Paris, FRANCE — A French appeals court is to decide Wednesday whether French-Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski owes a British actor damages after he was acquitted of allegedly defaming her when she accused him of rape.
Veteran Franco-Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski goes on trial in France on Tuesday over allegations he defamed a British actress who accused him of sexual abuse in the 1980s.
Film schools across the country have gone woke, according to a report from TheWrap, which ensures movies will continue to suck for generations to come.
Nolte: The prestigious Venice Film Festival will welcome new features from Woody Allen, Roman Polanski, and Luc Besson.
Samantha Geimer, the woman Roman Polanski drugged, raped, and sodomized at age 13, wants to see the case against Polanski dismissed and finds the #MeToo movement anti-feminist.
There are two ways to examine the exploding controversy over Ezra Miller and his upcoming $200 million Flash movie.
LOS ANGELES — A California appeals court on Wednesday ordered the unsealing of some documents in the criminal case against renowned director Roman Polanski, who has been a fugitive since pleading guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl decades ago, a California prosecutor announced.
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon (D) won’t oppose an effort to unseal key testimony in Roman Polanski’s child rape case, essentially siding with Polanski in a move that could lead to a dismissal and the filmmaker’s freedom after nearly 45 years as a fugitive.
Film director Roman Polanski — who fled the United States in 1978 to evade sentencing after pleading guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl — is no longer thriving in France, where he previously flourished as a filmmaker.
The Academy’s Board of Governors is expected to meet Wednesday to discuss Will Smith’s physical assault on Chris Rock at the Oscars. Smith could face disciplinary measures, and possibly expulsion, and the forfeiture of the Oscar he won on Sunday for his performance in King Richard.
Paris — The controversial film director Roman Polanski told AFP on Thursday he will not attend the French Oscars because he fears a “public lynching” by feminist activists.
Paris — Roman Polanski’s new film “An Officer and a Spy” topped the list of nominations on Wednesday for the “French Oscars”, the Cesars.
Film director Roman Polanski is facing a fresh rape accusation from a French woman alleging he violently raped her back in 1975.
Donald Trump Jr. described the hosts of ABC’s The View as being in “attack mode” during his appearance on the show Thursday.
Donald Trump Jr. reminded the co-hosts of The View on Thursday of some of their regrettable actions of the past, including Whoopi Goldberg’s defense of convicted child rapist Roman Polanski.
Todd Phillips’ dark comic book film “Joker” won the Golden Lion Award at the 76th Venice International Film Festival on Saturday and cemented its place as a legitimate contender for the rest of the awards season.
Convicted rapist and Hollywood director Roman Polanski says he feels that he is being “harassed” in the #MeToo era and that the constant accusations of sex abuse against him are “absurd.”
Hollywood might be all kinds of “woke” and hyper-sensitive and crippled by a censorious political correctness that declares countless topics and left-wing sacred cows verboten, but “joking” about raping children is totally cool.
Film director Roman Polanski dismissed the #MeToo movement as “mass hysteria” and “hypocrisy” in a Polish interview carried out before he was expelled from the Oscars academy.
The organization that bestows the Academy Awards announced Thursday that it has voted to expel two prominent members convicted of sexual offenses, Bill Cosby and Roman Polanski, from its membership.
Quentin Tarantino issued an apology on Thursday to Samantha Geimer, the woman who was raped by director Roman Polanski in 1977 when she was 13 years old, after having previously suggested that Geimer “wanted” to have sex with Polanski at the time and that the incident should not have been considered rape.
Audio has resurfaced of Oscar-winning director Quentin Tarantino defending fugitive-child rapist Roman Polanski with the excuse that the 13-year-old victim ‘wanted to have it,’ meaning sex.
Actress Kate Winslet expressed her regrets about working with certain “individuals with whom I wish I had not.”
Scarlett Johansson blasted James Franco at the Women’s March and then quickly found herself under attack as a hypocrite over her 2014 defense of Woody Allen.
Los Angeles detectives said Tuesday they are investigating a woman’s claim that Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski molested her in 1975, when she was 10 years old. But the allegations are so old that criminal charges couldn’t be brought, even if proven.
The Los Angeles Police Department has opened a new investigation into admitted child rapist Roman Polanski after seven additional accusers have come forward, according to British tabloid the Sun.
Prosecutors in Switzerland won’t bring charges against French-Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski after five more women accused him of sexual assault and child molestation.
Law enforcement is monitoring the movements and travel of disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein to ensure he does not flee the country in the event he is formally charged with a crime, according to a report.
Judging by the trailer and the early (and awful) Suburbicon reviews, George Clooney is once again chomping at the bit to lecture Middle America about just how awful and intolerant we all are. But are we really going to allow ourselves to be scolded by a mediocre director who defends an admitted child rapist like Roman Polanski?
If you have not seen this director’s movies, you have almost certainly heard of them. What you probably do not know, though, is that a few decades ago this director served time for child molestation. After his release, he then spent a few years in the purgatory of office life before resuming a film career.
The New York Times reports that Renate Langer, a 61-year-old former actress, has just filed a complaint with the Swiss police accusing fugitive-child rapist Roman Polanski of raping her on two occasions when she was a child.
Roman Polanski won’t take his chances to return to court to resolve his sexual assault case, so his victim is going to stand up for him.
Roman Polanski’s latest film has been added to this year’s lineup at the Cannes Film Festival, marking the first time since 2013 that the exiled director’s work will be presented at the festival.
Fugitive director Roman Polanski’s latest legal bid to return to the United States has been denied by a Los Angeles judge.
French-Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski told a California judge he will return to America to face charges of statutory rape but on the condition that he does not face further jail time.
Following the recent media firestorm around former Breitbart Senior Editor MILO, people have begun scrutinizing past similar comments and actions of liberal celebrities.
Fugitive director Roman Polanski will reportedly attempt to have his decades-long child rape case resolved so that he may return to the United States without fear of arrest or incarceration.
Roman Polanski will not be extradited to the United States after Poland’s Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the country to have the director returned to U.S. custody, where he is still wanted for a decades-old statutory rape conviction.
WARSAW – The family of the late Jewish-Polish protagonist of Oscar-winning Holocaust film “The Pianist” said Monday they had won an appeal against defamation over claims in a book that he was a Nazi collaborator.
Renowned Roman Catholic priest Robert Sirico underlined Hollywood’s blatant hypocrisy this week, hammering the film industry for celebrating Best Picture winner Spotlight at the 88th Academy Awards on Sunday, while refusing to disavow convicted child rapist Roman Polanski.
