It’s been almost a year since the New Yorker published Ronan Farrow’s first major exposé on Harvey Weinstein, in which three women came forward, on the record, to accuse the Hollywood mega producer of sexual assault. Farrow eventually won a Pulitzer for his reporting on the topic, which finally codified decades of…
James Dolan, the owner of the New York Knicks and a longtime friend of disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, has recorded a bluesy folk song with his band JD & The Straight Shot about Weinstein’s fall. The song is called “I Should’ve Known,” but according to The New York Daily News (via Vulture), Dolan says it’s not…
They built first Miramax, then the Weinstein Company together. But now, in the wake of Harvey Weinstein’s ongoing public reckoning for his alleged sexual crimes, the Weinstein Company is being sold, and Weinstein’s brother Bob is also stepping down from his position on the company’s board of directors.
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As satisfying as it may have been to see disgraced ex-movie mogul Harvey Weinstein taking a handcuffed perp walk shortly before he was formally charged with rape back in May, there’s also the fact that he posted bail with a $1 million cashier’s check afterwards. As we all should know by now, the wealthy and powerful…
Ron Perlman is as aggressive on Twitter as he is onscreen, relentlessly critiquing the Trump administration in between offhand anecdotes, fan responses, and laments over the Hellboy 3 that never was. It can be a bit exhausting sometimes, but sifting through all those retweets was worth it for a story that emerged…
Brian De Palma has been the subject of renewed attention in recent years, despite not having released a film since 2013's Passion. (That’s thanks at least in part to the documentary De Palma, which provided an engaging window into the filmmaker’s career.) And now, it sounds like the director is ready to scare the crap…
As promised, this morning disgraced ex-movie mogul Harvey Weinstein turned himself in to the NYPD, who formally arrested him on charges of rape, committing a criminal sex act, sexual abuse, and sexual misconduct, as CNN reports. Weinstein cracked a strained smile for the photographers gathered outside as he was led…
According to Deadline, disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein will surrender to the NYPD tomorrow, with sex crime and financial fraud-related charges expected to be filed at some point on Friday. This comes just a day after we reported that federal investigators had begun looking into the allegations against Weinstein…
According to The Wall Street Journal, federal prosecutors have launched an investigation into the sexual abuse allegations against Harvey Weinstein, including whether or not he ever “lured or induced any women to travel across state lines for the purpose of committing a sex crime.” If the investigators determine that…
The flailing (and rightfully so) Weinstein Company was recently snapped up by Lantern Capital Partners, a private equity firm so, uh, versatile, it buys up underperforming car dealerships while also branching out into the entertainment business. Now Deadline reports that one of Lantern’s first acts as the new stewards…
Peter Jackson’s Lord Of The Rings continues to stand as a testament to what you can pull off with sufficient faith in the right filmmaker. After all, even if you don’t agree with every single decision that Jackson and his team made—looking at you, Tom Bombadil fanatics—it’s hard to deny that, backed by New Line,…
In a statement shared by BuzzFeed News reporter Kate Aurthur, the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences—a.k.a. the organization behind the Academy Awards—has announced that its Board Of Governors has voted to expel both Bill Cosby and Roman Polanski from its membership “in accordance with the organization’s…
Harvey Weinstein is under investigation by prosecutors in New York, Los Angeles, and London for his alleged sex crimes, but he still may never face criminal charges for sexual assault, let alone sexual harassment. But one woman who says that her career was derailed by the disgraced producer is hitting him where it…
Though the world may not appreciate hard-working journalists enough, we can always count on Hollywood to highlight important stories about the power of the press, like with Spotlight and The Post just in the last few years. This week, Annapurna Pictures and Plan B have announced another “journalists are the real…
Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One is hitting theaters this week as a high-profile Steven Spielberg extravaganza. (We liked it!) But this isn’t Cline’s first Hollywood rodeo: He also penned the original script for 2009's Fanboys, and his experience found him crossing paths with several members of the Hollywood elite,…
Among the many damning reports on the many sexual assault and harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein, one of the most infuriating revelations was the news that the disgraced mogul’s contract effectively allowed for his misconduct. There seemed to be a built-in structure for paying out damages to those who…
By now, everyone has surely heard the seemingly endless number of horrifying sexual misconduct allegations that have been brought against disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, but in what seems like an attempt to see just how much skin-crawling a person can endure, The Hollywood Reporter decided to dig into…
According to The New York Times, the Weinstein Company will file for bankruptcy now that its latest acquisition deal has fallen through. In a statement issued Monday, TWC’s board said it has “no choice”:
We’ve got good news today for anyone who’s taken a long, hard look at the last four months of sexual harassment coverage in Hollywood—from the revelations about Harvey Weinstein, to the tidal wave of accusations that followed in its wake, to the rise of the #MeToo movement—and thought, “Boy, I sure would love to know…
