Once upon a time, obscure media stayed obscure. Movies became cult classics worshiped by a select audience. Indie bands had devoted listeners but never broke through to mainstream success. Canceled TV shows never got rebooted, while little-reviewed books went to libraries to gather dust, and perhaps be discovered in another decade.
But online, something very different may happen. An idea or meme can be so niche — so particular and baffling — that it explodes in the collective consciousness. Paradoxically, it’s the feeling of a private joke or secret knowledge among...
But online, something very different may happen. An idea or meme can be so niche — so particular and baffling — that it explodes in the collective consciousness. Paradoxically, it’s the feeling of a private joke or secret knowledge among...
- 10/1/2022
- by Miles Klee
- Rollingstone.com
Clint Eastwood‘s latest directorial effort has suffered at the box office amid controversy surrounding the depiction of one of its real-life subjects.
The 89-year-old Oscar winner’s film Richard Jewell opened in theaters last weekend to lackluster reception, earning just $5 million in its first opening weekend. The budget for the film was $45 million.
This is Eastwood’s worst wide opening for a film in 40 years, since his 1980 film Bronco Billy, according to Yahoo Movies UK.
The drama centers on the real-life story of security guard Richard Jewell, who saved thousands of people from a bomb at the 1996 Olympics, but...
The 89-year-old Oscar winner’s film Richard Jewell opened in theaters last weekend to lackluster reception, earning just $5 million in its first opening weekend. The budget for the film was $45 million.
This is Eastwood’s worst wide opening for a film in 40 years, since his 1980 film Bronco Billy, according to Yahoo Movies UK.
The drama centers on the real-life story of security guard Richard Jewell, who saved thousands of people from a bomb at the 1996 Olympics, but...
- 12/16/2019
- by Alexia Fernandez
- PEOPLE.com
For a man who was so enraged at the administration of Barack Obama that he spent his 2012 Republican Convention speech lecturing an empty chair, Clint Eastwood has made a number of conventional, level-headed — one might even say liberal — political dramas. Films like “Invictus” and “J. Edgar” and “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.” But “Richard Jewell” isn’t one of those. It’s a movie by Clint the chair ranter.
Not that it looks like one. In “Richard Jewell,” Eastwood works in his standard mode of polished no-fuss classicism, and he takes a becalmed, just-the-facts-ma’am approach to telling the story of Richard Jewell (Paul Walter Hauser), the sad-sack security guard who discovered a pipe bomb at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games and, just days after being celebrated for his heroism, became the chief suspect in the case.
If you want to know what happened in the Richard Jewell saga,...
Not that it looks like one. In “Richard Jewell,” Eastwood works in his standard mode of polished no-fuss classicism, and he takes a becalmed, just-the-facts-ma’am approach to telling the story of Richard Jewell (Paul Walter Hauser), the sad-sack security guard who discovered a pipe bomb at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games and, just days after being celebrated for his heroism, became the chief suspect in the case.
If you want to know what happened in the Richard Jewell saga,...
- 12/14/2019
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
The last decade and change has seen Clint Eastwood go from one of Hollywood’s most accomplished, awards friendly, and respected directors, to someone whose new work is very hit or miss. Mostly, the hits (American Sniper and Sully) have been outweighed by the misses. Now, Eastwood is again following his Million Dollar Baby playbook (one that got him major Oscar love) and releasing a new movie at the tail end of the year. Opening this week is Richard Jewell, his latest effort. While hardly a misfire, it’s only a small scale success, periodically weighed down by the filmmaker’s politics. In other hands, this might have been irresistible. Instead, it’s a solid flick with a handful of problematic elements. The film is a drama, pulled from the aftermath of the bombing at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. What begins as a character study soon turns dark. Initially, security...
- 12/13/2019
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Olivia Wilde is speaking out about the controversy surrounding her portrayal of real-life journalist Kathy Scruggs in the Clint Eastwood film Richard Jewell.
