 9-year-old, Spanish-languageA film based on the character doesn’t see much his Mexico City childhood, when screen time. Instead, the movie he walked off the set. “I was in focuses on the two most influen- a really lousy mood,” recalls the tial women in Cuaron’s youth: his 56-year-old director. “I had been mother (Cristina, renamed Sofia in a lousy mood for a while. And in the film) and the woman he still the scene was not working, so I considers his second mother — said, ‘Let me take a little walk.’ ” his middle-class family’s live-in He strolled down a tree-lined nanny, Libo (Cleo in the film). The street in Mexico City’s Roma movie isn’t so much a cinematic neighborhood, a street his pro- memoir as it is an ode to the sacri- 1 duction designer had transformed fices women make for family (both to look exactly as it did when their own and those they take care Cuaron was growing up in the of), and it already has become a top 3 1970s. Parked along the sidewalk awards contender after debuting were replicas of old cars — in the to raves in Venice, where it won exact colors he remembered from the Golden Lion (it’s slated to be those days — while the extras released Dec. 14 on Netflix and in on set were dressed just as his about 100 theaters in the U.S.). childhood neighbors used to be. Cuaron had been thinking Even the leaves scattered on the about making Roma for more than ground were copied from the deep a decade; in fact, after his 2006 recesses of Cuaron’s memory. sci-fi drama Children of Men, he “I turned and said, ‘Look at you, announced on Charlie Rose that why are you in this foul mood? Roma would be his next film. Of Just relax. How many people have course, it wasn’t — after a hiatus the opportunity of re-creating from the screen (he took some their life?’ ” time off for personal reasons after going through a divorce), Cuaron returned with 2013’s Gravity and 2 became the first Mexican film- maker to win a best director Oscar. After that, he was flooded with offers, but the pull to make Roma

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THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 76 OCTOBER 31, 2018 to taint that stream of conscious- ness that I had,” he says. “I was not going to allow my reason, my intellectual side, to interfere with the process of creation.” Even when he pitched the movie to Participant Media CEO David Linde — over vegetarian dim sum in London — Cuaron refused to show him any pages. Instead, he talked Linde through a detailed outline of the narrative. “Even though he grew up in Mexico City and I grew up in Eugene, Oregon, the sense of memory in a cin- ematic form came through from the very beginning,” says Linde, who agreed to finance the film’s $15 million budget. Bringing Cuaron’s memories to life — particularly in such a precise manner — required a long and intense preproduc- tion process. During casting, for instance, Cuaron consid- ered only actors who physically resembled the real people from his childhood. That meant hiring mostly nonprofessionals, with one major exception: 44-year- old Mexican actress Marina de Tavira, who has starred in several Spanish-language films, was his family’s housekeeper. “I had invited to audition for the part 1 Production designer Eugenio Caballero scouted 120 rooftops to find the endless conversations with her of the mother. She was given no one where Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio) does laundry. “The housekeepers would have a world up there rarely seen by the people who lived in the house,” he says. about every little detail about her pages to study and wasn’t told 2 Cuaron’s parents’ separation plays out in the film. 3 For the role, Aparicio learned routine, day by day, by almost, that she’d be auditioning for how to speak Mixtec, a language spoken by indigenous people of Oaxaca. 4 The family at the beach at the end of the film. like, milliseconds,” he says. “Like, one of Mexico’s top directors. ‘When you got out of bed, how She was simply instructed to was it? Did you just lay down? show up without any makeup on. Or did you spring up and go to “Everything was really magi- 4 work?’ ” They also spoke about cal, really mysterious,” de Tavira the side of her life that Cuaron says. Even after she got the role, did not get to see, Libo’s days off, she wasn’t allowed to look at a away from his family. “It was script. Instead, Cuaron talked to very, very shocking to discover a her about the character and her whole new side of a human who background, never revealing that is so close to me and part of my it was based on his own mother. family,” he says. But de Tavira caught on. “The way In early 2016, he wrote the he was talking, I could see it was screenplay in one pass over a cou- his mother,” she says. “He didn’t ple of weeks. In the past, Cuaron say, ‘It’s my mother,’ but I knew.” had always shared his works-in- To find the woman who would progress with a close cadre of play the nanny, Cuaron and his creative collaborators, including team went village to village his brother, filmmaker Carlos throughout Mexico, auditioning Cuaron, Shape of Water helmer hundreds of women. “Part of the Guillermo del Toro and Birdman’s problem was that if they were Alejandro G. Inarritu. Not this from Mexico City, they were jaded time. “I didn’t want those notes by the city,” he says. “They are

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 77 OCTOBER 31, 2018 W A R D A S 20 ANATOMY OF A CONTENDER 18 S E N A S O more guarded than the optimists in the country.” Yalitza Aparicio, a preschool teacher from a town in Oaxaca, brought her mother to her audition because she was concerned the meeting might be a trafficking scam. Cuaron took one look and knew he had found his Cleo. “I was very concerned because time was running out,” he says. “But when she walked in, it was just a relief.” While Cuaron continued filling out his cast — including non- actors Nancy Garcia Garcia as Cleo’s best friend (who also works for the family), and Fernando Grediaga as the father who abandons his wife and children, just as Cuaron’s own father had — production designer Eugenio Caballero began mapping out the sets and locations. It wasn’t easy since he wasn’t allowed to see a script, either. Instead, he had to rely on verbal descrip- tions. “I was surprised by how detailed [Cuaron’s] memories were — down to the toys that he and his sister played with,” says Caballero. “He had been gather- ing memories from the rest of 1 his family, so it was a beautiful package to start with.” It took time to settle on a house 2 3 to stand in for Cuaron’s child- hood home, but they ended up finding a near-enough facsimile in Mexico City that was scheduled to be demolished, which allowed Caballero to rip apart the inte- rior, adding movable walls. Much of the set decoration was made up of furniture reclaimed from Cuaron’s family, and Caballero went so far as to put in hand- made tiles exactly like the ones the director remembered from his home. “You needed to create a floor that sounds like a floor and feels like a floor and smells like a floor,” says the set designer. “It helps the actors.” One thing Cuaron didn’t have control over, however, was the : CARLOS SOMONTE : ALFONSO (2. CUARON. YALTIZA availability of his longtime cin- ROMA ematographer Emmanuel Lubezki. Cuaron and Lubezki, known as “Chivo,” had collabo-

