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From left: Glenn Close, Kathryn Hahn, Regina King, Rachel Weisz, Lady Gaga and Nicole Kidman were photographed in L.A. ‘Strength in Vulnerability’ The Actress Roundtable ‘We need to feed our souls, our hearts. That’s what our work does.’ — Glenn Close

‘The truth is, I am nothing like Ally. I created Gaga.’ — Lady Gaga

‘It’s an all-inclusive sisterhood now — that, I think, is pretty freaking fantastic.’ — Regina King ‘You’re going to give up things. There’s going to be compromise.’ — Nicole Kidman FOR YOUR SAG AWARDS® CONSIDERATION

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A CAST IN A MOTION PICTURE Paul Giamatti, Kathryn Hahn, Kayli Carter, Molly Shannon, John Carroll Lynch, Desmin Borges, Denis O’Hare OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE Kathryn Hahn OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE Paul Giamatti OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE Kayli Carter, Molly Shannon “AN ACTING SHOWCASE. Paul Giamatti and Kathryn Hahn are brilliant.” IndieWire “Kayli Carter “Beautifully played by is ﬂ at-out terriﬁ c.” Molly Shannon.” Los Angeles Times Deadline

Written and Directed by TAMARA JENKINS “PAUL GREENGRASS HAS MADE A BRAVE AND MASTERLY FILM THAT’S PERFECT FOR THESE DIFFICULT TIMES.” “A POWERFUL, “A MASTERPIECE MUST SEE FILM.” OF LOVE OVERCOMING HATE”. WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY PAUL GREENGRASS

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A CAST IN A MOTION PICTURE BY A LEAD ACTOR ANDERS DANIELSEN LIE ANDERS DANIELSEN LIE JON ØIGARDEN OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE JONAS STRAND GRAVLI BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE MARIA BOCK JONAS STRAND GRAVLI THORBJØRN HARR OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE OLA G. FURUSETH BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE SEDA WITT SEDA WITT ISAK BAKLI AGLEN MARIA BOCK Issue No. 39, November 28, 2018

FEATURES 62 The Actress Roundtable 76 ‘I Really Hoped I Could How has Hollywood changed Give a Voice to Her’ (and not changed) a year into Fourteen actors reveal the the Time’s Up era? Six ﬁercely leaps they took (weight gains, independent women debate. piano lessons, painting classes and even meeting a 72 Who Wins the War for Supreme Court justice) to re- Streaming Supremacy create real-life characters. 1 in India? Amazon, Disney and Netﬂix 80 Making of Ben Is Back

will battle it out for domi- How Peter Hedges convinced ON THE COVER 2 nance in an online video one of the most in-demand The Actress Roundtable participants were photographed by Miller Mobley. market estimated to reach young actors in Hollywood — On Kathryn Hahn: MSGM jacket, Jennifer Meyer earrings. 550 million users by 2023: you know, his son Lucas — to On Rachel Weisz: Jenny Packham dress. On Nicole Kidman: Sally LaPointe dress, Christian Louboutin shoes. On Lady 1 From left: THR’s Jennifer Laski and “Globally, India is going to be play a struggling drug addict Gaga: Johanna Ortiz dress. On Regina King: Galvan dress, Giuseppe Zanotti shoes, Jennifer Meyer earrings. On Glenn Kate Pappa, Hahn and Mobley. 2 THR editorial the center of this universe.” opposite Julia Roberts. Close: Lafayette 148 suit, Jimmy Choo shoes. director Matthew Belloni moderated.

62 From left: Rachel Weisz, Glenn Close, Regina King, Nicole Kidman, Lady Gaga and Kathryn Hahn were photographed Nov. 18 at Line 204 Studios in Hollywood.

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Issue No. 39, November 28, 2018 55 Great to wrap around your finger: Alison Lou 14-karat gold and enamel signet rings ($950 each).

56 The colorful set of a fair in an idyllic London park in 80 Mary Poppins Returns. Writer-director Peter Hedges and Julia Roberts on the set of Roadside Pictures’ Ben Is Back.

THE REPORT STYLE 11 Popular Oscars After All? 55 Pinky Bling While big, commercial films Your daintiest digit is getting mostly have been tokens the biggest bijoux boost at the Academy Awards in this season with designer the past, this year, some diamonds for daytime. acclaimed movies, including Black Panther and A Star 56 Capturing the Is Born, also have been hits. Colorful Couture of Mary Poppins Returns Hand-painted costumes ABOUT TOWN and painstakingly designed 25 The Garcetti Efect 1930s London create a on the Midterms stylized landscape where How L.A.’s mayor out- “fantasies and realities come clouted Hollywood in races together emotionally,” across the country. says director Rob Marshall. THE BUSINESS REVIEWS 43 Creative Space: 85 The Great Performances Bill Abbott of 2018 Thirty-seven holiday mov- THR film critics delve ies?! Christmas is king for into a dazzling variety of Hallmark’s top programmer, first-rate female turns who talks Netflix compe- (all hail Melissa McCarthy!), tition and his networks’ celebrate the John C. Reilly response to diversity issues. renaissance and cheer under-the-radar standouts. BACKLOT 90 Let’s Add a Few Zeroes to That Ofer Dealmakers behind the 43 Crown Family year’s big-spending stream- Media Networks president Bill THIS WEEK ON THR VIDEO ers and record-setting Abbott was pho-

Glenn Close, Lady Gaga and Regina King talent paydays (and the tographed Nov. 19 MAIDMENT/DISNEY.: JAY RINGS: WILL DELEON. ABBOTT: JAI LENNARD. in New York. talk about their most compelling roles. Obamas’ Netﬂix pact). MARY : MARK SCHAFER. SCHAFER. MARK : BEN

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Mark Wahlberg The star’s Instant Family marks his third straight This Year, Oscar Is Getting underperformer (after Mile 22 and All the Money in the World), jeopardizing his high a Popular Race After All salary demands. Blockbusters Black Panther, A Star Is Born and even Mary Poppins Returns have real awards buzz, which may make it tougher for specialty contenders from Fox Searchlight and Annapurna BY PAMELA MCCLINTOCK ince an indie film wave The last billion-dollar grosser The list of Hollywood studio began almost two decades to win the top Academy Award titles popping up on potential best- Jenny Daly ago, specialty titles was The Lord of the Rings: The picture lists include Disney’s Black The unscripted producer’s S T Group is acquired by Tom like Birdman and The Artist have Return of the King in 2004. And for Panther, Ryan Coogler’s superhero Forman’s Critical Content, which elevates her to oversee often relegated major studio a time, studios seemed content film that earned $1.34 billion since development at the combined movies to the awards sidelines. to let the indies and their spe- its release in early February. And indie nonfiction studio. Along the way, Oscar telecast cialty divisions pursue Oscars Warner Bros.’ Bradley Cooper- ratings have plummeted, with while they chased tentpoles. But Lady Gaga crooner A Star Is Born viewership hitting an all-time now the studios increasingly has earned a rousing $353.3 mil- low in February when Guillermo covet awards as they try to justify lion worldwide to date. That’s SUBJECT. GABBANA: VENTURELLI/GETTY IMAGES. del Toro’s art house fantasy The greenlighting midrange movies, already 81 percent ahead of the Shape of Water won the top prize. make top filmmakers happy and $195.2 million grossed glob- Domenico Dolce & Stefano Gabbana But this year is looking very keep them from bolting to Netflix ally by Fox Searchlight’s Shape The Dolce & Gabbana co- different. A pack of commer- or other streamers. Studio execu- of Water during its entire run. founders apologize to China and cancel a Shanghai cial hits from the Hollywood tives and veteran insiders say that Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns, runway show after the fashion house’s Instagram videos majors is holding its own in the newer, younger Academy mem- opening in theaters Dec. 19, is were deemed racist. awards conversation, and it’s bers are more open to commercial also being touted by awards happening as the overall 2018 fare. And most are invested in pundits who have seen the Emily box office heads for record levels. saving the Oscars from oblivion. Blunt-Lin-Manuel Miranda musical Showbiz Stocks (That is, unless Netflix makes directed by Rob Marshall. So too

TY IMAGES. WAHLBERG: JB LACROIX/WIREIMAGE. COURTESY OF DALY: Alfonso Cuaron John Krasinski history and ’s BOOMING BOX OFFICE is Paramount’s - Roma becomes the first best helmed A Quiet Place, which $1,581.33 (+5%) AMAZON.COM (AMZN) picture in history to have zero +10.2% grossed $340.7 million worldwide The streamer/retailer benefits reported grosses.) “This year increase in revenue from 2017 this year. At Warners, president from soaring online sales, ($9.7B) to 2018 ($10.7B) which Adobe predicts will rise has seen a preponderance of of worldwide marketing Blair Rich 13 percent to $124 billion in the U.S. this holiday season. films that have landed critical says films shouldn’t be counted acclaim and crowd-pleasing +7.3% out solely because of their popu- increase in attendance from 2017 $41.21 (3%) popularity at the box office,” says ($1.09B) to 2018 ($1.17B) larity, even if the proposed idea ROKU INC. (ROKU) Paul Dergarabedian, an analyst of a “popular Oscar” category was Investors fret that the maker Source: Comscore; Jan. 1-Nov. 25 of boxes that stream media at Comscore. widely derided this year. “Surely, to TV will lose share to Apple, reportedly working on a smaller, cheaper solution. Illustration by Guy Shield

WOJCICKI: PHILLIP FARAONE/GETTY IMAGES. STEVE DUVERNAY: GRANITZ/GET Nov. 19-26 THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 11 NOVEMBER 28, 2018 The Report from Universal, and Fox’s Widows. Behind the Headlines But a shift is being felt. “At this time last year several awards Best Pictures at the Box Ofice contenders, like Lady Bird, Call Me Argo is the only major studio film this decade to nab the top Oscar

by Your Name and Three Billboards 2017 • The Shape of Water (Fox Searchlight) that merits being part of the Outside Ebbing, Missouri, were $63.9M total awards conversation,” Rich says. already in release and the indie 2016 • Moonlight (A24) But if major studio films such as buzz was deafening. That’s $27.9M total A Star Is Born keep garnering the not the case this year, with Before Nomination 2015 • Spotlight (Open Road) majority of the Oscar buzz, only The Favourite seem- After Nomination $45.1M total films like Fox Searchlight’s ingly living up to awards Major studio release 2014 • Birdman (Fox Searchlight) period dramedy The hype,” says Jef Bock of $42.3M total Favourite or Annapurna’s Exhibitor Relations. 2013 • 12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight) If Beale Street Could Talk Coogler Over Thanksgiving week- $56.7M total (opening Dec. 14) and Vice end, The Favourite landed (Dec. 25) could find it tough in four theaters, posting 2012 • Argo (Warner Bros.) $136M total to partake in the bounty the best location aver- that goes along with a robust age ($105,633) since La La 2011 • The Artist (The Weinstein Co.) $44.7M total awards run. Marshall Land nearly two years ago. Numerous insiders say Searchlight co-chairman 2010 • The King’s Speech (The Weinstein Co.) $138.8M total voters could still favor a specialty Steve Gilula, who intends to roll title such as Beale Street, Barry out the film slowly, says this sea- 2009 • The Hurt Locker (Summit) Jenkins’ follow-up to his Oscar- son is playing out differently in $17M total winning Moonlight. And several terms of the impact of the majors. 2008 • Slumdog Millionaire (Fox Searchlight) studio movies have lagged at “Critically and commercially, $141.3M total the box office so far but are still they’ve had a very good year,” he $30M $60M $90M $120M vying for Oscar glory, including says. “But this isn’t necessarily a First Man and Green Book, both trend; it’s a cycle.” Source: Comscore; domestic box ofice.

Given a series of record-setting weekends at Netﬂix’s Pointless War on Box Ofﬁce the box ofice this year, it seems safe to conclude There’s little to lose for the streamer in granting exclusive theatrical runs for its key that there’s room in the world for both movie releases, and bragging about grosses may win over Academy voters, too BY KIM MASTERS theaters and streaming services. Yes, the studios are going through big, even existential chal- Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma opened view. But the company’s manifest reluctance lenges, and the business has struggled through Opinion strong at the specialty box to yield on this point only encourages movie- some unfortunate changes. But people still want ofice Nov. 23, just behind Fox business insiders to see Netflix as an adversary. to go to the movies. So Netflix isn’t going to kill Searchlight’s The Favourite. At least we think it Does Netflix still need to act like it’s passing theaters — and an exclusive theatrical run for a did; no one knows exactly what the film grossed a kidney stone when it agrees to an exclusive select number of movies isn’t going to kill Netflix. because Netflix doesn’t reveal numbers. That theatrical run? Maybe it made sense when the Many people won’t run to a multiplex to see performance, plus glowing reviews, mean that in company was establishing itself as the dominant anything, especially a black-and-white, subtitled Cuaron’s reminiscence of his youth in Mexico streamer. Subscribers had to be trained to stay period piece that unfolds in its own good time. But City, Netflix has a very serious awards contender. on the sofa; “Netflix and chill” had to be proven for those people, Roma’s run in theaters is efec- But when it comes to the big one — best picture as a thing. But now it is very much a thing. And tive marketing. Sure, a theatrical run for another Oscar — some influential Academy members are if Netflix craves the validation and marketing movie could backfire for Netflix if the film doesn’t not prepared to hand a victory to a disrupter that power of awards — it clearly does, as it’s spend- lure audiences. But Netflix has the luxury of being theater owners and some AMPAS members regard ing big to win them — it’s hard to understand very selective about which chances it wants to as a mortal enemy of the movie business. Those why the streaming service still finds it so hard to take, and it doesn’t have to be rushed into making “Never Netflix” voters won’t endorse bend when circumstances warrant. Maybe it decisions as to which films will get that luxury. Roma, period. But for those on the should try a bit of a rebrand, signaling that it is Of course, every filmmaker will want the same fence — who love the film but may thrilled to embrace theaters. Will that placate treatment that Cuaron is getting (though if the : CARLOS SOMONTE/NETFLIX. STUBER: FURY/GETTY IMAGES FOR NETFLIX. not love Netflix — well, Netflix isn’t theater owners? Oh, hell no. But it might make film fails to win best picture, don’t be surprised if ROMA Stuber making it easier for them to over- it easier for conflicted Academy members to Cuaron starts to hint that Netflix could have done come their misgivings. deliver the votes that Netflix needs. much better). But this is a subject for negotiation, TTY IMAGES. Well before Roma’s release was announced, and very few directors have Cuaron’s clout. there were rumors that Netflix film chief Scott Is the Roma precedent a problem for Netflix as Stuber had to push hard to get chief content it deals with A-list talent? Potentially. But that oficer Ted Sarandos to give the film more than could be solved if the streamer simply admitted it just a day-and-date release. Now Roma is getting is actually just as interested in the trappings a three-week exclusive window in some theaters of Hollywood success as its traditional rivals. That before it drops on the streaming service Dec. 14, an means winning old-school awards, giving its almost heretical decision from Netflix’s point of prestigious films an exclusive run in theaters and, if it wants to win Oscars, trumpeting its box ofice → Netflix reluctantly allowed Roma to screen in theaters before it becomes available to stream Dec. 14. successes as loud as possible. COOGLER: LIVINGSTON/GETTY DAVID IMAGES. MARSHALL: LIVINGSTON/GE DAVID

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 12 NOVEMBER 28, 2018 FROM THE CO-WRITER AND DIRECTOR OF THE BIG SHORT

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OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY THE CAST OF A MOTION PICTURE CHRISTIAN BALE • AMY ADAMS • STEVE CARELL • SAM ROCKWELL • TYLER PERRY ALISON PILL • LILY RABE • EDDIE MARSAN • JUSTIN KIRK • LISAGAY HAMILTON AND JESSE PLEMONS The Report

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YouTube Retreats From Big-Budget Original Shows After years of pushing a premium subscription tier, the Google video giant shifts strategy on originals, vowing to ‘make them available free’ (with ads) BY NATALIE JARVEY Logan Paul and Peyton List (above) hree years after YouTube launched a subscription starred streaming service aimed at making it a destination in YouTube Premium’s for premium programming, the online video giant sci-fi title T The Thinning, is shifting strategy. The Google-owned platform is expected and Will to scale back its scripted output beginning in 2020, a source Smith partnered with direct knowledge of the company’s plans tells THR. The with the move comes as executives plan to double down on YouTube’s platform for a Grand ad-supported business by making all originals — including Canyon the Karate Kid spinoff Cobra Kai and the Doug Liman- bungee jump. produced Impulse — free to its 2 billion users regardless of whether they pay $12 a month for subscription service YouTube Premium. The YouTube Originals team, led by former MTV execu- its budget for the next two years, making it even more dif- tive Susanne Daniels, has started informing creative YouTube ficult for executives to take big swings. partners about the shift, per multiple sources, one of whom Original After several attempts to court Hollywood, YouTube describes the pullback as “a serious budget Programming made its biggest swing yet in 2015 when it hired Daniels reduction.” YouTube isn’t signaling a com- by the to oversee originals. Her early slate featured YouTuber- Numbers plete end to its scripted business — it recently fronted projects like Scare PewDiePie, but Daniels quickly ordered pilots for an adaptation of The Edge of began to greenlight more ambitious fare. While most Kyncl Seventeen and the big-rig drama Dark Cargo — Total Projects shows were available only to subscribers, YouTube in 2017 but the change has raised questions about its Released also began ordering projects that would stream for free willingness to compete for big-budget fare. “Other plat- with ads, including the Demi Lovato documentary Simply forms have had traction with scripted, but they don’t feel Complicated and a live stream with Will Smith viewed by like there’s an opening for them,” says one producer briefed 100 nearly 18 million people. on the company’s strategy. Original Series Soon, there won’t be a distinction between program- “It is far too early to tell something that decisive,” chief ming that is available with ads or without. Kyncl and his business officer Robert Kyncl says of YouTube’s long-term team are renegotiating deals to allow viewers to watch all scripted strategy, noting that the streamer has a healthy 50+ YouTube Originals without pulling out their wallets. “If (Step Up: slate of upcoming projects, including the Jordan Peele- you look at our originals over the past few years, our main High Water, Escape produced anthology Weird City and the Kirsten Dunst starrer the Night) goal was to drive subscribers to YouTube Premium,” says On Becoming a God in Central Florida. Kyncl, adding that he had received advertiser interest about The YouTube Originals budget, said to be in the hun- Films projects, like Liza on Demand, that were previously ad-free. dreds of millions annually, has always been overshadowed “But through experimentation, we’ve also learned that we by those of Netflix and Amazon, which shell out several can make a lot of the projects work incredibly well when we billion each on programming. And while its competi- 25+ make them available free to users.” (The Thinning, tors have been locked in an escalating arms race, spending G-Funk) Rollout strategies will vary for each project, he says, but more each year to lock down top talent and stockpile IP, scenarios YouTube is considering include releasing a show Bloomberg reported in February that YouTube would hold International Titles week-to-week for free or giving viewers the option to binge : YOUTUBE RED/EVERETT COLLECTION.

if they subscribe to Premium, which will still exist to offer KAI 15 ad-free viewing and video downloads, among other perks. (Top Management, YouTube already experimented with this model on the Les Emmerdeurs) release of the LeBron James-produced docuseries Best Shot. Another option would be to offer subscribers an extended YouTube Premium Kids’ Series cut of a ﬁlm, as it did with Simply Complicated. Kyncl points renewed Karate Kid to a continued international push as a sign of the compa- spinof ny’s commitment to its subscription business. Cobra Kai 6 for a second (Fruit Ninja: “One of the main reasons that people publish content season to Frenzy Force) to YouTube is for this incredible global reach,” Kyncl says. premiere in 2019. “The same should be true for our originals.” : COURTESY OF YOUTUBE PREMIUM. KYNCL: MEDIA/GETTY TRISTAR IMAGES. THINNING

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 14 NOVEMBER 28, 2018 For Your Consideration BEST ACTOR ROBERT REDFORD

“‘The Old Man and the Gun’ makes you remember why Robert Redford Has Been A Star For Decades.”

Dave Fear,

“Redford, with his frisky charisma and that rascal’s grin that’s melted generations of hearts ,Owns Every Single Scene like he’s taking a valedictory lapon a career that began 60 years ago. If anyone has earned the right to take one, it’s him.”

Chris Nashawaty,

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Paul Verna, noting similar recent failures such as YouTube’s TV service crashing during this year’s World Cup, some Hulu viewers losing their connections at the end of the most recent Super Bowl and streaming problems during the UFC’s Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Conor McGregor matchup. In 2015, Turner purchased a majority stake in iStreamPlanet, which played a role in the golf snafu and will provide technology for future endeavors, just as Disney purchased BAMTech from Major League Baseball in 2017 to help with ESPN and its upcoming Disney that will compete with WarnerMedia’s streamer. Turner’s B/R Live distributed Has WarnerMedia Learned Stankey the golf event, and its purpose, in part, was to showcase the capa- From Its Pay TV Debacle? bilities of the service that launched in March. The match also came courtesy of CAA Sports, After major glitches mar the AT&T unit’s first shot at a pay-per-view Excel Sports and Lagardere Sports. golf extravaganza, questions are raised about the reliability of its digital effort The event in Las Vegas has its roots in an BY PAUL BOND idea from CAA’s Jack Whigham and his client, ith all the pieces in place for a Turner’s B/R Live, a streaming service from producer Bryan Zurif. The PGA Tour signed hyped pay-per-view golf showdown Bleacher Report, which WarnerMedia’s Turner off on it, and sponsors were lined up. Turner W Nov. 23 between Tiger Woods and acquired in 2012 for $175 million, was the says the problem is owed to how popular the Phil Mickelson that included camera-drones, main culprit for the fiasco, but AT&T also made contest was, given it simply wasn’t prepared mic’d-up participants, side-betting and a the match available on DirecTV and outlets to handle the large volume of sign-ups. It was winner-take-all $9 million purse, AT&T’s controlled by Comcast, Charter, Verizon and eventually called Capital One’s The Match: Tiger WarnerMedia whiffed on the technical details. others. “The golf stream is a reminder that vs. Phil, while various elements were promo- Some viewers who paid $20 for live stream- today, the internet is not quite ready to deliver tional opportunities, like Drone View by AT&T. ing were denied access, necessitating that the at sufficient scale and reliability. That could Insiders say Woods and Mickelson each were pay wall be lifted. Now the debacle has some impact upcoming rights renew- to receive a cut of the PPV money on top of the on Wall Street rethinking assumptions about als for major sports,” says Steven $9 million purse, which Mickelson won with a how the telecom giant handles live sports and Birenberg, founder of Northlake birdie putt on the 22nd hole. WarnerMedia will whether its John Stankey-led WarnerMedia Capital Management. likely ensure the golfers get their shares despite is up to the challenge of launching a Netflix Bentley With the match freely avail- the refunds. A person close to the production competitor next year. able online due to the lifting of says a second PPV golf event could be on the As to the latter, WarnerMedia shored up its the pay wall, most of the other outlets said horizon, teaming Woods and Mickelson with executive ranks Nov. 26 with the appointment they’d be refunding their customers as well, a younger player on the rise. “The golf match BALL: ISTOCK.TATIC, of Brad Bentley as GM of the yet-to-be named though WarnerMedia has not said who will was a silly first effort,” adds analyst Michael service. Bentley is a 15-year veteran of DirecTV be footing the bill. “They’ll lose a lot of money Pachter of Wedbush Securities, who suggests, (like WarnerMedia, owned by AT&T) who on this and it is humbling. But they’ll learn “They should do blacked-out NFL games first helped launch the DirecTV Now streamer. from their mistakes,” says eMarketer analyst and see if that works.”

