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FEATURES 46 The Worst Pitch You’ve Ever Read An oral (and other orifices) history of HBO’s groundbreaking comedy Girls, from Lena Dunham’s “horrifying” pitch to casting Adam Driver (“I thought it would be fun to play someone who does morally questionable things”) to breaking the ultimate TV taboo with a “conclusion shot” (conditioner and Cetaphil, actually) seen ’round the world.

54 Berlin Dealmaking in the Age of Trump Thanks to the recent sea change in global politics, insiders heading to the Berlin Film Festival say international buyers and sellers are more cautious than ever: “Everyone is 58 feeling the ripple effect.” Clockwise from top left: Alfre Woodard, John Cho, Matt 58 Stars Come in From Bomer and Margaret Qualley the Cold were photographed in THR’s Sundance lounge at Sky Strada More than 4 feet of snow in Park City. For exclusive during the Sundance Film interviews from the lounge, go to THR.com/video. Festival didn’t chill buyers with Netflix betting big on 10 films as K.Stew logged her directing debut, a protest march snowballed down Main and dozens of A-listers dropped by THR’s lounge to talk art and activism.

62 An American New Wave? Oscar snubs for Clint, Scorsese, Stone and Spielberg make way for a generation whose collective voice is emerging.

ON THE COVER Clockwise from left: Jemima Kirke, Alex Karpovsky, Allison Williams, Lena Dunham, Adam Driver, Zosia Mamet and Andrew Rannells were photographed July 23 by Miller Mobley at Ruby Bird Studio in Brooklyn. To learn what the Girls actors love most about their characters, go to THR.com/video.

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THE REPORT STYLE 11 Trump’s Travel Ban 41 Double the Drama Hits Hollywood Hard As worn by awards season’s From TV pilot casting dashing gents from Tom to the Oscars, the impact Hiddleston to Tom Ford, on the industry will two sets of buttons are back be large, say insiders. on tuxedos.

42 How High-Net-Worth ABOUT TOWN Families Do Vacations 23 Food Truck to Fargo: (Hint: They Plan Years Now a Marvel Star and Years Ahead) Rachel Keller takes on For parents worth 23 superpowers in Noah $30 million-plus, it’s “When I look at my body, I’m like, ‘I’m a lead Hawley’s new X-Men about unique educational of a TV show?’ ” says Keller, photographed drama Legion on FX. opportunities that Jan. 10 at Warwick in “help with Ivy League Hollywood. Hear why Keller thinks Legion is a applications.” unique television series THE BUSINESS at THR.com/video. 32 Executive Suite: Jordan Levin REVIEWS The NFL’s content chief 66 Santa Clarita Diet talks Lady Gaga’s Super Bowl Drew Barrymore charms halftime show, TV ratings as a suburban mom woes and why the Viacom turned zombie in Netflix’s decline is “criminal.” uneven but addictive new horror-comedy series. 36 #OscarsSoMale A year after the glaring 41 BACKLOT Isaia double-breasted lack of racial diversity in tuxedo ($4,550), pleated-front shirt ($475) nominations, the Academy 69 DGA Awards Preview and bow tie ($150); has put the spotlight Legendary TV director at Isaia, Beverly Hills on the shocking absence Tommy Schlamme says the of women below the line. world needs a new West Wing.

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As outrage hits the streets and stars speak out, the impact on everything from TV’s pilot season to foreign press tours is starting to be felt. Warns one lawyer: ‘Production companies are vetting talent’ BY ASHLEY CULLINS Pedro Almodovar The Spanish director and Hollywood was The ban, which impacts most ↑ Protests at LAX airport (above) and five-time Palme d’Or nominee New York’s JFK drew thousands, including is tapped as jury president of Hollywood built by immi- immigrants and visitors from Hollywood stars and creatives. the 70th Cannes Film Festival, Under grants — mostly Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, which kicks off May 11. Trump Jews whose Syria and Yemen, came just as the were part of a thousands-strong families emigrated TV industry’s pilot season was protest of the ban at LAX on from eastern Europe — and long getting underway. The annual Jan. 28. Actress Cynthia Nixon has thrived on the infusion of production crunch sees hundreds joined a similar demonstration fresh talent and consumers from of foreign actors travel to Los at JFK in New York. The SAG around the world. So the indus- Angeles and New York for meet- Awards on Jan. 29 became a pul- Travis Kalanick The Uber CEO faces a try is struggling to grapple with ings and casting sessions, often pit for stars including Moonlight’s #deleteuber backlash over the impact of President Donald on expedited visas. Studios and Mahershala Ali, Veep’s Julia Louis- his friendly remarks about President Trump and the Trump’s Jan. 27 executive order talent agencies declined to com- Dreyfus and Stranger company operating at JFK temporarily banning immigration ment, but privately, many say they Things’ David during a taxi strike. “I am a Muslim,” said to the U.S. from seven mostly- are evaluating how the so-called Harbour to speak out. Ali in his emotional Muslim countries — even as Muslim ban and expected visa Oscar-nominated speech at the SAG most entertainment moguls have delays for all foreign nationals Mettelsiefen Iranian director Showbiz Stocks Awards. remained silent on the issue. will impact decisions on pilots Asghar Farhadi (The and series pickups this spring. Salesman) and his star Taraneh $110.65 (+2.2%) “Production companies are vet- Alidoosti announced Jan. 29 they DISNEY (DIS) Shares of the entertainment ting talent to see if they could will boycott the Academy Awards. giant continue to rally, and in face a possible bar,” says Richard Marcel Mettelsiefen, director of January the company became the Dow Jones average’s top Tashjian, an immigration attorney the Oscar-nominated doc short winner with a 6.2 percent gain. who works with Sony and CAA. Watani: My Homeland, about a “Past that, there is no contingency Syrian family, will attend the $28.35 (-1.2%) DISCOVERY (DISCA) plan if the bar is expanded.” Oscars but says of Trump’s ban, The cable giant’s stock price In the meantime, creatives “This is very dangerous.” Director declined amid tense talks with European pay TV giant Sky are speaking out. Film and TV Orlando von Einsiedel and pro- over a new contract that writer-producers Joss Whedon, ducer Joanna Natasegara were threatened to see a blackout of Discovery channels such as Dan Harmon and Danny Zuker planning on taking two subjects TLC and Animal Planet. Both sides came to a preliminary agreement on Jan. 31.

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of their Oscar-nominated docu- mentary short The White Helmets — about rescue workers in Syria — as their guests to the Feb. 26 ceremony. Due to the Trump ban, the subjects can’t attend. on certain types of visas, includ- a non-immigrant visa will need ↑ Farhadi (left) says he won’t attend the Oscars in solidarity with those banned, as The ban also affects anyone ing those used most often by the to have an interview. This will Nixon joined protests at JFK airport. already in the U.S. on a tempo- film, TV and music industries. cause backlogs in processing visas rary visa who leaves. So those Entertainers typically use O visas, as embassies and consulates will Hollywood’s neighbors to the planning to promote a film groups use P visas and nontal- need to adjust staffing.” north decided to do the same. But internationally may want to skip ent (such as foreign financiers For those in need of a quick while Netflix, Amazon, Facebook the tour. And Trump has asked traveling for business meetings) turnaround, immigration attor- and other technology companies his administration for a list of use B visas. Those visas usually ney David Hirson recommends have voiced strong opposition to countries that fail to turn over are sponsored by talent agencies, contacting local consulates for Trump’s immigration policies, requested immigration informa- networks or studios with whom an expedited appointment. “They most top entertainment execs tion. Those face a presidential the person works. take one or two appointments a have remained silent, prefer- proclamation barring the entry of Tashjian says there day, which they don’t talk about,” ring to speak via a bland MPAA their foreign nationals. already has been a he says. Make the case clearly and statement. The one exception is Immigration attorney Joe two- to three-week concisely, he adds, limiting the 21st Century Fox, whose lead- Adams says the looming threat lag in receiving an arguments for urgency to a short ers, James and Lachlan Murdoch, Natasegara that people from Pakistan, O-1 visa for those list of bullet points. issued a companywide memo Indonesia or Egypt soon could applying in London. Adams says at least one client, Jan. 30 saying they value “the be banned may make studios “I had a production a British company that employs unique perspective offered by our hesitant to hire talent from those that decided to move talent from across the globe, is many people who came to the U.S. nations. “Often a production will from the U.S. to thinking about abandoning its in search of the opportunity for Von be focused on a key member of Einsiedel Canada because of U.S. offices. “The world market for unfettered self-expression.” the above-the-line talent,” notes visa delays,” he says. the top talent is competitive,” he At the same time, Disney CEO Adams. “If that person is now “So we’ve lost 100 U.S. crew jobs says. “If we can’t attract top talent, Bob Iger, a member of Trump’s no longer allowed in the U.S., or in New Orleans.” we lose as a country.” strategic and policy advisory if you think maybe in the future The recent suspension of the Meanwhile, America’s loss committee, has been criticized that person may not be allowed visa interview waiver program could be Canada’s gain. The by corporate watchdog group — if with the stroke of a pen you only will exacerbate that problem, country’s tech companies are SumUp for failing to speak out can bar people — what does that he says. “Previously, in-person lobbying to assist visa-seekers against the immigrant ban and do to a production?” interviews were waived for a wide who can’t get into the U.S. in being “complicit in the Trump Immigration attorneys also variety of visa renewals,” adds an effort to poach talent — and administration’s cruel and un- are expecting increased scrutiny Tashjian. “Now, all those seeking it wouldn’t be surprising if American policies.”

Oscar Nominee: ‘What’s the Point of This?’ : COURTESY OF KINO LORBER. ROSI: NICHOLAS HUNT/GETTY IMAGES. Gianfranco Rosi, the writer, director and producer of the acclaimed migrant refugee doc FIRE Fire at Sea, weighs in on Trump’s controversial travel ban BY ARISTON ANDERSON talian documentarian Gianfranco Rosi arrived people, so many young lawyers, [it] was amaz- I at LAX on Jan. 28 just as crowds were gather- ing. It makes a big difference that so many people ing to protest President Donald Trump’s travel are responding and not being passive. This is ban on seven predominantly Muslim countries. the moment in history where the majority cannot After checking in at his hotel, Rosi, be silent anymore. The whole world is escap- 52, whose harrowing refugee docu- ing from responsibility, from history, because we Rosi’s film shows how an influx of migrant refugees mentary Fire at Sea is nominated constantly hear the voices of intolerance and affected a small Sicilian island. for a best feature documentary of fear. Rosi Oscar (he says he will attend the Do you think Trump would watch Fire at Sea? ceremony), promptly returned to How did you feel when you heard about Trump’s (Laughs.) No. It’s the same in Italy. All the “tough the airport to join the protest. He spoke to THR executive order? guys” won’t sit down to watch my film. They about the implications of Trump’s controversial What’s the point of this? An exploitation of fear? don’t have the patience. And they don’t have the executive order. Each person has to ask, “What is my position on human compassion to watch this film. But what this tragedy?” My film doesn’t give answers, but I hope my film can do is create an awareness. If I You attended the travel ban protest at LAX? it forces you to think about questions that sud- have 10 people coming out and saying, “What can Yes, I went to see the presence of so many denly we all have to answer. I do?” then it’s worth making this film. NATASEGARA, EINSIEDEL: TODD WILLIAMSON/GETTY IMAGES. NIXON: STEPHANIE KEITH/GETTY IMAGES. FARHADI: GABRIEL OLSEN/FILMMAGIC. OLSEN/FILMMAGIC. GABRIEL FARHADI: KEITH/GETTY IMAGES. WILLIAMSON/GETTY STEPHANIE NIXON: TODD IMAGES. EINSIEDEL: NATASEGARA,

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dollar, alcohol doesn’t cannibalize lobbying efforts of Broadway candy, soda or popcorn. If I put theaters. Dine-in cinemas, such a bar in, I can almost guarantee as the new iPic in Manhattan’s my food and beverage revenue Seaport neighborhood, are the will go up. Over 70 percent of our only exception. That soon could guests are over the age of 21.” change. On Jan. 20, Gov. Andrew When Patterson joined AMC Cuomo inserted a provision in six years ago, only six locations his budget allowing the sale of offered spirits. By the end of liquor in theaters. “When you go 2016, 178 had lounges and bars. to see Hamilton, you can buy a Of those, 150 were stand-alone glass of beer or sip on a glass of bars not paired with a dine- wine, but if you go to a regu- in component. Exhibitors don’t lar movie theater, you’re out of release revenue numbers from luck,” explains William Crowley alcohol sales, but AMC — the of the New York State Liquor nation’s largest chain and market Authority. “We license places leader in this arena — estimates like Madison Square Garden and the average customer spends Yankee Stadium. Even Chuck $4.81 on concessions. That figure E. Cheese has a liquor license. rises by 30 cents in locations Movie theaters are a little pinched with a bar. The markup means right now and have invested a lot huge profit margins: At the AMC in seats, screens and sound.” Santa Monica 7, a glass of Clos Theater owners are trying to du Bois chardonnay runs $14, remove a stipulation in Cuomo’s compared with $11.99 for a bottle proposal that would prohibit the at BevMo. sale of alcohol to anyone seeing Drink Up! Booze Is Regal Theatres isn’t far behind a movie rated PG or G, something AMC, with 175 locations serving no other state has done when loos- the New Popcorn spirits. And about 100 Cinemark ening its laws. “We’ve never had theaters serve alcohol. one incident involving alcohol,” A Fifty Shades cocktail? It’s happening, as more movie Concessions, long the biggest says iPic chief Hamid Hashemi. His theaters install bars to pad profits and states (except New York?!) profit center for movie houses, colleagues at other circuits insist relax old liquor laws BY PAMELA MCCLINTOCK are becoming more important as the same and proffer that on he drinking song prevented movie chains from attendance numbers remain flat average, a customer buys just one “99 Bottles of Beer” has offering alcoholic beverages in or decline. In 2015, AMC’s food drink per visit. T nothing on Dan Aykroyd’s regular auditoriums. Only dine- and beverage revenue hit about AMC’s latest campaign is to Crystal Head Vodka — at least in theaters could offer booze $910 million, a 41 percent uptick partner with Hollywood studios at AMC Theatres. By Aykroyd’s by securing a restaurant liquor from 2010 ($647 million). Those on themed drinks, some from count, the cinema chain has sold license, while some high-end cin- 2015 revenue numbers are even celebrity liquor brands by Aykroyd, 110,000 special Ghostbusters cock- emas — including the Landmark sweeter considering the cost of P. Diddy and Justin Timberlake. tails since last summer using the and ArcLight in L.A. — offered concessions was just $129 million. AMC and Cinemark will sell a Fifty vodka, part of a campaign by AMC beer and wine in designated Regal also reported increased food Shades cocktail over Valentine’s to boost earnings by hundreds of 21-and-over auditoriums. During and beverage revenue of about Day weekend, when Universal millions of dollars with increased the past two years, 32 states $910,000 in 2015, compared with opens Fifty Shades Darker. “We’ll alcohol sales. “It’s been amazing,” have relaxed their laws, allow- $724,000 in 2010. be offering an espresso martini says Aykroyd. “Overall, they’ve ing theaters to serve alcohol in But one of the biggest mov- and a darker marguerite,” says bought 7,200 bottles from us.” any auditorium. iegoing markets still is dry: Cinemark executive vp food and Forget popcorn and Milk Duds. “It is the fastest-growing New York. Since 1934, a provi- beverage Phillip Couch. “If you Booze is the next step in cinemas’ amenity in our industry,” says sion of the state’s constitution aren’t in this space, then you are fight against flagging attendance. George Patterson, senior vp food has banned the sale of alcohol not providing the experience some For decades, local and state laws and beverage at AMC. “Dollar for in movie theaters thanks to the people want.”

$32 for a The most expensive a premium-plus reclining says iPic CEO Hamid Other top ticket prices movie ticket in the U.S. seat with a plush blanket Hashemi about the luxury include the Imax AMC Movie Ticket can be found at the new and pillow — and a bag of dine-in theater chain Lincoln Square ($28.24). (Includes iPic Fulton Market in free popcorn. “People are with 15 locations, including That more than triples ‘Free’ Popcorn) New York, where prices willing to pay because in L.A.’s Westwood area the country’s average on weekends hit $32 for iPic seats are the priciest. they like to be pampered,” ($29 for a premium seat). ticket price of $8.65. — P.M.

Illustration by Mark Matcho IPIC: IPIC ENTERTAINMENT.

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The Report “Please see my movie …” Behind the Headlines

Box Office Broadcast TV Cable TV Domestic International 18-49 Audience Viewership Gross Cume % Chg Gross Cume Total Live+7 Live+7 Live+3 1. Split UNIVERSAL 1. This Is Us NBC 1. Vikings HISTORY A Dog’s New 25.7 77.4(2) -36% 14.8*31 23.7 101.1 5.0 15.8M 4.0M ↓ Even successful horror pics can drop 60 percent in their second weekend. M. Night 2. Modern Family ABC 2. Haves and the Have Nots OWN Purpose: Avoid Shyamalan’s Split is an exception and marks his 4.0 11.5M 3.3M best hold since Sixth Sense (3 percent) in 1999. Overseas Curse 3. The Simpsons FOX 3. The Librarians TNT 3.1 7.5M 2.8M Asia and the Middle East

4. The Bachelor ABC 4. Six HISTORY (where pooches are seen as 3.0 8.6M 2.8M taboo) may prove troublesome ↓ Good news for the A+E-owned net. for the PR-plagued family pic 5. Black-ish ABC Its new military drama launches to 2.9 8.5M strong (but not quite Vikings level) BY TATIANA SIEGEL ratings — adding a 51 percent 6. The Goldbergs ABC audience boost after premiere night. Dog movies famously are a tough 2.7 8.6M 2. A Dog’s Purpose UNIVERSAL sell overseas. Pooch ownership 18.2 18.2(1) - 3.7*8 5 23.2 7. Criminal Minds CBS is frowned upon or outlawed every- 2.5 10.9M 3. Hidden Figures FOX where from China (the Communist 14 104(6) -11% 1.5*11 2.5 106.5 7. Law & Order: SVU NBC Party views it as elitist) to the 2.5 9.0M 4. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter SONY Middle East (the Koran forbids peo- 13.6 13.6(1) - 28.3*44 64.5 78.1 7. Chicago P.D. NBC ple from keeping dogs inside the 2.5 10.4M 5. La La Land LIONSGATE home). And in some Asian countries,

(8) *73 10. The Middle ABC : COURTESY OF UNIVERSAL PICTURES. 12.2 106.7 +45% 23.5 117.1 223.8 5. Taboo FX dog consumption is common. Still, 2.4 9.0M 2.6M Universal is hoping overseas ticket 6. xXx: Return of Xander Cage PAR ↓ The little comedy that could, which (2) *62 8.6 33.8 -57% 24 89 122.8 caters to an oft-neglected geographic 6. Shooter USA sales can boost A Dog’s Purpose, group of Americans referenced in the 7. Sing UNIVERSAL title, gets an early season-nine renewal 2.5M which opened Jan. 27 to a decent (6) *61 after its successful move to Tuesdays. 6.4 257.6 -29% 23.7 207.8 465.4 7. Homeland SHOWTIME $18.2 million but likely was hurt by a

8. Rogue One DISNEY 2.3M leaked video showing a dog shoved : BENNETT RAGLIN/BET. PURPOSE (0) *32 5.3 520.2 -27% 3.8 510 1.03B 8. Nashville CMT into a water tank. As the Lasse 9. Monster Trucks PARAMOUNT 2.1M Hallstrom-helmed film is unleashed (3) *26 4.2 28.2 -41% 2.6 22.7 50.9 9. Colony USA in 20 territories, the initial results 10. Gold THE WEINSTEIN CO. 1.9M are promising. On Jan. 27, Dog’s (1) 3.5 3.5 - N/A N/A 3.5 10. Too Close to Home TLC Purpose opened in Latin America and ↓ Gold is Matthew McConaughey’s third straight box-office dud (live action) after The 1.6M overperformed everywhere but Sea of Trees and Free State of Jones. It Brazil. The film earned $3.4 million in also is his lowest wide opening in a lead role. : BROWNIE HARRIS/HISTORY CHANNEL. EDITION 10. Speechless ABC One to Watch seven territories, outgrossing 2008’s 2.4 7.4M Marley & Me in the same coun- 11. American Housewife ABC tries. Bill Johnson, who produced 2.2 7.7M Hallstrom’s previous canine movie 12. The Blacklist NBC (2009’s Hachi: A Dog’s Tale), says 2.1 9.7M the rap on pup pics is incorrect: “If 12. FOX The Mick BET you look back at the history of dog

The New Edition Story : COURTESY OF HACHETTE BOOK GROUP. SIX 2.1 5.1M The Viacom net’s music miniseries is movies, they usually work.” But 11. Patriots Day LIONSGATE an unprecedented hit, averaging 12. Chicago Med NBC 2.8 28.3(6) -52% N/A 3.7 32 4.1 million live viewers and a 1.9 rating Warner Bros.’ 2015 film Max earned 2.1 10.1M in the key demo over three nights. 97 percent of its gross domestically, 12. The Founder THE WEINSTEIN CO. 2.6 7.4(2) -23% N/A 5.1 12.5 and 2008’s Beverly Hills Chihuahua and 2009’s Hotel for Dogs did about 13. Moana DISNEY Closer two-thirds of their robust busi- 2.5 240(10) -8% 9.1*35 293 533.2 Look Top 10 Best-Selling Books ness in the U.S. Still, Universal will 14. Lion THE WEINSTEIN CO. James Patterson hits No. 1 with Never Never 2.3 19.7(10) +33% 5.7*10 21.1 40.8 expand Dog’s Purpose, which bows : COURTESY OF THE WEINSTEIN NEVER COMPANY.

