Globes Parties; 'Mandalorian' Finale; Hart on Oscars Aftermath; Deals of the Decade

What's news: Get ready for a very short awards season timeline in the new year. Plus: Spotify ends political ads, Hollywood's new knighthoods and Kevin Hart looks back at the Oscars. — Erik Hayden

Today In Entertainment DECEMBER 28, 2019 What's news: Get ready for a very short awards season timeline in the new year. Plus: Spotify ends political ads, Hollywood's new knighthoods and Kevin Hart looks back at the Oscars. — Erik Hayden What's news: Get ready for a very short awards season timeline in the new year. Plus: Spotify ends political ads, Hollywood's new knighthoods and Kevin Hart looks back at the Oscars. — Erik Hayden  Globes Party Planning Hollywood’s shortest awards season ever is here — and so are the parties. Rambling Reporter columnist Chris Gardner has the details on all the galas leading up to the Golden Globes:  + From Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala, AFI Awards Luncheon, Spirit Awards Nominees Brunch, BAFTA Tea Party, Lionsgate’s Night Before, Showtime's party — not to mention all of the events the night of the Globes honors. Full calendar + details. *Meanwhile, in his new Netflix documentary series, released Friday, Kevin Hart chronicles the backlash he endured after stepping down as Oscars host: "What I thought was going to blow over ended up becoming a bigger mess than I expected." Story. Weekend update... ► Disney's mysterious park land buy. "Walt Disney World has been hungry for land and has just purchased about 235 more acres to add to its Central Florida empire. What the theme park plans to do with all this empty space is a mystery," Devoun Cetoute notes. [Tampa Bay Times] ► Hollywood's new knighthoods. "Oscar-winning British film-makers Sam Mendes and Steve McQueen have both been knighted in the New Year Honours ... Damehood [is] given to ... Grease star Olivia Newton-John ... Sir Elton John, meanwhile, is made a Companion of Honour." [BBC] ► "Spotify will stop running political ads in 2020." "The company is making the change since it does not have the ability to 'responsibly validate' political ads," Kerry Flynn writes. [CNN] + "Spotify’s biggest artist of 2019 was smaller than last year’s. Why?" "Post Malone pulled in more than 1 billion fewer Spotify streams in 2019 than Drake did in 2018," Tim Ingham notes. [Rolling Stone] The making of... Joker - "They all told us weeks before anybody saw the movie that it would inspire mass mayhem," says director Todd Phillips. "Now we realize it's just inspired people to dance on a staircase in the Bronx." New feature. TV talk... ► Where does The Mandalorian go after that finale? Season one is a wrap on the Disney+ show, but the final episode of 2019 sets up plenty to explore. (The next season will return in fall 2020.) Spoilers I Final shot. ► Batwoman came at the right time for star Rachel Skarsten. The actress opens up about the challenges she has faced in the industry and her future in The CW superhero drama. Story. *New year, new Netflix: What's arriving at (and leaving) the service in January.  **What would a $1,000 investment in Netflix stock in 2010 be worth now? $43,540. [Fortune] ***Comcast picked as a "top stock" in 2020. [Barron's] In memoriam... Don Imus, the radio personality whose insult humor catapulted him to a controversial career, has died at 79 ... Lee Mendelson, the six-time Emmy winner who produced more than 60 TV specials featuring Charlie Brown, has died at 86 ... Sue Lyon, the teenage star of Stanley Kubrick's Lolita, dies at 73 ... Jerry Herman, the Tony-winning composer and lyricist for Hello, Dolly! and Mame, has died at 88. New Awards Chatter podcast. Florence Pugh discusses with Scott Feinberg the TV pilot that almost took her career in a very different direction, how Lady Macbeth paved the way for her incredible 2019 and what it was like making Marvel’s upcoming Black Widow. Listen.  Globes Party Planning Hollywood’s shortest awards season ever is here — and so are the parties. Rambling Reporter columnist Chris Gardner has the details on all the galas leading up to the Golden Globes:  + From Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala, AFI Awards Luncheon, Spirit Awards Nominees Brunch, BAFTA Tea Party, Lionsgate’s Night Before, Showtime's party — not to mention all of the events the night of the Globes honors. Full calendar + details. *Meanwhile, in his new Netflix documentary series, released Friday, Kevin Hart chronicles the backlash he endured after stepping down as Oscars host: "What I thought was going to blow over ended up becoming a bigger mess than I expected." Story. Weekend update... ► Disney's mysterious park land buy. "Walt Disney World has been hungry for land and has just purchased about 235 more acres to add to its Central Florida empire. What the theme park plans to do with all this empty space is a mystery," Devoun Cetoute notes. [Tampa Bay Times] ► Hollywood's new knighthoods. "Oscar-winning