THR/ Morning Consult Poll Which Reality TV Show Would You Appear On? Americans are most likely to want to guest on History’s Pawn Stars among 35 series surveyed

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THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 16 NOVEMBER 28, 2018 TIMOTHEE CHALAMET

“TIMOTHEE CHALAMET GIVES A BLAZINGLY STRONG PERFORMANCE... STUNNINGLY VULNERABLE AND REAL”

“TIMOTHEE CHALAMET MIGHT BE THE MALE ACTOR OF HIS GENERATION ...HE HAS HONESTY, AUTHENTICITY AND A REMARKABLE GIFT”

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W A R D A S 20 FEINBERG FORECAST ACTOR ACTRESS 18 S E N A S O The Awards Train’s NYC Stop Puts Indies in the Spotlight A dark-horse cowboy pic swiped the Gothams’ best picture prize Ethan Hawke Toni Collette as The Favourite cast earned a special nod By Scott Feinberg First Reformed Hereditary At 48, with the Before trilogy and Ghosts seemingly become her: Having Boyhood on his résumé, he’s on his way earned an Oscar nom for 1999’s The Sixth to becoming an indie icon, scoring act- Sense, she claimed her first Gotham, ing honors for his doubt-ridden minister as best actress, for her haunted turn as BEST PICTURE in this drama, for which Paul Schrader a woman facing the spirits of her dead also picked up the screenplay award. mother and daughter. : YORGOS

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FAVOURITE : COURTESY OF HULU. GAP : COURTESY OF SONY PICTURES CLASSICS.

The Rider The Favourite RIDER Chloe Zhao’s drama about the struggles After its stellar opening — with more than Hale County This Morning, Minding the Gap : COURTESY RAMELL ROSS & CINEMA GUILD. of a modern-day cowboy triumphed at $422,000 from four theaters — Yorgos This Evening A critical favorite — it has a 100 percent HALE the Nov. 26 IFP Gotham Awards in New Lanthimos’ eccentric costume pic had a RaMell Ross’ poetic film, shot in Alabama Rotten Tomatoes score — Bing Liu’s look York, where it was named best feature. mixed night at the Gothams. It didn’t and about African-American life in the at three young men confronting abuse, : COURTESY OF A24. The award is all the more important since prevail in the three categories in which it South, was named best doc over better- addiction and adulthood failed to snare a

the film won’t appear at 2019’s Spirit was nominated, but it took home a special known titles like Morgan Neville’s Won’t Gotham — and was left of the list of HEREDITARY Awards, as it was nominated last year by ensemble award, and star Rachel Weisz You Be My Neighbor?, which instead won doc nominees announced Nov. 20 by the that awards group. was treated to one of the tributes. the audience prize. Producers Guild of America. : A24/PHOTOFEST. FIRST LANTHIMOS/FOX SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES.

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BEST PICTURE BEST ACTOR Steve Coogan John C. Reilly “It’s the human side of the character that makes this McCARTHY’S BEST PERFORMANCE TO DATE revealing haunting insights into friendship, loneliness and creative insecurity.” Peter Debruge,

“ MELISSA MCCARTHY AND RICHARD E. GRANT GIVE THE PERFORMANCES OF A LIFETIME.” Lynn Hirschberg,

“GRANT SPARKLES EVERY TIME HE SHOWS UP ON SCREEN, dishing out vicious bon mots and acting as a perfect complement for McCarthy’s character.”

Brian Truitt,

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TAYLOR SWIFT SPREADS THE WEALTH IN MAKING LEAP TO MAJOR LABEL Taylor Swift brought her own welcome gift when she it does, Soriano says, “UMG saying they’ll pay all Deal inked a new global record deal with Universal Music artists irrespective of their account being recouped of the Group, securing a victory for her new labelmates. is a real boon for a lot of artists.” Week “There was one condition that meant more to me Swift, who has sold more than 32 million albums than any other deal point,” the pop superstar, 28, in the U.S. alone, has used her powers of persuasion wrote on social media Nov. 19. “I asked that any sale to help artists before: In 2015, she wrote an open let- of their Spotify shares result in a distribution of ter to Apple CEO Tim Cook calling the company out money to their artists, non-recoupable. They have for its plan not to pay artists and producers royalties generously agreed to this, at what they believe will during a three-month free trial to promote the be much better terms than paid out previously by launch of Apple Music. Cook reversed Apple’s policy. Swift other major labels.” Swift also flexed her considerable clout for her How big was Swift’s move? “It’s tremendous for own benefit. According to sources, instead of owning a superstar artist to make a request that benefits Swift’s new master recordings — as is the norm for Maya Rudolph artists who aren’t superstars,” notes music attorney most contracts — UMG will license the masters from Laurie Soriano. “It’s to UMG’s credit that they’re Swift in order to get a return on its investment before committing to an approach that benefits all artists.” the rights revert to her. In contrast, Big Machine, the Grainge While it’s not clear that UMG’s payout terms will Nashville-based label that signed her when she was be better than Sony Music Entertainment’s, Swift’s 14 and now is on the market for up to $350 million, FILM request matches what Sony put into place with its retains ownership of the masters for her six albums American Hustle actor artists and distributed labels when it sold half its released under its tenure. Alessandro Nivola (CAA,

Spotify stock earlier this year for roughly $750 mil- Swift remains a rarity who can still sell albums ME: the U.K.’s Independent, lion. Some artists received as much as $1 million in in a landscape that increasingly has shifted toward Management 360) will play the cashout. Unlike Sony and Warner Music Group, streaming. Her 2017 release Reputation sold more Dickey Moltisanti in the UMG, under chairman and CEO Lucian Grainge, than 1 million copies in its ﬁrst week, making Swift Sopranos prequel for New has yet to sell its Spotify stock (it’s thought to own the only act to have four million-selling weeks, Line and Warner Bros. less than 5 percent), and any such plans are likely on with four different albums, since Nielsen began hold while UMG parent Vivendi shops up to 50 per- tracking in 1991. MELINDA NEWMAN, WITH ADDITIONAL Rebel Wilson (WME, cent of the music company. However, when and if REPORTING BY ED CHRISTMAN Sloane Offer) and Jason Derulo (CAA, 23 Management) will A Record-Setting Game Grows With Multiplayer Mode join Jennifer Hudson Rockstar Games is in all users gaining access by Nov. 30. other microtransaction purchases will in Working Title and embarking on a Western The added function comes as hit fran- now be available in RDO. PATRICK SHANLEY Universal’s Cats. Big Deal expansion. chises known for their immersive AND REBECCA SUN A month after the open worlds and intricate storytelling seek Greg Kinnear (WME, : ALBERTO E. RODRIGUEZ/GETTY IMAGES FOR POINT HONORS. release of Red Dead to further enhance their oferings with Anonymous, Stone Genow) TESY OF LAKE UNION PUBLISHING. RUDOLPH: STEVE GRANITZ/GETTY IMAGES. HO Redemption 2, which set a record with its another equally popular gaming genre: and Lesley Manville (the $725 million opening weekend, the video MMOs, or massively multiplayer online U.K.’s Artists Rights Group) game publisher has launched Red Dead games. Rockstar released an online multi- will play Bob and Dolores Online, a multiplayer option that will player version of its other major franchise, Hope in the Keira Knightley be available via RDR2’s title menu. Grand Theft Auto, in 2013, which has helped starrer Misbehaviour. The rollout of RDO, which is still in beta drive profits for that game past the $6 bil- testing, began with early access Nov. 27 for lion mark — making it the most profitable Janelle Monae’s those who bought RDR2’s Ultimate Edition entertainment title in history. The introduc- Wondaland Pictures (WME, and is continuing throughout the week, tion of online play allows for Rockstar to Ziffren Brittenham) has prioritizing those who played RDR2 on generate even more profit from its Western signed a first-look deal at opening day and weekend and culminating blockbuster, as cosmetic upgrades and Gamers can play together with Red Dead Online. Universal. CP. REDEMPTION:CP. COURTESY OF GAMES. ROCKSTAR BOOK: COUR EL LOCCISANO/GETTYEL IMAGES. JACKSON: ARCHULETA/FILMMAGIC. PAUL ALLEN

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The River Widow (LAKE UNION, NOV. 1) My Dark Vanessa (WILLIAM MORROW) BY Ann Howard Creel AGENCY Lake Union BY Kate Elizabeth Russell AGENCY ICM Partners Set in the 1930s, the female-led survivalist tale follows a wife who The topical novel, which sold in a seven-ﬁgure publishing deal, kills her abusive husband. As she attempts to dispose of his body, tackles a contemporary #MeToo story of a woman who is forced she is swept away in a river, then must ﬁnd her way back to civili- to re-evaluate her high school relationship with her then-English zation and explain her crime to a hostile town. teacher after he is accused of sexual abuse. SPLASHNEWS.COM. NIVOLA: BRUCE GLIKAS/WIREIMAGE. MICHA PATEL: GRAINGE: JEFFREY MAYER/WIREIMAGE. SWIFT: EMMA MCINTYRE/GETTY IMAGES FOR D

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Gleason director Clay Tweel 15M (WME, Good Fear, Stone Severance and bonuses Fox News Genow) will direct a six- Big paid former exec turned White House part docuseries based on Number communications chief Bill Shine, John Grisham’s The revealed Nov. 23. Innocent Man for Netflix.

BOOKS Nivola Derulo Patel Penguin Young Readers Happy Death Day a third season. … Science Dev Patel (WME, the U.K.’s will publish Sen. Kamala writer-director Christopher Channel has greenlighted Curtis Brown, Magnolia, Harris’ picture book Landon (WME, Mosaic, the Harry Houdini docuse- Lichter Grossman), Anne memoir Superheroes Next Rep Big Bloom Hergott) is develop- ries Houdini’s Last Secrets. Hathaway (CAA, Are Everywhere. Sheet Thing ing an adaptation of My … Starz has ordered to Management 360, Sloane Best Friend’s Exorcism with series Katori Hall’s P-Valley Offer) and Tina Fey (WME, Dynamite Entertainment the Gotham Group. and the Jerry Bruckheimer- 3 Arts, Ziffren Brittenham) will launch a Red Sonja Janet Jackson, who Kalen Allen produced Hightown. will star in the Amazon comic book series to debut released “Made for Now” REP ICM Partners TELEVISION anthology Modern Love. early next year. Aug. 17, has signed Natalie Dormer (UTA. DIGITAL with Paradigm, as has WHY HE MATTERS the U.K.’s United, Untitled, Viola Davis (CAA, Lasher, Maya Rudolph (WME, Marvel Entertainment Kenny Chesney. The YouTube star, Jackoway Austen) has Lichter Grossman) and her 3 Arts, Hirsch Wallerstein) will publish a comic book 22, will make his acting signed a multiyear, first- JuVee Productions have and Natasha Lyonne series based on Riot Dave Cobb, who pro- debut opposite Seth look deal with Fremantle. signed a first-look features (WME, 3 Arts, Schreck Games’ League of Legends. duced the A Star Is Born Rogen in Sony’s untitled deal with Amazon Studios. Rose) have signed a soundtrack, has signed pickle comedy, based Shadowhunters show- REAL ESTATE with CAA. on the 2013 New Yorker runner Ed Decter (Verve, Nicole Kidman and novella Sell Out. Allen’s Anonymous, Ziffren Keith Urban have sold The Girl in the Spider’s viral “Kalen Reacts” Brittenham) will pen a their 36-acre Franklin, Web’s Sylvia Hoeks has food review videos (his crime drama series based Tennessee, enclave for signed with WME. YouTube channel has on John Sandford’s $2.7 million. more than 31 million best-selling Prey novels The Meg’s Page Kennedy views) caught the eye of for actor-producer Mark Google purchased a has signed with Ellen DeGeneres, land- Harmon and CBS. 51-acre ofice park near Paradigm, as have Think ing him a recurring spot its Mountain View head- Like a Man scribes on Ellen and a weekly Audience Network has quarters for $1 billion. David A. Newman and news series on her digi- renewed Mr. Mercedes for The Nicole Kidman-Keith Urban 5,100-square-foot home. COMPILED BY MIA GALUPPO Keith Merryman. tal network.

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The Garcetti Effect on the Midterms How L.A.’s mayor channeled Hollywood clout — and money — in House races across the country By Peter Kiefer

hen it comes to sharing a Rolodex Nevins. “I said — let’s take a risk. Let’s make ↑ L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Sept. 25 fundraiser featured Jimmy Kimmel (left, with Garcetti) and a performance of donors, politicians aren’t typi- all the work that we do not about us but about by DJ Khaled. Below: Garcetti with Oklahoma’s Kendra Horn. W cally known for their generosity those folks in these other areas, including in — but for Los Angeles Mayor Eric our backyard with the California Democratic of Representatives, including Katie Hill, Garcetti, who enjoys the support of industry party and see what we can do to ﬁll a need.” Mike Levin, Katie Porter, Gil Cisneros and titans from J.J. Abrams to Jimmy Kimmel, the And Garcetti, 47, did more than raise money; Harley Rouda. stakes in the recent midterm elections were he also upped his national proﬁle by cam- On Nov. 26, another Garcetti-backed just too high to not spread the wealth. “You win paigning with Dean Phillips in Minnesota, Joe California Congressional candidate, TJ Cox, elections and hold power and govern for the Cunningham in South Carolina and Kendra Horn pulled ahead of his GOP opponent. A victory long haul not by depending just on a candidate’s in Oklahoma, as well as a half-dozen candi- for Cox would put 46 of California’s 53 House

RN: COURTESY OF SUBJECT. talent but by building the capacity for state dates who ﬂipped California seats in the House seats (including four in the Republican strong- parties to get the vote out, to register people, hold of Orange County) in the Democrat to ﬁnd the next generation of leaders,” says column. Overall, of the 52 races that Garcetti Garcetti, who with his PAC drummed up more and his PAC supported, 32 were consid- than $1.5 million for dozens of Democratic ered wins, 19 losses, and one — Mike Espy’s candidates across the country. Mississippi race for Senate — was set for a The idea to serve as a conduit between too-close-to-call Nov. 27 runoff at press time. Hollywood’s donor class and candidates from “What I tried to do is make sure folks were California’s Kern County to Mississippi came introduced and create direct relationships,” to Garcetti in the spring when he was host- says Garcetti. “I don’t need to broker these ing an event for the Democratic State Party of things. I want state party chairs in other South Carolina at the L.A. home of CBS’ David places to know a Jefrey Katzenberg or a David KIMMEL: CHARLEY GALLAY/GETTY IMAGES FOR DEMOCRATIC MIDTERM VICTORY FUND. HO

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Nevins or some of the other big donors; these are the people they can come back to in the future.” One thing that struck him is how much farther a dollar goes outside California, where ﬂipping a state assembly seat can easily cost $1 million; in Oklahoma, $10,000 might be enough. Defeats for gubernatorial candidates Andrew Gillum in Florida and Stacey Abrams in Georgia, Where to Chow in Vegas Now as well as Texan Beto O’Rourke in The desert city welcomes new eateries from Kogi king Roy Choi, Jimmy Kimmel his Senate race against Ted Cruz, favorite Marc Vetri and a Michelin-starred Hong Kong dim sum phenom By Melinda Sheckells were positioned by many pundits as a rebuke to Hollywood’s investment in those races (attorney Skip as Vegas’ culinary war continues to esca- ↑ Roy Choi’s Best Friend at Park MGM will be fronted by the Liquor Store bar; inset: Vetri at Palms Casino. Below: Brittenham hosted a Gillum fund- L late with fresh entrants from Los Angeles, A Disgruntled Mai Tai from Palazzo’s Electra Cocktail Club. raiser; Oprah Winfrey and Michael New York and much farther east. B. Jordan canvassed for Abrams). When Roy Choi opens Best Friend — his first Mott 32 makes its U.S. debut Dec. 24, joining But Endeavor vp government rela- eatery outside L.A. — at Park MGM on Dec. 28 locations in Vancouver and Hong Kong, and tions Amos Buhai, who oversees (it bows unoficially nine days earlier), it will be “a Electra Cocktail Club recently joined Dorsey and the Endeavor Action PAC, counters remixed and remastered collection of the evolu- Rosina to complete the resort’s cocktail bar trio that narrative. “Beto and Abrams tion of our Los Angeles — its food, its music, its (all with drink menus by Sam Ross of New York’s were both inspiring and great sto- culture,” says the chef behind Kogi trucks and Attaboy). Just of the Strip, Palms Casino is see- ries, but they were never expected A-Frame. “It’s Koreatown in a capsule.” The spot ing a resurgence thanks to a $690 million redo to win,” he says. “People forget will be fronted by a “liquor store” and what is now arguably Vegas’ top art collec- that a year ago it was a long shot serving boozy slushies (“We have tion with names such as Murakami and Warhol. that the Democrats would even this 32-ounce Big Gulp cup with the On Nov. 19, acclaimed Philadelphia chef Marc take back the House.” handle and the red top”). Adjacent Vetri, who cooked at Jimmy Kimmel’s 2018 Oscar And while Garcetti’s efforts Choi to Best Friend, nightlife maestros party, debuted Vetri Cucina on the 56th floor. fueled speculation about a White Jonnie and Mark Houston are like- And on Dec. 13, prolific TV chef Michael Symon House run (on Nov. 19, a “ready wise set to make their first impact outside cuts the ribbon on his first Vegas spot, for Garcetti” email blast went out L.A.: On the Record (enter through a Mabel’s BBQ, a spinof of the Cleveland to key donors), his stated priorities real record store) opens Dec. 28, with original. Also debuting at the Palms in for 2020 are not yet presidential. Shepard Fairey as its inaugural artist early 2019: Hong Kong-born, Michelin- “If people want to hold on to the collaborator. Vegas’ 40,000-square- starred dim sum spot Tim Ho Wan, which House of Representatives that foot Eataly also is set to open at Park recently opened its second New York we just won,” he says, “we’d better MGM, on Dec. 27. City location, and seafood with a Latin get to work right now.” Over at Palazzo, Asian restaurant flair at Shark from Bobby Flay. LBERG/GETTY IMAGES.

WOULD YOU PAY $2,000 (TO CHARITY FOR HEF’S SILK PAJAMAS?

Fourteen months after his death his inner Rosebud) range from a ﬁrst edition Up for Hugh Hefner Auction at 91, a load of ’s of The Great Gatsby ($4,000) to a scale model of possessions is up for sale, with his childhood home in Chicago ($3,500). “It’s proceeds to beneﬁt his civil liberties founda- curious to see gifts you’ve given him yourself tion. Julien’s will wield the paddle Nov. 30 become part of the auction,” says Christie, NS. VEGAS: COURTESY OF SUBJECT CHOI: (3. MICHAEL TUL and Dec. 1., preceded by a Nov. 28 VIP showing Playboy Enterprises’ former chair and CEO. where the icon’s daughter, Christie Hefner, and “There’s a cool sign I found in an antiques store widow, Crystal, will appear. Items include Hef’s in New Orleans that he’d put up every year at complete Playboy bound set (estimated to draw the mansion to kick off the jazz festival.” One up to $40,000), his silk pajamas ($2,000) and item not up for bidding is Hefner’s holy grail, a 1946 coin-operated Wurlitzer jukebox that he the 2,600-plus-volume scrapbook collection he programmed with original 78 rpm albums personally assembled as a chronicle of his by the likes of Artie Shaw, Johnny Mercer and outsize life. “They’ll probably be digitized,” Lena Horne ($20,000). Offerings that show- says Christie, “and they’ll likely end up with a case Hefner’s collecting impulse (and reveal university.” GARY BAUM

↑ Hefner’s Wurlitzer jukebox and his Great Gatsby first edition. “You can imagine why he’d be drawn to it, in the sense of the host who threw the most elaborate parties,” says Christie Hefner of the novel. HEFNER: DAN TUFFS/GETTY IMAGES. BOOK, JUKEBOX: COURTESY OF JULIEN’S AUCTIO

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Yes, I Did Say That! Quotes A l o o k a t w h o’s s a y i n g w h a t i n e n t e r t a i n m e n t Compiled by Michael O’Connell

“You have the “We are all most misshapen graphically nude a couple times and diseased of day, so I don’t quite get it.” uterus I’ve seen in my JOAN GRAVES The exiting MPAA ratings czar, entire career.” telling The New York Times that LENA DUNHAM she doesn’t understand America’s The Camping co-creator, in a profile in New York magazine, hang-up over nudity in film. revealing what her doctor said after her recent hysterectomy.

“Has it ever occurred to you “It was very “He’s an asshole. that men’s balls exciting. It was also He stole my spot. are as vulnerable a suicide mission.” I did push him.” to radiation as AARON SORKIN ALEC BALDWIN women’s ovaries?” The Oscar-winning scribe, The actor, quoted in a police ANDREA MITCHELL writing for New York magazine, report confessing to an The NBC journalist, speaking describing his initial reaction altercation over a parking space at the 92nd Street Y, recalling when Scott Rudin asked him — even though Baldwin what she told her boss when he to adapt To Kill a Mockingbird has publicly denied the incident picked a male colleague to for Broadway. (as has his attorney, in court). cover the 1979 nuclear-reactor accident at Three Mile Island.

