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Update: This rumor has been debunked by James Gunn.

Original Article: Here’s some news that’s sure to put a smile on your face. According to Devin Faraci’s Marvelvision podcast, a spinoff series tied to Matt Reeves’ The Batman, starring Barry Keoghan’s Joker, is reportedly in development. The rumor has been picked up by industry insider Jeff Sneider, who says the show is positioned between The Batman Part II and The Batman Part III. Keoghan’s Joker would star as the main villain of the series after playing a “Hannibal Lecter-like role” in The Batman universe, only appearing as a phantom of Arkham Asylum with deep ties to the Dark Knight.

Keoghan’s Joker appears a deleted scene from 2022’s The Batman, in which Robert Pattinson’s Caped Crusader visits the Jester of Genocide in Arkham Asylum to get his unique take on Gotham’s latest villain,...

The Penguin airs its final episode this Sunday, and while the jury's out on whether it will ever get a second season, it's clear that HBO and Warner Bros. Discovery are happy with how well the show has been received. The Penguin was spun off from Matt Reeves' 2022 movie The Batman, and I think it improves on its source. It's clear that Reeves and company are, at the least, interested in making other shows starring Batman villains. But which ones?

Well, according to Devin Faraci, who operates the Marvelvision podcast, the next DC villain show will be about the Joker, played once again by Barry Keoghan, who debuted his take on the iconic character in a cameo at the end of The Batman. As The Penguin spans the time between The Batman and the upcoming The Batman: Part II, the idea is that a Joker show would span the time...

Fans are absolutely loving Matt Reeves' The Batman spinoff TV series The Penguin, which will soon air its final episode on HBO and Max. A new report has purportedly revealed the identity of the next iconic Batman villain to get a spinoff in the Reevesverse.

Jeff Sneider revealed via The InSneider that Reeves has big plans for Barry Keoghan's Joker, who made a brief cameo at the end of The Batman. Sneider cited Devin Faraci's Marvelvision podcast in stating that The Joker TV series will be set between The Batman Part 2 and The Batman 3, the latter of which Keoghan's Clown Prince of Crime will appear as the main villain. The series will act as a bridge between the two films, much like Collin Farrell's The Penguin is doing for The Batman and the upcoming installment, which will begin shooting next year. Sneider is often a reliable source of information,...

DC is about to triple down on its villains. Director Matt Reeves won all sorts of acclaim for his fresh new take on the Caped Crusader in 2022's "The Batman," but it's fair to say that star Robert Pattinson ended up upstaged by the big bads layered throughout the script: Paul Dano's Riddler with his David Fincher-inspired approach, John Turturro's creepy mob boss Carmine Falcone, and especially Colin Farrell as the scene-stealing Penguin, Oswald Cobb (a character so appealing that he's since been spun off into his own successful "The Penguin" series on HBO). But don't forget that there was even a last-minute tease for another major DC antagonist with Barry Keoghan's Joker, who received even more screen time in a deleted scene that Warner Bros. dropped soon after the film's release. The speculation since then has been that the upcoming "The Batman: Part II" would focus...

On September 21, 2024, two women went blow-for-blow under the blazing lights of a boxing gym in Austin, Texas. Jabs. Hooks. Uppercuts. A handwritten sign that read “Death to Mainstream Cinema.” These are the Fantastic Fest Debates.

Ahbra Perry and Annick Mahnert are programmers for Alamo Drafthouse’s infamous genre film festival. For its 19th edition, they also participated as fighters in a controversial boxing ritual that has existed almost as long as the festival itself. Competitors select a subject for debate, and after three rounds of verbal back-and-forth, they put on gloves and duke it out — physically.

Over the years, big names like Michelle Rodriguez, Elijah Wood, Keanu Reeves, and Zoë Bell have participated in the theater chain’s gonzo exhibition. The celebration of disagreement lets actors, directors, critics, Fantastic Fest organizers, and more fans put their fists where their film opinions are. As America’s largest genre festival enters its second decade,...

Deadpool & Wolverine is now less than a month away from hitting theaters and, with press screenings surely set to begin imminently, there's a good chance we'll soon start seeing spoilers do the rounds online.