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THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 78 OCTOBER 31, 2018 of preproduction, but when buyers that expressed interest, Roma’s start date got pushed offering around $20 million for for more prep time, Chivo ran the rights in late 2017. Linde and into scheduling problems. “He Cuaron, who used Dolby Atmos started telling me he didn’t for the film’s rich sound design, think it was going to work, and debated for weeks before com- I didn’t want to hear him,” says mitting to the streaming giant Cuaron. When it became clear because of the filmmaker’s hope that Chivo wouldn’t be avail- that “as many people as pos- able, Cuaron met with other DPs. sible see it on the big screen and “But this was a film I was doing with the proper sound.” But what back in Mexico in my mother became more important, says tongue. I didn’t want the work on Cuaron, is that as many people the set to be in English. That’s as possible see it. So they went when Chivo told me, ‘Come on, with Netflix and its 137.1 million stop fooling around. You have to subscribers around the world. “It do it.’ ” So Cuaron, who already was a combination of wanting edits his own films, became his the film to be seen in theaters own cinematographer. Although but also to be seen by millions,” he studied cinematography in explains Linde. 1 Cuaron estimates that film school and had DPed some Early screenings have been 70 percent of the furni- ture is from his family’s television, Cuaron sent Chivo his more emotional than Cuaron original house. 2 Veronica dailies at first. “Finally he said, anticipated. “It was strange, peo- Garcia (left), in her first film role, plays the ‘Man, you’re doing great. Stop ple coming up and hugging you, children’s grandmother. 3 “The nonactors thought bothering me,’ ” says Cuaron. crying,” he says. “But they’re cry- that was the normal Even during the 108-day shoot ing about their own memories.” process,” says Cuaron of shooting without a script. (which began in November 2016), For him, though, it was on that “So they were just surfing nobody was allowed to see grouchy day in Mexico City when through it.” 4 Aparicio says she hasn’t decided if Cuaron’s script. He’d meet with he walked off set that he realized she’ll pursue an acting career: “Maybe it happens each actor at the start of the how much his own emotions were again, or maybe not.” day and walk them through what tied up in the film. He’d been so his or her character would be focused on the engineering chal- doing, sometimes giving a few lenge of re-creating his childhood specific lines but not much else. — of getting every element correct The actors seldom knew what the — that he’d lost sight of why he other players in their scenes were was making the movie in the going to do. “I wanted everybody, first place. “That was my awaken- actors and crew, to learn the ing to what was going on inside circumstance of the characters me because before that, it was day by day, the same way that you an obsession about the details,” learn in life.” he says. When Cuaron finished shoot- On that particular day, Cuaron ing, he put together a 10-minute was shooting the sequence in reel to show distributors. Even which the father walks out on his for an Oscar-winning direc- family. He’d been talking to the tor, selling a black-and-white actor about how to approach the Spanish-language family drama moment. “I said, ‘When [your set in the ’70s was no easy task. family] talks to you, you feel suf- Netflix was one of a handful of focated,’ ” recalls Cuaron. “ ‘But when you get into the car, you start breathing. You drive away, 4 and man, you’re breathing for the first time.’ And that’s when I realized that I was directing the scene in which my father is leaving. I have always seen that moment with judgment. I have always judged my father for leav- ing. I have never stopped to think what he was feeling.”

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THE CONTENDERS 42 FILMS STAKE THEIR CLAIM The awards race kicks off with a wide-open field — from the arty Roma to hugely, ahem, popular superhero flick Black Panther BY GREGG KILDAY

t’s a free-for-all. The 2018 awards season may now be shifting BLACK PANTHER DISNEY into high gear, but the race has yet to take shape — which is RELEASE DATE Feb. 16 both good news for all the Oscar hopefuls eager to stake a claim BOX OFFICE $1.35 billion and also a source of anxiety for some films that would like to A cultural milestone and box dominate the conversation. Certainly, a top tier of contend- office juggernaut — the top- Iers emerged from the first wave of fall festivals, which saw Damien grossing domestic film of 2018 Chazelle’s First Man open Venice to enthusiastic applause, while and second-biggest worldwide Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma claimed the top prize, the Golden Lion; Yorgos behind Avengers: Infinity War Lanthimos’ The Favourite scored the runner-up Jury Prize; and Bradley — Ryan Coogler’s film not only Cooper’s A Star Is Born left the Lido with no prize but a lot of buzz — established a black superhero in and by far the fest’s highest glamour quotient. Individual performers Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa — like Nicole Kidman in Destroyer, Melissa McCarthy in Can You Ever but also opened up the Marvel Forgive Me?, Robert Redford in The Old Man & the Gun — made impres- universe to the world of Wakanda, sions at Telluride. Then at Toronto, after Star screened to thunderous full of potential crafts noms. (Nicole Kidman and Russell applause, Peter Farrelly’s Green Book, in a seeming surprise, won the Crowe) force him to enter a audience award, always an auspicious omen. But while pundits are BLACKKKLANSMAN FOCUS conversion therapy program eager to anoint a front-runner, no one can agree which films to anoint. RELEASE DATE Aug. 10 in another true-life story. Joel So, for the moment at least, it’s a very open and competitive field BOX OFFICE $85.9 million Edgerton’s second directorial with one big irony: In August, the Motion Picture Academy proposed a Winner of the Grand Prix Award effort positions itself as an outcry new “popular” Oscar to make sure commercial movies weren’t left out at the Cannes Film Festival, Spike against the practice, now banned of the mix. A month later, facing a wall of resistance, it tabled the idea. Lee’s latest — a look at a black in 14 states. But this year, it’s looking like there will be no shortage of box office detective (John David Washington) players like Black Panther, which broke records, and Star, which is doing who investigated the Klan in the CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? : big business, in the game. ’70s that’s timely with today’s FOX SEARCHLIGHT