“I bet you’d be “I now understand R/WIREIMAGE. that the word on my side “I am human.” if I had killed a has no place in any MICHAEL B. JORDAN journalist.” conversation, ever.” The Creed II star, when MICHELLE WOLF TERRY ROSSIO pressed by Chrissy Teigen The onetime White House The Pirates of the Caribbean writer, on Ellen DeGeneres’ talk Correspondents’ Association tweeting Hollywood’s latest show, admitting he’s hooked dinner host, invoking apology for the use of the N-word. up after meeting someone Jamal Khashoggi in tweeting Rossio, who is anti-vaccinations, via direct message. her disdain for the decision had compared being called not to have a comedian this year. an “anti-vaxxer” to the racial slur. TAMARGO/GETTY IMAGES. COBAIN: MAZU KEVIN IMAGES. TAMARGO/GETTY

FLASHBACK! SEPT. 20, 1991 Did I “The white man doing rap is just like watching a white man dance.” Really KURT COBAIN The late Nirvana frontman, in a newly unearthed radio interview, Say arguing that Caucasians have no place in the genre 25 years before Post Malone, That? Machine Gun Kelly and Mac Miller would all top the rap charts. DUNHAM: CHARLES SYKES/BRAVO. SORKIN, WOLF: JESSE GRANT/GETTY IMAGES. JORDAN: ALEXANDER JORDAN: IMAGES. SORKIN, JESSE GRANT/GETTY WOLF: SYKES/BRAVO. DUNHAM: CHARLES

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2 Michael Sheen About Town and Rachel Weisz

The Red Carpet Party Crawler Indie Honors The A-listers who hit Cipriani Wall Street for Gotham Awards the IFP’s 28th annual New York City, Nov. 26 Gotham Awards — including tribute honorees Paul Greengrass, Jon Kamen, 1 Rachel Weisz (2) and Elsie Willem Dafoe (5) (who paid Fisher a tearful tribute to the late Bernardo Bertolucci and was met with the evening’s first standing ovation) — expressed a hope that their films might inspire more than just emotion in their audiences. Barry Jenkins, whose If Beale Street Could Talk was up for two awards but lost out to The Rider for best feature, told THR he wants

people to walk out of the ASHER:OR IFP. JEMAL COUNTESS/GETTY IMAGES FOR IFP. theater recognizing the 3 “power of love, family and community to protect us First LastName, First LastName, First from so many of the things LastName that we see in the world today.” Sandra Lee (6), who received the Made in NY Award and is on a mission with her doc short, Rx: Early Detection, to improve

cancer prevention and TER. STEPHAN JAMES: JAMIE MCCARTHY/GETTY IMAGES F treatment, was out to win not only the hearts but also the influence of the well- heeled crowd. “The power in this room is almost second to none,” she told THR before the ceremony. “I’m going to ask tonight that when they see this documentary — if it’s ever up for any kind of acknowl- edgement — to please support it because it’s the 4 5 only way I can change the 3 Regina Willem Dafoe laws.” Like Rider director Adam Driver and Hall and wife Giada Chloe Zhao, best actress IMAGES FOR HALL, FIJI WATER. DAFOE, NEVINS: CINDY ORD/GETTY IMAGES FOR FIJI WA wife Joanne Tucker Colagrande winner Toni Collette missed the ceremony: “I pushed her down the stairs,” quipped Hereditary director Ari Aster regard- ing his star’s absence. The Favourite, which tied with First Reformed for the most Gotham noms, won a special prize for the performances of Weisz,

Emma Stone and Olivia ETTY IMAGES DRIVER: FOR LINDT. EUGENE GOLOGURSKY/GETTY Colman. Weisz told THR that her film shows “how the capriciousness of people in power, the one percent, can afect the rest of the world through tiny decisions in their personal 7 6 8 lives.” She added: “You The Rider producers can definitely hold up a mir- Sheila Nevins (left) Mollye Asher and Yalitza Aparicio and ror to our present political and Sandra Lee Bert Hamelinck Stephan James climate.” HILARY LEWIS FISHER: DIMITRIOS KAMBOURIS/GETTY IMAGES SHEEN: FOR IFP. CRAIG BARRITT/G

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The Red Carpet

Of to the Races The 10th annual Governors Awards honored cinematic legends Cicely Tyson (1), Lalo Schifrin (4) and pub- licist Marvin Levy, with married producers Frank Marshall (2) and Kathleen Kennedy (2) taking home the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the first time a woman has received 2 the honor. Though Oscar From left: Frank hopefuls were out in force Marshall, Steven — with the awards race Spielberg and still wide open, the event Kathleen Kennedy serves as a key campaign platform — the California 1 3 wildfires were heavy on Ava DuVernay (left) the minds of the stars who and Cicely Tyson Quincy packed into the Ray Dolby Jones GALAI/FILMMAGIC. Ballroom. The red carpet was scaled down, and Academy president John Bailey opened the evening Governors Awards with remarks about the Hollywood, Nov. 18 fires. Amid the prepared speeches, the evening had moments of spontane- 6 ity: Clint Eastwood’s (4) Oprah presentation to Schifrin Winfrey as he called the Mission Impossible composer to the

stage for impromptu ban- O: JOE SCHILDHORN/BFA/COURTESY OF CHANEL. DICAPRIO: NOAM ter; Lin-Manuel Miranda’s selfie with Eighth Grade star Elsie Fisher; and the kind of tart comments that define awards season. Observed one executive during the cocktail hour: “Can’t you feel the quiet desperation?” REBECCA KEEGAN

5 4 Scorsese Special Emily “Some people grew up Clint Eastwood (left) Blunt and Lalo Schifrin with pictures of superheroes on their wall. I had

a picture of Marty,” said , LEE: DIMITRIOS KAMBOURIS/GETTY IMAGES FOR MUSEUM OF MODERN DENIR ART. Jonah Hill, one of the Z many stars — including MoMA Film Leonardo DiCaprio (9) and Robert De Niro (7) — on hand to help honor Benefit Martin Scorsese (10) at New York City, Nov. 19 the MoMA’s 11th annual 7 benefit, presented by Chanel. The auteur himself From left: David O. Russell, Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel put the focus on preserva- tion: “Of all the arts, [film is] the most fragile,” said Scorsese, who has funded 111 MoMA film preserva- tion eforts. “We do find RD HARBAUGH/A.M.P.A.S. FREDERICK BLUNT: M. BROWN/FILMMAGIC. MORET ourselves having to make the case for it — make the case that film is art — 1 8 to preserve the past and 9 Martin Scorsese support the artists of the Chloe Grace (left) and Spike Lee present.” ADAM YUSTER Moretz (left) and Leonardo Drew Barrymore DiCaprio TYSON, WINFREY: PETIT/A.M.P.A.S. MATT JONES, SPIELBERG: RICHA

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Bertolucci with Winger on the set of 1990’s The Sheltering Sky. ‘Now the Party Is All About Him’ Debra Winger (actress, The Sheltering Sky) t was such an intense experience filming The I Sheltering Sky. Bernardo was old school in that he had the ability to inspire and help you under- Tribute stand where he wanted you to end up but without telling you how to get there. But he also had a great sense of humor. He would make fun of me sometimes because we were very close. I think it was because I dove in, I was so immersed in the character — he would toy with Bernardo Bertolucci that. But the moment of shooting the movie I remember most — I have a picture of it actually, though I do not 1941-2018 know why the photographer happened to catch it — was Heralded (nine Oscars for The Last Emperor) as well as hated when we were at the edge of the Sahara Desert. I was in (Last Tango in Paris), the controversial Italian filmmaker, who died the robes I was wearing in the film. He was wearing a Nov. 26 at age 77, ‘leaves a very big footprint’ black leather Armani jacket and a scarf. He was girding himself against the infinite qualities of the desert. We are standing on the edge of this untouched sand. You can see in the forefront of the photo all the footprints and ‘I WANT TO GET IN BED WITH ALL OF YOU’ the dolly tracks where the crew had walked. Then there were these vast dunes — just nothingness. I was to walk Joan Chen (actress, The Last Emperor) out into that, and hopefully they were driving out around e was so well-read. He would quote ancient Chinese the dunes and picking me up at the other end, but there H philosophers, people I’d never read myself, like Lao-tzu were to be no footprints in the sand. The shot was open- and Zhuangzi. He made me want to go back and do ing up very wide, and it was very scary because everyone more reading. But he was also fun to talk to. We met the first understood that you cannot walk easily in the desert. You time at the Chateau Marmont; we had cofee, and he was so can go over a couple of dunes and think you have gone in charming. We shot the movie in China; the whole shoot was a straight line. There was this moment where life and eight months. He took his time, but he could aford to — the the art of making a film about it were coming up against actors were practically free. But he was a considerate director, each other. I said: “I love it here. Whatever happens is OK. he didn’t torture the actors. He seduced you into pleasing him. I I love it. I love how small I am in the scheme of things.” recall doing a scene where the emperor and the two empresses He said, “That’s exactly why I hate this place.” He said to were in bed, and he was like a kid. He kept saying, “I so want to me, “I don’t even go to a party if it’s not for me.” Now the EWSCOM. THOMAS: RICHARD BLANSHARD/GETTY IMAGES. get in bed with all of you!” AS TOLD TO BENJAMIN SVETKEY Chen with Bertolucci in 1987. party is all about him. AS TOLD TO B.S.

HE DRANK FROM ‘THE MILK OF HOLLYWOOD’ Jeremy Thomas (producer, The Last Emperor) e was my best friend. We enjoyed making films together speech at the Oscars: “If New York H It started with The Last enormously. It was very Italian, some- is the Big Apple, Hollywood is Emperor in 1984, and the thing between an opera and a fiesta. the Big Nipple.” I remember being last film we made together was He was the last of the living-legend backstage, and the press was The Dreamers in 2003. But we con- Italian filmmakers. He leaves a incredulous. What did he mean by tinued to be very close. I was there very big footprint. But he had a great big nipple? He said, “Tonight, I drank : WARNER BROTHERS/EVERETT COLLECTION. CHEN: RALPH DOMINGUEZ/ZUMAPRESS/N

with him [in Rome] at the end. I left personality, and the personality of heavily from the milk of Hollywood. SKY Sunday night, and he died Monday the director infects the film. Bernardo Get it?” That was the way he was. Bertolucci (left) and Thomas discussed a scene while making 1993’s Little Buddha. morning. But I got to say goodbye. himself said it best in his acceptance AS TOLD TO SCOTT ROXBOROUGH BERTOLUCCI: FABRIZIO MALTESE.

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you $20,000, at least according to an email sent to THR pitching Power an urn niche — “accommodates Dining two”— located “a short walk Taylor Swift was Allen to Marilyn Monroe’s grave” at the at Toscana. Producer Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Brad Weston and Memorial Park and Mortuary. Michael Mann stopped The seller of the plot, identifying by for lunch the day before. … Byron herself as Annette, is also on eBay Allen, Gersh’s Frank Swift (“This is the gift for a lifetime … Wuliger and producer and beyond,” she says), claiming Deepak Nayar were at The Clintons gave a speech at former CAA agent Michael Kives’ (right) wedding to Lydia Gray. that “no sites remain at this small Mr Chow. The next day, prestigious cemetery.” But maybe Pam Levine sat with Emma Watts, and Toni keep your wallet in your pocket: Braxton rubbed elbows Rambling Reporter Pierce Brothers says the cemetery with Jordan Berkus has plenty of well-located niches and Scott Schachter. By Chris Gardner available … for only $3,995. Lawrence Bender, Robert Melnik and Susan Levine also were SAMANTHANHAM KLOSE/KLOSE FAMILY: UP PHOTOGRAPHY. Michael Kives’ Wedding/Power Summit How History (and Hollywood) in. … Sherry Lansing There were more stars in Palm Springs during the Nov. 16 weekend ‘Caught Up’ to Unbelievable and William Friedkin than at this year’s Oscars — and the musical numbers were better pro- When the article “An Unbelievable shared a corner table duced. Among those celebrating the wedding of well-connected former Story of Rape” was published in at Capo Santa Monica. CAA agent Michael Kives, 37, to nonproﬁt attorney Lydia Gray: Katy 2015, it didn’t get much attention … Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber popped Perry and Ellie Goulding (who sang a duet) and Sia (who did a solo rendi- in Hollywood. Or any. But times by Brentwood Country tion of Elvis’ “Can’t Help Falling in Love”). Former client Kate Hudson have changed, and the now-newsy Mart’s Farmshop. … In was Kives’ “best man,” while other attendees included power players story (by ProPublica’s T. Christian Miami, Drake checked from the worlds of politics (Sen. Cory Booker, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Miller and Ken Armstrong of The out Zuma.

Bill and Hillary Clinton), tech (ousted Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, Google’s Marshall Project) about a woman SWIFT:. STEVE GRANITZ/WIREIMAGE. FIRE: CASSIE DENHAM. DE Eric Schmidt, Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg with Activision’s Bobby Kotick) who reported being raped only and branding (do-it-all moguls Jessica Alba and Reese Witherspoon). to end up being prosecuted for The new marrieds haven’t yet announced where they’ll be spending their lying will soon be available on honeymoon — or who will be on that guest list. Netflix as an eight-part series. Unbelievable, starring Toni Collette The Crazy Backstory of media? There’s a story behind it. and Merritt Wever, just wrapped That Woolsey Fire Photo It was snapped Nov. 9 when real shooting and will start streaming NEW That photo of a giant Woolsey estate agent Cassie Denham, 40, in 2019. “History caught up,” says HOT fire smoke plume spreading was stuck in bumper-to-bumper Ayelet Waldman, who is producing RESTAURANT over the Pacific Coast Highway? evacuation traffic on PCH while with husband Michael Chabon. “We The one that went viral after fleeing with her husband, Grant, couldn’t have a better moment to Mister O’s Pierce Brosnan, Tom Brady, Gigi 36, and their 3-year-old son. This show America what happens when The Quick Pitch This ONE. COLLETTE: WHITBY/GETTY TIM P. IMAGES. ALLEN: JB LACROIX/WIREIMAGE Hadid, Ben Afleck and virtually wasn’t the Denhams’ first brush you don’t believe women.” charmer specializ- every other star with property with catastrophe. The couple had ing in neo-midcentury Americana has bowed in Malibu shared it on social moved to Malibu in April after a short stroll from CBS’ mudslides in January forced them Radford lot in Studio out of a new home in Montecito; City. Restaurateur wildfires in December threatened Michael Cardenas, their previous home in Bel Air. who launched chef Josef Centeno to L.A. “How is this happening again,” Toni Collette fame, now has bet on DESIM SPRINGS: MICHAEL PALM RIOUSFUN. PARKER Grant Denham recalls thinking Mario Alberto (Laurel as they escaped this latest disas- Hardware, Ysabel). The ter. The family is now holed up in menu swerves from a hotel in San Monica, discuss- shrimp Bolognese with fennel jam to scal- ing their future. “If we’re moving lops with sunchokes next to you,” suggests Grant, “take and walnut aioli. out a good insurance policy.” The Inside Dish Mister O’s may boast the most In Hollywood, It’s All About Insta-worthy backdrop this side of the Parker Location, Location, Location Palm Springs entryway. Want to spend eternity with Eva 11838 Ventura Blvd. Cassie Denham took this shot that went viral. Gabor and Merv Grifin? It’ll cost GARY BAUM

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OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A CAST IN A MOTION PICTURE Maggie Gyllenhaal, Parker Sevak, Anna Baryshnikov, Rosa Salazar, Michael Chernus, Gael García Bernal, Ajay Naidu

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE Maggie Gyllenhaal OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE Gael García Bernal, Parker Sevak

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“This is the Most IMPRESSIVE work MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL has ever done.” “‘Thea leadKindergarten turn Teacher’ featuresfrom maggie gyllenhaal that will floor you. ” 1 Hitched, Hatched, Hired Inside the industry’s celebrations and news

Weddings Eric Garfinkel, Morning Joe hosts Gersh motion pic- Mika Brzezinski and ture lit agent, and Joe Scarborough wife Arielle Mesirow, were married Nov. 26 a talent agent at at the National WME, welcomed Archives building in son Ryan Alexander Washington, D.C. The Garfinkel on Oct. 22 Bailey couple exchanged at Cedars-Sinai vows in front of Medical Center in The Motion the Declaration of Los Angeles. Picture Television Independence and the Fund named Bill of Rights, then Courteney Bailey had a reception at the chief development Georgetown restau- ofﬁcer Nov. 15. rant Chez Billy Sud for about 40 people. Katherine Keating The couple became joined Maverick engaged in 2017. Ahr Management as chief sustainability Births Congrats and strategy ofﬁcer Charlie Ebersol, Meredith Ahr Nov. 15. founder and CEO of was promoted to : COURTESY OF KORNFIELD KATIE

the Alliance of president of NBC Greg Silverman’s KRAVITZ:TOFEST. KARWAI TANG/WIREIMAGE. American Football Entertainment’s Stampede and the television alternative and real- Ventures tapped production outﬁt The ity group Nov. 19. Paul Shapiro Company, and wife head of television Melody McCloskey, Kristin Corrigan Nov. 19. founder and CEO of was promoted StyleSeat, welcomed to Disney Channels Deaths daughter Amara Bia vp engagement Ricky Jay, the sleight- Ebersol on Sept. 27. marketing Nov. 26. of-hand magician

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Mileposts

for such ﬁlms as Dr. Strangelove, The Thomas Crown Affair and the Men in Black movies, died Nov. 16 of complica- 2 tions from pneumonia in Sedona, Arizona. He was 83.

Witold Sobocinski, the Polish cinematographer who collaborated with directors Andrzej Wajda and Roman 1 Mika Brzezinski Polanski, died and Joe Scarborough Nov. 19. He was 89. 2 Amara Bia Ebersol Angelica Cob-Baehler, 3 3 Ryan Alexander a music executive Garfinkel and television pro- and an actor and Lancer during ducer, died Nov. 21 of on Deadwood and the 1960s, died cancer. She was 47. in David Mamet Nov. 11 in Brattleboro, ﬁlms, died Nov. 17 Vermont. He was 80. Jerry Frankel, of natural causes the nine-time Tony in Los Angeles. Nicolas Roeg, the Award-winning He was believed to cinematographer producer with cred- be 70. turned director its including Who’s who employed his Afraid of Virginia visual ﬂair on Woolf? and August: David Bowie’s The Osage County, Man Who Fell to died Nov. 17 of can- Earth and the hor- cer in New York. He ror masterpiece was 88. Don’t Look Now, died Maunder Nov. 23. He was 90. Devin Lima, a singer with the pop band Wayne Maunder, who Pablo Ferro, known LFO, died Nov. 21 of starred on the televi- for crafting the inno- adrenal cancer. He sion Westerns Custer vative main titles was 41.

Birthdays NOV. 29 Penelope Don Cheadle, 54 Spheeris, 73 Cathy Moriarty, 58 DEC. 3 NOV. 30 Jean-Luc Godard, 88 Terrence Tifany Haddish, 39 Malick, 75 Amanda Seyfried, 33 Ridley Scott, 81 DEC. 4 DEC. 1 Fred Armisen, 52 Woody Allen, 83 Gemma Jones, 76 Zoe Kravitz, 30 → Jay Z, 48 Bette Midler, 73 DEC. 5 DEC. 2 Margaret Cho, 50 Nelly Furtado, 40 Lisa Marie, 50 Lucy Liu, 50 Lynne Ramsay, 49

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Bob Abbott A plaque was photographed from the Pedigree Nov. 19 in his Foundation recognizes New York ofice. Abbott’s and Crown’s ongoing eforts for animal welfare and pet adoption.

Abbott has a paperweight with one of his favorite sayings: “Remember that happiness is a journey, not a destination.”

Bill Abbott Thirty-seven holiday movies?! Christmas is king for Hallmark’s top programmer, who talks Netflix competition and his networks’ response to diversity concerns By Michael O’Connell

Good Witch star James Denton gifted Abbott with a baseball signed by Minnesota Twins pitcher Michael Pineda. (Denton is a fan. Abbott is not.) A likeness A graduate of of Abbott’s late College of the Holy beagle, Sam, has Cross in Worcester, a place on his desk Massachusetts, as a reminder of Abbott remains a very their bond and his active alum. eforts for rescue animals.

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THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 43 NOVEMBER 28, 2018 The Business Abbott, at a 2018 event with lesser-watched cable shows get. Creative Space programming exec vp Does that bother you? Michelle Vicary, is passionate about We take note of that every week, shows that promote animal and we find it very frustrating. adoption. I don’t think that we get the type ike Santa Claus in a C-suite, of recognition that we frankly Crown Family Media deserve. We feel badly for our LNetworks’ Bill Abbott producers and talent who work dictates how more than 72 mil- so hard to create content that’s lion viewers will spend their viewed so widely and yet doesn’t holidays from his 22nd-floor office get nominated. A show like in midtown Manhattan. The Chesapeake Shores, for example, schedule of the annual TV movie is always in the top 10 on cable. fest Countdown to Christmas, It’s not necessarily water-cooler which runs on Hallmark chan- talk on Monday morning in Los nels through November and hard to eliminate those stereo- talented, diverse actors who do Angeles and New York, but in December, is detailed in red and typical elements that prevented bring something very different to many other parts of the country, green marker on a dry erase board the content from rising to the the table. We feel very good about these are the dominant shows. — boasting 37 new titles for 2018, level of popularity that it’s since our slate this season. such as A Shoe Addict’s Christmas reached. If you disappoint view- A lot of broadcasters took stock and Pride, Prejudice and Mistletoe. ers one week, it’s very hard to Who do you consider your biggest after the 2016 election. What’s been Call them cheesy if you must, get them back the second week. competitor? your response? but premiere telecasts alone are Relatively speaking, I would think At this point, it’s Lifetime — just We view ourselves as completely averaging audiences of more than that it’s an equal financial hit given the volume of production apolitical, so we don’t really look 4 million this year. to not picking up a pilot to series. and the target demographic. to the tone of the country for how After two decades at the cable Moving forward, Netflix is invest- to program. Our goal is always arm of the privately owned greet- And how much of the annual bud- ing quite a bit of money in content. to be more positive, to connect ing-card behemoth, half of which get goes to Christmas movies? Amazon as well. people. Regardless of where your he’s spent as president and CEO, It’s about 35 percent. We’re very political allegiances lie, this is the 56-year-old exec bucks cable consistent with the model for our Do you feel nervous about Netflix’s the content that you turn on when trends with linear growth, a bur- original productions. We believe move into the holiday movie space? you want to get away from the geoning SVOD service that just that we can make a great movie The brand is our differentiator. noise and the hysteria. I don’t topped 500,000 subscribers and for a certain amount, and we don’t Our focus is in creating an experi- think you could correlate, which annual revenue now approaching need to spend double, triple or ence where you can turn the TV many people have tried to, the a half-billion dollars. A handful quadruple to make it high quality. on, feel comfortable and cook, success of our channel with the of original drama series carry We’re primarily driven by our ad decorate or do something holiday- election. That said, it certainly the load, but it’s Christmas when sales, and our ad sales is fortu- related and that puts you in the doesn’t hurt when the tone is so Hallmark is No. 1 most nights on nately humming along at a high spirit. There’s no question that negative — and “negative” is not cable. In the midst of the holiday growth rate. they’re a huge competitor. And a strong enough word. crunch, the married father of they’ve had a lot of success. But we four — who still lives in his native When did you nail this model? believe that the way we create our Is there still room for library deals Long Island with two dogs and I would say that in 2014 we began content and the way we brand on Hallmark? “several cats” — acknowledges to look at our content differently. our experience is a completely dif- We’re relying a lot less on our that Netflix is encroaching on his We started Crown Media Family ferent proposition. licensed series. That will con- telepic turf. He does not seem ter- Productions, and that’s allowed tinue to be the case over time. ribly concerned, however. us to own the rights to many of Your slate of original series does It’s not necessarily a flip of the the movies that we produce — not incredibly well, but they lack switch one day and they all disap- Are you still increasing the volume only domestically but internation- the pop culture cachet that many pear. On Netflix, as I understand of Christmas movies each year? ally and for digital. it, the highest-rated content Yes. Twenty-two will air on is Friends, Grey’s Anatomy and The Hallmark has been criticized for how Hallmark Channel and 15 on RÉSUMÉ Office. The reality is that there is Hallmark Movies and Mysteries. white its programming has been, but always going to be a place for clas- Every one of those undergoes a there’s noticeably more inclusiv- CURRENT TITLE sic content. thorough evaluation through the ity in this year’s films. Is it a strong President and CEO, Crown Media entire creative process. If one enough response? Like Murder, She Wrote? Family Networks doesn’t live up to what we believe We fell into a pattern of going PREVIOUS JOB Yes. (Laughs.) We have it on our viewers’ expectations are, back to the same people and didn’t Executive vp Hallmark Movies and we’ll shelve it and we won’t air it. necessarily look outside the box. advertising sales Mysteries, and it still performs Producing movies in Canada, BIG HIT remarkably well. It’s a timeless, The most recent How often do you shelve a movie? which is where the majority of our well-constructed mystery, and season of period drama It happens a couple of times a year. productions are made, did not help When Calls the Heart the performances are spectacular. I’m reluctant to use the word, but the cause. It’s something that was pulled 3 million there was a certain cheesiness that on our radar long before we were viewers an episode. A lot of people probably want to went arm in arm with some of taking criticism. But it’s been fun know how you spend the holidays. what we produced. We’ve worked to work with so many different Recovering from 37 movies! TARA ZIEMBA/GETTY IMAGES

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streaming company to bail the studio out of some expensive projects — as when Netflix bought Martin Scorsese’s 2019 crime film The Irishman for $105 million while it was still in production and its budget was ballooning, then committed another $20 million to the project. In producing new films designed for Netflix from the greenlighting stage, Paramount will mine its IP and creative relationships to make movies that might not justify the expense of a theatrical release, most likely the decent dramas and mid-budget movies that have a hard time luring audiences in a marketplace driven by tentpoles. FILM REBECCA KEEGAN Some potential sellers have mixed feelings about Paramount’s new arrangement, seeing it less When the Movies Met Their Maker as a savvy solution for a studio en Netflix’s new deal for Paramount films and Apple’s pact with A24 represent an about-face in the route to profitability after years on traditional Hollywood pecking order and may just signal the end of the modern studio hierarchy its heels and more as a last gasp. “I don’t want Paramount to be in trouble,” says an agency source. n the future, when we chart 6-year-old independent-minded One of the first movies “Losing another distributor would the year the movie business company behind such art house being discussed for the be a disaster. But this feels like a I changed, we may thank — or hits as Lady Bird, Hereditary, Paramount-Netflix deal will be Band-Aid.” blame — Noah Centineo. That’s Moonlight and Eighth Grade, signed a sequel to To All the Boys I’ve Apple and A24, both notori- because the square-jawed heart- its own deal to produce a slate of Loved Before (the first film was ously tight-lipped, have shared throb’s teen romantic comedy for films for Apple. made by Awesomeness, which virtually nothing about their Netflix, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Taken together, the deals Viacom acquired in August, deal, including where these mov- Before, is pointing the way toward represent a major shift in the and the new movie likely will ies will be seen — in theaters, on a new hierarchy in Hollywood, one industry: Movie studios are retain the Awesomeness banner). a streaming service or on some in which the 106-year-old studio no longer making films just for Paramount has supplied its yet-to-be announced Apple prod- behind movies like The Godfather themselves, but for the deep- library titles to Netflix for years uct. For Apple, which has already and Transformers produces origi- pocketed technology companies and has recently relied on the committed to spend $1 billion this nal films for a streaming service. that have become Hollywood’s year on content, A24 represents In a Viacom earnings call on latest conquistadors. And it’s an asset that, at least theoretically, Nov. 16, Paramount Pictures CEO not hard to visualize a time VIACOM you can’t buy in the movie busi- Jim Gianopulos described a new, soon when an iconic studio like VS. BIG TECH ness: taste. “Apple is projecting an multipicture deal his studio had Paramount becomes a mere aesthetic by committing first to set — not with a producer or star, supplier. “This is the year where Even the owner of a A24,” says Jason Squire, author of major studio like but with Netflix. At a time when the movie business takes on a Paramount looks tiny The Movie Business Book and pro- competitors Disney and Warner new paradigm,” says Tuna Amobi, compared to fessor at USC’s School of Cinematic Bros. are withholding their mov- senior analyst for investment Apple and Netflix Arts. “They’re making a state- ies from Netflix to feed their firm CFRA Research. The deals ment that they are committed to Current Valuations own future streaming services, are a reaction to 2018’s seismic these mid-range, independent Paramount is trying another changes — Disney’s acquisition VIACOM movies.” tactic: becoming a ready supplier of Fox assets, AT&T’s of Time $13B Though the A24 deal is a tiny in exchange for what Gianopulos Warner and the announcement of transaction for Apple, the largest called “an incremental revenue the streaming services both com- NETFLIX company in the world, it’s part stream.” A day earlier, A24, the panies intend to launch. “Even $114B of a pivotal retrenchment in the Apple is taking note,” says Amobi. movie industry — how Apple and REBECCA KEEGAN is a “Everyone is trying to with- APPLE Netflix deploy their billions is senior editor covering film at stand the onslaught. Everyone is $823B already reshaping the next gen- The Hollywood Reporter. playing offense and defense.” eration of film.

