Kirsten Dunst’s Civil War has received positive reviews from critics who saw its premiere at the SXSW Festival on March 14. The film showcases the plight of journalists in a dystopian future when a Civil war shook America. Dunst plays the lead role of a journalist in this film directed by Alex Garland. The Spider-Man actress revealed that her character was based on the American journalist Marie Colvin.
Kirsten Dunst as war photojournalist Lee in Alex Garland’s Civil War
Colvin was one of the famed war correspondents of her generation and she covered several conflicts across the globe. She was killed in a targeted attack while covering the siege of Homs during the Syrian Civil War.
War Correspondent Marie Colvin Influenced Kirsten Dunst’s Role In Civil War
Kirsten Dunst’s character in Civil War was inspired by famed war correspondent Marie Colvin
Kirsten Dunst plays a renowned war...
Kirsten Dunst as war photojournalist Lee in Alex Garland’s Civil War
Colvin was one of the famed war correspondents of her generation and she covered several conflicts across the globe. She was killed in a targeted attack while covering the siege of Homs during the Syrian Civil War.
War Correspondent Marie Colvin Influenced Kirsten Dunst’s Role In Civil War
Kirsten Dunst’s character in Civil War was inspired by famed war correspondent Marie Colvin
Kirsten Dunst plays a renowned war...
- 4/8/2024
- by Hashim Asraff
- FandomWire
Get on the phone with Ron Bernstein and he’ll happily share his views on who’s up and down at the studios — and inevitably, he’ll talk about his latest deals. On a recent call, he hyped the Redstone family power saga by James Stewart and Rachel Abrams, “Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Hollywood Media Empire”; sure enough, within weeks it sold to producer Steven Paul, who’s developing the juicy Shakespearean drama for television.
Bernstein is Hollywood’s most respected media rights agent. He’s repped the source material for the Coen brothers’ Best Picture winner “No Country for Old Men” (Cormac McCarthy), Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” (Doris Kearns Goodwin), Danny Boyle’s “Jobs” (Walter Isaacson), and Clint Eastwood’s “Richard Jewell” (Marie Brenner).
Now, he has a new job. After a 23-year run at ICM, which CAA bought in 2022, Bernstein recently joined the Agency for the...
Bernstein is Hollywood’s most respected media rights agent. He’s repped the source material for the Coen brothers’ Best Picture winner “No Country for Old Men” (Cormac McCarthy), Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” (Doris Kearns Goodwin), Danny Boyle’s “Jobs” (Walter Isaacson), and Clint Eastwood’s “Richard Jewell” (Marie Brenner).
Now, he has a new job. After a 23-year run at ICM, which CAA bought in 2022, Bernstein recently joined the Agency for the...
- 4/27/2023
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Richard Jewell, director Clint Eastwood’s acclaimed film on the 1966 Atlanta Games bombing, hits Blu-ray, DVD and Digital on March 3 via Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. The feature is based on Marie Brenner’s Vanity Fair article “American Nightmare: The Ballad of Richard Jewell.”
Paul Walter Houser plays the titular character, a security guard who discovers a [...]
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- 2/10/2020
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
When Kathy Bates smashed that sledgehammer into James Caan’s ankles 30 years ago in Misery, the world may have collectively cringed, but it made Bates an unforgettable force in Hollywood history.
The then 42-year-old actress wasn’t a household name when she took on that role of homicidal nurse Annie Wilkes. She’d had theatrical successes before, and appeared in a few smaller films and television shows like St. Elsewhere and L.A. Law. And yet, that year, she took home an Oscar, proving the game wasn’t up for women over 35. Not by a long shot.
This year, Bates is enjoying her fourth Oscar nomination, this time for Richard Jewell, the Clint Eastwood-directed true tale of a heroic security guard falsely accused of planting a bomb at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, although he actually found the device and saved many lives.
Despite the Academy recognition, it’s only very recently,...
The then 42-year-old actress wasn’t a household name when she took on that role of homicidal nurse Annie Wilkes. She’d had theatrical successes before, and appeared in a few smaller films and television shows like St. Elsewhere and L.A. Law. And yet, that year, she took home an Oscar, proving the game wasn’t up for women over 35. Not by a long shot.
This year, Bates is enjoying her fourth Oscar nomination, this time for Richard Jewell, the Clint Eastwood-directed true tale of a heroic security guard falsely accused of planting a bomb at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, although he actually found the device and saved many lives.
Despite the Academy recognition, it’s only very recently,...
- 1/30/2020
- by Antonia Blyth
- Deadline Film + TV
Atlanta Journal-Constitution editor Kevin Riley said newspaper staffers were “appalled” after seeing Clint Eastwood’s “Richard Jewell” and its depiction of journalism and their late reporter colleague, Kathy Scruggs.
“Our employees were appalled by the scene and the treatment of our journalism in the film,” Riley told TheWrap on Friday, adding that he was particularly shocked at the film’s depiction of Scruggs trading sex for a news tip, which has no basis in fact.
“I was shocked that a filmmaker would represent a journalist and journalism in this way,” Said Riley, who attended a screening of the film for Ajc staffers on Wednesday. “To me it seems clear that Clint Eastwood doesn’t understand how journalists actually work, especially newspaper journalists.”
In the film, Kathy Scruggs (Olivia Wilde), the reporter who broke the news that security guard Richard Jewell (Paul Walter Hauser) was the FBI’s main suspect in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing,...
“Our employees were appalled by the scene and the treatment of our journalism in the film,” Riley told TheWrap on Friday, adding that he was particularly shocked at the film’s depiction of Scruggs trading sex for a news tip, which has no basis in fact.
“I was shocked that a filmmaker would represent a journalist and journalism in this way,” Said Riley, who attended a screening of the film for Ajc staffers on Wednesday. “To me it seems clear that Clint Eastwood doesn’t understand how journalists actually work, especially newspaper journalists.”
In the film, Kathy Scruggs (Olivia Wilde), the reporter who broke the news that security guard Richard Jewell (Paul Walter Hauser) was the FBI’s main suspect in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing,...
- 12/13/2019
- by Sharon Waxman and Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Olivia Wilde has tweeted a string of responses to criticism of the character she plays in Clint Eastwood’s film “Richard Jewell,” which opens Friday. In the series of tweets, she admits that the journalist she plays, Kathy Scruggs, had a relationship with an FBI agent, but Wilde says she was not in control of the way the character was portrayed.
The film has been criticized for spreading the perception that the late reporter Scruggs exchanged sex for a tip about the suspect from an FBI agent investigating the 1996 Atlanta bombing. In the film, Scruggs pressures a federal agent (Jon Hamm) for information and, in the same conversation, suggests the two have sex. Hamm’s agent gives her a tip that security guard Richard Jewell a suspect in the bombing at the Summer Olympics, and it is implied that the pair sleep together directly after this exchange.
