Meryl Streep Calls Harvey Weinstein ‘Pathetic And Exploitive’
Meryl Streep is not happy with Harvey Weinstein and his attorneys using her name in their lawsuit.
The three-time Oscar nominee tore into Weinstein in a recent interview with Deadline. Weinstein’s legal team used Streep’s name in an attempt to have a sexual misconduct class-action suit thrown out, and that did not sit well with the legendary actress.
“Harvey Weinstein’s attorneys’ use of my (true) statement — that he was not sexually transgressive or physically abusive in our business relationship — as evidence that he was not abusive with many OTHER women is pathetic and exploitive,” said Streep.
Streep hopes Weinstein will be charged justly, with no exception made for his Hollywood success.
“The criminal actions he is accused of conducting on the bodies of these women are his responsibility, and if there is any justice left in the system he will pay for them,” she continued. “Regardless of how many good movies, made by many good people, Harvey was lucky enough to have acquired or financed.”
Weinstein’s legal team looked to have the case thrown out by name dropping both Streep and fellow Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence.
“As drafted, they would include all women who ever met with Weinstein, regardless of whether they claimed to have suffered any identifiable harm as a result of that meeting,” the memo read.
Continuing, “Such women would include, presumably, Jennifer Lawrence, who told Oprah Winfrey she had known Weinstein since she was 20 years old and said ‘he had only ever been nice to me,’ and Meryl Streep, who stated publicly that Weinstein had always been respectful to her in their working relationship.”
Weinstein has arguably been the single most talked about alleged abuser in Hollywood’s exposing of perpetrators of sexual misconduct against men and women.
Post by PromNightCarrie on Feb 22, 2018 10:20:34 GMT
Meryl Streep pretty much said "fuck out of here. I want no parts of this." This is just a legal team grasping for any straws for their client. Meryl Streep gets dragged into this yet again.
New York Times, New Yorker Wins Pulitzer Prizes For Weinstein Reporting; Kendrick Lamar Honored For ‘Damn’
Out of the many in-depth stories covering Harvey Weinstein and his alleged sexual misconduct, New York Times and The New Yorker have proven to deliver excellence when it comes to reporting on the scandal. The two publications have won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for their Weinstein stories that served as a catalyst for the #MeToo movement.
The awards were announced today at Columbia University. Investigative reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor wrote the story on Weinstein for the New York Times which eventually led to Weinstein’s firing and his downfall. Ronan Farrow wrote his Weinstein story for The New Yorker, which exposed Weinstein and that he has faced allegations of sexual harassment and assault for decades. Their reporting opened the floodgates to even more women and men coming forward to speak about sexual assault and harassment, igniting a flame for the #MeToo movement which is leading a shift in the treatment of women.
In addition to the New York Times and The New Yorker winning, rapper Kendrick Lamar was honored with a Pulitzer for his album DAMN. This marks the first non-classical or jazz work to win with the award.
Andrew Sean Greer’s “Less” won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction while Martyna Majok won the drama prize for “Cost of Living.” Other winners include Carolyn Fraser’s “Prairie Fires” for biography, James Forman Jr’s “Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America” for general nonfiction, Jack E. Davis’ The Gulf” for history and Frank Bidart’s “Half-Light:Collected Poems 1965-2016” for poetry
The Pulitzer Prizes recognize the best journalism of 2017 in newspapers, magazines, and websites. There are 14 categories for reporting, photography, criticism, and commentary. For the arts, prizes are awarded in seven categories, including fiction, drama, and music.
Annapurna, Plan B Plot ‘Spotlight’-Like Movie On How NY Times Reporters Broke Harvey Weinstein Sex Scandal Story
EXCLUSIVE: Annapurna and Plan B have partnered to acquire the rights to give Spotlight-like treatment to the story of how New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey worked with editor Rebecca Corbett to break the biggest scandal story Hollywood has seen in decades, the one that took down Harvey Weinstein. The stories landed the reporters a Pulitzer earlier this month.
The bombshell first story ran last October 5, when Kantor and Twohey revealed an array of alleged sexual harassment and assaults against women by The Weinstein Company co-chairman and indie film mogul Weinstein that dated back decades. The article included details of hush money paid to cover up the sexual indiscretions and first-person accounts by actresses while Weinstein denied — and continues to deny — an charges of non-consensual sexual indiscretions, and the article hit Hollywood like a bombshell.
