'Frozen 2' $100M-Plus Debut; Why Apple Pulled 'The Banker'; 'Richard Jewell' Review; Producer Roundtable

What's news: The weekend box office belongs to Frozen 2, why Apple canceled The Banker premiere at the last minute, Richard Jewell's controversial debut, Kathleen Kennedy and the future of Star Wars. Plus: THR's Producer Roundtable, and what happened at last night's debate. --Alex Weprin [The Hollywood Reporter]( [The Hollywood Reporter]( Today In Entertainment NOVEMBER 21, 2019 What's news: The weekend box office belongs to Frozen 2, why Apple canceled The Banker premiere at the last minute, Richard Jewell's controversial debut, Kathleen Kennedy and the future of Star Wars. Plus: THR's Producer Roundtable, and what happened at last night's debate. --Alex Weprin What's news: The weekend box office belongs to Frozen 2, why Apple canceled The Banker premiere at the last minute, Richard Jewell's controversial debut, Kathleen Kennedy and the future of Star Wars. Plus: THR's Producer Roundtable, and what happened at last night's debate. --Alex Weprin ['Frozen 2' To Ice Out Box Office Competitors] 'Frozen 2' To Ice Out Box Office Competitors ►Box office: Walt Disney Animation's Frozen 2 is expected to melt hearts at the struggling November box office with a strong domestic debut of $100 million-plus this weekend, Pamela McClintock reports. If that happens, the sequel — which continues the adventures of royal sisters Anna and Elsa six years after they made their big screen debut — could be the first animated pic outside of summer to hit the century mark in its opening. It would also prove to be a much-needed boost for Hollywood as the year-end holidays commence. --Meanwhile: Fellow new offering A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, starring Tom Hanks as the late Fred Rogers, will be hoping to win over adults. Sony's biographical drama is tracking to open in the $15 million range, and the studio's Christmas wish will be for the film to have long legs throughout the holidays and awards season. 21 Bridges is tracking to debut in the $10 million to $14 million range domestically. [The preview](. ►Apple cancels The Banker AFI Fest premiere. Just one day before its scheduled Nov. 21 debut, where it was set to close the festival, the tech giant says "Last week some concerns surrounding the film were brought to our attention. We, along with the filmmakers, need some time to look into these matters and determine the best next steps." [The story](. +The premiere was canceled amid sexual abuse claims against the real-life subject's son. Paul Bond reports that Cynthia and Sheila Garrett allege they were assaulted by their half-brother Bernard Garrett Jr., the son of the subject of the drama. Garrett Jr., initially billed as a co-producer of The Banker, was supposed to be one of its faces, along with stars Samuel L. Jackson and Anthony Mackie, during the film’s press tour. [The story](. ►Richard Jewell criticized for suggesting female journalist traded sex for information. The film implies that the newspaper journalist, played by Olivia Wilde, has sex with a FBI agent in exchange for information about the Atlanta Olympic bombing investigation despite a lack of evidence that the incident happened in real-life, Mia Galuppo reports. "It's a very dramatic story, anyway," says Kevin Riley, the editor-in-chief of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "Why would a storyteller decide to add a detail that is not only insulting but is unnecessary to the drama." [The story.]( +Review: Todd McCarthy reviews Richard Jewell, writing that it is "a lively and none-too-flattering look at the 'media lynching' of a sad sack security guard the press decided was responsible for a deadly bombing at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games." Quote: "The film loses a bit of steam in the final stretch, but there is climactic strength in Jewell’s brewing sense of purpose and self-respect, which contrasts with the abiding conviction of Hamm’s FBI man that Jewell remains 'guilty as hell.' Eastwood echoes notions that have surfaced in his earlier movies about the gap between American ideals and the more troubling reality of life." [The review](. Star Wars uncertainty extends to Kathleen Kennedy's Disney future. The Lucasfilm chief has a director lined up for a 2022 film even as she has yet to settle on the direction