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This year, Sundance is celebrating the 40th edition of the film festival that has, for four decades, broken talent, launched award-winning indies and seen its fair share of fist-fights and walk-outs. In 2014, THR broke down 30 key moments in the fest’s history in honor of its 30-year edition. Now, we are back with an update, adding ten key moments from the past decade to the mix.   1. Ryan Coolger makes a splash (2013)At the 2013 fest, Fruitvale won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award, and went on…

A year after a Los Angeles jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict on her claims Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted her in a Beverly Hills hotel room in 2013, the woman known as Jane Doe No. 2 at Weinstein’s California criminal trial has filed a lawsuit against the disgraced former movie mogul. The woman, who also testified at Weinstein’s criminal trial in New York, filed her 14-page lawsuit Tuesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court. It names Weinstein and The Weinstein Company as defendants and includes…

Earlier this month, actor Ed Westwick — most famous for portraying the Donald Trump Jr.-esque real estate scion Chuck Bass on Gossip Girl — went live on TikTok and revealed to his followers that he’s keen to do a Gossip Girl “reboot” with the original cast, or a “spinoff show.” The allegations notwithstanding, Gossip Girl creators Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage tell Rolling Stone that fans shouldn’t get their hopes up about a reboot with the original cast anytime soon.   In an interview to promote the…

By Andrew Dalton | Associated Press LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles judge on Thursday sentenced Harvey Weinstein to 16 years in prison after a jury convicted him of the 2013 rape and sexual assault of an Italian actor and model. The sentence comes on top of the more than 20 years the 70-year-old Weinstein has left to serve for a similar 2020 conviction in New York, furthering the fall of the onetime movie magnate who became a #MeToo magnet. Weinstein directly appealed to Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lisa B. Lench, saying:…

Todd Field's latest film Tár, starring Cate Blanchett, has been nominated for several critics' awards since it premiered at the Venice International Film Festival in September 2022. But when the filmmaker started out two decades ago, he wasn't sure if his directorial debut In the Bedroom (2001) would have his creative stamp of approval after it was acquired by producer Harvey Weinstein. (Also read: Cate Blanchett's Tár wins best film at National Society of Film Critics, scores rare hattrick at major critics…

By Michael R. Sisak | Associated Press NEW YORK — Fresh off a second rape conviction, Harvey Weinstein asked New York’s highest court Tuesday to overturn his first one, arguing that the judge in his 2020 case betrayed his right to a fair trial by “succumbing to the pressure” of the #MeToo movement. Weinstein’s lawyers are asking the state’s Court of Appeals to dismiss the disgraced movie mogul’s rape conviction and to order a new trial on a single count of criminal sexual act. The rape charge, they said, involves alleged…

By ANDREW DALTON LOS ANGELES (AP) — After a month-long trial and nine days of deliberations, Los Angeles jurors on Monday found Harvey Weinstein guilty of the rape and sexual assault of just one of the four accusers he was charged with abusing. But the three guilty counts involving an Italian actor and model known at the trial as Jane Doe 1 still struck a major blow against the disgraced movie mogul, and provided another #MeToo moment of reckoning, five years after he became a magnet for the movement. Weinstein, 70, who…

By ANDREW DALTON LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jennifer Siebel Newsom, a documentary filmmaker and the wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, faced cross-examination from one of Harvey Weinstein ‘s attorneys Tuesday about why her description of a 2005 encounter during which she says the filmmaker raped her has expanded since she first spoke with prosecutors. The testimony came three weeks into the Los Angeles rape and sexual assault trial of Weinstein, and on the same day that the judge dismissed four of the 11 counts against him at…

Hollywood filmmaker James Cameron revealed that he ‘almost hit Harvey Weinstein with his Oscar’ at the Academy Awards in 1998. James said that the two were talking about Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, and their take on him didn't match, which lead to a fight. Also Read: Avatar 2 is officially titled Avatar: The Way of Water; James Cameron film finally gets release dateHarvey, a Hollywood power broker who produced Pulp Fiction, Shakespeare in Love and Gangs of New York, became one of the most prominent targets of…

The two journalists reignited the #MeToo movement with their New York Times exposé on the Hollywood film producer, which included the first wave of sexual harassment and abuse allegations against him Harvey Weinstein The hunt to bring down Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein is on in the first trailer for She Said, a dramatic adaptation of the book by Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor.The two journalists reignited the #MeToo…