Ursula MacFarlane’s feature doc Untouchable: The Rise and Fall of Harvey Weinstein was watched by 1M viewers on its British television debut. The 90-minute film, which was original commissioned by the British public broadcaster, scored the 1M peak between 9pm and 10:30pm on Sunday night on BBC Two in the UK.
Untouchable averaged 942,000 viewers with a 5.9% share across its entirety – a respectable but not extraordinary rating for the channel. It was up against Peaky Blinders on BBC One, which averaged 3.6M viewers and PBS co-production Sanditon on ITV, which averaged 3M. It beat The Handmaid’s Tale on Channel 4 in the 9pm slot.
The feature-length documentary, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and airs from Monday on Hulu in the U.S., was directed by MacFarlane, who has directed docs including Charlie Hebdo: Three Days That Shook Paris and worked on Netflix series Captive, and produced...
Untouchable averaged 942,000 viewers with a 5.9% share across its entirety – a respectable but not extraordinary rating for the channel. It was up against Peaky Blinders on BBC One, which averaged 3.6M viewers and PBS co-production Sanditon on ITV, which averaged 3M. It beat The Handmaid’s Tale on Channel 4 in the 9pm slot.
The feature-length documentary, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and airs from Monday on Hulu in the U.S., was directed by MacFarlane, who has directed docs including Charlie Hebdo: Three Days That Shook Paris and worked on Netflix series Captive, and produced...
- 9/2/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
After decades of being joined at the big-screen hip, Harvey Weinstein and his brother and longtime business partner Bob Weinstein split in late 2017 as accusations of sexual assault and harassment piled up against Harvey Weinstein.
However, the brothers were still linked in the courts. But that state of affairs for the Weinsteins, as well as several executives at their now-shuttered company and Disney, changed today.
In a ruing (read it here) on Harvey Weinstein’s unsuccessful attempt to have a nearly year and a half sex-trafficking class action suit dismissed, a federal judge in New York cut Bob Weinstein loose today. The TWC board, ex-The Weinstein Company COO David Glasser and former Hr VP Frank Gil, Disney and several others were also released permanently from the sprawling case.
After the sexual misconduct scandal broke, TWC terminated Harvey Weinstein on October 8, 2017, and, still owning 23% of the company, he formally resigned...
However, the brothers were still linked in the courts. But that state of affairs for the Weinsteins, as well as several executives at their now-shuttered company and Disney, changed today.
In a ruing (read it here) on Harvey Weinstein’s unsuccessful attempt to have a nearly year and a half sex-trafficking class action suit dismissed, a federal judge in New York cut Bob Weinstein loose today. The TWC board, ex-The Weinstein Company COO David Glasser and former Hr VP Frank Gil, Disney and several others were also released permanently from the sprawling case.
After the sexual misconduct scandal broke, TWC terminated Harvey Weinstein on October 8, 2017, and, still owning 23% of the company, he formally resigned...
- 4/18/2019
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Of all the terrifying things Harvey Weinstein has ever said — insults hurled, jobs threatened, tantrums unleashed — perhaps the most blood-chilling are these six words: “Don’t you know who I am!?” That’s the line actress Nannette Klatt recalls the producer bellowing when she declined his advances in a private hotel-room meeting. For decades, Weinstein — a Hollywood outsider who’d hustled his way into the industry’s inner circle — was one of the most powerful men in showbiz. He could make careers, and he could crush them.
For the nearly quarter-century he was on top — earning Oscars, making money, and peddling influence — Weinstein was above the law. He was, so to speak, “Untouchable.”
In her powerhouse documentary of the same name, director Ursula Macfarlane turns that word against Weinstein, empowering his accusers while also holding those who’d been complicit in his crimes accountable. For months after The New York Times...
For the nearly quarter-century he was on top — earning Oscars, making money, and peddling influence — Weinstein was above the law. He was, so to speak, “Untouchable.”
In her powerhouse documentary of the same name, director Ursula Macfarlane turns that word against Weinstein, empowering his accusers while also holding those who’d been complicit in his crimes accountable. For months after The New York Times...