The film, which is based on a true story, is facing backlash for suggesting that Scruggs — who has since died — had sex with an FBI agent in order to obtain information about Richard Jewell being a suspect in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing.
“One of the things I love about directing is the ability to control the voice and message of the film. As an actor, it’s more complicated, and I want to share my perspective on...
The film, which is based on a true story, is facing backlash for suggesting that Scruggs — who has since died — had sex with an FBI agent in order to obtain information about Richard Jewell being a suspect in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing.
“One of the things I love about directing is the ability to control the voice and message of the film. As an actor, it’s more complicated, and I want to share my perspective on...
- 12/13/2019
- by Robyn Merrett
- PEOPLE.com
Sneaking in before the end of the year, nearly buried in the glut of award-contenders based on or inspired by true events, comes an intimate profile that’s also a cautionary fable that’s still relevant to today. Perhaps with the advent of social media, it hits home now more than in the late 1990s. Yes, unlike those films based on very recent headlines, like Bombshell, Dark Waters, The Two Popes, and The Report, this one rolls back the clock more than two decades (as opposed to the century plus of 1917). But it also evokes the themes of classic fiction thrillers with a man (or in this case a trio) facing impossible odds in order to clear his name and prove his innocence ala The Fugitive of TV and film. But, this is very real, dominating the news media for many days. And the very unlikely hero at the center...
- 12/12/2019
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Exclusive: In his first comments addressing the controversy surrounding Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell, which has culminated in a threatened defamation lawsuit by the Atlanta Journal- Constitution, the film’s screenwriter Billy Ray assailed the newspaper for failing to own up to its role in destroying the life of the security guard who spotted a suspicious backpack under a bench at an outdoor concert in Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Olympics and helped move bystanders away before an explosion left two dead and more than 100 injured.
The newspaper, in turn, has criticized the film’s depiction of Kathy Scruggs — who broke the story with Ron Martz that the FBI was eyeing Jewell as its prime suspect — as a promiscuous crime reporter who essentially traded a sexual encounter with an FBI agent for the tip. The film asserts that tip, and pressure from Scruggs, led the newspaper to tear up its...
The newspaper, in turn, has criticized the film’s depiction of Kathy Scruggs — who broke the story with Ron Martz that the FBI was eyeing Jewell as its prime suspect — as a promiscuous crime reporter who essentially traded a sexual encounter with an FBI agent for the tip. The film asserts that tip, and pressure from Scruggs, led the newspaper to tear up its...
- 12/12/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Olivia Wilde on Thursday took to Twitter to clarify her stance on the controversy that has surrounded her journalist character in Clint Eastwood's upcoming movie Richard Jewell.
In the film, Wilde plays Kathy Scruggs, a reporter at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that first broke the news that Jewell (played by BlackKklansman actor Paul Walter Hauser) was a suspect in the Centennial Olympic Park bombing on July 27, 1996.
The journalist — portrayed as loud, brash and hunting for "something crimey going on anywhere" — offers to sleep with FBI agent Tom Shaw (Jon Hamm) in exchange for information about the ...
In the film, Wilde plays Kathy Scruggs, a reporter at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that first broke the news that Jewell (played by BlackKklansman actor Paul Walter Hauser) was a suspect in the Centennial Olympic Park bombing on July 27, 1996.
The journalist — portrayed as loud, brash and hunting for "something crimey going on anywhere" — offers to sleep with FBI agent Tom Shaw (Jon Hamm) in exchange for information about the ...
- 12/12/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Olivia Wilde on Thursday took to Twitter to clarify her stance on the controversy that has surrounded her journalist character in Clint Eastwood's upcoming movie Richard Jewell.
In the film, Wilde plays Kathy Scruggs, a reporter at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that first broke the news that Jewell (played by BlackKklansman actor Paul Walter Hauser) was a suspect in the Centennial Olympic Park bombing on July 27, 1996.
The journalist — portrayed as loud, brash and hunting for "something crimey going on anywhere" — offers to sleep with FBI agent Tom Shaw (Jon Hamm) in exchange for information about the ...
