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Emmys: Wins by Network; Full Party Diary; TV Topper Survey; Wolff on 'Snowden'; 'Sully' Flies

September 19, 2016

What's news: Emmy winners (HBO, with 22 honors) and losers (FX's Fargo, The Americans) get dissected this morning. Plus: THR's fall TV showrunner survey arrives, Michael Wolff takes a closer look at Snowden and La La Land picks up a key honor in this year's Oscar race. — Matthew Belloni, Erik Hayden and Jennifer Konerman.

Emmys: What Mattered

The Emmys morning after question, from critic Daniel Fienberg: How does a show in which the big winners were either repeaters or juggernauts end up feeling so unpredictable? The review:

Veep and Game of Thrones won comedy and drama series for the second straight year and they're record breakers. The People v. O.J. Simpson swept through the limited series/miniseries category with an authority far greater than its margin of qualitative superiority (or lack thereof) over the second installment of FX's Fargo.

If we often blame Emmy voters for complacency, how does Sunday's show avoid that charge? Well, first of all there were the awards that actually were true shockers, starting with Louie Anderson at the top of the show (Watch). Tatiana Maslany, who spent two years as critically adored and Emmy snubbed for Orphan Black, scored an unexpected win for her second nomination (Watch).

Kate McKinnon thanked Hillary Clinton and Ellen DeGeneres, two of her popular SNL impression subjects, but also seemed straight-up amazed to have won (Watch). Rami Malek knocked off some powerhouses to win lead actor in a drama for Mr. Robot and had one of the lines of the night quoting his show to inquire, "Please tell me you're seeing this, too" (Watch).

And even the winners who were foregone conclusions gave great speeches. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, whose stranglehold on Emmy would be a bore if it weren't so totally deserved, gave a speech (Watch) that started with humor as she apologized for the current political climate and ended with emotion as she paid tribute to her father who passed away on Friday.

Jeffrey Tambor got to be the butt of a joke in Jimmy Kimmel's monologue, got the win everybody predicted and also made a plea on behalf of transgendered performers (Watch).

Emmys night tallies:

WINS BY PROGRAM: Game of Thrones, 12, People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, 9, Grease: Live, 5, Making a Murderer, 4, Cartel Land, 4, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, 3, SNL, 3, Transparent, 3, Veep, 3, Adventure Time, 2, American Horror Story: Hotel, 2, Childrens Hospital, 2, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, 2, Fargo, 2, Key and Peele, 2, The Man in the High Castle, 2, Mr. Robot, 2, The Night Manager, 2, Sherlock: The Abominable Bride, 2, The Voice, 2.

WINS BY NETWORK: HBO, 22, FX, 18, Netflix, 9, PBS, 8, Amazon, 6, Fox, 6, NBC, 6, A&E, 4, ABC, 4, Adult Swim, 4, Cartoon Network, 4, Comedy Central, 4, CBS, 3, AMC, 2, CNN, 2, The CW, 2, National Geographic Channel, 2, Showtime, 2, USA, 2.

The narrative:

► "Emmys Embrace Change — A Lot of It." By Michael O'Connell: "As the Oscars get flak for the same old choices, and the Golden Globes remain as predictable as hurricane season, the Emmys prove to be Hollywood's most forward-looking kudos."

► "The Show That Had Everything." By Scott Feinberg: "For the second year in a row, TV's biggest night had a terrific host (last year Andy Samberg, this year Jimmy Kimmel, both hilarious); wrapped up earlier than advertised; featured a remarkably diverse set of nominees; and, in the end, produced a group of winners better than any pundit, including this one, ever imagined possible."

► "Lame Pre-Taped Intro Ate Into Jimmy Kimmel's Fine Emmys Monologue." By Daniel Fienberg: "Jimmy Kimmel's filmed introduction opening the 2016 Emmys was elaborate and, despite a few, brief funny moments, not worth the trouble." (Full text of Kimmel's monologue.)

**Snubs: House of Cards, Silicon Valley shut out as Fargo, The Americans lose big.**

^The party diary: A rolling dispatch of all the late-night happenings on Sunday with THR reporters and editors on the scene. All photos.

► Full winners list I Exec red carpet arrivals I Best-dressed I Worst-dressed.

Elsewhere in TV...

► Mary Elizabeth Winstead joins Fargo. The actress will star in the upcoming season of the FX drama. Winstead will play Nikki Swango, a crafty and alluring recent parolee with a passion for competitive bridge playing.

► Roadies ended at Showtime. The cabler has canceled the music drama, Cameron Crowe's first TV series, after one season. The show ended its 10-episode run with 500,000 total viewers counting three days of delayed viewing.