↓ The Dev Patel starrer profited nicely from 1. Never Never PATTERSON, C. FOX 27,564 Feb. 3 in Argentina, Panama and , LION an Oscar best picture nomination, scoring the 2. Hidden Figures M.L. SHETTERLY 24,369 best theater average ($4,085) of any fellow Venezuela. Amblin will release the 3. A Dog’s Purpose W. BRUCE CAMERON 22,980 contender save for Hidden Figures ($4,179). film in China and the Middle East 4. Man Called Ove FREDRIK BACKMAN 21,779 5. Carve the Mark VERONICA ROTH 19,484 via Alibaba and Italia, and perhaps 6. 3 Days in Jan. B. BAIER, C. WHITNEY 19,477 China will save the day: Dog owner- 7. Milk and Honey RUPI KAUR 18,847 ship actually has increased rapidly 8. Double Down JEFF KINNEY 18,457 there, with more than 62 million The thriller was 9. Hillbilly Elegy J.D. VANCE 18,278 released Jan. 16. 10. The Apartment DANIELLE STEEL 17,852 companions registered nationwide in 2016. From a box-office stand- Nielsen BookScan for week ending Jan. 22 point, that’s nothing to bark at. 15. Manchester by the Sea ROADSIDE 2 41.6(11) +117% 1.1*10 8.6 50.2 Source: comScore; box-office estimates in $ millions ( ) Weekends in release; *Territories, Broadcast: Source: Nielsen, Live+7, week of Jan. 9; Cable TV: Source: Nielsen, Live+3, week of Jan. 16 : JOHN BAER/UNIVERSAL PICTURES. GOLD ANSELL/ABC. MICHAEL : MIDDLE SPLIT

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©2017 CBS Corporation PRESENTED BY STUDIO GHIBLI FEINBERG FORECAST THE PEOPLE WHO BROUGHT YOU SPIRITED AWAY, PONYO AND THE WIND RISES AWARDS SEASON 2017 ACADEMY AWARD® Maybe awards don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy NOMINEE world, but don’t tell that to the producers, editors and BEST ANIMATED FEATURE actors who just handed out their trophies By Scott Feinberg ANNIE AWARD NOMINATIONS BEST PICTURE SUPPORTING ACTOR INCLUDING 5 BEST ANIMATED FEATURE INDEPENDENT BEST ANIMATED FEATURE WINNER SAN FRANCISCO FILM CRITICS CIRCLE “GRADE A! LAVISH WITH STUNNING IMAGERY, THE EXPERIENCE WILL RIPPLE INTO YOUR DREAMS.” -Joe McGovern, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

La La Land Mahershala Ali “SIMPLE AND ELEMENTAL. Awards groups are crying Moonlight “Encore!” as the Producers Guild gave Proclaiming the fact that he is a Muslim, LIKE A PICTURE BOOK THAT La La Land its top film prize, the Ali delivered an eloquent acceptance NEEDS NO WORDS.” American Cinema Editors named it best- at the SAG Awards, where he was named -A.O. Scott, THE NEW YORK TIMES edited comedy, and the SAG Awards best supporting actor, and he returned feted Emma Stone. Plus, it crossed to the stage as part of the winning $225 million in worldwide box office. Hidden Figures ensemble. “ONE OF THE BEST PICTURES OF THE YEAR. A KNOCKOUT!” -Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES

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Moonlight Jeff Bridges Missing out on the SAG ensemble Hell or High Water award (to Hidden Figures) and the best Some predicted the veteran Oscar

THE drama ACE Eddie Award (to Arrival), for winner (for 2009’s Crazy Heart) would RED which it was favored, means that the be the category’s frontrunner, but he’s critically lauded drama has missed two now the underdog after losing at the opportunities to steal a bit of the spot- Globes (to Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and light from its rival La La Land. Critics’ Choice and SAG Awards (to Ali). TURTLE : HOPPER STONE/TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX. SALESMAN A FILM BY MICHAEL DUDOK DE WIT FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM : LOREY SEBASTIAN/CBS FILMS. HIDDEN

Hidden Figures The Salesman Riding a wave of popularity, the Iranian director Asghar Farhadi fact-based drama triumphed at the SAG issued a forceful statement announcing BORNFRIEND/COURTESY: DAVID OF A24 (2). HELL Awards, where it became the best motion he will not attend the Oscars because of picture cast winner, with its three stars President Trump’s “unjust” travel ban, — Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer which he condemned. Academy members and Janelle Monae (above) — receiving are likely to lend him support by voting thunderous applause. for his latest movie. : DALE ROBINETTE/LIONSGATE. MOONLIGHT LAND 18

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SONY’S BILLION-DOLLAR WRITE-DOWN: A CLEAN SLATE OR MEGADEAL BAIT? Sony Corp.’s nearly $1 billion write-down on its film the entertainment division through a deal that Deal division might be more than an accounting maneu- may include an outright sale, a partnership or even of the ver designed to clean up the company’s books. Some spinning off SPE in a public offering. There have Week analysts believe the Jan. 30 move may portend a been whispers in Hollywood that Hirai thinks transformative deal in its future. the entertainment unit is worth about $20 billion The $962 million charge basically allows the (though a recent research note issued by Wunderlich Tokyo-based giant to take a financial hit — all at Securities pegged the value at closer to $13 billion). once — that accounts for projected profit shortfalls To be sure, Hirai was clear that he has no inten- on everything from its acquisition of Columbia tion of unloading the company despite a drumbeat Pictures in 1989 to the decline in the home video of deal speculation that CBS CEO Leslie Moonves Hirai market. It follows a warning in June that its or a number of well-heeled Chinese bidders might film division, hurt by such disappointments as be interested. “Make no mistake; Sony Corp.’s Ghostbusters and Inferno, could suffer more losses commitment to SPE remains unchanged,” he told in 2017. And the latest disclosure came just weeks employees in a Jan. 30 letter. “Sony Corp. sees SPE after Sony Pictures Entertainment CEO Michael as a very important part of Sony Group and will Lynton revealed he’ll step down after 13 years to continue to invest to achieve long-term growth and focus on his duties on the Snapchat board. increased profits in this space.” And Hirai plans Getting a clean slate may allow Sony Corp. to take an office at Sony’s Culver City lot to help CEO Kazuo Hirai to better explore options for the oversee a leadership transition, with a new CEO to struggling studio, which in 2016 ranked fifth be named within six months. out of the six majors in box-office market share. A former Sony top executive tells THR he thinks Rumors have been swirling for years that he is the write-down is more about “a reset” of the stu- looking for an opportunity to unlock value from dio. He points to Hirai spending more time at SPE’s Patton offices as a way to help improve the unit’s perfor- mance and get its finances (and moviemaking) back on track. That’s even more important as the studio relaunches perhaps its most important franchise with the July 7 release of Spider-Man: Homecoming. Either way, the chatter over one of Hollywood’s FILM big six studios has piqued interest in both Hollywood Moonlight’s Naomie Harris and Wall Street. “The timing of the write-down is (WME, the U.K.’s Tavistock Sony is pinning interesting,” notes Welch Capital Partners analyst Wood, Untitled, Ziffren many of its Daniel Ernst. “I was always in favor of listing a Brittenham) will join hopes for 2017 minority stake, but I still doubt they have that on the Dwayne Johnson in New on the reboot of its Spider- table, let alone an actual sale — but never say never.” Line’s Rampage. Man franchise. — GEORG SZALAI AND GAVIN J. BLAIR Stranger Things break- out Millie Bobby Brown (WME, Affirmative, NBA Shoots (and Scores?) With Ads on Uniforms Hansen Jacobson) Shortly before legendary at 2016’s All-Star Game. The real dispute, he says, will be between has joined Legendary’s Boston Celtics executive Financial terms weren’t leagues and their star players: “One of the Godzilla sequel. Big Deal Red Auerbach died in disclosed, but reports put areas of pushback may be from players 2006, he OK’d the addition Boston’s fee at about $7 mil- promoting competing brands. You’ve got Room star Jacob Tremblay of a dance squad, making lion per season, near the to make sure the players and the union (UTA, Canada’s Play, his team the last in the league to do so. Silver upper end of the estimated realize that they are going to share in the Jackoway Tyerman) “You’ve got to pay the bills,” he told Celtics $2 million to $10 million per- revenue, and it’s not going to be a drag on has joined Shane Black’s owner Wyc Grousbeck. team range. Overall, the league hopes to individual players’ opportunity to make Predator reboot. A decade later, the team has gone from raise $100 million to $150 million a year with money from endorsements.” — ANDY LEWIS holdout to innovator, becoming just the jersey ads, split 50-50 between individual Dominic West (WME, the third franchise (along with the Sacramento teams and a league-wide revenue-sharing U.K.’s Tavistock Wood) Kings and Philadelphia 76ers) to agree to pool. European soccer, where uniform ads will play Lara Croft’s father “I like free add a small 2.5-by-2.5-inch advertising are well established, dwarfs the NBA fees; money,” in MGM and Warner Bros.’ patch to its uniform as part of a three-year Manchester United gets $80 million a year said Celtics Tomb Raider reboot. : CHUCK ZLOTNICK/SONY PICTURES. GARY SILVER: GERSHOFF/WIREIMAGE. AXELLE/BAUER-GRIFFIN/FILMMAGIC. CELTICS: PATTON: NOAH: ROB KIM/GETTY IMAGES. BROWN: ALBERTO E. trial beginning next season. for the Chevrolet logo on its jersey. guard Terry Rozier of The NBA is the first of the big four USC professor David Carter, who heads his team’s Universal has won a bid- professional leagues to allow ads on uni- the university’s Sports Business Institute, deal to put ding war for Rowan Athale’s forms. NBA commissioner Adam Silver has predicts the other leagues will be watching the General Trump-like dystopic script Electric compared the move to the settling of the the experiment closely and that in a few logo on its Little America, with Michael American West, calling it “manifest destiny” years the practice will be commonplace. jerseys. Bay on board to produce. RODRIGUEZ/GETTY IMAGES. KELLEY: JASON MERRITT/GETTY IMAGES HARRIS: FOR TAKE-TWO. FRAZER HARRISON/GETTY IMAGES. BRIAN TREMBLAY: DE RIVERA/WIREIMAGE. MACLAINE: DIAZ/GETTY ARAYA IMAGES. HOPE: FLATIRON BOOKS. HIRAI: MICHAEL KOVAC/GETTY IMAGES FOR AFI. SPIDER

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 20 FEBRUARY 10, 2017 10 FILMS Acquisitions by Netflix at 2017’s Big Sundance festival as of Jan. 29, more Number than any other distributor (Amazon came in second, with four).

Noah Brown Tremblay Harris

will recur on the second Looming Tower, based on season of WGN America’s Lawrence Wright’s Pulitzer- Rep Underground. winning 9/11 exposé. Sheet

Search Party’s Brandon UTA and Softbank have Micheal Hall (Paradigm) invested in Radish, which Shirley MacLaine, who will star in ABC’s untitled distributes short-form, stars in the Sundance comedy pilot from serialized fiction through comedy The Last Word, Hamilton’s Daveed Diggs. its mobile app. has left ICM for CAA.

Michael Jackson’s Netflix has won a bidding Demian Bichir and Kelley This Is Us star Moore’s new home sits on an acre-plus hilltop lot. daughter, Paris Jackson war for spec The Eggplant Supergirl’s Chyler (Stiefel), will make her Emoji, to be produced by Leigh have signed with James Ponsoldt (UTA, Wallerstein) will star Tyerman) will star in The acting debut on Fox’s Star. Red Hour Films’ Ben Stiller PRStudio USA. Brillstein, Frankfurt Kurnit) in real-life bank hostage CW’s Dynasty reboot and Nicky Weinstock and is attached to direct a drama Stockholm. from Josh Schwartz and ABC has renewed The the Workaholics creators. NHL star P.K. Subban, sci-fi feature based on short Stephanie Savage. Middle for a ninth season. who captained an All- story Inconstant Moon, set Samuel Goldwyn Films and … Fox has renewed So You Matthew Goode (CAA, Star team on Jan. 29, up at Fox 2000 by Shawn AMBI Group will partner Gina Rodriguez’s I Can and Think You Can Dance for the U.K.’s Dalzell and has signed with WME. Levy’s 21 Laps. to release psychological I Will Productions (APA, a 14th season. … NBC has Beresford) will play Lord thriller Lavender in the U.S. Primary Wave) has signed renewed freshman comedy Snowdon on season two of Artist Alex Israel has Rapper Trinidad James an overall deal with CBS The Good Place. … OWN Netflix’s The Crown. signed with CAA. (UTA) will join Anna Adam Shankman (UTA, TV Studios. has ordered new Tyler Kendrick in Universal’s Bloom Hergott) will direct Perry comedy The Paynes Trevor Noah (CAA, Speechless’ Mason Cook Pitch Perfect 3. Kate Beckinsale in the Paula Patton (CAA, to series and added more Levity, Morris Yorn) will has signed with East 2 adaptation of 2012 novel Primary Wave, Sloane episodes to the producer’s premiere his next stand- West Collective for PR. Emilia Clarke (CAA, the The Chocolate Money. Offer) will star in ABC’s The Haves and the Have up special, Trevor Noah: U.K.’s Emptage Hallett) straight-to-series drama Nots and If Loving You Is Afraid of the Dark, on and Courtney Love, is the will star in a Fox 2000 Actor Max Minghella (CAA, Somewhere Between. Wrong. … TNT has renewed Feb. 21 on Netflix. face of Marc Jacobs’ spring and Temple Hill romance Anonymous, Jackoway The Librarians for a fourth 2017 campaign. based on 2015 Korean Tyerman) will make his Bryan Singer (WME, season. … Freeform has THEATER film The Beauty Inside. directorial debut with Bloom Hergott) will direct ordered additional epi- Clive Owen (CAA, Hirsch Fiji Water will be the official Teen Spirit, produced by Matt Nix’s untitled X-Men sodes of Young & Hungry. Wallerstein) will star in water of the 2017 Grammys. Jane Curtin (ICM, Ziffren Interscope and Automatik. pilot for Fox. Julie Taymor’s revival of Brittenham) and Richard DIGITAL David Henry Hwang’s BOOKS E. Grant (the U.K.’s A.R.G.) Viola Davis (CAA, Lasher, World Series-winning Amazon has renewed M. Butterfly on Broadway. Black Mask Studios has will join Melissa McCarthy Lichter Grossman) and Chicago Cubs catcher Mozart in the Jungle signed a three-comic deal in Fox Searchlight’s Can Julia Roberts (CAA, David Ross (Sports for a fourth season and Bryan Cranston (UTA) will with We Can Never Go You Ever Forgive Me? Hirsch Wallerstein) will One) is joining ESPN as Red Oaks for a third and make his U.K. stage debut Home writer Patrick Kindlon. star in Amblin’s adapta- an MLB analyst. final season. as Howard Beale in Lee King Arthur scribe Joby tion of Jodi Picoult’s Small Hall’s Network adaptation. REAL ESTATE Harold (CAA, Bloom Great Things. Gabriel Iglesias (CAA, Jeffrey Katzenberg has Mandy Moore (Compass) Hergott) will do a page-one Arsonhouse, Hirsch raised close to $600 mil- Fox Stage Productions has bought a midcentury rewrite of Warner Bros./ TELEVISION Wallerstein) is attached lion for his new media and Rocket Ent. are part- modern-style house in DC’s The Flash stand-alone. Oprah Winfrey (WME) to star in an ABC comedy investment and operations nering for a Devil Wears Pasadena for $2.56 million. will join CBS’ 60 Minutes as from executive producer venture WndrCo. Prada musical from Elton Ethan Hawke (CAA, a special contributor. Ryan Seacrest. John and Paul Rudnick. Los Angeles Lakers MGMT, George The Last Panthers’ Tahar co-owner Jim Buss (White Sheanshang) and Noomi The Vampire Diaries’ Fargo alum Bokeem Rahim (UTA, France’s BRANDING Sand) has purchased Rapace (CAA, Magnolia, Nathalie Kelley Woodbine (Gersh, Adequat) will star as an Frances Bean Cobain, an ocean-view lot in Dana Sweden’s INDIO, Hirsch (Burstein, Jackoway Jackoway Tyerman) FBI agent in Hulu’s The daughter of Kurt Cobain Point for $2.915 million.

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1 Go Pats! uper Bowl LI will see the New England Patriots vying for their Go Falcons! S fifth championship title and the Atlanta Falcons fighting to win their first at Houston’s NRG Stadium on Feb. 5. Hollywood seems to love a winner: Viacom’s Shari Redstone, a Patriots season- 3 ticket holder since 1986, will head to Houston to cheer on her team, Redstone which is favored to win by three. “Great leaders, great passion and Ludacris great energy — it’s all about the team!” she tells THR of the Pats’ win- ning formula. Fellow partisan and former Paramount vice chair Rob Moore adds: “They are willing to not follow the book. They are willing to take risks.” The Talk co-host Julie Chen’s husband, CBS chairman Chiklis Leslie Moonves, is trying to persuade her to attend, but she’d rather Camp watch from her couch. “Tom Brady has reached this point in his career where if you love him or hate him, you have to tip your hat to him,” says Chen. “Now, we are kind of rooting for the ‘old guy.’ ” Michael Chiklis, who named his pug after Brady, admires the QB’s “dignity in the face of all that hate,” he says. “Have you ever heard Powell Tom Brady disparage another player, coach, reporter, person, no matter what they may have said about him? No, you haven’t, and you never will.” The Pats also have Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg, Matt Damon, Chris Evans, Elizabeth Banks and, yes, Brady friend Jackson “Brady loves President Trump in their corner. They’re up against Falcons die-hards TB pug!” says Chiklis Usher, Glen Powell (“I’ll be wearing a Julio Jones jersey and doing dirty of his pup, bird from the grill all day”), Anna Camp, Samuel L. Jackson and Atlanta named for the QB. native Ludacris, who lauds QB Matt Ryan’s focus. “I’ve built a career off of being the underdog, and I love that everyone is discounting us and underestimating our power,” he says. “Adversity defines character.”

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Where Insiders Will Kick Back Before Kickoff atch out,” jokes a woman Art After Dark Taste of the NFL W who declines to give Feb. 3, 9 p.m. Feb. 4, 7 p.m. her name but says she Lady Gaga takes the stage for this year’s The University of Houston hosts this event lives in Bell Gardens, Calif. “I’m halftime show, but 2016 headliner Bruno to fight hunger where NFL teams partner about to deface some private Mars stars in this sold-out gig at Houston’s with chefs from across the country to property.” She’s referring to the Club Nomadic, also featuring . prepare tastings and pour wine for 3,000. DJ Khaled Trump National Golf Club sign — on an oceanfront bluff in sunny ESPN the Party The Maxim Party Palos Verdes, 25 miles south Feb. 3, 10 p.m. Feb. 4, 8 p.m. For this invite-only bash, a 65,000-square- It’s a three-fer for DJ Khaled, who’ll of L.A. — whose adjacent shrub- foot space will be transformed with more perform at Smart Financial Centre along bery a few minutes earlier was than 1,000 LED tubes and moving lights, a with Travis Scott for the likes of Anthony sprinkled with a shirtless jog- live muralist, Fergie and, again, DJ Khaled. Anderson and Keegan-Michael Key. ger’s urine. Whipping out a deep berry lipstick, she strikes out the Big Game Big Give Super Saturday Night Trump name and scribbles “puto” Feb. 4, 6:30 p.m. Feb. 4, 11 p.m. as a friend snaps iPhone photos. Josh Brolin hosts and David Schwimmer Chrissy Teigen and Michael Strahan emcees at the annual benefit ($1.6 million are among those slated to watch “Yeah, he’s a pussy,” she says. “This A rendering of ESPN’s multilevel was raised in 2016) at a private home. Taylor Swift at the DirecTV Now event isn’t a political statement; this is party space. Common will perform at the afterparty. at Club Nomadic presented by AT&T. a human statement.”

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1 Lipstick graffiti was applied to the Trump National Golf Club sign in Palos Verdes on Jan. 29. 2 The artist printed “puto” above Trump’s crossed-out name. “Yeah, he’s a pussy,” she said. 3 Stephon showed his middle- fingered disdain for Trump’s policies. 4 Yossef photographed his daughter Layla. Protesting Trump, One Middle Finger at a Time Amid the national demonstrations is a quieter resistance movement as visitors head to his Palos Verdes golf club not to play but to take protest selfies, urinate on his sign and graffiti with lipstick By Peter Flax

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As demonstrations against That’s just too stupid.” Says Jade, of the sign with her arms pro- President Trump’s policies rage “I’m terrified. The Muslim ban, tectively shielding her private in airports and at his properties that’s f—ing horrible.” David from parts. “Our president is a creep,” Washington, D.C. across the country, a quirkier Redondo Beach poses with his she says as two patrol cars roll up. form of protest plays out in Palos middle finger next to the Trump The Los Angeles County Verdes. While most visitors come name. “I was kind of hoping for Sheriff’s Department is investi- to play golf at the 11-year-old more up here,” he says, surveying gating a report that the sign has public course, where Trump has the quiet, manicured landscape. been defaced. After wiping away hit the links (and was accused “I thought there’d be a protest or a bit of lipstick with his finger, of cheating by Oscar De La Hoya, something.” one officer says there have been who played with him there), Later, a father-daughter pair many incidents here but declines many are here Jan. 29 — and every nervously walks up. “When you to elaborate. He snaps photos day — to take protest selfies. discriminate against a whole race (“for evidentiary purposes”) and Stephon, who says he lives in or religion, it’s as pure as bigotry asks whether the perpetrator was Palos Verdes, drove here with can get,” declares Yossef, who’s white, black or Hispanic. his friend Jade. “It’s only been visiting from Ohio and says he’s After offering a statement, I ask a week and he’s done so much an American citizen of Lebanese if it’s his job to erase the lipstick. Hundreds gathered outside Trump’s D.C. hotel Jan. 29 bad stuff,” he says. “Still, I don’t descent. His daughter, who lives “No,” he responds flatly. “That’s to protest the president’s think he’ll ever build the wall. in Hermosa Beach, poses in front someone else’s problem.” so-called Muslim ban. BRADY: AP PHOTO/ELISE AMENDOLA. SIGN: AP PHOTO/JOHN J. RYAN: AP BAZEMORE. PHILLIP. PHOTO/DAVID REDSTONE: FREDERICK M. BROWN/GETTY IMAGES. CHIKLIS: JASON LAVERIS/FILMMAGIC. DOG: COURTESY OF MICHAEL CHIKLIS. LUDACRIS: MOSES ROBINSON/GETTY IMAGES. CAMP: JIM SPELLMAN/WIREIMAGE. POWELL: LIVINGSTON/GETTY DAVID IMAGES. JACKSON:TODD WILLIAMSON/GETTY IMAGES FOR AMAZON STUDIOS. COURTESY PARTY: OF ESPN. HOTEL: ERIN SCOTT/POLARIS/NEWSCOM.