for the marquee franchise's 'evolving' mythology — or her own future, Kim Masters reports. "[W]ith or without Kennedy, sources say it seems likely that [Jon] Favreau will have a lot of say over the future of Star Wars." [The story](. +Also: MGM has tapped rising filmmaker Abe Forsythe, the helmer of the Lupita Nyong’o zombie comedy Little Monsters, [to direct](Robocop Returns... Dexter Fletcher, who last directed the Elton John biopic Rocketman, will direct Renfield, a [Universal Pictures monster movie]( tethered to the world of Dracula... What would a Joker-style Lex Luthor movie[look like](? ►James Dean movie directors initially wanted a CGI Elvis Presley. After getting knock-backs from a couple of still very much alive A-list names, Anton Ernst and Tati Golykh originally had their eyes on the King, but were turned down by his estate, Alex Ritman reports. Presley has already had a brief digital outing, popping up as a malfunctioning hologram in a scene from Blade Runner 2049. [The story](. Elsewhere in film... --Paramount [has picked up]( the rights to Jonathan Behr's short film The Follower and the accompanying pitch by screenwriter Aaron W. Sala. --A24's Showtime deal [bolsters]( the indie studio's ambitions. --Sony Pictures [has acquired]( the global rights to upcoming Russian horror thriller Tvar (Beast) with plans to adapt the film for markets around the world. --The Toronto Film Festival is [set to lay off](15 employees as the prestigious September event rethinks its Audience First 2018 to 2022 strategic plan. --How Ford v Ferrari sound team [found the real revs]( and roars of classic cars. 'Frozen 2' To Ice Out Box Office Competitors ►Box office: Walt Disney Animation's Frozen 2 is expected to melt hearts at the struggling November box office with a strong domestic debut of $100 million-plus this weekend, Pamela McClintock reports. If that happens, the sequel — which continues the adventures of royal sisters Anna and Elsa six years after they made their big screen debut — could be the first animated pic outside of summer to hit the century mark in its opening. It would also prove to be a much-needed boost for Hollywood as the year-end holidays commence. --Meanwhile: Fellow new offering A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, starring Tom Hanks as the late Fred Rogers, will be hoping to win over adults. Sony's biographical drama is tracking to open in the $15 million range, and the studio's Christmas wish will be for the film to have long legs throughout the holidays and awards season. 21 Bridges is tracking to debut in the $10 million to $14 million range domestically. [The preview](. ►Apple cancels The Banker AFI Fest premiere. Just one day before its scheduled Nov. 21 debut, where it was set to close the festival, the tech giant says "Last week some concerns surrounding the film were brought to our attention. We, along with the filmmakers, need some time to look into these matters and determine the best next steps." [The story](. +The premiere was canceled amid sexual abuse claims against the real-life subject's son. Paul Bond reports that Cynthia and Sheila Garrett allege they were assaulted by their half-brother Bernard Garrett Jr., the son of the subject of the drama. Garrett Jr., initially billed as a co-producer of The Banker, was supposed to be one of its faces, along with stars Samuel L. Jackson and Anthony Mackie, during the film’s press tour. [The story](. ►Richard Jewell criticized for suggesting female journalist traded sex for information. The film implies that the newspaper journalist, played by Olivia Wilde, has sex with a FBI agent in exchange for information about the Atlanta Olympic bombing investigation despite a lack of evidence that the incident happened in real-life, Mia Galuppo reports. "It's a very dramatic story, anyway," says Kevin Riley, the editor-in-chief of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "Why would a storyteller decide to add a detail that is not only insulting but is unnecessary to the drama." [The story.]