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Paul Greengrass — an Oscar Groeningen’s based-on-a-true- Man ($184.4 million). makes a bid to be taken seriously MAIDMENT/DISNEY.: JAY directing nominee for 2006’s story drama. But while Carell is as Lee Israel, a struggling writer POPPINS United 3 — turns his atten- making a lead actor bid, Chalamet BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY FOX turned literary forger, in Marielle tion to another gruesome case will pursue supporting. RELEASE DATE Nov. 2 Heller’s fact-based drama — for of terrorism, the 2011 bombing Director Bryan Singer’s name which Richard E. Grant is also PICTURES. MANGUS/ANNAPURNA TATUM : TALK and near simultaneous massacre BEN IS BACK ROADSIDE/LIONSGATE remains on the film, though he winning accolades in his support- of teen campers in Norway and RELEASE DATE Dec. 7 was fired from the project, which ing role as Israel’s gay accomplice. its aftermath. Writer-director Peter Hedges Dexter Fletcher completed, but

directs his son Lucas Hedges in the music-filled pic belongs to COLD WAR AMAZON : ATSUSHI NISHIJIMA/FOX SEARCHLIGHT. BEAUTIFUL BOY AMAZON another of this season’s addic- Rami Malek, the Mr. Robot Emmy RELEASE DATE Dec. 21 RELEASE DATE Oct. 12 tion dramas. Julia Roberts plays winner who struts and stomps as Pawel Pawlikowski — whose 2013 FAVOURITE BOX OFFICE $1.4 million the boy’s desperate mom — in a Queen’s Freddie Mercury. Ida was a foreign-language Oscar Steve Carell (Foxcatcher) and turn that could lead to her first winner — returns with a moody Timothee Chalamet (Call Me by lead actress nom since her 2001 BOY ERASED FOCUS black-and-white, decadelong love Your Name) are each making a win for Erin Brockovich — all set RELEASE DATE Nov. 2 story that earned him best direc-

second bid for an acting nomina- against both the Christmas holi- Lucas Hedges, again, plays a tor honors at Cannes. Poland’s : COURTESY OF UNIVERSAL PICTURES AND DREAMWORKS PICTURES. FIRST tion, Carell as a father who tries day and a ticking clock. young gay man whose parents entry into the foreign-language STUDIOS. FRANCOIS DUHAMEL/AMAZON

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 80 OCTOBER 31, 2018 race could well break into the CREED II MGM/ANNAPURNA nemesis in this grittier-than- THE FAVOURITE FOX SEARCHLIGHT major categories, too. RELEASE DATE Nov. 21 gritty drama directed by Karyn RELEASE DATE Nov. 23 2015’s Creed earned one nomi- Kusama, who first made her name Already earmarked for a special COLETTE BLEECKER STREET/30WEST nation — for Sylvester Stallone with 2000’s Girlfight. jury prize for its ensemble at RELEASE DATE Sept. 21 — but with his star wattage the upcoming Gothams, Yorgos BOX OFFICE $4.4 million growing ever brighter post-Black EIGHTH GRADE A24 Lanthimos’ costume pic in which Director Wash Westmoreland — Panther, Michael B. Jordan, in the RELEASE DATE July 13 courtiers, played by Rachel Weisz whose Still Alice earned Julianne title role, may be harder to ignore BOX OFFICE $13.5 million and Emma Stone, spar for the Moore an Oscar in 2015 — puts in this sequel directed by Steven Stand-up turned director Bo attention of Olivia Colman’s two-time Oscar nominee Keira Caple Jr. Burnham (helming his first Queen Anne has begun building Knightley front and center in this feature) and the movie’s 15-year- momentum as an awards-season period drama about the French THE DEATH OF STALIN IFC FILMS old lead, Elsie Fisher, won plenty force to be reckoned with. author Colette, who penned Gigi, RELEASE DATE March 9 of applause at Sundance, where as she emerges from the shadow BOX OFFICE $24.6 million this feature about the trials and FIRST MAN UNIVERSAL of her first husband and estab- Writer-director Armando tribulations of middle school RELEASE DATE Oct. 12 lishes her own voice. Iannucci, who skewered military debuted before going on to win BOX OFFICE $75.2 million leaders in 2009’s In the Loop (earn- audience awards at the Chicago For his follow-up to La La Land, CRAZY RICH ASIANS WARNER BROS. ing an adapted screenplay Oscar and San Francisco film festivals. Oscar-winning director Damien RELEASE DATE Aug. 15 nom) and American politicians Chazelle aims for the moon — BOX OFFICE $233.9 million in TV’s Veep, this time out turns AT ETERNITY’S GATE CBS FILMS literally — as he re-creates, in a Jon M. Chu’s adaptation of Kevin his acerbic eye on a bungling RELEASE DATE Nov. 16 cinema verite tour de force, the Kwan’s novel proved to be another Russian politburo. Artist Julian Schnabel, who Apollo 11 lunar landing, with cultural milestone, illustrat- segued into directing with a Ryan Gosling playing the taciturn ing that an all-Asian cast could DESTROYER ANNAPURNA portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat Neil Armstrong. attract a worldwide audience RELEASE DATE Dec. 25 in 2000’s Basquiat, explores the to a glitzy rom-com — starring Putting vanity aside — which life of another painter, Vincent FIRST REFORMED A24 Constance Wu, Henry Golding always gets awards voters’ atten- Van Gogh, with Willem Dafoe, a RELEASE DATE May 18 and Michelle Yeoh — that could tion — Oscar winner Nicole three-time Oscar nominee (most BOX OFFICE $3.5 million make a bid for ensemble honors Kidman looks weathered and recently for The Florida Project), Writer-director Paul Schrader as well as costume and produc- worn as a damaged L.A. detec- playing the haunted genius, win- — a two-time Oscar screenplay tion design kudos. tive on the trail of her longtime ning acting honors in Venice. nominee for Taxi Driver and

