Disney rebranding 20th Century Fox

After buying 20^th Century Fox last year for seventy-one billion dollars, Disney will remove “Fox” from the name of this film division, which will be rebranded as “20^th Century Studios” without the word “Fox” in its iconic logo, according to The Washington Post. Fox Searchlight, the prestige unit, will also be renamed “Searchlight Pictures,” while Twentieth Century Fox Television as well as Fox 21 Television Studios will retain “Fox” in their names for now. The maneuver comes as Disney’s attempt at distancing itself from Rupert Murdoch’s new Fox Corporation, which counts the Fox Broadcasting Network and Fox News among its assets.

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Jay Roach’s “Bombshell” (2019) to dramatize Fox News sex scandal

Gretchen Carlson’s allegations against Roger Ailes inspired a number of other women to come forward a year before the Harvey Weinstein controversy and the #MeToo movement changed mass media forever, ending with Carlson named as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2017. (Image Courtesy: Elle).

Clocking in just shy of a minute and a half, the wordless trailer for Jay Roach’s Bombshell (2019) takes us on a tense elevator ride with stars Margot Robbie, Charlize Theron, and Nicole Kidman, according to Elle. The film will detail Gretchen Carlson’s 2016 twenty million-dollar sexual harassment lawsuit against former Chairman and CEO of Fox News Roger Ailes (who died in May 2017 at seventy-seven years old), forcing Ailes to resign and find work as a campaign advisor for Donald Trump. Kidman plays Carlson, and John Lithgow, Ailes, while Theron is cast as Megyn Kelly, Robbie as the fictitious Kayla Pospisil, Malcolm McDowell as Rupert Murdoch, Connie Britton as Ailes’s wife, Allison Janney as Susan Estrich (Ailes’s attorney), and Alice Eve as Ainsley Earhardt.