( +Review: Todd McCarthy reviews Richard Jewell, writing that it is "a lively and none-too-flattering look at the 'media lynching' of a sad sack security guard the press decided was responsible for a deadly bombing at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games." Quote: "The film loses a bit of steam in the final stretch, but there is climactic strength in Jewell’s brewing sense of purpose and self-respect, which contrasts with the abiding conviction of Hamm’s FBI man that Jewell remains 'guilty as hell.' Eastwood echoes notions that have surfaced in his earlier movies about the gap between American ideals and the more troubling reality of life." [The review](. Star Wars uncertainty extends to Kathleen Kennedy's Disney future. The Lucasfilm chief has a director lined up for a 2022 film even as she has yet to settle on the direction for the marquee franchise's 'evolving' mythology — or her own future, Kim Masters reports. "[W]ith or without Kennedy, sources say it seems likely that [Jon] Favreau will have a lot of say over the future of Star Wars." [The story](. +Also: MGM has tapped rising filmmaker Abe Forsythe, the helmer of the Lupita Nyong’o zombie comedy Little Monsters, [to direct](Robocop Returns... Dexter Fletcher, who last directed the Elton John biopic Rocketman, will direct Renfield, a [Universal Pictures monster movie]( tethered to the world of Dracula... What would a Joker-style Lex Luthor movie[look like](? ►James Dean movie directors initially wanted a CGI Elvis Presley. After getting knock-backs from a couple of still very much alive A-list names, Anton Ernst and Tati Golykh originally had their eyes on the King, but were turned down by his estate, Alex Ritman reports. Presley has already had a brief digital outing, popping up as a malfunctioning hologram in a scene from Blade Runner 2049. [The story](. Elsewhere in film... --Paramount [has picked up]( the rights to Jonathan Behr's short film The Follower and the accompanying pitch by screenwriter Aaron W. Sala. --A24's Showtime deal [bolsters]( the indie studio's ambitions. --Sony Pictures [has acquired]( the global rights to upcoming Russian horror thriller Tvar (Beast) with plans to adapt the film for markets around the world. --The Toronto Film Festival is [set to lay off](15 employees as the prestigious September event rethinks its Audience First 2018 to 2022 strategic plan. --How Ford v Ferrari sound team [found the real revs]( and roars of classic cars. [THR Producer Roundtable] THR Producer Roundtable Charlize Theron, Peter Chernin, David Heyman, Dan Lin, Debra Martin Chase and Emma Tillinger Koskoff speak with Rebecca Ford about the threat of lawsuits, how they deal with eleventh-hour scrambles and why controversy isn't necessarily a bad thing, in THR's Producer Roundtable: "To encourage a conversation is really healthy." On 11th hour scrambles: --Martin Chase: "I mean, it kind of always happens. You get that last minute, 'You know what? You are over budget.' So it's like we've got to figure out how to take out X-million dollars to get the green light. And you are a few weeks out. So you're like, 'What are we cutting?' That's the nature of the beast." --Peter Chernin: "There is a certain misconception that there is a formal moment of greenlighting. I think it's you just keep going forward. And don't ever let them stop you, you know? But there is no moment where they go, 'OK, you are greenlit,' and then leave you alone. It's just, you are constantly plugging in and you've got to force them to stop you." --Emma Tillinger Koskoff: "But it's funny because it's like, really? You don't think we know we are actually greenlit? We are now in year how-many-millions in and we are at four weeks out and you are still pretending like we are not greenlit? I love that. That's my favorite game." [To Tillinger Koskoff] "there was some controversy about the violence in Joker. Did you see that coming as a producer while working on it?" --Tillinger Koskoff: "Not while we were making it, really. There was a little pushback at times prior to getting it officially greenlit, some concerns about some of the gun violence, understandably. But once we got locked and loaded in the budget and up and running, everything was great. The trouble didn't start brewing until we screened it for the first time and just wanted to be very, very aware and careful given the subject material. It's been interesting. I'm just glad that we opened and it's all quiet on the Western front." --Charlize Theron: "A weight has been lifted. Sometimes you don't know, right? And then sometimes you do, and you have to literally just strap on your flak jacket and lean into it. We just made a movie [Bombshell], and I am sure we