| | What's news: It's magazine day! This week's cover stars are the team behind buzzy awards contender The Fabelmans. Paramount+ has hit 46m subscribers. Ricky Gervais called out James Corden for plagiarizing a joke. Starz has renewed Dangerous Liaisons for a second season. Netflix has canceled Fate: The Winx Saga. Lupita Nyong’o will star in A Quiet Place: Day One. — Abid Rahman |
Steven Spielberg: The Origin Story ►On the cover. In The Fabelmans, starring Michelle Williams, Paul Dano and Gabriel LeBelle, Steven Spielberg finally tells his own coming-of-age saga, mining family secrets and the antisemitic bullying of his youth as well as the obsession with filmmaking that helped him process it all. Shot in faithfully reconstructed versions of Spielberg’s childhood homes in New Jersey, Arizona and California, the film features re-creations of scenes from 8mm and 16mm movies the legendary filmmaker had made as a kid. Spielberg opens up to THR's Rebecca Keegan about his mother and father, Leah Adler and Arnold Spielberg, and the making of his most vulnerable film: "My life with my mom and dad taught me a lesson, which I hope this film in a small way imparts." The cover story. —Still growing. Paramount Global reached nearly 67m streaming subscribers worldwide as of the end of September, up from 63.7m as of the end of June. The Paramount+ streaming platform added 4.6m global subscribers in the July-September period to hit 46m. But the streamer’s user base now does not include 1.9m subscribers in the Nordics anymore who were migrated to SkyShowtime. The results. —"I can't believe that we ain’t talking about basketball — we're talking about this idiot." Charles Barkley and Shaquille O’Neal had a lot to say about Kyrie Irving tweeting support for a documentary film that features antisemitic tropes. During TNT’s Inside the NBA on Tuesday, Barkley slammed Irving and said the league "dropped the ball" in not suspending the Brooklyn Nets player immediately after his controversial Twitter post. The story. —"This is the first time anyone’s going to see me the way I am." Christina Applegate says she was adamant about returning to finish the final season of Dead to Me after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. In a new interview, the actress opened up about the Netflix series’ five-month hiatus following her diagnosis as well as her desire to be open about the changes in her physical appearance. The story. —The bad luck continues. James Corden is under fire once again after a joke he made in his Monday monologue on The Late Late Show was shown to be a nearly verbatim copy of one made by comedian Ricky Gervais in his Netflix special Humanity — a fact that Gervais himself pointed out on Twitter. Midday Tuesday, Corden acknowledged it was Gervais’ joke on his Twitter feed yet stopped short of an apology. The story. |
The CW's New President Outlines "Scrappy" Strategy ►It's official. THR's Lesley Goldberg reports that former Pop TV president Brad Schwartz has been tapped to serve as entertainment president at the Nexstar-controlled CW. The exec talks to Lesley about the future of the network’s current originals and mandates to make broader, highly watched originals that also happen to be profitable. Schwartz says the CW will need to be “scrappy” and “nimble” going forward. The interview. —"Addictive, provocative and beautifully rendered." Starz has handed out an early second-season renewal to Dangerous Liaisons, days before the period drama’s Nov. 6 premiere. The series is described as a modern reimagining of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' 18th century novel set in pre-Revolution France. Created by Harriet Warner, the drama stars Alice Englert as Camille, Nicholas Denton as Pascal Valmont and Lesley Manville as Geneviève de Merteuil. The story. —No return to the Otherworld. Netflix has canceled its teen drama series Fate: The Winx Saga after two seasons. Developer and showrunner Bryan Young announced the cancellation in an Instagram post Tuesday. The series debuted in January 2021 and spent three weeks in the top 10 of Nielsen’s U.S. streaming charts for original shows. Season two fell off the Nielsen rankings after two weeks. The story. —🎭 Casting news 🎭 Lupita Nyong’o is in final negotiations to lead Paramount’s A Quiet Place: Day One. The film is a spinoff of A Quiet Place, which in 2018 became a surprise hit in the hands of director and star John Krasinski. It earned $340.9m on a $17m budget. The Krainski-directed A Quiet Place: Part 2 followed in 2021 and earned $297.3m. Pig filmmaker Michael Sarnoski will direct Day One, based on an original idea from Krasinski, with the film due out March 8, 2024. The story. | Daniel Radcliffe on Going "Weird" in His Post-Potter Career ►"That’s the wonderful thing about the reputation I now apparently have." Over a decade after leaving the Harry Potter franchise, Daniel Radcliffe has used an "autonomy and freedom that any actor would kill for" to amass a wildly eclectic array of film credits, with roles including a flatulent corpse, a beat poet, a man with guns bolted to his hands and music parody hero 'Weird' Al Yankovic. THR's man in London Alex Ritman spoke to Radcliffe about his fun-first approach to picking parts. The interview. —E-commerce push. Disney+ launched a pilot program in which U.S. subscribers have special access to Disney merchandise. Disney+ subscribers can now buy merchandise from Star Wars, Marvel's Black Panther and Doctor Strange 2 before the public and will get exclusive access to merchandise from Frozen 2 and Lightyear. THR's Caitlin Huston writes that this is the first big push into e-commerce for Disney+, following reporting that Disney was exploring an Amazon Prime style membership program. The story. —"What are the rules now? Should we never do a movie about a tyrant?" In a new profile with the NYT, Ryan Murphy defended the criticism around Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. Speaking to Maureen Dowd, Murphy said he took on Dahmer’s story in order to shed light on the racism and homophobia that defined the case. The story. —Feature debut. Nida Manzoor’s action-comedy Polite Society will open in theaters on April 28, 2023, following its U.K. debut on April 7. The film marks the first feature directed by Manzoor, creator of the critically acclaimed series We Are Lady Parts. Working Title’s Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner are producing Polite Society alongside Parkville Pictures’ Olivier Kaempfer and John Pocock. The story. |
