Harvey Weinstein investigation movie (Annapurna/Plan B)

[imsounoriginal]

Annapurna, Plan B Plot ‘Spotlight’-Like Movie On How NY Times Reporters Broke Harvey Weinstein Sex Scandal Story

EXCLUSIVE: Annapurna and Plan B have partnered to acquire the rights to give Spotlight-like treatment to the story of how New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey worked with editor Rebecca Corbett to break the biggest scandal story Hollywood has seen in decades, the one that took down Harvey Weinstein. The stories landed the reporters a Pulitzer earlier this month.

The bombshell first story ran last October 5, when Kantor and Twohey revealed an array of alleged sexual harassment and assaults against women by The Weinstein Company co-chairman and indie film mogul Weinstein that dated back decades. The article included details of hush money paid to cover up the sexual indiscretions and first-person accounts by actresses while Weinstein denied — and continues to deny — an charges of non-consensual sexual indiscretions, and the article hit Hollywood like a bombshell.

Weinstein was immediately fired by the TWC Board of Directors, and a once viable company atrophied and plunged into Chapter 11 bankruptcy, its fate to be decided early next month. Weinstein quickly became a pariah who is being investigated by law enforcement in New York, Los Angeles and the UK. And dozens of other men, ranging from directors to executives, comedians and actors, have taken tumbles as women felt emboldened to come forward to detail the indignities they were forced to endure from powerful men all over the industry.

The drums were already beating with the scandals involving Bill Cosby and Fox News titans Roger Ailes and Bill O’Reilly, but the Weinstein story became a catalyst for the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements. It has created serious effort involving the top men and women in show business not only to clean up deplorable behavior in the workplace, but to create hiring and advancement opportunities not only for women but also minorities and members of the LGBTQ community.

The thrust of the film isn’t Weinstein or his scandal. This is about an all-women team of journalists who persevered through threats of litigation and intimidation, to break a game-changing story, told in a procedural manner like Spotlight and All the President’s Men.

Kantor and Twohey just shared the Pulitzer Prize for their explosive reporting alongside Ronan Farrow, whose equally superb dispatches in The New Yorker began dropping days after that first NYT scoop. It was the most seismic journalism-driven Hollywood scandal since the days of David Begelman, and much of the intrigue involved the ways that Weinstein tried unsuccessfully to keep the stories from being published.

Plan B, the production partnership between Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, have made such topical films as Best Picture winners 12 Years a Slave and Moonlight, and the producer last year relocated its first-look deal from Paramount to Annapurna. Their first project together is the Adam McKay-directed film that has Christian Bale playing polarizing former Vice President Dick Cheney, and they are teamed on Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight follow-up If Beale Street Could Talk. Annapurna, in turn, regularly sparks to content with social relevance, from last year’s Detroit to Zero Dark Thirty. While Spotlight became a movie long after those Boston Globe reporters won the Pulitzer for exposing an institutional cover-up of pedophile priests within the Boston diocese of the Catholic Church, Plan B and Annapurna will be getting into the Weinstein saga in real time, much the way that Mark Boal and Kathryn Bigelow did on Annapurna’s Zero Dark Thirty.

The rights deal was put together by Anonymous Content, which recently signed the newspaper to broker movie and TV opportunities for its investigative journalism. AC repped both the paper and the journalists. After breaking the Pentagon Papers story and watching the Best Picture nominee The Post get made by Steven Spielberg with Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep about the Washington Post‘s role in being runner-up, the Grey Lady is wasting no time here in securing a top issue-oriented producer and studio to find the handle to tell its role in breaking the Weinstein story.

from Deadline

[CyberpunkCentral]

Never thought I would be looking forward to a Jubba The Hut movie.

[CelluloidPal]

This sounds beyond exploitative and on top of that, I have the feeling that this will be SO one sided and SO untruthful that it'll come off as propaganda, self-indulgent and outright hypocritical. (Annapurna & Plan B worked with the Weinsteins.)
The details in that case wasn't as simple as they're making it out to be and I'm sure details will conveniently be omitted to prop up the narrative, which is irresponsible in my eyes since in reality, it was far more convoluted than people think.

BTW, Spotlight should not be even mentioned in the same breath this project since the former is a far superior movie and was done with more class than this ever will.