Together with reporter Ron Martz,...
The film has been criticized for spreading the perception that the late reporter Scruggs exchanged sex for a tip about the suspect from an FBI agent investigating the 1996 Atlanta bombing. In the film, Scruggs pressures a federal agent (Jon Hamm) for information and, in the same conversation, suggests the two have sex. Hamm’s agent gives her a tip that security guard Richard Jewell a suspect in the bombing at the Summer Olympics, and it is implied that the pair sleep together directly after this exchange.
Together with reporter Ron Martz,...
- 12/12/2019
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
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
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
Update: Warner Bros. has responded to the Atlanta Journal Constitution‘s accusations, calling them “baseless.”
“The film is based on a wide range of highly credible source material,” a spokesperson for the company told Rolling Stone. “There is no disputing that Richard Jewell was an innocent man whose reputation and life were shredded by a miscarriage of justice. It is unfortunate and the ultimate irony that the Atlanta Journal Constitution, having been a part of the rush to judgment of Richard Jewell, is now trying to malign our filmmakers and cast.
“The film is based on a wide range of highly credible source material,” a spokesperson for the company told Rolling Stone. “There is no disputing that Richard Jewell was an innocent man whose reputation and life were shredded by a miscarriage of justice. It is unfortunate and the ultimate irony that the Atlanta Journal Constitution, having been a part of the rush to judgment of Richard Jewell, is now trying to malign our filmmakers and cast.
- 12/9/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and editor Kevin Riley are threatening the producers and filmmakers of Clint Eastwood’s “Richard Jewell” over its accusations of “malicious fabrications” in the film, according to a legal demand sent Monday that was obtained by TheWrap.
The letter from the law offices of Lavely & Singer accused the filmmakers as acting “recklessly” and “engaging in constitutional malice” due to the film’s portrayal of the newspaper and AJC reporter Kathy Scruggs (as played by Olivia Wilde). The paper demands that the filmmakers issue a public statement that acknowledges they took dramatic and artistic licenses with the story, and that a prominent disclaimer is added to the film.
“We’re simply asking that the producers issue a statement acknowledging that some events were imagined for dramatic purposes, and that artistic license and dramatization were used in the film’s portrayal of events and characters,” Riley said in a statement to TheWrap.
The letter from the law offices of Lavely & Singer accused the filmmakers as acting “recklessly” and “engaging in constitutional malice” due to the film’s portrayal of the newspaper and AJC reporter Kathy Scruggs (as played by Olivia Wilde). The paper demands that the filmmakers issue a public statement that acknowledges they took dramatic and artistic licenses with the story, and that a prominent disclaimer is added to the film.
“We’re simply asking that the producers issue a statement acknowledging that some events were imagined for dramatic purposes, and that artistic license and dramatization were used in the film’s portrayal of events and characters,” Riley said in a statement to TheWrap.
- 12/9/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Richard Jewell Warner Bros Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Clint Eastwood Screenwriter: Marie Brenner, Billy Ray Cast: Sam Rockwell, Olivia Wilde, Jon Hamm, Kathy Bates, Nina Arianda, Paul Walter Hauser Screened at: Warner, NYC, 11/25/19 Opens: December 13, 2019 No good deed goes unpunished. Remember Frank Wills, […]
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- 12/8/2019
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
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
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
The abiding darkness in heroism — what it sometimes takes, what it can lead to — has been a longstanding interest of Clint Eastwood’s, from his onscreen vigilante icons to his behind-the-camera explorations of real figures.
And with “Richard Jewell,” his 38th film as director, his portal into the subject is a harrowing case study indeed: the brave do-gooder-turned-suspect, vilified through the very spotlight originally intended to praise him.
In 1996, Jewell was an Atlanta Olympics security guard when he discovered a suspicious backpack that eventually exploded, killing two and wounding many. Initial publicity made this unassuming figure a life-saving star, since the death toll could have been higher. But when word got out that the FBI considered him their prime suspect, the aspects of his life that weren’t so media-friendly — overweight, wannabe cop, lived with his mother — were suddenly turned against him by authorities and the media into evidence of someone craving attention.
And with “Richard Jewell,” his 38th film as director, his portal into the subject is a harrowing case study indeed: the brave do-gooder-turned-suspect, vilified through the very spotlight originally intended to praise him.
In 1996, Jewell was an Atlanta Olympics security guard when he discovered a suspicious backpack that eventually exploded, killing two and wounding many. Initial publicity made this unassuming figure a life-saving star, since the death toll could have been higher. But when word got out that the FBI considered him their prime suspect, the aspects of his life that weren’t so media-friendly — overweight, wannabe cop, lived with his mother — were suddenly turned against him by authorities and the media into evidence of someone craving attention.
- 11/21/2019
- by Robert Abele
- The Wrap
Clint Eastwood’s late career has revolved around two categories: There’s the gloves-off, no-apologies strand of Clint as an old man taking back what’s his while learning a lesson along the way, or his agitprop offerings — the ones he usually doesn’t star in — that seek to elevate good, but misunderstood real-life men.
“Richard Jewell” belongs in that latter camp of complicated Eastwood heroes. While the 89-year-old director’s recent films often seem to serve as softer, artistic mea culpas for his controversial ideologies off the set, this time he gets out of his own way with. This muted drama won’t win Eastwood any new fans, but it won’t mar his legacy, either. The film’s low-key approach to a tragic media scandal feels at once timely and old-fashioned — a character study from another era designed to comment on our own.
“Richard Jewell” explores the plight of its eponymous real-life character,...
“Richard Jewell” belongs in that latter camp of complicated Eastwood heroes. While the 89-year-old director’s recent films often seem to serve as softer, artistic mea culpas for his controversial ideologies off the set, this time he gets out of his own way with. This muted drama won’t win Eastwood any new fans, but it won’t mar his legacy, either. The film’s low-key approach to a tragic media scandal feels at once timely and old-fashioned — a character study from another era designed to comment on our own.
“Richard Jewell” explores the plight of its eponymous real-life character,...
- 11/21/2019
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
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
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is questioning the accuracy of Clint Eastwood’s film “Richard Jewell” ahead of its premiere on Wednesday.
In a letter obtained by TheWrap, Ajc editor-in-chief Kevin G. Riley challenged the portrayal of the newspaper in the film, according to an unnamed colleague Riley said had seen it. Riley said Eastwood depicted Journal-Constitution reporter Kathy Scruggs trading sex with an FBI agent in exchange for a tip on a story, but he stated that there is no evidence this ever happened and that Scruggs herself is deceased.
Riley also defended the paper’s reporting of the Richard Jewell case, challenging the notion in the film that the paper ran its story based on questionable sourcing, that the paper’s decision making was unsound and that the paper failed to challenge law enforcement’s investigation.