Weinstein was immediately fired by the TWC Board of Directors, and a once viable company atrophied and plunged into Chapter 11 bankruptcy, its fate to be decided early next month. Weinstein quickly became a pariah who is being investigated by law enforcement in New York, Los Angeles and the UK. And dozens of other men, ranging from directors to executives, comedians and actors, have taken tumbles as women felt emboldened to come forward to detail the indignities they were forced to endure from powerful men all over the industry.
The drums were already beating with the scandals involving Bill Cosby and Fox News titans Roger Ailes and Bill O’Reilly, but the Weinstein story became a catalyst for the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements. It has created serious effort involving the top men and women in show business not only to clean up deplorable behavior in the workplace, but to create hiring and advancement opportunities not only for women but also minorities and members of the LGBTQ community.
The thrust of the film isn’t Weinstein or his scandal. This is about an all-women team of journalists who persevered through threats of litigation and intimidation, to break a game-changing story, told in a procedural manner like Spotlight and All the President’s Men.
Kantor and Twohey just shared the Pulitzer Prize for their explosive reporting alongside Ronan Farrow, whose equally superb dispatches in The New Yorker began dropping days after that first NYT scoop. It was the most seismic journalism-driven Hollywood scandal since the days of David Begelman, and much of the intrigue involved the ways that Weinstein tried unsuccessfully to keep the stories from being published.
Plan B, the production partnership between Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, have made such topical films as Best Picture winners 12 Years a Slave and Moonlight, and the producer last year relocated its first-look deal from Paramount to Annapurna. Their first project together is the Adam McKay-directed film that has Christian Bale playing polarizing former Vice President Dick Cheney, and they are teamed on Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight follow-up If Beale Street Could Talk. Annapurna, in turn, regularly sparks to content with social relevance, from last year’s Detroit to Zero Dark Thirty. While Spotlight became a movie long after those Boston Globe reporters won the Pulitzer for exposing an institutional cover-up of pedophile priests within the Boston diocese of the Catholic Church, Plan B and Annapurna will be getting into the Weinstein saga in real time, much the way that Mark Boal and Kathryn Bigelow did on Annapurna’s Zero Dark Thirty.
The rights deal was put together by Anonymous Content, which recently signed the newspaper to broker movie and TV opportunities for its investigative journalism. AC repped both the paper and the journalists. After breaking the Pentagon Papers story and watching the Best Picture nominee The Post get made by Steven Spielberg with Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep about the Washington Post‘s role in being runner-up, the Grey Lady is wasting no time here in securing a top issue-oriented producer and studio to find the handle to tell its role in breaking the Weinstein story.
Annapurna, Plan B Plot ‘Spotlight’-Like Movie On How NY Times Reporters Broke Harvey Weinstein Sex Scandal Story
EXCLUSIVE: Annapurna and Plan B have partnered to acquire the rights to give Spotlight-like treatment to the story of how New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey worked with editor Rebecca Corbett to break the biggest scandal story Hollywood has seen in decades, the one that took down Harvey Weinstein. The stories landed the reporters a Pulitzer earlier this month.
The bombshell first story ran last October 5, when Kantor and Twohey revealed an array of alleged sexual harassment and assaults against women by The Weinstein Company co-chairman and indie film mogul Weinstein that dated back decades. The article included details of hush money paid to cover up the sexual indiscretions and first-person accounts by actresses while Weinstein denied — and continues to deny — an charges of non-consensual sexual indiscretions, and the article hit Hollywood like a bombshell.
Weinstein was immediately fired by the TWC Board of Directors, and a once viable company atrophied and plunged into Chapter 11 bankruptcy, its fate to be decided early next month. Weinstein quickly became a pariah who is being investigated by law enforcement in New York, Los Angeles and the UK. And dozens of other men, ranging from directors to executives, comedians and actors, have taken tumbles as women felt emboldened to come forward to detail the indignities they were forced to endure from powerful men all over the industry.