[imsounoriginal]

Originally Posted by CelluloidPal

This sounds beyond exploitative and on top of that, I have the feeling that this will be SO one sided and SO untruthful that it'll come off as propaganda, self-indulgent and outright hypocritical. (Annapurna & Plan B worked with the Weinsteins.)
The details in that case wasn't as simple as they're making it out to be and I'm sure details will conveniently be omitted to prop up the narrative, which is irresponsible in my eyes since in reality, it was far more convoluted than people think.

"The thrust of the film isn’t Weinstein or his scandal. This is about an all-women team of journalists who persevered through threats of litigation and intimidation, to break a game-changing story, told in a procedural manner like Spotlight and All the President’s Men."

Weinstein probably won't even be shown except archival footage. Movie's about women in journalism breaking the biggest story of 2017. Really nothing wrong with that. But yeah, hypocritical of the production companies involved, but that's Hollywood for you.

[CelluloidPal]

Originally Posted by imsounoriginal

"The thrust of the film isn’t Weinstein or his scandal. This is about an all-women team of journalists who persevered through threats of litigation and intimidation, to break a game-changing story, told in a procedural manner like Spotlight and All the President’s Men."

Weinstein probably won't even be shown except archival footage. Movie's about women in journalism breaking the biggest story of 2017. Really nothing wrong with that. But yeah, hypocritical of the production companies involved, but that's Hollywood for you.

There's hypocrisy in the story itself that they broke too. There were men and women that turned a blind eye to things that were going on and continued working with him and really as I mentioned, the details are more murky than people may think.
I guarantee you that will be omitted from the film. I just get the feeling that their motives with this movie are not as genuine or noble as they're making out to be.
That was the main issue for me with The Post. It spent more time propping up Streep's narrative while it omitted and altered factual details of that story to fit that narrative.

[doctor_who]

Originally Posted by CelluloidPal

There's hypocrisy in the story itself that they broke too. There were men and women that turned a blind eye to things that were going on and continued working with him and really as I mentioned, the details are more murky than people may think.
I guarantee you that will be omitted from the film. I just get the feeling that their motives with this movie are not as genuine or noble as they're making out to be.
That was the main issue for me with The Post. It spent more time propping up Streep's narrative while it omitted and altered factual details of that story to fit that narrative.

What is Streep's narrative here? She was not a writer or a director or a producer on the film. The film was not altered more extensively than any other film after she signed on.

So, would you like to specify?

[CelluloidPal]

Originally Posted by doctor_who

Wait, am I crazy here, or are you siding with Harvey Weinstein here. Harvey, is that you?

When somebody is in a position of power, in any industry with high stakes, that person in a position of power as extensive power over those below him whose jobs and lives lay in the balance of said powerful man/woman.

Agreed though, I don't see this matching Spotlight, one of my favorite films ever. I'm sure a film about the current president will be made one day in the light of "All the President's Men" that could also have a shot at matching Spotlight. But it does seem doubtful this film could have the same impact as either of those two films.

It depends on who is involved I guess.

Nope, you're crazy. Never have I ever said not did I implied that I was siding with Weinstein. And if I did give that implication, that was not my intent.

My concerns was how the story will be presented because other than Weinstein's acts, there were people that turned a blind eye to things and the story was much more murky than what people may know. I highly doubt the hypocrisy of Hollywood will even be mentioned here because there is more than enough blame to go around on this one.

Originally Posted by doctor_who

What is Streep's narrative here? She was not a writer or a director or a producer on the film. The film was not altered more extensively than any other film after she signed on.

So, would you like to specify?

Yes. I was referring to Streep's character in the film. The Post was written rushed into production in order to capitalize on what many thought would be Hilary Clinton's presidential election. The majority of that movie focused on her character and portayed her as the one who fought to published the story when in reality, she simply just gave the go ahead.

[imsounoriginal]

Originally Posted by CelluloidPal

There's hypocrisy in the story itself that they broke too. There were men and women that turned a blind eye to things that were going on and continued working with him and really as I mentioned, the details are more murky than people may think.
I guarantee you that will be omitted from the film. I just get the feeling that their motives with this movie are not as genuine or noble as they're making out to be.
That was the main issue for me with The Post. It spent more time propping up Streep's narrative while it omitted and altered factual details of that story to fit that narrative.