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In a letter obtained by TheWrap, Ajc editor-in-chief Kevin G. Riley challenged the portrayal of the newspaper in the film, according to an unnamed colleague Riley said had seen it. Riley said Eastwood depicted Journal-Constitution reporter Kathy Scruggs trading sex with an FBI agent in exchange for a tip on a story, but he stated that there is no evidence this ever happened and that Scruggs herself is deceased.
Riley also defended the paper’s reporting of the Richard Jewell case, challenging the notion in the film that the paper ran its story based on questionable sourcing, that the paper’s decision making was unsound and that the paper failed to challenge law enforcement’s investigation.
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- 11/18/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Richard Jewell's life would forever change after he discovered a bomb at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics. In the blink of an eye, the FBI and media drastically shifted the narrative around him being a public hero to being the case's primary suspect. Two decades later, Clint Eastwood brings Jewell's shocking true story to the big screen in a new project starring Paul Walter Hauser. Based on Marie Brenner's 1997 Vanity Fair profile on Jewell, the film already has the faint hum of Oscar buzz, boasting a star-powered cast with Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, and Jon Hamm. But putting aside this Hollywood glamour, what really happened to Jewell?
The 1996 Olympics Bombing
By age 34, Jewell had resigned from his job working as a police officer at Piedmont College and went to Atlanta. He moved in with his mother Bobi (played by Kathy Bates in the movie), who was recovering from a foot operation,...
The 1996 Olympics Bombing
By age 34, Jewell had resigned from his job working as a police officer at Piedmont College and went to Atlanta. He moved in with his mother Bobi (played by Kathy Bates in the movie), who was recovering from a foot operation,...
- 10/24/2019
- by Stacey Nguyen
- Popsugar.com
Clint Eastwood’s “Richard Jewell” will premiere at the 2019 AFI Fest in November, the American Film Institute announced on Tuesday.
“Richard Jewell,” previously titled “The Ballad of Richard Jewell,” is based on the story of a security guard who was falsely accused in the bombing that took place at Atlanta’s Centennial Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics. It will premiere on Nov. 20 at the historic Tcl Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
Billy Ray wrote the screenplay based on the 1997 Vanity Fair article from Marie Brenner that describes how Jewell, originally hailed by the media as a hero for alerting police to the presence of a bomb and helping evacuate the area, was identified as a prime suspect in the bombing, completely upending his life in the process.
Also Read: Clint Eastwood Takes Aim at the FBI and the Media in 'Richard Jewell' Trailer (Video)
Paul Walter Hauser is playing the lead role,...
“Richard Jewell,” previously titled “The Ballad of Richard Jewell,” is based on the story of a security guard who was falsely accused in the bombing that took place at Atlanta’s Centennial Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics. It will premiere on Nov. 20 at the historic Tcl Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
Billy Ray wrote the screenplay based on the 1997 Vanity Fair article from Marie Brenner that describes how Jewell, originally hailed by the media as a hero for alerting police to the presence of a bomb and helping evacuate the area, was identified as a prime suspect in the bombing, completely upending his life in the process.
Also Read: Clint Eastwood Takes Aim at the FBI and the Media in 'Richard Jewell' Trailer (Video)
Paul Walter Hauser is playing the lead role,...
- 10/8/2019
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Clint Eastwood's latest movie, Richard Jewell, will have its world premiere at AFI Fest.
The movie joins the previously announced festival title Queen & Slim, a crime thriller from Lena Waithe and Melina Matsoukas, and The Banker, an Apple drama starring Samuel L. Jackson.
Based on Marie Brenner's story in Vanity Fair, the pic focuses on Jewell, who was working as a security guard at the 1996 Olympic Summer Games in Atlanta when he discovered a backpack containing pipe bombs. He then sounded the alarm and helped to clear the area.
Initially hailed as a hero, Jewell was ...
The movie joins the previously announced festival title Queen & Slim, a crime thriller from Lena Waithe and Melina Matsoukas, and The Banker, an Apple drama starring Samuel L. Jackson.
Based on Marie Brenner's story in Vanity Fair, the pic focuses on Jewell, who was working as a security guard at the 1996 Olympic Summer Games in Atlanta when he discovered a backpack containing pipe bombs. He then sounded the alarm and helped to clear the area.
Initially hailed as a hero, Jewell was ...
- 10/8/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Clint Eastwood's latest movie, Richard Jewell, will have its world premiere at AFI Fest.
The movie joins the previously announced festival title Queen & Slim, a crime thriller from Lena Waithe and Melina Matsoukas, and The Banker, an Apple drama starring Samuel L. Jackson.
Based on Marie Brenner's story in Vanity Fair, the pic focuses on Jewell, who was working as a security guard at the 1996 Olympic Summer Games in Atlanta when he discovered a backpack containing pipe bombs. He then sounded the alarm and helped to clear the area.
Initially hailed as a hero, Jewell was ...
The movie joins the previously announced festival title Queen & Slim, a crime thriller from Lena Waithe and Melina Matsoukas, and The Banker, an Apple drama starring Samuel L. Jackson.
Based on Marie Brenner's story in Vanity Fair, the pic focuses on Jewell, who was working as a security guard at the 1996 Olympic Summer Games in Atlanta when he discovered a backpack containing pipe bombs. He then sounded the alarm and helped to clear the area.
Initially hailed as a hero, Jewell was ...
- 10/8/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The first trailer for Clint Eastwood's Richard Jewell has dropped, giving fans a first look at the film inspired by the true story of a security guard whose heroic accolades took a dark turn.
In 1996, Jewell saved countless lives after discovering a pipe bomb at Centennial Olympic Park during the Olympics in Atlanta, and helped to evacuate the surrounding area before they exploded. At first, the media lauded him as a hero and praised his actions. But when his name was leaked by the FBI as a suspect in the bombing, Jewell went from hero to public enemy number one.
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The trailer focuses on a particularly nerve-racking scene in which Jewell is interrogated by an FBI agent (Jon Hamm) who forces him to repeat, "There's a bomb in Centennial Park, you have 30 minutes," as a voice example. But...
In 1996, Jewell saved countless lives after discovering a pipe bomb at Centennial Olympic Park during the Olympics in Atlanta, and helped to evacuate the surrounding area before they exploded. At first, the media lauded him as a hero and praised his actions. But when his name was leaked by the FBI as a suspect in the bombing, Jewell went from hero to public enemy number one.
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The trailer focuses on a particularly nerve-racking scene in which Jewell is interrogated by an FBI agent (Jon Hamm) who forces him to repeat, "There's a bomb in Centennial Park, you have 30 minutes," as a voice example. But...
