On the evening earlier than the 2024 Olympics opening ceremony, Hollywood arrived in Paris able to social gathering.
Charlize Theron, Serena Williams, Rosalía and Omar Sy co-chaired a Prelude to the Olympics occasion at Paris’ famed Fondation Louis Vuitton on Thursday, with Comcast NBCUniversal chairman and CEO Brian Roberts, LVMH chairman and CEO Bernard Arnault, Louis Vuitton males’s artistic director Pharrell Williams and Anna Wintour serving as hosts for a night celebrating sports activities, tradition, music, vogue and artwork.
Stars have been out in full drive on the occasion, with a visitor record that included Zendaya, Mick Jagger, Jeremy Allen White, LeBron James, Zac Efron, Queen Latifah, Snoop Dogg, Elizabeth Banks, John Mulaney, Judd Apatow, Steven Spielberg, Jon M. Chu, Baz Luhrmann, Spike Lee, Daniel Kwan, Novak Djokovic and Naomi Osaka. Tyla carried out contained in the social gathering, whereas Pharrell teased his new single “Triumphus Cosmos,” with a message timed to the Video games.
Pharrell curated a lot of the night, deciding on a gaggle of artists together with KAWS, JR, Daniel Arsham, Derek Fordjour, Honor Titus and Julia Chiang to design interactive artwork installations and archery, tennis, basketball and equestrianism video games. Additionally within the spirit of the Olympics, Comcast NBCUniversal made a charitable donation to the Worldwide Olympic Committee Olympic Refuge Basis, supporting each Olympic hopefuls in addition to the 36 athletes throughout 11 totally different nations who’re competing on the IOC Refugee Olympic Crew in Paris this 12 months.
NBC and Peacock will current stay protection of the Opening Ceremony on Friday, starting at midday ET, with primetime protection at 7:30 p.m. ET/PT on NBC and Peacock.
Charlize Theron
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John Mulaney, Lorne Michaels and Jeremy Allen White
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Eileen Gu and Zendaya
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Baz Luhrmann and Anna Wintour
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Serena Williams
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LeBron James and Tyla
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From left: Chris Meledandri, Brian L. Roberts, Steven Spielberg, Donna Langley and Mike Cavanagh
Charlize Theron hosted the fourth annual block get together for her Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Venture on Saturday, the place she additionally shared her response to Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.
Furiosa, which was launched in late Could, served as a prequel to 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Street, and noticed Anya Taylor-Pleasure portraying the early lifetime of warrior Imperator Furiosa, whom Theron performed in Fury Street.
Theron confirmed she had seen the brand new film and informed The Hollywood Reporter, “It’s superb, it’s a good looking movie.” When requested if she had talked to Taylor-Pleasure in any respect all through the method or since its launch, Theron defined, “No, we’ve actually been attempting to attach. It’s been a type of — we will truly make a comedy out of it. We preserve operating into one another and in locations after we don’t have time to actually speak to one another, so we’re always like, ‘Oh my god, OK, let’s get collectively!’ After which life takes over. However it’s going to occur when it’s proper.”
For now, Theron’s focus is on CTAOP, the group she launched in 2007 to the help the well being and security of younger individuals in South Africa. The star was born in South Africa and CTAOP’s applications have reached over 4 million younger individuals there since its launch, with focuses on HIV/AIDS, sexual and reproductive well being, schooling and gender-based violence.
Trying again on the final 17 years and what she is aware of now that she needs she knew then, Theron stated, “I want I used to be calmer about the truth that you don’t change issues in a single day. I feel after we began it was very overwhelming as a result of these are actually massive issues — they’re not straightforward to repair, and sadly they’ve been round for a very long time. And so tackling one thing that’s that broad, we went in sort of particular with HIV and AIDS; we’ve actually change into extra holistic in actually understanding that there’s plenty of issues that we now have to take a look at after we discuss younger individuals.”
Lee Isaac Chung, Glen Powell, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Charlize Theron and producer Patrick Crowley.
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Saturday’s block get together occasion, held on the Common Studios backlot, as soon as once more supported the group whereas additionally celebrating the discharge of a brand new Common movie; this yr, Twisters was the movie being toasted, with director Lee Isaac Chung and stars Glen Powell, Daisy Edgar-Jones and Brandon Perea in attendance.
Contained in the occasion, Theron thanked the Twisters workforce for participating “as a result of I do know you guys are on the finish of a really lengthy press junket week — no matter that’s known as, a large desert that you must cross. I’ve been there, it’s exhausting and I simply wish to say thanks a lot for taking the time and the vitality to be right here tonight. It’s laborious work and I don’t care, I’m nonetheless going to make you’re employed tonight.”
Taking the mic, Chung responded, “I’m so touched by what you simply stated however truthfully we love being right here [for] the work that you simply’re doing with CTAOP. Motion pictures are supposed to simply convey good to individuals, I truthfully consider that. That’s what we’re hoping to do as a workforce with this movie, we’re attempting to create a celebration for the summer time, so it feels becoming to be right here at this get together.”