Marvel Studios can counter that by taking some cues from Spider-Man: No Way Home; for that 2021 movie, junket press were only shown the first 37 minutes of the movie, with full screenings for review purposes taking place only the day before it was released theatrically.

Regardless, we now have news on Deadpool & Wolverine's post-credits scene and what we won't see.

It started with Devin Faraci sharing a wild claim that Robert Downey Jr. has been considered for the McU's Doctor Doom. That supposedly didn't pan out, though Daniel Richtman would later chime in to say, "They also wanted [Downey Jr.] to make a cameo in Deadpool & Wolverine, particularly in a post-credits scene, but it didn't work out.

Above: Justice League (2017) and Zack Snyder’s Justice League (2021)In a dual act of legal and artistic distinction from Gian Luigi Polidoro’s film Satyricon (1969), Federico Fellini named his own adaptation of Gaius Petronius’ novel Fellini Satyricon (1960). The accompanying tagline—”Rome. Before Christ. After Fellini.”—relished in the film’s indisputable authorship, which Fellini referred to as 20 percent Petronius, 80 percent Fellini. For his acolytes, the auteur served as the main attraction. Though Zack Snyder falls far below Fellini by measure of ingenuity, fans (especially those of his DC Extended Universe movies) praise him as a peerless virtuoso. Zack Snyder’s Justice League (2021), an “entirely new thing" from the expurgated Justice League (2017), validates their defense by granting him the same mythic status as his god-like heroes. History affirms that the boast is well-earned. Through public interest alone, Zack Snyder’s Justice League has saved itself from joining a lineage of pictures...

Cinestate is facing internal backlash after a recent report by The Daily Beast that details the independent Texas movie studio’s alleged complicity in several instances of sexual misconduct. Editors of two publications owned by the company, Birth.Movies.Death. and Fangoria, on Monday publicly shared a letter they have shared with their bosses demanding Cinestate take several measures in the realm of anti-harassment. They’re refusing to work until the company meets the demands. (The full letter is available below.)

Over the weekend, The Daily Beast published a deep-dive investigation titled “How a Right-Wing Movie Studio Enabled the ‘Harvey Weinstein’ of Indie Film,” referencing producer Adam Donaghey, who is currently facing a charge of sexual assault of a child, and produced several of Cinestate’s films. The article also offers a new look into allegations that Cinestate enabled a pattern of harassment not just by Donaghey, but by others...

For a dozen years, Fantastic Fest reigned supreme as the most exciting gathering for genre movie fans in America. The Austin-based film festival, one of the flagship events of the Alamo Drafthouse theater chain, combined its party-loving environment with an expansive approach to genre fandom, launching everything from “The Human Centipede” to “There Will Be Blood.” Fantastic Fest became a breeding ground for hardcore acolytes of horror, sci-fi, and other outré forms of storytelling from around the world, cultivating a devout community in the process.

Then, in 2017 — months before the #MeToo movement and the revelations about Harvey Weinstein’s history of sexual assault — Fantastic Fest became one of the first movie-world institutions to face the repercussions of harboring guilty parties and neglecting victim complaints. A year later, Fantastic Fest is underway with new plans to address its previous shortcomings, and eager sold-out crowds, but it’s still grappling with the...

AMC is not the only prominent theater chain wading into the monthly ticket subscription game as MoviePass scrambles. IndieWire confirms that Austin-headquartered Alamo Drafthouse Cinema will beta test its own Alamo Season Pass in Yonkers, NY. The Alamo Season Pass waitlist is currently accepting applicants; selected recipients will be notified later this summer.

“The beta test will be run exclusively at our Yonkers, NY location, with the first invites going out on July 18th,” wrote an Alamo Drafthouse spokesperson. “Our guests have been asking for quite some time for us to offer an affordable monthly subscription plan that allows for unlimited movies and the ability to reserve tickets in advance at Alamo Drafthouse. We plan to test a variety of models and pricing structures to see what works as a sustainable model. At this time there’s no firm timeline for a wider rollout to other Alamo Drafthouse locations, but...

At this year’s SXSW Film Festival, there was at least one attendee who made some people uncomfortable. Ousted Cinefamily owner Hadrian Belove came to Austin with a SXSW badge, six months after allegations of sexual abuse and harassment led to his departure from the Los Angeles independent cinema he founded.