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 81 OCTOBER 31, 2018 W A R D A S 20 PLAYBOOK 18 Mark Your Calendars: S Oscar’s Path Is Crowded E N A S O NOV. 4 nine categories, JAN. 14 • Hollywood Film including • Oscar foreign-language nomination Raging Bull — has received his Awards about a septuagenarian bank voting closes best reviews in years for this NOV. 26 JAN. 4 robber, which David Lowery wrote austere tale, which has picked • Gotham Awards • AFI Awards JAN. 19 and directed. At first, Redford up three Gotham noms, about luncheon • PGA Awards suggested the film might be his a tortured Protestant minister, NOV. 27 • PGA Motion onscreen valedictory — but then Picture JAN. 22 embodied by an ascetic-looking • National said never say never. Board of Review nominations • Academy Ethan Hawke. winners Awards JAN. 6 nominations ON THE BASIS OF SEX FOCUS THE FRONT RUNNER SONY DEC. 4 • Golden Globe announced RELEASE DATE Dec. 25 RELEASE DATE Nov. 6 • AFI Awards Awards Earlier this year, the docu- JAN. 27 Opening, fittingly enough, on honorees mentary RBG, which grossed announced JAN. 7 • SAG Awards Election Day, Jason Reitman’s • New York $14 million, proved moviegoers latest film traces the beginnings DEC. 6 Film Critics FEB. 2 are eager to know more about of today’s debased political scene • Golden Globe Circle gala • DGA Awards Supreme Court Justice Ruth to the 1988 presidential campaign Awards • WGA theatrical Bader Ginsburg, and so Mimi and documentary FEB. 10 of Sen. Gary Hart, played by Hugh nominations Leder’s feature, which delivers nominations • BAFTA Awards Jackman, when a media spotlight DEC. 10 Felicity Jones staking out the legal on personal scandal was enough • Critics’ Choice JAN. 8 FEB. 17 territory that made Ginsburg a to doom a candidate. nominations • DGA feature • WGA Awards women’s rights champion, should film nominations find a receptive audience. DEC. 12 FEB. 23 GREEN BOOK UNIVERSAL • SAG Awards JAN. 9 • Independent RELEASE DATE Nov. 21 nominations • BAFTA Spirit Awards PRIVATE LIFE NETFLIX Making an unexpected awards bid announced nominations RELEASE DATE Oct. 5 at the Toronto International Film FEB. 24 Writer-director Tamara Jenkins Festival, the drama triumphed, DEC. 17 JAN. 13 • 90th annual earned good reviews for her look • Oscar shortlist • Critics’ Choice Academy winning the People’s Choice at a married couple — Kathryn announced in Awards Awards audience award. Director Peter Hahn and Paul Giamatti — Farrelly, setting aside his usual attempting to conceive, but it may slapstick, offers up a crowd-pleas- still have to overcome the fact ing 1962-set road movie about the that most viewers will watch it on friendship that develops between lending support, young per- MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS FOCUS Netflix rather than in theaters. a black pianist (Mahershala Ali) former KiKi Layne emerges as RELEASE DATE Dec. 7 and his Italian-American driver Jenkins’ latest discovery. Having both earned Oscar noms A QUIET PLACE PARAMOUNT (Viggo Mortensen). last season — for Lady Bird and RELEASE DATE April 6 LEAVE NO TRACE I, Tonya, respectively — Saoirse BOX OFFICE $338.6 million HEREDITARY A24 BLEECKER STREET Ronan and Margot Robbie face John Krasinski (who directed), RELEASE DATE June 8 RELEASE DATE June 29 off as dueling queens in Josie Emily Blunt and the actors who BOX OFFICE $79.3 million BOX OFFICE $6 million Rourke’s costume drama for play their children — positioning The indie distributor’s biggest Director Debra Granik — whose which House of Cards creator Beau themselves as an ensemble — hit — just slightly eclipsing 2017’s 2010 Winter’s Bone helped launch Willimon wrote the screenplay. have opted for supporting acting : COURTESY OF NETFLIX. Lady Bird — writer-director Ari Jennifer Lawrence into stardom consideration for this aurally ROMA Aster’s original horror tale allows — guides Ben Foster and young THE MULE WARNER BROS. attuned horror-thriller, which Toni Collette, another Gotham New Zealand actress Thomasin RELEASE DATE Dec. 14 certainly also deserves a listen by nominee, the opportunity to pull Harcourt McKenzie through the Back in front of the camera for the Academy’s sound branch. out all the stops as she struggles tale of a father and daughter liv- the first time since 2012’s Trouble with the psychic toll of her ing off the grid. With the Curve, Clint Eastwood, THE RIDER SONY PICTURES CLASSICS

mother’s death. who also directs, stars in the RELEASE DATE April 13 STUDIOS. PERRET/UNIVERSAL PATTI : BOX OFFICE MARY POPPINS RETURNS DISNEY true story of a 90-year-old who $2.4 million GREEN IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK RELEASE DATE Dec. 19 became a drug runner for a Since debuting in the Directors’ ANNAPURNA Rob Marshall, an Oscar direct- Mexican cartel. His film enters Fortnight at Cannes in 2017, RELEASE DATE Nov. 30 ing nominee for 2003’s Chicago, the race late (as did his 2014 best Chloe Zhao’s closely observed Paying tribute to novelist James has fashioned an original musi- pic nominee American Sniper), but story of a rodeo rider (the

Baldwin, Moonlight writer-direc- cal — albeit one that hews closely Eastwood can’t be counted out. nonprofessional Brady Jandreau) : COURTESY OF WARNER BROS.

tor Barry Jenkins returns with to the template of the beloved facing a limited future has picked CRAZY a passion project, an adapta- 1964 classic — with Emily Blunt THE OLD MAN & THE GUN up an ardent critical following tion of the writer’s novel about inheriting Julie Andrews’ aerody- FOX SEARCHLIGHT during its year on the fest circuit. a young Harlem couple torn namic umbrella and Lin-Manuel RELEASE DATE Sept. 28 apart when the man is wrongly Miranda following in Dick BOX OFFICE $7.2 million ROMA NETFLIX

accused of a crime. With three- Van Dyke’s footsteps as a cockney Screen veteran Robert Redford RELEASE DATE Dec. 14 : NEAL PRESTON/WARNER BROS.

time Emmy winner Regina King song-and-dance man. returns in another true-life tale Alfonso Cuaron’s memory piece, BORN

