Sentences with phrase «of film mogul»

The May 8 - 19 festival, which is the first since the downfall of film mogul Harvey Weinstein over accusations of sexual misconduct by dozens of women, was dominated by the #MeToo movement.

Making a stand: The May 8 - 19 festival, which is the first since the downfall of film mogul Harvey Weinstein over accusations of sexual misconduct by dozens of women, was dominated by the #MeToo movement

Making a stand: The May 8 - 19 festival, which is the first since the downfall of film mogul Harvey Weinstein over accusations of sexual misconduct by dozens of women, was dominated by the #MeToo movement

Not exact matches

Clooney argued that there has to be «a comeuppance» for all of those who enabled the film mogul's alleged abuses.

The fourth child and younger son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch went to Harvard to study film and history after graduating in 1991 from Horace Mann, an elite New York City private prep school.

Peerless in his ability to merge artistic and financial instincts, Geffen has been an agent, a manager, a record - industry mogul, a movie and Broadway producer, and a co-founder of a film studio.

Hollywood mega mogul Harvey Weinstein has been fired from the Weinstein Company, the independent film company he co-founded, after the New York Times published an explosive, deeply reported article accusing him of a pattern of sexual harassment that goes back decades.

Now, the disgraced movie mogul will be the subject of a film — about the accusations of sexual harassment and assault that ended his career and the New York Times team that broke the story.

The movie is the brainchild of retail mogul Mart Green, who heard Steve Saint and Mincaye speak at a conference in 1999 and was so moved by the story that he decided to turn it into a film — two films, actually; the companion documentary, Beyond the Gates of Splendor, released last year.

Singas» jurisdiction will supersede that of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., who had opened an investigation into Schneiderman's alleged conduct despite the fact that the attorney general's office was examining his handling of a 2015 case involving the disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D.) plans to keep more than half of the campaign donations he received from Democratic donor and Hollywood film mogul Harvey Weinstein after it was revealed last week that he had settled sexual harassment claims with at least eight different women.

The shakeup marks another newsroom scandal at the paper that sparked the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment with its investigation of the disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein.

«Media moguls have a vested interest in the expansion of state film tax credit programs,» Robert Tannenwald, a film tax expert and former vice president at the Boston Federal Reserve, told IBTimes.

Sexual harassment is gaining new attention in state capitals around the country in the wake of allegations against film mogul Harvey Weinstein.

Schneiderman had, at the direction of Cuomo, himself been probing Vance's office over questions about its handling of groping allegations against film mogul Harvey Weinstein in 2015.

Harvey Weinstein, the Hollywood film mogul now cast as a sexual predator, traces the roots of his show business dominance to his arrival at the University of Buffalo campus in the fall of 1969.

He calls the film mogul a «dirt ball who took advantage of people.»

Schneiderman had been outspoken about Harvey Weinstein, the film mogul who became the face of the #MeToo movement after a series of women accused him of sexually assaulting them.

Elsewhere in the city, incumbents largely were returned to office, though Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr., running unopposed, faced a surprisingly strong, last minute write - in challenge from Marc Fliedner, an out gay ex-prosecutor prompted to jump in when revelations surfaced about the incumbent's failure to pursue fraud charges against Ivanka and Donald Trump, Jr., in their marketing of the Trump Soho and sexual assault charges against Harvey Weinstein brought by an Italian model who captured a partial admission from the former film mogul on tape.

Just take a look at Kris Carr, Rip Esselstyn (who is in the film), Rich Roll, Brendan Brazier, Dr. Neal Barnard — or celebs like The Biggest Loser's Bob Harper, NFL - star Tony Gonzalez, casino mogul Steve Wynn and Bill Clinton (the list is endless)-- all of whom can attest to the many health benefits of incorporating a whole foods, plant - based diet.

It was around that time that she first met Richard Zanuck, a production executive (and the son of legendary mogul Darryl F. Zanuck), who offered her the role of Nova in the film Planet of the Apes.

Rampage doesn't even have the commitment to its own premise to mine any thematic resonance of note from the film's backdrop of weaponized bioengineering, instead leaning hard on a cartoon brother - sister pair of multi-billionaire business moguls (played by Malin Åkerman and Jake Lacy).

Hip - hop mogul Damon Dash (Paper Soldiers) directs this semi-autobiographical film based on his life as the proprietor of Roc - a-Fella Records.

«Barry has made an entertaining and provocative film that sheds a tremendous amount of light on what makes this legendary mogul tick,» said Jonathan Sehring, president of IFC Films.

One may recall that, at the end of the original film, the changes to history made Lou into a rock star who became a technology mogul.

Dozens of women have accused the film mogul of sexual harassment and assault.

In Danny Huston «s studio mogul and Harvey Keitel «s scrappy agent, the film finds mouthpieces for what is essentially straight - up Hollywood satire, reminiscent of the disastrous «SimOne,» but much better and a good deal wittier.

Media mogul Oprah Winfrey has revealed that the director of «Doubt» turned her down for a role in the film.

Dame Judi Dench left movie mogul Harvey Weinstein cringing at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) film awards when she flashed...

Ant - Man star Michael Pena jokes about his disappointment after TV mogul - turned - actress Oprah Winfrey decided to present each of her castmates and crew members on new film A Wrinkle In Time with a top - of - the - line juice machine as a wrap gift.

Weinstein's alleged blacklisting of the two actresses led to both of them missing out on roles in Jackson's «Lord of the Rings» films because of negative things the disgraced movie mogul had said about them, according to the report.

All the reshoots in the world enabled Christopher Plummer to have an infectiously high old time replacing disgraced Kevin Spacey as disgraceful billionaire J. Paul Getty in this film about the 1970s kidnapping of the oil mogul's grandson.

Asia Argento delivered a blistering speech at the closing ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, indicting both disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein and, by extension, the festival itself, which she said had been his «hunting ground.»

Not a lot in the way of newly featured stuff this week — most of the new ones are part of TCM's Moguls & Movie Stars History of Hollywood series, which moves into the dawn of the studio era this week, with 1910s films from Thomas Ince, D.W. Griffith, Cecil B. DeMille, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mary Pickford.

While the movie delves into the important and timely subject matter of murdered Indigenous women and sexual assault, it could still be difficult for people to reward a film that has any ties to disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein.

TCM closes out the Moguls and Movie Stars series, reaching the end of the classical Hollywood studio system, and has a bunch of 1960s greats on Monday and Wednesday to go along with that, plus Cabaret on Tuesday, Ingrid Bergman's first American film on Friday, Frank Capra's Meet John Doe on Saturday, and the always enjoyable Grease on Sunday.

Constructed as three consecutive flashbacks, each from the POV of one of the women, the film quietly builds suspense as it moves from one high point to the next before soaring into the stratosphere with supermarket mogul Paul Douglas's courtship of hard - nosed Darnell.

In fact, the only interesting character at all is Victoria Leeds (Priyanka Chopra, an impressive résumé of some 50 + Indian films and now «Quantico» TV series), who is a real estate mogul and drug dealer for good measure.

In the film, «The Comedian,» De Niro plays an aging comic icon who develops a strong bond with the daughter of a sleazy real estate mogul.

Wilder will be remembered best for his 1974 one - two punch of Brooks» Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, both of which rate among the most hilarious films ever made, and for channeling Roald Dahl's chocolate mogul Willy Wonka in the trippy 1971 classic.

Debevoise & Plimpton, O'Melveny & Myers and Boies Schiller Flexner are among a raft of law firms revealed to be owed money by the Weinstein Company, as the film studio formerly led by disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein files for bankruptcy.