No one suggested Belove did anything wrong at SXSW, but several women told IndieWire they thought his alleged transgressions provided reason enough to expel him. Lee Jameson, a longtime Cinefamily member and a former volunteer, tweeted March 14: “how can @sxsw claim to support #metoo and focus on tackling sexual harassment issues this year and still allow someone like Hadrian Belove to be an accredited attendee and make women feel unsafe?”

As the film community approaches the Tribeca Film Festival, Cannes, and other major film events to come this year, it’s an issue that’s bound to come...

Devin Faraci has announced the launch of a new film website. Titled Cinema Sangha, the site is billed as “Film from an occasionally Buddhist perspective.” The former editor-in-chief of Alamo Drafthouse film and TV site Birth.Movies.Death, Faraci first left the company in late 2016 amid sexual assault allegations. Eleven months later, it was discovered that Drafthouse co-founder Tim League had quietly re-hired Faraci to work from home, after which Faraci promptly resigned again.

The blog appears to have been live since last year, but freelance film writer Fred Topel discovered it Tuesday, tweeting: “Devin Faraci has a new website where he reviews films from a Buddhist perspective. On his About page he talks about hitting bottom but still does not admit sexually assaulting a woman.”

Devin Faraci has a new website where he reviews films from a Buddhist perspective. On his About page he talks about hitting bottom but...

A new deep-dive report at Splinter, the news arm of Gizmodo Media Group, alleges that Texas-based theater chain Alamo Drafthouse has long minimized a variety of sexual assault and harassment allegations made against both patrons and employees. In September of last year, IndieWire reported on allegations from five women against former Drafthouse associate and Ain’t It Cool News founder Harry Knowles. One of those women, former Drafthouse employee Jill Lewis, spoke to the outlet about her own claims made against a patron nearly a decade ago.

Lewis told the outlet that she was grabbed and harassed by a long-time patron of the theater, and when she contacted the theater’s owners, Tim and Karrie League, they “had a dilemma: The customer lived with a traumatic brain injury, and was one of the chain’s most loyal customers. They knew he seemed to struggle with impulse control.” They worried that...

PBS is stepping in the waters of the #MeToo movement, going long form with the upcoming five-part series “MeToo What’s Next?” However, don’t expect anything careful and dry from the public broadcaster. Activist and author Zainab Salbi is already stirring the pot, as news arrives today that the former film blogger Devin Faraci (Birth Movies Death) has been interviewed for the series.

In the fall of 2016, Faraci stepped down from his role as editor-in-chief of Birth Movies Death in the wake of sexual assault and misconduct allegations.

Continue reading Devin Faraci Interviewed For PBS #MeToo Series, Says He Was “Suicidal” Following Sexual Assault Allegation at The Playlist.

Devin Faraci is speaking out about the sexual assault allegation that derailed his career in PBS’ new five-part series “MeToo What’s Next?” The former editor in chief of Birth.Movies.Death spoke candidly with host Zainab Salbi about the aftermath of being accused, saying he was immediately suicidal after hearing about his behavior.

Read More:Devin Faraci Was Rehired After Sexual Assault Allegations: What Was Tim League Thinking?

“Immediately afterwards I was suicidal, within the first day,” Faraci said. “I was just told that I had sexually assaulted a woman, and I did not believe that I was the kind of guy that did that. I was presented with a situation where my personal belief system demanded that I accept this, and so to accept this was to question every piece of my identity and who I thought I was. And within that, I thought I was the worst person who had ever lived.

Poptheatr is either the breakthrough we needed for home entertainment or the extreme fad no one will remember in a couple months, but either way its making serious traction online right now. The Kickstarter-backed project seeks to turn your phone into a movie theater, and all you have to do is lay down and put a bag over your head.

Read More:Filmmakers: Apply to Host a Work-in-Progress Screening at Kickstarter HQ

The official product description reads: “Poptheatr is your own private theater that provides you with a comfortable, personal viewing experience when watching on your mobile device. No longer will you face distractions and constant discomfort when you could be enjoying your movie or show to the fullest extent.”

Poptheatr is a relatively simple concept but it creates a dark environment for which you can screen content from your iPhone or Android mobile devices. The set comes with elastic...