- 10/5/2019
- by Mekishana Pierre
- Popsugar.com
Richard Jewell Trailer Clint Eastwood‘s Richard Jewell (2019) movie trailer has been released by Warner Bros. Pictures and stars Paul Walter Hauser, Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm, and Olivia Wilde. Plot Synopsis Richard Jewell‘s plot synopsis: based on the Vanity Fair article by Marie Brenner, ““There is a bomb in Centennial Park. You [...]
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- 10/3/2019
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
An Atlanta man goes from hero to public enemy in an instant in the gripping new trailer for Clint Eastwood’s upcoming film, Richard Jewell, out December 13th.
The film is based on the true story of Richard Jewell, the security guard who discovered a pipe bomb at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta during the 1996 Olympics, but quickly became a prime suspect, targeted by the FBI and pilloried in the media.
The clip is centered around an extremely tense scene in which Jewell (played by Paul Walter Hauser) finds himself...
The film is based on the true story of Richard Jewell, the security guard who discovered a pipe bomb at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta during the 1996 Olympics, but quickly became a prime suspect, targeted by the FBI and pilloried in the media.
The clip is centered around an extremely tense scene in which Jewell (played by Paul Walter Hauser) finds himself...
- 10/3/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Clint Eastwood points a stern finger at FBI investigators and the media in the first trailer for his new fact-based drama “Richard Jewell,” which explores the security guard who reported finding an explosive device at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics — and then was falsely accused of planting it himself.
Paul Walter Hauser stars as Jewell, joined by Kathy Bates as his mother, Sam Rockwell as his attorney, Jon Hamm as the lead FBI investigator and Olivia Wilde as Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Kathy Scruggs.
“They want to fry you,” Rockwell’s attorney tells Jewell as the trailer suggests that FBI agents and the media pushed a false narrative of his culpability.
“Jewell fits the profile of the lone bomber, a frustrated white man who is a police wannabe who seeks to become a hero,” Wilde’s reporter says at one point, while Hamm and another investigator press Jewell to make incriminating statements...
Paul Walter Hauser stars as Jewell, joined by Kathy Bates as his mother, Sam Rockwell as his attorney, Jon Hamm as the lead FBI investigator and Olivia Wilde as Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Kathy Scruggs.
“They want to fry you,” Rockwell’s attorney tells Jewell as the trailer suggests that FBI agents and the media pushed a false narrative of his culpability.
“Jewell fits the profile of the lone bomber, a frustrated white man who is a police wannabe who seeks to become a hero,” Wilde’s reporter says at one point, while Hamm and another investigator press Jewell to make incriminating statements...
- 10/3/2019
- by Thom Geier
- The Wrap
We live in a world where the term “fake news” has made its way into the zeitgeist. Well sometimes the idea of “fake news” can turn someone’s life around for the worst, as told in the trailer for “Richard Jewell”
This ripped-from-the-headlines story is based on a “Vanity Fair” written by journalist Marie Brenner, and adapted for film by “Captain Phillips” writer Billy Ray.
Continue reading ‘Richard Jewell’ Trailer: Clint Eastwood Tackles The Danger of Fake News at The Playlist.
This ripped-from-the-headlines story is based on a “Vanity Fair” written by journalist Marie Brenner, and adapted for film by “Captain Phillips” writer Billy Ray.
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- 10/3/2019
- by Brynne Ramella
- The Playlist
After others tried to get the film made for over five years, Clint Eastwood went ahead and shot his Richard Jewell film–simply titled Richard Jewell–about three months ago, and now it’s coming out to theaters in less than three months. Led by I, Tonya break-out star Paul Walter Hauser, the cast also includes Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm, and Olivia Wilde, Warner Bros. has now debuted the first trailer.
Based on a 1997 Vanity Fair article by Marie Brenner (author of the source material for Michael Mann’s The Insider) and scripted by Billy Ray, it follows the public torment of Richard Jewell, a security guard working at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. He was initially lauded as a hero for discovering three pipe bombs on the premises, but then vilified by the media for being a potential suspect, despite a lack of evidence; Jewell was eventually cleared of all charges.
Based on a 1997 Vanity Fair article by Marie Brenner (author of the source material for Michael Mann’s The Insider) and scripted by Billy Ray, it follows the public torment of Richard Jewell, a security guard working at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. He was initially lauded as a hero for discovering three pipe bombs on the premises, but then vilified by the media for being a potential suspect, despite a lack of evidence; Jewell was eventually cleared of all charges.
- 10/3/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Clint Eastwood is back to crash the awards-season party with his next movie, “Richard Jewell,” which has just been stamped with a December 13 release date from Warner Bros. (Deadline has the full scoop.)
“Richard Jewell” will follow a similar pattern to last year’s “The Mule,” also a late-breaking mid-December film from Eastwood and Warner Bros. — and it made bank worldwide, racking up $173 million at the global box office. And like “The Mule,” as well as Eastwood’s other recent films such as the Tom Hanks starrer “Sully,” terrorist-attack drama “The 15:17 to Paris,” and the Best Picture Oscar nominee “American Sniper,” “Richard Jewell” centers on the true story of a good man trying to do good things, who is nonetheless unjustly vilified.
“Richard Jewell” stars Paul Walter Hauser — of “I, Tonya” and “BlacKkKlansman” — as a security guard who heroically rescued thousands of lives from an exploding bomb at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta,...
“Richard Jewell” will follow a similar pattern to last year’s “The Mule,” also a late-breaking mid-December film from Eastwood and Warner Bros. — and it made bank worldwide, racking up $173 million at the global box office. And like “The Mule,” as well as Eastwood’s other recent films such as the Tom Hanks starrer “Sully,” terrorist-attack drama “The 15:17 to Paris,” and the Best Picture Oscar nominee “American Sniper,” “Richard Jewell” centers on the true story of a good man trying to do good things, who is nonetheless unjustly vilified.
“Richard Jewell” stars Paul Walter Hauser — of “I, Tonya” and “BlacKkKlansman” — as a security guard who heroically rescued thousands of lives from an exploding bomb at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta,...
- 9/27/2019
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Clint Eastwood’s “Richard Jewell” has landed an awards-season theatrical release on December 13, 2019, Warner Bros. announced on Friday.
“Richard Jewell,” previously titled “The Ballad of Richard Jewell,” is based on the story of a security guard who was falsely accused in the bombing that took place at Atlanta’s Centennial Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Billy Ray wrote the screenplay based on the 1997 Vanity Fair article from Marie Brenner that describes how Jewell, originally hailed by the media as a hero for alerting police to the presence of a bomb and helping evacuate the area, was identified as a prime suspect in the Olympic Park bombing, completely upending his life in the process.
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Paul Walter Hauser is playing the lead role, with Sam Rockwell and Kathy Bates also starring in the drama. Olivia Wilde will play real-life reporter Kathy Scruggs,...