In the film, Wilde plays Kathy Scruggs, a reporter at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that first broke the news that Jewell (played by BlackKklansman actor Paul Walter Hauser) was a suspect in the Centennial Olympic Park bombing on July 27, 1996.
The journalist — portrayed as loud, brash and hunting for "something crimey going on anywhere" — offers to sleep with FBI agent Tom Shaw (Jon Hamm) in exchange for information about the ...
- 12/12/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Clint Eastwood, pushing 90 adds a new addition to his gallery of unexpected American heroes, — think American Sniper, Sully, and, to a lesser extent, The 15:17 to Paris — courtesy of this tale of Richard Jewell, a do-gooder who was first celebrated and then unjustly vilified by the FBI and the media. In the title role once intended for Jonah Hill, Paul Walter Hauser — in a breakout performance — plays Jewell as thickset, thickheaded, and overzealous about law enforcement. In 1996, after being fired from the campus police unit at Georgia’s Piedmont College,...
- 12/9/2019
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
In the wake of Atlanta Journal-Constitution Editor-in-Chief Kevin Riley disagreeing with factual plot points in Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell — specifically that reporter Kathy Scruggs traded sex with an FBI agent (Jon Hamm) for a tip that Jewell was their lead suspect in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing — Olivia Wilde pushed back against the criticism in a candid conversation with Deadline yesterday. Warner Bros. has kept quiet on the contretemps, making Wilde the first person on the production side to speak up.
Though he hadn’t seen the film when he wrote them, Riley emailed trades and sounded the alarm about what he and his staff had heard about the depiction of the Ajc and the late crime reporter Kathy Scruggs, who broke the story that hero security guard Jewell was prime suspect of the FBI. The resulting maelstrom upended the quiet life of Jewell, which is the basic plot of the movie.
Though he hadn’t seen the film when he wrote them, Riley emailed trades and sounded the alarm about what he and his staff had heard about the depiction of the Ajc and the late crime reporter Kathy Scruggs, who broke the story that hero security guard Jewell was prime suspect of the FBI. The resulting maelstrom upended the quiet life of Jewell, which is the basic plot of the movie.
- 12/3/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
“Richard Jewell” star Olivia Wilde has responded to controversy surrounding the depiction of her character, a real-life reporter who is now deceased, in Clint Eastwood’s historical drama. In the film, Wilde’s Kathy Scruggs offers to sleep with Jon Hamm’s Tom Shaw, an FBI agent, for information about the 1996 Summer Olympics bombing in Atlanta.
“I think it’s a shame that she has been reduced to one inferred moment in the film,” Wilde told Variety‘s Marc Malkin on the 2019 Gotham Awards red carpet. “It’s a basic misunderstanding of feminism as pious, sexlessness. It happens a lot to women; we’re expected to be one-dimensional if we are to be considered feminists. There’s a complexity to Kathy, as there is to all of us, and I really admired her.”
In the film, after Scruggs offers to sleep with Hamm’s character, he responds: “Kathy, you couldn...
“I think it’s a shame that she has been reduced to one inferred moment in the film,” Wilde told Variety‘s Marc Malkin on the 2019 Gotham Awards red carpet. “It’s a basic misunderstanding of feminism as pious, sexlessness. It happens a lot to women; we’re expected to be one-dimensional if we are to be considered feminists. There’s a complexity to Kathy, as there is to all of us, and I really admired her.”
In the film, after Scruggs offers to sleep with Hamm’s character, he responds: “Kathy, you couldn...
- 12/3/2019
- by LaTesha Harris
- Variety Film + TV
Clint Eastwood’s latest film, Richard Jewell, is his best in years. And it's anchored by a trio of powerful performances.