are going to have numerous lawsuits. At some point you have to just go, 'If that happens, then that happens.'" [The Roundtable](. ^NBC's scripted chiefs on creative risks, writers-agents standoff and development season trends. In a Creative Space interview with Lesley Goldberg, Lisa Katz and Tracey Pakosta address the network's No. 2 status, NBC's new streaming service Peacock and the show they'd most like to reboot. --On Peacock, and the role it could play going forward: "We only have a certain number of hours we can program, so maybe there is an opportunity for something that starts here to live there or premiere something there and bring it here. The goal will be to have more synergy," Katz says. "[Look at] what we did with [Michael Schur's Kal Penn comedy] Sunnyside. We realized it was a truly digital performer and now it's living [on Hulu]. We'll see how it performs and ultimately make a decision based on that. We ordered an additional episode because we wanted people to know it wasn't canceled," Pakosta says. [The interview](. ►U.K. regulator to examine Hasbro’s $4 billion Entertainment One deal. Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which had a big role in probing the sale of European pay TV giant Sky, said Thursday that it would look at whether the deal "may be expected to result in a substantial lessening of competition within any market or markets in the United Kingdom for goods or services." [The story](. ►No whammies no whammies no whammies: ABC is not letting its "Summer Fun and Games" end anytime soon. The network has renewed all six of its retro game shows for new seasons in 2020. Rookies Press Your Luck and Card Sharks will return for their second seasons, Celebrity Family Feud for its sixth and The $100,000 Pyramid, Match Game and To Tell the Truth for their fifth. [The details](. +Pickups and renewals: Netflix [has handed out]( a straight-to-series order for the John Wells-produced dramedy Maid, based on Stephanie Land's best-selling memoir Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive... Zac Efron [will star in]( an adventure series called Killing Zac Efron for Quibi... Netflix has [ordered a second season]( of Black Summer, a spinoff of former Syfy series Z Nation... Quibi is [adding another reboot]( to its roster of originals — this one an update of cult 1990s movie Swimming With Sharks... Elsewhere in TV... --Review: Robyn Bahr reviews Netflix's [Dolly Parton's Heartstrings](. --The power struggles of Ancient Rome – told through a female perspective – [are to be dramatized]( for TV in a new original series called Domina from Comcast-owned European giant Sky. --Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt on Mad About You [reboot fears](, and taking lessons from Will & Grace. --How Emily Dickinson helped [Hailee Steinfeld find]( "a more fearless approach to my art." THR Producer Roundtable Charlize Theron, Peter Chernin, David Heyman, Dan Lin, Debra Martin Chase and Emma Tillinger Koskoff speak with Rebecca Ford about the threat of lawsuits, how they deal with eleventh-hour scrambles and why controversy isn't necessarily a bad thing, in THR's Producer Roundtable: "To encourage a conversation is really healthy." On 11th hour scrambles: --Martin Chase: "I mean, it kind of always happens. You get that last minute, 'You know what? You are over budget.' So it's like we've got to figure out how to take out X-million dollars to get the green light. And you are a few weeks out. So you're like, 'What are we cutting?' That's the nature of the beast." --Peter Chernin: "There is a certain misconception that there is a formal moment of greenlighting. I think it's you just keep going forward. And don't ever let them stop you, you know? But there is no moment where they go, 'OK, you are greenlit,' and then leave you alone. It's just, you are constantly plugging in and you've got to force them to stop you." --Emma Tillinger Koskoff: "But it's funny because it's like, really? You don't think we know we are actually greenlit? We are now in year how-many-millions in and we are at four weeks out and you are still pretending like we are not greenlit? I love that. That's my favorite game." [To Tillinger Koskoff] "there was some controversy about the violence in Joker. Did you see that coming as a producer while working on it?" --Tillinger Koskoff: "Not while we were making it, really. There