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With Russell Crowe, Sienna Miller, Seth MacFarlane, Annabelle Wallis. The past decade on the life of Roger Ailes, the founder of Fox News, in which Ailes arguably became the Republican party's de facto leader and was accused of sexual harassment, which brought his Fox News reign to an end.
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- 2019-06-30
- Biography, Drama
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Bombshell is a 2019 American biographical drama film directed by Jay Roach and written by Charles Randolph. The film stars Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, and Margot Robbie, and is based on the accounts of the women at Fox News who set out to expose CEO Roger Ailes for sexual harassment.
- Roger Ailes Built Fox News Into A Juggernaut
- Gretchen Carlson and Others Accused Roger Ailes of Sexual Harassment
- Fox News Covered Up Sexual Harassment Claims
- Lachlan and James Murdoch Greenlit The Internal Investigation of Ailes
- Ailes Consulted with Rudy Giuliani and Susan Estrich
- Roger Ailes’ Wife Launched A Campaign to Protect Her Husband
- Both The Margot Robbie Character and Kate Mckinnon Character Are Fictional
Roger Ailes fundamentally changed the television landscape. Earlier in his career, Ailes became a much sought-after republican political consultant—he has been credited with helping both Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush get elected. He later moved into television, where in the 1990s he ushered a struggling CNBC into the black. In 1996, Rupert Mur...
In 2014 then-New York Magazine writer Gabriel Sherman published a biography of Roger Ailes called The Loudest Voice in the Room. In the book, an unnamed female producer alleged that Ailes, while he was at NBC, had offered her an additional $100 per week if she agreed to “have sex with me whenever I want.” In 2016, former Fox & Friendscohost Gretche...
When Carlson took her job at Fox News, she signed a non-disclosure agreement and a mandatory arbitration agreement that barred her from talking about her experiences publicly and forced her to take legal disputes into arbitration rather than to open court. In a TIME cover story, Carlson spoke about how corporations strategically deploy NDAs and man...
There was no love lost between Ailes and Rupert Murdoch’s sons, Lachlan and James (played by real-life brothers Ben Lawson and Josh Lawson in the movie). Lachlan had clashed with Ailes on Fox News content in 2005 and left for Australia when his father sided with Ailes. And after a company shake-up in 2015, Ailes was reportedly unhappyabout the fact...
After news of the suit broke, Ailes solicited help from former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani (played by Richard Kind), who was then acting as a legal consultant. (Ailes had acted as Guiliani’s media advisor during his 1989 mayoral campaign, and Giuliani, in turn, had officiated Ailes’ third wedding.) Giuliani became Ailes’ representative during the ...
The week the lawsuit dropped, Roger Ailes’ wife, Beth Ailes (played in Bombshell by Connie Britton) contacted Kimberly Guilfoyle, a Fox News co-host, to help marshal support at the network for the Fox News head, according to Vanity Fair. In the movie, Guilfoyle (now Donald Trump Jr.’s girlfriend) is portrayed distributing pro-Ailes t-shirts, demand...
In the film, Megyn Kelly debates whether she should come forward about her experience. Her harassment occurred 10 years prior to Carlson’s lawsuit, and she wonders if Ailes could still be harassing women at Fox. In order to find out if that’s the case, she visits with a young aspiring anchor named Kayla, played by Margot Robbie, who reveals to her ...
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- Eliana Dockterman
Bombshell: Directed by Jay Roach. With Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, John Lithgow. A group of women take on Fox News head Roger Ailes and the toxic atmosphere he presided over at the network.
- (128K)
- Biography, Drama
- Jay Roach
- 2019-12-20
Dec 11, 2019 · Roger Ailes' Wife, Beth Ailes, Stood By His Side Until His Death. Connie Britton plays her in the upcoming movie, Bombshell.
Jul 2, 2019 · Explainer: Who Is Beth Ailes? A deep dive into the wife of Roger Ailes, star of 'The Loudest Voice'.
The Loudest Voice is a 2019 American drama television miniseries depicting Roger Ailes as he creates and guides the rise of Fox News. It was developed by Tom McCarthy and Alex Metcalf, and based on the 2014 book The Loudest Voice in the Room and the New York magazine articles by Gabriel Sherman.
