“Killers of the Flower Moon,” Apple’s first major theatrical release, has generated $120 million globally after three weekends of release.
Is that a good result for a movie backed by a streaming service? A terrible outcome for a glowingly received, $200 million crime epic directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro? Or somewhere in between? Everyone who follows the movie business has a different take, so parsing these ticket sales could take longer than the film’s daunting three-hour-and-26-minute run time.
“I don’t see how its current global box office puts it in a position to turn a profit,” says Eric Handler, a senior media and entertainment analyst at Roth Capital Partners. “It will need to drive a lot of new subscribers to Apple TV+.”
If a traditional studio released “Killers of the Flower Moon,” it would be branded a flop. And Scorsese’s...
Is that a good result for a movie backed by a streaming service? A terrible outcome for a glowingly received, $200 million crime epic directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro? Or somewhere in between? Everyone who follows the movie business has a different take, so parsing these ticket sales could take longer than the film’s daunting three-hour-and-26-minute run time.
“I don’t see how its current global box office puts it in a position to turn a profit,” says Eric Handler, a senior media and entertainment analyst at Roth Capital Partners. “It will need to drive a lot of new subscribers to Apple TV+.”
If a traditional studio released “Killers of the Flower Moon,” it would be branded a flop. And Scorsese’s...
- 11/7/2023
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
The Hollywood Reporter thanks the following 322 members of the global film community — listed alphabetically — for taking the time to cast a ballot to help us determine the 100 greatest film books of all time.
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Seth Abramovitch
The Hollywood Reporter journalist/It Happened in Hollywood podcast host
Jo Addy
Soho House group film and entertainment director
Casey Affleck
Oscar-winning actor
Rutanya Alda
Author/actress
Stephanie Allain
Filmmaker
Victoria Alonso
Filmmaker/executive
Tony Angellotti
Publicist
Bonnie Arnold
Filmmaker/executive
Miguel Arteta
Filmmaker
Chris Auer
Filmmaker/film professor
John Badham
Filmmaker/film professor
Amy Baer
Executive
Matt Baer
Filmmaker
Lindsey Bahr
Journalist
Ramin Bahrani
Oscar-nominated filmmaker
Cameron Bailey
Toronto International Film Festival CEO/former film critic
John Bailey
Cinematographer/former Academy president
Bela Bajaria
Executive
Sean Baker
Filmmaker
Alec Baldwin
Oscar-nominated actor/author
Tino Balio
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- 10/12/2023
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jonathan Dolgen, the tough-minded dealmaker and skillful numbers-cruncher who spent a decade at Viacom working for Sumner Redstone and alongside Paramount Pictures head Sherry Lansing, has died. He was 78.
Dolgen died Monday evening of natural causes at UCLA Medical Center surrounded by his family, a publicist announced. He had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage in 2012.
A native of Queens and a former Wall Street lawyer, Dolgen also held top positions at Columbia Pictures, Fox and Sony Pictures before becoming the first top executive recruited by Redstone for the newly merged entertainment conglomerate forged by Viacom’s $8.2 billion purchase of Paramount Communications.
“I had known Dolgen off and on over the years when I was a motion picture exhibitor, even before I gained control of Viacom,” Redstone recalled in his 2001 book, Passion to Win. “He was with Columbia Pictures, and I remember sitting with him in one particular meeting that became rather heated and thinking,...
Dolgen died Monday evening of natural causes at UCLA Medical Center surrounded by his family, a publicist announced. He had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage in 2012.
A native of Queens and a former Wall Street lawyer, Dolgen also held top positions at Columbia Pictures, Fox and Sony Pictures before becoming the first top executive recruited by Redstone for the newly merged entertainment conglomerate forged by Viacom’s $8.2 billion purchase of Paramount Communications.
“I had known Dolgen off and on over the years when I was a motion picture exhibitor, even before I gained control of Viacom,” Redstone recalled in his 2001 book, Passion to Win. “He was with Columbia Pictures, and I remember sitting with him in one particular meeting that became rather heated and thinking,...