was a little pushback at times prior to getting it officially greenlit, some concerns about some of the gun violence, understandably. But once we got locked and loaded in the budget and up and running, everything was great. The trouble didn't start brewing until we screened it for the first time and just wanted to be very, very aware and careful given the subject material. It's been interesting. I'm just glad that we opened and it's all quiet on the Western front." --Charlize Theron: "A weight has been lifted. Sometimes you don't know, right? And then sometimes you do, and you have to literally just strap on your flak jacket and lean into it. We just made a movie [Bombshell], and I am sure we are going to have numerous lawsuits. At some point you have to just go, 'If that happens, then that happens.'" [The Roundtable](. ^NBC's scripted chiefs on creative risks, writers-agents standoff and development season trends. In a Creative Space interview with Lesley Goldberg, Lisa Katz and Tracey Pakosta address the network's No. 2 status, NBC's new streaming service Peacock and the show they'd most like to reboot. --On Peacock, and the role it could play going forward: "We only have a certain number of hours we can program, so maybe there is an opportunity for something that starts here to live there or premiere something there and bring it here. The goal will be to have more synergy," Katz says. "[Look at] what we did with [Michael Schur's Kal Penn comedy] Sunnyside. We realized it was a truly digital performer and now it's living [on Hulu]. We'll see how it performs and ultimately make a decision based on that. We ordered an additional episode because we wanted people to know it wasn't canceled," Pakosta says. [The interview](. ►U.K. regulator to examine Hasbro’s $4 billion Entertainment One deal. Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which had a big role in probing the sale of European pay TV giant Sky, said Thursday that it would look at whether the deal "may be expected to result in a substantial lessening of competition within any market or markets in the United Kingdom for goods or services." [The story](. ►No whammies no whammies no whammies: ABC is not letting its "Summer Fun and Games" end anytime soon. The network has renewed all six of its retro game shows for new seasons in 2020. Rookies Press Your Luck and Card Sharks will return for their second seasons, Celebrity Family Feud for its sixth and The $100,000 Pyramid, Match Game and To Tell the Truth for their fifth. [The details](. +Pickups and renewals: Netflix [has handed out]( a straight-to-series order for the John Wells-produced dramedy Maid, based on Stephanie Land's best-selling memoir Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive... Zac Efron [will star in]( an adventure series called Killing Zac Efron for Quibi... Netflix has [ordered a second season]( of Black Summer, a spinoff of former Syfy series Z Nation... Quibi is [adding another reboot]( to its roster of originals — this one an update of cult 1990s movie Swimming With Sharks... Elsewhere in TV... --Review: Robyn Bahr reviews Netflix's [Dolly Parton's Heartstrings](. --The power struggles of Ancient Rome – told through a female perspective – [are to be dramatized]( for TV in a new original series called Domina from Comcast-owned European giant Sky. --Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt on Mad About You [reboot fears](, and taking lessons from Will & Grace. --How Emily Dickinson helped [Hailee Steinfeld find]( "a more fearless approach to my art." [Debate Night In America] Debate Night In America From last night's Democratic debate... --The candidates agreed that President Trump [should be]( impeached... Kamala Harris [slammed Tulsi Gabbard]( for her Fox News appearances, and her attacks on Democrats... --In late night: Trevor Noah [broke down]( the "new beefs" displayed in the fifth Democratic debate on The Daily Show... Stephen Colbert[recapped]( Joe Biden's gaffes on the Late Show... ►Lawyer for impeachment witness demands that Fox News "retract and correct" Laura Ingraham segment. The letter was sent to Fox News executive vp and general counsel Lily Fu Claffee by Boies Schiller Flexner David Pressman on Wednesday. On the Oct. 28 edition of The Ingraham Angle, the conservative pundit discussed Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman's Ukrainian heritage in the context of his objection to President Trump's conduct toward the country. [The story](.