The Post was just an unfocused movie. Is it about the Pentagon Papers? Is it about the Post going public? Is it about Streep and her struggles to assert herself as a woman in a male-dominated industry? Is it about journalistic integrity in the face of political pressure? Is it about standing up for principles or bowing down to corporate interests? Well, it's kinda about all of them, but it doesn't really service any thematic strand adequately.

As long as this movie is really like Spotlight/Zodiac/ATPM, in that it focuses on the nitty-gritty minutiae of the investigation and what it does to the reporters rather than the larger scope of the story that can't possibly be told properly in two hours, then it'll be fine. Gonna be hard to tell what to expect until names start getting attached.

[CelluloidPal]

Originally Posted by imsounoriginal

The Post was just an unfocused movie. Is it about the Pentagon Papers? Is it about the Post going public? Is it about Streep and her struggles to assert herself as a woman in a male-dominated industry? Is it about journalistic integrity in the face of political pressure? Is it about standing up for principles or bowing down to corporate interests? Well, it's kinda about all of them, but it doesn't really service any thematic strand adequately.

As long as this movie is really like Spotlight/Zodiac/ATPM, in that it focuses on the nitty-gritty minutiae of the investigation and what it does to the reporters rather than the larger scope of the story that can't possibly be told properly in two hours, then it'll be fine. Gonna be hard to tell what to expect until names start getting attached.

I truly hope so but my confidence level for that isn't very high given all the hoopla surrounding this.

[doctor_who]

Originally Posted by CelluloidPal

This sounds beyond exploitative and on top of that, I have the feeling that this will be SO one sided and SO untruthful that it'll come off as propaganda, self-indulgent and outright hypocritical. (Annapurna & Plan B worked with the Weinsteins.)
The details in that case wasn't as simple as they're making it out to be and I'm sure details will conveniently be omitted to prop up the narrative, which is irresponsible in my eyes since in reality, it was far more convoluted than people think.

BTW, Spotlight should not be even mentioned in the same breath this project since the former is a far superior movie and was done with more class than this ever will.

Wait, am I crazy here, or are you siding with Harvey Weinstein here. Harvey, is that you?

When somebody is in a position of power, in any industry with high stakes, that person in a position of power as extensive power over those below him whose jobs and lives lay in the balance of said powerful man/woman.

Agreed though, I don't see this matching Spotlight, one of my favorite films ever. I'm sure a film about the current president will be made one day in the light of "All the President's Men" that could also have a shot at matching Spotlight. But it does seem doubtful this film could have the same impact as either of those two films.

It depends on who is involved I guess.

[Doctor Jack]

Originally Posted by CelluloidPal

BTW, Spotlight should not be even mentioned in the same breath this project since the former is a far superior movie and was done with more class than this ever will.

Oh, you’ve seen this already? Please let us know how you see movies before they are even made.

[UltraMario9]

How does it end? Him and Spacey drinking cocktails in Arizona?

[Cremildo]

Can't wait for casting announcements.

[Dailyan]

Originally Posted by Cremildo

Can't wait for casting announcements.

We all know Christopher Plummer will play Kevin Spacey.

[Hoke Moseley]

I'll be interested if they get someone good to direct it.

[thecooldud]

Wonder what the audition process will entail.

[AsOldAsRhyme]

I knew this movie would come, but I didn’t think it would only take seven months.

I hope they have a good script. That’s the essential component to telling this story.

[CelluloidPal]

Originally Posted by Doctor Jack

Oh, you’ve seen this already? Please let us know how you see movies before they are even made.

Nope but I do have MAJOR doubts about how this movie will play out. Perhaps I went overboard with that Spotlight reference there.

Originally Posted by AsOldAsRhyme

I knew this movie would come, but I didn’t think it would only take seven months.

I hope they have a good script. That’s the essential component to telling this story.

I bet they will premium rush this into production in order to get this on the screen ASAP.

[Synchg]

hollywood be running out of ideas like... (title of this thread/original poster name)

[Batman90]

I’m waiting for the Harvey Weinstein movie. It will be 5 Stars.