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Based on the true story of the security guard who was at first praised for his heroic actions during the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing and then dragged through the mud as a suspect, Richard Jewell is easily director Clint Eastwood’s best film since 2006’s Letters from Iwo Jima. Although problematic in some areas, the movie tells Jewell’s story in understated yet often heart-rending terms, and is powered by knockout performances from Paul Walter Houser as Jewell, Sam Rockwell as attorney C. Watson Bryant, and Kathy Bates as Barbara "Bobi" Jewell--the proud and anguished mother.
Having just priemered at AFI Fest, the film immediately establishes just who Jewell is: an overweight yet generally good-hearted oddball who dreams of working in law enforcement. He's a guy...
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Based on the true story of the security guard who was at first praised for his heroic actions during the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing and then dragged through the mud as a suspect, Richard Jewell is easily director Clint Eastwood’s best film since 2006’s Letters from Iwo Jima. Although problematic in some areas, the movie tells Jewell’s story in understated yet often heart-rending terms, and is powered by knockout performances from Paul Walter Houser as Jewell, Sam Rockwell as attorney C. Watson Bryant, and Kathy Bates as Barbara "Bobi" Jewell--the proud and anguished mother.
Having just priemered at AFI Fest, the film immediately establishes just who Jewell is: an overweight yet generally good-hearted oddball who dreams of working in law enforcement. He's a guy...
- 11/21/2019
- Den of Geek
If it is an awards season, the name Clint Eastwood can’t be too far away. And so it is yet again as another Eastwood movie has just thrown its hat in the ring. Richard Jewell had a rousing AFI Fest premiere Wednesday night at the Tcl Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, as well as a SAG Nominating Committee screening at Harmony Gold followed by a Q&a that drew standing ovations for Eastwood and the man he cast as Jewell, Paul Walter Hauser. There also was big applause for co-stars Kathy Bates, who plays Jewell’s mother, Bobbi; Sam Rockwell as his lawyer, Watson Bryant; and Jon Hamm, who plays Tom Shaw (a fictional name representing a number of FBI agents). The real Watson Bryant and Bobbi Jewell were also among those in attendance at the premiere and afterparty.
The four-time Oscar winner for producing and directing Best Picture winners...
The four-time Oscar winner for producing and directing Best Picture winners...
- 11/21/2019
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Richard Jewell is facing backlash for allegedly including a slanderous factual inaccuracy in its telling of a real-life story.
The film, directed by Clint Eastwood, suggests that a female journalist — who has since died — had sex with an FBI agent in order to obtain information about Jewell being a suspect in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing, per reports from its premiere at AFI Fest in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Eastwood’s drama includes a scene where Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Kathy Scruggs, played by Olivia Wilde, offers to sleep with a federal agent Tom Shaw, played by Jon Hamm.
The film, directed by Clint Eastwood, suggests that a female journalist — who has since died — had sex with an FBI agent in order to obtain information about Jewell being a suspect in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing, per reports from its premiere at AFI Fest in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Eastwood’s drama includes a scene where Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Kathy Scruggs, played by Olivia Wilde, offers to sleep with a federal agent Tom Shaw, played by Jon Hamm.
- 11/21/2019
- by Maria Pasquini, Adam Carlson
- PEOPLE.com
Can you recall who was responsible for 1996’s Centennial Olympic Park bombing? Three days after the incident, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (accurately) reported that Richard Jewell, the security guard who discovered a backpack containing three pipe bombs and tipped the police, sparing the lives of innumerable concertgoers, had become the FBI’s main suspect. But was it right to run the story? Evidently, CNN had uncovered the same information (that Jewell was being investigated) but chose to wait. Once the Ajc ran it, the news spread fast, turning Jewell from a hero to a villain in the public’s eyes.
Clint Eastwood’s “Richard Jewell” intends to clear the man’s name once and for all. But “Richard Jewell” is a movie, and movies are notoriously inaccurate, taking what’s euphemistically referred to as “dramatic license” to make stories more entertaining. In this case, at a time when politicians have stoked public distrust of news media,...
