Month: August 2021

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Horatio SanzPhoto: Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images for Spike [Note: This article contains descriptions of sexual assault.] Actor, comedian, and former Saturday Night Live star Horatio Sanz has been sued by a woman who says he sexually assaulted her when she was 17 years old. Per TMZ, the Pennsylvania woman—who’s filing her suit as a Jane Doe—allegedly met Sanz in the early 2000s, when she was a regular on SNL fan sites as a teenager. She says that her first contact with Sanz came when he and Jimmy Fallon reached out to her when she was 15, sending her the first of several emails from their official NBC email accounts. “Thereafter,” the suit asserts, “Defendant SANZ began his process of grooming Plaintiff.” The lawsuit (which you can read here) lays out that process, which allegedly began i...

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Bob Chapek Jeff Gritchen | MediaNews Group | Orange County Register via Getty Images The Walt Disney Company has "figured out ways to fairly compensate" talent regardless of its film release method, CEO Bob Chapek said during an earnings call Thursday. Chapek's comments, which were prompted during analyst Q&A, come just two weeks after Marvel star Scarlett Johansson filed a lawsuit against the company, alleging it breached her contract by releasing "Black Widow" on Disney+. "Since Covid has begun, we've entered hundreds of talent arrangements with our talent and by and large, they've gone very very smoothly, so we expect that that would be the case going forward," he said. Chapek did not directly address the ongoing lawsuit with Johansson, but...

Simu Liu in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.Photo: Marvel Studios In recent days, many fans have wondered if Disney and Marvel would decide to change the release strategy in regards to Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. The new Marvel film has long been set to be the studio’s first theatrical-only release since early 2020, but with rising concerns about the delta variant of covid-19, many assumed that decision would change. It will not, meaning Shang-Chi will not be available to stream on Disney+ with Premier Access. To see it, you’ll have to go to the theater, at least for a few weeks. The news was revealed during the latest Disney earnings call. Disney CEO Bob Chapek said that due to distribution agreements, and practicality, adding Premier Access for the title was...