Globes Guide; MGM Shakeup; Peak Disney At The Box Office?

What's news: A guide to Sunday's Golden Globes, an executive shakeup at MGM, can Disney's box office domination continue? Our report from the AFI Awards. Plus: The new season of the It Happened In Hollywood podcast, and Hollywood's last actor chimpanzee is looking for a new home. --Alex Weprin [The Hollywood Reporter]( [The Hollywood Reporter]( Today In Entertainment JANUARY 04, 2020 What's news: A guide to Sunday's Golden Globes, an executive shakeup at MGM, can Disney's box office domination continue? Our report from the AFI Awards. Plus: The new season of the It Happened In Hollywood podcast, and Hollywood's last actor chimpanzee is looking for a new home. --Alex Weprin What's news: A guide to Sunday's Golden Globes, an executive shakeup at MGM, can Disney's box office domination continue? Our report from the AFI Awards. Plus: The new season of the It Happened In Hollywood podcast, and Hollywood's last actor chimpanzee is looking for a new home. --Alex Weprin [Golden Globes Preview] Golden Globes Preview ►The Hollywood Foreign Press Association will hand out this year's Golden Globes on Sunday at 5 pm PT, 8 pm ET. The ceremony will air on NBC, and Ricky Gervais will host (if you haven't already, you [may want to read this week's cover story](, which includes an extensive interview with Gervais). +Details: The[full list of nominees](... Here's [who's scheduled to present]( awards... Here's [the complete list of all the parties and events]( on tap this weekend... [Here's THR's complete guide to the Golden Globes...]( +Which Golden Globes nominees are the most watched? More Americans say they've viewed Netflix's historical royal series The Crown than any of the other nominated Globes drama or comedy series, a new Hollywood Reporter/Morning Consult poll finds. [More](. +THR awards analyst Scott Feinberg updates his [Feinberg Forecast](ahead of this weekend's Globes ceremony. ►MGM film chief Jonathan Glickman to step down; Michael De Luca to take the top job. Glickman currently oversees the studio's film development, production and co-financing opportunities, as well as supervising live stage productions. He has held the role since 2011, when he came to MGM with Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum from Spyglass Entertainment. De Luca will be the chairman of the MGM motion picture group and will report directly to the studio's board of directors. He will oversee MGM’s global film operation, including film development, production, marketing and distribution that encompasses Orion Motion Pictures. [The story](. ►Film Academy says Parasite did not violate rules by including Cannes reference on screener. Scott Feinberg reports that the Academy has clarified a grey area of its screener regulations. [More](. Elsewhere in film... --Star Wars star Dominic Monaghan [hopes for a Rise of Skywalker director's cut](. --The journalists behind Hustlers and Richard Jewell [react to their onscreen story adaptations](. --From fringe show to biopic: How Judy [went from the London stage](to the big screen. --1917 and how to [write a one-shot script](: "Fly blind and make it up as we go along." --Why Quentin Tarantino and more directors [are banning cellphones]( on set. AFI Awards: 2019's top films, TV programs are honored as Mel Brooks praises "terrific" Jojo Rabbit. At the annual gathering honoring the top cinematic and televised achievements, Brooks, who directed Hitler satire 'The Producers,' went off-script to call Taika Waititi's 'Jojo Rabbit' a "terrific and eloquent and beautiful picture," [Scott Feinberg reports](. +The American Society of Cinematographers [announced the feature film nominees]( for its 34th ASC Awards. They are Roger Deakins for Sam Mendes' WWI set 1917, Phedon Papamichael for James Mangold's Ford v Ferrari, Rodrigo Prieto for Martin Scorsese's The Irishman, Robert Richardson for Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Lawrence Sher for Todd Phillips' Joker. +Also: Parasite [has been named]( best picture of the year at the annual Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards, which were handed out Friday night in Los Angeles... Parasite, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Pain and Glory lead the [Dorian Award nominations](... Golden Globes Preview ►The Hollywood Foreign Press Association will hand out this year's Golden Globes on Sunday at 5 pm PT, 8 pm ET. The ceremony will air on NBC, and Ricky Gervais will host (if you haven't already, you [may want to read this week's cover story](, which includes an extensive interview with Gervais). +Details: The[full list of nominees](... Here's [who's scheduled to present]( awards... Here's [the complete list of all the parties and events]( on tap this weekend... [Here's THR's complete guide to the Golden Globes...]