Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

i think it's great that behind the scenes in Hollywood you had all these women banding together to help each other out and steer each other clear of a predator, though obviously not as great as the scenario where a predator was never allowed to roam free and enlist all kinds of help to cover up his crimes.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: people should never forget the names of those in the media who helped smear Weinstein's accusers. god knows how many of these women chose not to step forward because of the attacks in the press.

smh that the ilx goons

ilx goons are an echo chamber

re: the Kate Beckinsale story, this is the full one:

I was called to meet Harvey Weinstein at the Savoy Hotel when I was 17. I assumed it would be in a conference room which was very common.When I arrived ,reception told me to go to his room . He opened the door in his bathrobe . I was incredibly naive and young and it did not cross my mind that this older ,unattractive man would expect me to have any sexual interest in him .After declining alcohol and announcing that I had school in the morning I left ,uneasy but unscathed.A few years later he asked me if he had tried anything with me in that first meeting .I realized he couldn't remember if he had assaulted me or not .I had what I thought were boundaries - I said no to him professionally many times over the years-some of which ended up with him screaming at me calling me a cunt and making threats, some of which made him laughingly tell people oh "Kate lives to say no to me ." It speaks to the status quo in this business that I was aware that standing up for myself and saying no to things,while it did allow me to feel uncompromised in myself,undoubtedly harmed my career and was never something I felt supported by anyone other than my family.I would like to applaud the women who have come forward , and to pledge that we can from this create a new paradigm where producers,managers,executives and assistants and everyone who has in the past shrugged and said " well, that's just Harvey /Mr X/insert name here " will realize that we in numbers can affect real change.For every moment like this there have been thousands where a vulnerable person has confided outrageous unprofessional behavior and found they have no recourse, due to an atmosphere of fear that it seems almost everyone has been living in .I had a male friend who, based on my experience,warned a young actress who said she was going to dinner with Harvey to be careful. He received a phone call the next day saying he would never work in another Miramax film ;the girl was already sleeping with Harvey and had told him that my friend had warned her off.Let's stop allowing our young women to be sexual cannon fodder,and let's remember that Harvey is an emblem of a system that is sick,and that we have work to do.

she never did work on a Harvey Weinstein production afaict, with the sole exception of The Aviator (like Brad Pitt w/Tarantino, maybe bc she wouldn't have to deal with him, or inversely maybe because he couldn't tell Scorsese not to hire here?)

I had a male friend who, based on my experience,warned a young actress who said she was going to dinner with Harvey to be careful. He received a phone call the next day saying he would never work in another Miramax film ;the girl was already sleeping with Harvey and had told him that my friend had warned her off.

JFC, "hey I know I fucked up but those were different times, it was totally normal for people to blacklist anyone who interfered with their habitual rape back then"

like the complete bullshit of his "apology" just becomes more and more disturbing with every detail I read. "Aw shucks I guess I'll talk to a therapist and donate some money for gun control."

his half-assed video apology today (to a camera crew):

Harvey Weinstein, in his first public response since multiple women accused him of sexual misconduct, said “we all make mistakes."

“Guys, I’m not doing OK, but I’m trying,” Weinstein told reporters on Wednesday as he entered an SUV parked outside his daughter’s Los Angeles home.

“I got to get help,” the former film executive said.

“A second chance, I hope,” Weinstein, 65, added.

...what

.@PageSixEmily says Weinstein told her he'll be back in a year w/new financial backing & winning Oscars againhttps://t.co/0H4eMlW3Qr

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 12, 2017

He’s not sorry - he’s just sorry he got caught.

Otm.

Emily Smith, ever so slightly trying to dodge her complicity there

my feeling is that it’s not enough to cut at W himself.
it’s good, and the outpouring is incredible...but i want to see someone cut at the support network. name those other names of the ppl who operate solely on the knowledge that they will never be named... get those floodlights into EVERY dark unknowable corner, not just where the ogre lives

it’ll never happen but it should. don’t just chop down the tree. dig up the roots, burn the ground & salt the earth

Honestly getting sick of people deflecting to Trump in the responses to this. Trump didn't invent sexual assault, and yeah I get the point that it says something that a man like that can become president, but there are a lot of other predators out there.