[ icon:esq] Will Comcast’s Starz feud draw in antitrust enforcers? The potential loss of Starz and Starz Encore for Comcast cable TV subscribers has the Lionsgate-owned premium network behind the scenes pulling out all the stops on the lobbying front. Power executive producer Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson is front and center on social media and in the halls of power in Washington, D.C., to alert U.S. lawmakers. [The story](. +In other legal news: Jussie Smollett [files counterclaim]( against Chicago, says prosecution was malicious... Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald says Kesha's former lawyer Mark Geragos [should be sanctioned]( and found in contempt for allegedly lying under oath during a deposition... Britain's Prince Andrew [is stepping back](from public duties with the queen's permission because of his association with Jeffrey Epstein... ►Gaming update: Google's big leap into gaming made a diminutive splash on Tuesday as streaming service Stadia [was downloaded]( 175,322 times in its first 24 hours, reports analytics firm SensorTower... Tech and gaming company N3TWORK [has secured]( $40 million in Series C funding to aid in development of first-party games, its live games publishing platform and its media and audience network... Charlize Theron [has been selected]( to receive the International Star Award from the Palm Springs International Film Festival for her work as Megyn Kelly in the Lionsgate release Bombshell. +Screen Actors Guild Awards: THR's Scott Feinberg breaks down the nomination chances for 12 comedies and dramas that SAG-AFTRA voters are excited about, including Big Little lies, The Crown and Succession.[More](. In other awards news... --Mindy Kaling [will host](the Costume Designers Guild Awards... Taylor Swift will [become the first-ever](recipient of Billboard's Woman of the Decade Award.... Bong Joon-ho’s international hit Parasite continues to gather plaudits, [winning best film]( at the 13th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA)... Hollywood Remixed podcast: In the third episode of THR's new podcast, hosts Rebecca Ford and Rebecca Sun chat with The Good Place star William Jackson Harper about being black and nerdy. [Listen](. Casting roundup: Holly Hunter has [signed on]( to star opposite Ted Danson in NBC's straight-to-series mayoral comedy from the creators of 30 Rock... Adam Lamberg will [reprise his role]( as David Gordon, aka Gordo, on Disney+'s Lizzie McGuire reboot... Revolving door: A+E Networks is swapping up their programming executive team. Amy Savitsky, who is svp of programming and development at A&E, will move to the same at History, while Dolores Gavin, senior executive of development and production at History, will shift to A&E... Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) on Tuesday said that it [has promoted]( Pierluigi Gazzolo to the new role of president of OTT International and Viacom International Studios... What else we're reading... --"Netflix could play key role in upcoming Hollywood labor drama" [[LA Times](] --"Changing the best actress narrative" [[Vanity Fair](] --"Let it snow content: Netflix has gone all in on Christmas" [[The Ringer](] --"Surrender to the charming self-deprecation of Robert Pattinson" [[LA Times](] From the archives... On Nov. 21, 1931, Universal unveiled Frankenstein in theaters, adapting a novel that was at the time an unproven commodity on the big screen. Read [The Hollywood Reporter](['s original review](, headlined "Frankenstein 100% Shocker - Old Horror Tale Full of Thrills." Today's birthdays: Carly Rae Jepsen, 34, Bjork, 54, Brie Bella, 36, Nikki Bella, 36, Michael Strahan, 48, Nicollette Sheridan, 56, Tom Rothman, 65. Debate Night In America From last night's Democratic debate... --The candidates agreed that President Trump [should be]( impeached... Kamala Harris [slammed Tulsi Gabbard]( for her Fox News appearances, and her attacks on Democrats... --In late night: Trevor Noah [broke down]( the "new beefs" displayed in the fifth Democratic debate on The Daily Show... Stephen Colbert[recapped]( Joe Biden's gaffes on the Late Show... ►Lawyer for impeachment witness demands that Fox News "retract and correct" Laura Ingraham segment. The letter was sent to Fox News executive vp and general counsel Lily Fu Claffee by Boies Schiller Flexner David Pressman on Wednesday. On the Oct. 28 edition of The Ingraham Angle, the conservative pundit discussed Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman's Ukrainian heritage in the context of his objection to President Trump's conduct toward the country. [The story](.