The drums were already beating with the scandals involving Bill Cosby and Fox News titans Roger Ailes and Bill O’Reilly, but the Weinstein story became a catalyst for the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements. It has created serious effort involving the top men and women in show business not only to clean up deplorable behavior in the workplace, but to create hiring and advancement opportunities not only for women but also minorities and members of the LGBTQ community.
The thrust of the film isn’t Weinstein or his scandal. This is about an all-women team of journalists who persevered through threats of litigation and intimidation, to break a game-changing story, told in a procedural manner like Spotlight and All the President’s Men.
Kantor and Twohey just shared the Pulitzer Prize for their explosive reporting alongside Ronan Farrow, whose equally superb dispatches in The New Yorker began dropping days after that first NYT scoop. It was the most seismic journalism-driven Hollywood scandal since the days of David Begelman, and much of the intrigue involved the ways that Weinstein tried unsuccessfully to keep the stories from being published.
Plan B, the production partnership between Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, have made such topical films as Best Picture winners 12 Years a Slave and Moonlight, and the producer last year relocated its first-look deal from Paramount to Annapurna. Their first project together is the Adam McKay-directed film that has Christian Bale playing polarizing former Vice President Dick Cheney, and they are teamed on Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight follow-up If Beale Street Could Talk. Annapurna, in turn, regularly sparks to content with social relevance, from last year’s Detroit to Zero Dark Thirty. While Spotlight became a movie long after those Boston Globe reporters won the Pulitzer for exposing an institutional cover-up of pedophile priests within the Boston diocese of the Catholic Church, Plan B and Annapurna will be getting into the Weinstein saga in real time, much the way that Mark Boal and Kathryn Bigelow did on Annapurna’s Zero Dark Thirty.
The rights deal was put together by Anonymous Content, which recently signed the newspaper to broker movie and TV opportunities for its investigative journalism. AC repped both the paper and the journalists. After breaking the Pentagon Papers story and watching the Best Picture nominee The Post get made by Steven Spielberg with Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep about the Washington Post‘s role in being runner-up, the Grey Lady is wasting no time here in securing a top issue-oriented producer and studio to find the handle to tell its role in breaking the Weinstein story.
It's too soon, honestly. The movie raises red flags for me as something that is too beholden to its time. I think a movie on this subject needs to wait a decade or two to see what comes of the MeToo stuff. A more... journalistic exercise, rather than an appeal to an audience.
It's too soon, honestly. The movie raises red flags for me as something that is too beholden to its time. I think a movie on this subject needs to wait a decade or two to see what comes of the MeToo stuff. A more... journalistic exercise, rather than an appeal to an audience.
Seconded. Way too soon.
With that said, though, I'm curious to see who signs up to write and direct. And if it's any decent, it's winning Best Picture.
I'm sorry okay! I've been lusting after white *beep* for so long, I lost perspective
If they take their time to develop it carefully and release it on late 2019/2020, I don't think it'll be "too soon". All The President's Men was released just two years after Nixon resigned over Watergate. We need to make movies about the now, not just about the "10 years ago".
If they take their time to develop it carefully and release it on late 2019/2020, I don't think it'll be "too soon". All The President's Men was released just two years after Nixon resigned over Watergate. We need to make movies about the now, not just about the "10 years ago".
I just don't think our highly divided social media world of today can take it. The need for the film to be liked will distort and warp the movie.
Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on May 25, 2018 12:50:57 GMT
Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein has been charged in New York with rape and several other counts of sexual abuse involving two separate women.
Mr Weinstein had earlier turned himself in to police in the city.
Dozens of women have made allegations, including of rape and sexual assault, against the 66 year old.
Mr Weinstein has always denied non-consensual sex and these are the first charges that have been levelled against him.
A statement from the New York Police Department said Mr Weinstein "was arrested, processed and charged with rape, criminal sex act, sex abuse and sexual misconduct for incidents involving two separate women".
The statement thanked "these brave survivors for their courage to come forward and seek justice".
Details of the allegations and of those making the accusations have not yet been released.
The allegations against Mr Weinstein triggered the #MeToo movement, which sought to demonstrate and draw attention to the widespread prevalence of sexual abuse and harassment.