VG otmfm. SO MANY MOTHERFUCKERS not only had firsthand knowledge of the shit as it happened, but actively and knowingly facilitated (and ultimately encouraged) it.

i'm still in a righteous fury about all of those NY Post hacks who put their names on those hit pieces. name and shame them all, never forget!!

this story pisses me off so much. fuck the career hacks. fuck NBC. fuck Batman, what a piece of shit enabler. fuck Twitter too obv but i always felt that way. it was weird as heck when one year every news channel suddenly decided, oh yeah, this is news now, let's ask what HobbitFan420 thinks of the Syrian invasion.

Rose McGowan is my new hero. she deserves to be Batman more than that lying piece of shit.

this whole thing sucks but it's also good to be able to have this stuff out in the open, now it is public knowledge, these scumbags can't hide anymore. predatory misogyny has gone on for a loooong time, shielded by so many systems and power structures, all over the world. we are seeing the cracks in that facade. burn it to the ground.

Affleck has always been bro culture boiled down into single man form.

it's part of why he was perfect as Old Asshole Batman

not defending him on this issue, but he did attack Bill maher and that other guy for being anti-Muslim on Maher's show

More from Rose McGowan.

http://www.vulture.com/2017/10/rose-mcgowan-says-harvey-weinstein-raped-her.html?utm_campaign=nym&utm_source=fb&utm_medium=s1

figured that was a foregone conclusion

i mean, she basically already said that when she said "my ex sold my movie to my rapist"

pic.twitter.com/xMdoA8fvDx

— Ryan Gosling (@RyanGosling) October 12, 2017

you could at least do us the courtesy of saying our names https://t.co/IJEBkdopHV

— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) October 12, 2017

Yeah I find a lot of these public "solidarity" statements to read more like preemptive self-exculpations.

bla bla bla #notallmen and so on basically.

The more I'm reading of all this the angrier I'm getting. None of these men said jack shit and they all knew.

Eh, Affleck has also done (terrible) comedy Arab terrorist accents on late night shows. And I am convinced a blind item I read about a Hollywood leading man beat his wife was about him and Jennifer Garner. but even if that’s not true, he’s gross.

It just rings really weird also to make a public statement to the effect of "Im sorry that I didn't know. "

pic.twitter.com/cgyYTZtpaN

— Tippi Hedren (@Tippi_Hedren) October 11, 2017

I'm confused, is she anonymously quoting another actress who wrote that to her?

This fool would say this.

Oliver Stone refuses to condemn Harvey Weinstein saying "It's not easy what he's going through." https://t.co/eLs4nPPnPU pic.twitter.com/SwmDPqpCqM

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) October 13, 2017

Jesus.

Tarantino still hasn't commented, huh?

Utterly shocked by the revelations about Harvey. He is a good friend, but if he is guilty, there are issues that are inevitable.

— Quentin Tarantino (@qtarantino) October 11, 2017

The guilt of men on the face of the earth must be determined by Justice and ultimately by the possible existence of God.

— Quentin Tarantino (@qtarantino) October 11, 2017

We need to stand up and support victims of abuse such as the brave and inspiring women who have spoken out.

— Quentin Tarantino (@qtarantino) October 12, 2017

http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/a1/a141aedce06fa25daa9ab224ee784df6bd04626cf4bc0bbf7f4a928f1522ce91.jpg

why are these dillweeds all so bad at lying

I don't think that's a real account.

ok so one person is good at lying

oh nm

Can't wait for QT to turn this into a thinly-disguised revenge Western.

Filmmaker Robert Rodriguez has spoken out about Harvey Weinstein’s sexual harassment allegations.

Rodriguez has a long history with Weinstein’s company Miramax and was previously in a relationship with Rose McGowan, who said she was assaulted by Weinstein in 1997.

“I find the behavior of Harvey Weinstein truly disgusting, both what he did and how he covered his tracks, and it makes me wonder how many others can’t come forward and tell their full story because of legal and personal intimidation,” Rodriguez said in a statement obtained by Variety. “His repulsive behavior was an abuse of power. Thankfully, he’s now discovering what true power is.”

Rodriguez worked with the Weinstein’s and Miramax on a number of his films, including “The Spy Kids” series, “Roadracers,” “Four Rooms,” “From Dusk Til Dawn,” and “Sin City.”