↱ Fall TV showrunner survey: Ahead of the season's debut, THR asked top showrunners about their new series, making content in 2016 and the state of broadcast TV. In this edition, Mike Schur, Jason Katims, Shawn Ryan and other small screen vets share how they settled on their show's title. ↲

► Fox stages exorcisms in marketing stunt. To promote its reboot of The Exorcist, the network is teaming with Escape Hotel Hollywood for an escape room experience that will feature earthquake simulations and, yes, real exorcisms.

► The Good Wife spinoff premise revealed. Fan favorite Sarah Steele, who played Marissa Gold on the flagship series, has signed on as a series regular on the digital edition. The series will center around an enormous financial scam.

► On late-night this week: Hillary Clinton appears on The Tonight Show tonight, and First Lady Michelle Obama heads to CBS for a chat with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday.

Rep Sheet Roundup: Megyn Kelly signs with publicity firm 42West, as has Game of Thrones’ Gwendoline Christie … Directors Meera Menon and Daniel Ragussis have signed with Industry Entertainment … CW star Phoebe Tonkin signs with UTA. More here.

Box Office: 'Sully' Rules Fall So Far

Clint Eastwood and Tom Hanks' drama Sully is proving to be the fall hit that Hollywood hoped for, Pamela McClintock writes in this weekend's box office wrap:

Sully fell a scant 37 percent to $22M for a domestic total of $70.5M. Overseas, the pic cruised to another $7M from 44 markets for a foreign total of $23.4M and global cume of $93.9M.

Meanwhile, Oliver Stone's Snowden debuted to $8M, and hadn't been expected to do much beyond $10M. Still, it's the lowest opening of Stone's career for a movie opening in more than 2,000 theaters.

Lionsgate's Blair Witch, budgeted at $5M, earned a rare D+ CinemaScore from moviegoers and nabbed $9.7M for the weekend.

And Bridget Jones's Baby bombed in the U.S. with $8.2M in its debut. The British-made film cost a relatively modest $35M to make and should end up in the black thanks to the overseas box office, where it opened to a rousing $30M from 38 markets. Full weekend chart.

Elsewhere in film...

► WOLFF on TWO SNOWDEN'S: "Oliver Stone’s Snowden echoes the dominant media narrative about a young man who single-handedly took on the menace that is the U.S. government’s intelligence operations. Edward Jay Epstein — who spent two years investigating Snowden’s NSA breach, retracing Snowden’s steps from Hawaii to Hong Kong and then to Moscow — finds Snowden in his book How America Lost its Secrets, to have committed the largest looting of intelligence in history and, beyond what he’s made public, to have put much of that information into the hands of the Russians." Full column.

► MCCARTHY's TORONTO WRAP: "At last all the moaning and groaning — my own included — about the dismal film year 2016 can be put to rest, at least for the moment. All it took was a cascade of fresh creations, shown over the past couple of weeks, beginning at the Venice and Telluride film festivals, then in Toronto, to mercifully make us forget a spotty Cannes and an atrocious summer. And quite a few of them came from unexpected sources." Full column.

► GALLOWAY on WEINSTEIN: "Weinstein doesn’t follow the rules. He doesn’t bend to fit our expectations of what an executive should be. He’s rough and tough and sometimes uncouth. Social propriety means nothing to him. He’s the id to our super-ego, the Donald Trump to our Hillary Clinton. But he’s also the man who made Lion." Full column.

And, drum roll...

► La La Land wins Toronto's Audience Award. Damien Chazelle's musical picked up the Grolsch People's Choice Award this weekend, with the Dev Patel-starrer Lion as first runner-up. The Toronto prize often is a barometer of future Oscar nominations.

► Europe's up-and-coming filmmakers to watch: A new THR tally of hot directors and producers (including Laszlo Nemes, Julia Ducournau and Toby Haynes) who are turning the Old World upside down with a whole new approach to movie-making. Full list.

ICYMI deals...

► Will Ferrell drops out of comedy Captain Dad. Just days before production was set to begin, Ferrell has left the indie comedy, which also is set to star Michael Cera and Catherine Keener. Several of the cast and crew already are in Colombia awaiting word on the project's future.

► Tom Cruise closes Mission: Impossible 6 deal. Preproduction will resume on the latest film in Cruise's franchise after talks stalled over backend profit participation. The project was heading toward a January 2017 start, but now that issues have been resolved, spring 2017 will be the new start time.

► High Noon remake in the works. Relativity Studios has acquired the remake rights to the 1952 Academy Award-winning film to make a modernized version, which will be set in the present day along the cartel-controlled U.S.-Mexico border.