Indholdsfortegnelse for June 12, 2024 i The Hollywood Reporter

In the first episode of When They See Us, Ava DuVernay’s bleak drama about the Central Park Five, Linda Fairstein, then head of the sex crimes unit investigating the case, gives an order to dispatch an army of officers to Harlem. “Every young Black male who was in the park last night is a suspect in the rape of that woman who is fighting for her life right now,” says her character, played by Felicity Huffman. “You go into those projects, and you stop every little thug you see.” Is that DuVernay leveraging broad artistic liberties under the First Amendment to make Fairstein the central villain in the miniseries, even though the ex-prosecutor might not have given that command? Or is it defamation? In the acclaimed show, Fairstein is portrayed…

I think it’s time to make movies relevant,” said Ali Abbasi to the cheering crowd at the May 20 Cannes premiere of his Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice. “It’s time to make movies political again.” Hollywood doesn’t seem to be listening. Despite the enthusiastic response to The Apprentice internationally — the film, starring Sebastian Stan as Trump and Succession’s Jeremy Strong as his master-of-the-dark-arts political mentor Roy Cohn, has been sold in nearly every territory — the movie is still struggling to land a U.S. distributor. That’s regardless of, as Abbasi calls it, this fall’s “promotional event, the U.S. election,” that would seem to provide an ideal launchpad, and plenty of free publicity, for any domestic distributor. A U.S. deal for The Apprentice is complicated by the fact that Kinematics,…

Summer sequels are not exclusive to the big screen. This season, Dior has returned to the Beverly Hills Hotel, mounting a second edition of its Dioriviera luxury pop-up, including a pool takeover, special boutique and spa treatments. The residency features splashes of Dior’s Toile de Jouy print seen everywhere from deck chairs and umbrellas to towels, and is complemented by life-size animal figures like giraffes, monkeys and a lion. The boutique — designed to mimic a beachside resort home with plenty of bamboo and leafy greens — spotlights a new Dioriviera capsule collection designed by creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri. Look for Toile de Jouy Sauvage and Soleil prints gracing items such as swimsuits, totes, blouses and scarves. In addition to wardrobe pieces, offerings include summery linens, glassware and candles.…

Weddings Hannah Gold, vp marketing at Interscope Records, married Max St. Aubin, vp turnaround and restructuring at consulting firm Accordion, on May 4 at Gold-Diggers hotel in Hollywood. Births Kate Hoenigsberg, senior vp drama development at Universal Television, and David Dworsky, special counsel at Sheppard Mullin, welcomed daughter Georgina Lily Elizabeth Dworsky on May 28. Actress Esther Povitsky and writer-director David King welcomed daughter Ace Estelle King on March 30. Congrats Emma Banks, Darryl Eaton and Rick Roskin were promoted to coheads of CAA’s global touring business on June 6. Lee Anderson was upped to president of Wasserman Music on June 3. Former Nat Geo Channels exec Steven Schiffman was appointed executive chairman of sustainability network EarthxTV on June 5. Carmelyn P. Malalis was named head of impact at production company…

TALENT DAN FOX HANSEN JACOBSON UCLA Fox is “genuinely funny,” says Ted Lasso star Brett Goldstein, who’s shooting the second season of his Apple TV+ series Shrinking, and just reupped his overall deal with Warner Bros. TV. “He’s always pitching to be a writer’s assistant on one of our shows, and I’m like, ‘You can have it, but I need you to do the deals!’ ” Fox also does the deals for a roster that includes Abbott Elementary’s Tyler James Williams (a client since the actor was just 16), Reacher star Alan Ritchson, Saltburn auteur Emerald Fennell and Fallout cocreator Geneva Robertson-Dworet. TALENT JAMES ADAMS SCHRECK ROSE Cornell John Krasinski re-upped his multiyear first-look deal at Paramount (in addition to releasing IF and acting in the upcoming heist film Fountain…

BERKELEY The school just added a new NIL course (name, image, likeness) in response to the NCAA’s decision to allow college athletes to market their personal brands. CARDOZO Keeping up with the times, this NYC-based campus recently added an AI and the Law course, focusing in part on the legal implications of digital replication. COLUMBIA This Ivy League institution on New York’s Upper West Side holds top-notch seminars on the law and the entertainment industry and offers students an array of showbiz-adjacent internships. GEORGETOWN Nestled in the heart of the nation’s capital, this D.C. school offers internships and holds a well-attended annual Sports, Entertainment and Media Law symposium. HARVARD Maybe you’ve heard of it? Graduates from this Cambridge Ivy — where students get hands-on experience at campus clinics like the…

There are fancy fashion docs galore, ones to fulfill anyone’s designer lifestyle fantasy. But there aren’t many that will make you weep. “So you cried? Why?” Diane von Furstenberg asks over Zoom while discussing the new Hulu doc Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge, out June 25. Long considered one of the world’s most glamorous women, the stunning septuagenarian is sprawled languorously on a hotel bed with zero makeup and undone hair, adorned by her signature “In Charge” necklace. Why tears? Well, for starters, not many documentaries end with their subject visiting their own grave site. “But that’s my favorite part of the film!” she says. “Look, we can’t avoid mortality, so why not embrace it?” She notes that Jane Rosenthal — co-founder of the Tribeca Festival (where the film,…