Jordan Klepper on Covering "Consequential Midterms" In Special ►"I go to these rallies, and I hear them talk about JFK Jr., and it blows my mind." Ahead of the midterms, THR's Abbey White spoke to comedian Jordan Klepper about his latest half-hour Daily Show special, Jordan Klepper Fingers The Midterms: America Unfollows Democracy. Klepper discusses how political journalists aren’t like Daily Show correspondents and the future of the Comedy Central late night show following Trevor Noah’s departure. The interview. —Near clean sweep. Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s multi-layered thriller The Beasts was the big winner of the Tokyo International Film Festival’s major awards categories handed out on Wednesday. The Beasts came away with the Tokyo Grand Prix, the festival’s top honor, as well as best director honors for Sorogoyen and best actor for his star Denis Menochet. The winners. —Ramping up. Netflix will add five new execs to the advertising team as the streamer prepares to launch its ad-supported tier on Nov. 3. Beginning on Nov. 14, the ad team — led by Jeremi Gorman, Netflix’s president of worldwide advertising — will include execs coming from Amazon, YouTube and TikTok, as well as additional poaches from Snap. Julie DeTraglia will serve as vp ads measurement strategy. The story. —Coming this winter. Anthony Rapp’s one-man show is coming to Off-Broadway in January. Without You, which is based on the actor’s NYT best-selling memoir of the same name, will open at New World Stages on Jan. 25 for a limited engagement run through April 30. Previews will start Jan. 14. Directed by Steven Maler with music direction by Daniel A. Weiss, the story begins with Rapp in 1994 at the age of 22. The story. |
AFM 2022: Day 2 ►Schlock and awe. For 25 years the resourceful genre specialists and AFM regulars at The Asylum have carved out a gleefully cheesy Hollywood niche through a savvy mix of extremely low-budget quickies, well-timed "mockbusters" and sharks — lots and lots of sharks. THR's Alex Ritman spoke to The Asylum's COO Paul Bales about how the company is now taking its unique model to television. The story. —Dream team. Mads Mikkelsen is set to reunite with his Hannibal creator Bryan Fuller on the newly announced feature Dust Bunny. Entertainment One and Thunder Road will co-produce with Fuller, who will write, direct and produce alongside Thunder Road’s Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee. Sierra/Affinity is handling global sales and will introduce the project to buyers at AFM. The story. —Back in business. Jean-Claude Van Damme is set to flex his more dramatic muscles in upcoming neo-noir action film Darkness of Man. The feature — being introduced to buyers at AFM by VMI Worldwide — comes from director James Cullen Bressack and has been likened to the grittier titles in Van Damme’s impressive library, such as JCVD and The Bouncer. The story. —Snapped up. Music Box Films has picked up U.S. rights for L’Immensità, the new drama from Italian director Emanuele Crialese starring Oscar winner Penélope Cruz. L’Immensità premiered in competition at the Venice Film Festival in September. Music Box is planning a theatrical bow in the U.S. next year. The story. More from AFM... —AFM first look: Saoirse Ronan in adaptation of best-selling memoir The Outrun —AFM flashback: Good Will Hunting saw goodwill at the market pre-Oscars |
Film Review: 'The Independent' ►"Watchable if not exactly rippling with tension." THR's chief film critic David Rooney reviews Amy Rice's The Independent. John Cena, Jodie Turner-Smith, Brian Cox and Ann Dowd star in this Peacock political drama about a corrupted U.S. presidential faceoff that could break the country's two-party gridlock. The review. In other news... —Avatar: The Way Of Water trailer takes to the oceans of Pandora —TV ratings: NCIS earns seven-day season high —Dish adds 30,000 pay TV subscribers as Sling gains outweigh satellite TV losses —Rachel Shenton joins Renny Harlin’s The Strangers remake for Lionsgate —E.T. goes on the auction block in December —Nomadland filmmaker Chloé Zhao signs with CAA —Paul Hewitt out as head of PR at The CW as Nexstar trims workforce —Santa Barbara Film Fest: 8 tapped for Virtuosos Award —Designer Jenni Kayne lists Santa Ynez ranch for $6m What else we're reading... —Alison Flood looks at how manga conquered the world [Guardian] —Tim Loh and Kim Bhasin go inside the final days of Adidas' partnership with Kanye West's Yeezy brand [Bloomberg] —Anthony Breznican has the inside story on the floating boys scene from Salem’s Lot, one of the creepiest scenes in TV history [VF] —Jon Caramanica pays tribute to Takeoff and reflects on how the late rapper and Migos changed Atlanta rap [NYT] —This is an incredible story: "Julia Roberts says Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King paid the hospital bill for her birth" [NBC News] Today... Today's birthdays: Peter Mullan (63), David Schwimmer (56), Jon M. Chu (43), Shah Rukh Khan (57), Naomi Ackie (30), Karamo Brown (42), Marisol Nichols (49), Reshma Shetty (45), Katharine Isabelle (41), Stefanie Powers (80), Sean Kanan (56), Demi Isaac Oviawe (22), Samantha Womack (50), Luna Lauren Velez (58), Gabriella Pession (45), Erika Flores (44), Brittany Ishibashi (42), Alyshia Ochse (42), Jaume Balagueró (54), Brandon Soo Hoo (27), Jesse Kove (32), K.D. Lang (61) |
| Julie Powell, whose blog and book about cooking Julia Child recipes led to Amy Adams portraying her opposite Meryl Streep in the 2009 movie Julie & Julia, written and directed by Nora Ephron, has died. She was 49. The obituary. |
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