South Korea's Bong Joon-ho has been a familiar sight in Cannes since 2006, when word of his delirious Han River monster romp The Host swept the Croisette after screening in Directors’ Fortnight. Since then, while his English and dress sense quietly improved, director Bong has always returned with a surprise, making…

Harvard University is declining to renew the dean position of law professor Ronald S. Sullivan Jr., who was part of a team with his wife leading one of the university’s residential colleges. Sullivan’s role has been under fire from students since he joined the legal team defending former movie mogul Harvey Weinste…

As of 3:36 p.m. Cannes Film Festival Time on Saturday–6:36 a.m. as time is reckoned here in Los Angeles– the online case records of the Los Angeles County Superior Court still showed no sign of a response by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to Roman Polanski's demand for reinstatement as an Academy…

UPDATE, 12:55PM PT, BREAKING — The closed-court hearing in Harvey Weinstein’s rape case is over, but the legal matter is far from finished for the former mogul. After a lengthy pre-trial session Friday between Manhattan prosecutors and the Oscar-winning producer’s latest defense team, the trial for the case that could…

(UPDATED with judge’s ruling) About a month before Harvey Weinstein's rape trial is set to begin, the much-accused producer's latest defense team and the Manhattan District Attorney got support from a judge, who closed a pivotal hearing Friday to the public and the press. New York Supreme Court Justice James Burke…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: Matthew Macfadyen (Succession), Kristine Froseth (Sierra Burgess Is a Loser) and Makenzie Leigh (Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk) have joined Julia Garner in writer-director Kitty Green’s untitled movie based on a day in the life of one of Harvey Weinstein’s assistants. James Schamus (Brokeback Mountain)…

EXCLUSIVE: Harvey Weinstein may be facing life in prison if found guilty in his upcoming rape trial in New York this summer, but he won't have to deal with Ashley Judd's retaliation case for a while. "The Court GRANTS Defendant's motion to stay this case pending resolution of his criminal case in New York, with the…

EXCLUSIVE: Marginalized by a version rushed for the 2017 Toronto Film Festival weeks before Harvey Weinstein’s banishment and The Weinstein Company’s implosion, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s The Current War has a new cut and the kind of second chance that most prematurely premiered festival films never get. Upstart 101…

The producers of the film Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame To Kill For (aka Sin City 2) are suing The Weinstein Company, Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein and David Glasser, alleging the distributors pushed a similar movie during the time they should have promoted the Sin City sequel. The suit, filed in Los Angeles…

UPDATE, 1:45 PM: Back in the old days, news that people wanted buried or forgotten was often dumped on a Friday in the hopes it would be lost over the weekend. Not sure the strategic principle still applies in the digital age, but today it was announced that the latest hearing in Harvey Weinstein’s rape case will be…

As Lantern Entertainment looks to fully exploit the assets it acquired as part of its $289 million acquisition of The Weinstein Company assets, it is close to reaching a significant settlement with Disney, a stakeholder in some of the company’s film and titles. A person familiar with the discussions between Lantern…