Sherry Lansing Tell-All Book; Can Iger Find an Heir?; Emmys Shakeup; BuzzFeed IPO; New THR Cover Reveal

It's magazine day: Sherry Lansing reveals secrets from Fatal Attraction in a book excerpt. Plus: Paramount shocks at CinemaCon, Trump bothered by scripted TV's attacks and reviews are out for Scarlett Johansson's Ghost in the Shell. — Matthew Belloni, Erik Hayden and Jennifer Konerman. [The Hollywood Reporter - Today In Entertainment]( March 29, 2017 It's magazine day: Sherry Lansing reveals secrets from Fatal Attraction in a book excerpt. Plus: Paramount shocks at CinemaCon, Trump bothered by scripted TV's attacks and reviews are out for Scarlett Johansson's Ghost in the Shell. — Matthew Belloni, Erik Hayden and Jennifer Konerman. On the cover: In an excerpt from his upcoming biography Leading Lady: Sherry Lansing and the Making of a Hollywood Groundbreaker, executive features editor Stephen Galloway picks up the story of Hollywood's first female film chief in 1983, just after Lansing had left Fox to produce. [Her full story.]( Matt emails: In mid-March, I sat down with Lansing in her Century City office (overlooking the Fox lot she once ran) for a nice chat about the new book (which I've read; it's fantastic), her post-studio life as a philanthropist and UC regent and a few hot topics in Hollywood. There are very few figures in town that truly deserve the title "Legend," and Sherry is certainly one of them. [Full Q&A.]( Another thing from the Lansing book: Few of Paramount's films under Lansing proved as complicated as 2001's Tomb Raider. Galloway finds that execs negotiated drug tests for star Angelina Jolie. That was just [one of the on-set challenges.]( The Rock Shocks CinemaCon Paramount had its day at CinemaCon, bringing everything from a shocker from The Rock to unexpected explosions from Michael Bay. From Vegas, Rebecca Ford and Aaron Couch's highlights: [Baywatch](: Dwayne Johnson brought footage from his upcoming reboot, including one especially surprising scene from the film, in which Zac Efron and Johnson's characters go to investigate a crime and gather evidence at a hospital morgue where Efron is forced to hide with a dead body, lifting up the cadaver's penis in a scene that made the audience gasp. [Transformers: The Last Knight](: Michael Bay screened footage that started in Medieval England, before introducing Anthony Hopkins, who spoke out about filming at Stonehenge, joking about when Bay ended up building a fake Stonehenge just to blow it up. [Annihilation](: In Alex Garland's film, which showed footage last night, Natalie Portman learns that there's an area of the United States in which an unexplainable phenomenon is occurring. No one has come back, except for the husband (Oscar Isaacs) — and Portman's character joins a mission to find out why. [Suburbicon](: George Clooney's latest directorial project debuted new footage with help from his film’s stars Matt Damon and Julianne Moore. The upcoming film, set for release on Nov. 3, has a script by the Coen Brothers, and the first footage showed off their signature quirkiness paired with a dark and violent tone. [Downsizing](: Damon pulled double duty last night, returning to the stage with director Alexander Payne to introduce the first footage of Downsizing, based in a world where people have the option to be shrunk down and lives their lives on a smaller scale. In the clip, a mini-man (Neil Patrick Harris) presents his life in a mini-mansion. Elsewhere in film... ► Lee Daniels plans Terms of Endearment remake. [The Empire co-creator revealed]( that the remake, with Oprah Winfrey playing the Shirley MacLaine role, will be set in the '80s and include a storyline about black men who brought HIV/AIDS to their female partners. ► Crazy Rich Asians finds its male lead. Henry Golding, who has never starred in a feature film before, [will play Nick Young]( in the adaptation directed by Jon M. Chu. Fresh Off the Boat actress Constance Wu is also starring. ► Andrew Garfield to star in Afghanistan war drama. The actor [will star]( in Black Lion, a movie drama based on the true-life story of a British aristocrat who went from being a Wall Street trader to working as a war correspondent. ► I Am Not Your Negro director's new film gets distributor. Oscar nominee Raoul Peck's The Young Karl Marx, which tracks the early socialism movement, has been [acquired]( by The Orchard for a release this fall. ↱ [Trailer watch: Valerian.]( Luc Besson's sci-fi adaptation has released its second trailer for the film, which stars Dane DeHaan as time-traveling hero Valerian and Cara Delevingne as his love interest and partner. ↲ ^[Ghost in the Shell, reviewed](. Opening Friday, Scarlett Johansson stars in Paramount's live-action update. The takeaway: "more body than brains, more visuals than ideas, as if the original movie’s hard drive had been wiped clean of all that was dark, poetic and mystifying." ► Dirty Rotten Scoundrels remake finds director. Veep director Chris Addison has [signed on]( to helm Nasty Women, MGM's remake of the 1988 Steve Martin-Michael Caine comedy. Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson are attached to star. ► Robert Rodriguez to direct Ugly Dolls. The Spy Kids director is teaming with STX Entertainment for an animated film based on the plush toy franchise from Pretty Ugly. The film got a release date of [May 10, 2019](. ↱ [Trailer watch: A Ghost Story](. Casey Affleck is stuck under a white sheet with eyeholes in David Lowery's supernatural film out July 7. ↲ ► Eddie Murphy returns to animation. The comedian, a voice in the Shrek films, will [return]( to voice work in a new untitled film for STX centering on a young bull. The film is known, for now, as The Eddie Murphy Project. ► Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat film planned. Elton John’s Rocket Pictures is producing the film, which will feature [new songs]( written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. ► R.I.P., Darlene Cates. The actress best known for her role as Bonnie Grape in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, died Sunday at 69. [Full obit](. ↱ [In-depth: L.A. synagogue divided by Trump advisor.]