“Richard Jewell,” previously titled “The Ballad of Richard Jewell,” is based on the story of a security guard who was falsely accused in the bombing that took place at Atlanta’s Centennial Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Billy Ray wrote the screenplay based on the 1997 Vanity Fair article from Marie Brenner that describes how Jewell, originally hailed by the media as a hero for alerting police to the presence of a bomb and helping evacuate the area, was identified as a prime suspect in the Olympic Park bombing, completely upending his life in the process.
Also Read: Clint Eastwood to Shoot 'Richard Jewell' in Georgia Despite Boycott Over Anti-Abortion Law
Paul Walter Hauser is playing the lead role, with Sam Rockwell and Kathy Bates also starring in the drama. Olivia Wilde will play real-life reporter Kathy Scruggs,...
- 9/27/2019
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
It appears that Warner Bros. is looking to enter the awards race with Clint Eastwood's latest feature. The studio has dated The Ballad of Richard Jewell for a Dec. 13 release.
Based on Marie Brenner's story in Vanity Fair, the movie will follow Jewell, who was working as a security guard at the 1996 Olympic Summer Games when he discovered a backpack containing pipe bombs. He then sounded the alarm and helped to clear the area.
Initially hailed as a hero, Jewell was soon the prime suspect. The FBI searched his home twice, and the media painted him as an ...
Based on Marie Brenner's story in Vanity Fair, the movie will follow Jewell, who was working as a security guard at the 1996 Olympic Summer Games when he discovered a backpack containing pipe bombs. He then sounded the alarm and helped to clear the area.
Initially hailed as a hero, Jewell was soon the prime suspect. The FBI searched his home twice, and the media painted him as an ...
- 9/27/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
It appears that Warner Bros. is looking to enter the awards race with Clint Eastwood's latest feature. The studio has dated The Ballad of Richard Jewell for a Dec. 13 release.
Based on Marie Brenner's story in Vanity Fair, the movie will follow Jewell, who was working as a security guard at the 1996 Olympic Summer Games when he discovered a backpack containing pipe bombs. He then sounded the alarm and helped to clear the area.
Initially hailed as a hero, Jewell was soon the prime suspect. The FBI searched his home twice, and the media painted him as an ...
Based on Marie Brenner's story in Vanity Fair, the movie will follow Jewell, who was working as a security guard at the 1996 Olympic Summer Games when he discovered a backpack containing pipe bombs. He then sounded the alarm and helped to clear the area.
Initially hailed as a hero, Jewell was soon the prime suspect. The FBI searched his home twice, and the media painted him as an ...
- 9/27/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Three months ago, I supposed the next great movie newsroom drama would look more like Absence of Malice than All The President’s Men. Who knew that Clint Eastwood, filmdom’s Great Disruptor, would so soon be on his way to making sense of that supposition?
Just last week, Warner Bros. confirmed that Eastwood was poised to begin shooting Richard Jewell, the real-life story of a security guard who was mistakenly hounded as a possible perpetrator of Atlanta’s 1996 Olympic Park bombing. Following news reports, the studio acknowledged that Eastwood will be filming in Georgia, never mind the calls for a boycott over the state’s new abortion law. But that likely won’t be the last spark of controversy around a project that has it all: Reputational damage, over-reaching journalists, investigative onslaught—just like Absence of Malice, and very much like a scene from the current media-political wars.
Based...
Just last week, Warner Bros. confirmed that Eastwood was poised to begin shooting Richard Jewell, the real-life story of a security guard who was mistakenly hounded as a possible perpetrator of Atlanta’s 1996 Olympic Park bombing. Following news reports, the studio acknowledged that Eastwood will be filming in Georgia, never mind the calls for a boycott over the state’s new abortion law. But that likely won’t be the last spark of controversy around a project that has it all: Reputational damage, over-reaching journalists, investigative onslaught—just like Absence of Malice, and very much like a scene from the current media-political wars.
Based...
- 7/1/2019
- by Michael Cieply
- Deadline Film + TV
Ian Gomez is rounding out the cast of Clint Eastwood's The Ballad of Richard Jewell, about the Olympics security guard who found himself at the center of a media frenzy.
The Warner Bros. project is based on Marie Brenner's story in Vanity Fair about Jewell, who was working at the 1996 Olympic Summer Games when he discovered a backpack containing pipe bombs. He then sounded the alarm and helped to clear the area. Initially hailed as a hero, Jewell was soon the prime suspect. The FBI searched his home twice, and the media painted him as an overweight failed ...
The Warner Bros. project is based on Marie Brenner's story in Vanity Fair about Jewell, who was working at the 1996 Olympic Summer Games when he discovered a backpack containing pipe bombs. He then sounded the alarm and helped to clear the area. Initially hailed as a hero, Jewell was soon the prime suspect. The FBI searched his home twice, and the media painted him as an overweight failed ...
- 6/20/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Ian Gomez is rounding out the cast of Clint Eastwood's The Ballad of Richard Jewell, about the Olympics security guard who found himself at the center of a media frenzy.
The Warner Bros. project is based on Marie Brenner's story in Vanity Fair about Jewell, who was working at the 1996 Olympic Summer Games when he discovered a backpack containing pipe bombs. He then sounded the alarm and helped to clear the area. Initially hailed as a hero, Jewell was soon the prime suspect. The FBI searched his home twice, and the media painted him as an overweight failed ...
The Warner Bros. project is based on Marie Brenner's story in Vanity Fair about Jewell, who was working at the 1996 Olympic Summer Games when he discovered a backpack containing pipe bombs. He then sounded the alarm and helped to clear the area. Initially hailed as a hero, Jewell was soon the prime suspect. The FBI searched his home twice, and the media painted him as an overweight failed ...
- 6/20/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Woman of the moment Olivia Wilde and Jon Hamm are the latest actors to join the cast of Clint Eastwood’s real-life drama ‘Richard Jewell’.
The film is based on Marie Brenner’s article in Vanity Fair chronicling the story of Jewell, a real-life security guard whose world was turned upside down after law enforcement leaked to an overzealous reporter that Jewell was a possible suspect for the pipe-bombing at Centennial Park during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
Wilde will play real-life reporter Kathy Scruggs, who covered the event as it unfolded, and Hamm will play an FBI agent investigating the bombing.
The pair join Paul Walter Hauser who takes on the leading role as Jewell, Sam Rockwell who will play Jewell’s attorney and Kathy Bates who takes on the role of Jewell’s mother.
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The film is based on Marie Brenner’s article in Vanity Fair chronicling the story of Jewell, a real-life security guard whose world was turned upside down after law enforcement leaked to an overzealous reporter that Jewell was a possible suspect for the pipe-bombing at Centennial Park during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
Wilde will play real-life reporter Kathy Scruggs, who covered the event as it unfolded, and Hamm will play an FBI agent investigating the bombing.
