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Marilyn Manson, the controversial schlock rocker, is to be the subject of a new documentary series.

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Acclaimed documentarian Amy Berg has signed an exclusive first-look agreement with Fremantle. The Oscar and Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker behind projects like “The Case Against Adnan Syed,” “Deliver Us From Evil” and “West of Memphis” will work with Fremantle’s Global Head of Documentaries, Mandy Chang, to create an internationally focused slate of nonfiction films.Berg’s company, Disarming Films, has been producing long-form documentary features and docuseries for over a decade.

Manori Ravindran Executive Editor of International Fremantle has struck an exclusive first-look deal with Oscar- and Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Amy Berg. Under the agreement, Berg’s Disarming Films and Fremantle will jointly develop a slate of documentaries, with Berg working closely with Fremantle’s global head of documentaries Mandy Chang to produce premium projects. Berg’s company, Disarming Films, has been producing documentary features and docuseries for broadcast for over a decade. Berg produced “The Case Against Adnan Syed” for HBO and is currently working on a special follow-up episode set to premiere this fall. Other projects include “We Are: The Brooklyn Saints” (Netflix), “Dogs” (Netflix) and “Keep This Between Us” (Freeform). Her latest film, “Phoenix Rising,” premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2022 and on HBO and HBO Max.

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Ellise Shafer Evan Rachel Wood is opening up about her experience being “publicly gaslit” for coming forward with abuse allegations against Marilyn Manson.On a new episode of Jameela Jamil’s podcast “I Weigh,” the actor dove deep into the “re-traumatizing” but necessary process of being involved in a sexual abuse investigation.Manson and Wood were publicly in a relationship from 2006 to 2010, and Wood named Manson as her alleged abuser in February 2021. Soon after, the Los Angeles Police Department announced that Manson was under investigation for domestic violence.

Evan Rachel Wood got emotional while speaking with Drew Barrymore about her alleged abuser Marilyn Manson.

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Phoenix Rising, the first words that Marilyn Manson, 36 at the time, uttered to the then 18-year-old actor was a command. One laced in sarcasm, yes, but still an example of what she says was to come for their relationship. “Don’t fall,” he allegedly told the young Thirteen actor, who was on a balcony with a group of friends at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles. This was more than a decade ago—an interaction Wood still regrets.

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WATCH BELOW: Phoenix Rising TrailerThe two-part documentary series will delve into Evan’s three-year relationship with Manson, and reveals some new allegations from Evan, such as that she did not consent to sex with Manson on the set of his music video for the song Heart Shaped Glasses.The documentary includes commentary from her family on her mental state during the relationship, while Evan alleges that Manson isolated her from them as part of the abuse.Manson denies all allegations made by Evan.Directed by the Oscar-nominated Amy Berg, the two-part series follows Evan’s plight to extend the statute of limitations on domestic violence cases in the state of California by lobbying the Phoenix Act.Evan with Marilyn Manson.What are the allegations?Evan first went public with her allegations in February of 2021.Although she had alluded to being in an abusive relationship in the past, she had never named the alleged perpetrator. She took to Instagram, sharing text straight to her grid to reveal his identity.“The name of my abuser is Brian Warner, also known to the world as Marilyn Manson,” she began.“He started grooming me when I was a teenager and horrifically abused me for years,” she alleged.“I was brainwashed and manipulated into submission.

“I have every right to be afraid,” Evan Rachel Wood says to viewers who have tuned in to hear more from the actress about her tumultuous relationship with rock star, Marilyn Manson. In the second part of the documentary, Phoenix Rising, Evan is seen meeting with a group of other women who’ve also accused Manson of physical and emotional abuse. Over the course of the film, Evan goes into detail about the worst parts of her relationship with Manson, including what happened when she tried to leave him.

It’s been nearly 15 years since an 18-year-old Evan Rachel Wood met 36-year-old Marilyn Manson at a Hollywood party, but for the first time, the actress known for her roles in True Blood and Westworld has come forward to tell her story about their relationship and the abuses she claims she endured during it.

Evan Rachel Wood has insisted she is "steady as a rock" as she faces a defamation lawsuit against her alleged abuser Marilyn Manson. The Westworld actress appeared on The View on Monday to promote her new documentary, Phoenix Rising, in which she details her abuse allegations against her former fiancé Manson, real name Brian Warner. During the interview, Wood was asked about the defamation lawsuit Manson filed against her earlier this month and she admitted the legal action was expected.

Marilyn Manson, who Wood has accused of grooming before subjecting her to “horrific abuse” when they began a relationship.Manson – real name Brian Hugh Warner – sued Wood for defamation, emotional distress and “impersonation over the internet” earlier this month, seeking a jury trial and naming both Wood along with Illma Gore (who is described as Wood’s “on-again, off-again romantic partner” in the lawsuit) as defendants.In the lawsuit, filed in California court, Manson alleges that Wood and Gore committed “wrongful and illegal acts done in furtherance of a conspiracy… to publicly cast [Warner] as a rapist and abuser – a malicious falsehood that has derailed Warner’s successful music, TV, and film career”.The lawsuit claims Wood and Gore “recruited, coordinated and pressured prospective accusers to emerge simultaneously with allegations of rape and abuse against Warner”, and alleges they impersonated an FBI agent in order to “create the false appearance that Warner’s alleged ‘victims’ and their families were in danger, and that there was a federal criminal investigation of Warner ongoing”.It followed the premiere of Wood’s documentary, Phoenix Rising, at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Set to arrive on HBO Max today (March 15), the Amy Berg-directed film recounts the abuse Wood allegedly suffered from Manson, and follows her decision to publicly accuse him last year.Now, appearing on The View, Wood has spoken out about Manson’s lawsuit.