- 10/10/2023
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Casting director Russell Boast, producer Annabelle K. Frost, producer Nana Greenwald, writer-director Tamar Halpern, animator David Kuhn, producer-director Sheldon Larry and broadcast journalist May Lee have been hired as full-time faculty at Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts.
The new faculty members have worked on some of the most prominent film and television projects of the past 30 years, including the Harrison Ford starrer The Fugitive, David Fincher’s Seven and Disney’s Pocahontas. They will assume their new roles on Monday, Aug. 28, at the start of the 2023-24 academic year.
“This is an awe-inspiring group of teachers, whose range of experience adds a wealth of valuable knowledge to our already-impressive faculty,” said Stephen Galloway, dean of Dodge College. “I can only wish I’d had professors like this when I was in film school.”
Russell Boast, CSA, head of casting and co-head of the Screen Acting program at Dodge College,...
The new faculty members have worked on some of the most prominent film and television projects of the past 30 years, including the Harrison Ford starrer The Fugitive, David Fincher’s Seven and Disney’s Pocahontas. They will assume their new roles on Monday, Aug. 28, at the start of the 2023-24 academic year.
“This is an awe-inspiring group of teachers, whose range of experience adds a wealth of valuable knowledge to our already-impressive faculty,” said Stephen Galloway, dean of Dodge College. “I can only wish I’d had professors like this when I was in film school.”
Russell Boast, CSA, head of casting and co-head of the Screen Acting program at Dodge College,...
- 8/3/2023
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
(To celebrate "Titanic" and its impending 25th-anniversary re-release, we've put together a week of explorations, inquires, and deep dives into James Cameron's box office-smashing disaster epic.)
Those who were around for the 1997 release of James Cameron's film "Titanic" will likely recall that the knives were out. Stories of the film's production troubles were widely reported, the budget ballooned to unimaginable proportions (the final price tag was in the 200 million range), and many were skeptical about the film's ability to make money. "Titanic" was initially meant to be a summer release, but its opening was pushed back to December 19, 1997, right in the middle of awards season. Perhaps to Cameron's relief, the film opened at #1 at the box office.
It stayed at #1 at the box office until the release of "Lost in Space" ... the following April. "Titanic" was watched multiple times by a great many people, and became a legitimate phenomenon,...
Those who were around for the 1997 release of James Cameron's film "Titanic" will likely recall that the knives were out. Stories of the film's production troubles were widely reported, the budget ballooned to unimaginable proportions (the final price tag was in the 200 million range), and many were skeptical about the film's ability to make money. "Titanic" was initially meant to be a summer release, but its opening was pushed back to December 19, 1997, right in the middle of awards season. Perhaps to Cameron's relief, the film opened at #1 at the box office.
It stayed at #1 at the box office until the release of "Lost in Space" ... the following April. "Titanic" was watched multiple times by a great many people, and became a legitimate phenomenon,...
- 2/8/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
The Screen Actors Guild Awards are saved! Or at least, as much as any awards show can be saved these days. On December 11, SAG and Netflix announced that, after a stop at YouTube, the SAG Awards are heading to Netflix.
Next month, the SAG Awards will stream live on Netflix’s YouTube page, which has 25 million subscribers. It’s the first time in 25 years the acting-only awards show will not air on TNT and TBS, a pair of fully distributed cable channels now owned by the cost-conscious Warner Bros. Discovery. In 2024, the SAG Awards will stream live within the Netflix app itself which, at the end of 2022, had more than 223 million global paid subs.
SAG Awards viewers became scarce on cable: Last year’s ceremony averaged just 1.8 million Once the in-house Netflix tech catches up to what YouTube can do today, here comes Netflix to make it all Ok.
But...
Next month, the SAG Awards will stream live on Netflix’s YouTube page, which has 25 million subscribers. It’s the first time in 25 years the acting-only awards show will not air on TNT and TBS, a pair of fully distributed cable channels now owned by the cost-conscious Warner Bros. Discovery. In 2024, the SAG Awards will stream live within the Netflix app itself which, at the end of 2022, had more than 223 million global paid subs.
