| | | | What's news: The 2022 Emmys telecast hit a new low for viewership. A24 is making a third X film. Lionsgate is rebooting The Strangers as a film trilogy. Joker 2 adds rising star Jacob Lofland to cast. YouTube paid out $6b to music artists this year — Abid Rahman |
Laura Poitras Slams Hillary Clinton's Festival Appearances ►"Engaging in a form of whitewashing." Hillary Clinton’s fall festival tour generated plenty of bemusement and column inches, and those appearances have now come under fire from Venice Golden Lion winner Laura Poitras. Speaking at TIFF, Poitras said the current effort by the U.S. government to charge Julian Assange, which Clinton herself could influence, is "literally the most important issue facing journalism globally right now." The story.
—🎭 Casting news 🎭 THR's Borys Kit has the scoop on rising actor Jacob Lofland nabbing a key role in Joker: Folie à Deux, Todd Philips' sequel to Joker. In a key supporting role, Lofland will play an inmate at the asylum who develops a relationship with Arthur Fleck, aka The Joker. The Mud actor joins Lady Gaga, Brendan Gleeson and Catherine Keener on the call sheet. The story.
—"We remain laser focused on becoming the number one contributor of revenue for the industry." YouTube said it has paid more than $6b to the music industry between July 2021 and June 2022, representing a $2b increase from the $4b in payments the company announced last year. User-generated content accounted for 30 percent of the payouts to artists, songwriters and rights holders, the company said. The story.
—Moving up. UTA has promoted two of its top agents to new executive roles at the talent agency. David Kramer has been promoted to UTA president, while Jay Sures has been named vice chairman. CEO Jeremy Zimmer shared the news with staff Tuesday. Kramer has overseen UTA’s film business and helped develop new lines of business like podcasting and publishing. The story.
—Moving on. Paramount Global is shaking up its global advertising and partnerships team, with Jo Ann Ross stepping aside as the company’s ad sales chief after 30 years with the company. Ross will shift to a role as chairman of Paramount advertising, an advisory role. John Halley is the new president of advertising. The story. |
Five Emmy Narratives to Expect in 2023 ►Is Emmy season ever really over? With the 2022 Emmys over, it's time to look ahead to the 2023 awards show! OK, it's a little early but THR's Mikey O'Connell writes persuasively that the TV awards race has ballooned into a year-round affair. With that in mind, here are a few themes to watch out for next Emmy season. The story.
—Big yikes! Back to the 2022 Emmys, and the telecast fell to an all-time low in viewers for the third time in the past four years. NBC’s broadcast averaged 5.92m viewers, the first time it has fallen below the 6m mark. The previous low came in 2020, when 6.36m people watched ABC’s telecast. Monday’s show averaged a 1.09 rating among adults 18-49, also an all-time low for the Emmys. The ratings.
—Orange soda kinda night. THR's nicest man, and budding gumshoe, Chris Gardner tracked down Kel Mitchell and made him spill on his much loved, and all too brief, appearance at Monday's Emmys. Speaking at the Governors Ball, Mitchell explained how the surprise Kenan & Kel reunion came about. The story.
—The people's champ. During Emmys telecast, Twitter users showered their favorite stars and shows with praise — and one show, and one actress, stood out from the crowd. According to data compiled by the social media giant on Monday evening in the U.S., Sheryl Lee Ralph — who won best supporting actress in a comedy series for her work in Abbott Elementary — was mentioned more than 150,000 times on Twitter, making her the most tweeted-about Emmy nominee for the night. The story.
—10 things the TV cameras missed. Monday's telecast of the Emmys could only capture so much. With so many A-listers in one room, most of the best moments — from star interactions to standing ovations — often go unseen. Fret not, THR was on the red carpet, backstage, in the room and at the afterparties to catch all the action. Here’s what the cameras missed. The story. |
FX Enters Stand-Up Arena With Hulu Specials ►Laughing it up. FX is getting into the stand-up comedy business and will debut a pair of stand-up specials on Sept. 15 on Hulu. Kate Berlant: Cinnamon in the Wind and Byron Bowers: Spiritual N***a are the first stand-up specials FX has produced and will add to Hulu’s small library of stand-up sets. The story.
—Triple X. A24 and director Ti West have unveiled MaXXXine as the third film set in the world of their X slasher horror franchise. West will write and direct MaXXXine, with Mia Goth reprising one of her two roles in X. The announcement was made at TIFF during a screening of Pearl at the Royal Alexander Theatre. The story.