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 82 OCTOBER 31, 2018 with its neo-realist, black-and- transforms into the persona WIDOWS FOX due for her heralded performance white palette and unhurried of Dick Cheney in writer- RELEASE DATE Nov. 15 in Bjorn Runge’s film, where she account of a middle-class director Adam McKay’s (The For his follow-up to the Oscar- plays a woman who’s sublimated Mexico City family during the Big Short) caustic take on the winning 12 Years a Slave, Steve her life to her novelist husband. early 1970s, has been drawing manipulative veep. McQueen directs a distaff raves since its Venice debut, ensemble headed by Viola Davis WILDLIFE IFC FILMS setting up a challenge for Netflix, VOX LUX NEON in this Chicago-set heist thriller RELEASE DATE Oct. 19 which is hoping this one is, RELEASE DATE Dec. 7 that explores social, political BOX OFFICE $320,972 finally, its pass to the best Another “star is born” saga: and gender issues amid its genre Actor Paul Dano makes his picture competition. Natalie Portman, an Oscar win- trappings. directorial debut, helming this ner for her frenzied performance adaptation of a Richard Ford THE SISTERS BROTHERS in Black Swan, delivers another THE WIFE SONY PICTURES CLASSICS novel about a boy (Ed Oxenbould) ANNAPURNA fierce onscreen turn as a pop RELEASE DATE Aug. 17 who bears witness to the troubled RELEASE DATE Sept. 21 diva with a traumatic past in BOX OFFICE $7.6 million 1960s marriage of his parents, BOX OFFICE $2.7 million actor turned writer-director After six Oscar nominations, played by Carey Mulligan and Jake French director Jacques Audiard Brady Corbet’s second feature. Glenn Close could finally get her Gyllenhaal. (A Prophet), with his first English- language film, serves up a take on the American Western, with John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix as brothers who are hired guns.

SORRY TO BOTHER YOU ANNAPURNA RELEASE DATE July 6 BOX OFFICE $17.5 million Writer-director Boots Riley’s first feature, starring Atlanta’s Lakeith Stanfield, explodes into satirical territory as it tracks a telemarket- er’s rise up the corporate ladder, making it a prime best original screenplay contender.

STAN & OLLIE SONY PICTURES CLASSICS RELEASE DATE Dec. 28 Under Jon S. Baird’s direction, John C. Reilly disappears into the corpulent frame of legendary fun- nyman Oliver Hardy, who with his comic partner Stan Laurel (Steve Coogan) tries to reignite their fading careers with a 1950s-set tour of Britain.

A STAR IS BORN WARNER BROS. RELEASE DATE Oct. 5 BOX OFFICE $254.6 million The romantic remake, which has both critics and audiences swooning, threatens to be an awards-season juggernaut with multiple awards possibilities for actor-writer-producer-director Bradley Cooper and actress-song- writer Lady Gaga.

VICE ANNAPURNA RELEASE DATE Dec. 25 Oscar winner Christian Bale

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I’ve seen The Good Cop, Dan. I’ve seen it, and I can’t unsee it. The Standouts and FIENBERG Netflix definitely doesn’t have a monopoly on greatness, even if it often feels like it has a Stumbles of Fall TV monopoly on volume. The average week for Netflix includes a drama THR’s TV critics bemoan the season’s network mediocrities, celebrate its under-the- with no restrictions on episodic radar cable/streaming gems and ponder whether stars matter on the small screen runtime, a so-called comedy that isn’t really trying to be funny, a DANIEL FIENBERG Unless you’re channels, unless it comes in the of ABC’s Single Parents were in stand-up special, a documentary entrusted with tabulating ratings form of a comedy. That said, the a more consistent show. I’m not geared toward starting Change. for The Alec Baldwin Show, the most joy I got from the networks prepared to commit to any of org petitions, two shows about fall hasn’t been too disastrous this fall has been the return of them, nor to anything in a broad- why food is awesome and a rom- for broadcast networks. CBS The Good Place and Bob’s Burgers. cast drama field where The CW’s com starring Noah Centineo. And found interest for FBI and The I also found something to like in derivative All American may be the then the only show people end up Neighborhood. NBC was quick to ABC’s The Kids Are Alright, though best this fall has to offer. Is there talking about is the edgy prep- order more episodes for Manifest I haven’t seen enough episodes a single network drama, new or school soap opera from Spain. and New Amsterdam. Fox is over- for solid proof yet. You’ve taken a returning, that you’re enjoying? We moved away from the joyed with the resurrection of bigger plunge into new fall offer- GOODMAN No. And there hasn’t broadcast networks awfully fast, Last Man Standing and its pair- ings than I have, but you haven’t been for some time. I know people but what can we say about The ing with The Cool Kids. ABC got a exactly been giving me FOMO. like This Is Us, and it’s fine, but CW’s uneven but admirably decent initial sampling for The FIENBERG I also found things to not something I enjoy watching feminist remake of Charmed, CBS’ Conners. The CW’s Sunday launch like in the ’70s-set The Kids Are over multiple episodes. Network Latinx remake of Magnum P.I. or isn’t off to a bad start. Alright — mostly Michael Cudlitz, dramas just don’t hold up to its Murphy Brown revival, which

: ABC/RICHARD CARTWRIGHT. But where does that leave a Mary McCormack and how much most of their cable or streaming seemed to arrive with a sense of KIDS critic when the best broadcast it reminds me of other ABC counterparts. So why waste time? purpose but hasn’t quite managed has to offer is an array of familiar period comedies. I love the stars I love the period of television to make good on it? procedurals, Lost knockoffs and of The Conners and appreciate we’re in now, where I don’t have GOODMAN Um, not much. But I can : COURTESY OF FX. tepid multicam retreads? Is there being able to experience them enough time to watch all the great say that even though it’s not my anything left for us in what used Roseanne-free. I wish the cast and very good dramas out there. thing, I thought Fox’s The Cool INBETWEEN to be the most important stretch It’s wonderful — though also, Kids was a perfect network show. of the TV calendar? admittedly, frustrating — that at Multicamera. Nostalgia-fueled. TIM GOODMAN Fall means almost any moment I can fire up the TV Broadly funny. Easy to digest. nothing to me, TV-wise, anymore. and watch superb dramatic series Nothing wrong with that. : ABC/ERIC MCCANDLESS. Seasons, schedules, time slots, from creators both here and Wait, there’s an edgy prep-

CONNERS channels — all essentially useless internationally. Virtually none of school soap opera from Spain that and unimportant. I only care that is coming from network TV, I missed? about quality, and I can find that however. Though in no way am FIENBERG Netflix’s Elite! All the anywhere at any time of year. But I implying that, say, Netflix, has kids are talking about it. Or so it’s rarer than ever on broadcast ABC’s The Kids Are Alright. only excellent offerings. Because I hear in my bubble. It’s hard to : COLLEEN STUDIOS. HAYES/AMAZON FOREVER