More than two months after a series of scandals rocked Texas-based theater chain Alamo Drafthouse and its annual film festival Fantastic Fest, the Austin festival has unveiled a brand-new board of directors led by some of the event’s most well-known female personalties and long-time employees. The new board will be led by Kristen Bell as chair, further cementing her place as an essential part of both the Alamo Drafthouse and Fantastic Fest, as she has been involved with both entities since the early-aughts and has held multiple leadership roles over those many years.

Bell will be joined on the board by actor and film buff Elijah Wood, film writer and programmer Kier-la Janisse, film curator and producer Peter Kuplowsky, and producer Suki-Rose Simakis.

Read More:Fantastic Fest Diary: Why It Was Important to Me, As A Woman, To Attend Despite This Year’s Controversy

Per the official announcement of the...

By most estimations, The New York Times’ initial reporting on Harvey Weinstein’s decades of sexual harassment changed everything. That perspective includes the Times, which published a timeline on November 11 called “After Weinstein: A List of Men Accused of Sexual Misconduct and the Fallout for Each,” detailing the public outcry surrounding a range of public figures who have faced varying degrees of repercussions for their abhorrent treatment of women and men in recent weeks.

It’s a curious framing device, particular with regard to its start. While Weinstein may have been the tipping point, there was a palpable drum roll leading to his downfall.

From a broader cultural standpoint, the backlash against powerful men doing terrible things started with Hannibal Burress’ tossed-off remarks about Bill Cosby, and the ensuing process through which Cosby was shunned by the industry; later, the business threats to Fox News following reporting about years of...

YouTube channel ScreenJunkies has released new content for the first time since creator Andy Signore was fired almost three weeks ago for alleged sexual misconduct. ScreenJunkies film critic and producer Dan Murrell, “The ScreenJunkies Show!” host Hal Rudnick, “ScreenJunkies News” editor-in-chief Roth Cornet, and “Honest Trailers” writers Spencer Gilbert and Joe Starr released a solemn, respectful, 11-minute video on Oct. 26 where they vowed to rebuild trust in the community and thanked fans for their continued patience.

“We’ll be approaching some semblance of normalcy slowly,” said Starr. “I think we all agree that it would feel fake if tomorrow we just gave you a ‘Geostorm’ review.”

Read More:ScreenJunkies and Honest Trailers Remain Dark Following Andy Signore’s Dismissal

While Hollywood was reeling over the first allegations against Harvey Weinstein, multiple women on social media accused Signore of inappropriate behavior, including telling one woman that he masturbated to her picture and...

The Harvey Weinstein scandal continues to boil with questions of who knew what and when, a new and disturbing story from Kate Beckinsale, and a NYPD investigation. The list of Weinstein’s accusers grows daily, as does the number of celebrities adding their voices to describe their shock and dismay.

While Weinstein’s behavior is “disgusting” (Robert Rodriguez) and “There is no excuse for sexual harassment or sexual assault” (Leonardo DiCaprio), we have to wrest our attentions from celebrity social media feeds if there’s any hope of stopping it. And while I believe the industry houses other Weinsteins who must be rooted out, the real work lies in paying serious attention to people whose names appear low in the credits crawl, when they’re there at all.

Sexual harassment crosses all categories, and there isn’t an actress (and not a few actors) who doesn’t have a story.

It's been a tough week to get my reviews done. I'm too busy marinating in white-hot rage over the Harvey Weinstein stories, and the other recent revelations about smaller-fish sexual predators in the film media world: Harry Knowles, founder of Ain't It Cool News; Devin Faraci, writer at Alamo's Birth.Movies.Death blog; and Andy Signore of Screen Junkies. All have since been removed from their positions. But collectively, they're a snapshot of what many in the entertainment industry still believe they are entitled to do to women.

I have never been physically assaulted by a man in my industry, never been...

Just one day after embattled executive Harvey Weinstein was essentially fired from The Weinstein Company, which he helped create with his brother Bob Weinstein, the company's board is seeking to distance themselves from him even further. A new report reveals the company's board of directors is considering a change of the company name, with the studio bringing on two different advertising agencies to develop a new "brand identity." This report also reveals that, as part of the fallout from numerous sexual harassment charges, Harvey Weinstein's name is being removed from all of the upcoming film and TV projects he was involved with before his firing.