( Members of the progressive temple where Stephen Miller learned Hebrew struggle to come to grips with a native son who champions the Muslim ban and the Mexican border wall. ↲ A BuzzFeed IPO in 2018? Mike Allen's scoop in Axios: "With a blinding spotlight on Snap's IPO, viral powerhouse BuzzFeed is quietly making preparations to go public in 2018, industry sources tell me." [The BuzzFeed pitch.]( Why 'Big Bang' Stars Took Pay Cuts As CBS renewed the hit series for two seasons, The Big Bang Theory stars are giving up some of their Friends-level cash in the name of friendship, Lesley Goldberg finds: Joining stars Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki and Kaley Cuoco in the top-salary tier are Simon Helberg and Kunal Nayyar. All five have signed rich new contracts that include 1.25 points off the backend, with Parsons and Galecki also extending their respective overall deals with WBTV. Co-stars Mayim Bialik and Melissa Rauch, who joined in season three and were promoted to regulars a year later, are negotiating together and holding out for salary parity. Although they are not expected to get it, four-time Emmy-nominee Bialik and Rauch's five colleagues each took a $100,000 per episode pay cut ([they'll be making $900,000 an episode]() in a show of support. Sources say that Rauch and Bialik are likely to score more than $425,000 per episode, up from the $175,000 they negotiated three years ago. That deal was brokered before Parsons, Galecki and Cuoco — who negotiated together — each signed $1 million per episode deals that first brought the trio into Friends-level territory. Elsewhere in TV... ► TLC revives Trading Spaces. The unveiling was light on [details](, but president Nancy Daniels said that the show will return in 2018. The original version followed two sets of neighbors as they swapped houses. ► American Horror Story enlists Billy Eichner. The Billy on the Street host, whose role is being kept under wraps, joins Sarah Paulson and Evan Peters in the upcoming election-themed installment set to premiere [later this year](. ► Ratings: Fox News scores record quarter. Fox News netted its [most watched]( and highest-rated total-day quarter ever during Trump's first 3 months in office, with average viewership up 27 percent from a year ago. [^How scripted TV is taking aim at Trump.]( The President's camp is reportedly bothered by recent episodes from two political dramas, ABC's Designated Survivor and CBS' Madam Secretary. ► CBS' comedy pilot Me, Myself & I rounds out cast. Christopher Paul Richards (Billions) [has joined](the Boyhood-style comedy, which examines one man's life over a 50-year span. The cast also includes Bobby Moynihan, John Larroquette and Jaleel White. ► Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman reunite for reality competition. The pair, who co-starred on Parks and Recreation for seven seasons, [will host]( the six-part Handmaid Project on NBC. ► Prison Break producers break down the revival. [The new season]( of the Fox drama, which returns in April, follows a similar structure to Homer's The Odyssey, according to series creator Paul Scheuring. ↱ [BET's Rebel, reviewed](. This new dramatic series from John Singleton is "generic and nonsensical," writes critic Keith Uhlich. ↲ Emmys' acting races poised for shake-up. Michael O'Connell writes: With a glut of ensemble vehicles, many strategists say this year has the pool of actors not only submitting earlier but also competing against [more of their co-stars](. Can Iger Ever Find a Successor? The seemingly endless successor search has become a rare stain on Disney CEO Bob Iger's stellar career, Gregg Kilday writes. So who could it actually be? [Some internal candidates:]( While Ben Sherwood, who serves as co-chair of Disney Media Networks and president of Disney/ABC Television, oversees a key profit center, it's unclear whether Iger favors him. Bob Chapek, who chairs Disney's parks and resorts, has broad experience and also appears to have Iger's trust. James Pitaro, the head of consumer products and interactive media, has digital experience, having served as head of Yahoo Media; and CFO Christine McCarthy has been working closely with Iger but lacks operational experience. COO Sheryl Sandberg, a Disney board member since 2009, has been cited as a candidate, but most insiders believe she already would have been identified if she wanted the job. [Outside candidates:]( They could be producer Peter Chernin, NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke and CBS Corp. CEO Leslie Moonves. But none has signaled any passion for the post. All of which leaves Disney in a pickle. What else we're reading... — "The past lives of Shirley MacLaine." Ruth La Ferla's profile: "At 82, the actress reflects on the golden age of Hollywood gossip, her quest for identity and the self-exploitation of social media." [[The New York Times](] — "Is ‘prestige’ TV a 10-hour movie?" Kathryn VanArendonk's trend story: "especially when it comes to TV, we’re trained to believe that the stories that please us immediately are 'trash' or 'guilty pleasures.'" [[New York](] — "Fake news is television's favorite new storyline." Sophie Gilbert notes: "Shows including Homeland, Quantico, and The Good Fight are featuring topical storylines about attempts to spread misinformation within the U.S." [[The Atlantic](] — "How Wednesday became Black TV’s big night." John Jurgensen writes: "A host of series produced and led by African-Americans is transforming television casts and storytelling — and creating a bottleneck." [[The Wall Street Journal](] — "My ideal New York-based Fast & Furious movie." Blythe Roberson's Shouts & Murmurs piece: "Tyrese and Ludacris need to get from midtown to Williamsburg and are arguing about which bridge to take." [[The New Yorker](] Today's Birthdays: Drake Doremus, 34, Ed Skrein, 34, Lucy Lawless, 49, Michel Hazanavicius, 50, Amy Sedaris, 56, Brendan Gleeson, 62. Follow The News Is this e-mail not displaying correctly? [View it in your browser.]( ©2017 The Hollywood Reporter. 5700 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036 All rights reserved. [Unsubscribe]( | [Manage Preferences]( | [Privacy Policy]( | [Terms of Use]( March 29, 2017