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domestically, hasn’t given P2, produced by StudioCanal, an awards push. The studio has a limited investment in the movie — it bought North American rights from The Weinstein Co. in November 2017, when TWC was facing bankruptcy — and is placing its bets on big- ger, homegrown movies like A Star Is Born and Crazy Rich Asians. And even if a popular Oscar award had been instituted this year, if one of its requirements was box office success, P2 probably wouldn’t have made the cut. A solid hit abroad, where it collected $186.4 million, it grossed just $40.4 million in the U.S. So maybe instead of talking about a “popular” Oscar, the Academy should devise some other sort of category — like a prize for the year’s Can’t an Oscar Movie most enjoyable movie, because that’s where Paddington would be a real contender. Admittedly, being “enjoyable” is a subjec- Just Be Enjoyable? tive concept. An enjoyable movie could be defined as a film that gives audiences a certain No, not ‘popular’: This would be an award for engaging, feel-good films like Paddington 2 euphoric lift — it sends them out of the the- that succeed on their own terms and largely are ignored by serious-minded voters ater (or off the airplane) on a pleasurable high. By Gregg Kilday Most Pixar movies probably would qualify. Judging by early reactions, so might Mary Poppins Returns. And, last season, given how long it held on at the box office, The Greatest et’s begin by stipulating that the ↑ Paddington 2 earned three BAFTA nominations but Showman elicited joy for many. has yet to be part of the Oscar conversation. Motion Picture Academy’s effort Musicals, animated movies and children’s this year to create an Oscar category films might have the edge when it comes to recognizing popular movies — or, London family that welcomes him into enjoyability, but the category wouldn’t have as the Academy delicately put it, their home. Its plot begins simply enough to be restricted to just those types of films. L“outstanding achievement in popular film” — — Paddington, voiced by a winsome Ben For action fans, Mission: Impossible — Fallout was pretty much a botch. By floating the idea Whishaw, wants to buy a pop-up picture could fit the bill. For a demographic of a without having defined criteria for the prize, book for his Aunt Lucy back home — but then certain age, Book Club, showcasing a quartet the Academy opened itself up to the charge that corkscrews into a series of escalating compli- of senior actresses, could merit inclusion. it just wanted to ensure a place for this year’s cations that include a robbery, a prison break, (Jane Fonda had one of most laugh-provoking top-grossing films on the Oscar telecast (and a treasure hunt and a climactic train chase. line readings of the year, when, in response stanch falling ratings). Amid The actors, led by Hugh Bonneville and Sally to Mary Steenburgen saying, “We’re sure not the outcry, the unpopular plan Hawkins, lend the animated Paddington cheer- spring flowers,” she tartly replied, “More like was shelved. fully eccentric support. Hugh Grant relishes potpourri.”) On the opposite end of the age Still, there was something to be his villainous turn as the egotistical actor spectrum, the high school coming-out and King said for the goal Academy presi- Phoenix Buchanan. There’s a lovely animated coming-of-age movie Love, Simon provided dent John Bailey later expressed, interlude when the pop-up book comes to life. uplift for its target audience. arguing that the notion of what constitutes And the movie’s tag scene — Grant doing a One problem with the popular Oscar con- an Oscar-worthy film has become too narrow, jailhouse song-and-dance routine to the tune cept was that it carried the suggestion that that there is a need to make “certain kinds of of “Rain on the Roof,” one of the pastiche num- the best picture winner would inevitably be films eligible for new awards.” bers from Stephen Sondheim’s Follies — is just viewed as unpopular. But categorizing some Consider Paddington 2. Paul King’s live- frosting on the cake. movies as enjoyable doesn’t necessarily mean action/animated hybrid hasn’t been part of Critics loved the movie. Paddington 2 scored others are not enjoyable. Roma, for example, the Oscar conversation. And, I confess, even 100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and an 88 on has sequences that are simply breathtaking though I liked the first Paddington in 2015, Metacritic. And none other than the reigning as Alfonso Cuaron’s camera, and sound crew, I missed its sequel when it was released in best picture Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro omnisciently watch life, and lives, playing January. But I happened to catch up with it tweeted, “One of the best films of the year themselves out. But it would be too simplistic some months later as an in-flight movie and (no kidding) and one of the best sequels ever.” to call the film, which elicits so many emo- found myself smiling happily as I watched But even though the film, which was tions, enjoyable because it’s more than that. (and, no, it wasn’t just the altitude). released in Britain at the end of 2017, earned But a movie like Paddington 2? It deserves Paddington 2 tells of the further adventures three BAFTA nominations (best British film, some recognition for successfully dishing out of the friendly, marmalade-loving, slicker- adapted screenplay and supporting actor the simple joy it promises. So, Oscar, loosen suited bear from Peru and the Browns, the for Grant), Warner Bros., which released it up. And help yourself to some marmalade.

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THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 55 NOVEMBER 28, 2018 Capturing the Colorful Couture of Mary Poppins Returns Hand-painted costumes and painstakingly designed 1930s London create a stylized landscape where ‘fantasies and realities come together emotionally,’ says director Rob Marshall 1 By Booth Moore and Cathy Whitlock

reating the Disney sequel “My hope is, by the end the fanta- 1 “I wanted a diference between real London — which is why we shot on location — and the C Mary Poppins Returns sies and realities come together adventures Mary Poppins takes them on,” says represented a fresh chal- emotionally so that you can bring director Rob Marshall of the fantasy fair scene. lenge for director Rob Marshall, fantasy into your life. That was the “The only time I alluded to the no stranger to movie musicals trajectory in the design.” bowl becomes a portal into a original [film] was for Mary Poppins’ arrival (Chicago, Into the Woods). “The bar Preferring not to use prop Technicolor world where Blunt, outfit,” tweaked for was incredibly high, as the world houses, Oscar-winning set decora- Miranda and the children wear 1934, says Powell of the belted coat with short of the original was so beautiful,” tor Gordon Sim scoured antiques jaw-dropping, hand-painted double cape, red straw he says. “I wanted to pay hom- markets across southern England costumes in candy hues. “One of hat and red gloves and shoes. age while finding our own path. to create interiors for the Banks’ the first things I talked to Rob What helped was setting Georgian house. Dick [about] was how to bring a nos- this in the original era of the Van Dyke, 92, the first film’s talgic style in an old-fashioned, mid-’30s” — when the P. L. chimney sweep (Lin-Manuel hand-drawn way,” says Powell. Travers books took place, not Miranda inhabits a similar Equally colorful are the cos- the Edwardian-era 1910s of Powell role in this version), makes tumes of Poppins’ cousin Topsy the Julie Andrews film. an appearance. “One of the (Meryl Streep), who exempli- For his version (out Dec. 19), best moments of my life was when fies bohemian flair with harem Marshall looked to his six-time Rob took Dick into the house,” says pants, a velvet kimono, armloads collaborator, Oscar-winning Myhre. “His face lit up and he said, of bangles and a turban — a look production designer John Myhre, ‘This is not our Cherry Tree Lane, inspired by real-life poet Edith to build a Depression-era London but it’s Cherry Tree Lane.’ ” Sitwell. Coincidentally, the most “dipped in reality” at the city’s Three-time Oscar-winning challenging set was Topsy’s Fix-It Shepperton Studios (where the costume designer Sandy Powell’s Shop. Says Myhre, “Everything Banks’ home on 17 Cherry Tree approach to dealing with the from torn paintings to grand pia- Lane was filmed). The live-action film’s legacy was to watch it once, nos had to be hung upside down. musical sees the return of Mary then move on to make 448 wildly Even discussing it made everyone Poppins (Emily Blunt) to the Banks vivid, original costumes from crazy: Up is down, floor is ceiling. household, only now it’s Michael scratch. “It was only when I put on It took two weeks before everyone Banks (Ben Whishaw), a grown man her beautiful costumes and tilted even understood the language.” who lives with his three children; the hat to the saucy angle Sandy Marshall adds: “It was hard to his sister Jane (Emily Mortimer) insisted it be at that I truly felt like register what items were upside is also in the picture. “Our story the character,” says Blunt, adding down. Meryl kept bumping her takes place during the big financial that Powell fabulously “blended head on things!” crisis in England,” says Myhre. the eccentricity and the “We wanted to make it gritty, and vanity of Mary.” Powell when Mary Poppins comes with In a part-animated communicated with the animators at Disney her magical adventures in color, sequence, a broken to make sure her there is a contrast.” Adds Marshall: Royal Doulton china team was painting the garments with the same depth of tone and wash to match the animation onscreen.

The carpet bag was “made from scratch,” says Powell Emily Blunt, the children and lamplighter Lin-Manuel Miranda wear hand-painted costumes with of the art deco carpets 2D and 3D elements that reference the 1964 film’s groundbreaking mix of live action and animation. pieced together, which Costume designer Sandy Powell began by cutting each piece out of canvas or calico. echo the handcrafted art deco buttons and belt buckle on the coat. Style

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Milliner Sean Barrett made Poppins’ red and blue hats; the robins are by Haruka Miyamoto (who made Cinderella’s ball-gown butterflies in the 2016 movie Powell also worked on). 2 Above: Blunt with the children (from left: Joel Dawson, Pixie Davies, Nathanael Saleh). Right: a sketch by Powell.

3 A stickler for historical accuracy, Powell, whose next project is the Gloria Steinem biopic The Glorias, “looked at images of real children in the 1930s.”

The children’s clothes, like that worn by Poppins, jump of the screen, including tidy coats, short pants and Fair Isle sweaters worthy of current royal Prince George.

For the springtime scenes, 10 people on John Marsden’s greens team spent three months gluing a million silk cherry blossoms onto real cherry branches.

4 “Our Cherry Tree Lane with broken curbs is not as grand as the original. It’s a little more humble, gritty and 4 real,” says production designer John Myhre.

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5 At the fix-it shop of Poppins’ cousin Topsy. Says Powell: “We played around with kimonos with fringing on the bottom and ended up doing a print on velvet devore that we hand-painted.

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What’s Behind L.A.’s Gated Community Craze 2 Wildfire fears from Malibu to Bel Air are adding to the allure of self-contained neighborhoods for A-listers already concerned about rising crime and feeling the ‘Nextdoor efect’ on anxiety By Peter Kiefer

hen Scott Gillen will share a six-foot-tall fire- 1, 2 Beverly Park’s Villa Firenze is listed by HIlton W was dreaming up The retardant wall, a 24-hour guard & Hyland’s Rick Hilton Case, Malibu’s first tower, a fire hydrant and state- and Jef Hyland. 3 Beverly Park sits on 250 acres, with gated community in more than of-the-art sprinkler system and north and south sections that occasionally have been two decades, he wasn’t factor- — most notably — an option for in dispute over gate use and ing in preparation for disastrous homeowners to have association fees. 4 Bel Air Crest launched in 1989 with infernos. But in the aftermath of their own fire-fight- six homes; it now has 286. the Woolsey fire, which torched ing service. With the 3 97,000 acres, destroyed 1,500 development, which structures and resulted in at least Schwarzenegger lies just outside the three deaths, Gillen realizes Woolsey perimeter, Mountain in Beverly Hills, listed that his 24-acre development can about halfway built, for $1 billion, and the 11-acre Park make a stronger case to buyers. Gillen feels certain Bel Air property across from the “It wasn’t designed thinking future homeown- Beverly Hills Hotel — are also 4 about fires necessarily, but it Wahlberg ers will opt in for a being marketed as potential gated actually works out,” says Gillen, private fire force. communities, according to a ticking off the fire-safety and When The Case opens in 2020, source with knowledge of each. privacy and exclusivity. But preventative measures baked into it will enter a hierarchy that has For the past eight years, walled there’s another factor that top the five-residence enclave: Each lured L.A.’s wealthiest and most enclaves have drawn some of brokers say is pushing buyers of the new homes will have a price status-hungry buyers for decades. the biggest names in Hollywood, to consider going gated: the tag between $40 million and Two other large properties — the from Mark Wahlberg to Arnold “Nextdoor effect.” The term is a $60 million, and the community 157-acre parcel known as The Schwarzenegger, with their reference to the neighborhood- based internet and social media platforms on which every threat — real or perceived — is shared, triggering heightened security concerns. Couple that with a How to Hire a Private Firefighting Force surge in robberies (according to ever mind the helicopter pad. In the wake to six figures, depending on the property): AIG data from the LAPD’s West L.A. ZUR/GETTY IMAGES. WAHLBERG: JON KOPALOFF/FILMMAGIC. N of the Woolsey fire, the most-talked-about ofers a “Wildfire Protection Unit,” and firms Division, which covers Brentwood luxe home amenity is a “concierge” fire-fighting including Chubb and Nationwide work with con-

and Paciﬁc Palisades, burglaries ITYHOMEPHOTOS/NEWSCOM. CAR: NATION/SPLASH PAP NEWS. FIRES: Kim tractors like Montana-based Wildfire Defense team. Such a crew came in handy for are up 14 percent over the same Kardashian and Kanye West, who emerged Systems (WDS). “We had very good coordination as saviors of their Hidden Hills gated com- with Cal Fire and other jurisdictions,” says WDS period in 2017 and up 41 percent munity in Calabasas after it was revealed that president David Torgerson, who adds that his over 2016), and the prospect of a a private team they hired had pushed back crew sent 53 engines to California’s most recent 24-hour guard gains appeal. the flames, saving dozens of homes. Non- blazes, helping to save “hundreds of homes” in “[Gated communities] are still Kardashians can look to insurers for private the Woolsey fire. Some private firms have been a bit of a status play, but ... it’s coverage (annual premiums range from four criticized for flouting requirements that they check in with local authorities before entering really more of a security play right now,” says The Agency co-founder ← While surrounding areas were scorched, Kardashian fire zones; Torgerson says his outfit has gotten and West’s $50 million home survived. approval 96 percent of the time. SCOTT JOHNSON Mauricio Umansky. He and his FIRENZE: COURTESY AND HYLAND. HARRIS/CELEBR OF HILTON PAUL BEVERLY: BACKGRID. WEST: GILBERTBACKGRID. WEST: CARRASQUILLO/GETTY IMAGES. SCHWARZENEGGER: KEVIN MA

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Real Estate $19.9M wife, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Kyle Richards, should know. Last year, thieves made off with more than $1 million in goods from their Encino home while they were on vacation. “We’ve since discussed moving into a gated community,” he says. “But most don’t allow filming, which is a problem for us.” In recent months, Dodgers star Yasiel Puig’s Encino home was robbed multiple times; Rihanna’s Yawar Charlie and Aaron Kirman Hollywood Hills home and at Compass have Christina Milian’s in the Valley also the listing on this HOT 15,000-square-foot were burgled. In October, when home in Beverly LOTS the LAPD reportedly arrested a Ridge Estates, of Coldwater Canyon. Gated L.A. group of teenagers suspected in DOUGLAS ELLIMAN those robberies, authorities found Just Sold a list of other actors and athletes thought to be future targets. “Sometimes it’s a $14M Rihanna celebrity, sometimes there before they sold to Dr. Dre existing community, which usu- it’s a high-net-worth for $40 million in 2014. ally demands an extreme change person — but it’s Bel Air Crest and Mulholland in the local environment. For 11790 Southampton Court almost always some- Estates are also famed for hous- example, in the early 1990s, own- Matt and Josh Altman represented WINFORD:CY. COURTESY OF WICKED+. COURTESY COURT: OF one who wants that ing A-listers (Jennifer Lawrence ers in Brentwood Circle — which the seller on this 9,000-square-foot extra layer of privacy purchased Jessica Simpson’s lies directly below where the Bel Air Crest five-bedroom previously Blum owned by Kim Kardashian and Kanye and protection,” Mulholland Estates home for Getty Museum was being built — West. Designed by Ron Firestone, its says Hilton & Hyland’s Linda May, $8.2 million in 2014) as are sev- were able to make the case that master suite features sweeping views, who has made a study of these eral developments in Calabasas a gate would improve traffic flow. a fireplace and a massage room. enclaves and their buyers: At the like the Oaks, a double-gated Not every Hollywood-favored top of the hierarchy, she says, is community where the Kardashian enclave is perched on a Westside On the Market Beverly Park, home to Wahlberg, clan, Drake and Justin Bieber have slope. The gated Fremont Place Denzel Washington and Sumner resided. Costs of security and in Mid-City, at the southern edge Redstone, where a 20,000-square- amenities are built in to home- of Hancock Park, is known less for foot Italian palazzo with 30-car owner association fees, which flashy residents and more for its $47.5M courtyard is now listed for can range from hundreds of history (Mary Pickford once lived $165 million. Next in the pecking dollars a month to thousands. there) and architecture. Fremont order are communities like Creating a gated community comprises about 70 houses, one 75 Beverly Park Lane, OR FENTY BEAUTY. BLUM: STEVE GRANITZ/WIREIMAGE. LANE: COURTESY OF THE AGEN Brentwood Country Estates off is an arduous process and takes of which recently drew the interest Beverly Hills Mandeville Canyon Road, where years of negotiations with the city of Jason Blum, who purchased a The former home of Wheel of Fortune Schwarzenegger lives. Tom Brady of L.A. It’s easier to build a new Mediterranean Revival mansion in co-host Vanna White in Beverly Mauricio Gisele Bundchen Park, listed by The Agency’s and wife lived one than to try and cordon off an August for $9.5 million (according Urmansky, is a sprawling two-story to a real estate source, the seller Italianate mansion with eight bedrooms, threw in a vintage Rolls-Royce to 10 baths, a gym and vineyard.

