A biography on the rise and fall of Steve Wynn, the longtime Las Vegas casino owner and billionaire, is being developed for a small or big screen treatment.
Scott Jay Kaplan and Emmet McDermott’s CoverStory producer banner optioned Christina Binkley’s Winner Takes All book about Wynn’s meteoric rise from scrappy bingo parlor operator to casino billionaire for a film or TV adaptation. Wynn resigned from his corporate empire in 2018 amid sexual misconduct allegations.
CoverStory’s McDermott produced White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch, Alison Klayman’s documentary for Netflix about the popularity and ruin of the once coveted “all-American” retail brand.
Binkley will co-produce the Winner Takes All adaptation, which will be set mainly in the 1990s as Wynn’s drive for power set up his ultimate corporate demise. That created a vacuum of power filled by his ex-wife Elaine, on whom Wynn blamed his downfall.
Scott Jay Kaplan and Emmet McDermott’s CoverStory producer banner optioned Christina Binkley’s Winner Takes All book about Wynn’s meteoric rise from scrappy bingo parlor operator to casino billionaire for a film or TV adaptation. Wynn resigned from his corporate empire in 2018 amid sexual misconduct allegations.
CoverStory’s McDermott produced White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch, Alison Klayman’s documentary for Netflix about the popularity and ruin of the once coveted “all-American” retail brand.
Binkley will co-produce the Winner Takes All adaptation, which will be set mainly in the 1990s as Wynn’s drive for power set up his ultimate corporate demise. That created a vacuum of power filled by his ex-wife Elaine, on whom Wynn blamed his downfall.
- 3/4/2024
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Earlier this year, Abercrombie & Fitch’s sordid past was (re)examined in the Netflix documentary White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch, reminding us why the Oughts mall staple became so hated. But although the documentary touches on the brand’s current standing, it doesn’t mention a surprising, and maybe even controversial truth about Abercrombie & Fitch in 2022: it might be cool again.
Is Abercrombie & Fitch Cool Again?
As the documentary explains, much of Abercrombie’s problematic branding (and behavior) can be traced back to its old leadership.
Is Abercrombie & Fitch Cool Again?
As the documentary explains, much of Abercrombie’s problematic branding (and behavior) can be traced back to its old leadership.
- 9/2/2022
- by Oscar Hartzog
- Rollingstone.com
A revealing new Netflix documentary looks back on the highs of the fashion brand that dominated a generation before controversies dragged it down
If you’re a millennial or have parented one, you know the look: advertisements with shirtless men, sculpted abs above low-cut jeans, a melange of thin and tan and young white bodies in minimal clothing. A store at the mall mostly obscured by heavy wooden blinders, music pulsing from within. Faded jeans and polo shirts in middle and high school, all featuring the ubiquitous moose.
White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch, a new Netflix documentary on the ubiquity of a once zeitgeist-y brand’s limited vision of “cool” and its culture of discrimination, is easy catnip for adults re-evaluating the influences of their youth. The brand of barely there denim miniskirts and graphic T-shirts was “part of the landscape of what I thought...
If you’re a millennial or have parented one, you know the look: advertisements with shirtless men, sculpted abs above low-cut jeans, a melange of thin and tan and young white bodies in minimal clothing. A store at the mall mostly obscured by heavy wooden blinders, music pulsing from within. Faded jeans and polo shirts in middle and high school, all featuring the ubiquitous moose.
White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch, a new Netflix documentary on the ubiquity of a once zeitgeist-y brand’s limited vision of “cool” and its culture of discrimination, is easy catnip for adults re-evaluating the influences of their youth. The brand of barely there denim miniskirts and graphic T-shirts was “part of the landscape of what I thought...
- 4/19/2022
- by Adrian Horton
- The Guardian - Film News
Matching the surface-depth of an Abercrombie advertisement circa 1998, Alison Klayman’s “White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch” is a standardized and, unfortunately, scattered look at the titular company at the height of its cultural dominance in the 1990s and 2000s. What could’ve been an interestingly short segment on, say, CNN”s “The Nineties” is stretched to the breaking point as Klayman unpacks the moment that A&f went mainstream and the social backlash that ensued from their terrible — and often illegal — work practices.
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- 4/18/2022
- by Christian Gallichio
- The Playlist
Fashion, of course, is rarely just fashion — it tells a story about whoever’s wearing it. And in the ’90s and 2000s, the preppy youthquake mall-fashion outlet Abercrombie & Fitch told a very big story. It was a story of where America — or, at least, a powerful slice of the millennial demo — was at. As recounted in the lively, snarky, horrifying, and irresistible documentary “White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch” (which drops April 19 on Netflix),
As a company, Abercrombie & Fitch had been around since 1892. It originally catered to elite sportsmen (Teddy Roosevelt and Ernest Hemingway were loyal customers), but after falling on hard times and kicking around as an antiquated brand, the company was reinvented in the early ’90s by the CEO Mike Jeffries, who fused the upscale Wasp fetishism of designers like Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger with the chiseled-beefcake-in-underwear monochromatic sexiness of the Calvin Klein...
As a company, Abercrombie & Fitch had been around since 1892. It originally catered to elite sportsmen (Teddy Roosevelt and Ernest Hemingway were loyal customers), but after falling on hard times and kicking around as an antiquated brand, the company was reinvented in the early ’90s by the CEO Mike Jeffries, who fused the upscale Wasp fetishism of designers like Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger with the chiseled-beefcake-in-underwear monochromatic sexiness of the Calvin Klein...
- 4/17/2022
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
In the white and WASPy corner of Connecticut where I went to high school during the early 2000s, the whole Abercrombie & Fitch aesthetic wasn’t aspirational so much as it was a baseline for acceptance. If you could wear those clothes without seeming like a poser — if you could rock the retailer’s vaguely colonialist, lacrosse and legacy admissions style of preppy sexuality without looking like a sad parody of the milk-fed Aryan super-teens who stood outside its stores — then you were entitled to a seat at the cafeteria table among the other future kings and queens of the universe.
This exclusionary phenomenon wasn’t subtle, or the kind of thing that kids would only realize with a blush of embarrassment 20 years later. On the contrary, it was Abercrombie’s brand, and it was powerful enough to make a soft-bodied Jewish theater dweeb like me buy some wildly overpriced...
This exclusionary phenomenon wasn’t subtle, or the kind of thing that kids would only realize with a blush of embarrassment 20 years later. On the contrary, it was Abercrombie’s brand, and it was powerful enough to make a soft-bodied Jewish theater dweeb like me buy some wildly overpriced...
- 4/13/2022
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
"We go after the cool kids." Netflix has revealed an official trailer for a documentary titled White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch, the latest work from acclaimed documentary filmmaker Alison Klayman. As the title indicates, this film is about that "super hot" clothing brand called Abercrombie & Fitch. There have been tons of these "rise & fall" films and series recently, trying to understand what happened with so many companies. "All the cool kids were wearing it." This documentary explores A&f's pop culture reign in the late '90s and early 2000s and how it thrived on exclusion. It is interesting to look back and understand what exactly they were doing that was so bad, when at the time it all just seemed so "cool" and not many people questioned it. But let's be honest - they always sucked. "There's ...
- 3/31/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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