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Vanessa Kirby triumphed over two things to win her Oscar nomination for “Pieces of a Woman” today: The film’s bleak plot and the scandal surrounding her co-star, Shia LaBeouf.

Golden Globe winner Jamie Lee Curtis — in 1958. “Tony Curtis had brought me a drink,” Novak, 89, explained in a bombshell interview with the Hollywood Reporter. “I don’t know, I only had, I think, one drink there. But that’s the last thing I knew.

an open letter published Tuesday, Wilson, who starred in a number of ’90s blockbusters, including “Mrs. Doubtfire” and “Matilda,” revealed that she’d largely avoided the limelight since childhood due to being “sexualized” by the industry — a decision she has discussed in past interviews.

The HBO Max docuseries, “Equal,” which debuts this week, is designed to shore up our education by profiling various pioneers in a movement for LGBTQ equality that might never have happened if not for their refusal to stay invisible. It’s “infotainment” in the best sense of that term, blending real-life archival footage with newly filmed “re-enactments” to deliver a concise overview of pre-Stonewall history.

It’s pretty crazy to think that it’s been more than 25 years since Kate Winslet had her breakout role in the film, “Heavenly Creatures.” Over that time span, she’s won an Oscar (along with various other prestigious awards), she’s starred in one of the biggest films of all time (“Titanic”), and a number of other acclaimed features that have gained her the status of being one of the very best performers in the industry.

Scarlett Johansson’s forthcoming Black Widow movie is set to feature a #MeToo storyline.In a recent interview with British movie magazine Empire, the leading lady opened up on the plot of her new film, teasing it is “very much reflective” of the Time’s Up and #MeToo movements.“It would be such a miss if we didn’t address that stuff, if this film didn’t take that head-on,” she explained.

telling Vanity Fair this week, “It’s like, what the f - - k was I doing working with Woody Allen and Roman Polanski?”“It’s unbelievable to me now how those men were held in such high regard, so widely in the film industry and for as long as they were,” she added. “It’s f - - king disgraceful.”“And I have to take responsibility for the fact that I worked with them both,” Winslet continued.

In the ongoing age of #MeToo, we’ve seen a variety of disturbing situations come to light and make headlines. And as an outlet that reports on news related to the film and TV industry, we’re obligated to try and cover it as much as we can, as unpleasant as it can be, providing statements from both the accused and the accusers.

Last week, Ryan Adams, the country singer who was accused of abuse by multiple women in a New York Times exposé last year, returned to the public eye in the form of an apology statement published in the Daily Mail. Without addressing any specific allegations or women, Adams wrote that he feels "bad about the ways [he] mistreated people through [his] life and career," noting that he is now sober and is undergoing therapy for his mental health struggles.

While filmmaker Ciro Guerra might not be a household name such as Harvey Weinstein, Woody Allen, and Roman Polanski, he does currently find himself the subject of horrific sexual assault allegations. The accusations, published via Volcanicas, come from eight separate women who claim that the Colombian director sexually harassed them, while one of them claims that Guerra actually raped her.

The word “canceled” means so much to different people in today’s society. For some, it’s a possible end-result of a celebrity’s terrible actions that were made public.

Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) statistics say that only 230 out of every 1,000 sexual assaults are reported to the police, largely because victims fear retaliation for speaking out.

Over the past several years, the #MeToo movement has been going strong, allowing for people to come forward with their tales of sexual harassment and assault. This has resulted in folks Hollywood figures such as Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein getting convicted of crimes.

Whenever Woody Allen has a new project that is about to be released, the filmmaker doesn’t shy away from doing interviews, even though he understands that each and every discussion will inevitably come back to the one thing everybody wants to talk about—the sexual assault allegations. This is something that Allen is well aware of, as he explained in a new interview with the Guardian, and he’s perfectly fine with talking about it, even if it makes him seem defensive.

Despite sexual assault allegations against him being public for decades now, Woody Allen is still on the defensive, constantly taking the time to discuss the scandals and profess his innocence.

Thandie Newton has claimed she didn’t have a relationship with her parents “for a decade” after she went public with her experiences of sexual abuse.

Harvey Weinstein’s 23-year prison sentence has been met with hope in the U.K., where industry figures hope to see justice meted out for transatlantic victims of the disgraced movie mogul.

While we once so desperately wanted to be like Carrie when Sex and the City reigned supreme in the noughties – we now know that we need to be more like Miranda.

A woman-in-peril movie is a not a new thing (just think of “Wait Until Dark,” “Eyes of Laura Mars,” or “Panic Room”), and neither is a woman-in-peril movie in which the heroine, after being stalked and terrorized, takes charges and fights back.

A group of Harvey Weinstein’s accusers have warned the fallen film mogul his legal woes are not over and they intend to pursue him to court in Los Angeles.

Corey Feldman wants the world to know: Pedophilia is “Hollywood’s biggest problem.”

The show was a revolution, ending more than a decade of TV cartoon stagnation and inspiring the next generation of animators. But behind the scenes, the staff of Nickelodeon’s “The Ren & Stimpy Show” were feeling anything but “Happy Happy Joy Joy.”

Prosecutors in the trial of Harvey Weinstein will look to an expert witness to counter the defence team’s claims that his accusers did not behave like victims after the alleged crimes.

Oprah Winfrey has backed out of her role as executive producer on an upcoming documentary about the #MeToo movement, after being criticised for her involvement in the project.

An organized group of women performed a feminist anthem and dance in protest outside of Harvey Weinstein’s trial in New York late Friday morning, while the disgraced movie mogul was inside the courthouse for jury selection for his rape trial, which began earlier this week.