FIRST help seal the deal). Though L.A.’s expanding verti- LOOK On the Market IETY RIHANNA: GROUP. KEVIN MAZUR/GETTY IMAGES F THE CASE, cal living options provide their MALIBU own security and amenities (Blum is living in a downtown high-rise while he renovates his Fremont $2.7M home), walled communities still hold a unique allure. “Folks like to live behind gates,” says Paul 377 Winford Drive, Tarzana Habibi, a developer who teaches at This 6,400-square-foot Mediterranean UCLA’s Anderson Graduate School Villa in Mulholland Park — the 125-acre of Management. “It gives them community with Valley views where To consult on security in his five-home enclave, Scott Gillen hired Gavin de Becker’s firm. Chris Tucker and Khloe Kardashian Says the developer, “The security system should be there, but you should never feel it.” peace of mind.” and Lamar Odom previously owned homes — ofers three en-suite bedrooms, including the master. GEBBIA, AERIAL: JUWAN LI/COURTESY OF PACIFIC UNION LA. CASE: COURTESY OF THE SOC

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On Weisz: Jenny Packham dress Looking back on your career KING Yes, they are happening. It’s through the lens of 2018, is there an all-inclusive sisterhood a time when you wish that you now, that, I think, is pretty freak- had spoken up? ing fantastic. CLOSE I had one very subtle CLOSE We have to make sure that moment, when I think back on it doesn’t go back. It will become it. Nothing that threatened me, part of our culture because we will but just so subtle. It was at an audi- not let it go away. tion, and the very famous, very GAGA When I started in the music big actor that I was reading with business when I was around put his hand on my thigh. It had 19, it was the rule, not the excep- nothing to do with the charac- tion, that you would walk into a ter. Or the scene. It just froze me recording studio and be harassed. C up. Because you’re trying to do It was just the way that it was. the scene, and all of a sudden you So I do wish that I had spoken up think, “Why is he doing that?” But sooner. I did speak up about it. I now I realize … if I had said, “Oh, was assaulted when I was young, that feels good,” who knows what and I told people. And, you know, [he was] trying to elicit? Or if it there was a “boys club.” Nobody was even conscious on his part? wants to lose their power, so they But I really understand the freeze don’t protect you because if they syndrome. say something, it takes some of GAGA It’s a trauma response. their power away. What I hope is REGINA KING I was talking to Maggie that these conversations come “Can we all just not wear our LADY GAGA That’s what is so excit- Gyllenhaal — just because we together — that it’s not just about pants,” joked Kathryn Hahn as ing with the #MeToo movement both have been acting for so long, equal pay on one side … or equal she moved quickly from a photo and Time’s Up, to see men com- and were young when we started billing over here … and then assault shoot in her (yes, pantsless) red ing to stand by our side and say, — and I feel like I was very much on this side. But that it all comes mini tuxedo dress to her place at “We want you to be loud. We want aware of the pay differences together and that this movement The Hollywood Reporter’s annual to hear your voices.” It’s really between men and women. I knew is all of those things. Actress Roundtable. Once seated, remarkable. it and I just said, “Yeah, OK. That’s KIDMAN The sharing of informa- Private Life star Hahn, 45, joined NICOLE KIDMAN We got this film there. But I’m focusing on the tion is so important. Working The Wife’s Glenn Close, 71; A Star [Karyn Kusama’s undercover cop work.” So now it’s like, “Oh, shoot. with younger actresses, I say, “Ask Is Born’s first-timer Lady Gaga, 32; drama Destroyer] made, which I never had a conversation with me anything and I’ll answer. Nicole Kidman, 51 (in the awards probably would have been even any of my female peers that were Ask me anything financially. If race this year with both Boy Erased harder before. I see that as part experiencing the same thing.” you need advice, just ask. I can and Destroyer); If Beale Street of the movement. And hopefully, HAHN Or even your team … only tell you what I advise and you Could Talk’s Regina King, 47; and there will be a lot more films with KING My team, my agent, any of might take it or leave it. But it’s The Favourite’s Rachel Weisz, 48, female directors. them … nice to have access to informa- for an intense discussion (edited CLOSE I’ve been a part of two HAHN It was just assumed. tion.” It’s hard, especially if you here for length and clarity) films that took 14 years to make. KING Not that I was OK with it, but are very young in this industry that began with the impact of the The first one was [2011’s] Albert I was focusing on the art. starting out, because you are #MeToo and Time’s Up move- Nobbs and the second was [Bjorn HAHN That phrase of “gratitude,” trying to be good and obedient ments on the daily lives of actors Runge’s marital drama] The Wife. which we just had to hold on to … and to not be troublesome. and ended with a candid back- It was actually hard to find actors RACHEL WEISZ Grateful for … But it’s lovely to have a bunch TISTS, MAKEUP LEE FOR THE BY KATE GROUP. CHANEL WALL AT and-forth on how children influ- who wanted to be in a movie called CLOSE The work. of people that go, “Come ask ence your career and life choices. The Wife. It’s two women writers. KIDMAN Having the job. us. We’ve got some experience And, you know, starring a woman. HAHN Just to be able to be there. and we’re willing to share it.” How has each of you experienced No one wanted to [make it] and, CLOSE To have a job. WEISZ I think about those young change in Hollywood over the past most of the money, if not all the HAHN Which takes away your … actresses who feel empowered year? Or how have you not? money, came from Europe. KING Power. and hopefully … I have a real

Z HAIR BY ALEX POLILLO AT FORWARD AR FORWARD AT POLILLO ALEX BY HAIR Z KATHRYN HAHN I got a Laverne GAGA Your character in that ﬁlm, problem with the idea of “strong & Shirley credit on this movie the importance of her voice is And those conversations are hap- women characters.” Well, does [Tamara Jenkins’ fertility drama so powerful. pening now? that mean we have muscles or Private Life]. That’s when you something? No one ever says are side by side with your co-star, that to a man. But [I want] young which is a rarity. It usually would girls growing up [to] see sto- have been the dude and, you know, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER ries being told where a woman the gal. ROUNDTABLE SERIES 2018 takes a central role. Where she GLENN CLOSE Was the dude happy Throughout awards season, read candid conversations among is not peripheral to the story. about it? actors, writers, directors and film’s top craftspeople. You can She’s driving the story, and so, HAHN You know, he was. It was also watch the discussions in action on SundanceTV, which you as a kid can go, “Oh, that’s Paul Giamatti. He was like, will air seven episodes of Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter me. I can identify.” So, it’s like a “Of course. This is exactly what starting Jan. 13 (check local listings). And catch the full, funny thing that [these stories] should happen.” uncensored Roundtable videos on THR.com after they air on TV. are coming together as women

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THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 65 NOVEMBER 28, 2018 have been speaking up about Gaga, when you walked on set, and cutoff jeans. And her hair wild Someone in history that wasn’t harassment. I don’t know if it is a even before you signed on for A and in a bun. black but I thought was a pretty coincidence that suddenly you Star Is Born, how concerned were HAHN That’s my Saturday. amazing woman. (to Kidman) could get [financ- you that the performance would GAGA With Bradley [Cooper], what ing] for your film, you (to Close) be compared to your own career? I did was, I said, “OK, I’m going That’s interesting because there could get your film made. The GAGA Well, first of all, I wanted to to have to become someone that I has been some controversy in Favourite apparently took 20 be an actress before I wanted to be do not have complete control the past year over who should be years to make. Because there is a singer or musician. I went to the over.” I dyed my hair very early, playing which characters. Scarlett lesbianism and three females Lee Strasburg Institute. I studied before we started filming. I Johansson was going to portray a at the center of it. at Circle in the Square. I studied started to dress like her. I was transgender character and dropped CLOSE I would think people would Stanislavski technique, Meisner, writing music for the soundtrack out when there was backlash. Who want to see that. (Laughter.) Adler … I was really obsessed with and helping to hone Ally’s sound, gets to play what role? HAHN Delicious, right? Three method acting. For many years, which was essentially something CLOSE That’s a tricky question. women getting it on. I have created characters for that was going to arise out of First of all, what we are up to is a WEISZ What was wrong with that myself. Because I did not make it Jackson’s sound, because she fell craft. And in your craft, you should 20 years ago? I don’t know as an actress. So, I made char- in love with him. I wanted Ally be able to — within a certain what’s changed in the culture. acters that I could be — so that I to be nothing like me. This was reasonable parameter — play any- GAGA I don’t think it has could be one. They were always very important to me because one. But there are diverse actors changed. in some way related to the woman the truth is, I am nothing like Ally. and actresses that have not been WEISZ But is [the exposure of] that I wanted to sing to, and a I created Gaga. served. So it’s up to the industry to sexual harassment connected to part of me. So, like for my album nurture those actors. Nurture the how we are getting our stories Joanne, I had this vision of a Is there a part you always wanted to trans actors, the people who don’t told now? I can’t figure out the woman with a baby in one hand play that you know you can’t? get a chance. And then, the best chicken and the egg. and a pinot grigio in the other, in KING A Joan of Arc-type character. person for the part should play it.

On Gaga: Johanna Ortiz dress. On King: Galvan dress, Giuseppe Zanotti shoes, Jennifer Meyer earrings. On Close: Lafayette 148 suit, Cartier bracelet. KIDMAN The industry and the director gets to cut. It can go “You are under no obligation to focused on the way that I held the world are in enormous change off into God knows where, be the person that you were five microphone and the way that I right now. But maybe it’s just but something fantastic may minutes ago.” Which I think is a communicated with the audience. the actor in me: Ultimately, it’s come out of it. great way to be as a human. I just wanted it to be so differ- the director’s choice. Film is CLOSE Because I started in the WEISZ Actually, you just made me ent. But it’s so interesting to hear the director’s medium, it’s their theater, it took me so long to real- think of some advice. I was feel- you say that, because during the vision ultimately. So, they’re ize you didn’t have to be perfect ing so shallow here. Like, touching scenes when I wasn’t singing … going to cast who they think is on the whole take. hair? “She’s real superficial, this I was doing more of that, letting right for their film. WEISZ I had a small part in a lady.” When you play a character, things happen. KING But wouldn’t it be fantastic film and the director said to me, if someone says to you, “Your if I did play Joan of Arc? “Don’t touch your hair.” I don’t character wouldn’t do that,” that’s How far do you immerse yourself GAGA I absolutely could see you know. That’s less profound advice just not true. Whatever happens in your roles? Nicole, on Destroyer do that. than yours. (Laughs.) in the take, even when it goes you play a cop … HAHN There are so many roles in HAHN I always touch my hair. wrong and you want to say “cut” KIDMAN I entered so deeply into the theater that would be amaz- KIDMAN Well, you’ve got great hair. and you don’t, that is your charac- her. I don’t always do this with a ing to play, that I can’t wait for my I want to touch your hair. ter. Whatever happens, that’s the character, but this one I had to kids to be a little bit older and to GAGA Do you feel like the cameras character. because I didn’t want to feel like be able to get back to the theater. disappear? Because for me, they GAGA It’s so interesting that you I was ever shifting into a perfor- KIDMAN I did it in London recently, do. Like, I know that they are there, say that, because I’m sitting mance: I stayed in character the and it was hard. You miss bed- but when I am in the scene … I here listening to you talk, going whole time. I had to really learn time. I can’t miss bedtime. That really feel them disappear. like, “I do the opposite.” I do how to use guns. I had no idea makes me cry. HAHN Yeah. certain things when I sing and how. So I put in a lot of time. I live GAGA There is a strength in vulner- CLOSE A wonderful direction I’ve I’m onstage. I have a certain way in Tennessee. I have a gun range ability. What I really admire never forgotten was, if you’re lost, about me when I perform. And just down from my house. I would about what you all do — because just drown in each other’s eyes. — sorry, I just touched my hair. go down there and I could shoot : YORGOS LANTHIMOS/TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORPORATION. this is new for me — is the places KIDMAN Awesome. (Laughter.) But I was really anything that is in that film.

FAVOURITE that you have to go to, deep, deep GAGA I like that. I’m going to take conscious and I wanted it to be GAGA Living the role … how do you HAIR BY BRANT FOR MAYFIELD LEONOR SOLO GREYL ARTISTS, AT MAKEUP BY KAI down every time, to play a role. that. pointed out when I was doing [separate] what’s happening When I’m onstage performing and CLOSE It’s so wonderful, because something that would look decid- in your personal life when that is PREAD: CLOSE doing music, I have the audience. the most powerful thing that we edly like me, the way that my going on? It’s like this adrenaline rush, and have as human beings are our two fans see me. Because I wanted Ally KIDMAN Because of my kids. I’m talking to people and shout- eyes looking into two other eyes. to be so different. So I focused a CLOSE Did you stay in the charac- : COURTESY OF ANNAPURNA PICTURES. ANNAPURNA OF COURTESY : ing at them. [But when you are HAHN There’s this Alan Watts lot on the way that I sang and the ter when you went home? acting,] there is no way that you’re quote that I recently came upon: way that I moved my jaw. I also KIDMAN You didn’t have to call me

DESTROYER, BEALE DESTROYER, not going to the depths of who you Erin, but it just kind of enters the are, into a very scary place. I just psyche. My husband was like, “I have to commend each and every cannot wait for this thing to end.” one of you for it. Because I still feel THE ILMS CLOSE That was like when my like I am recovering from playing daughter came up to me and said,

: COURTESY OF FOCUS FEATURES. this role. “I want you. I want all of you.” BOY WEISZ How unusual is it to see a And she was 3. D ARTISTS. KING HAIR BY ANGELA A. PERRANTES, MAKEUP BY LATRICE JOHNSON. THIS S woman work through her vulner- KIDMAN Children of artists … chil- ability and resilience and then dren of actors …

: JOJO WHILDEN/NETFLIX. WHILDEN/NETFLIX. JOJO : to be born in that final moment CLOSE They feel your distraction, LIFE [of A Star Is Born]? And a man if you are working … to sacrifice himself for that pur- GLENN CLOSE NICOLE KIDMAN WEISZ Cellphones can contribute pose? It’s quite unusual, don’t The Wife Boy Erased and Destroyer to that as well, I think. you think? KIDMAN They do feel it. My children GAGA The way Bradley chose to have a musician father and an end the film was extremely of the actress mother … but they are so times. It was an unorthodox way, loved. We are all in that position,

: CLAY ENOS/WARNER: CLAY BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC. but it was the authentic way. And right? But it’s always that balance I STAR it changed as we were filming. The find the hardest thing. I find it script was being rewritten and we so hard. And, hopefully you build OOLS AT THE ONLY AGENCY, MAKEUP AGENCY, THEOOLS ONLY BY SARAH AT FOR TANNO MARC JACOBS BEAUTY FORWAR AT had a trove of songs, so even on the LADY GAGA REGINA KING the intimacy with your child. (To day [of shooting], Bradley would A Star Is Born If Beale Street Could Talk Close) You have a fantastic relation- be like, “No, we’re going to do this ship with your daughter. You’ve song. Not this song. Switch it out.” been through so much together, : GRAEME HUNTER/META FILM LONDON LTD. I’d be in my trailer at the piano, and they have an understanding WIFE getting ready. of the artistic path. CLOSE The hardest thing for Is there a piece of advice you got a child living through my [fame] early on that has stuck with you? is that they sense when people KIDMAN I was taught really early KATHRYN HAHN RACHEL WEISZ want their parents. It’s the kind of on never to cut a take. Only the Private Life The Favourite lust of celebrity, and I think that PREVIOUS SPREAD: LADY HAIR GAGA BY FREDERIC ASPIRAS FOR JOICO HAIR CARE AND CRICKET T PRITCHARD FOR NARS COSMETICS AND SMASHBOX COSMETICS. SMASHBOX AND COSMETICS NARS FOR PRITCHARD

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 69 NOVEMBER 28, 2018 Meyer earrings. Meyer jacket, Jennifer On Hahn: MSGM Because it’s like, “She’s a to child. frightening very be can She’s mine.” go, “Stay just away.me, she would toward she’d coming face that see and we would go in an airport and little really was Annie When Go to the left.” the to Go left. the to go, “Go he’ll attention, paying Imay notbe and ing, KING When [my son] sees it com- it sees [my son] When my mother.” seeing this.” But you do this.” seeing you be say, to never going “They’re like you dosomething when because for actually, them, work. ( work. they thought that was my best and ascene, in goldﬁsh a gelatin “Oh my gosh.” it’sand like, Iate KIDMAN gotten from your kids? What’s the best feedback that you’ve I did Laughter Aquaman .) , and I did it Idid , and Destroyer Aquaman

, CLOSE KIDMAN WEISZ him? ( Mom is being a big old fakie. abig old fakie. being Mom is anyone when Iguess than better knows he Because False!” False! “True! room, other the shout from just out them loud,he’ll I’m saying and lines I’m learning and room he’s other done, I’ve the if that in My son … the last two plays two My last son …the Do you get to do it back to to back it do to get you Do Laughs Wow. Wow. .) Machete Kills Machete you can if you want to. to. you want if you can don’t it, don’t want have it.” But baby, baby. have your you Have If it. your you “If want I’myou …?” like, say me,“How to do actresses young many So fine. it’s and it do and in jump But you can compromise. be to going is There up things. give you’re to Imean, doit. going can You career. have your and child have a definitely you can Because women. tell to able be to thing no children? I’m the only one. I’m only the no children? ( OK? Ally! meet to want wouldn’t I that doesn’t one mean movie, in lovely. sounds That kids. have to singer in in singer to sit down and have tea with. with. have tea and sitto down days. a rabbi Just these use could [on that. And that’s what our work does. does. work our what that’s And hearts. our and souls, our feed to We need fulfillment. for personal need the have we then and women, ing/natural thing that we do as nurtur- the and children have our we alotbecause that about think I nothing.” accomplished I’ve like me,“I feel to said end of her life, 18. she, at the when she And was dad my with love in fell She school. high from she never graduated … smart very interesting, very my mom. Because my mom was KIDMAN GAGA HAHN GAGA HAHN KING WEISZ KIDMAN HAHN CLOSE GAGA CLOSE KING GAGA [from [from of context the in you would like to have dinnerwith? thatcharacter you’ve played that question’sLast afunone:Whois with Queen Anne. 1708 England and have some tea Favourite a way. you outsnap of it abit, in of sort they on arole,that taking are you as change that psychological have you when that lives, your in Laughs Transparent Margie Hendrix. She was the the She was Hendrix. Margie You it work. make Am I the only one here with one here with only Ithe Am Just because I’ve only been been I’ve only because Just This actually made me want It’s children having special That’s incredible. incredible. That’s Maybe I would say rabbi Iwould the Maybe Icompletely forgot about Sorry to talk about about talk to Sorry The Marquise de Merteuil deMerteuil Marquise The this alotabout I thought Dangerous Liaisons Dangerous [Weisz’s is] agreat story Virginia Woolf. .) say, to want in Ijust Iwas Ray , but I would go to , but back Iwould . , one of his lovers. , one of his ]. I think that I that ]. Ithink The Wife ]. ]. The and

HAHN HAIR BY MARILEE ALBIN FOR DAVINES AT SOLO ARTISTS, MAKEUP BY MELANIE INGLESSIS AT FORWARD ARTISTS. KIDMAN HAIR BY KYLEE HEATH FOR HAIR RITUEL BY SISLEY AT STARWORKS ARTISTS, MAKEUP BY KATE SYNNOTT AT THE WALL GROUP. On Kidman: Sally LaPointe dress, Christian Louboutin shoes.

eteran Indian actor Nawazuddin establishing a sustainable foothold in India activities there just this year. During a visit Siddiqui happened to be vaca- means not only outmaneuvering one another, to New Delhi in February, Hastings stunned tioning in Italy on the July day but also taking on sophisticated, deep-pock- onlookers when he mused aloud that “the that Sacred Games, the criti- eted Bollywood — an entertainment sector next 100 million [subscribers] for us is com- cally acclaimed Netflix political far more mature than the home team of most ing from India.” Not long after, Sarandos thriller in which he stars, emerging territories and comprised of local made a surprise appearance at the typically was released online around the industry players who have already spent below-the-radar Mumbai Film Festival to world. The near-instan- personally introduce Alfonso Cuaron’s v taneous response was not Roma to the country. The streaming something that would be giant also has aggressively leveraged familiar to any Indian television and its star relationships to build aware- independent film star, no matter how ness in India, separately jetting in Brad seasoned. “I’m told it was not even Pitt, Will Smith and Christian Bale to a couple hours after it had launched promote recent Netflix releases — trips that he first got recognized on the they rarely, if ever, would have been streets there for it,” says Simran Sethi, asked to make for a theatrical film, no director of creative for international WHO WInS matter how big the budget. originals at Netflix India. And when Disney unveiled its $71.3 bil- Such unfettered global reach is lion deal to buy most of 21st Century Fox, something that Bollywood, for all its analysts eyeing future growth potential triumphs, has never quite achieved, were quick to label Rupert Murdoch’s and it has proven instrumental in help- Star India television network, which con- ing Netflix rapidly align itself with trols 60 TV channels as well as India’s the Indian entertainment industry’s THE WaR leading streaming platform, Hotstar, a biggest stars since launching there in “crown jewel” of the acquisition. early 2016. FOR Amazon, meanwhile, has no fewer By March 2017, for example, Netflix’s than 30 Indian originals in different CEO Reed Hastings and chief content stages of production and recently officer Ted Sarandos already were developed a dedicated Hindi-language accepting invitations for dinner at the version of its platform for India. Mumbai mansion of actor-producer Prime Video is an integral part of Bezos’ Shah Rukh Khan, also known as the epic struggle with Walmart over the “King of Bollywood.” And just sev- future of e-commerce in the world’s sec- eral months later, Khan’s production ond-most-populous nation — an effort company Red Chillies Entertainment InDIa? for which he has already splashed out announced that it would produce an billions of dollars in investment. original series with Netflix, because “Globally, India is going to be the center the company “has shown that Indian Disney, Amazon and Netflix are of this [streaming] universe in the next stories have a global audience.” duking it out for digital dominance five years,” says Vikram Malhotra, former

M. But as much as Bollywood is eager to in a streaming video market CEO of Viacom18 Motion Pictures, one team with Netflix to pave new inroads estimated to reach 550 million users of Bollywood’s largest and most influ- overseas, the streamer is even more des- by 2023. That’s 67 percent larger ential film studios. “In the digital video perate to partner with the powers that than the entire population of the U.S: market, everything has turned in be in Indian entertainment. ‘Globally, India is going to our favor.” As recently as five years ago, India be the center of this universe’ Several factors have converged to was commonly viewed as a backwater of make India such a hotbed. global streaming video, still a generation Smartphone adoption has surged By Patrick Brzeski and Nyay Bhushan away from having the infrastructure thanks to an influx of low-cost handsets Illustration by Nazario Graziano and market conditions capable of sup- from China. The percentage of India’s porting robust business. Today, the 1.3 billion population connected to high-

X/SHUTTERSTOCK. HASTINGS: BAZZI/ZUMA MATTEO PRESS/NEWSCO country is arguably the hottest and most speed internet by phone jumped from contested front in the battle among 24 percent in 2017 to 36 percent this year Netﬂix, The Walt Disney Co. and Amazon — and it is expected to hit 58 percent by for international streaming dominance — with decades building content pipelines to meet 2023, according to MPA. the winner set to gain the upper hand in a tele- the needs of the country’s vast and Byzantine India’s deep history of storytelling and the vision and digital video market projected to cultural landscape. More than 20 languages fervor for Bollywood moviemaking mean that be worth roughly $18 billion by 2023, accord- are spoken in India, and audience tastes and many of these millions of newly connected ing to Media Partners Asia, a leading regional education levels vary wildly. consumers have been converted into engaged research group. But for Netﬂix’s Hastings, For signs of the territory’s growing impor- online video users virtually overnight. Disney’s Bob Iger and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, tance to the media magnates, consider their “[India’s residents] are true fans of IGER: BROOKS KRAFT LLC/CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAGES. BEZOS: CLIFF OWEN/AP/RE

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 73 NOVEMBER 28, 2018 INDIA’S VIDEO BOOM: NOTHING BUT UPSIDE Is it any wonder the streamers are targeting the Indian market? The projected numbers tell the tale: a $16 billion TV industry, almost a billion broadband subscribers and a VOD sector worth almost $4 billion entertainment,” says Netflix’s Sethi. “That pas- PROJECTED PAY TV MARKET VALUE sion for storytelling, as much as anything else, is what made us feel that India is someplace we Fox’s Star India commands a 30.8 percent KEY POINT Unlike in the U.S., need to pay a lot of attention to.” market share, the highest among local where broadcast and cable TV $15B TV networks — another reason analysts are growth are limited by saturation India’s online video audience reached bullish on Disney’s deal for major Fox assets. $15.8B and streaming disruption, tra- 225 million in 2018, a figure that KPMG 10B ditional television in India is still projects will double over the next five years to very much a growing industry, $9.9B $10.9B with just 64 percent of house- 550 million — a user base 67 percent larger 5B holds owning a set, and 25 million than the entire population of the United States to 30 million viewers being (where the number of online video users added to the market each year. 2017 2018* 2023* stands at 227.5 million). *Estimate. Source: Media Partners Asia Still, local insiders insist that nothing in BROADBAND: MOBILE VS. FIXED India is ever as straightforward as it seems, Mobile Broadband Fixed Broadband and the digital video landscape is already Devices Used more cluttered and competitive than it Subscribers (IN MILLIONS Penetration (PERCENTAGE to Watch Online 775M Video in 2018 appears. In a nation where the average daily 58% 60% wage is still just a few dollars, the services 700M 465M with the greatest reach and overall upper hand 50 36% Mobile 88% 500M 311M remain the advertising-supported platforms 40 24% (AVOD) that are free for viewers. Google’s 300M 30 Personal 36M 11% Computer 12% YouTube, the first mover and global champion, 18M 18M 20 6% 6% 100M is by far the most profitable video platform 10 Tablet in India, accounting for approximately 40 per- 2017 2018* 2023* 2017 2018* 2023* 3% cent of total online video revenue, according *Estimate. Source: Media Partners Asia to MPA’s estimates. Smart KEY POINT Cheap smartphones from China and very afordable 3G and 4G mobile TV 2% Waking up to the potential of AVOD, many broadband plans have connected hundreds of millions of first-time users, creat- QUI/NEWSCOM. of India’s top broadcast networks — such as ing the conditions for the Indian streaming boom. Home broadband penetration Note: Due to multiple choices and remains low but is expected to climb fast, creating more opportunity for video some people preferring two or Star, Zee, Sony, Sun and Viacom18 — together more devices equally, the sum is greater consumption growth. than 100 percent. Source: KPMG with a few leading movie studios, have pulled their television content (which broadcasters in India tend to fully own) from YouTube But by far the most successful among them service in India by revenue, with a 23 per- to launch video platforms of their own. is Star India’s Hotstar, soon to be owned by cent market share, trailing only YouTube but Others have turned to licensing their shows Disney. The service boasts a vast pool of local- decisively topping Netflix’s 14 percent slice to Facebook, Amazon or Netflix for a slightly ized content from the 60-some channels it of the market and Amazon’s 6 percent, accord- higher return than YouTube offers. operates in Hindi and a plethora of regional ing to MPA estimates. A number of these new broadcaster-backed, languages, plus 20th Century Fox content It is often said that there are three reli- direct-to-consumer video platforms have and a trove of other Hollywood fare picked up gions in India: actual religious tradition, achieved significant scale, such as Viacom18’s through licensing deals with HBO, Universal, Bollywood and cricket. In September, Voot video service and SonyLIV, which drove CBS and others. Facebook bid $600 million for the digital user growth by acquiring the exclusive digital Since its launch in February 2015, Hotstar rights for the Indian Premier League cricket

rights to the 2018 soccer World Cup. has grown to become the second-biggest video tournament for the next ﬁve years. But SIDDI REUTERS/DANISH PROPERTY: GROUP/GETTY IMAGES. TODAY SIBTAIN/INDIA QAMAR AMBANI:

Media Partners Asia. “Jio users consume HOW ASIA’S RICHEST MAN HELPED SPARK INDIA’S STREAMING BOOM “Jio’s disrupting the nearly as much mobile By making high-speed broadband afordable, Mukesh Ambani (net worth $44 billion) is market, reducing the data data as the entire U.S. allowing hundreds of millions of consumers access to online video for the first time tarifs and making [mobile and nearly 50 percent broadband] much more more mobile data than all arely a day goes by Bollywood blockbusters. with Chinese-made hand- subscriber base of more afordable to the masses Mukesh Ambani in India without busi- But the 61-year-old sets at rock-bottom prices, than 340 million. has hugely increased lives in a $1 billion ness magnate tycoon arguably made his Reliance Jio’s aggres- Central to Reliance Jio’s the addressable market for high-rise in the R middle of Mumbai. Mukesh Ambani pop- biggest splash two years sive marketing brought pitch to India’s low-pur- high-bandwidth applica- It is reportedly the ping up somewhere in the ago with the launch of his speedy connectivity to chasing-power consumers tions like streaming video.” most expensive country’s news cycle. He’s ambitious telecom venture tens of millions of first-time has been giving them According to figures private residence Asia’s richest man, with an Reliance Jio Infocomm. consumers, while giving access to online video for from Reliance Jio, video in the world. estimated net worth of Involving an investment of sleepless nights to com- the first time — at prices consumption drives $44.3 billion and a 27-floor $22.5 billion, the company petitors such as Vodafone previously impossible. most of its network’s data skyscraper home in Mumbai has reshaped the internet and Airtel. “The real background usage, averaging 17.5 hours rumored to cost $1 bil- landscape of the world’s In just two years of busi- to the growth of online per subscriber per month, lion, and his conglomerate, second-most-populous ness, the company has the video in India is about which the company says Reliance Industries, has nation virtually overnight. second-largest user base, infrastructure,” says Mihir makes it the largest net- a hand in everything from By ofering 4G mobile at over 250 million, against Shah, vice president at work globally in terms of petroleum interests to and data services bundled market leader Airtel’s regional research firm data carriage.

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Market Share: 4 Major Digital Online Video $2.4B Video Streaming Platforms Market Value $1.6B YouTube Hotstar Netflix Amazon OTT AVOD SVOD $816M 60% for the Asian market, more than half of which $2.5B were projects tailored just for India. Combined 50 53% with projects already released or underway, 2B 40 this brings its total number of Indian originals $737M 40% up to 24. 1.5B $404M 30 $507M “Netﬂix has deﬁnitely turned a corner, but $330M $230M now the key question is: How does it get 20 1B 23% $74M to 5 million subs in India?” says Vivek Couto,

10 15% 14% 6% 500 executive director of MPA. “How about 9% 3% 10 million?” The most commonly cited potential bottle- 2017 2018* 2017 2018* 2017 2018* 2017 2018* 2017 2018* 2023* *Estimate. Source: Media Partners Asia neck to subscription growth for Netflix is AVOD Market Share KEY POINT SVOD Market Share pricing. For its premium offering, Hotstar TOP 3 PLATFORMS In the SVOD TOP 3 PLATFORMS charges roughly $3 a month, while Amazon space, Netflix and YouTube Hotstar are both Netflix Prime is even more aggressively priced at 2017 2017 65% | 2018 58% estimated to have 2017 48% | 2018 45% 2017 $1.90 a month, or $14.50 for a year (compared Hotstar about 1 million Hotstar to $119 a year in the U.S., which includes its 2017 14% | 2018 21% subscribers, but 2017 22% | 2018 27% 2018 2018 Facebook Netflix boasts Amazon Prime Video Prime shipping service). Netflix’s cheapest 2017 9% | 2018 8% better revenue 2017 15% | 2018 20% monthly plan, meanwhile, is $6.90. Other thanks to its Other “Given the existing pay TV average price per 2017 12% | 2018 13% higher pricing. 2017 15% | 2018 8% user of $3.40, there is a fair reason to believe SVOD PRICING Netflix will cap out at a fairly niche penetration [with its current pricing],” says Mihir Shah, NETFLIX HOTSTAR KEY POINT Given the low disposable income of most vice president at MPA’s India office. • Basic $6.90 per month • Premium people in India, Amazon and Hotstar have aggres- “What if you push prices down to $2 or • Standard $9 per month $2.75 per month or an sively priced their services at a monthly rate around • Premium $11 per month annual package of $13.80 the cost of a single Bollywood movie ticket, or less. $3 a month to hit 10 million users, but then • Ultra $13 per month • All Sports $4 per year Netflix’s pricing places the company at the far you get 30 percent to 40 percent churn?” premium end of the market, which analysts say could cautions MPA’s Cuoto, referring to customer AMAZON PRIME VIDEO $13.80 per year (includes shipping) ultimately hinder sub growth. turnover. “What does Wall Street analyzing that climbing churn rate do to your market Hotstar’s parent company, Star India, secured It’s this leadership position in online value? That’s a significant concern.” the rights with a rich $2.6 billion offer for both video that makes analysts especially bullish The stakes for Amazon in India rose broadcast and digital. Since Hotstar operates about the India components of Disney’s considerably in May, when Walmart spent both a free AVOD service and a paid subscrip- Fox buyout. $16 billion to acquire Amazon’s main tion offering (SVOD), the cricket rights have “Disney’s recognized film output plus Star’s rival there, the homegrown online retailer proved instrumental in helping the company TV and OTT content should make Disney a Flipkart. As Amazon responds by continu- lure users to both tiers. (The AVOD tier has formidable media presence in India,” says Tim ing to expand its e-commerce reach into an estimated 111 million monthly active users Nollen, senior analyst at Macquarie Bank. ever more provincial regions of India, it has compared to YouTube’s 245 million, while Netflix, which has an estimated 1 million tailored its Prime Video offerings to match, the SVOD offering has more than 1 million sub- subscribers in India, according to MPA, in with extensive efforts at localization, includ- scribers, according MPA’s estimates.) October unveiled a slate of 17 new originals ing the launch of the Hindi version of its user interface, with Tamil and Telugu versions coming soon. The company has also licensed of China,” Ambani said in Hathway Cable and in turn has a controlling or produced content in six of India’s 23 main last year in a speech after Datacom Ltd. stake in Viacom’s India regional languages. the company crossed “We are now seeing joint venture, Viacom18. Gaurav Gandhi, director and head of busi- 100 million subscribers. “A the competition of the Reliance also acquired a ness for Amazon Prime Video, India, says significant portion of this mobility space going to 5 percent stake in Indian data is consumed as video.” the fixed-line space,” says entertainment major the company’s digital streaming efforts “will After shaking up the Shah. “So, at least in the Eros, a 25 percent stake go much deeper and wider” than they have mobile market, he is gear- urban sectors, you will see in production entity Balaji thus far with the 30 announced originals. ing up to disrupt fixed a convergence of pipes Telefilms and an unspeci- Emphasizing the company’s commitment to broadband in India, which happening, between paid fied partial stake in music the long haul, he adds: “We are just getting can be expected to further TV and online streaming streaming service Saavn. boost video consump- increasing on the home “We saw mobile internet started in our journey in the streaming video tion. Reliance Jio recently television screen.” as the winning horse before business in India.” acquired controlling stakes Ambani’s vision also anybody else did,” Ambani “Hotstar, Netflix and Amazon — I think in two digital cable and includes content creation, recently told The Times they should all be relatively pleased with how broadband companies, which is where Reliance of India. “Companies that far they’ve come in India in just a few years,” paying $318 million for a Industries’ entertainment had bet on mobile internet 66 percent stake in Den businesses come into have created the largest says Couto. “But it’s just the beginning — Networks and $409 million efect. It owns diversified value in the last 10 years.” every operator, the whole ecosystem, still has for a 51.3 percent stake group Network18, which N.B. AND P.B. a very long way to go.”

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 75 NOVEMBER 28, 2018 W A R D A S 20 PLAYBOOK 18 S E N A S O ‘I LIVE VICARIOUSLY THROUGH OTHERS’ Fourteen actors reveal the leaps they took (a 45-pound weight gain, piano lessons, painting classes and even meeting a Supreme Court justice) to re-create real-life characters and icons

CHRISTIAN BALE Vice Bale is known for extreme physical transformations for his Cheney roles, and to play Dick Cheney in Adam McKay’s movie about the vice president’s rise from his days in the Nixon administration to his eight-year reign in STEVE COOGAN the White House, he gained 45 pounds. But to Stan & Ollie Bale, it wasn’t just the overall weight gain that To play half of one of the most iconic onscreen helped him find the character. duos ever, Coogan needed a partner whom The actor, 44, performed special exercises Laurel he could count on just the way that Stan Laurel to thicken his neck and speaks of “a feeling of counted on Oliver Hardy. an unstoppable force because I had such neck “The only thing that would seal the deal for me was that strength. I was lifting total stacks of weight, John C. Reilly would play Oliver Hardy,” says Coogan, 53. and it just gave that feeling of an immovable They spent one month rehearsing, working with a clown object. That was immensely helpful.” adviser on mastering their routines. “The one constant Bale, who stars opposite Amy Adams, throughout their lives had been each other,” adds Coogan. admits that he’s not sure if his physical trans- “We got to know each other and needed each other.” formation was “entirely necessary”: “I spoke When director Jon S. Baird came down with appendicitis, with actor friends of mine who said, ‘com- delaying the shoot a week, Coogan invited Reilly up to the pletely unnecessary.’ But I found it helped me north of England to visit Laurel’s birthplace. “We spent a immensely psychologically in that respect, few days together, walking in the hills and trying on all the that when you get that no-neck, you equally hats at the Laurel & Hardy museum, like the tourists,” says feel like nobody can change your mind. Like Coogan. “The film is a love story between two men whose no matter what attacks you get, you can friendship really grew on this European tour, and you have take them. You can take all the hard strikes.” to believe that. John and I have great afection for each other, TATIANA SIEGEL and that’s evident onscreen.” TARA BITRAN

WILLEM DAFOE downtown New York, and has many artist friends. go away, so does the character. It At Eternity’s Gate “But to actually do it was very important to root goes back inside of you,” he says. To portray painter Vincent van Gogh, Dafoe the character,” adds the three-time Oscar nomi- “I would love to paint more, but I took lessons from director Julian Schnabel, who nee. “The painting was a concrete thing I could like to work. I like to do movies. I like is an avid painter. “Julian was very generous in learn, and that creates a shift of understanding to do theater, and I have a pretty Van Gogh spending a lot of time with me, teaching me how that I then can apply to inhabiting the character.” nomadic life. To paint the way I was to make marks, how to paint light and, ultimately, While he enjoyed painting, Dafoe plans to stick painting, I would need daily practice, and I would how to see diferently,” says Dafoe, 63. The actor with acting for now. “I loved it, but it’s like any role: need to have a studio and my materials. That’s had painted before, coming of age as an artist in When the circumstances for the role to emerge just not practical.” T.B.

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 76 NOVEMBER 28, 2018 I VICE: GREIG FRASER/ANNAPURNA PICTURES. STAN: AIMEE SPINKS. ROMA: CARLOS SOMONTE. GATE: LILY GAVIN. MAN: DANIEL MCFADDEN/ UNIVERSAL STUDIOS. JULY: ERIK AAVATSMARK/NETFLIX. BOY: COURTESY OF FOCUS FEATURES. CHENEY: ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAGES. LAUREL: JOHN PRATT/KEYSTONE FEATURES/GETTY IMAGES. VAN GOGH: PICTURENOW/UIG VIA GETTY IMAGES. HANSSEN: REUTERS/BERIT ROALD /SCANPIX NORWAY/NEWSCOM. ARMSTRONG: BETTMANN/GETTY IMAGES. CONLEY: AMANDA EDWARDS/GETTY IMAGES. de Tavira to star in star to Tavira de When Alfonso Cuaron approached Roma TAVIRA DE MARINA themselves.” women whohave to by raisefamilies voice to her, to my mother andto all Icouldgive Ireally hope a “So notes. my own mother went through,” she whichissomething thaterhood, that [was] alonewith [her] left moth- “She’s awoman of hergeneration (sheon the earlierin2018). film died to hearCuaron’s mother’s thoughts that getthe shedidn’t chance sad” have that within you.’ ” you Iknow is, thatsaid. whoSofia Iwant you to‘Now forget allthat I “After that conversation, hesaid: his mother —butonlyto anextent. Cuaron wanted herto understand that adding imagination,” says, she create just thatcan’t outofyour The way hetalked her, about you life, ofhow shemetherhusband. detailsof her giving suchspecific says was knew. shejust “He 44, version ofhisown mother. Tavira, De afictional portraying she would be outright him—hedidn’t sayraised in Mexico andthe City women who events recalls ofhisown childhood De TaviraDe says sheis“really, really

LAUREN HUFF LAUREN Roma — which —which her,” says Foy, Shesays shelearned 34. them whoactually from people met and soul, soitwas enlightening to hear andgiveround outaperson them life dotes andmemories are the things that indied June). personalanec- “Those with loved whoknewJanet(she ones Armstrong A. Neil (James Hansen’s book isbased whichthe film upon Man First Damien Chazelle’s astronaut biopic Neil Armstrong’s in wife, Janet, first To prepare for playing the roleof ManFirst CLAIRE FOY to diethe minute.” next ofnotknowing this ifyou’reabout insecurity going togoing live ordie,” says “and Gravli, wetalked never “He’s inhishead. surement lodged ifhe’s He alsoreveals that Hanssen still hasabullet frag- Hehadto wherewas. allhiswounds check were.” understand that hewas shotasmany times ashe hewas awake, because feeling andhecouldn’t painful,” says Gravli, 27. itwas strange areally “But kind of thing, buthetold methat that itwasn’t right away orthey have emotional areally big, pain they getshot, where alwaysother people films die told methat “He process. whenyou’re watching getswrongwere invaluable often to his Hollywood onwhat says insights he the and survivor’s filming, with several Hanssen of weeks before the start lives in2011 inNorway.77 Theactor alsospoke onthe that terrorist attacks claimed Seierstad (upon by Asne isbased) journalist whichthe film Hanssen , Foy began by, Foy reading the began THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER HOLLYWOOD THE read read Gravli drama, in PaulGreengrass’ shooting ViljarHanssen survivor outto playSetting real-life 22 July GRAVLI STRAND JONAS

First Man:TheLife of First ), aswell asspeaking One ofOne Us, L.H. the nonfiction book book the nonfiction hugely admire.” —andthat’s somethingwouldn’t that I life andspoke upwhenalotof people strong senseof what was in important Shehadsucha andresilient. geous “Janetsays. was unbelievably coura- andtheirtheir voice story heard,” she but all those to women deserved have waiting‘wife athome’-type characters, portrayedbeen asone-dimensional women of that time have many “So told. her story to haveone whodeserved engine” andsome- family the drove that force “the that hercharacter was 77 NOVEMBER 28,2018 NOVEMBER L.H. nected to the character’s to need pleasethose con- he because part in that do to able was he andhesays right, to story getGarrard’s ity saysHedges hedidfeel asenseof responsibil- ” me.’ to onwhatallthis focus so Imightaswell just means have I, I realized, don’t norcan ‘I him, to become Icoulddoanything. “So 21. of him,” says Hedges, havedon’t relationship apersonal with the idea “Garrard’s notAbrahamLincoln, inthat people was acombinationJared, ofGarrardandhimself. felt like Hedges of the name, hischaracter, same onGarrardcamp isbased Conley’s 2016 memoir boy whoseparents sendhim to agay conversion a dramaabout Edgerton-directed While the Joel Boy Erased HEDGES LUCAS For the film, which also stars Nicole Kidman, NicoleKidman, whichalsostars For the film, Conley REBECCA FORD REBECCA ultimate sellout of himself,” hesays. the isaskedacter ofperform to sort the approval andthis ofothers, char- the ideaofsellingmyself outfor to deeply related “I him. to closest Armstrong W A R D A S 20 PLAYBOOK 18 S E N A S O

KEIRA KNIGHTLEY her costumes were Colette original, they were all so After Knightley worked her way delicate that my move- through 19th century French scribe ment got kind of restricted,” Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette’s oeuvre, the actress says. “Most of Colette the actress realized that the author my costumes were double- was “unbelievably modern, perhaps stuck onto me because I kept ripping even more modern than we are today,” them.” The largest challenge was when given the fluid way she approached Colette took up dance professionally. gender and sexuality. Knightley, 33, Of one sequence in which she emerges initially planned to show the young from a sarcophagus in Egyptian-style Colette physically taking up as attire, Knightley says: “I have never felt little space as possible as a girl and more stupid in my life. Given what I do later “manspreading” as she grew for a living, that’s really saying something.” more confident. “But because all of KATIE KILKENNY

RAMI MALEK Bohemian Rhapsody “I knew there was more to Freddie Mercury than a man who holds an audience in the palm of his hand,” says Malek, who took on the challenge of portraying the iconic Queen frontman for Fox’s rock drama. FELICITY JONES The actor began by researching the On the Basis beginning of the singer’s life — starting of Sex with Mercury’s mother. “I studied her ges- Before shooting tures. I listened to the way she spoke,” started on Mimi Ginsburg says Malek, 37. “She has a Gujarat Indian Leder’s biopic tracing accent — and I thought about why he’s Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s early court so posh at times. Was he trying to compen- cases, Jones, 35, met the Supreme sate for something?” Court justice in her chambers Later on, Malek took piano and singing les- in Washington, D.C. “The first time sons and worked with a movement coach to we met, she couldn’t take her eyes learn Mercury’s signature stage style — but of Armie [Hammer, who plays her also to never feel restrained by it. “I needed to husband, Marty]. She was com- capture his spontaneity,” he says. pletely taken with him,” says Jones, “The man’s not choreographed. giggling. In their initial conversation, Every time he steps out onto a Ginsburg shared how much her ROSAMUND PIKE stage, no one knows what he’s husband (who died in 2010) loved A Private War going to do, and that’s what I knew cooking. “She gave us a book of his Mercury Pike says that director Matthew I needed to tether myself to.” R.F. recipes, and I could see how extraor- Heineman initially had the impression dinary that love was between them.” that she was being unprofessional on Colvin Jones considers the death of the first day, putting on headphones the Ginsburg’s mother at a young age second shooting ended. But she was listening to war as a “huge catalyst for Ruth. Her reporter Marie Colvin on a loop in order to capture mother inspired her in education. the dialect and energy of her voice. “She was someone She wanted to fight for what her who traded in words, and the way she uses words is mother believed in, which was equal- so much a part of her character,” says Pike, 39, add- ity.” Jones was especially nervous ing that it took some time for Colvin’s friends and when Ginsburg came to the set colleagues to trust the film team. “This process was for the final sequence. “I was very so delicate. It was almost like the process of being intimidated that all the work and all trained to operate like Marie, to spend time to make the love that had been put into it people understand that you’re serious.” In one story would do justice to her,” says Jones. that resonated with Pike, Colvin insisted on spend- “But now she tells everyone, ‘You ing $600 on lobster for a sailing trip. “There was no must go and see the film about my Plan B. She was a Plan A person. It’s the mentality life,’ which is the best review we of, ‘When I say I’m going to do something, that’s what could have.” T.B. the fuck I’m going to do.’ ” T.B.

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 78 NOVEMBER 28, 2018 True-Life Dream Roles Actors weigh in on SAOIRSE RONAN the other politicians Mary Queen of Scots and icons they’d love “What helped me the most was spending some to try on for size time in Scotland,” says Ronan, who stars as Mary Stuart, the ambitious queen of Scotland DONALD TRUMP who attempts to overthrow her cousin Elizabeth I Steve Coogan (Margot Robbie) in the period drama. The 24-year- “Maybe Donald Trump. Maybe not. old Irish-American actress visited various castles, They say you have specifically Stirling Castle, where she spent a lot to love the charac- of time. “[It] really helped me feel in touch with her ter you’re playing, and the land.” and I’m not sure I’d be Along with reading John Guy’s book Queen of capable of that.” Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart, on which the film is based, Ronan adds that the physical trans- BERNADETTE DEVLIN formation was key to her performance because Saoirse Ronan “Bernadette Devlin, “image was really important back then, especially who was a free- : for women, because it said a lot about their class dom fighter in

and what sort of power they had. It was a huge IMAGES. Northern Ireland MELISSA MCCARTHY part of self-expression.” NSBURG: and was elected Can You Ever Forgive Me? BLACKKKLANSMAN “What really helped me was the to Parliament in the After playing Lee Israel in Marielle Heller’s United Kingdom.” hair!” she continues. “I had the

decidedly unsentimental story, Melissa CONROY. : PAUL

best wig I’ve ever worn, and I was WAR McCarthy wonders whether she ever passed Israel really able to get in touch with my JOSEPHINE by the celebrity author turned letter forger Queen Mary BONAPARTE inner fiery redhead.” R.F. when they were both living in New York. “When I was at Keira Knightley Julius’ in the ’90s, was she there? Was I talking a mile a “Before she minute at a bar and she probably hated me?” became Napoleon’s wife — because McCarthy, 48, fell in love with Israel and her devil-may- she was imprisoned care attitude, ultimately feeling an undeniable bond to the /CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAGES. VINCENT STAWLLWORTH: SANDOVAL/GETTY : MIKE COPPOLA/GETTY KEVIN IMAGES. MAZUR/WIREIMAGE. TAYLOR: GI in Carmes and writer. “I always thought of her as a rebellious armadillo, there’s fucking protecting herself and shutting down, hoping people amazing stories there. : ALEX BAILEY/TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORPORATION. would go away,” she says. “But then I realized we’re doing Her life was really extraordinary.” the exact same thing. She is her most comfortable living BOHEMIAN through other people. That’s when she was her smartest, her bravest, her funniest. And I live vicariously through ELEANOR other people. I’m much braver via someone else. And I just ROOSEVELT Melissa McCarthy thought, ‘Isn’t that funny?’ ” T.B. “There’s so many : LIAM DANIEL/FOCUS FEATURES. amazing women. MARY Eleanor Roosevelt

RAEL: ANDREW HENDERSON/THE NEW YORK TIMES/REDUX. VCG MARY: WILSON has always fasci- JOHN DAVID WASHINGTON ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES. PHOTOQUEST/GETTY ROOSEVELT: IMAGES. CLINTON nated me. That BlacKkKlansman would be a cool one.” To help tell the story of Ron Stallworth, the black police oficer who prevented HILLARY CLINTON attacks on people of color by infiltrat- Stallworth Felicity Jones ing the Ku Klux Klan in 1979, John David “I’ve always wanted Washington pushed away modern distractions to to play Hillary Clinton. So I’m taking embody the man he calls a “true American hero.” : MARY CYBULSKI/TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORPORATION.