The pair join Paul Walter Hauser who takes on the leading role as Jewell, Sam Rockwell who will play Jewell’s attorney and Kathy Bates who takes on the role of Jewell’s mother.
Also in news – Richard E. Grant and Sharon Horgan cast in film adaptation of West End...
- 6/18/2019
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Jon Hamm and Olivia Wilde are set to star in Clint Eastwood’s “Richard Jewell,” an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.
“Richard Jewell,” previously titled “The Ballad of Richard Jewell,” is based on the story of a security guard who was falsely accused in the bombing that took place at Atlanta’s Centennial Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Billy Ray wrote the screenplay based on the 1997 Vanity Fair article from Marie Brenner that describes how Jewell, originally hailed by the media as a hero for alerting police to the presence of a bomb and helping evacuate the area, was identified as a prime suspect in the Olympic Park bombing, completely upending his life in the process.
Also Read: Paul Walter Hauser Lands Lead Role in 'The Ballad of Richard Jewell'
Paul Walter Hauser is playing the lead role, with Sam Rockwell and Kathy Bates also starring in the drama.
“Richard Jewell,” previously titled “The Ballad of Richard Jewell,” is based on the story of a security guard who was falsely accused in the bombing that took place at Atlanta’s Centennial Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Billy Ray wrote the screenplay based on the 1997 Vanity Fair article from Marie Brenner that describes how Jewell, originally hailed by the media as a hero for alerting police to the presence of a bomb and helping evacuate the area, was identified as a prime suspect in the Olympic Park bombing, completely upending his life in the process.
Also Read: Paul Walter Hauser Lands Lead Role in 'The Ballad of Richard Jewell'
Paul Walter Hauser is playing the lead role, with Sam Rockwell and Kathy Bates also starring in the drama.
- 6/18/2019
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Olivia Wilde and Jon Hamm have joined the cast of Clint Eastwood’s already star-studded drama “Richard Jewell.”
Paul Walter Hauser is set to star as the titular Jewell in Warner Bros.’ pic alongside Sam Rockwell as Jewell’s attorney and Kathy Bates as Jewell’s mother.
The drama is based on Marie Brenner’s article in Vanity Fair chronicling the story of Jewell, a real-life security guard whose world was turned upside down after law enforcement leaked to an overzealous reporter that Jewell was a possible suspect for the pipe-bombing at Centennial Park during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
Wilde will play real-life reporter Kathy Scruggs, who covered the event as it unfolded, and Hamm will play an FBI agent investigating the bombing.
As law enforcement asserted Jewell planted the bomb himself and then “found” it to earn praise, the city reopened the park and attempted to calm a terrified public...
Paul Walter Hauser is set to star as the titular Jewell in Warner Bros.’ pic alongside Sam Rockwell as Jewell’s attorney and Kathy Bates as Jewell’s mother.
The drama is based on Marie Brenner’s article in Vanity Fair chronicling the story of Jewell, a real-life security guard whose world was turned upside down after law enforcement leaked to an overzealous reporter that Jewell was a possible suspect for the pipe-bombing at Centennial Park during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
Wilde will play real-life reporter Kathy Scruggs, who covered the event as it unfolded, and Hamm will play an FBI agent investigating the bombing.
As law enforcement asserted Jewell planted the bomb himself and then “found” it to earn praise, the city reopened the park and attempted to calm a terrified public...
- 6/18/2019
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety Film + TV
Long-developing, now active in a major way, Richard Jewell is likely Clint Eastwood’s next directorial project (and follow-up to absolute heater The Mule). What was once to star Jonah Hill and Leonardo DiCaprio falls to, in their respective roles, Paul Walter Hauser (BlackKklansman) and Sam Rockwell, while the original leads remain attached as producers. [THR]
Based on a 1997 Vanity Fair article by Marie Brenner (author of the source material for Michael Mann’s The Insider) and scripted by Billy Ray, it follows the public torment of Richard Jewell, a security guard working at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. He was initially lauded as a hero for discovering three pipe bombs on the premises, but then vilified by the media for being a potential suspect, despite a lack of evidence; Jewell was eventually cleared of all charges.
Hauser will take the titular, eponymous, and lead role, while Rockwell is angling to portray Jewell’s attorney.
Based on a 1997 Vanity Fair article by Marie Brenner (author of the source material for Michael Mann’s The Insider) and scripted by Billy Ray, it follows the public torment of Richard Jewell, a security guard working at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. He was initially lauded as a hero for discovering three pipe bombs on the premises, but then vilified by the media for being a potential suspect, despite a lack of evidence; Jewell was eventually cleared of all charges.
Hauser will take the titular, eponymous, and lead role, while Rockwell is angling to portray Jewell’s attorney.
- 6/12/2019
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
“I, Tonya” and “Late Night” star Paul Walter Hauser has signed on to star as the title character alongside Sam Rockwell in Clint Eastwood’s next film, “Richard Jewell,” sources tell Variety.
The drama is based on Marie Brenner’s article in Vanity Fair chronicling the story of Jewell, a real-life security guard whose world was turned upside down after law enforcement leaked to an overzealous reporter that Jewell was a possible suspect for the pipe-bombing at Centennial Park during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
From that moment on, Jewell went from the hero who first discovered the suspicious abandoned backpack and saved hundreds of lives to one of the most hated men in America.
As law enforcement asserted Jewell planted the bomb himself and then “found” it to earn praise, the city reopened the park and attempted to calm a terrified public while the real lone wolf perpetrator remained at large.
The drama is based on Marie Brenner’s article in Vanity Fair chronicling the story of Jewell, a real-life security guard whose world was turned upside down after law enforcement leaked to an overzealous reporter that Jewell was a possible suspect for the pipe-bombing at Centennial Park during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
From that moment on, Jewell went from the hero who first discovered the suspicious abandoned backpack and saved hundreds of lives to one of the most hated men in America.
As law enforcement asserted Jewell planted the bomb himself and then “found” it to earn praise, the city reopened the park and attempted to calm a terrified public while the real lone wolf perpetrator remained at large.
- 6/12/2019
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety Film + TV
Paul Walter Hauser has booked the lead and title role for “The Ballad of Richard Jewell,” an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap. “The Ballad of Richard Jewell” is based on the story of a security guard who was considered a suspect in the bombing that took place Atlanta’s Centennial Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Billy Ray wrote the screenplay based on the 1997 Vanity Fair article from Marie Brenner that describes how Jewell, originally hailed by the media as a hero for alerting police to the presence of a bomb and helping evacuate the area, became linked as the FBI’s prime suspect in the Olympic Park bombing, completely upending his life in the process.
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Clint Eastwood is officially attached to direct “The Ballad of Richard Jewell,...
Billy Ray wrote the screenplay based on the 1997 Vanity Fair article from Marie Brenner that describes how Jewell, originally hailed by the media as a hero for alerting police to the presence of a bomb and helping evacuate the area, became linked as the FBI’s prime suspect in the Olympic Park bombing, completely upending his life in the process.