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“To the dude who said I don’t belong in America, “It’s like looking through a I started a fundraising SAG portfolio.” DREW BARRYMORE page for Syrian Refugees The Santa Clarita Diet actress, on the industry-exclusive in your name.” dating app Raya. “If you wanna KAL PENN date an actor or musician,” The Harold & Kumar actor, responding to a person she added, “they’re all on Raya.” on Twitter who told him, “You don’t belong in this country you f—ing joke.” The fundraising page had raised $745,706 of its $800,000 goal as of Jan. 30.

“It’s going to be a “The romantic idea prom for the of meeting your “I’ve made nerds not invited person and having a to nerd prom.” a million bad storybook family movies.” SAMANTHA BEE life — that doesn’t The Full Frontal star, revealing KRISTEN STEWART she will host a counter-event to really exist for me.” The Twilight star and Come the White House Correspondents’ MICHELLE WILLIAMS Swim director, on enjoying Association shindig on April 29 The actress, who has an her greater control called “Not the White House 11-year-old daughter as helmer than actress. Correspondents’ Dinner,” which with the late Heath Ledger, will air on TBS. on being a single mom.

“We got this bed for a big dog, “It is not “Like many and it’s a real an appropriate of you, mattress, metaphor. I’m concerned.” but it’s perfect I was wrong.” MARK ZUCKERBERG for a baby.” The Facebook CEO, speaking IDINA MENZEL out against President Trump’s MILLA JOVOVICH The singer, apologizing executive order banning The Resident Evil star, for saying that Meshell immigration from seven mostly revealing how she and her Ndegeocello’s album Bitter Muslim countries. husband, director Paul “is so good it makes W.S. Anderson, have their me want to slit my wrists.” 20-month-old sleep in a bed designed for a dog.

Judging by the GIFs bouncing around social media, WINONA Winona Ryder was the big winner at the SAG GOES Awards. While Stranger Things won best TV drama VIRAL ensemble, she cycled through more expressions AT THE than an emoji keyboard. “#Wow,” tweeted Mia Farrow SAGS of the much-memed performance. PENN: NOAM GALAI/GETTY IMAGES FOR GLOBAL CITIZEN. WILLIAMS: STEVE GRANITZ/WIREIMAGE. ZUCKERBERG: JEFF CHIU/AP PHOTO. MENZEL: STEVE JENNINGS/WIREIMAGE. RYDER: KEVIN WINTER/GETTY IMAGES.

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THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 28 FEBRUARY 10, 2017 28th PGA Party Awards Crawler Beverly Hills, Jan. 28 #NoMuslimBan at the SAG Awards The 23rd Screen Actors Guild Awards likely won’t be remembered as back-patting business as usual. Many of the winners — among them Life Achievement Award honoree Lily Tomlin (3), Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Denzel Washington, Emma Stone (2), Taraji P. Henson (1), Mahershala 5 Ali, Sarah Paulson (14) Lily Collins and David Harbour — took to the Shrine Auditorium stage to denounce President Donald Trump’s 6 controversial immigration 4 Colin Firth and policy. On the flip side, Nicole Kidman the show also featured Ross (left) and Matt Duffer messages of unity. The evening’s big ensemble win went to Hidden Figures as Henson gave an impas- sioned speech touching on the awards’ political atmo- sphere: “When we come together as a human race, we win. Love wins. Every time.” The Weinstein Co. and Netflix’s Sunset Tower afterparty presented by Audi and Absolut Elyx saw winning casts from 9 10 11 The Crown (12), Stranger Paula Wagner Nora (left) and Jessica Harper Things (8) and Orange and Rick Nicita Elizabeth Rothman and Tom Rothman Is the New Black party it up on the dance floor. — CHRIS GARDNER : PHILLIP FARACONE/COURTESY OF NETFLIX. DUFFER: GREG MCMULLAN/GETTY DOHERTY/PATRICK IMAGES. COLLINS: JASON LACERIS/FILMMAGIC. FIRTH, ROTHMAN, WAGNER, HARPER, SCORSESE, SCHLAMME, HOROWITZ, GARLIN, ABRAMS: TODD WILLIAMSON/GETTY IMAGES.

67th ACE 17 Pink Hats at PGAs The buzz at the Beverly Jeff Garlin

WILEY, SANDERS, SMITH Hilton for the Producers Eddie Awards Guild Awards was all Beverly Hills, Jan. 27 politics as Norman Lear, Irwin Winkler and Tom Rothman (11) were among those honored. The last was lovingly roasted by his two daughters (10), who wore pink beanies at 16 the podium in tribute to J.J. Abrams the Women’s Marches and were applauded for their statement. — RAMONA SAVISS

Cut to the Eddies “I wrote tonight’s speech without an editor, so it will be long and rambling,” joked American Cinema Editors’ Filmmaker of the Year J.J. Abrams (16) at the Beverly Hilton. Career honors went to Seinfeld 15 editor Janet Ashikaga (19) and Martin Scorsese’s (15) 18 19 Thelma Schoonmaker longtime editor and Martin Scorsese Thelma Jordan Horowitz Thomas Schlamme Schoonmaker (15). (left) and Tom Cross and Janet Ashikaga — CAROLYN GIARDINA MONAE: FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES. STONE: WINKELMEYER/GETTY MATT IMAGES TOMLIN: FOR TNT. JOHN SCIULLI/GETTY IMAGES BROWN, FOR TNT. PAULSON,

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have their boots on the ground.” sports: “Hollywood is crawling The peace was brief: Brunetti with outsiders and foreigners, exited shortly after, posting on and if we kick them all out, you’ll Instagram: “Left an hour in when have nothing to watch but foot- there had only been 2 awards ball and mixed martial arts.” presented and the politics were Coincidentally, SMASH Global, a ROAR’s Ward (left) and WME’s Ward created the Wrong Will Ward Awards for the confused. absurd. The Hollywood bubble producer of luxury events that needs to be popped.” feature MMA fighters, will host a pre-Oscar Fight Gala on Feb. 23. Emile Hirsch’s Past May Have The private black-tie charity gala Rambling Reporter Haunted Him at Paramount will benefit anti-bullying while By Chris Gardner Casting choices for the TNT series featuring a four-course dinner The Alienist caused turmoil at around a cage that will contain Will the Real Will Ward Please Stand Up? (Oh, You’re Both Real) Paramount TV, sources tell THR. five live fights at the Taglyan Hollywood, take note: There are two Will Wards. ROAR’s Will Ward, Emile Hirsch was close to locking Complex in Hollywood. Founder 46, is a founding partner of the management-production company down a key role in the adaptation Steve “Hulk Smash” Orosco says where he reps the Hemsworths (Chris, Luke and Liam), while WME’s overseen by Amy Powell, presi- the sport is not without artistry: Will Ward, 37, is co-head of the agency’s endorsements group, handling dent of Paramount Television and “When I’m in that cage, there are brand deals for such clients as Charlize Theron and Ryan Reynolds. Digital Entertainment. Hirsch so many elements at play: the art- “We get so many of each other’s calls and emails,” says WME’s Ward, was sentenced to 15 days in jail istry of my movement … and the because industry offices have both numbers. “One time my phone in 2015 for assaulting Paramount performance for the spectators. rings and it’s [UTA agent] Louise Ward, his wife, saying, ‘I’m running vp Dani Bernfeld at Like Meryl Streep said, ‘We let you late from work, can you pick up the kids?’ ” adds WME’s Ward, whose Tao Nightclub dur- feel what we do.’ ” British accent tips off callers that they’ve got the wrong Will. ROAR’s ing Sundance. At Ward adds that at the recent Sundance Film Festival, he got a text the time, Bernfeld’s about a closed deal meant for the other Ward, and not one involving Hirsch boss was, yes, Powell. their shared client, Liam Hemsworth: “We have a gentleman’s agree- (Bernfeld since ment that if it’s proprietary information, we just forward it along has exited the studio.) The fact Streep without looking.” that Hirsch was close to being employed at Bernfeld’s former Fifty Shades Darker. Striking out home caused some to speak out with a “vengeance,” Brunetti against his hiring. It’s unclear posted Instagram statements in why Hirsch’s deal didn’t close for which he slammed the guild as the series, due to begin produc- a “joke” for “screwing me over.” tion shortly in Budapest with Brunetti eventually received the Daniel Bruhl, Luke Evans and mark after he won on appeal. On Dakota Fanning. Paramount had Jan. 28 at the PGA Awards at The no comment. Pakzad and Brunetti at the PGAs. Beverly Hilton, Brunetti, joined by Brunetti’s Frenemy, the PGAs girlfriend Alexandra Pakzad and Meryl vs. Mixed Martial Arts Late last year, Dana Brunetti had nominated for Netflix’s House When Meryl Streep accepted a public battle with the Producers of Cards, told THR: “I’m here to her Cecil B. DeMille Award at Guild when the organization make amends. [The rules] need to the Golden Globes on Jan. 8, she denied him a producer mark on be adapted for guys like me who took a not-so-subtle jab at two

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John Hurt 1940-2017 Emmanuelle Riva 1927-2017 Natalie Portman on the beloved British actor, who had ‘every right Isabelle Huppert remembers her Oscar-nominated co-star in Michael Haneke’s to have an attitude, but he was just interested in learning’ Amour: ‘She was like a diamond for me, very sharp, extremely bright’

ohn was very, very kind, very easy to work with. [In Jackie, in which mmanuelle once told me the journey of her life, which was quite Hurt plays the priest who counsels Jackie Kennedy], we were shoot- amazing. She was born in Vosges, a countryside village in the east J ing in cold weather, doing difficult, very long takes, where he had a E of France. She was meant to be a seamstress, but she went to Paris, lot of dialogue. He was doing an Irish accent and would just come up with was discovered by Alain Resnais and landed her breakthrough role in his things on his own between takes, and Pablo [Larrain, our director] would film Hiroshima mon amour. She never submitted to any of the usual codes say, “That’s better than what we have, just say that.” He had so much expe- Hurt of the life of an actress; she was pure and strong. For each role, she would Riva rience, he had every right to have an attitude, but he was just interested create her own world for herself, and she would carry something so unde- in learning and trying something new. It’s crazy, but hopefully at the moment, people finable that you could call it poetry. You understood so many feelings by her behavior and will be revisiting 1984 and V for Vendetta, among his incredible body of work. by the way she just was — she was so touching and moving, sometimes even to tears.

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Producer Bruce Cohen stopped by Bedford & Burns. WME’s Steve Rabineau and ICM’s John Burnham sat at different tables. … At Mr Chow, Bob Daly dined with Jake Bloom. Terry Semel sat with Jim Berkus. Producer Chad Oman shared a meal with Danny Greenberg and Jason Spitz. Molly Madden, Sela Ward and Linda Bell Blue were in 3 separately. … Charlize Theron was at Kismet. … Gotham Group’s Stacey Lubliner and Molly Shannon met at Farmshop. … Sam Smith ate at E.P. & L.P. … Kumail Nanjiani and his writer-producer wife, Emily V. Gordon, brunched 1 at Messhall Kitchen.

Births 1 Winston Skydance Media pro- Lucky 8 TV named Barbara Hale, who Henry James Paul Telegdy, 2 Hale moted Jesse Sisgold Bruce Robertson played the steadfast president of the 3 Sisgold to president and COO executive vp creative secretary Della HOT NEW RESTAURANT alternative and on Jan. 26. strategy and named Street on the legend- reality group at NBC Zach Perkins and ary TV courtroom Entertainment, MediaMonks Rachael Profiloski drama Perry Mason, and his wife, actress appointed Kelly directors of develop- died Jan. 26 in and artist Lauren Kandle to virtual ment Jan. 20. Sherman Oaks. She Telegdy, welcomed reality executive was 94. son Winston producer on Jan. 24. Deaths Henry James Telegdy Mike Connors, who Richard Portman, on Jan. 6 at Patrick Ross Dempsey played the good-guy the Oscar-winning Providence St. John’s was named GM of private detective sound man who Maestro Medical Center in The Culver Studios on the long-running worked on The Deer The Quick Pitch Old Santa Monica. on Jan. 25. CBS series Mannix, Hunter, Star Wars, Town Pasadena wel- died Jan. 26 of leu- The Godfather and comes a contemporary Congrats kemia in Encino. He Nashville, died Jan. 28 small-scale, big-on- ambition meditation Sharon Tal Yguado was 91. in Tallahassee, on elevated Mexican was named head Fla. He was 82. cuisine. Beet with goat of event series Frank Tidy, the British cheese salad is sweet- at Amazon Studios cinematographer who Mary Webster, ened with pineapple. on Jan. 25. shot Ridley Scott’s who starred in The Skirt steak arrives with a poblano puree. For Roberts The Duellists and five Delicate Delinquent dessert, a corn cake Vicky Colf was films for director and Master of the features cilantro ice named chief technol- Brittainy Roberts Andrew Davis, died World, died Jan. 23 in cream. Try the scotch ogy officer at WB was promoted Jan. 27 in Kent, Dallas. She was 81. horchata. The Inside Entertainment on to vp casting at Fox England. He was 84. Dish A free-range chicken molé with Jan. 24. Broadcasting Co. Drummer Butch eggplant and queso on Jan. 30. Robert Ellis Miller, Trucks, one of the fresco — seen at most Gina Balian was who directed such founding members tables — is plated in tapped to oversee Jon Weisman films as The Heart Is of The Allman the shape of Mexico, the Fox Networks joined Showtime a Lonely Hunter and Brothers Band, died a choice that reads as much political as Group’s global Networks as vp cor- Reuben, Reuben, died Jan. 24 in West aesthetic. 110 E. Union programming initia- porate public Jan. 27 in Woodland Palm Beach, Fla. St. — GARY BAUM tive on Jan. 26. relations Jan. 30. Hills. He was 89. He was 69.

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role in June 2015 with a man- date to build out the NFL’s content offerings. His vast portfolio includes the league’s digital prop- erties, NFL Films, cable’s NFL Network (which has 400 employ- ees and is in 72 million homes) and such event franchises as the Super Bowl halftime show and NFL Honors. THR caught up with Levin at NFL headquarters in New York, where he discussed the election-sapped season, the future of Thursday Night Football and whom he’d like to poach from another network.

The NFL says it hasn’t told Lady Gaga not to mention Trump. What guidance has the league given her? Our working relationship with her has been nothing but one of consummate professionalism. She sang the national anthem for us last year, completely killed it. Our game and the Super Bowl itself is not just a sporting event. Jordan Levin So we want to always make sure The NFL’s content chief talks Lady Gaga’s Super Bowl halftime that they see the opportunity the show, TV ratings woes and why the Viacom decline is ‘criminal’ way we do. By Marisa Guthrie Halftime shows have been rife with controversy, from Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction” to M.I.A.’s n up-and-down NFL sea- ↑ “As our industry becomes managed more lasting impression on their legacy middle finger to Beyonce’s homage and more by business men and women, the real son culminates Feb. 5 with value that gets created is by passionate, but also to do something as inclu- last year to the Black Panthers ... Fox’s coverage of Super creative executives who go with their gut,” says sive as possible,” he says. Audiences are always going to A Levin, who was photographed Jan. 25 at the Bowl LI. The game is the largest NFL’s Manhattan headquarters. Based at NFL Network’s offices have preconceived impressions of U.S. television event, surpassing in Culver City, Levin, 49, grew a performer. That’s outside of our 100 million viewers every year up in Chicago and Houston; he control. What’s important to us since 2010. But this time, one of RÉSUMÉ remains a Bears fan, though he’s the last truly communal view- now a Los Angeles Rams season- CURRENT TITLE ing experiences in a fragmented Chief content officer, ticket holder. His career has been media landscape comes as the NFL Media defined by an entrepreneurial 1 country is divided about the pres- PREVIOUS JOB bent. He ran The WB network idency of Donald Trump. Jordan Executive vp, Xbox during its ’90s heyday of Dawson’s Levin, the NFL’s chief content Entertainment Studios; Creek and Buffy the Vampire Slayer co-founder, Generate; officer who oversees the halftime CEO, The WB and operated digital-content show, says he isn’t worried that BIG HIT studio Generate. In 2014, he was headliner Lady Gaga, who cam- Developing iconic series given the reins at Xbox Studios, paigned for Hillary Clinton and including Buffy the but Microsoft shuttered the protested at Trump Tower Vampire Slayer, Gilmore studio a mere 10 months later. Girls and Dawson’s Creek on election night, will create a while at The WB A married father of two Super Bowl controversy. “True from 1994 to 2004. daughters, ages 21 and 14, and artists understand that they have an 18-year-old son, Levin joined the power to not only make a the league in a newly created

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THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 32 FEBRUARY 10, 2017 is to celebrate the broader themes [Pre-election, it was 14 percent, and Ernie [Johnson] are great There are a lot of distractions and our commonality. Shrewd excluding Thursday Night Football.] together, and that sets a high in Los Angeles. I bought sea- artists understand it’s a unique, Given the forces of gravity on bar for the industry. In terms of son tickets, and my family was once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to our business, that’s a good place to football talent, I think Charles excited to go each and every create an impression that is ide- be. Throughout the season, we Tillman [the former Bears and week. To see the Coliseum have as ally respectful of the audience. saw consumption up significantly, Panthers cornerback] is fantastic. many people attend those games triple digits on the streams, on We have been fortunate enough was pretty amazing, especially NFL Network finished 2016 as mobile, on our partners’ streams, to be able to work with him, but considering the facilities are cer- the No. 2 sports network among on our own platform. I am envious that Fox has him in tainly not modern. The plans for viewers 18-to-49 and 18-to-34. Is studio. Charissa [Thompson] does the new stadium [in Inglewood] the goal to someday pass ESPN? In general, the league has a great job on [Fox NFL Kickoff]. are breathtaking. When that gets That’s a challenge. What is sur- embraced streaming in a way it That’s a hard job, to be host and built, I think the enthusiasm is prising to me about the network, hadn’t before. What changed? manage a lot of big personalities going to be really tangible. and it really speaks to the power You can’t stick your head in the and draw the best out of them of this game, is that we are the sand, and our job is to create the without making it about you but You ran The WB before it became No. 2 sports network with [only] best viewing experience for the [still] having a point of view. The CW. Will The CW be a linear eight exclusive NFL games and fan, whether they’re watching on We’re developing a lot of really network in five years? another eight simulcast games. a TV or on a connected device strong female talent. We brought That’s a good question. I think We have preseason games, but a or in a stadium. So we are experi- in Jane Slater, who used to be so, but obviously their business lot of them are not live. And we menting with everything from on the Longhorn Network. We model is built on window- have two college bowl games and commercial breaks to sponsor- have a young woman named ing content and having those some high school games. At other ship integration to making the Colleen Wolfe who started doing partnerships with streaming networks, half of their schedule game more fan-friendly. work for us in digital and has services. We’ll see whether is live game programming. become one of the alternate hosts they start to develop more of a Commercials can be interminable, for Total Access. direct-to-consumer relation- You put Thursday games on to the point where people just want ship or continue to work through Twitter. Was it successful? Will we to turn off the TV … Women still are not, for the partners. I think a lot of content, see games there next season? Yeah. We’re looking at and experi- most part, in the booth. They’re similar to what we do with the The NFL is the only league that menting with not only the length relegated to the sidelines. games, is going be about trying still considers broadcast television of the pods for breaks but also the That’ll start changing. While to provide it in different windows to be an anchor to its strategy, and number of breaks. We’re looking there have been a few trolls, across different platforms with I think that’s one of the reasons at creating breaks that have con- Jessica Mendoza — the softball different partners. the NFL is as successful as it’s tent within them. We did that on player who is doing baseball been. But it also has recognized the Christmas Eve game between coverage for ESPN — she’s great. You worked very closely with the the shifts in consumer behavior, the Texans and the Bengals in And while there may be some original executive team at MTV, being led by younger consum- partnership with CBS. pushback among older purists, which is now in turmoil. ers, and that you need to be able my son, who is 18 and a baseball It’s sad. There was an incredibly to reach those audiences on Which personalities and sports fan, loves her. So I think it’s a talented team at MTV who were their terms. shows do you think get it right? generational shift. very passionate about what they One show that is very did. I think Doug Herzog [who Game ratings this season were entertaining, very insightful and After years of having no NFL team, stepped down in January] is one down. What’s your take as to why? very authentic is Inside the NBA on L.A. will now have the Rams as well of the great programmers. Kent Post-election, the decline is TNT. Shaquille O’Neal and Kenny as the Chargers, but there seems to Alterman at Comedy Central is 1 percent. It’s basically flat. [Smith] and Charles [Barkley] be an enthusiasm gap. fantastic. Judy McGrath and Van Toffler are legends. Obviously, Tom Freston was a visionary. And to see the resources of that Items at NFL headquarters: company essentially drained for 5 1 Jim Brown’s 1958 Cleveland Touchdown personal gain is criminal. My Club MVP Award. 14-year-old daughter stumbled on 2 2 A helmet signed by the 1972 Miami my DVD box set of Beavis and Butt- 3 Dolphins, still the only Head, and she loved it. My Beavis undefeated team to win the Super Bowl. and Butt-Head impersonations 3 An artist’s statue from 1992. started to come back, much to the 4 A football signed by chagrin of my wife. And I think it the San Diego Chargers, who are relocating is a reminder that as our industry to Los Angeles. becomes managed by business 4 5 A decorative plate gifted to the NFL. people, the real value is created by passionate creative executives who go with their gut.