Clint Eastwood’s “Richard Jewell” intends to clear the man’s name once and for all. But “Richard Jewell” is a movie, and movies are notoriously inaccurate, taking what’s euphemistically referred to as “dramatic license” to make stories more entertaining. In this case, at a time when politicians have stoked public distrust of news media,...
- 11/21/2019
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Joseph Baxter Oct 3, 2019
Fact-based drama Richard Jewell is Clint Eastwood’s next news-story-inspired directorial effort.
Clint Eastwood may be pushing 90 years old (he turned 89 on May 31), but he’s still got plenty of creative fuel in his proverbial tank; a notion supported by his next directorial effort, Richard Jewell (formerly The Ballad of Richard Jewell), which will focus on the security guard wrongfully accused of attempting to bomb a town square near the 1996 Olympic Games.
Indeed, the onscreen legend and Oscar-winning director, Eastwood, occupied the director’s chair for the Disney/Fox fact-based drama. The film, based on an article of the same name from Vanity Fair, had Eastwood working off a script by Billy Ray, who worked on action-horror film Overlord, Tom Hanks-headlined Captain Phillips, film franchise launcher The Hunger Games and served as writer and credited creator of (now-canceled) Amazon series The Last Tycoon.
Richard Jewell is...
Fact-based drama Richard Jewell is Clint Eastwood’s next news-story-inspired directorial effort.
Clint Eastwood may be pushing 90 years old (he turned 89 on May 31), but he’s still got plenty of creative fuel in his proverbial tank; a notion supported by his next directorial effort, Richard Jewell (formerly The Ballad of Richard Jewell), which will focus on the security guard wrongfully accused of attempting to bomb a town square near the 1996 Olympic Games.
Indeed, the onscreen legend and Oscar-winning director, Eastwood, occupied the director’s chair for the Disney/Fox fact-based drama. The film, based on an article of the same name from Vanity Fair, had Eastwood working off a script by Billy Ray, who worked on action-horror film Overlord, Tom Hanks-headlined Captain Phillips, film franchise launcher The Hunger Games and served as writer and credited creator of (now-canceled) Amazon series The Last Tycoon.
Richard Jewell is...
- 4/19/2019
- Den of Geek
Paula Lane has quit 'Coronation Street'. The 29-year-old actress - who has played Kylie Platt in the ITV soap for five years - recently revealed she will welcome her second child with husband Tom Shaw in the summer and has now confirmed that she will bow out of the soap before the baby is born. She tweeted: ''So it's official, I can now confirm I'm leaving Coronation Street this summer after a wonderful 5 years. It's time to fly the nest...'' Paula - who will leave after taking part in a ''huge top-secret storyline'' - added in a statement: ''This has...
- 2/9/2016
- Virgin Media - TV
Paula Lane has quit 'Coronation Street'. The 29-year-old actress - who has played Kylie Platt in the ITV soap for five years - recently revealed she will welcome her second child with husband Tom Shaw in the summer and has now confirmed that she will bow out of the soap before the baby is born. She tweeted: ''So it's official, I can now confirm I'm leaving Coronation Street this summer after a wonderful 5 years. It's time to fly the nest...'' Paula - who will leave after taking part in a ''huge top-secret storyline'' - added in a statement: ''This has...
- 2/8/2016
- Virgin Media - TV
Paula Lane is ''happier and more chilled'' since having a baby. The 'Coronation Street' actress, who plays Kylie Platt in the ITV soap, has confessed she's feeling much more comfortable in herself since giving birth to her and her husband Tom Shaw's son Arthur on New Year's Eve. She said: ''I'm much happier and more chilled - I guess you have to be otherwise you'd drive yourself round the bend! But it's a lovely place to be. Being a mum is the ultimate role, so I couldn't ask for more really.'' The 29-year-old star also admitted she's excited about her character's imminent return...