This report also reveals that, on early Sunday morning, after worrying that he might be given the axe by the company's board of directors, Harvey Weinstein reportedly sent out numerous emails to, "several powerful Hollywood associates," asking them to plead to his company's board...

The entertainment industry has been rocked by yet another scandal, with a New York Times report published today, alleging that The Weinstein Company chairman Harvey Weinstein engaged in unwanted sexual harassment and misconduct that went unchecked for decades. A number of prominent figures in the entertainment industry have spoken about about these allegations, but now, just hours after the report was published, Harvey Weinstein is preparing a lawsuit against the New York Times for publishing the report. It was also confirmed that Harvey Weinstein will be taking a leave of absence from the company he started with his brother Bob Weinstein, although it isn't clear how long this leave of absence will be for. Here's what Harvey Weinstein's lawyer, Charles Harder, had to say in a brief statement about the New York Times report.

"It relies on mostly hearsay accounts and a faulty report, apparently stolen from an employee personnel file,...

The Weinstein Company head Harvey Weinstein, a man responsible for six Best Picture Oscar-winning movies, has been accused by multiple women of sexual harassment over the course of several decades. The shocking details were revealed in an expose recently released by The New York Times. In the expose, it is said that Weinstein "has reached at least eight settlements with women" over the years, with more coming forward to accuse him.

Ashley Judd, who is best known for her work on films such as Kiss the Girls, Heat and most recently Twin Peaks, worked with Harvey Weinstein over the years and came forward in the expose to detail her experiences with him. According to her account, Weinstein had her sent up to his room, where he appeared in just a robe and asked if he could give her a massage, or if she would watch him shower. In the situation,...

Years ago, as a Variety film reporter, there was a familiar complaint about our coverage. Miramax Films was the darling of independent film, and Harvey Weinstein was its icon. His company’s name, and the power of his views, were the Netflix and Ted Sarandos of its time. This was more than a little annoying to his peers, who made tart comments: “When are you guys going to write the real Harvey story?”

We knew what they meant. Some of this had to do with Miramax business practices, but it also meant his behavior with women. We all heard the rumors. We even found them credible. Finding someone to confirm them, however, was impossible — and writing based on secondhand stories and gut instinct is a great recipe for libel.

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Troubling allegations continue to surface regarding Alamo Drafthouse, the Austin, Texas-based movie empire currently embroiled in a sex assault and sexual harassment scandal involving several employees and business partners.

On Saturday, IndieWire first reported on Jasmine Baker, a former Drafthouse employee who says Ain't It Cool News founder Harry Knowles — who co-founded Fantastic Fest with Drafthouse's married owners Tim and Karrie League in 2005 — "groped" her "opportunistically on more than one occasion" in 2000.

That news comes on the heels of a scandal involving Devin Faraci, a Drafthouse-employed film writer who stepped down in October 2016...

This past weekend, Harry Knowles, who founded pioneering movie website Ain't It Cool News, was accused of sexual assault. A mass exodus of writers from the site soon followed. And now Alamo Drafthouse CEO Tim League has severed any and all ties with Knowles, attempting to make his company safe from any sexual predators that may be lurking about.

A number of veteran contributors bailed ship over the course of the past few days, as sited by The Hollywood Reporter. And now Alamo Drafthouse is following along. Tim League recently found himself immersed in another sexual assault scandal, when it was discovered that accused sex offender and prolific movie blogger Devin Faraci had been rehired after being fired from the Alamo Drafthouse company following claims made against him.

Tim League dropped a pretty hefty statement late Monday night in regards to his long-standing relationship with Harry Knowles. This all happened...

Editor’s note: The last few weeks have seen a series of scandals overtake the film community, starting with the allegations of sexual assault against the Cinefamily in L.A. and followed by a resurgence of problems involving sexual assault at the Alamo Drafthouse’s Fantastic Fest. Former Cinefamily staffer Suki-Rose Simakis attended Fantastic Fest this year and participated in one of its marquee events, so we asked her to share these thoughts on her experiences.

As a former employee of The Cinefamily (2008-2012), the past month has been emotionally draining, scary, and painful. When the information surfaced about the Drafthouse, I felt like I’d been kicked in the teeth, and attending Fantastic Fest took on the possibility of being incredibly scary. I remain hurt by what occurred, especially within the context of what we are dealing with at home in L.A.