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Clint Eastwood is officially attached to direct “The Ballad of Richard Jewell,...
- 6/12/2019
- by Umberto Gonzalez
- The Wrap
Sam Rockwell is in final negotiations to star in Clint Eastwood’s next drama “The Ballad of Richard Jewell,” sources tell Variety.
Eastwood is directing and producing through his Malpaso production banner. Tim Moore, Jessica Meier, and Leonardo DiCaprio’s partners Jennifer Davisson Killoran and Kevin Misher are also producing.
The film is a drama based on the real-life security guard whose world was turned upside down after law enforcement leaked to an overzealous reporter at the Atlanta Journal Constitution that Jewell was a possible suspect for the pipe-bombing at Centennial Park during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
From that moment on, Jewell went from a hero, who first discovered the suspicious abandoned backpack and saved hundreds of lives, to one of the most hated men in America.
As law enforcement asserted Jewell planted the bomb himself and then “found” it to make himself a hero, the city reopened the park and...
Eastwood is directing and producing through his Malpaso production banner. Tim Moore, Jessica Meier, and Leonardo DiCaprio’s partners Jennifer Davisson Killoran and Kevin Misher are also producing.
The film is a drama based on the real-life security guard whose world was turned upside down after law enforcement leaked to an overzealous reporter at the Atlanta Journal Constitution that Jewell was a possible suspect for the pipe-bombing at Centennial Park during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
From that moment on, Jewell went from a hero, who first discovered the suspicious abandoned backpack and saved hundreds of lives, to one of the most hated men in America.
As law enforcement asserted Jewell planted the bomb himself and then “found” it to make himself a hero, the city reopened the park and...
- 6/10/2019
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety Film + TV
Clint Eastwood is officially attached to direct “The Ballad of Richard Jewell,” and Warner Bros. has acquired the rights to release the film, which was previously at Disney-Fox, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.
“The Ballad of Richard Jewell” is based on the story of a security guard who was considered a possible suspect of a bombing that took place Atlanta’s Centennial Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Billy Ray wrote the screenplay based on the 1997 Vanity Fair article from Marie Brenner that describes how Jewell, originally hailed by the media as a hero for alerting police to the presence of a bomb and helping evacuate the area, became linked as the FBI’s prime suspect in the Olympic Park bombing, completely upending his life in the process.
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Eastwood has been...
“The Ballad of Richard Jewell” is based on the story of a security guard who was considered a possible suspect of a bombing that took place Atlanta’s Centennial Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Billy Ray wrote the screenplay based on the 1997 Vanity Fair article from Marie Brenner that describes how Jewell, originally hailed by the media as a hero for alerting police to the presence of a bomb and helping evacuate the area, became linked as the FBI’s prime suspect in the Olympic Park bombing, completely upending his life in the process.
Also Read: 'The Mule' Proves Clint Eastwood Is Still a Box Office Draw at 88
Eastwood has been...
- 5/24/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Warner Bros. and Clint Eastwood are teaming up once again, as the studio has closed a deal to acquire the rights to “The Ballad of Richard Jewell” from Fox-Disney with Eastwood set to direct.
Eastwood has had his eye on “The Ballad of Richard Jewell” for some time, and was in talks to take on the project several years ago when it was at Fox before he eventually shifted his focus to another property. Following the success of his most recent drama, “The Mule,” the director began looking again for his next project and came back to “Richard Jewell,” which was now a part of Fox-Disney following the recent merger of the two studios.
There was a chance that the movie could have stayed at Fox-Disney, marking a reunion between Eastwood and Alan Horn, the current Disney Studios chief who worked with the filmmaker when he was the head of Warner Bros.
Eastwood has had his eye on “The Ballad of Richard Jewell” for some time, and was in talks to take on the project several years ago when it was at Fox before he eventually shifted his focus to another property. Following the success of his most recent drama, “The Mule,” the director began looking again for his next project and came back to “Richard Jewell,” which was now a part of Fox-Disney following the recent merger of the two studios.
There was a chance that the movie could have stayed at Fox-Disney, marking a reunion between Eastwood and Alan Horn, the current Disney Studios chief who worked with the filmmaker when he was the head of Warner Bros.
- 5/24/2019
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety Film + TV
Veteran actor Clint Eastwood might direct The Ballad Of Richard Jewell, a look at a security guard whose life gets turned upside down after media reports identified him as a possible suspect in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing. The film is currently set up at Disney/Fox and could reunite Eastwood with Alan Horn, the current Disney Studios chief who worked with the filmmaker when he was in charge of Warner Bros motion picture division.?
Jonah Hill and Leonardo DiCaprio had originally been attached to star, but they will no longer appear in the movie. Their involvement will be limited to producing the film, reports variety.com.
Eastwood's involvement could change. He circled the project several years ago before opting to direct Sully with Tom Hanks. Director Ezra Edelman was last person to consider the project.
DiCaprio's business partners Jennifer Davisson Killoran, and Kevin Misher are also producing. Captain Phillips screenwriter...
Jonah Hill and Leonardo DiCaprio had originally been attached to star, but they will no longer appear in the movie. Their involvement will be limited to producing the film, reports variety.com.
Eastwood's involvement could change. He circled the project several years ago before opting to direct Sully with Tom Hanks. Director Ezra Edelman was last person to consider the project.
DiCaprio's business partners Jennifer Davisson Killoran, and Kevin Misher are also producing. Captain Phillips screenwriter...
- 4/19/2019
- GlamSham
Clint Eastwood may direct “The Ballad of Richard Jewell,” a look at a security guard whose life gets turned upside down after media reports identified him as a possible suspect in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing.
The film is currently set up at Disney/Fox and could reunite Eastwood with Alan Horn, the current Disney Studios chief who worked with the filmmaker when he was in charge of Warner Bros. motion picture division. Jonah Hill and Leonardo DiCaprio had originally been attached to star, but they will no longer appear in the movie. Their involvement will be limited to producing the film.
Eastwood’s involvement could change. He circled the project several years ago before opting to direct “Sully” with Tom Hanks. “O.J.: Made in America” director Ezra Edelman was last person to consider the project.
Eastwood had a box office success with last year’s drug runner drama “The Mule,...
The film is currently set up at Disney/Fox and could reunite Eastwood with Alan Horn, the current Disney Studios chief who worked with the filmmaker when he was in charge of Warner Bros. motion picture division. Jonah Hill and Leonardo DiCaprio had originally been attached to star, but they will no longer appear in the movie. Their involvement will be limited to producing the film.
Eastwood’s involvement could change. He circled the project several years ago before opting to direct “Sully” with Tom Hanks. “O.J.: Made in America” director Ezra Edelman was last person to consider the project.