British film-makers Sam Mendes and Steve McQueen have both been knighted in the New Year Honours ... Damehood [is] given to ... Grease star Olivia Newton-John ... Sir Elton John, meanwhile, is made a Companion of Honour." [BBC] ► "Spotify will stop running political ads in 2020." "The company is making the change since it does not have the ability to 'responsibly validate' political ads," Kerry Flynn writes. [CNN] + "Spotify’s biggest artist of 2019 was smaller than last year’s. Why?" "Post Malone pulled in more than 1 billion fewer Spotify streams in 2019 than Drake did in 2018," Tim Ingham notes. [Rolling Stone] The making of... Joker - "They all told us weeks before anybody saw the movie that it would inspire mass mayhem," says director Todd Phillips. "Now we realize it's just inspired people to dance on a staircase in the Bronx." New feature. TV talk... ► Where does The Mandalorian go after that finale? Season one is a wrap on the Disney+ show, but the final episode of 2019 sets up plenty to explore. (The next season will return in fall 2020.) Spoilers I Final shot. ► Batwoman came at the right time for star Rachel Skarsten. The actress opens up about the challenges she has faced in the industry and her future in The CW superhero drama. Story. *New year, new Netflix: What's arriving at (and leaving) the service in January.  **What would a $1,000 investment in Netflix stock in 2010 be worth now? $43,540. [Fortune] ***Comcast picked as a "top stock" in 2020. [Barron's] In memoriam... Don Imus, the radio personality whose insult humor catapulted him to a controversial career, has died at 79 ... Lee Mendelson, the six-time Emmy winner who produced more than 60 TV specials featuring Charlie Brown, has died at 86 ... Sue Lyon, the teenage star of Stanley Kubrick's Lolita, dies at 73 ... Jerry Herman, the Tony-winning composer and lyricist for Hello, Dolly! and Mame, has died at 88. New Awards Chatter podcast. Florence Pugh discusses with Scott Feinberg the TV pilot that almost took her career in a very different direction, how Lady Macbeth paved the way for her incredible 2019 and what it was like making Marvel’s upcoming Black Widow. Listen.  Photos of the Decade The Hollywood Reporter's best shots of the 2010s... + From shoots with the stars of Saturday Night Live and Veep to stunning portraits of Steve McQueen, Jennifer Aniston, Awkwafina, Angela Bassett, George Clooney, Taraji P. Henson, LeBron James, Spike Lee, Nicole Kidman, Brad Pitt, Justin Timberlake, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Oprah Winfrey, Zendaya and more. Photos.  End of the decade... — TV deals of the decade. From Netflix's $100 million House of Cards deal to Amazon's $250 million rights agreement for Lord of the Rings to NBCUniversal's $500 million The Office pact. Full list. — "What a decade of Netflix did to Hollywood." "The rise of the streaming-video leader and looming presence of Big Tech spurred a rash of mergers that are transforming the industry," Tara Lachapelle notes. [Bloomberg] — "The 2000s never ended." "Instead, whatever distinct era we’re in now has been going on for nearly 20 years as a single, lurid blur," Amanda Mull writes. [The Atlantic] — "Reliving the completely wild and totally surreal 2000 Oscars." "The first Oscars of the new millennium shocked with crime, scandal and Robin Williams dancing in a South Park chorus line," Ashley Spencer recounts. [The New York Times] Today's birthdays: John Legend, 41, Denzel Washington, 65, Gayle King, 65, Maggie Smith, 85.  Photos of the Decade The Hollywood Reporter's best shots of the 2010s... + From shoots with the stars of Saturday Night Live and Veep to stunning portraits of Steve McQueen, Jennifer Aniston, Awkwafina, Angela Bassett, George Clooney, Taraji P. Henson, LeBron James, Spike Lee, Nicole Kidman, Brad Pitt, Justin Timberlake, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Oprah Winfrey, Zendaya and more. Photos.  End of the decade... — TV deals of the decade. From Netflix's $100 million House of Cards deal to Amazon's $250 million rights agreement for Lord of the Rings to NBCUniversal's $500 million The Office pact. Full list. — "What a decade of Netflix did to Hollywood." "The rise of the streaming-video leader and looming presence of Big Tech spurred a rash of mergers that are transforming the industry," Tara Lachapelle notes. [Bloomberg] — "The 2000s never ended." "Instead, whatever distinct era we’re in now has been going on for nearly 20 years as a single, lurid blur," Amanda Mull writes. [The Atlantic] — "Reliving the completely wild and totally surreal 2000 Oscars." "The first Oscars of the new millennium shocked with crime, scandal and Robin Williams dancing in a South Park chorus line," Ashley Spencer recounts. [The New York Times] Today's birthdays: John Legend, 41, Denzel Washington, 65, Gayle King, 65, Maggie Smith, 85.   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. DECEMBER 28, 2019 UNSUBSCRIBE  MANAGE PREFERENCES PRIVACY POLICY TERMS OF USE