CAN on one mighty female “I rid myself of all hip-hop and R&B for almost four

LY EXPRESS/GETTYLY IMAGES. BONAPARTE: UNIVERSAL HISTORY leader at a time.” months,” says the actor, 34. “I listened to Soul Train : ALAMY M. STOCK PHOTO. COLVIN: BENETT/GETTY DAVE IMAGES. IS every night so I could get in the right frame of mind.” ELIZABETH TAYLOR Also useful? Having unlimited access to the Claire Foy real-life Stallworth. “Every question I had for him, “I haven’t given

he answered,” he says. “Because of his faith in me, : ROBERT VIGLASKY/BLEECKER STREET. it much thought, playing Ron felt like a privilege rather than a burden.” to be honest! COLETTE Washington also looked to the retired cop’s 2014 I think just someone that poses memoir, the basis for the Spike Lee-directed film. The a bit of a challenge, actor’s creative choices were a hit with Stallworth. or, you know … “After watching the film, Ron told me that there was no Elizabeth Taylor!” other man for the job. That was the greatest compli- : JONATHAN WENK/FOCUS FEATURES. ON DAVID LEE/FOCUSDAVID FEATURES. TRUMP: RON SACHS/POOL/GETTY IMAGES. DEVLIN: DAI ment.” EVAN REAL BETTMANN/GETTY IMAGES. MERCURY: ANWAR HUSSEIN/GETTY IMAGES. COLETTE

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MAKING OF BEN IS BACK How Peter Hedges convinced one of the most in-demand under-25 actors in Hollywood — you know, his son Lucas — to play a struggling drug addict opposite Julia Roberts: ‘We are just two people talking about work’ BY SETH ABRAMOVITCH

hen writer- Ultimately, of course, father and after trying his hand as a direc- director Peter son found a way to work through tor — with 2007’s Dan in Real Life Hedges was the awkwardness, and the result, and 2012’s The Odd Life of Timothy casting Ben which debuted at the Toronto Green — the elder Hedges saw Is Back, he Film Festival on Sept. 8 and opens his pen dry up. “Everything was hadW no trouble at all persuading wide Dec. 7, could turn out to be a taking twice as long,” he says of Julia Roberts to play the female triumph for them both. For Lucas, his struggle with writer’s block. “I lead. She loved the idea of portray- who’s been on a hot streak — earn- was losing my confidence.” ing the long-suffering mom of a ing an Oscar nomination for 2016’s Around the same time, he lost charismatic liar and recovering Manchester by the Sea and criti- a close friend to a heroin over- drug addict who busts out of rehab cal kudos for 2017’s Lady Bird and dose and started thinking more to spend Christmas with his fam- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, and more about addiction, a ily. But to star opposite her as the Missouri — Ben Is Back is a chance subject he already was person- troubled young son, Roberts felt to boost his career to an even ally familiar with (his mother, an there was really only one person higher orbit. And for Peter, 57, who alcoholic, abandoned the family right for the role. That’d be one in recent years has been stuck in when he was 7). Then, in 2014, of the most-buzzed-about young a career slump, it’s already shap- Philip Seymour Hoffman — an 1 actors in Hollywood — Lucas ing up as a comeback. actor Hedges met in the 1990s at Hedges, the director’s son — and A couple of decades ago, Peter a New York theater retreat and he didn’t want anything to do was one of the more buzzed- admired greatly — also died of an 4 with the movie. about, in-demand writers in overdose. Hedges’ interest in the “I don’t like my parents watch- Hollywood, adapting 1993’s subject spiraled into an obses- ing me at the monitors,” says the What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (star- sion. “My wife would look at my 21-year-old Lucas. “It makes me ring a young Johnny Depp and search history on the computer” self-conscious. And the thought Leonardo DiCaprio) from his — he’s married to actress/poet of being directed by my dad only own novel and 2002’s About a Boy Susan Bruce — “and it would be amplified that discomfort.” from a book by Nick Hornby. But page after page, video after video on the heroin and opioid epidemic,” he says. 3 Hedges tried counseling to deal with his block, but all the thera- pist told him was that he “wasn’t telling stories I needed to tell.” Desperate, he took more extreme measures; in February 2017, he signed up for a playwriting workshop. It was filled, he says, with “people [young] enough to be my children.” But it was there that he figured out how to break the block and deal with his fixation with addiction simultaneously. “I wrote the first 10 pages of Ben Is Back in that workshop,” he says. “I felt like, ‘Wow, maybe I have something here.’ ”

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After he wrote about 100 more pages, Hedges sent the script to producer Nina Jacobson, a former Disney exec who worked with him on Dan in Real Life. At the time, with opioid addiction making frequent headlines, the subject was on Jacobson’s mind as well — her son’s best friend was in recovery for heroin abuse — and as she paged through the script on a flight, she found it “really hit home.” When her plane landed in L.A., Jacobson’s first call was to Hedges. “I want to produce this film,” she told him. “You’ve written a page-turner.” 5 What followed was “the fastest journey I’ve ever taken from script to screen,” recalls Jacobson. “We dove right in and figured out a production plan.” Before they knew it, they were casting. While he was writing the script, Hedges had seen Roberts in 2017’s Wonder — she plays a mom to a boy with a facial deformity — and remem- bered “thinking how good she was but how she deserved to have so much more to do.” It was CAA’s Kevin Huvane and Bryan Lourd — the agency reps both Hedges and Jacobson — who suggested Roberts might be a good fit, and they sent her the script. Roberts loved it. “It was the scale of it,” she explains. “When you think about the opioid epidemic in this country, it’s so overwhelm- ing to try to make sense of. And 1 “There are a lot of really funny, sweet, tragic things in it,” says Julia Roberts (with I loved that the scale of this was Lucas Hedges) of the movie. “The things families are made of.” 2 Courtney B. Vance, as Ben’s stepfather, with Roberts. “He didn’t know Lucas and I were related until very small, very contained. It about the third day of filming,” says Peter Hedges. “We were at dinner, and it came up, and he just hadn’t put it together. I don’t know how he didn’t know.” 3 Lucas Hedges manages to deeply humanize this on the set. “I always find the most overtly dramatic scenes the easiest ones,” he says. huge crisis, make it about just this “It’s always the ones you would least expect that are really hard.” 4 Peter Hedges with Roberts. “This is the fiercest, most loving mother I’ve ever put on the page,” says the one family on this one day.” writer-director. 5 The father directing the son. Says Lucas, “I told him I never wanted Roberts had a December open- to work with him just because the idea of it seemed too uncomfortable.” ing — a break in her shooting schedule for Homecoming, her

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 81 NOVEMBER 28, 2018 W A R D A S 20 ANATOMY OF A CONTENDER 18 S E N A S O new Amazon series — which worked out perfectly since Ben Is Back takes place entirely over one Christmas Eve. But the 48-year-old star had one condition: She wanted Lucas to play Ben. “Usually when I read a 1 script I unconsciously cast it, and reading a script written by Peter Hedges about a 20-year-old young 2 man, I immediately cast Lucas 1 Shooting in upstate New York, where winter weather Hedges,” she says. “He was excep- was one of the produc- tional in my mental reading.” tion’s biggest challenges. 2 Vance with Peter Hedges Peter Hedges knew it was going on the set. “What I really wanted to make,” says the to be tough getting his son on director, “was a film that board and tried to break the news felt as raw and messy as an [indie] but also a movie to Roberts gently. “I said, ‘First that people in Columbus of all, Lucas doesn’t ever want and Des Moines would go see.” 3 Roberts and Lucas. to be in a film of mine after his Says Peter Hedges, “Julia pretty much would not experience with Dan in Real Life. talk about any other actor His one line in that film got cut.’ ” but Lucas.” That scrapped line from 10-year- old Lucas’ debut (it was the word “Hey”) wasn’t the only reason he Once Lucas finally agreed to Newton, who’d worked with Lucas dropped to frostbite-inducing was reluctant to star in his dad’s star, Roberts suggested they spend on Lady Bird and Three Billboards, levels. “The thing I associate project — he also was set to do an some time together. She invited won the part of younger sister with this production is the cold,” off-Broadway play and wasn’t sure him to Thanksgiving at her house Ivy, while Courtney B. Vance was says Jacobson. A weather system he could fit the movie into his in Malibu, where he mingled with cast as stepfather Neal — financ- called a “bomb cyclone” at one schedule. But after initially turn- Roberts’ husband, Danny Moder, ing came together when Black point required a quick evacuation ing it down, he started hearing and their three young children. Bear Pictures was slipped a script and temporarily shut down pro- things about the script from his “My whole clan really wrapped our during the Toronto Film Festival. duction. But the biggest headache actor friends, who all were sur- arms around him,” Roberts says. The production company (mak- of the shoot was filming a long prisingly eager to land the part. “A “It benefited not only our work, but ers of 2014’s The Imitation Game) sequence inside a local shop- lot of people thought it was really it benefited my family, too. When agreed to bankroll the film’s ping mall. Says Jacobson, “You’re good,” Lucas remembers. “So I was I was 3,000 miles away, they knew $13 million budget. By December taking one of the biggest movie like, ‘Hey, can I read it?’ And [after exactly who I was with.” 2017, principal photography stars in the world into a mall and reading it] I felt like, ‘Wow, this As the rest of the core cast was underway in upstate New shooting when people are doing is maybe my favorite part I’ve read was being filled out — Kathryn York, where the temperatures their Christmas shopping.” in a long time.’ ” After wrapping in late January,

Before he signed on, however, Peter disappeared into postpro- (3. ATTRACTIONS NTERTAINMENT/ROADSIDE Lucas laid down a few ground duction with longtime editor rules. Talking on the phone Ian Blume and, later, composer from the set of Boy Erased — his Dickon Hinchliffe, who scored the other awards hopeful this year — film, uniquely, with the ukulele. the son made his father promise But when the director finished to look at him as an actor, not and returned to his home in his offspring, and “formalize Brooklyn Heights, he discovered his relationship” as his director. the film had irrevocably altered While shooting the movie, for one gigantic part of his life. His instance, Lucas would call him son wasn’t there. “The day after RACTIONS (5. THIS SPREAD: MARK SCHAFER/COURTESY OF LD E “Peter” and not Dad. “That was we got home, he moved out,” says huge,” Lucas says. “He needed to Peter, sounding wistful. “I used be my director, and I needed to to see him a lot, you know, in the see him less as my dad and more mornings, at the end of the day. as somebody who just believed in We ate meals together. Now he me.” From Peter’s point of view, lives in Manhattan with his older the negotiations were awkward at brother [who is in finance]. In a first, but “that quickly fell away. way, I’ve been fired as his parent. We were just two people talking 3 But I’m occasionally rehired as about work.” a manager.” PREVIOUS SPREAD: MARK SCHAFER/COURTESY OF LD ENTERTAINMENT/ROADSIDE ATT

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JON FROSCH Last year in lamb chop on earth. But SHERI LINDEN Her portrayal ↑ From left: Bradley Cooper in A Star Is Born; Steven Yeun in Burning; Thomasin McKenzie and Ben Foster in Leave No Trace; Olivia Colman in The Favourite; these pages, we cham- what lifts her hilarious is one of the most exciting Richard E. Grant and Melissa McCarthy in Can You Ever Forgive Me?; and Regina : MARY CYBULSKI/FOX SEARCHLIGHT. pioned ﬁve actors we scenery chomping into I’ve seen in a long time, King in If Beale Street Could Talk. FORGIVE thought really rose above the realm of the sublime and you pinpoint a crucial the rest. This time, we’re is the piercing loneliness reason: McCarthy uses her DAVID ROONEY I’m com- infantile self-pity allow spreading the love around. and longing she locates take-no-prisoners comic pletely on board with the her to be manipulated by I personally don’t feel beneath and between the brilliance rather than love for McCarthy. That Rachel Weisz’s far cleverer as passionate about any royal hissy ﬁts. squelching it in the name abrasive edge she wields so Lady Sarah. But what’s performance in 2018 as I Another standout in an of Serious Acting. It’s an knowingly in comedy can great about Colman’s per- : ATSUSHI NISHIJIMA/FOX SEARCHLIGHT. did about the lightning- unusually strong female exhilarating instance of sometimes work against formance, as Jon suggests,

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Richard E. Grant in Can in. But what about the in posture or an askance You Ever Forgive Me? I could performances, both male look. In a meritocratic watch their scenes in the and female, that are awards universe, they bar every day just for plea- bound to be overlooked? would be contenders. sure and nourishment. One of my faves is Steven But perhaps my favorite Finally, this is the gear- Yeun, a former star of The undersung performance switching turn we’ve been Walking Dead who tackled of 2018 was Ben Foster as waiting to see McCarthy his first Korean-language the PTSD-afflicted vet in deliver! As for Colman, role in Lee Chang-dong’s Debra Granik’s Leave No how not to love everything slow-simmering stun- Trace — a loving but stub- she does in The Favourite? ner Burning. As a wealthy born man whose iron-clad Bette Davis would be green ladies’ man who may grip on the physical and with envy if she could see have some, um, skeletons ideological worlds of his this performance. Other in his closet — and who daughter (the wonder- actresses I’d rank high this competes with the less ful Thomasin McKenzie) year were Joanna Kulig, flashy protagonist for the gradually comes loose. the mesmerizing heart of affections of a troubled Foster often goes big, but tortured Polish romance young woman — Yeun this is a masterfully con- Cold War; Glenn Close exudes a can’t take-your- tained piece of acting, and as the secret-harboring eyes-off-him charisma all the more moving for it. ROONEY Another terrific but before long you feel spouse in The Wife; and that’s menacing in its LINDEN I share your admi- under-the-radar turn no like you’re watching the Elizabeth Debicki, who inscrutability. ration for Foster’s turn, one has mentioned yet real guy. Even with Bale’s succeeds in sticking out Then there was Julianne which finds him working was Maggie Gyllenhaal best turns in the past, I’ve among all the other fine Nicholson, quietly fero- in a new key to shattering as the single-minded, held back a bit due to a cer- talent in Widows. cious as an ex-convict effect. And yes, Yeun is riv- increasingly unhinged tain self-aware stealth in ROONEY I’ve been trans- scrambling to get her life eting; in a single wordless title character in The his work. But not this time. fixed by Debicki and her together in the practically reaction, he can look both Kindergarten Teacher. And When his Cheney begins rangy physicality since unseen indie Who We Are sinister and vulnerable or, I second Jon on Fishback’s manipulating George W. (a she walked away with Now (a scene in which she more frequently, some- work in Night Comes On. wonderful Sam Rockwell), her every scene in Baz downs drinks with her thing unsettlingly beyond Overall, the pickings seem it’s a psychological spec- Luhrmann’s gaudy gloss idealistic young lawyer, definition. slimmer among the men, tacle to behold. on The Great Gatsby. I played by an excellent This year there were don’t they? FROSCH Bale’s great, only wish she’d had more Emma Roberts, was one also some low-key but MCCARTHY Well, the actor though not even his fully time in Widows with Jacki of the most pleasurable electrifying performances who really popped with immersed and immer- Weaver as her nightmare of the year). And in Night from actresses. Carey two wonderful perfor- sive performance could mother. That pair practi- Comes On, another tiny Mulligan delivers a heart- mances is John C. Reilly. make Cheney come alive cally demands their own gem of a movie about stoppingly eloquent He’s terrific as Oliver as a character for me — spinoff movie. someone — in this case, portrait of domestic dis- Hardy in the upcoming maybe because the man’s FROSCH McCarthy, Colman, a black lesbian teenager satisfaction in Wildlife. Stan & Ollie; if you rewatch Machiavellian machina- Close, even Debicki. These — navigating post-incar- It’s a marvel of high-alert, a Laurel & Hardy film, tions and thirst for power ladies have a good shot at ceration life, Dominique pulse-point vigilance, a you’ll see that Reilly nailed are by now so familiar, DUHAMEL/ FRANCOIS : landing in the nominees’ Fishback conjured a storm performance that takes Hardy’s mannerisms. It’s so ingrained in our recent BEAUTIFUL circle when the HFPA, of furious feeling with more chances than does a beguiling turn. And he political history and SAG and Academy weigh little more than a change the gingerly film around carries Jacques Audiard’s imagination. her. Like Todd, I’m a fan Western The Sisters Bale’s main Oscar rival

of Cold War’s incandes- Brothers. Lifelong support- will likely be A Star Is PICTURES. KENNEDY/ANNAPURNA MATT :

cent Kulig. And Danish ing actors rarely get a shot Born’s Bradley Cooper, VICE actor Trine Dyrholm is at leads, but he’s outstand- in a performance I really

a revelation as past-her- ing in both these ﬁlms. loved. Yes, there’s an : COURTESY OF SAMUEL GOLDWYN FILMS.

prime rock chanteuse Nico But then there’s the unmistakable vanity to NIGHT

John C. Reilly in Susanna Nicchiarelli’s game-changer: Christian how he’s directed himself WHILDEN/NETFLIX. JOJO :

in The Sisters LIFE Brothers. Nico, 1988. Putting her Bale as Dick Cheney in — lots of steamy shirtless

musical background to the soon-to-be-released shots — but also a soul- : REID CHAVIS/A24. work as well as her acting Vice. He’s extraordi- ful authenticity in how

chops, Dyrholm com- nary, to the point where he plays his character’s . HEREDITARY mands the stage and you mostly forget the physical and emotional every room her character actor and believe you’re states: the barely func- enters, casting a spell both beholding Cheney; you tioning alcoholism, all

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THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 86 NOVEMBER 28, 2018 for Lady Gaga’s Ally. When and in space. That’s the could do what Robert smile. He’s a great mini- Jackson asks her, in that fascination of Damien Redford did in The Old malist actor in complete swoony famous line, Chazelle’s drama — that Man & the Gun. This is control of his tool set. to turn around so he can it portrays a stand-up guy movie-star acting that LINDEN Todd, when you “take another look” at simply doing a job. The only very self-confident mention Spacek and her, Cooper’s face is that restraint and humility of performers can pull Redford, I’m reminded of a man deeply in love. Gosling’s work make it off, keeping it small but of another thread con- Onscreen romances are a something quite special. knowing precisely the necting many of 2018’s dime a dozen; actors who LINDEN I have to say, like effect that every gesture indelible performances: convince us their charac- Todd, I was delighted to and glance will have the alchemy of actors in ters are actually head over see John C. Reilly step into onscreen. In his scenes sync. You can see some- heels for each other are — the lead for The Sisters with Sissy Spacek, he cali- thing happening on a surprisingly — rare. Brothers, anchoring the brates how much charm cellular level as Melissa ROONEY I’d also like to offer unorthodox Western with to turn on, when to speak, McCarthy and Richard E. some praise for First Man’s his rich, nuanced portrait when to pause, when to Grant’s margin-dwelling, Ryan Gosling. I think the of a hitman who envisions reason the movie under- a gentler life. To watch ↓ Paul Giamatti and Kathryn Hahn in Private Life. performed at the box office his character discover the is the precise reason I wonder of teeth-brushing Clockwise from top left: Toni admired it: Gosling plays is to see an actor turn a Collette in Hereditary; Timothee Chalamet in Beautiful Boy; Neil Armstrong not as moment of physical humor Christian Bale in Vice; Elizabeth a flag-waving American into the point where the Debicki in Widows; and Dominique Fishback in Night Comes On. hero but as an honest, hardened shell of a life hard-working man aware might just crack open. Any of his minute place in the other dudes do it for you cosmos and as a cog in guys this year? the larger mechanism of a MCCARTHY The film was crew, both on the ground minor, but no one else

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caustic New York wits recognize ROONEY That scene where she each other as kindred spirits. And rips into her son (Alex Wolff) at in Tamara Jenkins’ Private Life, the dinner table with decidedly Kathryn Hahn and Paul Giamatti, unmaternal ferocity was one of as a couple of boho Manhattanites the year’s most indelible acting in desperate pursuit of parent- moments. And as very different Congratulations hood, are so believably connected, matriarchs, there was the tre- you practically hear their mendous Regina King, bringing entwined unspoken thoughts. such resourceful intelligence to to all of the 2018 On a different note, some her ineffably grounded character young actors this year upped the in If Beale Street Could Talk, and ante in inspiring ways. Charlie Michelle Yeoh, exuding class, Plummer puts youthful resilience poise and wisdom born of bumpy Hollywood Reporter in an affecting new light in the experience in Crazy Rich Asians. beautifully understated Lean on It’s also been a remarkable year Pete, playing a kind teen enduring for performances from nonactors. exceptionally hard knocks. And I’m thinking especially of Yalitza TOP DEAL MAKERS although Beautiful Boy doesn’t Aparicio as the spine and silent quite work for me, Chalamet dem- witness of the fractured-family onstrates that Call Me by Your household in Alfonso Cuaron’s Name was no fluke. I can’t recall Roma and the kids in Hirokazu a recent actor who so achingly Kore-eda’s Shoplifters, so affect- yet effortlessly embodies the ethe- ing in their responses to a family real and the earthbound. environment that’s both shady including our partner FROSCH Sheri, my fellow and fiercely bound. Chalamaniac! I, too, was thrilled LINDEN As we wrap this up, I want to see him dazzle again with his to call attention to one of 2018’s wrenching, beautifully controlled best debuts — one well beyond performance in Beautiful Boy, the thrum of the awards season giving that rather cool film a jolt machinery: Chante Adams in of deep, vibrant feeling. His voice Roxanne Roxanne. In this biopic dipping into a whisper, then catch- of Queens rap prodigy Roxanne PATTI FELKER ing, as he tells fellow addicts at a Shante, she’s the personification 12-step meeting, “I want my family of outer-borough moxie. And to be proud of me,” was an example like many of her more experi- of the kind of breathtaking nuance enced counterparts this year, she’s and intuitiveness — the ability to a girl talking back to the boys. If slip not just into a character’s skin, that’s not 2018 in a nutshell, I don’t but get into his guts — that sets know what is. Chalamet apart. As David suggested, though, ↓ Trine Dyrholm in Nico, 1988. 2018 has generally been a much richer year for actresses than actors. Like Sheri, I adored Hahn in Private Life. As she’s proved in her work with Jill Soloway, she has a gift for swinging seamlessly between comedic and dramatic registers — but also for blending them, creating a continuum of reactions that feels so recogniz- ably, complexly, contradictorily human (we giggle at her pain and wince when she’s cracking wise) that it’s almost anthropological. And what about the sensational Toni Collette, going from clenched grief to shockingly vivid, gargoyle- 10880 Wilshire Boulevard, like terror as a disturbed mother Suite 2070, Los Angeles, CA 90024 in Hereditary? : COURTESY OF MAGNOLIA PICTURES. NICO 88 ŽŶŐƌĂƚƵůĂƟŽŶƐ͊ Bradley Cooper

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Mark Bardell & Stephen Wilkinson HERBERT SMITH FREEHILLS Sky was the belle of the Let’s Add a Few Zeroes to That Oer European media M&A ball this year, pursued by Comcast Dealmakers behind the year’s big-spending and 21st Century Fox. The London-based duo advised Sky streamers and record-setting talent on the battle, which Comcast won with a $39 billion bid. The paydays (and the Obamas’ Netflix pact) firm has repped Sky for nearly three decades, and Bardell reveal their secrets (sort of) Edited by Ashley Cullins says this deal positions it well “in the context of the increasing consumer appetite for $289 million purchase of The Negotiation pet peeve “The retaining top talent like OTT delivery of TV content.” Weinstein Co. out of bank- other side blustering about The Daily Show host Trevor Fictional character who would ruptcy, which was $21 million ‘deal killer’ or ‘we will file.’ ” Noah, who launched an inter- be your arch nemesis cheaper than originally national production Bardell: “Bobby Axelrod agreed upon to account for Bardell Christa D’Alimonte and distribution company from Billions — a TV villain claims made by Quentin VIACOM with a sizable investment with admirable tenacity. Tarantino, Meryl Streep and D’Alimonte helped Viacom from Viacom. “As the media Plus, my wife has a crush on others who worried they transition from a staid industry continues to go Damian Lewis.” wouldn’t get money owed to portfolio of cable networks through a period of intense Wilkinson: “Blofeld from them. Burke says Lantern’s into a digital-forward change,” D’Alimonte notes, James Bond, famous for his purchase preserved a Wilkinson company through deals to “our work is becoming white cat. I’m a dog lover.” source of indie development snap up influencer market- increasingly complex and and distribution when “it is ing platform WhoSay, fascinating.” John Burke becoming increasingly events business VidCon and Dealmaking tool you couldn’t AKIN GUMP difficult to produce indepen- digital studio Awesomeness. live without “My phone, which I Burke represented Lantern dent films with budgets in Burke The Georgetown law school believe is so much more impor- Capital in the company’s excess of $10 million.” alum also got creative in tant than email.”