( +Which Golden Globes nominees are the most watched? More Americans say they've viewed Netflix's historical royal series The Crown than any of the other nominated Globes drama or comedy series, a new Hollywood Reporter/Morning Consult poll finds. [More](. +THR awards analyst Scott Feinberg updates his [Feinberg Forecast](ahead of this weekend's Globes ceremony. ►MGM film chief Jonathan Glickman to step down; Michael De Luca to take the top job. Glickman currently oversees the studio's film development, production and co-financing opportunities, as well as supervising live stage productions. He has held the role since 2011, when he came to MGM with Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum from Spyglass Entertainment. De Luca will be the chairman of the MGM motion picture group and will report directly to the studio's board of directors. He will oversee MGM’s global film operation, including film development, production, marketing and distribution that encompasses Orion Motion Pictures. [The story](. ►Film Academy says Parasite did not violate rules by including Cannes reference on screener. Scott Feinberg reports that the Academy has clarified a grey area of its screener regulations. [More](. Elsewhere in film... --Star Wars star Dominic Monaghan [hopes for a Rise of Skywalker director's cut](. --The journalists behind Hustlers and Richard Jewell [react to their onscreen story adaptations](. --From fringe show to biopic: How Judy [went from the London stage](to the big screen. --1917 and how to [write a one-shot script](: "Fly blind and make it up as we go along." --Why Quentin Tarantino and more directors [are banning cellphones]( on set. AFI Awards: 2019's top films, TV programs are honored as Mel Brooks praises "terrific" Jojo Rabbit. At the annual gathering honoring the top cinematic and televised achievements, Brooks, who directed Hitler satire 'The Producers,' went off-script to call Taika Waititi's 'Jojo Rabbit' a "terrific and eloquent and beautiful picture," [Scott Feinberg reports](. +The American Society of Cinematographers [announced the feature film nominees]( for its 34th ASC Awards. They are Roger Deakins for Sam Mendes' WWI set 1917, Phedon Papamichael for James Mangold's Ford v Ferrari, Rodrigo Prieto for Martin Scorsese's The Irishman, Robert Richardson for Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Lawrence Sher for Todd Phillips' Joker. +Also: Parasite [has been named]( best picture of the year at the annual Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards, which were handed out Friday night in Los Angeles... Parasite, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Pain and Glory lead the [Dorian Award nominations](... [Can Disney's Box Office Dominance Continue?] Can Disney's Box Office Dominance Continue? ►Peak Disney at the box office, but watch out in 2020 (and beyond). A record $13 billion and seven mega-blockbusters is a benchmark not likely to be matched as a weaker slate and consumer shifts challenge the "demand to be seen in theaters," Pamela McClintock reports. “Clearly, there was an alignment of stars across all our brands. Movies don’t get to a billion dollars without being good,” says Disney distribution chief Cathleen Taff. “It’s going to be hard to duplicate this year, but I’m an eternal optimist.” [The story](. ►Apple CEO Tim Cook's pay falls 26 percent to $11.6 million. The executive, who has run Apple since his promotion in 2011, had the same base salary, $3 million, as in 2018 but his non-equity incentive pay dropped from $12 million in 2018 when he received 200 percent of his target payout, compared with $7.7 million in 2019 when he and other executives received 128 percent of the target bonus, [Natalie Jarvey reports](. In TV news... --Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson is partnering with Blumhouse Television [to develop an interview series](. --BBC America [has picked up]( a fourth season of Killing Eve. --Bachelor star Peter Weber [promises a spoiler-free season]( and talks "jaw-dropping" return of Hannah Brown. --Mark Duplass [faults Apple]( for those lukewarm Morning Show reviews. --Al Pacino serves as the leader of a Nazi hunting group [in the trailer]( for the Jordan Peele-produced Amazon series Hunters. Can Disney's Box Office Dominance Continue? ►Peak Disney at the box office, but watch out in 2020 (and beyond). A record $13 billion and seven mega-blockbusters is a benchmark not likely to be matched as a weaker slate and consumer shifts challenge the "demand to be seen in theaters," Pamela McClintock reports. “Clearly, there was an alignment of stars across all our brands. Movies don’t get to a billion dollars without being good,” says Disney distribution chief Cathleen Taff. “It’s going to be hard to duplicate this year, but I’m an eternal optimist.” [The story](. ►Apple CEO Tim Cook's pay falls 26 percent to $11.6 million. The executive, who has run Apple since his promotion in 2011, had the same base salary, $3 million, as in 2018 but his non-equity incentive pay dropped from $12 million in 2018 when he received 200 percent of his target payout, compared with $7.7 million in 2019 when he and other executives received 128 percent of the target bonus, [Natalie Jarvey reports](. In TV news... --Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson is partnering with Blumhouse Television [to develop an interview series](. --BBC America [has picked up]( a fourth season of Killing Eve. --Bachelor star Peter Weber [promises a spoiler-free season]( and talks "jaw-dropping" return of Hannah Brown. --Mark Duplass [faults Apple]( for those lukewarm Morning Show reviews. --Al Pacino serves as the leader of a Nazi hunting group [in the trailer]( for the Jordan Peele-produced Amazon series Hunters. [Supreme Court To Consider The 'Grapes Of Wrath'] Supreme Court To Consider The 'Grapes Of Wrath' Grapes of Wrath movie adaptation dispute headed to Supreme Court. A new decade begins, but some are still stuck in the past. That includes the heirs of John Steinbeck, the Nobel Prize-winning author of East of Eden and Grapes of Wrath, plus some big-name Hollywood producers who would love a chance at adapting the old work. [The story](. +Also: Without addressing the underlying truth of the sexual abuse allegations Wade Robson and James Safechuck have made against Michael Jackson, a California