Lainey Wilson and Tanner Adell, who’ve songs within the film, carried out on the occasion. The backlot was additionally decked out with loads of Twisters-inspired options, together with a wind machine — which Powell and Edgar-Jones tried out collectively — and a mechanical bull. The CTAOP Block Occasion was sponsored by Dior, CAA, Breitling, Common Photos and Solyco Capital.
Sharon Stone, Charlize Theron, Wilson Cruz and Thomas Sadoski are among the many stars who will focus on “The Way forward for Hollywood Philanthropy” at a particular summit on July 11.
Co-hosted by the nonprofit Social Affect Fund and The Hollywood Reporter, the 2024 inaugural Social Affect Summit will see a few of the leisure trade’s largest names — celebrities who’re dedicated to giving again — come collectively to speak concerning the position Hollywood can play in making a distinction on native, nationwide and world ranges.
Offered by biopharmaceutical firm Gilead, a pacesetter in growing antiviral drugs, the Social Affect Summit will embody a keynote speech by Stone, a longtime supporter and champion of amfAR.
To be held on the Administrators Guild of America, the occasion may also characteristic panel discussions highlighting the work of Theron, the founding father of the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Venture nonprofit, which helps younger folks in Africa; Cruz, who serves as board chair of GLSEN, which works with educators to create affirming environments for LGBTQ+ youth; and Sadoski, an envoy for Battle Youngster USA, dedicated to serving to kids and households in battle zones; and different trade leaders and expertise to be introduced.
The Social Affect Summit will additional honor hunger-fighting nonprofit Feeding America as The Hollywood Reporter’s Philanthropic Group of the 12 months, an award given to a bunch that innovatively works with the leisure trade to make an indelible influence.
Actor Julie Bowen, a longtime supporter of Feeding America, who serves on its Leisure Council, will current the respect to FA’s CEO Claire Babineaux-Frontenot. Feeding America was just lately named the biggest charity in america and works with a community of meals banks, state meals financial institution associations, meals pantries and meal applications to assist folks dealing with starvation within the U.S.
“The nonprofit world counts more and more on celebrities for assist in amplifying their mission and interesting folks to find out about and donate to pressing causes,” says Degen Pener, deputy editor of The Hollywood Reporter. “That’s why The Hollywood Reporter has partnered with the Social Affect Fund, a pacesetter in advising celebrities on giving again, to host its inaugural Social Affect Summit, artistic and new ways in which the leisure trade can accomplice with charitable organizations all in an effort to alter issues for the higher.”
The day earlier than the summit, The Hollywood Reporter will publish its annual Philanthropy Difficulty, which presents an of-the-moment take a look at the highest gamers who sit on the intersection of the leisure world and charitable influence and giving.
Final 12 months, the Social Affect Fund — which works with main Hollywood philanthropists similar to Kerry Washington, John Legend, Bradley Cooper, Ryan Reynolds, will.i.am, Hailey Bieber, Rosario Dawson, Shawn Mendes and Madonna — was named the 2023 Philanthropic Group of the 12 months in The Hollywood Reporter’s annual charity-themed subject.
“Our inaugural Social Affect Summit comes at a pivotal second in time,” says Craig Cichy, govt director of the Social Affect Fund. “Not solely are cultural and social points challenged, however elementary wants are being under-addressed or with opposed commentary. I’ve at all times mentioned ‘philanthropy at all times begins with one thing private,’ and I’ve by no means discovered that to not be true. Hollywood philanthropy isn’t any totally different. We’ll discover the way forward for philanthropy in Hollywood and past — what works nice, and the way we are able to do good, higher. This primary Summit solely scratches the floor in planning for the way forward for philanthropy in Hollywood, and we have now assembled a various group of thought leaders and skilled change makers to encourage new concepts and inventive options.”
Mark Damon, who starred within the Vincent Worth horror basic Home of Usher and spaghetti Westerns earlier than revolutionizing the overseas gross sales and distribution movie enterprise and producing options together with 9 1/2 Weeks, Monster and Lone Survivor, has died. He was 91.
Damon died Sunday of pure causes in Los Angeles, his daughter, Alexis Damon Ribaut, advised The Hollywood Reporter.
Damon spent the primary 20 years of his profession as an actor, together with a couple of dozen as a number one man in Italian motion films, earlier than he transitioned to the enterprise facet.
He had early success as an government producer with two films written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen: the German-language World Warfare II drama Das Boot (1981), which acquired six Oscar nominations, and The NeverEnding Story (1984), a big-budget fantasy movie that featured a Damon-commissioned rating by Giorgio Moroder for non-German audiences.
He shared an Unbiased Spirit Award with director Patty Jenkins and others for Monster (2003), starring Charlize Theron in an Oscar-winning flip as real-life serial killer Aileen Wuornos.