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THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 90 NOVEMBER 28, 2018 when Netflix wanted to pressure on studios to start Horacio Gutierrez demonstrate that they were a making deals with guaran- SPOTIFY viable partner at the highest tees that more resembled the Tech veteran Gutierrez of levels,” says the Australian streamers because it’s attrac- moved to Spotify in 2016 attorney. The American Horror D’Alimonte tive for people to not just to lead it through an Story creator already had a hope but know what they’re unusual initial public offer- relationship with the streamer going to get.” ing, in which the music giant on two series, including the Fictional character who would eschewed financial under- Sarah Paulson-led One Flew be your arch nemesis “There writers and skipped the road Over the Cuckoo’s Nest adapta- are so many people who are show for potential investors tion Ratched. Notes Emanuel Ellin my real arch nemeses poten- — eventually directly listing of his prolific client, “His tially that I can’t be worried its shares on the New York media life is now fully con- about fictional arch nemeses.” Stock Exchange. “There were tained under one roof, so there a lot fewer surprises than I isn’t competition any longer Gregg Gellman would have expected,” says MORRIS YORN for scheduling.” Emanuel Venezuela-born Gutierrez, I check my email ... “About Gellman’s profile skyrocketed “even though we were trying 15 minutes after waking after he was able to get Kenya to reinvent the way a com- up and about five minutes Barris out of his contract pany would list.” before going to sleep.” with ABC and into a massive, Dealmaking tool you couldn’t multiyear deal at Netflix. The live without “Someone from Alan Epstein Epstein Black-ish creator reportedly finance with mad Microsoft VENABLE was wooed by several studios Excel skills.” The avid cyclist broke his in the months after ABC wrist in a crash that kept him shelved a particularly politi- Robert Haymer off his bike this year, but it cal episode of the comedy LATHAM & WATKINS didn’t keep Epstein from Felker in March. But the Girls Trip Haymer has advised Lionsgate co-representing 3 Arts in its writer opted to join Shonda for two decades, most sale of a stake to Lionsgate, Rhimes and Ryan Murphy at recently helping it “get close which experts say is a the streaming giant, where to the talent” through its bellwether of activity in the he could forgo a traditional acquisition of management representation business. pilot season and the inevi- firm 3 Arts. “You’ve got to be The deal, he says, highlights Gellman table frustrations that come nimble and ready to see “the strategic importance with it. “These times allow what’s around the corner,” of management companies us to push the boundaries of says Haymer. Lately, that in today’s entertainment what used to be typical means leading small- Howard Ellin landscape.” The father of four deals,” says Gellman. “There to medium-sized companies SKADDEN ARPS also negotiated Gary Barber’s Grifiths are all new sandboxes for our through the changing The deal that has Disney exit from the CEO chair clients to play in.” Hollywood landscape, includ- paying $71 billion for most of at MGM, including the sale Before a big negotiation, I eat … ing helping Skydance sell a the entertainment assets of of his $260 million stake “Fun Dip!” stake to Tencent. 21st Century Fox “will enable in the studio. Fictional character who two key players to reposition Before a big negotiation, I Sean Grifiths would be your arch nemesis themselves in a sector that is drink … “Agua, although there Gutierrez GIBSON DUNN “Never thought about it — constantly and quickly evolv- are some meetings where Investcorp, a manager maybe Professor Moriarty.” ing,” says Ellin, who advised tequila may be necessary.” of alternative investments, Rupert Murdoch and Fox. this year made a move Craig Hunegs Simultaneously, he worked Patti Felker into Hollywood by acquir- WARNER BROS. FELKER TOCZEK with Fox to sell its 39 percent Haymer ing a minority stake in talent Hunegs was key in keeping stake in Sky to Comcast for Felker crafted Greg Berlanti’s agency UTA with the help uberproducer Greg Berlanti $15.3 billion. huge overall deal extension of the New York-based in-house at Warner Bros. Fictional character who with Warner Bros. The cre- Griffiths, who has extensive With two years left on his would be your arch nemesis ator, who has 15 series experience representing pact, the prolific creator “Fernand Mondego [from on the air, had several years private equity firms and their was reportedly in high COURTESY OF SUBJECT. The Count of Monte Cristo].” left on his pact with the studio Hunegs portfolio companies. The demand as Netflix started

UBJECT. GELLMAN: BENJO ARWAS/COURTESY when Netflix began doling UTA deal is part of the ongo- snapping up big-name Craig Emanuel out nine-figure sums to his ing mergers and acquisitions writer-producers. Together PAUL HASTINGS peers. “The question was push across the entertain- with CEO Kevin Tsujihara Emanuel guided Ryan whether somebody wanted to ment industry, which and Warner Bros. Television Murphy’s transition from Fox step up preemptively or wait,” Griffiths says highlights “a president Peter Roth, Hunegs to Netflix in an estimated says Felker. The result was continuation of the impor- delivered a gigantic deal $300 million deal that sent Berlanti landing a four-year tance of content.” for Berlanti that will keep shock waves through the deal estimated at $400 mil- Dealmaking tool you couldn’t Warners his TV home industry. “It came at a pivotal lion in all-cash guarantees. live without “My large iPad Pro until at least 2024. (Berlanti’s moment in the marketplace She adds, “There was a lot of and Apple Pencil.” film pact remains at Fox.) OF SUBJECT. GRIFFITHS: JEFF WEINER/COURTESY OF SUBJECT. ALL OTHER HEADSHOTS: D’ALIMONTE: ASA MATHAT FORD’ALIMONTE: MEDIA. VOX ASA CROSS/COURTESY ELLIN: MATHAT DAVE OF S

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 91 NOVEMBER 28, 2018 Backlot the financial advisers to Spotify in connection with Dealmakers of the Year the music streamer’s IPO. Negotiation pet peeve Pearce: “Selective recollec- Jacobson tion of events on the other Matt Thompson side of the table.” SIDLEY AUSTIN Reid: “Grandstanding.” When Canada-based PSP looked at buying a minority Faiza Saeed stake in UTA, it turned Johnson & George Schoen to Thompson. The $200 mil- CRAVATH lion investment from PSP The dynamic duo represented and Investcorp is designed Time Warner in its $85 bil- to enable the agency to bet- lion sale to AT&T as well as ter compete with its larger Walt Disney in its $71 billion Kirk rivals. Amid an industrywide purchase of 21st Century Fox’s push into direct-to-con- Craig Jacobson it’s like to work with [the entertainment assets. “Time sumer services, Thompson HANSEN JACOBSON Obamas].” Warner has been a client for says, “One of the things Jacobson found himself in Biggest negotiation pet peeve nearly a century, dating back people are focused on is the the expensive fight for top Johnson: “Dishonesty.” to the firm’s representation underlying asset, which is Noon talent, helping Lorne Michaels Kirk: “People who talk just to of Time Inc. in the 1920s,” the talent and content itself.” move his first-look film deal hear themselves talk.” Saeed tells THR, adding that The veteran dealmaker also from Paramount to Universal Cravath also has old ties to the advised IPC Television (Leah and extend his Saturday Bryan Noon House of Mouse. “The chance Remini: Scientology and the Night Live pact with NBC. And NETFLIX to work now with Disney on Aftermath), its principals and client Trevor Noah inked a Noon is a driving force behind its pending acquisition of Fox Pearce equity holders in the sale to lucrative joint venture with Netflix’s jaw-dropping over- has been both a reunion for Core Media (American Idol) Viacom for first dibs on his all deals for creators. “We us and an opportunity to be and the relaunch of the firm future TV, film and shortform knew we needed folks work- there for another transforma- as Industrial Media. projects through his Day Zero ing for us in house who were tive moment in the history of Before a big negotiation, Productions. Jacobson says going to bring in projects this iconic company.” Reid I drink … “Venti deep-pocketed streamers like and give us access to great Before a big negotiation, I drink … iced Americano.” Netflix have “forced the tra- ideas,” he says. Noon joined Saeed: “Black coffee.” ditional players to respond to the streamer six years ago Schoen: “Herbal tea, so my Susan Zuckerman Williams a competitive environment.” and has gone from being a voice doesn’t go out.” PAUL HASTINGS He also advised longtime one-man show to overseeing After The Weinstein Co. client 3 Arts on its sale of a a team of about 35 attorneys. David Spingarn Saeed declared bankruptcy, majority stake to Lionsgate. His first major overall pact & Andrew Thau Williams secured the money Dealmaking tool you couldn’t was Orange Is the New Black UTA owed to Bank of America, live without “My iPad.” creator Jenji Kohan’s, with UTA is going through a a lender on the TV side of Shonda Rhimes’ and Ryan growth spurt, with acquisi- the company formerly run Matthew Johnson Murphy’s deals to follow. tions in the electronic music Schoen by Harvey Weinstein. She’s & Wendy Kirk I check my email … “15 min- space (Circle Talent Agency) also helping lenders get ZIFFREN BRITTENHAM utes after waking up and and e-sports and gaming what’s owed to them in the The pair led the Ziffren zero minutes before going business (agency Press X and wake of the bankruptcy of team behind Barack and to sleep.” management firm Everyday Open Road, which is to be Michelle Obama’s landmark Influencers). Chief strat- acquired for $87.5 million by Spingarn multiyear Netflix deal, in Will Pearce egy officer Spingarn and Raven Capital Management. which the streamer offered & Thomas Reid COO Thau guided the agency “Bankruptcy is a challenge, an opportunity for the former DAVIS POLK through those deals and a but the structures hold up first couple to create any type The transatlantic pair worked $200 million capital injection and banks get paid — it of programming all under with Comcast on its $39 bil- from new investors Investcorp just takes longer than they one roof. “There weren’t any lion deal for European pay and PSP this year to push Thau want,” says Williams, who’s artificial constraints on what TV giant Sky. Reid lauds the into new areas of business also working on a joint OTS: COURTESY OF SUBJECT. they could or couldn’t do,” buzzed-about transaction for and strengthen support of venture she can’t reveal, but says Johnson, who also nego- allowing Comcast to “quickly, artists and creators. Says describes as “really cool.” tiated Tyler Perry’s colossal efficiently and meaning- Thau: “As our clients’ ambi- Negotiation pet peeve “People cross-company pact with fully increase its customer tions continue to grow, Thompson who aren’t direct and Viacom. Notes Kirk, who also base.” Adds Pearce, “It triples we are willing to disrupt the negotiate just for the sake orchestrated Scott Gimple’s Comcast’s footprint in the system and challenge tra- of negotiating.” deal as the chief content offi- TV business and doubles the ditional business models to cer of the expanded Walking company’s footprint in the help facilitate those goals.” Profiles by Paul Bond, Dead franchise: “There aren’t broadband space.” The Davis Dealmaking tool you couldn’t Natalie Jarvey, Bryn Elise words to describe what Polk team also worked with live without? Thau: “Instinct.” Williams Sandberg and Georg Szalai. SPINGGARN, THAU: ALEX J. BERLINER/COURTESY OF SUBJECT. ALL OTHER HEADSH

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Awards Watch From Silent Movies to 2001 As head of the American Cinematheque, Barbara Smith created a moviegoing mecca By Gregg Kilday

s Hollywood’s iconic After the death of the two Garys, A Egyptian Theatre as they were known, how did you celebrates the 20th anni- keep the Cinematheque going? versary of its restoration and We’d started the Cinematheque 1 reopening under the auspices of in 1981. We decided that we worked the American Cinematheque really hard all year to create the 1 Barbara Smith at a GQ magazine event benefiting the Cinematheque in 2006. 2 Eddie Murphy (right) and 3 and with the nonprofit organi- three-week festival, so with just Saturday Night Live co-star Joe Piscopo in 1986 at zation set to bestow its annual a little more work we could turn the first American Cinematheque Award event. 3 The restored Egyptian Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard. Cinematheque Award on Bradley what we were doing into a year- Cooper on Dec. 5, Barbara Smith, round film program. But we had 71, is about to retire as executive no permanent home. Various director, a post she’s held since developers we worked with gave 1993. (A successor has not yet been us free offices. After Gary Essert chosen.) The American died, I did think, Cinematheque American “Should I do this?” I Cinematheque grew out of Filmex, the Award might have made ambitious Los Angeles a different decision Nov. 29 film festival created in about continuing Beverly Hilton, 2 1971 by Gary Essert Beverly Hills the Cinematheque if and his partner, Gary the Egyptian wasn’t Abrahams. When the two died looming on the horizon. The city have had the money. The city had 2 1: A Space Odyssey. We struck of AIDS within weeks of each announced in 1992 that it was earthquake insurance. And we got our own 70mm prints, and we other in 1992, Smith, who’d been trying to revitalize the theater. $1 million from FEMA. When they really pack the audience in. We run working at their side, was left to When they closed escrow in ’93, called and asked if I wanted the each for a week or a weekend when pursue their dream of establish- they asked us to submit a proposal. money, I literally got in my car and we show them. ing a year-round cinematheque, drove to Pasadena right then. one that reached fruition when Did the 1994 earthquake, How did the American the ornate Egyptian, built by Sid which damaged the building, set What do you remember about the Cinematheque Award come about? Grauman in 1922, reopened in things back? Egyptian reopening in 1998 with The idea for the benefit din- 1998. The Cinematheque extended My theory is it actually saved a 75th anniversary screening of ner and award show was Lynn its footprint further in 2005 the Egyptian, which needed ret- 1923’s The Ten Commandments? Wasserman’s, [former Universal when it took over the Aero Theatre rofitting because the building That was a program I really head] Lew Wasserman’s in Santa Monica. Smith spoke wasn’t up to code. Without the wanted to do. It was so fitting daughter and president of the with THR about her tenure at the earthquake, we still would have to present a silent film with a Cinematheque’s fundraising Cinematheque. had to retrofit, but we wouldn’t live orchestra, which is what an group. Eddie Murphy was doing audience at the Egyptian would a film at Universal, and Lynn have heard in the early years of asked him to be the recipient of the theater. The conductor was the first American Cinematheque Gillian Anderson, who is coming Award. The second year, with A STAR IS CONFIRMED back 20 years later to direct Ernst Bette Midler, was great, but we : TOM BONNER. COOPER: LAURENT VITEUR/GETTY IMAGES. The American Cinematheque Award benefit Lubitsch’s Rosita on Dec. 7. lost money. We had Barry Manilow, brings in about $250,000 of the organiza- who’d played piano for Bette tion’s annual $3 million budget and is designed Are there specific films that the in her cabaret days, and we flew in as a mid-career tribute. Says Smith of its 32nd Cinematheque helped audiences the Harlettes, her backup singer- Bradley Cooper recipient, A Star Is Born’s : “He rediscover? dancers. The Robin Williams year has had so many acclaimed roles and now is directing, not to mention singing and playing The Cinematheque definitely [1988] was very bawdy. There music, it seems like the start of a really interest- made a case for theatrical exhibi- was a big penis onstage, and later ing career trajectory. His time has come.” tion of Lawrence of Arabia and it was stolen. SMITH: J. VESPA/WIREIMAGE. MURPHY: RON GALELLA/WIREIMAGE. THEATRE

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MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION ASIAPACIFIC COPYRIGHT EDUCATOR AWARD Masakazu Kubo, senior vp, Shogakukan- Shueisha Productions ↑ Studio screenings at CineAsia include, from left: Disney’s Ralph Breaks the Internet, Universal’s How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, Paramount’s Asia Reinvents Bumblebee and Warner Bros.’ Aquaman.

Moviegoing for hit $250 million at the box ofﬁce for 2018, surpassing 2017’s total of $245 million. the Streaming Age “The Asian markets have the advantage of not being bound by the limitations of legacy structures,” says EXHIBITOR

Audiences embrace Rance Pow, CEO of Artisan Gateway, a cinema consulting OF THE YEAR : CHUCK ZLOTNICK/MARVEL STUDIOS. company based in Hong Kong and Shanghai. “[It] affords a Joe Chang, president, everything from 4D to certain level of independence and a viable local commer- Ambassador Theatres AVENGERS cial market to innovate and experiment.” ‘on-demand’ theaters One of the most compelling experiments, just now getting By Patrick Brzeski off the ground, is Chinese video giant iQiyi’s attempt to meld the movie theater experience with the age of streaming.

The company, often dubbed “the Netflix of China,” recently OURTESY OF FILM EXPO GROUP. s Netflix maintains its stranglehold over the launched something it’s calling the world’s first on-demand A film business zeitgeist and MoviePass goes up in movie theater. The high-tech cinemas, the first of which DISTRIBUTOR flames, it can seem as if the industry has all but was opened in China’s southern Guangdong Province this OF THE YEAR given up on bringing innovations to the old-school movie year, are comprised of several THX-certified mini-theaters, Fu Ruoqing, theater experience. ranging from two to 10 seats, which filmgoers can rent by chairman, Huaxia Film But when Hollywood players descend on Hong Kong for the hour to watch any content they like from iQiyi’s vast Distribution Co. CineAsia, the annual exhibition industry conference held online streaming library. Sales revenue from the mini-the- in the southern Chinese business center, they’ll find that’s aters is included in China’s official theatrical box office tally. not the case in Asia, where several of the region’s “Displaying our content in on-demand offline dominant entertainment companies continue to CineAsia cinemas presents an attractive opportunity invest heavily in new theatrical experiences and Dec. 10-13 for further monetization of our original IP,” says

business models. Hong Kong Yang Xianghua, senior vice president of iQiyi. : JAIMIE TRUEBLOOD/PARAMOUNT PICTURES. KUBO, CHANG, RUOQING, KONG: C Convention The most salient example to date is South & Exhibition But the cinema-enhancing technology that has Centre ICON AWARD Korean exhibition giant CJ CGV’s immersive 4DX had the largest impact on China’s massive exhibi- BUMBLEBEE Bill Kong, cinema system. Launched in 2009, the technol- tion industry is the best known: mobile ticketing. president, ogy augments and enhances the experience of a ﬁlm with More than 90 percent of movie tickets are sold online Edko Films 21 sensory effects, including seats that move and vibrate and over cellphones in China, compared with just 20 per- in tandem with the action on the screen, dynamic bursts cent in the U.S., according to Artisan Gateway. Aside from COMSCORE’S ASIAPACIFIC of light and a range of other integrated elements, such as creating convenience for consumers who can book their : COURTESY OF WARNER BROS. BOX OFFICE scents, wind, water, snow and more. preferred seat in advance with a few clicks, the technol-

ACHIEVEMENT AWARD AQUAMAN “With the goal of bringing audiences back to theaters, ogy has given cinemas and distributors game-changing Walt Disney it was imperative for an exhibition player like us to invest marketing tools — real-time, location- Studios in new moviegoing experiences that can’t be replicated based and big-data empowered. Motion Pictures elsewhere,” says Jong Ryul Kimk, CEO of CJ 4D Plex, whose “China is clearly a leader in this International’s Avengers: Infinity War parent company, CJ CGV, is Asia’s second-largest cinema area of the global industry,” says chain and the ﬁfth-biggest in the world. Pow. “I expect we will see more

Perhaps improbably, CJ’s thrill-ride cinema tech has innovations [from Asia] that ANIMATION. DREAMWORKS OF COURTESY : been embraced by exhibition chains and ﬁlmgoers around meet customers with a growing the globe. Some 571 4DX theaters have been installed in array of offerings that will expand DRAGON 59 countries. As of October, the 4DX network had already what ‘cinema’ means.” : COURTESY OF DISNEY. RALPH

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199883 19984 19885 19886 1998877 19988 198899 19990 199991 1992 199 199944 1995 19966 199997 11999988 1999 200000 200001 20002 2003 2 Years Ago, Philadelphia Shattered the AIDS Taboo

Director Jonathan Demme’s skittish sponsors. It then lost five Oscars, including best pic- was urgent to everyone. People Philadelphia had some major another $1 million with a second ture. Plus, Philadelphia featured wanted to be involved with this forces going both for and against airing.) “We couldn’t make a movie Bruce Springsteen’s massive film.” The movie did find a home it a quarter-century ago. On the that was just a piece of propa- hit song “Streets of Philadelphia,” everywhere: The $24 million downside, the TriStar produc- ganda about AIDS,” says TriStar’s written for the soundtrack at production raked in $207 million tion was about a gay man with then-chairman Mike Medavoy. Demme’s request. “Talent fol- worldwide ($362 million today) HIV/AIDS. On the plus side, Tom “It had to be a movie about the lows material,” says producer and earned four Oscar nomina- Hanks starred as that man. The human spirit, a survival movie.” Ed Saxon. “We had an excel- tions, with wins for Hanks and Hollywood Reporter was impressed Philadelphia’s plot centers on a lent script about a subject that Springsteen. BILL HIGGINS by the film that opened Dec. 23, successful, closeted attorney fired 1993, but said “it will take an from his white-shoe Philadelphia exceptionally inspired marketing firm when it’s revealed he’s HIV- campaign to bring Philadelphia positive. The only lawyer he can home everywhere.” Hollywood’s find to represent him is an ambu- previous attempts to tackle lance chaser played by Denzel AIDS hadn’t gone well. (The first Washington. The timing was per- was NBC’s 1985 movie An Early fect: Hanks, then 37, was coming Frost, which had been a critical off mega-success with Sleepless success and the most-watched in Seattle, and Demme’s previous broadcast of the night — but lost film, The Silence of the Lambs, had $600,000 in ad revenue from grossed $273 million and won

↑ Tom Hanks (left) and Denzel Washington went to court in 1993’s Philadelphia.

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