It took days of personal deliberation...

Alamo Drafthouse founder Tim League has issued a new apology, his latest statement after weeks of controversy involving the Austin-based theater chain. It’s the fourth public statement from League after the fallout of a string of revelations, including the re-hiring of former Birth.Movies.Death. editor-in-chief Devin Faraci by Drafthouse founder Tim League and new accusations directed at Fantastic Fest co-founder Harry Knowles.

In an email update sent to all Fantastic Fest badge holders (including both fans who purchased their entrance and members of the media and industry attending the annual festival) and viewable here, League writes: “I’ve been reflecting on twenty years of decisions as a business owner. In the early days, Karrie and I conferred on all tough decisions, and we always tried to do the right thing…Recent perspective has made it clear that we didn’t always do the right thing, despite what we thought were good intentions.

The Alamo Drafthouse is severing all ties with Harry Knowles in the wake sexual assault allegations against the Ain't It Cool News founder.

Drafthouse CEO Tim League, already reeling from the Devin Faraci scandal, released a statement on Monday night which said the company had "severed all ties with Harry Knowles and he is no longer affiliated with the company in any capacity."

League added that the company was "striving to better respond to allegations of sexual assault and harassment, and will take actions so those who work at the theater or attend as a guest are not...

As the fallout of sexual assault allegations made against Ain’t It Cool News founder Harry Knowles continues, the Austin Film Critics Association has announced that Knowles has been removed from their organization, effective immediately.

In an official statement, Afca president Brian Salisbury commented, “After obtaining a substantial majority vote from membership, we have made the decision to remove Harry Knowles from our group. We feel this is the best choice for our organization and for the future of the Austin film community.”

Read More:Fantastic Fest Screenings of ‘The Square’ and Newly Unearthed Ed Wood Porn Film Draw Further Attention to Embattled Festival

After IndieWire posted a story over the weekend in which an Austin-area woman came forward with allegations of sexual assault at the hands of Knowles in the early-aughts, social media exploded with the news, which encouraged a slew of other women to come forward with similar allegations.

Last week, Austin’s annual Fantastic Fest bowed under a cloud that stemmed from the secret re-hiring of former Birth.Movies.Death. editor-in-chief Devin Faraci by Drafthouse founder Tim League and the continuing fallout of accusations directed at co-founder Harry Knowles. As the beloved genre festival kicks into its second half, it continues to draw attention for programming choices that reportedly left audience members on edge.

Over the weekend, Fanstastic Fest attendee Kim Sherman took to Instagram to share her experience with a Saturday afternoon showing of Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’or winner “The Square,” an event capped by a post-screening stunt that didn’t strike Sherman and other audience members as a wise choice.

Sherman wrote that, after the film concluded, “They asked us to remain seated after the film while they brought a ‘special guest’ into the room. Then they brought out an actor from the film...

In light of sexual assault allegations made against Ain’t It Cool News founder Harry Knowles, a trio of the movie site’s writers, including veteran staffers Eric Vespe (“Quint”) and Steve Prokopy (“Capone”), have quit the site in response. In notes posted on their Twitter accounts, both writers made it clear that the recent allegations informed their decisions.

After IndieWire posted a story over the weekend in which an Austin-area woman came forward with allegations of sexual assault at the hands of Knowles in the early-aughts, social media exploded with the news, which encouraged a slew of other women to come forward with similar allegations.

Read More:Harry Knowles Allegedly Sexually Assaulted Austin Woman Two Decades Ago, and Drafthouse Owners Didn’t Take Action

Vespe wrote in his official statement, “Given the recent allegations against Harry Knowles of behavior impossible to defend I can not, in good conscience, continue...

Just a week after the Alamo Drafthouse and Fantastic Fest came under fire for the quiet re-hiring of former Birth.Movies.Death. editor Devin Faraci—who was accused last year of groping and sexually assaulting a woman several years ago, leading to his now having been twice forced to resign from the Drafthouse…

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Editor’s note: The above photograph of Jasmine Baker has been used with her full knowledge, cooperation, and consent.

An Austin-area woman said Ain’t It Cool News founder Harry Knowles sexually assaulted her at an Alamo Drafthouse event — but the reason she’s speaking out now is she believes change is coming.

