ESSENTIAL INDUSTRY AND AWARD NEWS
JANUARY 08, 2021
Murder Most Foul
Bryan Fogel’s startling documentary The Dissident, about the brutal death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside Turkey’s Saudi Arabian consulate, drew advance raves from critics and a standing ovation at its Sundance premiere—but Amazon, Apple, Netflix, HBO, and Hulu all turned it down. “It was a unified front,” says the director. “Anybody who could give this film a true global platform chose not to distribute it.” V.F.’s Julie Miller digs into a movie that seems to have scared the powers that be.
Elsewhere in HWD, Anthony Breznican revisits a 1965 novel about a president gone rogue; Stephen Colbert excoriates the “violent idiot” vibe of the pro-Trump terrorists; we talk to the creator of Dickinson, as well as star Hailee Steinfeld, about the real-life inspirations behind season two; and Gillian Anderson walks us nimbly through her career in a video spanning from The X-Files to The Crown.
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