SAG Awards viewers became scarce on cable: Last year’s ceremony averaged just 1.8 million Once the in-house Netflix tech catches up to what YouTube can do today, here comes Netflix to make it all Ok.
But...
- 1/12/2023
- by Tony Maglio and Brian Welk
- Indiewire
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Robert J. Dowling, who carried The Hollywood Reporter to great heights during his 17-year run as the trade paper’s classy publisher and editor-in-chief, has died. He was 83.
Dowling died Friday at his home in Santa Monica after a short battle with cancer, a family spokesperson announced.
Dowling joined THR in September 1988, taking over from Tichi Wilkerson, widow of the newspaper’s founder, William R. Wilkerson, after she sold the company to BPI Communications for 26.7 million.
The publication saw huge growth under Dowling amid an explosion in media coverage of Hollywood, and he helped reshape THR into a fierce, underdog rival to the industry’s other five-days-a-week trade, Daily Variety.
THR’s Key Art Awards program (now known as the Clio Awards), its annual Women in Entertainment breakfast — and the accompanying Sherry Lansing Award — and its Next Generation initiative thrived under his leadership...
Robert J. Dowling, who carried The Hollywood Reporter to great heights during his 17-year run as the trade paper’s classy publisher and editor-in-chief, has died. He was 83.
Dowling died Friday at his home in Santa Monica after a short battle with cancer, a family spokesperson announced.
Dowling joined THR in September 1988, taking over from Tichi Wilkerson, widow of the newspaper’s founder, William R. Wilkerson, after she sold the company to BPI Communications for 26.7 million.
The publication saw huge growth under Dowling amid an explosion in media coverage of Hollywood, and he helped reshape THR into a fierce, underdog rival to the industry’s other five-days-a-week trade, Daily Variety.
THR’s Key Art Awards program (now known as the Clio Awards), its annual Women in Entertainment breakfast — and the accompanying Sherry Lansing Award — and its Next Generation initiative thrived under his leadership...
- 12/30/2022
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Jamie Lee Curtis, Janelle Monáe, Margot Robbie, Gracie Abrams and Addison Rae on Wednesday presented 1 million in university scholarships to high school seniors from underserved communities across Los Angeles with full-ride college scholarships.
The announcement was made at The Hollywood Reporter’s 2022 Women in Entertainment breakfast gala, presented by Lifetime, which was held at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles, in conjunction with the publication of the Women in Entertainment Power 100 list.
Curtis and Monáe teamed to kick off the scholarships presentation, with Curtis announcing that Lifetime would be presenting a 10,000 scholarship to each graduating mentee to the school of their choice.
“Janelle and I have a little surprise for the class of 2023, thanks to Casey Wasserman. Most of you don’t know this, but I am Casey’s godmother. I adore Casey and his family, and especially his grandmother and my godmother,...
Jamie Lee Curtis, Janelle Monáe, Margot Robbie, Gracie Abrams and Addison Rae on Wednesday presented 1 million in university scholarships to high school seniors from underserved communities across Los Angeles with full-ride college scholarships.
The announcement was made at The Hollywood Reporter’s 2022 Women in Entertainment breakfast gala, presented by Lifetime, which was held at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles, in conjunction with the publication of the Women in Entertainment Power 100 list.
Curtis and Monáe teamed to kick off the scholarships presentation, with Curtis announcing that Lifetime would be presenting a 10,000 scholarship to each graduating mentee to the school of their choice.
“Janelle and I have a little surprise for the class of 2023, thanks to Casey Wasserman. Most of you don’t know this, but I am Casey’s godmother. I adore Casey and his family, and especially his grandmother and my godmother,...
- 12/7/2022
- by Lexy Perez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It starts with elephant feces and ends with a random clip from “Avatar.”
That narrative leap, one lubricated with scatology and film history, sums up the bulky 188-minute “Babylon” after its first initial, somewhat puzzling screening at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills on Monday evening.