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 33 FEBRUARY 10, 2017 The Business

Moguls

A Legendary Game of Musical Chairs Thomas Tull’s ouster by Wanda could trigger a domino effect of executive moves across Hollywood as several studios may be impacted, and one person — ousted Fox film chief Jim Gianopulos — sits at the center of the speculation By Kim Masters

t’s hard to read the tea leaves end up taking the Legendary One prominent producer says studio, probably with a new (less when the brew is swirling in job or does he hold out for other there is speculation in China’s tarnished) name. Having been I the cup. Such is the current possible options, say at Sony business community that Wanda, ousted as chairman of Fox in state of instability in Hollywood, Pictures or Warner Bros., that which previously was thwarted June, Gianopulos undoubtedly leading to speculation among might be more appealing if in plans to use Legendary as bait is eager to prove that the insiders about who will move they materialize? for a public offering there, may Murdochs — Rupert and sons where. With a caveat that there is While Gianopulos, 65, natu- be looking to try again, perhaps Lachlan and James — made a a lot of informed guesswork going rally declined to comment, many this time in Hong Kong, where mistake in letting him go. The on, it’s time to handicap the game in Hollywood think his eyes rules are less restrictive but the ideal script would be a version of mogul musical chairs. are wide open to the unknowns potential rewards are not as rich. of Alan Horn’s fairy tale out- The person most interestingly involved in taking the helm at (So far, Wanda has sent no signal come: Having been pushed out situated might be former 20th Legendary, including questions of such a plan.) at Warners, Horn was hired to Century Fox film studio chairman about Wanda’s ability to build Certainly, the Legendary job run the Disney film studio, now Jim Gianopulos. As THR reported the company — for which it paid could prove very lucrative for the envy of the business. Jan. 19, China’s Dalian Wanda a reported $3.5 billion in early Gianopulos. And it is likely that A best-case scenario could be Group has been courting him to 2016 — into a full-fledged studio he would want an opportunity similar to Wanda’s 2012 purchase run Legendary Entertainment almost from the ground up. to turn Legendary into a real of AMC Entertainment, the U.S.’ in the wake of CEO Thomas Tull’s largest theater chain, which has ouster, with a promise to build a been followed by billions of dol- full-service studio — eventually. lars in investment and mergers The question is, does Gianopulos to pursue a growth strategy. But even if Wanda fully intends to back Gianopulos’ most soaring ambitions, a top executive at a major studio believes there could be obstacles. “The Chinese gov- ernment is starting to crack down on capital outflow,” says this

Tull’s exit from Legendary Entertainment came after disappointments Warcraft and The Great Wall.

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THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 34 FEBRUARY 10, 2017 person, adding that given antago- to Hirai. If so, a big question is Godzilla, which grossed $529 mil- and David Geffen can attest. nistic rhetoric coming from the whether Sony would put such lion worldwide. It also has stakes “There’s a reason why there Trump administration, “we may an inflated valuation on Sony in major hits that Tull helped are so few major studios,” says be about to have a trade war.” So Pictures that a deal is impossible. finance, including Universal’s Christopher Spicer, an attorney far, says another source, major Then there’s Time Warner. Jurassic World, and the right to at Akin Gump who has pack- multinational players have not Gianopulos also is seen as a con- invest in sequels. (Tull did far aged several China deals. “It’s seen any increased difficulty get- tender for a role at Warner Bros. better as a financier than as a pro- famously hard and requires an ting money out of China. when (and if) AT&T’s planned ducer.) “Is Legendary a finished enormous capital commitment.” But Gianopulos also is likely acquisition of the parent com- product? Absolutely not,” says a And what always has been hard to be wary because he’s familiar pany gets federal approval. Peter source close to the company. “It’s is becoming ever harder. with the frustrations some- Chernin — once Gianopulos’ boss a platform on which something If Wanda builds Legendary times experienced by Hollywood at Fox — has strong connections can be built.” into a major, it also could run executives who have done busi- to AT&T and is considered likely For now, Legendary sources into regulatory challenges given ness with Chinese companies to wield considerable influence say the company has financing to its ownership of AMC. Since the — miscommunications and if and when the $85 billion deal move forward, but it appears to Supreme Court’s landmark 1948 misunderstandings as to what goes through — though there is be enough only to cover per- ruling, studios have been for- constitutes an agreement and no predicting what might happen haps two or three movies a year. bidden from owning their own whether money will be delivered in a Trump administration, espe- And Legendary’s pipeline is not cinemas on antitrust grounds. as expected. cially with CNN provoking the exactly bursting. It has wrapped But in November, Wang told THR Meanwhile, churn in the president by reporting the news. production on Kong: Skull Island, that the business has changed. industry means other interest- With neither Sony nor Time set for March 10 (and it has plans “If you look at the U.S. landscape ing opportunities may be out Warner a sure thing, a job run- to make a Godzilla sequel and a now, a lot of the cinema chains are there. Gianopulos could be a ning Legendary could be the third Godzilla-meets-Kong film already investing in the produc- candidate for a top job at Sony bird in hand. But it hardly is in at Warners). It is in production tion of movies,” he said. “So maybe Pictures, which announced the departure of Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton on Jan. 13, two weeks before it revealed a $962 million write-down at its film division. At minimum, a reshuffling of the executive ranks seems likely to follow. Several industry insiders think Sony — despite repeated denials — may be prepared to sell at least a stake Lynton Chernin in its entertainment operations. Sony Corp. chairman Kaz Hirai Gianopulos Rothman Parent may recognize that it will be chal- lenging for his entertainment fine feather. Wanda pushed on a Pacific Rim sequel, TV the case won’t have the same operations to stand alone in a Tull out Jan. 17 following major producer Steven S. DeKnight’s application if we acquire a studio world where size matters. write-downs and a disappoint- feature film debut. Parent today.” If forced to divest hold- One prospective buyer is said ment in Warcraft, which grossed is trying to make a deal to get ings, he said, “we will respect the to be CBS Corp. Sony would $434 million worldwide. Wanda Dwayne Johnson to star in law and choose what to give up.” have to cede total control to CBS had hoped The Great Wall would an action movie called Skyscraper Says Lindsay Conner, an chairman Leslie Moonves, of be a global, cross-cultural hit, but and to launch an adaptation of attorney at Manatt with China course, but it seems reasonable sources say it failed to perform the sci-fi novel Dune, with Denis experience: “It’s an issue they to speculate that Moonves could up to expectations in China, and Villeneuve (Arrival) directing. would have to work though, pitch a strong team of execu- the outlook in the U.S. is not con- A source close to Wanda says and it’s not clear how it would tives for the troubled film studio, sidered good. (The Zhang Yimou the company’s leadership wants come out. I think everyone is including not only Gianopulos film, starring Matt Damon, opens Legendary to produce more waiting to see how the Trump but Legendary vice chairman here Feb. 17.) Industry sources prestige projects, becoming less administration will view both the Mary Parent, who has a key-man say Wanda believed Great Wall identified with the megabudget Hollywood-China relationship clause and would be free to exit could gross $370 million in China monster flicks and fanboy fare and antitrust law.” following the ouster of company only to see it stall at $167 million. that Tull favored. At a gala in L.A. Given the tricky lay of the land, founder Tull. Sources say Parent An individual close to Legendary in November, Wanda’s chairman industry insiders are watching to would remain at Legendary maintains the company’s inter- Wang Jianlin spoke out against see whether Gianopulos opts for should Gianopulos take the helm, nal projection was $150 million the reliance on sequels, remakes what appears to be a real opening but otherwise? Don’t count on it. to $200 million, adding “the talk and effects-heavy spectacles, say- at Legendary or waits for another With Sony having been through a of it being a failure [in China] ing, “We have to make Hollywood offer that might never material- number of, shall we say, extreme is a fiction.” go back to storytelling.” ize. “Is Jim patient or does he take executives over the years, from Legendary has a library of Building a new studio with- it?” asks a top studio executive. “If Jon Peters to Amy Pascal to cur- its homegrown films, most of out a significant library is a I were him, I’d be patient.” rent film chief Tom Rothman, which didn’t perform well, goal that has evaded even the perhaps a Moonves-Gianopulos- including Blackhat and Seventh most seasoned players, as Jeffrey Patrick Brzeski contributed Parent package would appeal Son. Its biggest hit was the 2014 Katzenberg, Steven Spielberg to this report. LYNTON: GREGGLYNTON: DEGUIRE/WIREIMAGE. ROTHMAN: KEVIN WINTER/GETTY IMAGES FOR AFI. GIANOPULOS, FREDERICK PARENT: M. BROWN/GETTY IMAGES. CHERNIN: MARION CURTIS/STARPIX/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK.

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 35 FEBRUARY 10, 2017 THE RACE AWARDS SEASON 2017

Anecdotal evidence is backed up by statistics. Women #OscarsSoWhite made up a mere 7 percent of all directors on the top 250 #OscarsSoMale box-office films of 2016. That’s A year after the glaring lack of racial diversity, the Academy has put the spotlight on a 2 percent decline from 2015, according to San Diego State another problem — the shocking absence of women behind the camera By Stephen Galloway University’s Center for the s hundreds of thou- It would be wrong to say there for The Hurt Locker. Among writers, Study of Women in Television sands of people wasn’t some progress. Several Rebecca Miller (Maggie’s Plan) and and Film, which compiles the swarmed through the women earned producing nomi- Schroeder (who co-wrote Hidden figures annually. streets of Washington, nations: Adele Romanski and Figures with Theodore Melfi) were Among those top box-office D.C.,A on Jan. 21, and millions more Dede Gardner (Moonlight), Donna the only realistic contenders. films, women made up 13 percent took part in the Women’s March Gigliotti and Jenno Topping Both Schroeder and Nair joined of the writers, 17 percent of the across the country, one culprit in (Hidden Figures), Kimberly Steward the THR roundtables, along with executive producers, 24 percent the war against women got away and Lauren Beck (Manchester by Charlotte Bruus Christensen on of the producers, 17 percent of scot-free: Hollywood. the Sea), Carla Hacken and Julie the Cinematography Roundtable the editors and 5 percent of the Well, almost. A solitary dem- Yorn (Hell or High Water) and Angie (Fences, The Girl on the Train) and cinematographers. onstrator was spotted hoisting a Fielder (Lion). That’s nine out of Kirsten Johnson (Cameraperson) They had 17 percent of all the sign in downtown Los Angeles, the 30 producers nominated on the Documentary Roundtable. key nonacting roles on those urging “More Women Directors!” by the Academy — a record. Still, Schroeder alone received films, which again represented a That may have drawn titters that number needs an asterisk, a nomination. drop of two points from 2015. on Twitter, but her point was given how many more nominees I don’t blame the Academy dead-on. there were for best picture for this. Too often, the organiza- Where were the behind-the- (nine) compared with a few years The Academy’s 2017 tion gets bashed for problems scenes women in the Oscar ago (when there were only five). Nominations Gap created by the business at large. noms this year? Whatever I wish I could say this imbal- Outside of the four It’s at the downstream end of advances people of color made ance comes as a surprise. But it acting races, there rarely a long river that springs up were not matched across gen- was obvious as early as September is parity for women inside executive suites and flows der lines. There wasn’t a single that awards season wasn’t look- MEN WOMEN all the way through the offices female director nominee, and ing good for women. of presidents of production, only one woman got nominated Each year, at the beginning of 20% development executives and for writing — Hidden Figures’ fall, when my colleagues and I 30% physical production chiefs, then Allison Schroeder. And in the start putting together THR’s film 80% 70% on past the producers and unit cinematography category, all the roundtables, we look at the lay production managers who con- nominees were men, just as of the land. If the dearth of actors 19 nonacting Best trol each movie shoot, before ever they have been every year since of color in Oscar contention was categories picture reaching the Academy. Women: 37 Women: 9 DPs started collecting Oscars. striking last year, the absence Men: 152 Men: 21 No single person in Hollywood A Women’s Media Center of women behind the camera was can shoulder the blame for all analysis finds that women con- just as bad this year. this. But unless each individual stituted only 20 percent of the Among directors, Mira Nair accepts some of it, nothing 100% 50% 50% nonacting nominations (37 out (Queen of Katwe) was the only will change. of 152 nominees). Women’s best woman who had a slim chance Only when everyone takes category? Documentary shorts, of being nominated, even though Cinematography Documentary responsibility will we finally Women: 0 (short subject) with 50 percent of the nominees. seven years have passed since Men: 5 Women: 4 be able to say goodbye to After #OscarsSoWhite, is it Kathryn Bigelow became the first Men: 4 both #OscarsSoWhite and

time for #OscarsSoMale? woman to win a directing Oscar Center Media Women’s Source: #OscarsSoMale.

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Disney Toons in a Doc To tell the story of Owen Suskind, an autistic boy who found THR NEWSLETTERS his voice through the studio’s classics, Roger Ross Williams turned to original animation By Carolyn Giardina

Today in Entertainment n his new Oscar-nominated ↑ Suskind (inset) imagines a world in which he teams up with famous Disney cartoon sidekicks, documentary, Life, including The Jungle Book’s Baloo the bear. Live Feed Animated, director Roger Ross Williams, 43, faced the young Owen that were used Breaking News Ia unique challenge. The film to fill in his backstory as well as recounts the singular story of an original, 6-minute animated Box Office Owen Suskind, an autistic boy who sequence called The Land of the Lost learned to speak by mimicking Sidekicks. It’s a story that Owen TV News & Ratings the characters in Disney animated invented in which he imagines movies. Williams — an Oscar win- a boy teaming with all the Disney Awards in Focus ner for the 2010 short doc Music sidekicks with whom he identi- for Prudence and a member of the fies — from The Little Mermaid’s Awards News Academy’s board of directors — Sebastian to Aladdin’s Iago — to had access to home footage shot battle monsters and establish Awards Chatter by Owen’s father, journalist Ron their own identities. Suskind, and he conducted “The idea is you are Film Festival News new interviews with Owen, immersed in Owen’s now a young man, as he head,” Williams explains. International News ventured out into the world. “The characters had to But how would he dramatize Williams be drawn as if they came Behind the Screen the role that animated films from Owen’s hand, slightly played in Owen’s imagination? imperfect but beautiful. It was Watch List Williams’ solution was to Owen’s interpretation of the employ animation itself, even characters, so they couldn’t be This Week in Reviews though he’d never worked in the too much like Disney. And the medium. With the help of Disney world had to be immersive, rich, Feinberg Forecast exec Sean Bailey, he secured beautiful and colorful.” Adds the right to use extensive clips Mac Guff animation supervisor from the Disney films. But he Mathieu Betard: “We took the needed something more. So he iconic characters and tried to SIGN UP AT turned to the Paris-based Mac make them as graphic and simple THR.COM/NEWSLETTERS Guff design studio (separate as possible. We also had to make from the Mac Guff animation their looks work together, since operation that Illumination the characters are from different Entertainment acquired in 2011), Disney movies. They had to sup- which created line drawings of port Owen’s story.” : COURTESY OF THE ORCHARD (2). WILLIAMS: J. KEMPIN/GETTY IMAGES. LIFE 38 s a vital heartbeat in the entertainment capital industry, CSUN alumnus Fred Nigro and his accounting of the world, it’s no wonder CSUN is a destination firm have represented larger-than-life entertainers for future legends of the industry. Internationally such as Tom Cruise, David Letterman, Nicole Kidman, recognized for its robust and diverse programs in Steve McQueen, Demi Moore and Fleetwood Mac. business, management, and cinema and television With Hollywood in CSUN’s backyard and industry arts, CSUN produces talent that thrives both on and professionals serving the classroom, students gain off screen. Named by The Hollywood Reporter as a leg up in the climb to the top — where they make one of the most powerful business managers in the stars rise and become stars themselves. PROMOTION

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How High-Net-Worth Families Do Vacation (Hint: They Plan Years and Years Ahead) For parents worth $30 million-plus, it’s about unique educational opportunities (that ‘also help with Ivy League applications’). Heck, the kids might even fly coach as a learning experience! By Kathryn Romeyn

or high-profile and high-net-worth families, almost nothing is F out of reach — except spontaneous vacations. There are five- star suites and impossible tables to snag, helicopters to confirm and schedules to juggle (board meetings, film shoots, school breaks). Planning years out is a necessity, says Michael Albanese, founder of L.A.-based luxury travel service Element Lifestyle: “For the ultra-high- net-worth client, it’s a prudent way to maximize precious free time while offering an authentic life experience.” Little wonder, then, that the latest trend among exclusive concierges is planning family vaca- tions five to 10 years ahead for the Hollywood and Silicon Valley elite.

Jaclyn Sienna India, CEO of understand culture from that bespoke luxury travel service perspective,” she says. As kids Sienna Charles, has seen a spike age, they can graduate to Japan in the demand for long-term and Israel, then, down the line, travel planning, industrywide Southeast Asia and African safaris. and among her clients — power- The popular notion that ful, self-made types with a net parents have “16 summers” with worth of $30 million or more, their kid before he or she leaves including a number of produc- the nest doesn’t apply to travel, ers, directors, major actors and says Sims. In reality, he says, par- actresses (who require non- ents have six to eight summers disclosure agreements). “We between when a child becomes plan with their children’s ages old enough for an immersive jour- in mind,” explains India. “The ney and when he or she becomes families travel in the summer, immersed in a device. Bigger at Thanksgiving, Christmas or families may even have a smaller Hanukkah and look at three-, window, says India: “If the kids four-, five- and up to 10-year are 10, 12 and 15, the family only plans, taking into account sea- has three years to see as much sonality, safety and the education as they can” together before the plan.” It helps that her clients eldest leaves for college. already think this way, she says: One of her clients — a producer “These are type-A personalities, with multiple big-budget film- so they have school calendars franchise credits who’s married down pat for the next four years.” with three boys, ages 3, 13 and That’s not the only reason 15 — wanted to “properly plan at timing is essential. “If you take a least one big trip a year with the 3-year-old to Spain, it’s not going family to see different aspects of to stick with them,” says Steve the world and the people around Sims, founder of executive con- us.” The family has vacations cierge service TheBluefish, whose booked to Scotland (this year), clientele includes a number of China and Hong Kong (2018), “Hollywood faces,” studio execs South Africa and Botswana (2019) and film financiers. “But at 8 or and Patagonia and the Galapagos 9, they’ll notice the difference Islands (2020), with each trip in culture and language and the designed, he says, to “build on different way you handle things.” the last and the kids’ education.” When choosing a younger child’s Curriculums often come into first overseas trip, India consid- play, says India, who has sent a ers the visceral pleasures of Italy family with kids learning Roman as an ideal starting point. “A history to Italy and another gondola ride in Venice, gladiator whose teenagers were studying Illustration by Zohar Lazar tour, pasta-making? They can Mandarin to China.

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It’s Endgame Days for Awards Show Skin Procrastinators and late breakout nominees still can shine on the red carpet with facials that use everything from advanced tech to ancient practices By Kathryn Romeyn

o you might not have At Santa Monica’s Beauty Park, S planned as meticulously nurse Jamie Sherrill — beauty as Harold Lancer’s cli- guru to studio heads’ wives and ents — of which about 32 were Oscar winners — uses small glass nominees and winners during the cups for mild suction and to drain last awards season — who began the lymph nodes, getting “rid their skin-care show prep three of any sign of a jowl and fight[ing] months out. As of mid-October, inflammation for a perfect pro- the Beverly Hills derm already had file or over-the-shoulder photo three potential best actors get in moment,” she says. “The facial touch for the 2017 awards cam- muscles work as hard as the rest paigns. Average spend per season: of the muscles, so facial cupping $5,000 to $10,000. Says Lancer, can help alleviate the effects of “Appearance matters because it stress.” It also provides a youth- Rudu’s Jewel Serum oil, so the Ultimate Kate, during which her helps the entire mood of the per- ful look without risking loss of heated, soft silicone cups glide skin was infused with hyaluronic son under pressure.” volume as with a radio frequency easily without leaving bruises acid and oxygen and exposed to Now it’s more like three weeks machine or heated laser. Sherrill ($130-plus for a 30-minute treat- LED light for an enhanced glow out to Movies’ Biggest Night. recommends it two days before ment; katrudu.com). ($385; 323-655-7546). … Julianne And as traumatic as it may look an awards show in case of redness Moore’s and Rachel Weisz’s on Gwyneth Paltrow’s or Michael ($200, or $75 add-on to any facial; MORE LAST-MINUTE OPTIONS facialist Joanna Vargas worked Phelps’ back, cupping — an beautyparkspa.com). Four 2016 Oscar nominees with several best actress nomi- ancient Asian inflammation- Facial cupping is a great anti- had the Intraceuticals Oxygen nees to get them photo-ready fighting practice beloved by stars dote to the “many late nights” of Facial at the Spa at Four Seasons using various tech: “LED reduces from Hollywood to the Hamptons festivals and awards campaigns, L.A., which deeply hydrates, inflammation, microcurrent — has moved to the face and says Venice-based esthetician Kat softens fine lines and brightens stimulates the lymph while hid- is one of the most popular anti- Rudu. Her treatment — which the skin tone ($275). … Taraji ing the tired in your eyes, and aging treatments among The Kate Beckinsale says “is like send- P. Henson stopped in to Kate radio frequency maintains insane Spa on Rodeo’s awards-season- ing your face on vacation, finding Somerville (a go-to for Lily James, levels of elasticity when you feel focused clientele (12 sessions it a boyfriend and buying it a really Anna Kendrick and Elizabeth Olsen) depleted” ($550 with Vargas; for $400; thespaonrodeo.com). great dinner” — incorporates the day before the Emmys for the joannavargas.com).

