Celebrating ‘Star Wars’, ‘The Gilded Age’ and This Week’s Best Events – The Hollywood Reporter

Here’s a look at this week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings in Los Angeles and New York, including red carpets for Disney’s star wars Party, It’s us’ final and Golden age.
It’s us final event
The This Is Us stars celebrated the end of their family drama with a finale event at the Academy Museum on Sunday, two days before it airs on NBC.
Dan Fogelman, Mandy Moore, Milo Ventimiglia, Chrissy Metz and Chris Sullivan
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Golden age FYC screening
HBO hosted an FYC screening for Golden age Tuesday at the Whitby in New York, with stars Christine Baranski, Carrie Coon, Morgan Spector, Cynthia Nixon, Louisa Jacobson, Denee Benton and designer Julian Fellowes.
Carrie Coon, Morgan Spector, Christine Baranski, Julian Fellowes, Denee Benton, Louisa Jacobson and Cynthia Nixon
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star wars Party
Disney’s annual Anaheim event kicked off Thursday, where Lucasfilm showcased upcoming and new content. The celebration also featured several surprises, including first looks at the new Disney+ series. Andor and willowa preview of the third season of The Mandalorianthe announcement of Star Wars: Skeleton Crew with Jude Law, and a first photo of the latest IndianaJones film.
Kathleen Kennedy, President of Lucasfilm, Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen
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Frank Marshall, Harrison Ford and Ron Howard
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John Williams and James Mangold
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Tony Gilroy and Diego Luna
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UTA editing part
UTA hosted a celebration for the publishing industry at the Refinery Hotel Rooftop in New York City on May 18.
Blair Kohan (Board Member and Agent, Literary Cinema, UTA); Pilar Queen (agent, UTA Publishing); Carrie Thornton (Editorial Director, Dey Street Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers)
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Byrd Leavell (Head of UTA Publishing); Carrie Thornton (editorial director, Dey Street Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers); Stuart Roberts (editor, Simon & Schuster)
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STARZ Summit #TakeTheLead
STARZ held its first #TakeTheLead Summit on May 19 at the West Hollywood Edition, where Joshua Jackson and Lauren Ridloff engaged in spotlight conversation and discussed their new, untitled romantic drama with Ava DuVernay. Simone Biles also participated in a fireside chat.
Joshua Jackson, Kathryn Busby (President of STARZ Original Programming) Lauren Ridloff and Jeffrey Hirsch (President and CEO of STARZ)
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29th Annual MS Race Gala
Friday night’s Race to MS gala, led by Nancy Davis, multiple sclerosis advocate and founder of the Center Without Walls, raised more than $1.4 million for MS research at the event. annual event, held this year at the Fairmont Century Plaza. The night featured a performance by Nile Rodgers and Chic, and Tommy Hilfiger showcased its latest adaptive collection in a fashion show. Guests included Cybill Shepherd, Ed Begley Jr., Kathy Hilton, Vanna White and Vivica Fox.
Dee Ocleppo, Tommy Hilfiger, Race to Erase MS Founder Nancy Davis, and Nile Rodgers
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Garcelle Beauvais, Kathy Hilton, Crystal Kung Minkoff and Sheree Zampino
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Gold House Inaugural Golden Gala
Gold House, the community of changemakers in Asia and the Pacific Islands, celebrated the winners of its annual A100 list with its inaugural Gold Gala on Saturday, held in downtown Los Angeles.
Michelle Yeoh, Destin Daniel Cretton and Ke Huy Quan
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Ramsey Naito, President of Animation at Paramount and Nickelodeon, with Ke Huy Quan, Henry Golding, Aneesh Chaganty, Bing Chen and Jon M. Chu
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Blind spot Taste-creating event
STARZ hosted an event and conversation with co-creator Daveed Diggs and stars Jasmine Cephas Jones and Helen Hunt at The Hyde on Saturday. The conversation was followed by a performance by Cephas Jones.
Helen Hunt, Daveed Diggs, Jasmine Cephas Jones and Andrew Chappelle
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FYSEE Women In and Reali-Tea Netflix Events
On Saturday and Sunday, the streamer continued its Emmy push with panels highlighting its female-led shows, with a convo featuring The chairthis is Amanda Peet, I have neveris Poorna Jaggannathan, Grace and Frankieby June Diane Raphael and Nailed itIt’s Nicole Byer. The next day, focused on Netflix reality content and the talent of sell sunset, Love is blind, empire bling, The ultimatum, The circle and Too hot to handle.