Chazelle’s film is the one of the last awards hopefuls to drop this season. It’s the latest project from an Oscar-winning auteur who has seemed to receive carte blanche on his projects, a practice which is likely coming to an end (as it should). As the significant fall festivals like Telluride, Toronto, New York and AFI passed by, speculation arose regarding the quality of “Babylon,” since Chazelle’s previous films – “Whiplash” (2014), “La La Land” (2016) and “First Man” (2018) — had all made stops at multiple fests before opening. So can we assume that Paramount was nervous about it?
Given the divisive reactions to...
That narrative leap, one lubricated with scatology and film history, sums up the bulky 188-minute “Babylon” after its first initial, somewhat puzzling screening at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills on Monday evening.
Chazelle’s film is the one of the last awards hopefuls to drop this season. It’s the latest project from an Oscar-winning auteur who has seemed to receive carte blanche on his projects, a practice which is likely coming to an end (as it should). As the significant fall festivals like Telluride, Toronto, New York and AFI passed by, speculation arose regarding the quality of “Babylon,” since Chazelle’s previous films – “Whiplash” (2014), “La La Land” (2016) and “First Man” (2018) — had all made stops at multiple fests before opening. So can we assume that Paramount was nervous about it?
Given the divisive reactions to...
- 11/15/2022
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Damien Chazelle’s manic vision of a wild, wild west Hollywood heyday, “Babylon,” screened for the very first time November 14 in Los Angeles for Academy members and select press. The collective reaction in a packed, mostly enthusiastic house was, “That was a lot of movie.” Responses on Twitter (social reactions were encouraged while reviews remain under embargo ahead of the film’s wide Christmas Day release) from the press corps ranged from marveling over the film’s druggy over-the-topness to bewilderment over its wildly swinging tones. See them rounded up below.
Indeed, set in a debaucherous mid-1920s when Los Angeles was still a half-formed desert town, “Babylon” is essentially a three-hour-plus bender of a movie that pummels the audience with Boschian-level set pieces of Jazz Era decadence — mountains of cocaine, graphic overdoses, scatological humor, projectile vomiting, horror-movie-style sex dungeons, murder, suicide, and rattlesnake wrestling. Other than breakout Diego Calva,...
Indeed, set in a debaucherous mid-1920s when Los Angeles was still a half-formed desert town, “Babylon” is essentially a three-hour-plus bender of a movie that pummels the audience with Boschian-level set pieces of Jazz Era decadence — mountains of cocaine, graphic overdoses, scatological humor, projectile vomiting, horror-movie-style sex dungeons, murder, suicide, and rattlesnake wrestling. Other than breakout Diego Calva,...
- 11/15/2022
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
It should come as little surprise that Netflix doesn’t plan to report box office grosses for “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery,” which opens in theaters later this month. Since the streamer never discloses financials, there’s not much of a case to crack when it comes to that particular puzzle.
But given the lack of transparency around ticket sales, will anyone aside from Benoit Blanc be able to peel back the layers on the success or failure of director Rian Johnson’s anticipated whodunit? Without box office figures or tangible streaming metrics, there won’t be a clear way to determine whether Netflix made a good deal when it spent more than 450 million for the rights to two sequels to “Knives Out.”
“It’s a very big investment,” says Stephen Galloway, the dean of the Chapman University film school. But Netflix hasn’t wavered on its streaming-first mission.
But given the lack of transparency around ticket sales, will anyone aside from Benoit Blanc be able to peel back the layers on the success or failure of director Rian Johnson’s anticipated whodunit? Without box office figures or tangible streaming metrics, there won’t be a clear way to determine whether Netflix made a good deal when it spent more than 450 million for the rights to two sequels to “Knives Out.”
“It’s a very big investment,” says Stephen Galloway, the dean of the Chapman University film school. But Netflix hasn’t wavered on its streaming-first mission.
