Megyn Kelly, Juliet Huddy, Rudi Bakhtiar and Julie Zann – the former Fox News journalists whose sexual harassment claims against Roger Ailes and other men at the company form the basis of the movie Bombshell – have released a little bombshell of their own: A 30-minute video in which they, along with Kelly’s husband…
In Jay Roach’s telling of Fox News boss Roger Ailes’ downfall by the women he harassed at the network, there’s a great pace in Bombshell, which organically makes this drama feel like a thriller.
When Bombshell editor Jon Poll first read the screenplay, he did so in the mindset of Roach’s style, specifically, the…
Former Fox newscaster Gretchen Carlson today renewed her call for Fox to lift its non-disclosure agreements for employees.
Carlson voiced her complaints in an editorial in The New York Times. It arrives as the film Bombshell hits theaters tomorrow, dramatizing the efforts of women (including Carlson) to expose…
Gretchen Carlson, Julie Roginsky and Diana Falzone, each of whom sued Fox News Channel and/or Roger Ailes with accusations of sexual harassment, retaliation or discrimination, have launched a nationwide effort to end the mandatory use of non-disclosure agreements.
Lift Our Voices will seek to end NDAs, confidentiality…
John Lithgow has always been hungry for a challenge, playing a plethora of roles, from aliens to priests, to sitcom dads, murderers, millionaires, scientists, and schizophrenics. "I can walk down one block and people will recognize me for 10 different things," he laughs at a bustling lunch spot in North Hollywood…
When Charlize Theron — the driving force as producer and star of Bombshell — sought a director to capture the plight that ambitious women faced in a sexist Fox News culture fostered by creator Roger Ailes, the easy choice would have been a woman. Instead, she chose Jay Roach, helmer of the Austin Powers and Meet the Pa…
Laura Luhn plans to appeal a federal judge’s dismissal of her defamation lawsuit against Fox News and its CEO, Suzanne Scott.
Luhn, an ex-employee of the news network, had challenged statements that Scott had made in an April 3 profile in which she denied knowledge of her predecessor Roger Ailes’ acts of sexual…
“You have to adopt the mentality of an Irish street cop,” the new woman at Fox News Channel is told. “The world is a bad place, people are lazy morons, minorities are criminals, sex is sick but interesting. Ask yourself, ‘What would scare my grandmother or piss off my grandfather?’ — and that’s a Fox story.”
Here is…
Bombshelllives up to its title, and then some, and the explosive story of the scandal in which a group of women brought down Fox News founder and ruler Roger Ailes entered the Oscar race in a big way Sunday.
Stars Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie, director Jay Roach and screenwriter Charles Randolph…
Donald Trump may be rubbing salt into the wound of Shepard Smith suddenly exiting Fox News Channel today, but the anchor could be back soon-ish to shine a spotlight of truth on the ex-Celebrity Apprentice host.
“The decision to leave was Shep’s and his alone," said Smith's PR representative in a statement after the…
Imagine someone in the news business, a television producer, who wasn't concerned about truth. That apparent anomaly describes Roger Ailes, the late Fox News chief, according to filmmaker Alexis Bloom.
"He never said truth was important to him, in terms of Fox News. It was all about entertainment and messaging," Bloom…
The volume is certainly starting to rise for Showtime's The Loudest Voice.
Coming off a bit of a whisper of a debut on June 30, the Russell Crowe-led bioseries on Fox News Channel Svengali and alleged serial sexual predator Roger Ailes has now topped 2 million viewers, according to the CBS-owned premium cabler.
That…