Damon produced or government produced some 5 dozen options throughout his profession, amongst them Adrian Lyne’s 9 1/2 Weeks (1986), John Badham’s Brief Circuit (1986), Joel Schumacher‘s The Misplaced Boys (1987), Stalingrad (1993), The Jungle E book (1994), Trey Parker’s Orgazmo (1997), A Canine of Flanders (1999), The Upside of Anger (2005), Baltasar Kormákur’s 2 Weapons (2013), Peter Berg‘s Lone Survivor (2013), The Final Full Measure (2019) and Willy’s Wonderland (2021).
Born Alan Harris in Chicago on April 22, 1933, Damon attended Fairfax Excessive College and UCLA in Los Angeles, studied appearing with Lee Strasberg and Sanford Meisner and roomed with Jack Nicholson.
He had an enormous 12 months as an actor in 1956, exhibiting up on CBS’ Alfred Hitchcock Presents and within the movies Inside Detroit, Screaming Eagles and Richard Fleischer’s Between Heaven and Hell.
He graduated to main man standing with Younger and Harmful (1957) and The Occasion Crashers (1958) — each reverse Connie Stevens — plus Life Begins at 17 (1958), This Insurgent Breed (1960) after which AIP’s Home of Usher (1960), from producer-director Roger Corman.
For his efficiency because the fiancé of a lady (Myrna Fahey) whose demented brother (Worth) desperately tries to forestall them from marrying, Damon acquired a Golden Globe for many promising male newcomer.
When he was 28, he went to Italy and was solid in Westerns. “I used to be stunned, as a result of I had by no means ridden a horse in my life,” he mentioned in a 2014 interview. “Cowboys needed to be tall and blond, and I’m not that tall. I had very darkish hair on the time, however they mentioned, ‘It doesn’t matter. You’re American.’ I mentioned OK and realized to journey a horse.”
He starred in Italy in Sergio Corbucci’s The Shortest Day (1963), Mario Bava’s Black Sabbath (1963), The Son of Cleopatra (1964), Secret Agent 777 (1965), Ringo and His Golden Pistol (1966), Johnny Yuma (1966), A Prepare for Durango (1968), The Younger, the Evil and the Savage (1968), Pistol Packin’ Preacher (1971), Crypt of the Residing Useless (1973) and Bang, and the Angels Sing (1974).
Mark Damon in 1966’s ‘Ringo and His Golden Pistol’
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With Damon discovering himself typecast and Westerns turning into outworn, he stop appearing to seek out one thing else to do, and in 1975 he took a job with an Italian movie distributor that paid him $1,000 a month. “They actually wished me as a result of they thought I knew everybody in Hollywood and will get them larger footage,” he mentioned.
On the time, the foremost U.S. studios dealt with overseas gross sales, however he thought native corporations might get extra field workplace out of movies.
“An unbiased distributor abroad who’s placing his personal cash into a movie, he’s going to combat quite a bit more durable, not solely in the important thing cities but in addition the provinces, to make that image occur, as a result of he has his personal cash at stake,” he advised producer/podcaster Matthew Helderman in 2020. “The majors have their staff who’re solely eager about their paychecks.”
Damon mentioned it took him about seven years earlier than he lastly proved that independents might do higher than the studios.
He returned to the U.S. in 1977 and based the manufacturing and gross sales firm Producers Gross sales Group. Following Das Boot and The NeverEnding Story, PSO dealt with overseas gross sales for Martin Scorsese‘s The King of Comedy (1982) and ‘s As soon as Upon a Time in America (1984).
After PSO went bankrupt, he, Jon Peters and Peter Guber in 1987 based Imaginative and prescient Worldwide, which ultimately was bought to Credit score Lyonaisse. In 1993, Damon launched manufacturing, gross sales and distribution outfit MDP Worldwide, which went public; a decade later, it turned Media 8 Leisure, then it filed for chapter safety in 2012.
In 1980, he was one of many founders of the American Movie Advertising Affiliation, now referred to as the Unbiased Movie & Tv Alliance, and he printed a e-book, From Cowboy to Mogul to Monster: The Neverending Story of Movie Pioneer Mark Damon, in 2008.
Along with his daughter, survivors embrace his second spouse, actress Margaret Markov, whom he married in October 1976 — they first met when she starred in The Enviornment (1974), which he produced with Corman — his son, Jonathan; and his son-in-law, Mathieu.
“My declare to fame can be the truth that I mainly, coming from an appearing background, turned what they name the godfather of unbiased movies. The one who invented the overseas gross sales enterprise. The one who invented methods to get movies financed,” Damon mentioned in Luke Ford’s 2004 e-book, The Producers: Profiles in Frustration.
“How did someone do what I did? As a result of I didn’t know higher. I got here in with such contemporary viewpoint as a result of I’d been an actor and didn’t know something.”
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