Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

he must've felt a need to pipe up, i doubt his opinion was solicited. right?

he was being interviewed by the french press agency, probably decided to pick a stance to blend in in france

Only otm part of the interview:

I’ve gotten very old

lol mh

apologies to all french people who aren't misogynistic jerks though

Terry Gilliam being a clueless idiot was immortalised in that documentary terry gilliam being a clueless idiot but it's like totally admirable probably

is he still trying to make that failed don quixote movie or did i daydream that

he apparently actually is don quixote now

he's actually decided to remake it irl it's just now the windmills are ladies xp lol

lololol
he's gotta dream the impossible dream!

a few months ago i hungover-edly watched most of 'erik the viking' and wow was that amazingly awful

i know it was the other terry's work, but it could easily have been his

wow, Gilliam is beyond a clueless idiot in that interview, into reprehensible

but also he's 77

i def read this and for a split second thought 'terry gilliam is an ilxor??'

lol

when did gilliam make his last good movie

Last one I saw in the theater was Munchausen. I'm kinda content with that.

when did gilliam make his last good movie

I was gonna say "1995" but realised I haven't seen any of the ones since then in full

I have seen Tideland

it was

well, it was something

The Zero Theorem is one of the worst films I've ever seen.

Of note:

http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/19/media/weinstein-company-bankruptcy/index.html

At the same time as the bankruptcy announcement, the company said it will release victims of, and witnesses to, Weinstein's alleged sexual misconduct from any non-disclosure agreements.

"Effective immediately, those 'agreements' end," the company said in a press release.

The company said "no one should be afraid to speak out or coerced to stay quiet."

!

Nickelodeon just "parted ways" with Dan Schneider and this sure feels like getting out in front of some story

btw Time Bandits and Brazil are Terry Gilliam's good movies

(at least one more than Spike Lee, j/k)

there was this thread about dan schneider a few months ago, I'd never heard of him before but it seems incredibly dark and grim:

thread of how much of a pedophile creep with disgusting fetishes dan schneider is and what really goes on behind the scenes of his shows:

— ‏ً (@deludedkiss) September 16, 2017

^probably should stress that it's really haunting nightmarish stuff, reminiscent of jimmy saville

^^ GIFs you don't want on your desk if you work in an open-layout office like I do!

I always forget he's the dude from Head of the Class and Better Off Dead.

yeah it's one of those cases where the rumors are awful and have been around for ages, but even the public stuff is very questionable on its own

^^^ This was way way way too late (the parting of ways).

The rumors of Schneider's pedo behavior are boiling over and some investigative journos have been working for nearly a year on a big story. It's imminent.

is there a source on that or can you not elaborate further

Can't believe it took this long for Schneider to get the hit. These allegations have been floating around for yeeeeeeears.

gilliam's don quixote movie is coming out soon actually, it's finished. probably not a good time for him to spout off and say stupid shit.

also yes zero theorem is terrible and his last good movie was probably...12 monkeys I guess. or fear and loathing, whichever was the last one to come out.

is there a source on that or can you not elaborate further

What Old Lunch said + friends in the biz

After the initial Harvey shitstorm and easy targets were rolled, the smart journalists just keep working. More and more people are willing to go on the record but there's not a sense of urgency given the charges that will inevitably be put out. Plus legal issues. But this little event about Schneider above is a tip of the hat that the studio has wind of what's up.

That schneider stuff is appalling, I didn't realize he was the person behind those shows although i've seen plenty of them. I remember that christmas one that is called out in one tweet in particular as my son was watching it and I walked into the room and was like "holy fuck what is that". NIckelodeon shares much of the blame in allowing that to go on IMO.

I've never seen these Nick shows but just looking at the clips that the above twitter pulled. WTF. How did that make it on air?

The power structure in Hollywood has been disgusting for many, many years.

I mean, journos working on a story doesn't imply "it's imminent," people tried to report the Weinstein story for a decade (or more?)

kim masters mentioned that she and some colleagues had been chasing down the story for years and that it’s been impossible getting people on the record

https://apnews.com/2036175b01ff44d8b1ba38b81037a7db/Ex-Weinstein-assistant-says-she-tried-to-stop-him-in-1998?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=APEntertainment

Zelda Perkins quit Weinstein’s film company in 1998, along with a colleague who accused the movie mogul of trying to rape her.

As part of a settlement, Perkins signed a non-disclosure agreement. It kept her silent, but also committed Weinstein to attend therapy for three years. And it required the company to spill the beans to its then-owner, the Walt Disney Co., or to fire Weinstein if he made any more payouts over alleged wrongdoing.

Perkins said her hope was to “create protection for people in the future.”

Under the terms of the agreement, Perkins chose the therapist Weinstein was to consult. She doesn’t know whether he ever went to the sessions.

“I have no idea if any of the obligations were upheld,” Perkins told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

She said that a year after she left the company she ran into Weinstein at the Cannes Film Festival, and “he told me that everything I had done was pointless.”

ah, good to know

tweet, for those interested:

My colleague and I spent a lot of time chasing this story. No one had a word of substance to say. If that’s changed, you know where to find us. https://t.co/kN7PCoz6Ar

— Kim Masters (@kimmasters) March 27, 2018

(some masterful legal needle-threading there)

i do wonder how ironclad the ndas that were signed by parents could be. i also think that the general tumult at viacom could lead to more things coming out in the open

losing the support of a corporate backer seems to make it a little less intimidating for victims to come forward, which is depressing in its own way

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/business/canceled-deals-and-pulped-books-as-the-publishing-industry-confronts-sexual-harassment.html?smid=tw-share

I know a lot of that Twitter thread is speculation, but if turns out that there *is* a line that can be drawn between Schneider and the last decade of Amanda Bynes having personal problems in the public eye, this has the potential to be even bigger than Weinstein imo

Like it may cause a fundamental rethinking of tabloid culture writ large

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/business/canceled-deals-and-pulped-books-as-the-publishing-industry-confronts-sexual-harassment.html?smid=tw-share

― j., Wednesday, March 28, 2018 8:15 AM (forty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

huh i nearly distributed the book in the header here

I know a lot of that Twitter thread is speculation, but if turns out that there *is* a line that can be drawn between Schneider and the last decade of Amanda Bynes having personal problems in the public eye, this has the potential to be even bigger than Weinstein imo

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, March 28, 2018 8:41 AM (twenty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Like it may cause a fundamental rethinking of tabloid culture writ large

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, March 28, 2018 8:42 AM (twenty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i want to believe but then again nothing really seems to have happened after it was revealed Weinstein had people who are still currently employed as gossip columnists on retainer to character assassinate accusers (cf. the woman who rejected his advances and then went undercover to make an audio tape.) I think Ronan Farrow went at some of them a bit, but didn't name names iirc. I think if you're a gossip columnist you're already maybe a bit less affected by moral qualms than others and your immediate peers aren't gonna call you out much either.

Yeah, but the obvious difference is that Weinstein was, to most Us/People/TMZ-reading human beings, is a behind the scenes figure, if on their radar at all. Amanda Bynes is a tabloid star that we've been rubbernecking for years .