[ icon:esq] Will Comcast’s Starz feud draw in antitrust enforcers? The potential loss of Starz and Starz Encore for Comcast cable TV subscribers has the Lionsgate-owned premium network behind the scenes pulling out all the stops on the lobbying front. Power executive producer Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson is front and center on social media and in the halls of power in Washington, D.C., to alert U.S. lawmakers. [The story](. +In other legal news: Jussie Smollett [files counterclaim]( against Chicago, says prosecution was malicious... Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald says Kesha's former lawyer Mark Geragos [should be sanctioned]( and found in contempt for allegedly lying under oath during a deposition... Britain's Prince Andrew [is stepping back](from public duties with the queen's permission because of his association with Jeffrey Epstein... ►Gaming update: Google's big leap into gaming made a diminutive splash on Tuesday as streaming service Stadia [was downloaded]( 175,322 times in its first 24 hours, reports analytics firm SensorTower... Tech and gaming company N3TWORK [has secured]( $40 million in Series C funding to aid in development of first-party games, its live games publishing platform and its media and audience network... Charlize Theron [has been selected]( to receive the International Star Award from the Palm Springs International Film Festival for her work as Megyn Kelly in the Lionsgate release Bombshell. +Screen Actors Guild Awards: THR's Scott Feinberg breaks down the nomination chances for 12 comedies and dramas that SAG-AFTRA voters are excited about, including Big Little lies, The Crown and Succession.[More](. In other awards news... --Mindy Kaling [will host](the Costume Designers Guild Awards... Taylor Swift will [become the first-ever](recipient of Billboard's Woman of the Decade Award.... Bong Joon-ho’s international hit Parasite continues to gather plaudits, [winning best film]( at the 13th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA)... Hollywood Remixed podcast: In the third episode of THR's new podcast, hosts Rebecca Ford and Rebecca Sun chat with The Good Place star William Jackson Harper about being black and nerdy. [Listen](. Casting roundup: Holly Hunter has [signed on]( to star opposite Ted Danson in NBC's straight-to-series mayoral comedy from the creators of 30 Rock... Adam Lamberg will [reprise his role]( as David Gordon, aka Gordo, on Disney+'s Lizzie McGuire reboot... Revolving door: A+E Networks is swapping up their programming executive team. Amy Savitsky, who is svp of programming and development at A&E, will move to the same at History, while Dolores Gavin, senior executive of development and production at History, will shift to A&E... Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) on Tuesday said that it [has promoted]( Pierluigi Gazzolo to the new role of president of OTT International and Viacom International Studios... What else we're reading... --"Netflix could play key role in upcoming Hollywood labor drama" [[LA Times](] --"Changing the best actress narrative" [[Vanity Fair](] --"Let it snow content: Netflix has gone all in on Christmas" [[The Ringer](] --"Surrender to the charming self-deprecation of Robert Pattinson" [[LA Times](] From the archives... On Nov. 21, 1931, Universal unveiled Frankenstein in theaters, adapting a novel that was at the time an unproven commodity on the big screen. Read [The Hollywood Reporter](['s original review](, headlined "Frankenstein 100% Shocker - Old Horror Tale Full of Thrills." Today's birthdays: Carly Rae Jepsen, 34, Bjork, 54, Brie Bella, 36, Nikki Bella, 36, Michael Strahan, 48, Nicollette Sheridan, 56, Tom Rothman, 65. [Image] [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn]( Is this e-mail not displaying correctly? [View it in your browser.]( ©2019 The Hollywood Reporter. 5700 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036 All rights reserved. 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