appeals court has given the Leaving Neverland subjects the green light to sue two of the late singer's companies. [More](. Do you have a confidential tip for The Hollywood Reporter? [Securely tip off our journalists here](. ►The whiteness of Toy Story 4. In a column, Stephen Galloway writes that "in many ways TS4's worldview seems like an Eisenhower-era fantasy, a vision of America that might have come from the most die-hard reactionary: lovely if you’re wealthy and white, but alarming if you’re black or brown or gay or a member of any other minority — in other words, more than half the U.S. population." [The column](. ►It Happened In Hollywood podcast: Private Parts director Betty Thomas tells Seth Abramovitch that she and Howard Stern could have been a "hot couple" in the second season premiere of THR's podcast. "He used to bring his daughters out [to Los Angeles] and we'd get together and do something and that was really fun. But then Beth showed up and ruined everything for me," Thomas jokes, referring to Stern's second wife Beth Ostrofsky Stern, who he married in 2008. "We would have been such a hot couple, Howard and I! It would have been so good!" [Listen](. +Behind The Screen podcast: Sound pro Gary Rydstrom, who has won a remarkable seven Oscars and earned a total of 18 nominations, describes his work on James Gray's Ad Astra in a new episode of THR's Behind the Screen series recorded at Skywalker Ranch. [Listen](. What to watch this weekend: Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter returns to SundanceTV on Sunday for the next eight weeks, starting with the Comedy Actress Roundtable this week. Tune in at 10 a.m. / 9a CT on SundanceTV. And finally... ►Hollywood's last actor chimp in need of a permanent home. As CGI replaces live animals, Eli the chimpanzee — whose résumé includes a TBS show and a One Direction video — retired last year but has yet to find a long-term facility, Gary Baum writes. An upcoming documentary will tell his story. [More](. What else we're reading... --"How The Irishman maligns my stepfather" [[NY Times](] --"Death by a thousand J.J. cuts: Why the studios will always win" [[The Ringer](] --"Golden Globes family feud: Why Randy Newman vs. Thomas Newman Is the race to watch" [[Vanity Fair](] Today's birthdays: D'Arcy Carden, 40, Dave Foley, 57, Michael Stipe, 60. Have a great weekend... Supreme Court To Consider The 'Grapes Of Wrath' Grapes of Wrath movie adaptation dispute headed to Supreme Court. A new decade begins, but some are still stuck in the past. That includes the heirs of John Steinbeck, the Nobel Prize-winning author of East of Eden and Grapes of Wrath, plus some big-name Hollywood producers who would love a chance at adapting the old work. [The story](. +Also: Without addressing the underlying truth of the sexual abuse allegations Wade Robson and James Safechuck have made against Michael Jackson, a California appeals court has given the Leaving Neverland subjects the green light to sue two of the late singer's companies. [More](. Do you have a confidential tip for The Hollywood Reporter? [Securely tip off our journalists here](. ►The whiteness of Toy Story 4. In a column, Stephen Galloway writes that "in many ways TS4's worldview seems like an Eisenhower-era fantasy, a vision of America that might have come from the most die-hard reactionary: lovely if you’re wealthy and white, but alarming if you’re black or brown or gay or a member of any other minority — in other words, more than half the U.S. population." [The column](. ►It Happened In Hollywood podcast: Private Parts director Betty Thomas tells Seth Abramovitch that she and Howard Stern could have been a "hot couple" in the second season premiere of THR's podcast. "He used to bring his daughters out [to Los Angeles] and we'd get together and do something and that was really fun. But then Beth showed up and ruined everything for me," Thomas jokes, referring to Stern's second wife Beth Ostrofsky Stern, who he married in 2008. "We would have been such a hot couple, Howard and I! It would have been so good!" [Listen](. +Behind The Screen podcast: Sound pro Gary Rydstrom, who has won a remarkable seven Oscars and earned a total of 18 nominations, describes his work on James Gray's Ad Astra in a new episode of THR's Behind the Screen series recorded at Skywalker Ranch. [Listen](. What to watch this weekend: Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter returns to SundanceTV on Sunday for the next eight weeks, starting with the Comedy Actress Roundtable this week. Tune in at 10 a.m. / 9a CT on SundanceTV. And finally... ►Hollywood's last actor chimp in need of a permanent home. As CGI replaces live animals, Eli the chimpanzee — whose résumé includes a TBS show and a One Direction video — retired last year but has yet to find a long-term facility, Gary Baum writes. An upcoming documentary will tell his story. [More](. What else we're reading... --"How The Irishman maligns my stepfather" [[NY Times](] --"Death by a thousand J.J. cuts: Why the studios will always win" [[The Ringer](] --"Golden Globes family feud: Why Randy Newman vs. Thomas Newman Is the race to watch" [[Vanity Fair](] Today's birthdays: D'Arcy Carden, 40, Dave Foley, 57, Michael Stipe, 60. Have a great weekend... [Image] [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn]( Is this e-mail not displaying correctly? [View it in your browser.]( ©2020 The Hollywood Reporter. 5700 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036 All rights reserved. JANUARY 04, 2020 [UNSUBSCRIBE]( [MANAGE PREFERENCES]( [PRIVACY POLICY]( [TERMS OF USE](