In light of sexual assault allegations against producer Brett Ratner, Gal Gadot has reportedly said that she won’t return to the franchise if he’ll make any money from it.
“You should f—k her to make her realize she’s gay,” director Brett Ratner allegedly said on the set of X-Men: The Last Stand. So begins a powerful statement from actress Ellen Page, who accuses Ratner of homophobic and sexual harassment in front of a group of her co-stars and professional peers when she was just 18 years of age...
Brett Ratner is the latest in a handful of powerful Hollywood men accused of sexual harassment and assault in the wake of extensive allegations against former executive Harvey Weinstein. Following yesterday’s damning revelations about Brett Ratner and his alleged history of harassing and / or assaulting Olivia Munn, Natasha Henstridge and others, the producer tried to get out ahead of an inevitable break with Warner Bros. — which has a first-look deal with Ratner’s RatPac banner. But WB has gone further, officially severing ties with Ratner, who has filed a libel suit against another woman accusing him of rape.
Following the growing number of sexual assault and harassment allegations against numerous powerful men in Hollywood, from Harvey Weinstein to director James Toback to Kevin Spacey, a new name has emerged among the accused. Brett Ratner, best known as the director of the Rush Hour movies and X-Men: The Last Stand, and producer behind The Revenant, Horrible Bosses, and FOX’s Prison Break, is the la
Earlier today, The New York Times published a fascinating, beautifully designed, and occasionally infuriating list of “The 25 Best Films of the 21st Century So Far.” Times critics A.O. Scott and Manohla Dargis named their picks, with Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood claiming the prize as the best film of the last 16 and a half years. Their list also surveyed some directors for contributions, and in a separate piece, the Times listed the favorites from a half dozen of the biggest directors working today.
What is Brett Ratner if not the Hugh Hefner of major Hollywood film producer-directors? While I may not actually know what that comparison’s supposed to mean, I’ve made it anyway, and now here we are discussing the gestating biopic of the Playboy founder and world-renowned boob connoisseur...
With the rise of digital platforms and social media, the state of writing that originated in print was bound to change. We don’t pick up a newspaper anymore to look for movie showtimes, and we certainly don’t wait till the Sunday edition drops on our doorstep to read the latest reviews. Most American audiences want immediate, digestible analyses of the art they consume, and nowadays that means checking a movie’s Rotten Tomatoes score before forking out cash. For director and producer Brett Ratner though, the review aggregation website is biggest evil in the entertainment industry.