"And yet I stood by and did nothing and continued to make mad bank via a man who did this to women including one I dated"

Somebody tweeted at Kevin Smith the other day...his response:

He financed the first 14 years of my career - and now I know while I was profiting, others were in terrible pain. It makes me feel ashamed. https://t.co/T0hInW7EqJ

— KevinSmith (@ThatKevinSmith) October 9, 2017

Actress Tara Subkoff has opened up about her experience with Harvey Weinstein, alleging the producer sexually harassed her in the 1990s when she was up for a part in one of his movies.

“That night I was offered the role, and I went out to a premiere after party that Harvey Weinstein was also at,” she told Variety. “He motioned for me to come over to him, and then grabbed me to sit me on his lap. I was so surprised and shocked I couldn’t stop laughing because it was so awkward. But then I could feel that he had an erection. I got quiet, but got off his lap quickly. He then asked me to come outside with him and other things I don’t want to share, but it was implied that if I did not comply with doing what he asked me to do that I would not get the role that I had already been informally offered. I laughed in his face as I was in shock and so uncomfortable. I left the party right after that.”

Subkoff made her film debut in 1994’s thriller “When the Bough Breaks,” and appeared in the 1997 Jack Nicholson comedy “As Good as It Gets,” the 1997 “All Over Me,” and the 1998 Whit Stillman film “The Last Days of Disco.” Subkoff said after denying Weinstein’s advances that night, she was stripped of the informally offered part and blacklisted from acting in Hollywood.

“My reputation was ruined by false gossip, and I was called ‘too difficult to work with,'” she said. “It became impossible for me to get work as an actress after this, so I then had to start a new career path and started Imitation of Christ, a fashion and art label.

In 2015, Subkoff stepped back into entertainment and made her directorial debut with the feature film “#Horror.”

“The Weinstein company executives snuck into a cast and crew screening of my film and told me they loved it,” she recalled. “Then they took it to Harvey, who then refused to watch it but then bad-mouthed it to everyone all over Cannes.”

Still, the movie was picked up for distribution by IFC Midnight. “[IFC was] so supportive of me and the movie, even though Harvey tried to ruin any potential success it could have had,” she said. “It is challenging enough to get work in Hollywood as a female, let alone being a female filmmaker producer/director. And when people attempt to ruin your reputation on top of that, it makes it next to impossible.”

Subkoff said she hopes the growing list of women coming forward with their stories will set a precedent for how women are treated in all places of work. “I have a 17 month old daughter, and I hope she never has a story like this to share.”

Though she has never shared her story before, Subkoff said she opened up about her experience to demonstrate how “powerful men abusing their power can affect not only a few careers, but all of ours,” adding, “I had it affect and ruin my career as an actress. And then almost twenty years later it almost affected my first feature film I wrote directed and produced getting distribution. That refusing to comply with one powerful man’s sexual advances could not only ruin my first career as an actress, but almost twenty years later also had the power to affect my first and only feature film to get distribution is so important to show how the abuse of power by the patriarchy is affecting all female artists everywhere.”

if there are people out there who had the guts to say "I've heard all the stories about this guy and you know what I don't want his money" we've probably never heard their names. That doesn't necessarily mean Kevin Smith knew but come on some of these motherfuckers definitely did.

Tarantino & Rodriguez obviously did. Probably Gosling. people like Kevin Smith, I'm not sure... I mean when something is such a widespread open secret, how much purchase do you really have if you only know vague rumors & you're three or four steps removed from the people involved?

considering how many projects Weinstein worked on, you can see a pattern w/a lot of his accusers where they never worked with him again. i have no doubt it was an open secret, but i also think a lot of these guys--when they're saying "i didn't know"--are really saying "i didn't believe the accusers or the rumors i heard." or possibly, "i didn't care until i couldn't afford not to care anymore."

That last story is horrifying particularly due to the fact he effectively stalked Subkoff years after she rebuffed him, to go out of his way to damage her reputation! I mean that goes beyond being butthurt and into the realm of fucked up controlling psychopath.

Well, his Mallrats star knew.

#HarveyWeinstein #ClaireForlani #MyStory pic.twitter.com/gEVDkbP5ec

— Claire Forlani (@ClaireAForlani) October 12, 2017