Netflix Changes How It Measures Its Daily Top 10; Lady Gaga Talks 'House of Gucci'; 'Harry Potter' Retrospective to Feature Cast, But No J.K. Rowling

View on web New reader? Subscribe November 17, 2021 What's news: It's magazine day! This week's cover star is the irrepressible and immensely talented Lady Gaga. Queen Sugar will end with season 7. Netflix is changing it's top 10 rankings. LeVar Burton is set to host a Trivial Pursuits game show. Miramax is suing Quentin Tarantino. Plus: Starz is bringing back Party Down — Abid Rahman Gaga on 'Gucci' ►On the cover. There's talk around Hollywood that Lady Gaga's performance in Ridley Scott's House of Gucci is one that will cement her place not as a singer who acts, but as an actress full stop, and confirm that her Oscar nomination for 2019’s A Star Is Born was no fluke.  The artist also known as Stefani Germanotta opens up to THR's Rebecca Keegan about the wounds that informed her intense performance as Patrizia Reggiani, a scorned wife turned murderer, a role that precipitated her own re-traumatization. The cover story.  —That Gaga-'Gucci' look. One of the major influences behind Lady Gaga’s look in House of Gucci was Italian actress and international siren Gina Lollobrigida. In all, the Oscar-winning costume designer Janty Yates created 75 to 100 looks for Gaga's character Patrizia Reggiani Gucci alone, spanning a 20-year time period from 1975 to 1995. The story.  —All good things. OWN has handed out a seventh and final season renewal for Ava DuVernay and Warner Bros. Television's drama Queen Sugar. Writing on the final season has already been completed with production to begin early next year in New Orleans for a debut later in 2022. The story. —Mouthful. Los Angeles’ iconic Staples Center will become the Crypto.com Arena from Christmas Day, following a naming rights deal struck between cryptocurrency platform Crypto.com and the venue owners AEG. The story.   —ICYMI (somehow). The second trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home dropped on Tuesday and it's fair to say the internet went wild. THR wild boys Aaron Couch and Borys Kit were at the trailer launch event (yes, that's a thing now) where star Tom Holland talked a little about the production. The trailer.  Netflix Changes How It Measures Its Daily Top 10 ►Creeping transparency. Netflix says it’s changing the way it reports its in-app top 10 lists, and it will supplement those local lists with a website showing top titles in more than 90 countries. The rankings will now be based on the total number of hours viewed for a given title, rather than Netflix’s previous standard of a two-minute sample.  THR's Rick Porter writes that the change is a move toward more data transparency at Netflix, although it — along with every other streaming provider — also collects a lot of information that remains at the level of state secret. The story.  —Raise up. THR's Lesley Goldberg has the scoop on three Netflix showrunners creating production company to help amplify underrepresented voices. Magic Quill Productions will be focused on genre stories with a goal to empower underrepresented and diverse voices while also training the showrunners of the future. The story.  —Get that cheese! LeVar Burton may have failed in his attempts to become Jeopardy! host but he's landed a solid prize in hosting a future Trivial Pursuit game show. Burton will host a new game show based on the massively popular board game that is being produced by game maker Hasbro and Entertainment One. A network is not yet attached. The story. —"It’s the little things for us women but it makes a huge difference." Britney Spears took to Instagram on Tuesday to talk about what the end of her conservatorship means and to answer fans questions about what she’s going to do with her newfound freedom. The story.  —Ungrateful basterds. Miramax is suing director Quentin Tarantino over plans to release NFTs based on Pulp Fiction. Tarantino announced plans earlier this month to release seven NFTs based on the film, including scenes from an early script that were cut from the final version. The story.  'Harry Potter' Retrospective to Feature Cast — But No J.K. Rowling ►Awkward. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone cast, including Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson, and filmmaker Chris Columbus are reuniting for the 20th anniversary retrospective on HBO Max. But there’s one notable omission from the list of participants: creator J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts will stream Jan. 1 on the streamer, with a debut on linear networks TBS and Cartoon Network in the spring ahead of the theatrical debut of Fantastic Beasts 3. The story.  —Party like it's 2009. Cult classic comedy Party Down is officially returning to Starz with nearly its full original cast. Ken Marino, Adam Scott, Jane Lynch, Martin Starr, Ryan Hansen and Megan Mullally have all closed deals to return for a six-episode revival. Alas, scheduling conflicts are preventing Lizzy Caplan from returning to reprise her role, more on that below! The story.  —Busy Lizzy. Hello from above. Yes, Lizzy Caplan's schedule currently has Paramount+'s Fatal Attraction series as well as FX on Hulu’s Fleishman Is in Trouble. Caplan has signed on to play one of the three leads on the limited series based on Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s best-selling novel about a marriage gone wrong. The story.  —New studio plan just dropped. The city of Toronto has made it official: Hackman Capital Partners and its affiliate The MBS Group will develop and operate the Basin Media Hub, a $250 million purpose-built film studio on an 8.9-acre waterfront site. The story.  —Deal imminent. Staying with Hackman, the company, along with Square Mile Capital Management, is reportedly near a $1.8 billion deal with ViacomCBS for the 40-acre CBS Studio Center property in the Studio City neighborhood of Los Angeles. The story.  Review: Marvel's 'Hit-Monkey' ►"After a dull, cliche-ridden first half of the season, the show finally stops monkeying around." THR's chief TV critic Dan Fienberg reviews Hulu's new Marvel animated show Hit-Monkey. Aided by the ghost of a dead assassin voiced by Jason Sudeikis, a Japanese macaque dons a suit and sunglasses and goes on an animated killing spree targeting the yakuza in this adaptation of a limited-run comic. The review.  —Yes, it's really Tony Hawk. HBO has acquired Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off, a feature documentary about the legendary pro skateboarder. The film from Mark and Jay Duplass’ Duplass Brothers Productions and director Sam Jones will debut on HBO and then stream on HBO Max in 2022. The story.  —Standouts. Hazelight’s action-adventure platformer It Takes Two, first-person shooter Deathloop, platformer Psychonauts 2 and Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart all scored multiple noms for the eighth annual Game Awards. All those titles, plus horror survival game Resident Evil Village and action-adventure Metroid Dread, were nominated for the coveted game of the year category. The nominees. —Henmania! Hulu has picked up the U.S. rights to Bloods, the British paramedics comedy from Comcast-owned Sky. The news comes alongside news that a 10-episode second season of the show has been ordered. The Hulu deal, which includes the second season, will see Bloods become available in the U.S. on Dec. 9. The story.  In other news...  —Ed Westwick, Madalina Ghenea team for shark survival thriller Deep Fear —Oscars: Apple’s Blush and Aardman’s Robin Robin among animated shorts contenders —BAFTA names 1917 producer Pippa Harris vice president for television —David Harbour to star in thriller Violent Night —Exclusive: TikTok teams with Macro to award $50,000 grants to 10 Black creators  —Paul Rudd responds to headlines about his Sexiest Man Alive title —Exclusive excerpt: Paul Simon and Malcolm Gladwell team for new audiobook  —Uzo Aduba hopes Netflix Book Club series encourages audiences to read —James Lapine signs with WME —ILM plans expansion with virtual production stage in Vancouver —Lily Collins, Troye Sivan, Maisie Williams and Jackson Wang star in Cartier’s “Love Is All” —Stampede Ventures, UTA launch animation production company —Exclusive: Stitcher executive Drew Welborn rejoins WME as digital media agent  What else we're reading... —What Facebook Knew About Its Latino-aimed Disinformation Problem [Los Angeles Times] —Mel Gibson Is Living Proof That 'Cancel Culture’ Is Mostly Bullshit [Daily Beast] —Bobby Kotick Must Resign [Polygon] —One Of Netflix’s Worst Movies May Soon Be Its Most-Watched Film [Forbes] —Jai Bhim: The Indian film that overtook The Godfather on IMDB [BBC] Today...  ...in 1995, Eon and MGM relaunched the 007 series in theaters with Pierce Brosnan as James Bond in GoldenEye. The film went on to earn $352 million globally and Brosnan reprised the role three more times. The original review.  Today's birthdays: Martin Scorsese (79), Rachel McAdams (43), Leslie Bibb (47), Tom Ellis (43), Danny DeVito (77), Harry Lloyd (38), Sophie Marceau (55), Bojana Novakovic (40), Kara Hayward (23), Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (63), Zoë Bell (43), David Ramsey (50), RuPaul (61), Dylan Walsh (58),  Lorne Michaels (77), Daisy Fuentes (55), Roland Joffé (76), Shadi Mar'i (27) Heath Freeman, who starred as Gavin Dillon in legal drama Raising the Bar and played serial killer Howard Epps on Bones, has died. He was 41. The obituary.  This email was sent to aymentanaze.news@blogger.com by Penske Media Corporation. Please add email@email.hollywoodreporter.com to your address book to ensure delivery to your inbox. Visit the Preferences Center to update your profile and customize what email alerts and newsletters you receive. 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