“Harry Knowles groped me, opportunistically, on more than one occasion,” said Jasmine Baker. “I cannot just stay silent. I am not interested in remaining silent.”

In 1999-2000, Baker was familiar with Knowles and his website, as they often attended the same Drafthouse events. Baker was at a Drafthouse event when Knowles rubbed up against her buttocks and legs in a way that made her feel uncomfortable. While she was initially willing to consider it an accident, on a later occasion he rubbed up against her again; she confronted him about his behavior, and made it clear that...

Devin Faraci is not here. Alamo Drafthouse founder Tim League isn’t here either. League’s usual introductory duties for opening night of Fantastic Fest were passed off to equally qualified but lesser-seen female staff members this year, after the revelation that League continued to employ Faraci in secret after sexual…

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When Fantastic Fest kicks off today in Austin, it will open without at least one long-time supporter: the influential fan site Ain’t It Cool News has been dropped as a sponsor, and founder Harry Knowles will not be attending the festival. The move is the latest development in the still-unfurling Alamo Drafthouse controversy surrounding the re-hiring of former Birth.Movies.Death editor-in-chief Devin Faraci after he was accused of sexual assault last year.

Knowles confirmed the decision in a phone call with IndieWire today, adding that it seemed like the right thing to do, adding that Fantastic Fest co-founder Tim League would be sitting out the festival as well.

“I’m minding the store this time,” he said, noting that the site would have writers covering the festival. “I’ll be able to get stories up on time — silver linings, you know?”

Read More:Tim League Apologizes: ‘I Am Very Sorry.

Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve been following the controversy surrounding the Alamo Drafthouse and Fantastic Fest after revelations about the re-hiring of ousted film critic Devin Faraci at the company. But the Drafthouse isn’t the only movie theater currently facing hard truths about sexual harassment and rape…

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This year’s edition of the Toronto International Film Festival has come to a close, and the winner of the Grolsch People’s Choice Award has been named: Martin McDonagh’s “Three Billboards Outside, Ebbing Missouri.” Hundreds of movies once again screened at Tiff over the last 10 days, but only one could take home the coveted prize, which is often seen as an Oscar bellwether — previous winners include “La La Land,” “12 Years a Slave,” and “The King’s Speech.”

Read More:‘Three Billboards’ Pulled From Fantastic Fest After Devin Faraci Controversy

Craig Gillespie’s “I, Tonya” was the runner-up, Luca Guadagnino’s “Call Me by Your Name” the second runner-up.” Agnès Varda and Jr’s “Faces Places” won the People’s Choice Documentary Award, with runner-up going to Morgan Spurlock’s “Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!” Joseph Kahn’s rap-battle drama took the People’s Choice Midnight Madness Award,...

Alamo Drafthouse CEO Tim League issued a lengthy apology on Friday for his handling of a scandal stemming from the revelation that he had quietly rehired Devin Faraci, former editor-in-chief of Drafthouse-owned movie site Birth.Movies.Death, who resigned last year after being accused of sexual assault. But one former employee isn’t having it. Todd Brown, who resigned as director of international programming for the Drafthouse-owned science fiction and horror festival Fantastic Fest earlier this week over the news of Faraci’s rehiring, wrote a lengthy reply to League’s apology calling it disingenuous and an attempt at “self-preservation.

Fantastic Fest is facing a jarring backlash, but studio discomfort is the least of its problems. Fox Searchlight’s decision to pull its Oscar season hopeful “Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri” from Austin genre festival Fantastic Fest makes total sense: The festival’s decision to quietly re-hire Devin Faraci after he was accused of sexual assault ignited a firestorm of controversy that no studio wants to touch. But while the decision by the studio reflects the national reverberations of this scandal, it’s not the most serious.

Fantastic Fest fans drove this PR nightmare; some Fantastic Fest fans also actively contributed to an environment that enabled rampant sexism, even if there has always been an undercurrent of sincerity behind its existence. In order for Fantastic Fest to recover, it will need to rewire the community that gave it clout in the first place.

Needless to say, Fantastic Fest is...