- 1/26/2019
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
After the much-accused Harvey Weinstein scored a win earlier this month when the Manhattan District Attorney dropped one of the charges against him in a criminal case that could find him behind bars for life, things potentially went to a very bad place for the once-powerful producer today.
An amended class-action complaint filed in federal court Wednesday alleges Weinstein tried to rape a 16-year old virgin model in 2002 and continued harassing her for many years afterward in both New York and Los Angeles.
Weinstein “lured” the Poland-born teen “to his apartment and sexually assaulted her, and he continued to emotionally abuse and sexually harass her for nearly a decade thereafter,” the jury trial-seeking and disturbingly detailed filing states among the consolidated claims of 10 women in total (read it here).
“As a result, Jane Doe has experienced severe emotional and physical distress,” the 264-page document against Weinstein, The Weinstein Company, the Walt Disney Company,...
An amended class-action complaint filed in federal court Wednesday alleges Weinstein tried to rape a 16-year old virgin model in 2002 and continued harassing her for many years afterward in both New York and Los Angeles.
Weinstein “lured” the Poland-born teen “to his apartment and sexually assaulted her, and he continued to emotionally abuse and sexually harass her for nearly a decade thereafter,” the jury trial-seeking and disturbingly detailed filing states among the consolidated claims of 10 women in total (read it here).
“As a result, Jane Doe has experienced severe emotional and physical distress,” the 264-page document against Weinstein, The Weinstein Company, the Walt Disney Company,...
- 11/1/2018
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
The Weinstein Company went into a Delaware bankruptcy court Tuesday for what they hoped was a swift formality — a sales hearing to uphold Lantern Capital Partners’ planned purchase of its studio and 277-film library — and got its wish. Dallas private equity firm Lantern Capital was the lone party to vie for TWC ahead of its April 30 bidding deadline, nullifying the need for an auction between prospective owners. Lantern’s offer was worth $425 million ($310 million cash and assuming $115 million in liabilities).
As TWC attorney Karin DeMasi revealed on May 7, “To the best of Debtors’ knowledge, no senior management is or will be involved with the post-closing enterprise,” meaning Bob Weinstein appears to be exiting the 13-year-old studio. It is unknown whether company headquarters will remain in Manhattan.
Deadline reports that fellow TWC lawyer Paul Zumbro — one of almost 100 attorneys present in the courtroom today — implored Judge Mary Walrath to greenlight the...
As TWC attorney Karin DeMasi revealed on May 7, “To the best of Debtors’ knowledge, no senior management is or will be involved with the post-closing enterprise,” meaning Bob Weinstein appears to be exiting the 13-year-old studio. It is unknown whether company headquarters will remain in Manhattan.
Deadline reports that fellow TWC lawyer Paul Zumbro — one of almost 100 attorneys present in the courtroom today — implored Judge Mary Walrath to greenlight the...
- 5/8/2018
- by Jenna Marotta
- Indiewire
The Weinstein Co. sale is not settled yet, as a second buyer submitted a late bid for the company on Tuesday.
A source told Variety that the bidder is Howard Kagan, a former partner at Harbinger Capital who has produced a number of Broadway shows. Kagan’s $315 million bid would keep the company as a going concern, and would include a $30 million fund for victims of Harvey Weinstein’s alleged sexual abuses.
Lantern Capital, the Dallas-based private equity firm, was the only bidder to submit a bid for the whole company before the 5 p.m. deadline on Monday. Lantern has offered $310 million, plus the assumption of certain liabilities. Sonar Entertainment submitted a smaller bid on Monday for some of the TV library, according to Dan Gagnier, a spokesman for the company.
It is unclear whether the Weinstein Co. will consider the Kagan bid. The Weinstein Co. did not respond to a request for comment.
A source told Variety that the bidder is Howard Kagan, a former partner at Harbinger Capital who has produced a number of Broadway shows. Kagan’s $315 million bid would keep the company as a going concern, and would include a $30 million fund for victims of Harvey Weinstein’s alleged sexual abuses.