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 85 OCTOBER 31, 2018 dispute that we all process more discover; watching Maya Rudolph and more of our media in our have a blast is always a good thing. respective bubbles. In my bubble, And regarding The Romanoffs, it’ll I’ve been trying to get people to be interesting to see if Amazon’s watch AMC’s Lodge 4 and Starz’s weekly premiering of episodes America to Me for weeks. What CBS’ Murphy Brown revival. stimulates conversation; the have you been proselytizing? majority of the chatter so far has GOODMAN Mr Inbetween on FX, an that’s not a commentary on that a hit because the TV world is been about how polarizing it is. I Aussie import about a hit man either show because I could argue so cluttered,” and then stay away think when the show works, it’s (the magnetic Scott Ryan) having on behalf of both. I’m a big fan from small-screen projects. But magical — it just works only 60 a midlife crisis. What I especially of Showtime’s Kidding, but that I doubt it. Maniac was a visual percent of the time. loved about it was how much ultimately owes more to the delight but didn’t deliver much Of course, “polarizing” means it accomplished in such little sensibility and vision of direc- of a story. And Camping was just you’re moving people one way or time. Like Netflix’s The End of the tor Michel Gondry than star Jim wrong at every turn, starting with another, and that matters more F***ing World, it’s a poster series Carrey. Of course, sometimes a miscast Garner. than A-list stars. Take Netflix’s for economy, cramming so much when a star vehicle falls flat, there On the other hand, there’s The Haunting of Hill House. Carla story, nuance, feeling and style are obvious reasons — like with Amazon’s upcoming Homecoming, Gugino and Timothy Hutton are into so few minutes. HBO’s Camping, which hasn’t been from Sam Esmail and starring known and respected, but they’re FIENBERG It’s fitting that we’ve greeted as warmly as one would Julia Roberts. Having seen four not Julia Roberts or Jim Carrey. mostly accentuated under-the- expect for Jennifer Garner’s episodes, I’m very optimistic. And The intense frights and occa- radar gems because one of the big return to TV, has it? elsewhere in star-heavy auteur TV, sional tears are the real stars of stories of the fall has been star GOODMAN Kidding is arguably I’m not far enough into Matthew that show, and it’s been more of a vehicles failing to find traction. Showtime’s best series, but it Weiner’s The Romanoffs to decide conversation starter than Maniac, Netflix’s Maniac, with Jonah Hill didn’t pop in terms of viewership if it all works, but I’m enjoying the The First and Camping combined. and Emma Stone, and Hulu’s or zeitgeist; you wonder if some journey so far. As we’re so often reminded, the The First, with Sean Penn, had big-name actors will think, “Wow, FIENBERG Speaking of Amazon, only rule in the Peak TV era is that surprisingly little impact — and even Jim Carrey couldn’t make Forever was a show I was glad to there are no rules.

The Waverly Gallery Lucas Hedges makes his Broadway debut alongside a dazzling Elaine May in this solid production of Kenneth Lonergan’s personal play By David Rooney

What a pleasure to see Elaine May back on type of ensemble work. In the production of Broadway after 50-plus years at 86, her timing Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves that put her on the as sharp as ever: She’s alternately funny and map, Neugebauer proved herself a maestro of heartbreaking as a Greenwich Village fixture overlapping dialogue, a factor no less essen- whose mind is deteriorating fast in Kenneth tial to Lonergan’s play. The flurrying notes of Lonergan’s The Waverly Gallery. humor and tension around the dinner table in While the 1999 play is not the most the Upper West Side apartment of Ellen and profound work of this keenly observant Oscar- husband Howard (David Cromer) are what winning writer, it may be his most personal, give the play its rhythms, along with Gladys’ inspired by the decline of his grandmother as seesawing between obliviousness and panic. Lucas Hedges is the grandson of a feisty but fading New York she suffered from Alzheimer’s disease. Gladys and Daniel are introduced in the art socialite in Lonergan’s autobiographical play. Lonergan’s investment is obvious from his gallery she has run for years. She’s a former surrogate character Daniel, played by Lucas lawyer and he’s a speechwriter for the EPA. Her then terror, before she completely retreats Hedges in his Broadway debut. Daniel opens poor hearing and memory loss make conversa- into the past. Ellen’s despair is equally mov- the play in the middle of a talk with his tion with Gladys a trial. Daniel is a smart but ing, as played by the estimable Allen, and grandmother Gladys (May) and closes it with a diffident guy with zero luck in relationships, Cera is effective and understated as a classic monologue in which he memorializes her and and the motif of two people on different wave- Lonergan figure — an awkward sad sack who pays tribute to his mother, Ellen (Joan Allen), lengths carries over into his other exchanges, strains to maintain an optimistic front. who cared for the woman through her final too — with his mother or stepfather as well as The play suffers slightly from the recent years. It’s a lovely speech, though elsewhere, with Don (Michael Cera), the penniless Boston proliferation of TV and film dramas dealing Lonergan overuses direct address, a flaw mag- artist whose paintings are the last to hang in with Alzheimer’s. But familiarity aside, The nified by Hedges’ flat stiffness in those scenes. Gladys’ gallery. Waverly Gallery has been given a deeply sensi- The actor, so terrific in Manchester by the Sea, Gladys’ denial about her mental state grows tive production that honors the playwright’s is far more persuasive when he has someone to wrenching once word arrives that the build- personal stake in this quotidian tragedy.

play off, as in the many family exchanges that ing owner intends to shut down the gallery, : BRIGITTE LACOMBE/THE PRESS ROOM NYC. VENUE Golden Theatre, New York (through Jan. 27) give The Waverly Gallery its texture. and Gladys insists she can go back to work for CAST Elaine May, Lucas Hedges, Joan Allen, Michael Cera WAVERLY Lila Neugebauer, making an assured a law firm. But May is most shattering when DIRECTOR Lila Neugebauer Broadway directing debut, is skilled at this her garrulousness fades into anxiety and PLAYWRIGHT Kenneth Lonergan : JOHN FILO/CBS. PAUL BROWN