Harvey Weinstein Could Face Life In Prison After Being Charged With Further Sex Crimes
Harvey Weinstein has been charged with further sex crimes, including predatory sexual assault, which carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. On Monday afternoon, Manhattan’s District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr filed charges against the film producer in relation to a third woman, in addition to the two charges of rape and one of a criminal sex act against two other women.
The grand jury has charged Weinstein with an additional count of a criminal sex act in the first degree for a forcible sex act against the third woman in 2006, and two counts of predatory sexual assault.
According to the Manhattan DA, predatory sexual assault is a class A-II felony, which has a minimum sentence of 10 years and a maximum of life imprisonment. Mr Vance said: “A Manhattan grand jury has now indicted Harvey Weinstein on some of the most serious sexual offences that exist under New York’s Penal Law.
“This indictment is the result of the extraordinary courage exhibited by the survivors who have come forward. Our investigation continues. If you are a survivor of the predatory abuse with which Mr Weinstein is charged, there is still time to pursue justice.”
Former Berlin and Venice Festival Director Defends Harvey Weinstein
"He's one of the few Hollywood producers that truly love film," Moritz de Hadeln wrote in an op-ed for a Swiss newspaper. "The lynch justice he's now experiencing is just disgusting."
Moritz de Hadeln, the former director of the Berlin and Venice film festivals, has publicly defended disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.
In an op-ed for Swiss newspaper Weltwoche, de Hadeln praised Weinstein as "one of the few Hollywood producers who truly love film," writing that "no one has done as much for European cinema as he has."
In the piece, de Hadeln sharply criticizes his festival colleagues, including Cannes festival director Thierry Fremaux, Dieter Kosslick of the Berlin festival and Venice director Alberto Barbera, for condemning Weinstein after dozens of women came forward last year accusing the Oscar-winning producer of sexual harassment and assault.
"More than anyone else, they should understand the important role that the Weinstein brothers, Harvey in particular, have had in supporting European cinema," he wrote, noting that the films of Franco Zeffirelli, Jim Sheridan, Pedro Almodovar, Stephen Frears and Bernardo Bertolucci, among others, would not have "gained entry into the U.S. market" without Weinstein. "Banning Harvey means European cinema loses an important trump card, a person...whose expertise has made it possible for many important works to succeed."
De Hadeln wrote that Weinstein, who has been accused by dozens of women of sexual harassment and assault, is the victim of "lynch justice" that the 77-year-old former festival director called "disgusting."
Weinstein, de Hadeln argued, "has not even been convicted of the crimes these numerous women have accused him of, but the voice of the people has denied him the right to presumption of innocence.... We should let the legal system decide if Weinstein has committed any crimes," but Weinstein's professional contributions to cinema "are undeniable."
In his article, De Hadeln also questioned the reach of the #MeToo movement, which has gained international prominence. While allegations of assault or rape can be handled by the legal system, de Hadeln argued, the movement is now questioning "the relationship between men and women, the attraction and repulsion that is anchored in human nature." He wrote: "When an actress is touched by Harvey Weinstein in an indecorous manner, goes alone the next day to his hotel room and then screams 'Me too!' you can only agree with [French actress] Brigitte Bardot in calling them a hypocrite."
De Hadeln, 77, was director of the Berlin Film Festival from 1980 to 2001 and ran the Venice fest in 2002 and 2003. During that time, he featured several films produced by Weinstein, including The English Patient, Jackie Brown, Shakespeare in Love, Dirty Pretty Things and Frida.
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I'm confident that Martin Scorsese, Guillermo Del Toro, James Gray, Hayao Miyazaki, Jim Jarmusch, Bong Joon-ho, Wong Kar-Wai, Peter Jackson, Julie Taymor, Olivier Dahan, Billy Bob Thornton, Tracy Letts and several others agree with Mr. De Hadeln's assessment of Weinstein's unparalleled love and respect for cinema.
So do the dozens of women that he raped, I'm sure.
Post by theycallmemrfish on Jul 25, 2018 15:56:13 GMT
That article doesn't surprise me in the least...
Much like the abuse scandals of the Catholic Church, many people simply turned a blind eye to it. Many knew, few did anything about it. Weinstein isn't the first one, he's sure as shit isn't the only one, and I can assure you he won't be the last one. Old guard will defend the old guard.