Mimi Leder: Last News

Concordia Studio — the recently launched outfit from Davis Guggenheim and Jonathan King — has addedYasmin Hormozi and Patrick Callan to the studio as vps of narrative film and television. Hormozi previously worked with King at Participant Media, where she served as director of narrative film.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorWhen Apple TV+ launched its flagship series The Morning Show starring Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, and Steve Carell, it didn’t exactly knock critics off its feet with a 61% Rotten Tomatoes score.Compare that to the first season of HBO’s Big Little Lies, another Witherspoon-produced zeitgeist series about #MeToo or even Netflix’s binge-pioneering DC takedown show House of Cards at 86% fresh.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorSPOILER ALERT: This story contains details about major storylines in Apple TV Plus’ “The Morning Show.”When Gugu Mbatha-Raw read the first two episode scripts for “The Morning Show,” her character Hannah’s story wasn’t clear. But then she got on a call with executive producers Mimi Leder and Kerry Ehrin.“They basically pitched me the whole of Hannah’s arc over the phone, which was amazing just to hear obviously,” Mbatha-Raw says on Thursday’s episode of the Variety and iHeart podcast “The Big Ticket.” “I felt like it was such an important story and kind of a challenging storyline, but a necessary one, that’s so topical culturally.