There’s a photograph in Kimberley Harris’ office that might catch some visitors by surprise. It’s a picture of Gabriel Macht, the actor who played Harvey Specter in the USA legal drama Suits. You know the character — reckless, slick as ice. In other words, the polar opposite of the attorney who sits at this desk. Harris has been heading NBCUniversal’s legal department since 2013, overseeing contracts, litigation and all other legal matters for the theme parks, broadcast and cable networks (like the one that aired Suits), streaming services and studio lots that make up the company’s array of businesses. But there’s another, very different sort of lawyer who turns out to have inspired Harris to pursue the career path that she ultimately chose: former President Barack Obama. Back in 2008,…

“I thought of it,” says Kelsey Grammer. At the top of THR’s Comedy Actor Emmy Roundtable, he’d been asked to recall the funniest feedback he’s ever received. It took him half an hour, but the answer found him: “I was in my 40s, and somebody said, ‘You are the worst boyfriend I’ve ever had!’ ” The Frasier star, now pretending to cry, is met with a burst of laughter. What started with a little trepidation — “This is my first roundtable,” confessed Palm Royale’s Ricky Martin, who was joined at The Georgian Hotel in Santa Monica by John Goodman (The Conners and The Righteous Gemstones), Grammer, Theo James (The Gentlemen), Anthony Mackie (Twisted Metal) and Bowen Yang (Saturday Night Live) — soon shifted to dueling war stories of drunken fans…

A sci-fi drama unlike any other, Netflix’s 3 Body Problem provoked a mixture of critical acclaim, fandom buzz and political debate with its rather bold adaptation of author Liu Cixin’s celebrated physics-stuff novel. Showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss — coming off HBO’s Game of Thrones — teamed with True Blood writer-producer Alexander Woo on the daunting project, which tells the story of humanity’s reaction to a centuries-spanning alien invasion plot. Across eight episodes, the drama combined lavish spectacle with intimate human drama, earning a two-season renewal from the streamer despite its lavish price tag (more than $20 million per episode). Benioff, Weiss and Woo discuss their adaptive choices, the season’s unique tonal shift and their (very different) favorite scenes. Reading over the responses to this season, it’s clear that…

Less than a month after his generally unnecessary Netflix adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s A Man in Full, David E. Kelley continues his visitations with the Ghosts of Literary Phenomena Past with Apple TV+’s eight-episode take on Scott Turow’s Presumed Innocent. Tackling zeitgeist-y properties long after the hype has subsided can be a good way to find clarity through distance, or to impose fresh colors on a familiar story through a revised context. What’s confusing about these two adaptations is that Kelley has essentially failed to do either thing. Unlike A Man in Full, though, Presumed Innocent at least captures the property’s tone, putting Kelley back in his legal thriller comfort zone rather than having him retrofit a story — see A Man in Full or Big Little Lies — that…

Like many agents seeing client schedules cleared by the 2023 strikes, David Duchovny’s suggested he start a podcast. Unlike many actors faced with that proposition, Duchovny had a hook: failure — or, rather, a reassessment of it. “This is the podcast that’s like, ‘OK, David failed at being a movie star,’” says the 63-year-old, referring to the period just after his wildly successful nine-season run on The X-Files. “Well, it enabled me to be a novelist, a musician, a director. I don’t really call it failure. It’s opportunity.” Duchovny’s relationship with failure might be so healthy because of his successes. Fail Better debuted May 7 and soon made headlines for a viral interview with Bette Midler, during which the actress said she should have sued Lindsay Lohan for bailing on…

Anna May Wong — born Wong Liu Tsong in Los Angeles on Jan. 3, 1905 — is widely recognized as Hollywood’s first Asian American movie star. A year before she died in 1961 from a heart attack at age 56, she joked that her epitaph should be, “I died a thousand deaths.” During her career, she’d appeared in more than 60 films, TV series and theatrical shows, but many of her roles were stereotypical caricatures of Asian women as exotic temptresses, dragon ladies and China dolls who inevitably met their doom so the white leads could attain their happy ending. Though Wong’s many deaths are well documented on film, her multifaceted life offscreen remained generally unacknowledged until now. For the next seven months, the exhibit Unmasking Anna May Wong at…

Nicholas Galitzine: The Artist Formerly Known as a Prince? He’s played Cinderella’s Prince opposite Camila Cabello, the Prince of England in Red, White & Royal Blue and next will play He-Man, Prince Adam of Eternia, in Masters of the Universe. But is Hollywood’s latest “It” boy an actual prince? There has been a ton of speculation in the press that Nicholas Galitzine, 29, descends from a royal bloodline — specifically Russia’s House of Golitsyn (an alternate spelling of his surname), a noble family whose members were executed and exiled during the Russian Revolution. And many Galitzines did wind up in London, where Nick was eventually born in 1994. Unfortunately, that’s where the fairy tale ends. THR has unearthed documentation confirming that Nick’s paternal grandfather legally changed his name to Edward…

During a bit of small talk, an anonymous cashier mishears director Andrew McCarthy’s explanation of the project he’s working on: “The Rat Pack?” The Brat Pack, McCarthy corrects. “That sounds familiar,” replies the younger man in the polite tone of someone who has no idea what you’re talking about. It’s a throwaway moment in the film, but one that gets at the good-natured humility that makes the whole thing tick. The marketable hook of Brats is that it’s a documentary about the (in)famous 1980s young Hollywood cohort, helmed by one of its own. What makes it truly compelling, however, is its willingness to step outside that perspective and reconsider the phenomenon from a broader context with the wisdom of age. At first, Brats feels like watching a man poke at…