Although the Alamo Drafthouse—co-organizers of next week’s Fantastic Fest in Austin—announced on Wednesday that it was once again parting ways with recently re-hired film critic Devin Faraci, the fallout from the decision to bring him back into the corporate fold is still being felt. Today, Variety reports that Fox…

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Alamo Drafthouse founder Tim League posted an apology on his Facebook page Friday evening, his latest statement after days of controversy swirling around the Austin-based theater chain. The response stemmed from a firestorm of anger following the revelation that League had secretly employed Devin Faraci for several months this year. Faraci was fired as editor of Alamo’s Birth.Movies.Death site last October after accusations of sexual assault, but was employed again as recently as February.

Read More:‘Three Billboards’ Pulled From Fantastic Fest After Devin Faraci Controversy

The most recent blowback came earlier Friday, when Fox Searchlight pulled “Three Billboards In Ebbings, Missouri” from this year’s Fantastic Fest, an annual event produced by Alamo Drafthouse.

The full statement follows:

I am very sorry.

I’ve let so many of you down.

Over the past few days, I’ve realized that decisions I have made over these past months have been problematic.

Alamo Drafthouse CEO Tim League issued a lengthy apology on Friday for continuing to employ a disgraced editor accused of sexual assault. Devin Faraci, who held the top job the Alamo Drafthouse-owned Birth.Movies.Death, stepped down last October after being accused of sexual assault by two individuals, but it was discovered this week he was still working for the company as an unattributed copywriter. Faraci has since permanently left the company. League, who also co-owns the buzzy indie distributor Neon, acknowledged he had “disappointed and hurt people.” The revelation about Faraci’s ongoing employment led Fox Searchlight to pull one of their films.

Fox Searchlight has cancelled a planned screening of “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” at this year’s Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas. The decision follows revelations that festival host Alamo Drafthouse Cinema has been quietly continuing to employ former Birth.Movies.Death editor-in-chief Devin Faraci. “In light of recent events, the makers of ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,’ have decided not to participate in Fantastic Fest,” a Fox spokesperson told TheWrap. Faraci stepped down from his post at the Alamo Drafthouse-owned site in October after being accused of sexual assault, but he had resumed working for the company this year as a copywriter.

Fox Searchlight, Film 4 and the filmmakers have made the decision to yank its film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri from the Fantastic Fest line-up after they found out that Alamo Drafthouse Cinema which runs Austin’s Fantastic Fest was employing Devin Faraci, who was publicly accused of sexual assault. The story was first reported by Deadline’s sister company Variety. The film, written and directed by Martin McDonagh (In Bruges), is described as “a darkly…...

Many movies are screening at Fantastic Fest later this month, but “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” is no longer one of them. Variety reports that Fox Searchlight has decided to pull Martin McDonagh’s new film from the Austin-based fest in light of the controversy that erupted around its parent company, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, earlier this week.

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It was revealed on Tuesday that Devin Faraci, who stepped down as editor-in-chief of Alamo’s Birth.Movies.Death following sexual-assault allegations last year, had quietly been rehired by the company as a copywriter months later and even written blurbs for this year’s edition of the festival. This ignited further controversy, prompting Faraci to depart Alamo once more — presumably for good this time.

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On the September 15, 2017 episode of /Film Daily, Peter Sciretta is joined by Jacob Hall to talk about the latest news, including an update on the Devin Faraci/Alamo Drafthouse controversy, Max Landis’ An American Werewolf in London remake, a dozen new Star Wars stories have been revealed, Tyrese begs The Rock not to make his Fast & Furious spin-off (find out why) and multiple endings planned for Game of Thrones. In The Mail […]

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It has been less than 48 hours since Alamo Drafthouse CEO Tim League ignited a firestorm by announcing that, just 11 months after a woman came forward to accuse blogger Devin Faraci of sexual assault, the writer had been quietly rehired by the company as a copywriter.

On Wednesday evening, League, who has hired a crisis-management firm to deal with the backlash, issued a second statement in which he said Faraci had "offered his resignation" and that he had accepted it. League also announced "a series of small group discussions" for the company to process what happened.

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On the September 14, 2017 episode of /Film Daily, Peter Sciretta is joined by Jacob Hall Hoai-Tran Bui to talk about the latest news, including: the effect of Rotten Tomatoes scores on the box office, another Stephen King movie adaptation in development, Stan Lee lines up future Marvel Studios cameos, Apple announced Apple TV 4K and we have a […]

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