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n place of cookie-cutter I projects carried by surefire A-listers and a ton of P&A, buyers and producers at this year’s AFM are taking what could be called the Blumhouse approach: mimicking the playbook of the company behind Get Out, Insidious and BlackKklansman by betting on smaller, more niche films that can stand out in a crowded field. “Basically, either you’re a Marvel or Star AFM: Small Is the New Big Wars film or you’re an The indie Oscar contender,” says Gabrielle Stewart, manag- blockbuster is dead, but a diverse field of ing director of Brit sales group HanWay. “You need midrange projects has emerged By Scott Roxborough a film that feels like an event, something that will capture the imagination of the cinemagoing public The American Film Market is changing. With the ↑ From left: Carey Mulligan (A Christmas Carol), and give the journalists Viggo Mortensen (Falling), Dave Bautista AFM collapse of the home entertainment market and the (My Spy), Jessica Chastain (Eve) and Chadwick and critics something to disruption of the traditional theatrical business — Boseman (17 Bridges). write about.” Oct. 31-Nov. 7 For The Hummingbird Disney and Fox merging to concentrate studio power Santa Monica Project — the Jesse at one end, Netflix and Amazon at the other, cannibal- DIRECTOR Peter Segal Eisenberg-Alexander izing the audience for midlevel genre and art house STAR Dave Bautista Skarsgard thriller that films — the big, A-list projects (think Twilight, The Expendables or The BUZZ Guardians of the Galaxy star HanWay sold strongly Hunger Games) are few and far between. “The old AFM model of getting Bautista gets his Kindergarten Cop following its Toronto debut — the media buzz 20 percent of your budget off of international presales — it’s much mojo going in this action-comedy came from the film’s harder to access the level of talent you need to guarantee those num- about a hardened CIA operative setting in a torn-from- bers,” says Fabien Westerhof of U.K.-based Film Constellation. “But the sent undercover to surveil a fam- the-headlines world of fragmentation of the marketplace also offers opportunities because ily who finds himself at the mercy high-frequency trading. there are fewer barriers to entry from new companies and new talent.” of a precocious 9-year-old girl. “The moment you get into commodification, Still, the success of upstart distributors A24 (Hereditary), Neon 17 BRIDGES where you’re just one of (Three Identical Strangers), Aviron Pictures (The Strangers: Prey at a dozen action movies or Night) and STX Entertainment (I Feel Pretty) shows how the end of the SALES STXinternational midbudget rom-coms, it’s old AFM model hasn’t meant the end of the indie business. DIRECTOR Brian Kirk harder to stand out,” says While the size of new projects being shopped at AFM may have gone STARS Chadwick Boseman, Fabien Westerhof of the U.K.’s Film Constellation. down, the number and variety of titles on sale has not. The films on Sienna Miller, Taylor Kitsch “Only a small number of THR’s AFM 2018 hot list range across genres, styles and budgets, each BUZZ Black Panther star Boseman films will capture people’s with a fair shot at becoming the next big thing. plays a disgraced NYPD detective attention. If you’re one thrust into a citywide manhunt of those three to four, the A CHRISTMAS CAROL EVE for a pair of cop killers after payof is much greater. : COURTESY OF TIFF. If you’re not, you’re left SALES Saboteur Media SALES Voltage Pictures uncovering a massive conspiracy. with crumbs.” — S.R. PROJECT

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On Location ‘You Can’t Cheat Hawaii’ The island state’s ‘dream vacation’ locales come with ‘aloha’ credits By Bryn Elise Sandberg

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1 Magnum P.I.’s “Death Is Only Temporary” When the series needs to film indoors, it episode aired Oct. 29. 2 Hawaii Five-0’s season nine opener, “Ka ’owili’oka’i (Cocoon).” does so at the Diamond Head Stages near 3 Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. Waikiki. The 16,500-square-foot facility boasts an impressive history of Hollywood roster of upcoming movies, productions, from the original Five-0 (1968- including Disney’s Jungle Cruise 1980) to 2004’s 50 First Dates to ABC’s Lost (2020), the Woody Harrelson- (2004-2010), as it’s Hawaii’s only state-owned Mandy Moore remake of Midway and -operated studio. But that’s about to 2 (2019) and the Godzilla vs. Kong change. The legislature has approved plans : FRANK MASI/SMPSP/SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT. movie Apex (2020), all of which for a new production facility in West Oahu

awaii has been saying “aloha” to are filming on the islands this year. and soon will request proposals for a public- JUMANJI H more than tourists lately as the Helping to lure projects are generous produc- private partnership to develop and manage state welcomes a growing number tion incentives. The state offers a 20 percent the site. of Hollywood productions to its vacation- credit on qualified expenditures for film, TV The hope is to open the studio complex by ROWN/GETTY IMAGES. ready islands. “Over the past two years, there and digital projects on Oahu (home to state 2025. “We need to increase the infrastruc- has been a phenomenal rise in production capital Honolulu) and 25 percent on the neigh- ture to support longer stays for production so activity,” says Georja Skinner, head of Hawaii’s boring islands. Over the next seven that not everything goes to Georgia Creative Industries Division. Between 2017 years, the state has allocated $245 mil- LocationEXPO for interiors,” says Skinner, who’ll and 2018, the sunny island state served as the lion for its rebate program. be in L.A. from Nov. 3 to 6 for AFM’s Nov. 3-6 filming destination for nine features, four The production that packs the big- Loews LocationEXPO, an annual event for television series and nearly 30 commercials. gest punch with the local community Santa Monica more than 60 film commissions, plus Of course, the most well-known of those is the new rendition of Five-0, which government agencies and production projects is Hawaii Five-0, the island-set police turned to many of the same spots the original managers around the globe. procedural CBS rebooted in 2010. “Up until used in the 1970s. “You can cheat certain loca- Hawaiian officials like to think of the state the last couple years, I felt like it was almost tions, but you can’t cheat Hawaii,” says Lenkov, as a convenient Pacific midpoint between the our little secret that we were shooting in adding that “anywhere you put the camera, U.S. and Asia as opposed to a set of far-off Hawaii because there wasn’t it’s beautiful.” The show has spent all nine islands. In fact, Hawaii gets a lot of interna- a lot of stuff,” says series creator seasons filming on Oahu; the 600-square-mile tional business from Japan and China, which : KAREN NEAL/CBS. SKINNER: TINA YUEN/COURTESY OF SUBJECT. FREDERICK LENKOV: M. B Peter Lenkov. “Now, my God, island is the hub for most production in the helps it edge out competitors like Australia FIVE0 there’s so many productions.” state and offers the highest concentration of and the Bahamas. Notes Skinner, “We’re actu- ,