Eastwood had a box office success with last year’s drug runner drama “The Mule,...
- 4/18/2019
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
A fine performance by Rosamund Pike as Marie Colvin smooths over the faults in this impassioned account of the fearless war correspondent’s life and death
Taking its inspiration from a posthumous 2012 Vanity Fair profile by Marie Brenner, this narrative feature debut from celebrated documentary-maker Matthew Heineman casts Rosamund Pike as the renowned American journalist Marie Colvin, who risked her life to report from the front line, and seven years ago paid the ultimate price. “Why is the world not here?” was Colvin’s repeated question as she ventured into the most deadly – and often overlooked – areas of conflict. The answer seems simple: where Colvin felt an unstoppable need to witness and report on “the truth”, others often feared to follow.
Heineman’s film opens and closes in Homs, the besieged Syrian city that Colvin memorably described as “a ghost town, echoing with the sound of shelling and the crack...
Taking its inspiration from a posthumous 2012 Vanity Fair profile by Marie Brenner, this narrative feature debut from celebrated documentary-maker Matthew Heineman casts Rosamund Pike as the renowned American journalist Marie Colvin, who risked her life to report from the front line, and seven years ago paid the ultimate price. “Why is the world not here?” was Colvin’s repeated question as she ventured into the most deadly – and often overlooked – areas of conflict. The answer seems simple: where Colvin felt an unstoppable need to witness and report on “the truth”, others often feared to follow.
Heineman’s film opens and closes in Homs, the besieged Syrian city that Colvin memorably described as “a ghost town, echoing with the sound of shelling and the crack...
- 2/17/2019
- by Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
This portrait of Marie Colvin, the daring journalist with an eyepatch, captures her badass image but stops short of revealing the woman behind the myth
This film arrives at an interesting moment. A Us court has just found Bashar Al-Assad’s Syrian government guilty of the extra-judicial killing of Sunday Times war correspondent Marie Colvin in Homs in 2012. She was in the building that the Syrian authorities shelled – courageously denouncing their cynicism and brutality to the very end. Now Colvin is the subject of this movie, a legendary figure who affected an eyepatch after losing an eye to shrapnel in Sri Lanka in 2001. After her death, she was in increasing danger of being mythologised. There was a Colvin figure in Eva Husson’s Girls of the Sun – a daring female reporter with an eyepatch.
This heartfelt work, based on a Vanity Fair article by Marie Brenner entitled Marie Colvin’s...
This film arrives at an interesting moment. A Us court has just found Bashar Al-Assad’s Syrian government guilty of the extra-judicial killing of Sunday Times war correspondent Marie Colvin in Homs in 2012. She was in the building that the Syrian authorities shelled – courageously denouncing their cynicism and brutality to the very end. Now Colvin is the subject of this movie, a legendary figure who affected an eyepatch after losing an eye to shrapnel in Sri Lanka in 2001. After her death, she was in increasing danger of being mythologised. There was a Colvin figure in Eva Husson’s Girls of the Sun – a daring female reporter with an eyepatch.
This heartfelt work, based on a Vanity Fair article by Marie Brenner entitled Marie Colvin’s...
- 2/13/2019
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired multi-territory rights to Matt Tyrnauer’s “Where’s My Roy Cohn?”, individuals familiar with the deal told Variety.
The film premiered in the U.S. documentary competition from Tyranuer, known for tackling culture-shapers like designer Valentino Garavani, Studio 54 co-founder Ian Schrager and Hollywood pimp Scotty Bowers. The sale includes U.S. rights, and will include a theatrical release.
Using rare archival footage, “Where’s My Roy Cohn” looks at the infamous New York attorney — a man who represented power brokers, Catholic church leaders, and mobsters. Cohn exploded onto the stage as a top lieutenant of Sen. Joseph McCarthy. He later became a mentor of none other than future President Donald Trump, advising him to always “punch back” when the real estate developer was being sued for housing discrimination. A closeted homosexual, Cohn died of AIDS-related complications in 1986.
“Donald Trump learned literally everything he knows from Roy Cohn,...
The film premiered in the U.S. documentary competition from Tyranuer, known for tackling culture-shapers like designer Valentino Garavani, Studio 54 co-founder Ian Schrager and Hollywood pimp Scotty Bowers. The sale includes U.S. rights, and will include a theatrical release.
Using rare archival footage, “Where’s My Roy Cohn” looks at the infamous New York attorney — a man who represented power brokers, Catholic church leaders, and mobsters. Cohn exploded onto the stage as a top lieutenant of Sen. Joseph McCarthy. He later became a mentor of none other than future President Donald Trump, advising him to always “punch back” when the real estate developer was being sued for housing discrimination. A closeted homosexual, Cohn died of AIDS-related complications in 1986.
“Donald Trump learned literally everything he knows from Roy Cohn,...
- 1/28/2019
- by Brent Lang and Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
American journalist Marie Colvin’s family’s lawyers say they have evidence proving the Bashar al-Assad-led government of Syria ordered her death in 2012. If that doesn’t express the power of a free press, I’m not sure what could. At a time when the Us President is acting like an autocratic leader deciding who is allowed to cover the White House beat while also calling the media at-large “an enemy of the people,” we would do well to look back at what Colvin did just before a Homs explosion killed her. Back then it was still believed that Assad was bombing terrorists rather than civilians and she risked everything to tell the world he was lying. Her voice opened eyes and her coverage turned the spotlight onto its true target.
It’s therefore tough to see how little has changed in the six years since. Assad still bombs...
It’s therefore tough to see how little has changed in the six years since. Assad still bombs...
- 11/20/2018
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Growing up with a journalist for a mother and making his name as an Oscar-nominated documentarian — behind the likes of Cartel Land and City of Ghosts — Matthew Heineman makes his narrative feature debut with Aviron Pictures’ A Private War. As an artist with a journalist’s eye for meaningful, real-world stories and a great deal of personal bravery, it’s no wonder Heineman delved into this new filmmaking arena with the story of Marie Colvin, a journalist whose values mirrored his own.
In the film, Rosamund Pike gives an electrifying turn as the fearless war correspondent, who repeatedly arrived at the front lines of global conflicts to shine a light on the facts of war, giving voice to the voiceless. Setting out to cover the Syrian civil war from the city of Homs with renowned war photographer Paul Conroy (Jamie Dornan), the reporter finds her most dangerous assignment yet — the...
In the film, Rosamund Pike gives an electrifying turn as the fearless war correspondent, who repeatedly arrived at the front lines of global conflicts to shine a light on the facts of war, giving voice to the voiceless. Setting out to cover the Syrian civil war from the city of Homs with renowned war photographer Paul Conroy (Jamie Dornan), the reporter finds her most dangerous assignment yet — the...
- 11/3/2018
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
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