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Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie Star In First Trailer For BOMBSHELL – Fox News Scandal
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Starring Academy Award® winner Charlize Theron (Megyn Kelly), Academy Award® winner Nicole Kidman (Gretchen Carlson), Academy Award® nominee John Lithgow and Academy Award® nominee Margot Robbie (Kayla Pospisil), based on the real scandal, BOMBSHELL is a revealing look inside the most powerful and controversial media empire of all time; Fox News, and the explosive story of the women who brought down the infamous man who created it. Directed by Emmy® Award winner Jay Roach and written by Academy Award® winner Charles Randolph.
BOMBSHELL also stars Emmy® Award winner Kate McKinnon, Golden Globe® nominee Connie Britton, Emmy® Award winner Mark Duplass, Emmy® Award nominee Rob Delaney, Golden Globe® nominee Malcolm McDowell and Academy Award® winner Allison Janney.
Here are some companion pieces to consider before BOMBSHELL opens this December.
Showtime recently aired their seven-part limited series “The Loudest Voice” about Roger Ailes, the founder of Fox News. It focused on the past decade in which Ailes arguably became the Republican Party’s de facto leader, and the sexual harassment accusations that brought his career to an end. The film starred Russell Crowe, Naomi Watts, and Sienna Miller.
Crowe was on Stephen Colbert to discuss his role.
Additionally the documentary “Divide And Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes”. The film charted the origin, rise and downfall of Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes.
Variously called a bulldog, a kingmaker, and the Ernest Hemingway of campaign advisors, Ailes was the wizard of Oz. But he collected talent like dolls, and became consumed by paranoia about his own personal security. “I think Roger thought he could control the little genie in the bottle,” said former Fox News personality Glenn Beck. “But he couldn’t.”
The son of a factory foreman, Ailes had a hand in political campaigns in almost every state in the country. He was a key advisor over the last half century to presidents Nixon, Reagan and George H.W. Bush. He was drawn to winners, and loved to be in their sphere—whether a small-town councilman in Cold Spring, New York, or the president of the United States. When President Obama called him “the most powerful man in media” he basked in the glow, and posed smiling alongside the Democratic president he had done everything to undermine.
Ailes hated what he called “the New York elite.” He was fueled by his resentments, and he bullied the people of Cold Spring – where he had a weekend house – as much as he bullied the people in his professional domain at Fox. He lived his life in fear of bleeding to death, say his longtime friends. Some say it helped him to better understand the fears of others, which he monetized on television, inaugurating the age of “anger TV.
He capitalized on other instincts too, insisting that Fox newswomen wear short, tight dresses, and displayed themselves as explicitly as possible. “We’re getting the same girls to dance around shinier poles,” he proudly said to the New York Times.
Ailes fashioned Fox News into a ratings powerhouse, with more viewers than all its direct competitors, combined. But he was forced out by the Murdoch family in 2016, amid multiple allegations of sexual harassment. He was eventually locked out of his own building, unable to collect his belongings. Ailes died in May 2017 at the age of 77.
http://www.magpictures.com/divideandconquer/watch-at-home/
The documentary was directed and produced by Alexis Bloom.
When asked about her project Bloom was asked:
Alexis, just how influential is Roger Ailes in our current political climate? He’s been the architect of modern presidential campaigns and some would say the person most responsible for Donald Trump becoming president. Does the specter of Roger Ailes still loom large? Is his influence still felt, even though he resigned in July 2016 and died in May 2017?
AB: Certainly he paved the way for someone like Trump, though I don’t know that Trump was his first choice. He certainly had the relationship with Trump and the history with him whereby he could pivot very quickly to Trump when it became obvious that Jeb Bush wasn’t going to make it. And he did put Trump on every Fox show, and a weekly call in – specifically talking about politics. That was telling in and of itself. Roger had these very deep roots in the Republican Party and could have supported or sunk any number of candidates. I think that sort of shaping is key. Yes, his influence is about Donald Trump, but it’s about much more than that. It’s about the tea party and flame throwing in political life, about making that viable and legitimate and profitable. He popularized flame-throwing political TV, and that has degraded political life.
BOMBSHELL’s Jay Roach has previously directed TRUMBO starring Bryan Cranston and HBO’s GAME CHANGE (2012) starring Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin, Woody Harrelson, and Ed Harris as well as RECOUNT (2008) about the 2000 United States presidential election – Bush v Gore.
My personal favorite of Roach’s is MYSTERY, ALASKA from 1999. This film stars Russell Crowe, Hank Azaria, Mary McCormack, Lolita Davidovich, Ron Eldard, Colm Meaney, Maury Chaykin and Burt Reynolds. The story of an amateur ice hockey team, from the fictional small-town of Mystery, that plays an exhibition game against the New York Rangers, is a delightful gem and one to catch on a Saturday afternoon.
BOMBSHELL opens in theaters December 2019.
Visit the official site: https://bombshell.movie/
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