‘The Dissident’ Director Bryan Fogel Calls Out Hollywood’s ‘Fear, Cowardice’ Over Jamal Khashoggi Doc (Video)

For years the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi walked a tightrope—balancing his access to powerful Saudi Royals while pushing for reform in the kingdom—until the tightrope became a noose.

The Russo Brothers haven’t stopped to take a breath after their massive success from “Avengers: Endgame” toppling “Avatar“‘s box office record, they moved directly into making the Tom Holland thriller “Cherry” and are about to begin shooting their $200 million-plus budgeted spy film “The Gray Man” for Netflix with a stellar cast that includes Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jessica Henwick, Wagner Moura, and others.

The Sundance premiere of The Dissident had all the trappings of a successful debut for a film seeking distribution: glowing reviews, the endorsement of personalities including Hillary Clinton and Alec Baldwin, and major industry figures populating the audience, including Netflix CEO Reed Hastings. But following the documentary's first Park City screening in January, director Bryan Fogel — who in 2018 won an Oscar for Icarus, which Netflix distributed in the U.S.

Rangers if Ofir Marciano is out. The Israeli international had to come off during their 1-0 win over St Mirren with a tight hamstring and is now a doubt for the Hibees’ trip to Ibrox on Boxing Day.

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorSAG-AFTRA leaders have been grappling for months with the outcry from members over big changes and cuts to the union’s health care plan starting next year.But as 2020 draws to a close, Michael Estrada, CEO of the SAG-AFTRA Health Plan, has a simple message for the union’s 160,000-plus members: Those who are eligible should sign up online or by telephone for a plan by Dec. 31, or risk facing even higher prices and a lapse in coverage early next year.

Unfolding with a sense of urgency that propelled his 2017 film “Icarus” to critical acclaim, and an Oscar win, Bryan Fogel’s follow-up “The Dissident,” which tracks the lead up to and fallout surrounding the Jamal Khashoggi assassination, is a propulsive call to action that stands as one of the best documentaries of the year.

Chris Pratt has addressed being named “the worst Hollywood Chris” in an internet poll. The “Hollywood Chris debate” is a long-running Twitter joke that resurfaced after the Guardians of the Galaxy star was absent from an Avengers reunion intended to raise funds for Joe Biden’s presidential campaign.

Molly-Mae Hague has once again been forced to defend herself after jetting off on a luxury holiday while much of the UK is plunged into Tier 4 restrictions.

direct to your inboxMichael Gove is to hold urgent talks the leaders of the devolved administrations this afternoon. The Cabinet Office Minister will lead a conversation over the Christmas rules which will see coronavirus restrictions relaxed for five days from next week.

Also Read: 'Rebuilding Paradise' Film Review: Ron Howard Looks for Hope in Documentary About DestructionAnd he should know. “I’m going to tell a little anecdote that predates me getting involved in documentaries,” he said.

Mark David Actor David Berman, who portrayed Asst. Medical Examiner David “Super Dave” Phillips in nearly 300 episodes of the heavily syndicated and still quite popular crime series “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” has put his home in the foothills between L.A.’s historic Beachwood and Bronson Canyons up for sale at hare’s breath below $2.2 million.

Wonder Woman 1984 director Patty Jenkins has criticised Joss Whedon’s Justice League, calling the film “an outlier.”Discussing the portrayal of Wonder Woman/Diana Prince across the wider DC Extended Universe, the filmmaker said she, alongside other DC directors, “tossed that [film] out.”“I think that all of us DC directors tossed that out just as much as the fans did,” Jenkins told CinemaBlend.

The police chief in Portland, Ore.,  wants demonstrators attempting to block the eviction of a Black and Indigenous family to put down their weapons and leave the barricade so that the standoff with officers can end and the neighborhood can return to peace and order. “We are aware of the stockpile of weapons, and the presence of firearms,"  Chief Chuck Lovell said in a prepared statement. "We are aware of the threats to the community, to media, to police.

Hmmm… Black Panther star Letitia Wright sure has some questions to answer after appearing to support the anti-vaccine position in regards to COVID-19!

It’s beginning to look a lot like free Showtime content for Christmas. The premium cabler is gifting the premiere episodes of the final season of Shameless and the new Bryan Cranston limited series Your Honor as part of 60-plus hours of originals available today online, on streaming platforms and on-demand into mid-January.

Byron Allen’s recently-acquired MGM over-the-air broadcast television network Light TV will transition to TheGrio.TV television network on January 15, 2021.

People flying into T.F. Green Airport in Rhode Island were given the option of a free coronavirus test this weekend as the state looks to prevent a surge in cases following Thanksgiving.