Who’s That in Hollywood Plastic Surgeons’ Waiting Rooms? There’s a season for everything, including when L.A.’s wealthiest tribes — A-listers, studio heads, Gulf royalty — get nipped and tucked By Samantha Reed

or less invasive pro- JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE F cedures, right before “Established TV For studio execs, Actors wait until “Singles will have “Moms have surgeries “As soon as Ramadan is over, awards season is when actors have winter break is March for extensive surgery in the in summer and winter that’s when [Middle East clients] L.A. plastic surgeons’ and procedures done the ideal time for any procedures, when late winter and spring breaks,” says Chiu. come to L.A. because it’s just during traditional type of procedure as awards-season to get ready for so hot there,” says plastic beauty pros’ appointment pilot season, January they can recover red carpets are summer,” says Chiu. surgeon Jason Diamond, who books are packed with through April, outside of the office. over, and they can says he sees “hundreds” of Gulf talent. “If I were an accoun- which also preps them prep for L.A.’s other patients from June to August. for filming and favorite season “That’s a huge time for them to tant, this is tax season for sweeps,” says Chiu. — bikini season. have their procedures.” me,” says nurse Jamie Sherrill. For Beverly Hills JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER moms and other locals, “International Asian clients like to escape from the heat of their “cosmetic maintenance is home countries by visiting Beverly Hills during the summer “Right after Thanksgiving is really busy” as periodic as therapy months, especially if they have children who go to college in the for talent, says Sherrill, who specializes in U.S.,” notes Chiu. “Their visit would coincide with the kids’ fillers and Botox. “Instead of ‘Black Friday,’ sessions,” says Christine college breaks.” Dermatologist Jason Emer adds that early fall Chiu, who runs the office of also is a common time for Asian clients seeking such we call it ‘Black and Bruised Friday.’ ” her husband, Beverly Hills procedures as skin lightening and peels after summer’s tans. surgeon Gabriel Chiu.

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Says Girls producer Apatow: “HBO said, ‘If this is in the show, we could lose our license.’ Styling by Shannon Adducci & Michael Fisher On Rannells: David Hart suit, The Kooples shirt, Paul Smith tie, Tie Bar pocket square, Christian Louboutin shoes. On Driver: Ermenegildo Zegna suit, Allen Edmonds shoes. On Dunham: LPA dress, Aquazzura shoes, Graziela We were like, ‘Oh my God, we’ve actually found the line at HBO.’ ” From left: Andrew Gems and Dana Rebecca Designs rings, Anita Ko and Mizuki earrings. On Karpovsky: Robert James suit, Ermenegildo Zegna shoes. On Rannells, Adam Driver, Lena Dunham, Alex Karpovsky, Allison Williams, Zosia Mamet Williams: Valentino dress, Paul Andrew shoes, Graziela Gems necklace, bracelet and earrings. On Mamet: Gucci dress, Paul Andrew shoes, and Jemima Kirke were photographed on July 23, 2016, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Sylva et Cie ring. On Kirke: Preen by Thornton Bregazzi dress, Paul Andrew shoes, Joseph DuMouchelle necklace and earrings. he WORST PITCH You’ You’ve EVER READ’ As Girls enters its final season, THR presents an oral (and other orifices) history of HBO’s GROUNDBREAKING COMEDY, from Lena Dunham’s ‘horrifying’ pitch to casting Adam Driver (‘I thought it would be fun to play someone who does MORALLY QUESTIONABLE things’) to breaking the ultimate TV TABOO with a ‘conclusion shot’ (conditioner and Cetaphil, actually) seen ’round the world By LACEY ROSE | Photographed by MILLER MOBLEY Lena Dunham’s introductory line in that very The pilot episode, which THR’s television critic Tim Goodman called “a brilliant gem,” premiered April 15, 2012. first episode of Girls — “I’m the voice of my generation … or at least a voice of a genera- Turns tion” — couldn’t have been more on the nose. Over the past half-decade, Dunham’s millennial dramedy chronicling the lives of OUT four 20-something women in New York has on more than one occasion seized the pop cultural conversation and steered it into areas that sometimes made even HBO uncomfortable. True, it never was an audi- ence magnet — a typical season grossed between 4 million and 5 million weekly viewers — but it made up for that in buzz as it pushed the boundaries of casual nudity, gender identification and sexual mores and ignited controversies over everything from race to rape. With the series coming to an end with 10 final epi- sodes beginning Feb. 12, HBO programming chief Casey Bloys jokes, “Lena Dunham single-handedly created the think piece industry.” Dunham was all of 23 when she sold Girls to HBO with a page-and-a-half-long • ‘PRETENTIOUS pitch that included nary a character nor a plot. Her only calling card? Tiny Furniture, AND HORRIFYING’ a $50,000 indie film about a young woman who moves back home after college that LENA DUNHAM, CREATOR-STAR (HANNAH) I wrote Dunham wrote, directed and starred in, alongside her real-life friends and family. HBO this one sheet. [See page 54.] It was like But the movie, which won the narrative film prize at the 2010 South by Southwest a tone poem about millennial life. It doesn’t Film Festival, had some very big fans, including HBO’s then-entertainment presi- mention a character, doesn’t mention a plot. dent Sue Naegle and producer Judd Apatow. “They’re everything, they’re nothing, they’re After Tiny Furniture, Dunham had been pursued by independent studios look- everywhere, they’re nowhere.” I mean, it’s the ing to hook up for her next project. “Everyone was like, ‘There’s a YA novel that you worst pitch you’ve ever read — pretentious and might be good to adapt,’ ” she recalls. HBO in many ways was an unlikely place horrifying — but I remember writing it, sit- for the fledgling filmmaker to land. The premium cable channel had been bet- ting on the floor listening to Tegan and Sara in ter known for investing in bold-faced names — and for creating content for baby my underwear, being like, “I’m a genius.” boomers rather than cable-cutting millennials. But Naegle and her then-27-year- CASEY BLOYS, FORMER HBO COMEDY HEAD (NOW old associate Kathleen McCaffrey had a hunch that a voice like Dunham’s could PROGRAMMING PRESIDENT) There wasn’t a formal speak to an audience — and perhaps a generation. pitch, but because of Tiny Furniture, we all Now, with Girls set to conclude, the cast — led by Dunham, 30, along with stars felt we had this very good blueprint for what a Jemima Kirke, 31 (as free spirit Jessa), Allison Williams, 28 (uptight Marnie), Zosia show might be. Mamet, 28 (earnest Shoshanna) and breakout Adam Driver, 33 (elusive Adam) — as KATHLEEN MCCAFFREY, FORMER HBO CREATIVE well as executive producers Apatow and Jenni Konner, a cadre of executives and ASSOCIATE (NOW VP PROGRAMMING) I was a cre- others reflect on six seasons that began with what Dunham describes as “the worst ative associate, the bottom of the barrel, but I pitch you’ve ever read.” knew I didn’t want Lena to leave our meeting.

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THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 48 FEBRUARY 10, 2017 She was 23, I was 27. I turned to Sue and said, “I want to buy something from that girl.” Sue didn’t even flinch. “Great, call UTA.” SUE NAEGLE, FORMER HBO ENTERTAINMENT PRESIDENT There had never been a show that had skewed that young or that had been about people that age at HBO. The feeling had been that the HBO viewer was much older and more affluent and that they wanted to see shows about their experience — plus, people who were Lena’s age can’t afford HBO, so what’s the point? So the biggest hurdle was wrapping people’s heads around the idea of doing a show about this demographic. JENNI KONNER, SHOWRUNNER Lena was looking for a showrunner, and at that point I had broken up with my writing partner, and I was trying to figure out what I was going to do. NAEGLE I felt very strongly that we should try to find Lena a great female mentor and really try to keep the experience in that point of view without the influence of a guy. DUNHAM Sue really, for lack of a better word, cock-blocked a bunch of male producers. KONNER There was Scott Rudin, there was John Lesher, there were others … DUNHAM I’d never been pursued like that by anybody in my f—in’ life. … I was getting calls as if I had been friends with these produc- ers since I was born and was betraying them. People ask what happens to young female directors when they come to Hollywood. The first people who support them feel this incredible sense of entitlement. I mean, I’m sure there are 10 people in town right now going, “I had dinner with Damien Chazelle, and he told me about the idea for La La Land, then he just walked away?!” Maybe it happens to everyone. I just think it’s probably a little worse for women, or the bullying is worse. Or maybe men are just better at going, “F— you”? But I blame misogyny for everything. I remem- ber I’d have conversations with these [male] producers, and they’d compliment the movie but for the wrong reasons, and then they’d give me suggestions. I was in a meeting where a guy was literally like, “You could do a whole episode about when the girls sync their peri- ods.” I was horrified. Dunham JUDD APATOW, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER I was given Tiny Furniture by my agents, and I loved it. The more I learned, the more shocking it became: KONNER Sue had been one of Judd’s agents anything, Judd and I flew in, and the three of how young Lena was, the fact that the bud- when she was at UTA, and she loves Judd, but us sat around pitching jokes and talking about get was $50K. … So I sent her an email [see she called me and said, “Are you sure you want stuff. I just remember Lena going, “This is so page 57] telling her how much I loved it, and I this?” Which is unheard of — the head of a much fun. Is this what TV writing is?” said, “If you want somebody to help screw up network saying, “Maybe we’re going to walk your career, give me a call.” away from a huge name producer.” • FINDING THEIR GIRLS DUNHAM I was incredibly excited to get Judd’s NAEGLE As much as I loved Judd, in the begin- (AND ADAM DRIVER) email. I had gone to see [his movie] Funny ning I was like, “Oh no, no, no, no. Here’s JENNIFER EUSTON, CASTING DIRECTOR It was 2010, People at midnight the night it came out. But another high-profile guy. But I trusted him. and I’d done one or two network shows and there was no part of me that actually thought And Jenni, who had worked with him [on did not have good experiences. Then Kathleen he was going to come in, roll up his sleeves Undeclared], felt so comfortable with him. McCaffrey called and said: “I have this script. and push the process along. And I was trained KONNER Judd was the one who came up with It’s Lena Dunham, and Judd’s attached.” I’d by my mother to think that men come in and Hannah getting cut off by her parents, seen Tiny Furniture, and I’d worked with Judd, f— things up. which was huge for the show. Before we shot but I told her, “I’m not doing TV.” She kept

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THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 49 FEBRUARY 10, 2017 hassling me; she had me sit down with Lena, The Pitch: ‘I’ve Never and eventually she just wore me down. Seen Them on TV’ APATOW We used a few people from Tiny Dunham’s original memo to HBO was Furniture. I was always a big proponent of short on characters and plot yet still got Alex Karpovsky [the nebbishy Ray] as my a nearly instant green light personal way in, and Lena wanted to have [her

Sex and the City depicted women who had childhood friend] Jemima Kirke play Jessa. mastered their careers and were now being JEMIMA KIRKE (JESSA) I said no a couple of times. I driven crazy by the tick of their biologi- cal clocks. Gossip Girl is about losing your was working as a painter at the time. Honestly, virginity and gaining p o p u l a r ity, in a world where no one is old enough to vote or has it was the money [that convinced me]. I was 24 to worry about making a living. But between adolescence and adulthood is an uncomfort- and about to have a baby, so I was vulnerable, able middle-ground, when women are ejected from college and into a world with neither and the contract was very long. (Laughs.) glamour nor structure. The resulting period ALLISON WILLIAMS (MARNIE) of flux is heartbreaking and hilarious and I had just moved to way too human. It’s humbling and it’s sexy L.A. from New York very dramatically after I and it’s ripe for laughs. graduated from college. I came in to audition, Products of the recession, these girls are overeducated and underemployed, sure that and we improvised a scene where I braided they’re too smart for their positions as assistants, nannies, and waitresses but not Lena’s hair, which was … dirty. necessarily motivated enough to prove it (or even do their jobs well enough to a d v a n c e). DUNHAM I called Allison before we cast her, and They have that mix of k now-it-all entitlement and scathing self-deprecation that is the I asked her how she felt about nudity. She said, mark of all great Jewish comedians and many 24-year-old women with liberal arts degrees. “I don’t want to do nudity.” I was like, “We have to get back to you. I’m gonna be naked, people They have varying degrees of ambition, but have been raised to achieve. They know they are gonna be naked — that’s a big part of what want to be successful long before they know what they want to be successful at. this show is.” She told us she wasn’t scared They’re the last children of baby boomers, of sex, she just didn’t want to show her vagina, and the first generation to have moms who know how to text message [“H AV E U HAD AN HPV her nipples or her butt — and she never did. VACCINE YET? DO U HAVE HPV? LU V, MOM”] These WILLIAMS moms probably enjoyed more swinging sex So instead, they bent me over a coun- lives in their twenties than their daughters ter with someone’s face to my butt. [Marnie’s could ever dream of. music partner and love interest Desi performs They’ve been on Ritalin since they were twelve and on birth control since they were analingus during season four.] It’s funny fifteen (e v e n if they didn’t start having sex until college). because my character actually had the vast They’re just as likely to sleep with their majority of sex on the show, but it just doesn’t 40-year-old boss as they are to make out like eighth graders with a 20-year-old they meet stick to me. People are like, “So you’ve never at a loft p a r ty. had sex in the show, have you?” I’m like, what They’re not looking for romantic partners do I have to do? I’ve literally had someone in with money or clout. Just guys who make them feel thin, f u n n y, or superior. my butt.” (Laughs.) And with that scene, the Some of their boyfriends have turned out headlines were all, “Brian Williams’ daughter to be g a y. Others have turned out to be Republicans (these girls a ren’t necessarily gets her salad tossed.” Well, no, not to reveal political, but they want to make sure abor- tions are a possibility. Always. After all, too much, but that is definitely not something who can remember condoms every t i m e). I’m interested in, and it’s definitely never hap- They still text at least one of these said pened to me in real life. But the media often exes when they’re drunk or sad. Rannells decides when to believe us as characters and They’ve been raised to fuck unapologetically and then apologize for it. when to just portray us as ourselves. Grad school is their fa ll-b ac k plan. EUSTON Shoshanna wasn’t supposed to be a right — comedies like Cop Out or the T.J. Miller They are the Facebook generation, and series regular. The story was about three girls part in the Yogi Bear movie — because I just ironically enough they are isolated by all the connectivity available to them (a nd in New York, but Zosia [Mamet] put herself on wanted him to be seen. He was that talented. Theyprone are to theFacebook Facebook stalking generation, and d r u n k-I M i n g and booty calls via twitter and deciphering tape, and everyone just fell in love with her. But he never got anything because he’s not andtext ironically messages like enough they’re theyancient are hier ZOSIA MAMET (SHOSHANNA) I was in upstate New conventionally handsome. Then [after the isolatedglyphs andby bloggingall the pictures connectivity of all the food availablethey eat) to them (a n d prone to York shooting a movie, which was a piece of second season] I saw his Gap model campaign FacebookThey are stalkingnavigating theand transition drunk-IMing out of shit, and I was in the costume truck when my and was like, “Are you f—ing kidding me? I andcollege-level booty calls codependence via Twitter on their and gir decipheringfriends, but textwill still messages call to announcelike agent called and goes, “You got it, and they couldn’t get him arrested before Girls.” they’rethat they ancient got their hieroglyphs period or saw aand man want to make you a series regular.” bloggingmasturbating pictures on the subwayof all or sawthe a foodman who looks sort of like a kid they went to camp ADAM DRIVER (ADAM) I was doing a play at the theywith e at).(co u ld it be him? And if so, is he on • ‘TOO SPECIFIC, TOO LOCAL, Face b ook?) time, so I was feeling very self-righteous. TOO WHATEVER’ TheyThey’re are beautifulnavigating and maddening. the transition They’re I thought that that was what I should be ALEX KARPOVSKY (RAY) We showed the first three outself-aw of college-level a re and self-obsessed. codependence They’re your on girlfriendstheir girlfriends, and daughters andbut sisters will and doing, and TV was for evil people, and I didn’t episodes at South by Southwest right before it employees. They’re my friends and I’ve never stillseen callthem onto T V.announce that they want to be part of any system or corpora- premiered on HBO, and we had no idea how it got their period or saw a man masturbating on the subway or saw tion. (Laughs.) But because it was HBO, it would play. We’d shot the whole season already, a man who looks sort of like a kid seemed different. And then the writing was and I remember having all of these concerns they went to camp with (c o u ld it be so good, and I thought it would be fun to that it might be too specific, too local, too him? And if so, is he on Face b o ok?) play someone who does these things that are whatever. But there we were in a 1,200-person They’re beautiful and maddening. morally questionable. theater, and it killed. They’re self-aware and self obsessed. They’re your girlfriends EUSTON I remember begging Adam to even BLOYS Then the reviews started coming in, and and daugters and sisters and come in. It’s funny because for two or three they were universally great. employees. They’re my friends and I’ve never seen them on T V. years before Girls, I had brought Adam Driver RICHARD SHEPARD, DIRECTOR Every other day, The in for everything. Even things that weren’t New York Times was figuring out a way to get

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 50 FEBRUARY 10, 2017 DUNHAM We had four real women who weren’t famous. I remember Jemima going, “I just had a baby, and I have two different-sized boobs, and I’ve got a huge butt right now because I’m f—in’ breast feeding and I’m the hot girl.” BLOYS We knew we were doing something that was provocative, but I was still surprised [by the criticism]. There was the diversity stuff, the charges of nepotism [all four lead actresses have famous parents in the arts and media world, including Dunham, whose mom is a renowned photographer], which never made sense. … I think some of it had to do with the fact that Lena represented a new gen- eration breaking through, and that can be unsettling for people, especially because she was a woman and she was someone who was comfortable not being a rail-thin actress. DUNHAM My dad likes to joke that I was the kid who annoyed everyone in the third grade — it’s almost like that’s the way I’m used to being. Everyone was irritated in the third grade, and everyone’s irritated now. • ‘COULD YOU START WRITING ME OUT?’ KONNER We came back for the second season, and we shot the first scene outside. It was the first time really that we’d had paparazzi, and there was a whole wall of them. At one point, we had to ask them to stop shooting because all of the clicking was affecting our sound. DUNHAM I think we were so confused by what was happening, especially Jemima, that we couldn’t remember our lines. KIRKE I was a bit oblivious to the show’s success, maybe even on purpose because I was trying to deny that this would happen, and if it did happen, then I’d be impervious to it and my life would stay the same. I just put blinders on and Williams said no any time my agents even opened their mouths. I saw it a little bit as an assault. I went Girls into an article — even if it was a sports KONNER I knew [the lack of diversity] would be to Lena [ahead of season two] and said, “Could story, they’d shove a Girls reference in it to an issue, but I didn’t think the criticism would you start writing me out?” appear to be hip. be at the level it was … DUNHAM She didn’t understand that she had BLOYS It evolved into think pieces about what DUNHAM … Or that the conversation about race a contract for six years. I was like, “You’re on this show means about women, about would turn into a conversation about racism. the poster.” I think Jemima was scared. She Brooklyn, about sex, about race. It did exactly KONNER But at the time, we were so focused on thought it was gonna be like Tiny Furniture, what you want a show to do, which is to start a the struggle of women and the fact that we’d where it was us messing around and then we cultural conversation. I suppose you could say gotten four women on TV. got some nice attention at a party. I remember it started a cultural argument, but I’ll take it. DUNHAM The race stuff blew up first. [The 1 Donald Glover guested as Hannah’s Republican boyfriend in season two; though many assumed his casting was in response series was criticized for having an all-white to the diversity backlash, he had been given the role before the controversy arose. 2 After leaving the show ahead of season three, cast.] The second night we aired was the Abbott’s Charlie returned as a heroin addict in season five. first time I met my boyfriend [musician Jack Antonoff]; we were on a blind date. I had been metabolizing the criticism all week, and I made a really, really dumb joke that I’m per- fectly fine to repeat now ’cause I was f—in’ 25. I said, “No one would be calling me a racist if they knew how badly I wanted to f— Drake.” He said, “Don’t say that in public; that’s not going to help you.” I just didn’t get it. I was like, “I have the three most annoying white 1 2 friends, and I’m making a TV show about it.” RANNELLS GROOMING JOANNA BY PENSINGER FOR ORIBE EXCLUSIVE HAIR CARE AT ARTISTS MANAGEMENT. WILLIAMS HAIR MICHAEL BY GLOVER: JED COURTESY THE ROOT. MAKEUP GROUP, WALL AT OF AT GIANPAOLO BY HBO. CECILIATO ABBOTT: MARKSILVA SCHAFER/HBO.

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 51 FEBRUARY 10, 2017 DUNHAM At the time, I was like, “How the f— could you leave this show?” But he felt playing this Brooklyn hipster pansy wasn’t accurately expressing his background or his worldview, and he felt limited. [Abbott returned for a stand-alone episode during season five.] KONNER We had a very big arc for him. DUNHAM He decided not to come back four days before our table read for the third season. I didn’t sleep for 72 hours — we were rewriting, rewriting, rewriting. We had the table read, and then I remember going up to our office and weeping because we had tried to fix it, but there just wasn’t enough time. It was the first time it just hadn’t felt easy. • ‘WHAT IF HE LOSES HIS ERECTION?’ APATOW From the beginning, we were aware that what we were doing was sexually provoca- tive, and that’s what made it interesting and new and fun. Lena wanted to reveal something that is normally hidden — so often you’re not talking about a giant part of most people’s lives because people don’t want to portray it on film — and that opened up tons of stories that you’re usually not able to tell. But then we had a scene with a conclusion shot … DUNHAM It was actually cum arcing through a shot. APATOW And HBO said, “If this is in the show, we could lose our license.” We were like, “Oh my God, we’ve actually found the line at HBO.” NAEGLE In HBO’s defense, it was like a fire hose! KONNER Mike Lombardo [then-president of programming] came to us and said, “You don’t need it,” and we thought, “You pussies.” But when Mike fought us on stuff, which wasn’t often, he was always right. I remember being on the phone with him and Sue, and we were talking about the scene in season two where Elijah [a gay character played by out actor Driver Andrew Rannells] has sex with Marnie. Mike just couldn’t get his brain around it, and we she and Zosia went to the flea market was about getting her to admit that she was were like, “This is what young people do; sexu- together, and Jemima was like, “No one would good at it and that she enjoyed it. ality is fluid, you gotta trust us.” And Sue said, stop talking to us.” DUNHAM I remember hanging up with her that “What if he loses his erection?” And he goes, KONNER Honestly, until the third or fourth day and thinking, “Oh my God, I convinced “Yeah, that could work.” season, Jemima wouldn’t even refer to herself my friend to do this and I’m the one who told ANDREW RANNELLS (ELIJAH) That’s still the closest as an actor. She called herself a painter. So it Jenni and Judd it would be fine.” It was hor- my penis has ever been to a vagina. (Laughs.) rible. But then she was like, “You don’t have to DUNHAM We ended up getting our cum shot — write me out immediately. Maybe it happens it was conditioner and Cetaphil, by the way “It showed that I could do much edgier work and that I wasn’t afraid of things,” says Appleby of guesting on Girls. over the next few seasons.” And then the con- — it was just with Adam and Shiri Appleby versation just ended. instead. [Appleby guested as Adam’s girlfriend KONNER It was different with Chris Abbott in four episodes in season four that featured a [who played Marnie’s longtime boyfriend, disturbingly rough sex scene.] Charlie]. He was a recurring character. We KONNER When people watched that scene wanted to make him a regular, and we were and said, “Is that rape?” I was surprised. To trying to close that deal [for season three], me, that was a fully consensual bummer of and he had a lot of questions, a lot of issues, a sex scene. But that was one where people and we kept sitting down with him — we’d go got upset, and I was thrilled for the feedback have drinks and have a good time, and he’d because it was really thoughtful and emo- say, “OK, I’ll do it,” and then the lawyers would tional — it wasn’t just this knee-jerk, “Oh, we come back and be like, “He’s not doing it.” did something else that pissed people off.” DRIVER GROOMING PRODUCTIONS/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK. JOSEPH BY A. APATOW APPLEBY: CAMPAYNO. DIMITRIOS MAMET: KAMBOURIS/GETTY IMAGES. KONNER: JEFF KRAVITZ/FILMMAGIC.