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Sony Pictures Television LA Screenings Event
Sony Pictures Television held its annual LA Screenings event on the Sony Pictures studio grounds in Culver City on Sunday, with support from Vince Gilligan, Alfred Molina and Marlee Matlin.
Vince Gilligan, Alfred Molina, Marlee Matlin, SPE President of Global Distribution and Networks Keith Le Goy and President of Global Television Studios and SPE Corporate Development Ravi Ahuja.
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2022 Asian Society Southern California Gala
On Sunday, the Asia Society Southern California held its 2022 annual gala honoring Eileen Gu (Global Ambassador), Chloe Kim (Sports Visionary), Stella Li (Asian Women’s Empowerment Visionary), Takeshi Niinami (business visionary) and Pachinko (Cultural Visionaries), presented by Awkwafina. Additionally, CDSA Emcee Kara Wang received a surprise CDSA MVP honor presented by A24’s Everything everywhere all at once to direct Stephanie Hsu.
Soji Arai, Jin Ha, Minha Kim, Soo Hugh and Michael Ellenberg from ‘Pachinko’
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Awkwafina
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Covenant House Night Stars Gala
Covenant House, the Americas’ largest charity helping homeless and trafficked youth, gathered supporters on Monday to celebrate its 50th anniversary at its annual Night of Covenant House Stars gala in New York City. Robin Roberts accepted this year’s Beacon of Hope Award in recognition of his dedication to ending youth homelessness, and the night saw performances from Ariana DeBose and Darren Criss.
Ariana DeBose
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Robin Robert
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Cocktail Paramount Global LA Screenings
Dan Cohen of Paramount Global hosted a cocktail reception to welcome media executives from around the world to the Paramount Pictures lot on Monday during LA screenings, as well as talent and producers from NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, Your Honor, Jerry and Marge go big, Ray Donovan, land of fire, WOW – Women of Wrestling and Accounting Colin.
Bryan Cranston, Max Thieriot, Sean Murray, LL Cool J, David McLane, Jon Voight, Javicia Leslie, David Nevins, President and CEO, Paramount Premium Group and Chief Creative Officer, Paramount+ Scripted Series; Lisa Kramer, President, International TV Licensing, Paramount Global Content Distribution; Dan Cohen, Director of Content Licensing, Paramount Global; Harriet Dyer Patrick Brammall
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47th Annual Gracie Awards
The Alliance for Women in Media Foundation hosted the 47e Annual Gracie Awards Tuesday at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, hosted by Holly Robinson Peete with special musical performances by Christina Perri. The evening honored women in media and entertainment, including Ava DuVernay, Tamron Hall, Melanie Lynskey and Jillian Mercado.
Ava DuVernay and her ‘Home Sweet Home’ team
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Melanie Lynskey and Rose McIver
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2022 Greenwich International Film Festival Changemaker Gala
The 2022 Greenwich International Film Festival’s Changemaker Gala honored Lin Manuel Miranda on Wednesday, with father Luis Miranda and friend Jimmy Fallon accepting Greenwich, Connecticut, on his behalf. Jenna Bush Hager, Renee Elise Goldsberry and Jessica Darrow also attended the event.
Warren Egypt Franklin, Jessica Darrow, Jimmy Fallon, Renee Elise Goldsberry and Luis Miranda
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Sugar Ray Leonard Foundation “Great Fighters, Great Cause”
The Sugar Ray Leonard Foundation hosted its 11e Annual “Big Fighters, Big Cause” charity boxing night at the Beverly Hilton on Wednesday, where Nick Jonas received the 2022 Golden Glove Award, as well as four live fights presented by Golden Boy and a live, silent auction. The event raised over $650,000, with proceeds going towards the foundation’s mission to fund pediatric type 1 and 2 diabetes research, care and awareness.
Nick Jonas
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LL Cool J, Dave Winfield and Sugar Ray Leonard
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Engage Your Rules Event
On Thursday, Ashely Greene, fashion designer Rachel Roy, activist Jennifer Weiss-Wolf and Congresswoman Grace Meng joined in a discussion about periods in support of the Desai Foundation’s Pledge Your Period charity movement.
TDF board
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Young Turks 20th Anniversary Celebration
The Young Turks celebrated their 20th anniversary at YouTube Space LA on Thursday, with an evening hosted by comedian Aida Rodriguez and TYT founding guests Cenk Uygur, EP Ana Kasparian, actress Frances Fisher, Marianne Williamson, Nina Turner, John Iadarola , Dr. Rashad Richey, Jayar Jackson, Adrienne Lawrence and Brett Erlich.
Cenk Uygur, Founder and CEO of TYT (C), and the TYT team
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