- 5/28/2015
- Virgin Media - TV
'Coronation Street' actress Paula Lane has given birth to a baby boy. The 28-year-old actress - who plays bad girl Kylie Platt in the soap - and her husband Tom Shaw welcomed their first child into the world on New Year's Eve (31.12.14). Paula announced the happy news on her Twitter account in a post which read: ''Our world is complete - we finished off a momentous year with the arrival of our beautiful baby boy on Nye!!!! (sic)'' No other details about the birth or the tot are yet to be revealed. Paula - who was seen leaving Weatherfield in the Christmas Day...
- 1/2/2015
- Virgin Media - TV
'Coronation Street' star Paula Lane is pregnant. The 28-year-old actress, who is known for playing mouthy mother Kylie Platt in the ITV soap, has announced she is expecting her first child with her husband Tom Shaw and is due to welcome the tiny tot into the world in December. The brunette beauty took to her Twitter account this afternoon (05.06.14) to share the happy news with her fans, tweeting: ''@SirTomShaw and I are thrilled to announce we have a Christmas pud in the oven! Surprise! (sic)''. Paula was inundated with congratulatory messages from her colleagues and a number of adoring fans...
- 6/4/2014
- Virgin Media - TV
In anticipation of the June 28th DVD release of Ozgur Uyanik’s shocker Resurrecting the Street Walker, we have four copies to give away courtesy of Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment.
Synopsis:
Whilst documenting his life as a lowly intern, James Parker (James Powell) uncovers the long forgotten film ‘The Street Walker’. Desperate to make his mark and to prove his parents wrong, James endeavours to complete the unfinished movie, resulting in a murderous obsession. Delving into the past world of ‘snuff movies’ and the modern trials and tribulations of making it big, James’ genius and madness are captured on tape by friend and documentary maker Marcus (Tom Shaw). James descends so far into the fantasy world that he is unable to untangle himself from the mystery he uncovers whilst resurrecting the film relic. For James there is only one way out, and for some there will be no escape.
Special features include deleted scenes,...
Synopsis:
Whilst documenting his life as a lowly intern, James Parker (James Powell) uncovers the long forgotten film ‘The Street Walker’. Desperate to make his mark and to prove his parents wrong, James endeavours to complete the unfinished movie, resulting in a murderous obsession. Delving into the past world of ‘snuff movies’ and the modern trials and tribulations of making it big, James’ genius and madness are captured on tape by friend and documentary maker Marcus (Tom Shaw). James descends so far into the fantasy world that he is unable to untangle himself from the mystery he uncovers whilst resurrecting the film relic. For James there is only one way out, and for some there will be no escape.
Special features include deleted scenes,...
- 6/19/2010
- by Pestilence
- DreadCentral.com
Ozgur Uyanik makes his feature film directing debut with horror mockumentary Resurrecting the Street Walker, out on DVD in the UK on June 28.
While documenting his life as a lowly intern, James Parker (James Powell - Swimming with Sharks) uncovers a long-forgotten film from the 80s, The Street Walker.
Desperate to make a mark on the film industry and to prove his ever- doubting parents wrong, James endeavours to complete the unfinished horror movie, resulting in a murderous obsession.
Delving into the past world of snuff movies and the modern trials and tribulations of internships and making it big, James' genius and madness is captured on tape by friend and documentary maker Marcus (Tom Shaw - Skins, The Inbetweeners).
Unbeknown to those around him, James sinks so far in to the fantasy world of Street Walker that he is unable to untangle himself from the mystery he uncovers while resurrecting the film.
While documenting his life as a lowly intern, James Parker (James Powell - Swimming with Sharks) uncovers a long-forgotten film from the 80s, The Street Walker.
Desperate to make a mark on the film industry and to prove his ever- doubting parents wrong, James endeavours to complete the unfinished horror movie, resulting in a murderous obsession.
Delving into the past world of snuff movies and the modern trials and tribulations of internships and making it big, James' genius and madness is captured on tape by friend and documentary maker Marcus (Tom Shaw - Skins, The Inbetweeners).
Unbeknown to those around him, James sinks so far in to the fantasy world of Street Walker that he is unable to untangle himself from the mystery he uncovers while resurrecting the film.
- 6/2/2010
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
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