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 52 FEBRUARY 10, 2017 SHIRI APPLEBY, GUEST STAR I never saw it as left [split over seasons five and six], we were rape. That was never a conversation. I remem- like this bullet train. And we’d been talking ‘ It Would Be ber one of the executives on set while we were about the end for so long. I mean, before the Fun to Meet You’ prepping said, “Are you really comfortable show even premiered, Jenni and I lay in bed Judd Apatow wrote Dunham this fan email doing this?” And in my head I was like, “What after our South by Southwest screening talk- after seeing Tiny Furniture part is he referring to?” ing on the phone about the characters’ whole

DUNHAM Not to make this too personal, but the lives. We were literally like, “She’ll probably Lena, show is very much based on my experiences, die this way.” I just watched your movie. It was beautiful and at that point I hadn’t publicly talked about KONNER When it came to shooting [the final and hilarious. I laughed really hard, which is rare (because my funny bone is so burnt being sexually assaulted. But my thought when season], we ended up going way long. So o u t), and I cried, which is not rare. people had that reaction was like, “Oh, I’ve honestly, we were stoked to be done but also I have many questions to ask you. I knew noth- ing about your film, or you or anything when I been raped, and that’s not what it feels like.” heartbroken. put it in. A few people slipped it to me on DVD and said they thought I would like it. I liken Then people were like, “How can you redeem DUNHAM We were so f—in’ tired by the end. it to two experiences I have had. One was when I was slipped Bottlerocket in ’95, and the Adam after that?” And I’m like, “That scene MAMET It was tricky because we shot the final other was when I was slipped Foot Fist Wa y. was very much based on an interaction I had season in a slightly jumbled way. I wrapped on I didn’t even know you wrote it and directed with someone whom I continued to feel very the same day as Jemima, but it was six weeks it till it was over. Should I be doing more research before I start watching something? loving feelings toward for a long time after that before the show wrapped. The normal feel- I probably would have liked it less if I knew that because then envy would have set in. because human sexuality is so complicated.” ing of ending something — which is usually Anyway — every once in a long while you see RICHARD PLEPLER, HBO CEO Listen, “your own in the air and in the essence of everything something with no preconceived notions and you have a wonderful, pure experience. Owen mother-in-law” survey with this show has you’re doing — wasn’t there, but I still cried in Wilson took me to see Slingblade at the New York film festival and I had no idea what been a lot of fun. (Laughs.) But I remember silence the whole way home. we were walking into and it was a filmgoing back in the days of Sex and the City — and DUNHAM For the last shot, Jenni was directing, experience I will never forget. I was more in that demo then than I am in and I wasn’t wearing pants … I had that with your film. It was so personal in the way that I try to be but I never find this demo now — people would say to me, KONNER … Shocker, by the way. (Laughter.) the balls to write about the sex I had in a pipe. I am about to start writing my new film and it reminded me to have courage and to not worry about what anyone thinks — just share. Girls picked up a Golden Globe for its first season. That becomes harder to do when people know who 1 you are. 2 Dunham, flanked by her producers Apatow and Konner. When I was 23 I had no talent. I was just a bad stand-up comic. What you have done is stunning 2 and I ca n’t imagine where you go from here. I am sure you will do amazing things. If you ever have time to chat, it would be fun to meet you and if you ever need a producer who can make you enough money to fuckIf upyou your ever pure havecreative time process to chat,and your it mentalwould health, be fun please to let meet me know. you and if you Or everjust teachneed me a howproducer to make awho film canon that make budget.you enoughSe r io u sl y.money to fuck up your pure creative process and your mental health, please let me know. Or just teach me how to make a film on that budget. Seriously.

Congratulations! Judd (Apatow) 1 P.S. I related a little too much to Alex possibly.

“Do women really talk like that?” And I’d say, DUNHAM I looked up at the trees and smelled old-fashioned and a modern way. But I do think “Yeah!” And it happened again with Girls. the air, and it was one of those moments that — and I experience it, too — it can be People are saying, “Is that really a part of the where I was like, “I want to remember exactly harder for people to separate female TV charac- tenor of this generation?” And I think the what this was.” Then Jenni called cut, and ters from the actors playing them. answer is yes. Of course, nothing’s monolithic, literally men in their 60s were weeping. It DRIVER I still think that TV is evil. (Laughs.) But so I’m sure there are people who watched this was really special, and since I hated both high I’d do it again with the right thing. show who didn’t see a reflection of them or school and college, I was like, “Oh, that must DUNHAM What’s next for me? I love writing my their lifestyle, but there were millions and be what it felt like when people were sad.” stupid books, and Jenni and I have [our news- millions of people who did. MAMET None of us expected this show to do letter] Lenny and a bunch of feature ideas, but what it did, and it has absolutely elevated all we’re giving ourselves the gift of a little time. • SAYING GOODBYE — FOR NOW of us in a huge way, but I think it’s still much KONNER We feel like no one necessarily needs KONNER We had always said the show would be harder for a woman than a man. The success to hear from us right now. But if someone five seasons, and during the fourth season, that Adam has had is indicative [in films such wants to do the [Girls] movie, we’ll do it. Mike and Casey came to talk to us, and they as Star Wars] — that’s no slight to his talent DUNHAM Oh, we’re doing the movie. I’d just want said, “Don’t you think you have, like, one more and his ability, but Allison and I are still fight- to leave enough space so that we are finding season in you?” And we said, “Yeah, probably, ing tooth and nail for any part we get, and we them in a super different place than we left let’s do six.” both have to fight very hard for any part that is them. But if HBO paid for two Sex and the City BLOYS Six seasons felt right. It’s bittersweet to different in any way from our role on Girls. ones, they’d better pay for one of ours. end any show, but everyone agreed this was DUNHAM Look, Adam is something unusual KONNER I think the movie studio paid for those. the right place to leave Hannah. that Hollywood was waiting for, and he has DUNHAM Oh, we may have more trouble DUNHAM Once we knew that we had 20 episodes “movie star” written all over his face in both an with that …

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Dealmaking in the Age of Trump Thanks to the recent sea change in global politics, insiders say international buyers and sellers are more cautious than ever. Says one: ‘Everyone is feeling the ripple effect’ By Scott Roxborough

Last year, George Clooney and Steven Anna and the Apocalypse The Chocolate Money Soderbergh set the Berlin film market alight THE BUZZ It’s a comedy musical THE BUZZ Rock of Ages helmer with hot star-studded projects Suburbicon and about a girl (rising British star Adam Shankman is set to direct Logan Lucky (both now in production), but Ella Hunt) who has to fight — and Kate Beckinsale as chocolate Berlin in 2017 looks decidedly chilly. International dis- Murphy sing — her way through a zombie heiress Babs Ballentyne in this tributors have become more risk-averse, and political invasion. What’s not to like? adaptation of an Ashley Prentice uncertainty —thank you, President Trump — is likely to STATUS Shooting Norton best-seller. make things worse. INTERNATIONAL SALES AMP STATUS Preproduction “It’s not a cyclical aberration, this is the new normal,” International INTERNATIONAL SALES Cornerstone Hunt says Paul Hanson of Convert Media, whose Berlin slate DOMESTIC SALES XYZ Films Films includes Ophelia, a retelling of Shakespeare’s Hamlet that stars Daisy Ridley and Naomi Watts. “The business is less The Art of Hearing Heartbeats City of Ghosts frothy, people are becoming more judicious in what they THE BUZZ This is an adaptation THE BUZZ The latest doc from buy, and everyone is feeling the ripple effect.” of Jan-Philipp Sendker’s global Oscar-nominated Matthew Adds Russell Levine of Route One Entertainment, pro- Schoenaerts best-seller about a woman Heineman (Cartel Land) follows ducer of Sundance hit Landline, “The foreign sales market trying to unravel the mystery of a group of citizen journalists is very volatile.” her New Yorker father’s connec- who use their reporting to push Barring last-minute additions, art house films will be tion to a Burmese woman. back against ISIS. attracting most of the buzz at the European Film Market STATUS Development STATUS Completed Rabe (Feb. 9 to 17) — with these 13 titles likely to lead the pack. INTERNATIONAL SALES Wild Bunch INTERNATIONAL SALES Cinetic Media

BERLIN AFTER DARK: CLUBBING, CUISINE, CONFECTIONS Treat yourself to a Unicorn Forest (that’s a cocktail, not an indie title)

Radio — The Label Bar Pasticceria Mangiarte → Frankfurter Allee 23 Danziger Strasse 23 Vienna’s cult Radio bar brings its unique blend of comfort The name says it all: Mangi and Arte: Eating and Art. and kitsch to Berlin. This combination bar, cafe and mini- This Italian confectionery is just the spot to indulge after club has its own fashion line as well as an in-house DJ and a 12-hour slog through the film market. From the sweet an electronic music label. The homemade cocktails — like — pasticcini, melt-in-your mouth cornetti and cannoli — the $7 Einhornwald (Unicorn Forest), a mix of gin, rose, OJ to the heartier, but no less delicious, focaccia and panini, and elderberries — already are legendary. the pastries are a labor of love.

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 54 FEBRUARY 10, 2017 The Delinquent Season empire comes with star power in THE BUZZ A domestic drama about the form of Oscar Isaac, French- two couples whose suburban Canadian Charlotte Le Bon and and marital bliss are put to the Christian Bale. test, it stars Cillian Murphy, STATUS Completed Andrew Scott (who plays Moriarty INTERNATIONAL SALES Sierra/Affinity in the BBC’s Sherlock), Eva Birthistle and Catherine Walker. Radegund STATUS Postproduction THE BUZZ Terrence Malick’s lat- INTERNATIONAL SALES Protagonist est, about Franz Jagerstatter, a Pictures conscientious objector under Hitler’s Third Reich, stars August The Hero Diehl (Inglourious Basterds) and THE FILM THAT PREDICTED THE BUZZ Hot off a Sundance sale Matthias Schoenaerts. THE BERLIN TERROR ATTACK to The Orchard, Brett Haley’s STATUS Postproduction German star Ken Duken makes his directorial debut drama, which stars Sam Elliott INTERNATIONAL SALES Mister Smith with a thriller that comes frighteningly close to reality as an aging Western film star Entertainment diagnosed with cancer, already is A terrorist highjacks a car outside Berlin, forcing the generating early Oscar talk. Return to Montauk driver to take him to the center of the city, where, in STATUS Completed THE BUZZ The adaptation of Colm the middle of Christmas celebrations, he plans to carry INTERNATIONAL SALES Gersh Toibin’s novel, starring Stellan out a brutal attack. Skarsgard and Nina Hoss, What reads like the news report of the Dec. 19 attack on the Lost in London already is being hailed as a come- Berlin Christmas market actually is the plot of Berlin Falling, a film THE BUZZ Woody Harrelson’s direc- back for Volker Schlondorff, the shot in the German capital in 2015 that recently finished postpro- torial debut is an experimental director of 1979’s Oscar-winning duction. The movie is the directorial debut of actor Ken Duken, a event movie simultaneously German foreign-language film major German TV star who’s best known in the U.S. for a sup- shot and broadcast live on Jan. 19 The Tin Drum. porting role in Inglourious Basterds. Duken stars as Frank, the that co-stars Owen Wilson and STATUS Completed hapless driver of the hijacked car. Tom Wlaschiha, known to Game Willie Nelson. INTERNATIONAL SALES Gaumont of Thrones fans as the face-shifting assassin Jaqen H’ghar, plays STATUS Completed Andreas, his tormentor. INTERNATIONAL SALES Bloom Stockholm Duken came up with the idea for a thriller centered on a Berlin DOMESTIC SALES CAA THE BUZZ Ethan Hawke and Noomi terror attack nearly two years ago and developed the script with Rapace star in this drama from Christoph Mille and Norbert Kneissl. The Other Side of Hope Born to Be Blue helmer Robert “My goal with the film wasn’t ideological,

: COURTESY OF THE BUZZ Finnish auteur Budreau about the real-life 1973 looking at one group or the other,” Duken Aki Kaurismaki makes his debut kidnapping that gave rise to the tells THR. “I was more interested in this cli- in competition in Berlin with term “Stockholm Syndrome,” in mate of fear that we have in Germany now this story of a Syrian refugee which hostages form an intense and what it can lead to.” who crosses paths with a Finnish bond with their captors. The timing of Berlin Falling is as aston- traveling salesman. This is the STATUS Preproduction ishing as it is unnerving. In one poignant director’s follow-up to his 2011 INTERNATIONAL SALES Sierra/Affinity scene, Frank and Andreas drive by the sleeper hit Le Havre. very Christmas market at Breitscheidplatz Top: The scene following

: COURTESY OF OPEN ROAD FILMS. TRUCK: FALLING AP. the Dec. 19 terror STATUS Completed We’re Just Married in Berlin where 2016’s terrorist attack attack in Berlin. Above: Wlaschiha (left) and INTERNATIONAL SALES The Match THE BUZZ Lily Rabe, Sam Rockwell took place. In an uncanny case of syn- Duken in Berlin Falling. Factory and The Mindy Project’s Chris chronicity, Duken first screened the movie Messina star in this 1970s-set tale for cast and crew on the night of the attack. They watched at The Promise of a romantic triangle, a long-in- Filmkunst 66, a cinema just a few blocks away. “As we walked out THE BUZZ Directed by Oscar win- development project from Albert of the theater, people told us, ‘There’s been a terrorist attack at

: COURTESY OF BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL. PROMISE ner Terry George (Hotel Rwanda) Nobbs helmer Rodrigo Garcia. Breitscheidplatz,’ ” says Duken. “We couldn’t believe it. Then we this story of a love triangle set STATUS Preproduction took out our phones and thought, ‘Oh no.’ When we made the WOLFFPACK VISION. EINSUNTERNULL: RENE RIIS. MANGIARTE: LENA MORETTI/LENIMORETTI.COM. MURPHY: JON PHILLIPS/GETTY IMAGES. HUNT: HUNT: IMAGES. PHILLIPS/GETTY JON MURPHY: MORETTI/LENIMORETTI.COM. LENA MANGIARTE: RIIS. RENE EINSUNTERNULL: VISION. WOLFFPACK M.DAVID BENETT/GETTY IMAGES FOR DONMAR. SCHOENAERTS: ANTHONY HARVEY/GETTY IMAGES. RABE: GREGG DEGUIRE/WIREIMAGE. HOPE, RETURN HOPE, in the final days of the Ottoman INTERNATIONAL SALES The Exchange movie, we were ahead of events. Sadly, events caught up with us.” As for how the real-life attack will affect the Berlinale, police spokesman Winfrid Wenzel tells THR that attendees can expect a range of new measures, including stricter controls on Einsunternull ← vehicle access to venues, longer waiting times and more exten- Hannoversche Strasse 1 sive bag checks. But Wenzel took pains to reassure visitors Berlin’s latest high-end culinary experiment already that while Berlin “is on high alert,” they should not expect the has developed a following for its experimental menu, which offers strictly locally sourced, seasonal fare sort of omnipresent, almost militaristic approach to security that tilts toward vegetarian (no small feat in meat- seen in Cannes in May. loving Berlin) and includes impressive wine pairings. “There’s always, as we say in police speak, ‘an abstract threat,’ ” While dinner is on the pricey side for Berlin — a six- he says. “But the festival venues are easier to protect than is to 10-course meal runs 77 euros to 117 euros ($82 the case with other events in the city. The Berlinale does not to $125), plus wine — those with a less-generous expense account should try the lunch menu, where a have the symbolic importance [for Islamic terrorists] of, say, the three-course meal starts at 29 euros ($31). — S.R. Brandenburg Gate or, as we saw in Breitsheidplatz, a Christian church during a Christmas celebration.” — S.R.

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 55 FEBRUARY 10, 2017 BERLIN 1 Breslin (left) and Styler on the set of Freak Show. 2 Lawther as a FILM trans teen who aspires to be his high school’s homecoming queen. FESTIVAL 2O17

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run for homecoming queen in a bid to change the hateful mindsets of his peers. Trump may have looked like a joke at the time, but his slogan rather suited Breslin’s antagonist. “So we picked up on this mantra and put it in the script,” says Styler. As such, the slogan “Make America Great Again” will be bellowing from the Berlinale cin- 1 emas speakers this year during the Freak Show screening (possibly a full year before it’s heard again at the fest when Alex Gibney, Laura Poitras HOW TRUMP INSPIRED TRUDIE STYLER: or someone similar unveils the inevitable feature doc about Trump’s rise to power). ‘THE FILM IS ABOUT BULLYING’ But away from all things Trump, thankfully, Sting’s better half borrows the president’s campaign slogan for a timely look at a trans the themes in Freak Show — which will be on teen who challenges cultural stereotypes in red state America By Alex Ritman offer at the Berlin market via CAA — largely can be considered universal, says Styler, 63. It’s unlikely Donald Trump has much state America. Counting Drew Barrymore as an “The film really is about bullying,” she says, interest in any of the films making their exec producer and Oscar-winning cinematogra- adding that she herself was bullied as a child world premiere in Berlin. pher Dante Spinotti as part of her creative team, and teen after being left with facial scars follow- But there’s a prominent line in one title from Styler says Trump barely was on her radar when ing a car accident. “Some of the scenes really the Generation sidebar — an adaptation of the film was in its earliest stages. resonated with me on a personal level.” an LGBT YA novel, no less — that may grab the “He was just a rather appalling twinkle, but And it was this that led her toward her attention of the new U.S. president. an amusing one at that point, running as a first stint as director after more than two Trump’s White House bid was very much in candidate,” says the actress, producer and wife decades producing. its infancy when Trudie Styler began develop- of Sting. But Trump did prove something of “We actually had a director on board, but ing her directorial debut, Freak Show, based on an inspiration for the role of Lynette, the head there was a conflict,” she says. “So I rather James St. James’ award-winning book of the cheerleader, queen bee and all-around mean girl, cheekily asked the producers if I could same name, about a cross-dressing teen from played by Abigail Breslin. Lynette is the chief interview for the role of director. I felt I had a liberal corner of Connecticut who is dropped rival to protagonist Billy Bloom, played by The something to say, so I met them all, presented into an ultra-conservative high school in red Imitation Game’s Alex Lawther, who decides to my vision and off we went.”

UBER? NEIN! 4 ESSENTIAL APPS FOR SURVIVING BERLIN You can forget about catching an My Taxi Essentially an Find Your Food Truck As its and corner stores (what the locals Uber in Berlin. The car-hailing ser- Uber clone, My Taxi lets you name suggests, this foodie call spati) ensures you’ll never waste vice has been banned in Germany request a driver, track his or her essential provides a comprehen- time looking for a one-for-the-road following a 2015 court ruling that progress and pay via your smart- sive guide to enjoying Berlin’s beer, cigarettes (this is Europe, after found it violated regulations requir- phone. The main difference: All the growing army of hipster food trucks. all) or a midnight snack. ing all transport companies to use cars are licensed taxis, not private The app lists truck locations, licensed drivers. But don’t worry, vehicles. For a cheaper alternative, opening dates and times, includes Qfriend.co One for the there’s a workaround. Indeed, the try Allygator, a shared shuttle photos of the day’s menu and lets clubbers, this site, active German capital, which styles itself service designed for Berlin clubbers you make lists of your favorites to only on Berlin weekends, provides as the Silicon Valley of Germany, trying to get home after a night of track them down later. live updates of events throughout has a number of efficient apps to indulgence. It charges just a few the city, crucially noting line lengths transform even a first-timer into a cents a mile for transport through- Durst More of a specialist app, and wait times for the current bona fide Berliner. out the city. this guide to late-night kiosks hotspots. — S.R.

