Carey Mulligan, Zoe Kazan Play Pulitzer-Winning Journalists Who Took Down Harvey Weinstein in ‘She Said’ Trailer (Video)

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterA Los Angeles judge on Monday ruled to limit the amount of information that could be obtained by Harvey Weinstein’s defense team for his upcoming trial on 11 counts of rape and sexual assault.Judge Lisa B. Lench approved the prosecution’s motion to quash subpoenas from four witnesses for their correspondence, including personal emails and texts dating as far back as 2004, with one of the alleged victims (referred to as Jane Doe #4).

Lena Dunham reveals she had a major audition fail as a young actress during a recent discussion with SiriusXM’s Jess Cagle.

Do not mess with Paul Sorvino and his family.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentLast week, the French government reappointed Dominique Boutonnat for a second three-year term as president of the National Film Board (CNC), the country’s most powerful film institution, in a controversial decision that illustrates the country’s halfhearted embrace of the #MeToo movement.Boutonnat, a former producer and financier with close ties with newly reelected French president Emmanuel Macron, was indicted in February 2021 for alleged sexual assault of his 22-year-old godson the year prior. After a lengthy investigation, the prosecutor’s office has requested that the case be brought before a criminal court.

tributes to late screen icon Paul Sorvino, who died Monday at 83 of natural causes, one video in particular seemed to resonate with fans: A clip of the “Goodfellas” star threatening to choke the life out of disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein. The old snippet amassed 126,000 views on Twitter as social media lauded the deceased thespian for standing up to predators.“It is reprehensible beyond description that women have been treated in this manner,” Sorvino told local news outlet KCAL9 at a Golden Globes Event in January 2018, addressing the highly-publicized scandal, in which multiple actresses — including the actor’s own daughter Mira Sorvino — stepped forward to accuse Weinstein, 70, of rape, sexual assault or sex harassment.“When you’ve had a phenomenal mother like I had, you are automatically a feminist.

Cooper had been arrested in 2018 after he was accused of committing lewd acts with two underage girls on separate occasions, one between 2005 and 2007 and the other between 2012 and 2016. The three convicted counts stemmed from the abuse that took place in the mid-2000s, while the other five counts were ruled as a mistrial. The accuser, now 28, recounted during the trial how Cooper had befriended her and shared her interest in music and theater before molesting her in his basement recording studio when she was 12 or 13 in 2006.“Over a decade later, this still haunts me,” she testified.

told Fox News. In his book, the author and New Yorker media critic recounts how Weinstein accuser Jessica Mann told a Manhattan courthouse in 2020 that he smelled of “poop” during their 2013 encounter in which she testified that he raped her. “The first time I saw him fully naked, I felt, I thought he was deformed and intersex,” Mann said during the trial.

Cost of Living, Martyna Majok’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, will begin Broadway previews at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Tuesday, September 13, ahead of an official opening on Monday, October 3.

“Weinstein Effect” is still lingering Monday, five years after mainstream reports of Harvey Weinstein’s dark sexual reign of terror first came to light.Author Ken Auletta’a bombshell new book, “Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence,” dives deep into the ugly truth of the disgraced film producer’s downfall. “[He] had some notion in his head that his body was attractive,” the author, 80, told Fox News, despite witness testimony that he smelled of feces, had genitals scarred to the point they “looked like a vagina” and a back full of “uncomfortable” blackheads.Still, “he really thought he was God’s gift, a Don Juan,” added Auletta, who spoke to multiple former Miramax film studio employees, Weinstein accusers and even his business partner brother, Bob Weinstein, for the exposé.In one chapter, the famed media critic for New Yorker magazine recounts how Jessica Mann — an ex-actress who claimed Weinstein, 70, raped her — testified on the stand that he smelled like “poop” and his private parts looked “deformed.”“I remember the district attorney passed around pictures [at his 2020 trial] … and the jurors barely looked at them.

Zack Sharf One of last summer’s surprise news stories was an alleged confrontation that took place between Larry David and lawyer Alan Dershowitz. A source told Page Six that the two men fought at a convenience store on Martha’s Vineyard. David allegedly called Dershowtiz “disgusting” to his face.

Steven Spielberg made his music video directorial debut, and it was a family affair. Marcus Mumford, lead singer of British folk band Mumford & Sons, revealed on Instagram that Steven Spielberg directed his first ever music video, which also happens to be Mumford’s first solo project since announcing his solo album.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaSaban Films has acquired U.S. and Canadian rights to “American Murderer,” a new thriller with Tom Pelphrey, Ryan Phillippe, Idina Menzel, and Jacki Weaver.

Carey Mulligan and Steven Spielberg playing key roles. The singer shared a snap with his wife of 10 years on Instagram Monday, as he credited Academy Award-nominated actress with overseeing costumes and sound for the shoot.«On Sunday 3rd July in a high school gym in New York, Steven Spielberg directed his first music video, in one shot, on his phone,» Mumford wrote in his Instagram caption, highlighting a photo of Spielberg being pushed in an office chair by his wife, Kate Capshaw, while filming Mumford on his phone.«Kate Capshaw was the almighty dolly grip,» he continued.  «I've been overwhelmed by the support of the people around me to bring this music to you, and I cannot hope to express all my gratitude. When people get it, it blows my mind.

Steven Spielberg has a new first in his 50-year directing career.

Steven Spielberg directed the music video for the new Marcus Mumford single “Cannibal,” marking the first time he has directed a music video in his legendary career.

She Said has been released – check it out below.The film adapts the book by investigative journalists Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, the New York Times reporter who wrote the exposé about the Hollywood producer.A synopsis for She Said reads: “Two-time Academy Award nominee Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan star as New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, who together broke one of the most important stories in a generation – a story that helped propel the #MeToo movement, shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood and altered American culture forever.”Take a look at the trailer here:Kantor and Twohey reported the story which broke on October 5, 2017, collecting allegations of sexual harassment and assault many women had made against Weinstein, dating back several decades.She Said is set to be directed by Unorthodox director Maria Schrader, from a screenplay by Rebecca Lenkiewicz.Carey Mulligan recently starred in Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman, which was also described as a post-#MeToo film.In a four-star review, NME wrote: “From the opening bars of ‘Boys’ to Cassie’s distinctive nurse costume and candy-coloured wig, Fennell has delivered an aesthetically astute directorial debut that’s packed with verve – and hides an important message just beneath its pastel-coloured shell.“The framing of women’s trauma on-screen is slowly evolving (see I May Destroy You and I Hate Suzie) and Promising Young Woman, even with its imperfections, is no exception.”

The first trailer for “She Said”, the film about the Harvey Weinstein scandal, has been released.

Zack Sharf The hunt to bring down Harvey Weinstein is on in the first trailer for “She Said,” a dramatic adaptation of the book by Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor. The two journalists reignited the #MeToo movement with their New York Times exposé on the Hollywood film producer, which included the first wave of sexual harassment and abuse allegations against him.