Skinner Among the more recent ones trained crew. ally the center of everything.” MAGNUM is CBS’ other Hawaiian reboot, Five-0 takes full advantage of the island. Magnum P.I., as well as the From skyscrapers in downtown Honolulu to two Jurassic World films and the lush tropical landscapes and, of course, the Dwayne Johnson action flick beach, “it’s got everything,” says Lenkov. The Lenkov Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. show spends roughly five of its seven shoot Together with other in-state pro- days per episode away from soundstages. “It’s ductions in 2017, they brought about a direct a lot of people’s dream vacation, so we try to spend of $317 million, with an estimated eco- do a good job of showcasing the beauty spots,” nomic impact of $548 million. That number says Timmy Chin, senior location manager for looks set to grow in 2018 thanks to the robust Five-0 and Magnum. 3

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 92 OCTOBER 31, 2018 PROMOTION

1. Power Business Manager honoree Humble Lukanga (left) and guest Tony Osunsanmi. 2. Keynote speaker, Jon Feltheimer (right) of Lionsgate, and The Hollywood Reporter’s Stephen Galloway. 3. Martha Henderson, executive vp of City National Bank Entertain- ment, spoke onstage at the breakfast. 4. Thierry Collot (right) from Zenith Watches presents the Zenith Watches Defy El Primero 21 Titanium Chronograph to Power Business Manager Icon Award winner Harley Neuman at THR’s Power Business Managers Breakfast. 5. 2018 Power Business Managers honoree Andrew Meyer (right) was the winner of a made-to-measure suit, compli- ments of event sponsor Ermenegildo Zegna. 6. City National Bank Entertainment was the presenting sponsor of the 2018 Power Business Managers breakfast. 7. THR’s editorial director Matthew Belloni.

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POWER BUSINESS MANAGERS BREAKFAST

On Oct. 10, The Hollywood Reporter hosted its eighth annual breakfast honoring the most powerful entertainment business managers in Hollywood. The program was held at CUT at the Beverly Wilshire hotel, where honorees and guests networked during the opening reception. As part of the breakfast, Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer spoke with THR’s Stephen Galloway about the studio’s expansion and goals for the future. Additionally, Zenith Watches honored talent attorney Harley Neuman with THR’s inaugural Business Manager Icon Award following a video message from longtime client Ellen DeGeneres. THR thanks sponsors City National Bank, Ermenegildo Zegna and Zenith Watches for a memorable event for all honorees and guests.

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Hollywood Rising for Hope Against Hate A proposal from Brent Budowsky

With hatred, racism and anti-Semitism rearing its head across the land we love, the creative community is responding with nobility and generosity, setting the stage for a revival of the history-changing spirit that once inspired Frank Sinatra to support Jack Kennedy and Martin Luther King.

With the most important midterm election in history approaching and a mass murderer of Jews in Pittsburgh writing posts demonizing the migrant caravan that is the target of our president’s attacks in his midterm campaign, after Americans witnessed the largest assassination threat in history against Democrats the president has spoken hatefully against, the midterms should be only the beginning of a great revival of a movement for decency, democracy, and human rights.

When Sinatra joined with Kennedy in 1960 the result inspired believers in freedom everywhere and set loose forces that lifted the cause of civil rights for blacks, then Hispanic farmworkers championed by Robert Kennedy and Caesar Chavez, then women dreaming of a world of equality, and then patriots who know that men and women possess the inalienable right to love and marry the person of their choice.

While these rights, freedoms, and visions that are the heart of Americanism are under attack, the creative community responds as a bulwark of basic decency in their art and with their actions.

There is an enormous role to play in the future of freedom by artists, actors, directors, producers, writers, agents, managers, publicists, athletes, musicians, publishers, and literary lions in championing the true American idea.

Someday epic novels will be written and brilliant motion pictures produced about what each of us does during our American crisis. We are all character actors in a timeless drama of democracy and human rights under attack from sources foreign and domestic.

When students demanded freedom from being mass murdered in classrooms among their fervent supporters were patriots named Clooney, Spielberg, Winfrey and Katzenberg. After our president insulted and demeaned black athletes a powerful voice for truth was Lebron James. After Trump told the lie on tape that powerful men can abuse women at will a far more powerful response was ofered by Ashley Judd, and many others who are stars, and multitudes of women who are not— and men who stand beside them—that decent people must say no to indecent lies.

I propose that leaders of the creative community convene a summit to launch a dramatic movement, including action and art, to rekindle the history-making spirit that enabled Kennedy and King, with support from Sinatra and countless artists, to lift America and change the world.

I can be reached at [email protected]. 89 Years of THR

Memorable moments from a storied history

199770 19771 1199722 19973 119774 19775 119766 199777 19978 1979 1980 1981 1982 11983 19984 198855 199886 1199877 19888 198899 19990 In ’8, Freddie Mercury Gave Flash Gordon Its Beat

Queen, the subject of Fox’s Bohemian Rhapsody, opening Nov. 2, recorded their first soundtrack album for 1980’s Flash Gordon. The Hollywood Reporter was not impressed. “Queen supplies a rock score that is, to put it kindly, anachronistic,” said the review of the operatic score. But the soundtrack rose to No. 23 on the Billboard 200, and the single “Flash” has had something of an unexpected afterlife. The over-the-top lyrics — “He save with a mighty hand, every man, every woman, every child, with a mighty flash” — play well in com- edy, as during Will Ferrell and Jon Heder’s ice-skating routine in Blades of Glory. The sci-fi film, with Flash protecting Earth from the ultra-evil Ming the Merciless (Max von Sydow), sprang from Dino De Laurentiis’ desire to have a Star Wars-type fran- chise. The producer wanted Federico Fellini to direct but ultimately set- tled on Mike Hodges. His first choice for music was Pink Floyd, who were not available. “When it was sug- gested Freddie Mercury and Queen do the music,” says Lisa Downs, who directed the documentary Life After Flash, “Dino’s first reaction was, ‘OK, I’ll meet the Queen.’ He had no idea who they were.” The resulting film was, in the words of THR, “curiously unexciting” and did so-so business. “People try to brainstorm the movie too much,” says Sam J. Jones, who played Flash Gordon. “You need to just lay back and enjoy it visually — or audio only.” — BILL HIGGINS

↑ The late Freddie Mercury performing in 1981 in a Flash Gordon T-shirt at the Nippon Budokan arena in Tokyo.

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