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1 4 T2 Trainspotting : What Took So Long? After 20 years, the creative team behind the druggy cult hit is hoping to reclaim its ’90s mojo with a sequel, but only after patching up a major falling out between star and director. Says Ewan McGregor: ‘F— it, enough is enough’ By Alex Ritman

In mid-2015, actor Ewan McGregor sequel). “You just discuss the shit and say 1 From left: Boyle, McGregor and Welsh on the set of Trainspotting. 2 Boyle (far left) on set with McGregor, Ewen randomly bumped into director stupid things and say clever things. We didn’t Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd and Robert Carlyle. Danny Boyle in a London restau- come up with any solutions,” says Boyle. “But 3 Kelly Macdonald and McGregor in the first film. 4 From left: McGregor, Boyle and actor-director Peter Mullen in a deleted rant. Coincidentally, it was the out of that, chemistry happens, and John went scene. 5 From left: Miller, McGregor and Bremner in T2. day before Boyle was to head to Edinburgh on away and came back with this script. As soon a recon mission that would decide the fate of as I read it, I knew that it was right.” as a joke aimed at Terminator 2) — wouldn’t the much discussed sequel to Trainspotting — The new script, reuniting the four central have moved an inch without its lead actor. which is getting the gala treatment in Berlin characters as they deal with middle age and McGregor was just 23 when he first was (at 10 p.m. on Feb. 10 at the Palast). It had been regret, combines elements of Porno, but with cast as Renton, a role he wanted so badly, he almost two decades since production wrapped the book published 15 years ago and feeling even contemplated trying the film’s central on the original, a film that would come to a little dated, it also contained Hodge’s own narcotic. “I thought, ‘How can I play a heroin define the ’90s era of “Cool Britannia” and cat- more contemporary creations (including a addict without having taken heroin?’ ” he apult both McGregor and Boyle into stardom. revised take on McGregor’s now iconic “Choose tells THR. “And I thought I’d do it with Danny. Several earlier attempts to bring to life Irvine Life” speech). Also, John, our writer, is a doctor, so he could Welsh’s follow-up book, Porno, never made it Of course, this time there weren’t any issues probably get us some and administer it so past the script stage. So it was decided that if over licensing. Back in the ’90s, Welsh admits we didn’t die.” (McGregor changed his mind Renton, Begbie, Sick Boy and Spud were ever to he was “so f—ing naive” as a first-time author after meeting recovering addicts in Glasgow return to the big screen, it was now or never. that he accidentally sold the Trainspotting and realizing it’d be “hugely disrespectful.”) “When Irvine wrote Porno in 2002, John rights to the wrong person, believing him to be But having made their first three films [Hodge, screenwriter] had a go, and did a very Boyle’s producer. Rather fortunately, the aspir- together (Trainspotting sits between 1994’s faithful adaptation. But it just didn’t feel like ing producer graciously transferred them back; Shallow Grave and 1997’s A Life Less Ordinary), it was right,” admits Boyle. “I didn’t even send otherwise one of the most celebrated British the love affair between McGregor and Boyle fell it to the actors, because I knew they wouldn’t films of all time might have looked somewhat apart when the lead in the director’s big-budget do it.” So Boyle, Hodge, Welsh and producer different. “He could have played hardball, but adaptation of The Beach, a role McGregor had Andrew Macdonald, the creative team from was incredibly saintly about it,” admits Welsh. been led to believe was his, went to Leonardo : POLYGRAM the first film, had “one last go” and traveled to But even with a killer script, the wheels DiCaprio. McGregor and Boyle didn’t speak Edinburgh, living together in a house near of Trainspotting 2 — or T2 Trainspotting as it for more than a decade. the city’s famed castle (McGregor says Welsh became named (a title Hodge came up with Thankfully, when Boyle embarked on the referred to it as a “Big Brother house”). Over the Edinburgh fact-finding mission, the hatchet course of a week, the four went over the unpro- already had been buried. “I started thinking, 5 duced scripts, Porno and Welsh’s later books ‘Ah, f— it, enough is enough,’ ” says McGregor. set in the Trainspotting universe. They spent “And I wanted to work with Danny again. He

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THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 57 FEBRUARY 10, 2017 2017 STARS COME IN FROM THE COLD More than 4 feet of snow during the fest didn’t chill buyers, with Netflix betting big on 10 films as K.Stew logged her directing debut, a protest march snowballed down Main and dozens of A-listers dropped by THR’s lounge to talk art and activism: ‘We’re making a statement without having to preach’

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4 1 | Kristen Stewart | Come Swim The Twilight actress made her directorial debut with the short film Come Swim, created as part of Refinery 29’s female-focused Shatterbox Anthology and to be released on its site (and aired on TV partner TNT) later in 2017. “I was always really enamored by the process,” she says of directing. “It took me some time, but this is what I’ve always wanted to do.” She next plans to make a short film on gun control.

2 | From left: Miguel Arteta, Salma Hayek, Chloe Sevigny, Jay Duplass and John Lithgow | Beatriz at Dinner Arteta’s film, bought by Roadside Attractions and FilmNation, stars Hayek as a holistic therapist who joins a dysfunctional family’s dinner party. Says Lithgow, “It’s one of those scripts that catches fire as you read it.”

3 | Mary J. Blige | Mudbound The singer-actress stars with Carey Mulligan, Jason Mitchell and Garrett Hedlund in Dee Rees’ post- World War II Southern drama, one of the festival’s most buzzed-about films that Netflix bought the day after the festival wrapped. 5 4 | Armie Hammer | Call Me by Your Name Sony Pictures Classics fell for 6 Luca Guadagnino’s gay love story starring Hammer and Timothee Chalamet days before Sundance kicked off, scooping up worldwide rights for north of $6 million.

5 | Elle Fanning | Sidney Hall Fanning stars opposite Logan Lerman in writer-director Shawn Christensen’s film about a writer who is escalated to stardom with his first novel.

u. s . dr amati c s pecial j u ry award for b est cinematography 6 | From left: Alexandre Moors, Tye Sheridan and Jack Huston | Yellow Birds “We were pushing deeper into Morocco than some of our producers would like,” says Moors of shooting his war drama. “I was seeking to bring those actors into a place that would isolate them.”

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the audience award: u.s. dramatic 4 | Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. 1 | Lakeith Stanfield | Gordon | The Big Sick Crown Heights, The Incredible Nanjiani and wife Gordon’s real-life Jessica James love story landed one of the fest's The Atlanta actor was a triple biggest deals when Amazon bought threat at Sundance: He stars it for $12 million. opposite Jessica Williams in The Incredible Jessica James, plays 5 | Jenny Slate | The Polka King a man wrongfully convicted of Slate reunited with her Obvious murder in true story Crown Heights Child director Gillian Robespierre for (which won the audience award) Landline (which Amazon bought and appears in Jordan Peele’s horror for $3 million) and appeared opposite film Get Out (which debuted as a Jack Black in the comedy Polka King. surprise screening). 6 | From left: Olivia Cooke, u.s. grand jury prize: dramatic Anya Taylor-Joy, Cory Finley | 2 | Elijah Wood | I Don't Feel at Thoroughbred Home in This World Anymore “The idea of these two women Wood and Melanie Lynskey star manipulating each other through in Macon Blair’s drama that took the dialogue was something I really fest’s top prize, the U.S. Grand Jury wanted to do,” says Taylor-Joy of Prize for a dramatic film. Finley’s psychological drama, which Focus bought for $5 million. the waldo salt screenwriting award: u.s. dramatic 7 | Common | Burning Sands 3 | From left: Billy Magnussen, “We’re making a statement without O’Shea Jackson Jr., Pom having to preach — you’re just Klementieff, Aubrey Plaza, telling a story,” says Common, an EP Elizabeth Olsen, Matt Spicer | on the Netflix drama Burning Sands. Ingrid Goes West New distribution company 8 | From left: Lois Smith, Neon (launched by Tom Quinn Jon Hamm, Geena Davis, and Tim League) made its Tim Robbins | Marjorie Prime first Sundance purchase: $3 million A hologram of Hamm debuted at the 1 for Spicer’s movie about a party for the sci-fi drama (starring woman obsessed with a social Smith as a woman who bonds with a media star. hologram of her dead husband). 2 4

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1 2 3 An American New Wave? Snubs for Clint, Scorsese, Stone and Spielberg make way for a generation whose collective voice is emerging By Stephen Galloway

funny thing happened on the way include a few fresh faces. But this is the first defined Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard to this year’s Oscars: A whole swath year in recent times that the Academy has and their peers as the French New Wave. of veteran directors dropped out highlighted so much new talent — men (no These directors seem even more different of contention, and a fresh batch of women, alas) who largely are at the beginning from one another today than they did at the filmmakersA stepped in to take their place. of their careers and certainly at the beginning time, and many went in very separate direc- Overlooked were such heavyweights as Oliver of their Academy experience. tions as their careers advanced. But, at least Stone, Martin Scorsese, Robert Zemeckis, In 2016, Alejandro G. Inarritu (The Revenant) for a while, they represented a similar ethos: Clint Eastwood and Steven Spielberg — each a was the only director previously nominated The Italians all were governed by a desire to giant with a new film in theaters (respectively, in this category, but among his rival contend- focus on Italy’s real-life problems, the French Snowden, Silence, Allied, Sully and The BFG). ers, George Miller (Mad Max: Fury Road) was by a rejection of the cinema that came before Instead, the Academy named four first-time a four-time nominee in other categories (who them and a belief in the director as auteur. directing nominees — Damien Chazelle (La had won for 2006’s best animated feature, The last American wave, if there was one, La Land), Barry Jenkins (Moonlight), Denis Happy Feet), while Tom McCarthy (Spotlight) emerged in the late 1970s and 1980s and was Villeneuve (Arrival) and Kenneth Lonergan had drawn acclaim for work including 2003’s centered on filmmakers who, by and large, (Manchester by the Sea) — and one veteran, Mel The Station Agent and 2009’s Up. were defined by their film school experience Gibson (Hacksaw Ridge). These men were older than the current or relationships, even if they never went to Think this is just a quirk? The Directors directing frontrunners: La La Land’s Chazelle, film school themselves. Unlike the older art- Guild of America was even more extreme 32, and Moonlight’s Jenkins, 37. (Villeneuve is ists they admired, Spielberg, George Lucas, when it unveiled its feature nominees. Of the 49; Lonergan, 54; and Gibson, 61.) Perhaps it’s Brian De Palma and their brethren seemed to five, only Garth Davis Lion( ) had been nomi- this broad span of ages that makes it so diffi- think through the camera, so that the medium nated for an earlier DGA award, and that was cult to create a unified theory about their work did indeed become the message; theater in television, not film. and makes it premature to define them as an and the written word belonged to another era. What this suggests is not simply a bias American New Wave. But groups always seem Their sheer joy in film contrasted with toward youth in an industry that often has to coalesce more clearly in retrospect. the generation immediately before theirs, proved ageist as well as sexist, but also pos- It took years before the term “neorealism” an anti-authoritarian group that had come sibly a seismic shift, as the filmmakers who took hold with such postwar Italian film- of age in the 1960s and early 1970s, and came of age in the 1970s and 1980s begin to makers as Federico Fellini, Vittorio De Sica, that reacted viscerally to a crumbling studio pass the baton to the next generation. Roberto Rossellini and Luchino Visconti. system, as well as a society still dealing with Every year the Oscar nominees seem to Similarly, it was a while before observers the trauma of the Vietnam War. Their dark

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 62 FEBRUARY 10, 2017 HOW 5 NOMINEES ‘STARTED DREAMING OF BEING A FILMMAKER’ Oscar has these classics to thank — from Cinderella to Star Wars — for inspiring this year’s helmers BY CRAIG TOMASHOFF

DAMIEN CHAZELLE LA LA LAND “My dad was obsessed with music, so there was always a lot of jazz playing. Those [musi- cians] were the heroes in the house. But he had no interest in movies, really. I think the first Cinderella movie I saw [when I was 2 or 3] was Cinderella, and it happened to be on TV. That’s what I’m told, at least. I just sat and watched that over and over again. And I became one of those kids that very early on was glued to that experience of being just completely trans- ported. So it started with the Disney movies I saw when I was at that age.”

MEL GIBSON HACKSAW RIDGE “I didn’t go to a big dark room of public dream- ing [as a child]. I had a lot of brothers and sisters, and no one took us to the cinema, so my cinema experience was at home on a little On the Waterfront black-and-white TV with one channel. And you just digested whatever came along. The 1970s for film just knocked my socks off. When I was a teenager, I’d go see the [Roman] Polanski films 4 5 and the [Francis Ford] Coppola films and the ones by Don Siegel. I remember watching [Elia Kazan’s] On the Waterfront, and it blew my socks off.” vision showed up in such pictures as 1971’s The 1 La La Land’s Chazelle (left, with star Ryan Gosling) also French Connection, 1972’s The Godfather and is nominated in the original BARRY JENKINS 1979’s Being There. If this older group tilted at screenplay category. He was MOONLIGHT nominated for his adapted windmills, the younger group embraced them. screenplay of 2014’s Whiplash. “Like any kid, I went to the movies on the week- : 2 Jenkins (left, with director Audience-friendly stories, with big and bold of photography James Laxton end to see the blockbusters. But then I saw narratives, were the order of the day, social on the set of Moonlight) also Chungking Express. I really liked how unique is nominated for the film’s critique be damned. adapted screenplay. 3 Amy director Wong Kar-wai’s voice was in that Chungking Express Which of those two patterns of thinking Adams with Arrival director film. He opened my eyes for the first time to Villeneuve. His 2015 film will mark the current Oscar nominees is hard Sicario had three Oscar the possibilities of what movies could be. His movie didn’t really influ- nominations. 4 Casey Affleck to tell. Indeed, what’s most striking about the (left) with Manchester by the ence my work with Moonlight, but it did affect my moviemaking in general. new directors is just how different they seem Sea helmer Lonergan, who Another major influence later in my career was David Fincher’s The Social also is nominated for original from one another. screenplay. 5 Gibson (right) Network. He took a story I assumed I knew and told it in an unexpected way.”

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: LUCASFILM/TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX/PHOTOFEST. He previously won a directing homage to Old Hollywood (and Jacques Demy’s Oscar for 1995’s Braveheart. KENNETH LONERGAN The Umbrellas of Cherbourg), with its return to MANCHESTER BY THE SEA the musical format, so Moonlight is a rejection “I always loved movies but never thought I’d of Hollywood convention, with its unusual direct one. My father used to take my brother structure, characters and themes that would and me to the movies every Sunday, and this

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: CLAIRE FOLGER/AMAZON STUDIOS. HACKSAW even to the Hollywood of just a few years ago. in New York. So I got to see everything, from It may be that these filmmakers’ simultane- To Have and Have Not to Casablanca to Serpico to One Flew Over the ous emergence is pure coincidence, and that Cuckoo’s Nest to The Godfather. I was just watching [Sidney Lumet’s] the idea of an American New Wave is merely Dog Day Afternoon, which I’ve probably seen more than 50 times, and every an outsider’s construct. Or it may be that they time, I see something in the directing that blows me away.” : MIRAMAX/PHOTFEST. AFTERNOON are emissaries of deeper change. In the late 1960s, the arrival of directors DENIS VILLENEUVE such as Mike Nichols (The Graduate) and ARRIVAL Arthur Penn (Bonnie and Clyde) heralded the “At 10, I dreamed of being both a knight and collapse of the studio system and paved the an astronaut, and [George Lucas’] Star Wars way for a bold and radical group of directors, seemed to be the combination of both. I went the likes of whom never have been seen since. to see it with my father and brother. We arrived Star Wars : COLUMBIA PICTURES/PHOTOFEST. EXPRESS : JAN THIJS/PARAMOUNT. MANCHESTER BORNFRIEND/A24.: DAVID THIJS/PARAMOUNT. JAN : ARRIVAL Perhaps Jenkins, Chazelle and their peers late. The theater was very dark; C-3PO had are in the vanguard of a brilliant new gen- been captured by the Jawas. We’d missed 20 minutes. Before I saw the eration to come. Or perhaps they are simply movie again several months later, I had to imagine the beginning. I dreamt dazzling originals whose very originality about those 20 minutes for a long time. That is when I lost my passion for sets them apart from any group. medieval times and space travel and started dreaming of being a filmmaker.” : DALE ROBINETTE/LIONSGATE. MOONLIGHT WALT DISNEYWALT PICTURES/PHOTOFEST. WATERFRONT LAND THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 63 FEBRUARY 10, 2017 PLAYBOOK: SCREENPLAY AWARDS SEASON 2017

‘So Close to What I Imagined, Yet Also Better’ Nominated writers reveal how their words changed from the laptop to the big screen, as La La Land lost an ‘amazing’ scene and a Hidden Figures character’s move from one-upmanship to forgiveness left everyone on the set in tears By Craig Tomashoff

ORIGINAL H ELL OR HIGH WATER Taylor Sheridan

JENNY ANN So you go get a warrant and come after the money I’ll be using to keep a roof over my daughter’s head.

“The scene with Katy Mixon and Jeff Bridges in the diner, where the authorities want to confiscate a tip Katy got, became so much more than I ever pictured it being. That’s largely because of the emotion Katy brought to the dynamic between her and Jeff. I saw her as an angrier character, more defiant. She brought it to another level, so it felt more like a mother protecting something for her kids. She added a layer of depth to the moment I hadn’t expected. I admit, I’d be alarmed if a 1 scene unfolded exactly as I expected it to. I like being overwhelmed by moments I hadn’t thought of.”

20TH CENTURY M ANCHESTER BY THE SEA Kenneth Lonergan LA LA LAND WOMEN Mike Mills “There were a couple of scenes I liked in the script but didn’t shoot. Damien Chazelle “All along the way with One was a final flashback where Lee’s [Casey Affleck] whole family goes “The scene I loved as a writer my films, I’m kind of hoping for whale watching, which would have been a very different movie from was one between Emma [Stone’s] surprises. The best example in what you see now. But there was a weather problem that delayed shoot- and Rosemarie [DeWitt’s] 20th Century Women is prob- ing, and then it became impossible to get everyone back. I would have characters in a diner. It happens ably the scene at the end, where pressed for a reshoot if I felt the movie didn’t work without it. I’d had at the top of the ‘Fall’ [section the actors are dancing in a hotel that different ending in mind for a long time, but when we couldn’t of the film], and it’s basically a room. I’d scripted the scene so shoot it, I realized the ending we had seemed to be right on the money.” conversation about dreams and it’d be them just watching TV the choices you make to achieve together. However, we’d all been those dreams. It’s this wonderful 3 dancing a lot during the rehearsal moment of them bonding over process. One time in the house their own sacrifices, or rather, they were just goofing around their own realities. They are such dancing arm in arm. How could I talented and powerful actors, not put that in? I wasn’t sure what and it was amazing to see them I was going to do until everyone really hone in on the feelings of started coming into the room that scene. As a writer, it broke for that last scene. Greta Gerwig my heart to lose it. I just loved it, came in first, and I asked her, and even as a director, it was the ‘Which ending should I do, watch- last scene I cut.” ing TV or dancing?’ I wanted to do the dancing but was afraid it’d 1 Mixon and Bridges in Hell or High Water. seem schmaltzy or sentimental 2 Adams in Arrival. 3 Lucas Hedges (left) and Affleck in or cheesy. Greta told me I had to Manchester by the Sea. do the dancing. I love that that’s 4 Spencer (left) and Dunst in Hidden Figures. 5 Kidman in Lion. what we did.” 6 Harris in Moonlight.

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 64 FEBRUARY 10, 2017 ADAPTED ARRIVAL Eric Heisserer

LOUISE Come back to me.

“I have occasional panic attacks in the middle of seeing movies I’ve written, where some voice in my head says, ‘They’re saying the words I wrote! I can’t believe what I’m hearing because I just made those words up.’ So I was surprised that after just the first few minutes of watching Arrival, I was able to relax and breathe easier because of the way Amy [Adams] made my words so much better, especially her char- acter’s reaction when a nurse takes her newborn daughter away. The 2 line I’d written was, ‘Come back to me.’ Then, 15 years later, we see her say the same thing as her daughter is dying. She instantly seemed to wear this character like an old, comfortable sweater, I think because of her own experiences as a mother. I’d not had that particular experi- ence before, where everything that happened on camera was so close to what I imagined, yet was also better.”

