Variety - September 07, 2022

136 Pages·2022·41.8 MB·English

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09.07.2022 VARIETY ● 3
FEATURES
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P.40 Still America’s Idol
Kelly Clarkson reflects on
her evolving career and
what it takes to stand out in
daytime TV.
By Elizabeth Wagmeister
P.57 Impactful TV Producers
Variety honors David E.
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Cover photograph by Brian Bowen Smith Kelly Clarkson won the first “American Idol” competition in 2002.
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4 ● CONTENTS 09.07.2022
F O C U S
P.77 Hollywood is ready to get back to some-
thing close to awards-season normality
for the Emmys — but with precautions

P.83 Global productions rely heavily
on Spain’s local film commissions
BIZ + BUZZ
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P.11 South Korea’s CJ ENM is set to expand its
multiplatform brand globally, CEO Kang
Ho-sung says in an exclusive interview
P.16 Creative Arts Emmy winners may
signal changes for Primetime awards
P.18 “Barbarian” director Zach Cregger says
horror and comedy have similarities
P.20 Jann Wenner discusses the power of rock
and his memoir “Like a Rolling Stone” P.95
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P.28 Variety’s Michael Schneider is hoping
for a night of surprises at the Emmys
“The Wonder,” starring Florence Pugh and Kíla Lord Cassidy, is among the films screening at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
OUR TOWN ARTISANS REVIEWS
FILM TV
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8 ● EDITORS’ LETTER 09.07.2022
Make Way for the Fall
Contributors
Variety TV editor Michael
Schneider spoke to David E.
Kelley as the prolific producer
prepares to receive Variety’s
Creative Consciousness
Award. Schneider and his
team will be busy blanketing
the town over Emmy weekend.
Variety senior TV features
C O - E D I T O R S - I N - C H I E F editor Emily Longeretta
interviewed more than 100
showrunners to create the
annual TV Producers Impact
Cynthia Littleton Ramin Setoodeh Report, highlighting the best
in the business.
We’re almost there. moment in time when work is more plentiful than ever
The journey to the 2022 Primetime Emmy Awards for experienced pros, yet no one is quite sure what is
feels like it’s taken about three years, because it’s been around the corner for 2023 and beyond.
that long since the TV industry has gathered for an “When it comes to Peak TV, every top producer has
old-fashioned, in-person, tux-and-gowns-required a different opinion about what the future looks like,”
Emmy fete. Longeretta observes.
Remember the “Succession” team accepting the But they’re also hooked on the action. The sheer num-
Photographer Brian Bowen
Emmy for best drama from a dark hotel room in the ber of platforms available to content creators keeps Smith captured Kelly
middle of the night in 2020? It just didn’t have the charm the industry revving in high gear. The possibilities are Clarkson in Los Angeles on
June 9. “We were joking the
of watching a flock of giddy writers, actors, directors endless, it seems, for those who create TV for a living. whole time on set,” says
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