Lantern Capital, the Dallas-based private equity firm, was the only bidder to submit a bid for the whole company before the 5 p.m. deadline on Monday. Lantern has offered $310 million, plus the assumption of certain liabilities. Sonar Entertainment submitted a smaller bid on Monday for some of the TV library, according to Dan Gagnier, a spokesman for the company.
It is unclear whether the Weinstein Co. will consider the Kagan bid. The Weinstein Co. did not respond to a request for comment.
- 5/1/2018
- by Gene Maddaus
- Variety Film + TV
Ashley Judd — who alleges that Harvey Weinstein behaved inappropriately toward her in the mid-1990s — is suing the disgraced producer Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court. The two-time Golden Globe nominee is seeking damages for sexual harassment and defamation, also contending that Weinstein violated California’s Unfair Competition Law. Any winnings would be donated to the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund, Judd said in a statement.
Once Judd had been cast in Miramax’s 1995 film, “Smoke,” she was summoned to a breakfast meeting with its co-founder, Weinstein, at the Peninsula Beverly Hills. She was directed to his room, where he awaited her dressed in a bathrobe, seeking a massage or a shower audience. Although Judd declined, she did appear in “Smoke” and a second Miramax feature, “Kiss the Girls.”
The actress first recounted the incident to Variety in October 2015, omitting Weinstein’s name. Two years later, she became...
Once Judd had been cast in Miramax’s 1995 film, “Smoke,” she was summoned to a breakfast meeting with its co-founder, Weinstein, at the Peninsula Beverly Hills. She was directed to his room, where he awaited her dressed in a bathrobe, seeking a massage or a shower audience. Although Judd declined, she did appear in “Smoke” and a second Miramax feature, “Kiss the Girls.”
The actress first recounted the incident to Variety in October 2015, omitting Weinstein’s name. Two years later, she became...
- 5/1/2018
- by Jenna Marotta
- Indiewire
Actors challenge Hollywood mogul’s legal team over use of their statements in his defence against sexual misconduct charges
Meryl Streep and Jennifer Lawrence have spoken out against Harvey Weinstein after the Hollywood mogul used statements by both actors in an effort to dismiss a sexual misconduct lawsuit against him.
Weinstein is the subject of a racketeering lawsuit filed by six women – Louisette Geiss, Katherine Kendall, Zoe Brock, Sarah Ann Thomas (Aka Sarah Ann Masse), Melissa Sagemiller and Nannette Klatt, who claim the producer sexually assaulted or harassed them and that his behaviour was covered up by a system of people working within his former studios Miramax and the Weinstein Company.
Meryl Streep and Jennifer Lawrence have spoken out against Harvey Weinstein after the Hollywood mogul used statements by both actors in an effort to dismiss a sexual misconduct lawsuit against him.
Weinstein is the subject of a racketeering lawsuit filed by six women – Louisette Geiss, Katherine Kendall, Zoe Brock, Sarah Ann Thomas (Aka Sarah Ann Masse), Melissa Sagemiller and Nannette Klatt, who claim the producer sexually assaulted or harassed them and that his behaviour was covered up by a system of people working within his former studios Miramax and the Weinstein Company.
- 2/22/2018
- by Gwilym Mumford
- The Guardian - Film News
The Weinstein Co. is asking a New York federal judge to toss a racketeering lawsuit filed by a group of women who say they were sexually harassed or assaulted by ousted founder Harvey Weinstein.
Louisette Geiss, Katherine Kendall, Zoe Brock, Sarah Ann Masse, Melissa Sagemiller and Nannette Klatt in December sued Harvey and Bob Weinstein, The Weinstein Co., Miramax and several other individuals. The suit followed a similar complaint in California federal court.
The women allege that they are among hundreds of others who were subjected to unwanted sexual conduct and lived in fear of being...
Louisette Geiss, Katherine Kendall, Zoe Brock, Sarah Ann Masse, Melissa Sagemiller and Nannette Klatt in December sued Harvey and Bob Weinstein, The Weinstein Co., Miramax and several other individuals. The suit followed a similar complaint in California federal court.
The women allege that they are among hundreds of others who were subjected to unwanted sexual conduct and lived in fear of being...
- 2/20/2018
- by Ashley Cullins
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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