H IDDEN FIGURES F ENCES L ION Luke Davies Theodore Melfi (nominated with Allison Schroeder) Constanza Romero Wilson (widow of posthumously nominated August Wilson) SUE VIVIAN “When Troy [Denzel We could have had children. You know, Dorothy, despite what Washington] finds We chose you. you may think, I have nothing out about his mis- against y’all. tress’ death, on the 5 stage, that scene DOROTHY was in the backyard. I know. I know you probably Denzel [who directed believe that. the movie] moved it : MARK ROGERS/THE WEINSTEIN CO. SCRIPT: ISTOCK. inside the house, but it worked, especially 4 when Rose [Viola Davis] leaves. I won- dered how Troy would speak to her. Denzel’s “A pivotal scene was when Nicole Kidman’s character says

: JAN THIJS/PARAMOUNT PICTURES. LION decision was to have to her adopted son, Saroo [Dev Patel], ‘We could have had him open the window children. We chose you.’ That scene touches on universal and do it, with a love. I’d never been touched by adoption, so I saw Lion as storm going on. Troy a mythic tale of reunification with a long-lost mother. I is being answered by wasn’t prepared for how emotionally submerged I’d get in “The moment that turned out to be far different from what the lightning. I’d go the way Nicole delivered her dialogue. You can never pic-

: LOREY SEBASTIAN/CBS FILMS. ARRIVAL I thought it’d be was the scene in the bathroom between as far as to say it’s as ture how it’ll turn out as you write. Then your script goes to Octavia Spencer and Kirsten Dunst. Our purpose in writ- if he’s being answered an actor with a rich tapestry of life like Nicole. Her history ing it was to show what happens when the bathrooms by the gods. I was of adopting children transformed what I’d written into the are desegregated. You’ve got a black woman and a white stunned by that.” beautiful thing that art is supposed to be.” woman who have been at odds, meeting in that setting at NASA. What I hadn’t expected was the line at the end of : HOPPER STONE/FOX 2000. HELL that scene, where Kirsten says, ‘You know, Dorothy, despite M OONLIGHT Tarell Alvin McCraney (nominated with Barry Jenkins) what you may think, I have nothing against y’all.’ Then “My play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue was written during a time of Octavia says, ‘I know. I know you probably believe that.’ uncertainty. I was 22, had lost my mother and was looking to see if I could I didn’t realize how powerful that line was until the last pen some fading memories. [Director] Barry Jenkins preserved the intent 6 take. We’d done it six times, and Octavia was playing it of my scenes, particularly when Black [Trevante Rhodes] visits Paula like she was one-upping Kirsten. For some reason, I said, ‘I [Naomie Harris] in rehab. That was based on the experience of visiting my

: COURTESY OF AMAZON STUDIOS. FIGURES don’t know … maybe she should forgive her with that line.’ mother while she received treatment. What I could not have foreseen was the We saw her try that on the seventh take, and suddenly, we characters’ resolution to love each other regardless, their fierce ability to look past knew that was the moment we needed to show, because their history and still see love. Yet there was Naomie trembling apologetically while most racist and sexist people don’t even know they are. I fumbling to ignite a cigarette, and the gentle and sturdy hand of Trevante helping was jubilant. Octavia and Kirsten had tears in their eyes.” when she cannot. Those actors and their amazing director found that gift for us.” : COURTESY OF A24. MANCHESTER MOONLIGHT

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that part of the plot a secret, so when early promotional material featured Barrymore noshing on human flesh, there was a wide- spread “Wait. That’s what this show is about?” response. There’s no real point in being coy about “the twist,” because Sheila’s abrupt transformation occurs early on in the pilot — probably too early. The series wants to shock you with the difference between Sheila and Joel’s life before she becomes a zombie and after, but our only real sense of their “before” life comes from them complaining about it for the first 10 minutes. Working in a half-hour format, Santa Clarita Diet leaves little time for buildup. The show races off as Joel and Sheila are forced to adapt to their new circumstances, which include Sheila’s dramati- cally changed eating needs and the challenges of satisfying them when law enforcement figures — Ricardo Chavira’s Dan and Richard T. Jones’ Rick — live on either side of the central couple. Santa Clarita Diet isn’t one of those “Oh, it’s a romance that also happens to have zombies” cop- outs. This is every bit a zombie show, even if the exact nature of Santa Clarita Diet the “disease” only is hinted at and much of the mythology behind Drew Barrymore charms as a suburban mom turned it has been reduced to mantras zombie in Netflix’s uneven but addictive new horror-comedy like, “Being undead frees us to series co-starring Timothy Olyphant By Daniel J. Fienberg be who we wanted to be.” I guess the thinking is that you’ve got to save something for season two; AIRDATE Boasting the star power of Drew long-married high school sweet- Barrymore indeed, the first season’s 10 epi- Friday, Feb. 3 sinks her Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant, hearts and moderately successful teeth into sodes that were sent to critics (Netflix) Netflix’s new series Santa Clarita realtors who are enjoying a com- her new feel very much like a beginning. CAST role as a Drew Barrymore, Diet dips into — what else? — fortable if routine existence in woman With its first two episodes whose life Timothy Olyphant, the zombie genre to explore, with the eponymous community north is upended directed by Zombieland helmer Liv Hewson, increasingly entertaining if of Los Angeles. Sheila wishes she when she Ruben Fleischer, the series is Skyler Gisondo, suddenly occasionally repetitive results, could be more impulsive; Joel transforms buoyed in large part by the guile- Ricardo Chavira, themes of suburban ennui and wishes he could be more confron- into a less glee Barrymore expresses Richard T. Jones ravenous CREATOR marital complacency. tational. Their teenage daughter zombie. at her new lifestyle. Because Victor Fresco The show hails from Victor Abby (Liv Hewson) wishes she of her feeding routines, Sheila Fresco (ABC’s Better Off Ted), could have a car to get away from frequently is bathed in blood, whose gift for treating the absurd Santa Clarita. covered in intestines or gnawing as mundane is on full display. Then Sheila turns into a zombie. at exsanguinated limbs; Santa The plot revolves around Sheila When Santa Clarita Diet ini- Clarita Diet features more body (Barrymore) and Joel (Olyphant), tially was announced, Netflix kept disposal scenes than Showtime’s SAEED ADYANI/NETFLIX (2) ADYANI/NETFLIX SAEED

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 66 FEBRUARY 10, 2017 Dexter — and that’s saying a lot. and gore as Sheila’s id takes over. next door. Subplots revolving Santa Clarita Diet is not one of Fresco and the writers balance Olyphant has, in many ways, the around her are, at times, fresher them. There’s a sense of exertion the gross-out gags with verbal greater challenge; he’s a naturally and more amusing than the in the show’s mix of mirth and punchlines, many of which aim intense actor playing a character flashier central story. There’s morbidity, which occasionally to juxtapose Sheila’s feral behav- repeatedly described as wimpy also sharp, amusing supporting buries some of Fresco’s cleverer ior with Joel’s more mundane and indecisive. The performance work from the reliable likes of dialogue and forces the stars spousal grievances. It’s not quite may register as slightly off in Mary Elizabeth Ellis and Thomas to play the same strained beats as sitcom-hacky as Sheila saying, early episodes, but it grows on you Lennon as a neighbor and high over and over. But like zombies “How dare you leave the toilet and makes more and more sense school principal, respectively. themselves, the series is relent- seat up?” and Joel responding, as the story unfolds. There are comedies that make less, and by the end of 10 episodes, “Well, how dare you eat people?” The series hangs on the believ- a complicated tone or a wacky you’ll likely find yourself falling — but it’s sometimes close, and able warmth between the two high concept seem effortless, and victim to its crude charms. just to make sure you never forget leads, but I would have loved to the dueling genres at play here see Santa Clarita Diet explore the (horror and comedy), one of the provocative metaphor — hinted two main characters periodically at, but never fully pursued — says something like, “I know of living with a zombie as caring we have to kill somebody today, for a loved one of diminished but we have to be parents every capacity; think Michael Haneke’s day!” Every episode could have Amour with a twist. had two or three minutes of such On the positive side, because redundant banter trimmed. she isn’t being kept in the dark The main draw is the fine about what’s going on, Abby is chemistry between Barrymore way less dopey than your typical and Olyphant. Barrymore is TV teen, and Hewson impres- Olyphant playing more to type, blending sively holds her own, both with adjusts to life as a sweetness and neuroses and hav- her onscreen parents and with zombie’s ing a ball with all the swearing Skyler Gisondo as the nerdy boy husband.

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FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT: BARRIE ROBINSON AT 310.467.3173 OR [email protected] Backlot A Final Look at the Industry Awards & Festivals hadn’t been done for 20 years. It was as close as I’ll get to being in the Super Bowl — all of this pres- sure in one moment. Aaron, as a playwright, is probably thrilled, but it’s not a discussion we’ve had. I leave it in the hands of others at this point. 1 What do you think might be the 1 Schlamme on the set of the LGBT miniseries When We Rise. 2 “We were passionate about the work,” equivalent of your show’s walk- says the helmer of working with Sorkin on The West Wing (right, during the early years of the show). and-talk in Trump’s West Wing? Honestly, I don’t have any idea what this guy’s White House is going to be like. None. If Mike Pence was president, I’d know that White House. It would be a contemporary version of Richard Nixon’s. The closest [for Trump] that I can think of is maybe The 2 Fountainhead.

Do you think there’s room for a West Wing reboot on TV right now? ‘ Whoever Reads This, Write That Those Washington-esque, political shows are pretty differ- Show’ Legend Tommy Schlamme says TV ent now. House of Cards, which By Michael O’Connell I admire, is pretty different than needs a new West Wing now the valentine to public service that was underneath The West ine-time Emmy winner Tommy Schlamme, renowned for col- directors. It’s been an incredibly Wing. The pain for me in our world N laborations with Aaron Sorkin on Sports Night and The West joyous experience. I am watch- today is the lack of belief in an Wing, has been making TV since his big break in 1986 — the ing fresh voices tell stories in institution I so strongly believe ABC movie Can a Guy Say No? “If you got an Afterschool Special, you were different ways, and I get to keep in — the American government. on your way,” recalls Schlamme, 66. With two hours of Dustin Lance learning and growing. Does it have its faults? Yeah, Black’s ABC miniseries When We Rise (premiering Feb. 27) and the sure. But we’ve so demonized any- John Singleton FX drama Snowfall later in 2017, the helmer, producer Do you have any interest in one who says they’re in politics. and DGA negotiator, who’ll receive his guild’s Robert B. Aldrich Award directing NBC’s live production of That’s what I think, as much as for service Feb. 3, spoke with THR about nurturing diverse talent Aaron’s play A Few Good Men? anything, that Trump exploited. — and why Trump’s White House probably is nothing like The West I actually did ER’s live episode. I wish somebody did emerge, a Wing’s President Bartlet’s. And I think that makes saying young Aaron Sorkin, with a way to no very easy. (Laughs.) I had an tell stories, out of this mud, that There’s a lot of dialogue about filling it in any way. What they are incredible time doing it. At that celebrate public service. Whoever fewer directors’ chairs with white saying is, “If you want to take a time, it was a big throwback. It reads this, write that show. men. Do you see real change? chance on someone, we’ll sup- I’m an eternal optimist, so I port you in that.” The truth of it do believe we’re at a tip- is, directors don’t hire HOW THE DGA IS CELEBRATING ITS OWN ping point. Even in this 69th DGA directors. Producers do. Awards last wave of DGA negotia- I’m lucky enough to be Feb. 4 tions, when we met with The Beverly in a position where I also all the studio executives, Hilton produce television. they were talking about it in a different way. I’m doing a Are any of the directors you’ve RIDLEY SCOTT JAY D. ROTH MARIE CANTIN The Oscar-nominated The outgoing DGA The Frank Capra Award : NBC/COURTESY EVERETT COLLECTION. JASON SCOTT: LAVERIS/FILMMAGIC. ROTH: ALBERTO E. RODRIGUEZ/GETTY IMAGES FOR DGA. CANTIN: COURTESY OF DGA. RISE : ABC/EIKE SCHROTER. new show for FX, [Snowfall,] and hired on Snowfall new to TV? director and producer executive director is the will go to the production I think John Landgraf is a perfect We have 10 directors, and 70 per- will receive the Lifetime third-ever Presidents veteran (Collateral, example of people leading that cent happen to be diverse voices Achievement Award. Award honoree. A Night at the Roxbury). charge. They’re not mandating — of which four are first-time

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Awards & Festivals

A VFX Jedi Master For him, it all began with Garcia Star Wars recovered from severe burns By Carolyn Giardina only to face cancer in Charged. en Ralston — this year’s — we were in Van SANTA BARBARA SPOTLIGHTS ‘FILMS K Visual Effects Society Nuys on the first one WITH THEMES AFFECTING ALL OF US’ Lifetime Achievement in an industrial space Award honoree — boasts a résumé — it was such a rag- A story of suffering and redemption opens the 32nd annual fest as stars make their annual awards-season pilgrimage By Chris Lee that includes some of the most tag situation getting Ralston influential films in the history of the work out of there. the VFX industry. At 63, he has I look back on it with so much he inspirational documentary set to kick off the five Academy Awards, including a fondness. A lot of us were novices. T 32nd annual Santa Barbara Film Festival on Santa Feb. 1 showcases a shocking predicament representing Barbara special achievement Oscar for The space battles in Jedi were Film Festival an extreme of human suffering: The world premiere Star Wars: Episode VI — Return of hard … to get the flexibility in the feature, Charged, follows outdoorsman/chef Eduardo Feb. 1-11 the Jedi and visual effects Oscars camera movement to help tell Santa Barbara Garcia, who endured a near-fatal jolt of electricity for his work on Forrest Gump, the story. It was very difficult to after touching a dead bear that had fallen across a live Death Becomes Her, Who put together with sepa- power line in the hills of Montana. The TV personality had his hand ampu- tated, suffered burn trauma and lost several ribs to his recovery process Framed Roger Rabbit and VES Awards rate elements and make — only later to be diagnosed with testicular cancer and put through che- Cocoon. He’s an alum of Feb. 7 it all look as if it was motherapy. But throughout his ordeal, viewers see Garcia gain a deeper Industrial Light + Magic, Beverly Hilton part of the same image. appreciation for life and make peace with his troubled past. where his additional Victoria With its themes of uplift and overcoming adversity, the doc sets the credits include the Back to Alonso What is most memorable festival’s tone, notes fest director Roger Durling. “There’s a lot of uncer- VES Visionary tainty in the country right now,” he says. “So we actively sought out films the Future trilogy, and he Award about Who Framed Roger with themes affecting all of us.” The event’s 125 feature films this year now serves as senior VFX Rabbit? include 45 documentaries tackling such subjects as environmentalism supervisor and creative head at One of the great cartoon direc- (Island Earth), feminist freedom fighters in Tunisia (Revolution in Four Sony Pictures Imageworks, tors the film paid homage to was Seasons) and insect-eating as a sustainable food solution (The Gateway for whom he has contributed to Tex Avery, and I knew Tex when Bug). “This a volatile time in the world,” says programming director Michael Albright, “so the films we are focusing on and that are being films from The Polar Express to I first started in the business at submitted are reflecting those conflicts.” Alice in Wonderland. Cascade Pictures in Hollywood. Montana filmmaker Phillip Baribeau (behind the 2015 doc Unbranded) I got to know him and actually raised $165,000 toward Charged’s budget through a Kickstarter cam- What was the biggest challenge work with him — plus, I love paign. He hopes audiences will be inspired by Garcia’s journey from near you encountered on the first three the great old cartoons. On Roger death to self-acceptance. “Maybe there’s a piece they can reflect on in their own lives,” says Baribeau. “Looking Star Wars films? Rabbit, we pushed the process of at what this guy got thrown at him — practically dying and When I look back at that time combining animation and live then going through chemotherapy, while keeping a smile on his face, hiking in the hills — maybe they can take a positive look at the challenges in their own lives and real- Baribeau ize they can get through it.”

15 OSCAR CONTENDERS TAKE FEST HONORS Denzel Washington (Fences) Casey Affleck and Maltin Modern Michelle Williams Master Award, Feb. 2 (Manchester by the Sea) Cinema Vanguard Emma Stone and Award, Feb. 5 Ryan Gosling (La La Land) Outstanding Performers of Isabelle Huppert (Elle) the Year Award, Feb. 3 Montecito Award, Feb. 8

Naomie Harris (Moonlight), Jeff Bridges 1 2 Dev Patel (Lion) and 6 others (Hell or High Water) Virtuosos Award, Feb. 4 American Riviera Award, Feb. 9 1 Ralston introduced Tom Hanks’ Forrest Gump (left) to JFK in the 1995 Oscar best picture winner. 2 In 1988, he pitted Hoskins against Roger Rabbit.

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 70 FEBRUARY 10, 2017 HOW CINEMATOGRAPHY CAN TURN IMAGES INTO IDEAS For Oscar-nominated veteran Edward Lachman, images are ‘more than just purely aesthetic’

dward Lachman, this ideas so thoroughly. We both E year’s recipient of started in art school and like the American Society of to think about images as Cinematographers’ Lifetime ideas rather than just purely Achievement Award, doesn’t aesthetic.” view his role as a cinema- Lachman, 68, has been tographer as just being outspoken in arguing that a passive recorder. “The film should be preserved as Lachman with Cate Blanchett (left) camera is a participant with an option for filmmakers. and Rooney Mara on Carol. the actor, not only creating “We should have the ability the mood but also respond- to create and manipulate our to FotoKem in Los Angeles ing,” he says. “We should be images in different ways,” for processing. I have helped 31st ASC some kind of mirror for the he says. “Film inherently Kodak, giving them encour- Awards actors.” has a look, a quality that’s agement. They want some Feb. 4 The cinematography different than digital. I don’t pieces of the lab equipment, Ray Dolby legend has put his own want to limit the choice of possibly for use in New York Ballroom, Hollywood looking glass up to actors in tools to tell our stories.” In — if not, maybe it will go to ↑ The Empire Strikes Back (1980), the second more than 90 films, including fact, when the New York Film another lab.” Denzel of three Star Wars films Ralston worked on. Steven Soderbergh’s Erin Lab (a partnership between Lachman also has tried his Washington Board of Brockovich and Robert Deluxe and Technicolor that hand at documentaries. As Governors action as far as we could. I have Altman’s A Prairie Home was created to respond to a cinematographer, he shot Award been very lucky with the actors Companion. But it’s for two film’s shrinking footprint) Lightning Over Water and La Soufriere, and he’s helmed Ron I got to work with; I have to ask of his movies with Todd closed in 2014, Lachman Garcia pretty stupid things of people Haynes — Carol and Far took home and stored the Cell Stories and Report From Career From Heaven — that he has lab equipment in the hopes Hollywood. Asked what real- Achievement sometimes to get the effects to world stories need to be told in Television earned Oscar nominations. that it would be used again. Award work in post. Bob Hoskins made “Todd doesn’t reference And he’s happy that Kodak now, he offers, “Our political our work look great because he images just as an imitation, is about to open a new lab life seems like an interesting Philippe he references them in New York. “That was an subject: how it affects the Rousselot made you believe all that stuff International that was surrounding him when as metaphors for the outgrowth of frustration that individual other than the elite Award story,” Lachman says of the there wasn’t one,” he says. or someone in the Rust Belt, there was nothing there. director, who also received “In fact, the last film I did to really tell personal stories Nancy Schreiber an Oscar nom for Heaven with Todd, Wonderstruck and how the political makeup Presidents In Forrest Gump, you used historical (for his screenplay). “He [opening this year], was shot is going to affect our lives.” Award news footage to portray Forrest researches his images and on film, and we had to ship it — C.G. meeting President Kennedy. There’s so much discussion today about re-creating deceased actors by using various digital processes. When do you think it’s appropriate to use such techniques? I can’t imagine a whole fea- : PARAMOUNT ture resting on that. Maybe in small bits and pieces, as they did in Rogue One, to tie the saga together. And in Forrest Gump, Baer admires colleagues the movie wasn’t about President who are “keeping Kennedy, so it worked. alive the traditional way of How close is the industry to animating.”

: WILSON WEB/THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY. WEINSTEIN WEB/THE WILSON : creating CG humans that perform and appear genuinely real? FROM DISNEY’S NINE OLD MEN TO MOANA There have been advancements, An animation legend stays active in an industry that ‘has blown up like crazy’ but my concern is to do that is monstrously difficult and costs a nimator Dale Baer, 66, who will receive a Winsor McCay John because he liked to do very broad, comical animation. huge amount of time and money. A Award for career achievement (along with indie legend He was never overly critical. Eric was very methodical. He’d

: LUCASFILM LTD/PHOTOFEST. RALSTON:: LUCASFILM ALBERTO LTD/PHOTOFEST. E. RODRIGUEZ/GETTY IMAGES. FORREST and anime pioneer ) at the look at your work on the Moviola, stop and zero in on one We are so familiar as a human Caroline Leaf Mamoru Oshii 44th annual Annie Awards, has spent decades at the spot that needed work and take a piece of paper species with each other — our Walt Disney Studios, working on everything from Annie and make a drawing. He’d hand you the paper, and inflections, all the little subtleties The Lion King to Zootopia and Moana. He first came Awards it just made sense.” Baer has worked on a range in your face and body language. to the studio in 1971 for its training program and Feb. 4 of Disney films, including The Rescuers (“I did a lot And if you don’t put that all into learned from some of the Nine Old Men, Disney’s Royce Hall, of Bernard and Bianca”) and Moana (“Heihei was fabled group of veteran animators. “Robin Hood UCLA fun — we explored different shapes of the body, a CG human figure, the audi- was my first film in the training program,” he says. hair and beak”). Now Baer marvels at how the ani- ence will immediately see that “It was so wonderful walking into this place and working mation industry has “blown up like crazy,” he says. “I worked : TOUCHSTONE PICTURES/PHOTOFEST. BAER: COURTESY OF HOUSER PR. CAROL something’s wrong. It’s a very with heroes of mine. Eric Larson and John Lounsbery were on two CG films at Disney, though I still like drawing on complicated trick to pull off. the most patient, helpful people I ever met. I gravitated to paper. I’m glad they’re both out there now. It’s exciting.” — C.G. : JENNIFER JANE. BARIBEAU: COURTESY OF MRC PUBLICITY. STAR CHARGED PICTURES/PHOTOFEST. ROGER

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Memorable moments from a storied history

1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 In the 1980s, Donald Trump Tried to Topple the NFL Perhaps Donald Trump’s singer Beverly Sills and Warhol, only lasting three years. A plan ↑ Trump (right) and New Jersey Generals coach Walt Michaels at Giants Stadium in 1983. most creative innovation as a who watched dozens of young that Trump favored was to move United States Football League women strut to Michael Jackson’s its season from spring to autumn, (which Trump called “a moral team owner was having Andy “Billie Jean.” Warhol had met try to force a merger with the victory”). The USFL folded, and Warhol choose its cheerleaders. Trump two years earlier at a birth- NFL and, if that failed, have Cohn the $3.76 settlement check (it In 1983, the future president, day party for attorney Roy Cohn, file a $1.32 billion anti-trust law- included interest and triple dam- then 37, paid $9 million for the and Trump visited his Factory. suit against the dominant league. ages for the anti-trust aspect) New Jersey Generals — part The artist, who in his Diaries calls In a baroque way, it both worked from the NFL, which is holding of a startup league seeking to Trump “a butch guy,” created on perfectly and failed disastrously: its 51st Super Bowl in Houston on become a springtime alterna- spec eight 50-by-42-inch black- The USFL won the lawsuit, but the Feb. 5, never has been cashed. tive to the NFL. “The only reason and-silver silk screens of Trump jury awarded just $1 in damages — BILL HIGGINS Donald bought a USFL team is Tower for the building’s lobby, he wanted an NFL team and was then still under construction. But not invited into their exclusive the collaboration did not go well. club,” says Mandalay Sports “It was a mistake to do so many,” Media co-chairman Mike Tollin, Warhol wrote. (Trump also who made a documentary on wanted the paintings in pink and the USFL. To generate publicity, orange.) “I think Trump’s sort of Trump held a cheerleader com- cheap though. I get that feeling.” petition in Manhattan’s Trump Trump didn’t buy them, and two Tower basement with a jury now belong to the Andy Warhol that included impressionistic Museum in Pittsburgh. As for the painter LeRoy Neiman, opera USFL, it didn’t fare much better,

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