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Bleecker Street has acquired U.S. distribution rights to The Assistant, director Kitty Green's drama that has taken as its inspiration the Harvey Weinstein scandal. The pic, which stars Ozark‘s Julia Garner and had its world premiere at Telluride, will now hit theaters on January 31, 2020. The plot follows one day in…

EXCLUSIVE: This does not promise to be a very good holiday weekend for Harvey Weinstein.  Ursula MacFarlane’s scathing documentary on the Weinstein scandal, Untouchable, debuts on Hulu on September 2, while on Friday a new movie, The Assistant, a fictional narrative film clearly inspired by the revelation of Weinstein…

The 46th annual Telluride Film Festival, often a harbinger of Oscar hopefuls, announced its full schedule Thursday morning, and as usual it includes an eclectic variety of films meant to put cineastes in hog heaven over the Labor Day weekend. Among the Oscar-buzzed world premieres, perhaps the buzziest is James…