Marilyn Manson‘s history of alleged abuse is coming to light in the new documentary Phoenix Rising. Actress Evan Rachel Wood, 43, details the 53-year-old musician’s alleged acts of sexual and physical abuse in the two-part documentary, which premieres March 15 on HBO and is directed by Amy Berg. Evan has accused Marilyn (real name Brian Warner) of abusing her while they were in a relationship from 2007 to 2010, and Marilyn has denied all the allegations.

Marilyn Manson assistant Ashley Walters was allegedly threatened with “retaliatory legal action” if she took part in Evan Rachel Wood’s upcoming documentary Phoenix Rising.Phoenix Rising, which premieres March 15 and 16 on HBO, details the alleged abuse Wood suffered while with Manson.When it was announced back in January, Manson’s legal team filed a lawsuit against Wood, suing her for defamation, emotional distress, and “impersonation over the internet.”However, according to an amended lawsuit filed Friday (March 11) by Walters’ lawyers, she was also threatened with similar legal proceedings if she took part.In May 2021, Walters sued the singer for sexual assault, battery, and harassment.

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Evan Rachel Wood is continuing to share disturbing details of her relationship with ex-fiancé Marilyn Manson in her HBO documentary, Phoenix Rising.

Marilyn Manson has filed a defamation lawsuit in Los Angeles County court against Evan Rachel Wood, Deadline reports and documents reviewed by The FADER confirm. Wood and four other women accused Manson of sexual abuse last February, and Wood has reasserted her claims in the documentary Phoenix Rising, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January.

More than a year after Evan Rachel Wood accused Marilyn Manson of sexual abuse, the 53-year-old musician is taking legal action against her for, he claims, allegedly creating an elaborate scheme to manufacture all of the accusations against him.

Phoenix Rising have been announced by HBO. Watch the trailer below.The film, which documents Wood’s decision to name Marilyn Manson as her alleged abuser, has two parts, titled Don’t Fall and Stand Up.

In the last several years, following terrific docs like “An Open Secret” “Prophet’s Prey,” and “West Of Memphis,” filmmaker Amy Berg has quickly become one of the premier documentarians in the field of abuse cases and injustices, often centering around stories of female exploitation and abuse. Her latest is HBO’s “Phoenix Rising,” a two-part documentary produced and directed by Amy Berg (“The Case Against Adnan Syed”), follows actress and activist Evan Rachel Wood (“Westworld”) as she takes her experience as a survivor of domestic violence to pursue justice, heal generational wounds, and reclaim her story.

It took Evan Rachel Wood years to muster the courage to name her abuser. A lot of people knew who he was, divorced from her, because of his job, his public persona, his notorious reputation — controversial, provocative, fundamentally harmful.

$25 million Apple paid for “CODA,” the $15 million Netflix paid for “Passing” or documentary-record $15 million Searchlight/Hulu paid for “Summer of Soul.”  There’s still plenty of time for dealmaking, but not much time for new films to grab the spotlight: All of the festival’s movies were programmed to launch in the first five days, with Monday’s lineup – which included “Emily the Criminal,” “The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales,” “Dos Estaciones,” “The Janes” and “Am I OK?” – scheduled as the last of this year’s premieres.

Phoenix Rising, which premiered at the on January 23, the actor said that she was “essentially raped on-camera” by Warner when she was 19 years old. "It's nothing like I thought it was going to be," Wood said in the documentary, per . "We're doing things that were not what was pitched to me. ...

Evan Rachel Wood is speaking out about her experience with her ex Marilyn Manson.

Evan Rachel Wood is continuing to speak out against former fiancé Marilyn Manson. Back in February of last year, the 34-year-old actress

accused her former fiancé Brian Warner — otherwise known as the controversial goth rocker Marilyn Manson — as her abuser for the first time.But as the now 34-year-old Wood claims in “Phoenix Rising,” a feature documentary whose first half premiered Sunday night at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, the signs had been apparent for years — and in at least one instance, viewed by nearly 30 million fans on YouTube.In the film, set to air in its entirety on HBO in March, Wood recalls her appearance in his 2007 music video for “Heart-Shaped Glasses,” which shows the couple having sex, or so it appears. While the song plays over these specific clips in the video, the documentary airs the sound of Wood, then 19, shouting in distress.“We had discussed a simulated sex scene,” Wood said.

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticHaving been in the spotlight the vast majority of her life, both onscreen as an actor and offscreen as a Hollywood cautionary tale, Evan Rachel Wood understands how media works. She sees the potential of its manipulation, and how the consequences can careen out of control.

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The 2022 Sundance Film Festival may have pivoted to a virtual festival because of Omicron Rising (which feels like the title of a movie or a new Pink Floyd record), but it is moving full-steam ahead regardless. Today, the festival added two new late-edition titles to the line-up.

The 2022 Sundance Film Festival may have pivoted to a virtual festival because of Omicron Rising (which feels like the title of a movie or a new Pink Floyd record), but it is moving full-steam ahead regardless. Today, the festival added two new late-edition titles to the line-up.

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