- 11/7/2022
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
The dust from Will Smith’s Oscar slap still hasn’t cleared. As The New York Times reports, the highly publicized altercation between the “King Richard” Best Actor winner and comedian Chris Rock has ignited an internal debate at Apple as executives reconsider delaying their release of Smith’s next awards season hopeful: his upcoming Civil War drama, “Emancipation,” for which the studio paid a staggering 120 million to acquire in 2020.
Although Apple pushed the film’s release to 2023 in May following Smith’s public fallout, three people involved with the film speaking anonymously with The Times said that Apple staffers have discussed releasing “Emancipation” by the end of this year, within the window of eligibility for awards consideration. But such a move naturally raises the question: What would that release and subsequent awards campaign even look like?
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Although Apple pushed the film’s release to 2023 in May following Smith’s public fallout, three people involved with the film speaking anonymously with The Times said that Apple staffers have discussed releasing “Emancipation” by the end of this year, within the window of eligibility for awards consideration. But such a move naturally raises the question: What would that release and subsequent awards campaign even look like?
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- 9/19/2022
- by Loree Seitz
- The Wrap
The Hollywood Reporter is expanding its award-winning Roundtables series to a first-ever event with a live audience.
Selected awards voters and THR readers will be invited to watch an intimate discussion with some of Hollywood's most respected actors, on Thursday, Dec. 7, in Los Angeles. Several major awards contenders are slated to participate in the event, which will be hosted by THR executive editor features Stephen Galloway and moderated by THR editorial director Matthew Belloni.
The Live Roundtable will break from tradition and mix male and female actors at the invite-only event, filmed before an audience of Hollywood insiders and...
Selected awards voters and THR readers will be invited to watch an intimate discussion with some of Hollywood's most respected actors, on Thursday, Dec. 7, in Los Angeles. Several major awards contenders are slated to participate in the event, which will be hosted by THR executive editor features Stephen Galloway and moderated by THR editorial director Matthew Belloni.
The Live Roundtable will break from tradition and mix male and female actors at the invite-only event, filmed before an audience of Hollywood insiders and...
- 11/10/2017
- by THR Staff
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Helen Mirren and Patrick Stewart are among the top talent who will be taking part in season 8 of Loyola Marymount University School of Film and Television's The Hollywood Masters, hosted by The Hollywood Reporter's executive editor, features, Stephen Galloway.
The new season kicks off Sept 27 with Mirren, followed by filmmakers Darren Aronofsky and Guillermo del Toro, Patrick Stewart and James Franco.
The join a lineup of participants that has included Clint Eastwood, Jane Fonda, Michael Caine, Sean Penn, Amy Adams, Oliver Stone, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, David O. Russell and Aaron Sorkin. Season 1 of the series currently is <a...
The new season kicks off Sept 27 with Mirren, followed by filmmakers Darren Aronofsky and Guillermo del Toro, Patrick Stewart and James Franco.
The join a lineup of participants that has included Clint Eastwood, Jane Fonda, Michael Caine, Sean Penn, Amy Adams, Oliver Stone, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, David O. Russell and Aaron Sorkin. Season 1 of the series currently is <a...
- 9/20/2017
- by THR Staff
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
<em>This is the debut of a new regular column about the industry and related matters by Stephen Galloway, </em>THR<em>'s executive editor, features.</em>
It's a Thursday morning in late May and I'm sitting in a claustrophobic courtroom in downtown Los Angeles, about 20 feet from one of the most notorious serial killers in recent history.
In just a few days, on June 6, Lonnie David Franklin Jr. — better known as the Grim Sleeper — will be sentenced to death for the murder of 10 women, many of them African-American prostitutes, most addicted to crack cocaine. He is ...
It's a Thursday morning in late May and I'm sitting in a claustrophobic courtroom in downtown Los Angeles, about 20 feet from one of the most notorious serial killers in recent history.
In just a few days, on June 6, Lonnie David Franklin Jr. — better known as the Grim Sleeper — will be sentenced to death for the murder of 10 women, many of them African-American prostitutes, most addicted to crack cocaine. He is ...
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