—Stranger danger. Lionsgate is remaking The Strangers, with Madelaine Petsch to star and Renny Harlin directing. Gabe Basso and Froy Gutierrez will co-star in the movie set to become a trilogy of titles shot in Bratislava, Slovakia. The films are a reboot of the 2008 psychological thriller of the same name that starred Scott Speedman and Liv Tyler. The story.
—This Week in TV. THR's Rick Porter runs down the TV premieres, returns and specials over the next seven days. Among the things to look out for over the coming week include the season five premier of Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale, a new season of The Great British Baking Show and Thursday Night Football and Dancing With the Stars moving to their new streaming homes. The full guide. |
Critic's Picks: 5 Best Jean-Luc Godard Films ►So many classics to choose from. THR’s Paris-based film critic Jordan Mintzer chooses his favorite works by Jean-Luc Godard who died at 91 on Sept. 13. The bold and brilliant Franco-Swiss auteur sparked the New Wave and made over 70 features, documentaries, shorts and TV films. The Godard selection.
—"One of the most influential, iconoclastic." Hollywood stars, filmmakers and other industry members, including Antonio Banderas, Edgar Wright, Cameron Bailey and Emmanuel Macron, took to social media to remember Jean-Luc Godard and pay tribute to the movie revolutionary. The reaction. |
Film Review: 'Moving On'►"A tough sell of a revenge comedy." THR critic Michael Rechtshaffen reviews Paul Weitz's Moving On. Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin star in this revenge comedy, which had its world premiere at TIFF, about estranged friends who reunite to settle an old score. The review. — "A poignantly entertaining tragicomedy." Michael reviews Rodrigo Garcia's Raymond & Ray. Ewan McGregor and Ethan Hawke play half-siblings who reunite to attend their abusive father's funeral in this buddy comedy premiering in Toronto before heading to Apple TV+ this fall. The review. — "Goes flat awfully fast." Michael reviews Peter Farrelly's The Greatest Beer Run Ever. Zac Efron, Russell Crowe and Bill Murray star in this quirky true story from the Vietnam War. The review. — "Not required viewing." THR's Lovia Gyarkye reviews Catherine Hardwicke's Prisoner's Daughter. In the Twilight director's latest feature, which premiered at Toronto, a dying convict (Brian Cox) tries to reconnect with his daughter (Kate Beckinsale). The review. — "Aesthetically magnetic, narratively dubious." Lovia reviews Stephen Williams' Chevalier. Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Samara Weaving star in this ambitious biopic of Chevalier de Saint-Georges, a Creole virtuoso violinist in 18th century France. The review. — "Not da bomb." THR's Dan Fienberg reviews Oliver Stone's Nuclear. Premiering at the Venice Film Festival, Stone's new documentary makes the case for nuclear power as a wrongfully maligned solution to our climate change crisis. The review. In other news... —Oscars: Austria submits Corsage as entry, debuts trailer —Zurich: Asghar Farhadi named president of competition jury —NYT to sell $95 at-home cooking kits curated by guest chefs —A retreat house for writers opens in Lake Arrowhead, complete with a creation doula —Bob Iger joins VC firm Thrive Capital —Guy Raz takes on the celebrity interview in new podcast What else we're reading... —Noah Goldberg, Richard Winton and Libor Jany write that the robbery killings of rappers PnB Rock and Pop Smoke have heightened worries about social media vulnerability [ LAT] —Critic Manohla Dargis pens a heartfelt tribute to the late Jean-Luc Godard [ NYT] —Shirin Ghaffary writes that the Twitter whistleblower made a convincing case that Twitter is a mess [ Vox] —Shilpa Jamkhandikar and Krishna N. Das write that Netflix and Korean dramas may have broken the Bollywood movie machine [ Reuters] —Julia Davis reports on the rather bizarre spectacle of Russian state TV talking heads calling on the leadership to admit "serious defeat" [ Daily Beast] Today... Today's birthdays: Bong Joon Ho (53), Tyler Perry (53), Melissa Leo (62), Sam Neill (75), Andrew Lincoln (49), Bryan Woods (38), Jessica Brown Findlay (33), Emma Kenney (23), Kimberly Williams-Paisley (51), Haviland Morris (63), Petr Jákl (49), Robert Wisdom (69), Pat Healy (51), Kristen Renton (40), Walter Koenig (86), Howard Deutch (72), Robert Ben Garant (52), Shannon Kane (37), Miyavi (41), Michael Böllner (64) |
| Gayle S. Maffeo, the three-time Emmy-nominated producer who worked on the first season of Roseanne and all eight seasons of another hit ABC sitcom, the Tim Allen-starring Home Improvement, has died. She was 81. The obituary. |
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