Actor Griffin Newman said he regretted his decision to act in an untitled upcoming Woody Allen movie, and would donate his salary from the role to RAINN (the Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network). 

Newman, the star of Amazon's "The Tick," tweeted that he believes Allen is guilty of sexually abusing his daughter, Dylan Farrow, when she was seven years old, as she alleged in a 2014 New York Times op-ed. Allen denied the accusations in his own op-ed. (Allen was investigated but never prosecuted for the accusations in 1993, following his split with actress Mia Farrow.)

Newman said he "spent a month debating whether or not to quit" the movie, but has decided to speak out following the "compounded" sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein over the past few weeks. 

"I’ve spent the last decade struggling as an actor and learned to sideline my views because the thought of closing any doors was terrifying," Newman wrote.

"I can't keep professionally operating from a place of fear," he continued. "It's time to show a courage in my actions mirroring my words without concession."

Here is a selection of Newman's extended Twitter thread, condensed to make it easier to read: 

I need to get this off my chest:
- I worked on Woody Allen’s next movie.
- I believe he is guilty.
- I donated my entire salary to RAINN.

- It’s a one scene role.
- I spent a month debating whether or not to quit.
- I deeply regret my final decision.

Why didn’t I quit?
- My parents were incredibly proud.
- I felt there things to be gained from the experience on that set.
- I was a coward.

I had been feeling this way for the last month, but the awful continuance [sic] revelations of the last week compounded my guilt ten fold.

Allen, whose latest release "Wonder Wheel" premieres December 1, recently stated that he was "sad for Harvey" Weinstein, following the deluge of sexual assault and harassment allegations against Weinstein.

Allen later clarified his Weinstein comments to Variety, saying, "When I said I felt sad for Harvey Weinstein I thought it was clear the meaning was because he is a sad, sick man."

As the BBC notes, Weinstein's Miramax Films helped revive Allen's career following the sexual abuse allegations against Allen in the early 1990s.

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Courtney Love has never been shy about saying what's on her mind, and a comment she made on the red carpet of the Comedy Central celebrity roast of Pamela Anderson back in 2005 has now gone viral in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal. 

The rocker and actress was asked by comic Natasha Leggero what advice she would give to "a young girl moving to Hollywood."

“I’ll get libeled if I say it …” Love said followed by a pause before dropping the bombshell: “If Harvey Weinstein invites you to a private party in the Four Seasons, don’t go.” 

Here's the clip, which TMZ found:

Though the news of the decades of alleged sexual harassment and assault of women by Weinstein was a shock for many after reading the stories in the New York Times and The New Yorker, for many in Hollywood the movie executive's alleged behavior was an open secret.

After the Times and New Yorker stories were published, numerous actresses have spoken out saying they were either victims or had been told to stay way from him.

Love is one of the few to have publicly spoken out about Weinstein's reputation before two weeks ago, but she paid the price for it. 

When Love's comments were making the rounds on social media on Saturday, Love took to Twitter to say she had been banned by the powerhouse agency CAA for speaking out. 

It seems Weinstein's alleged sexual misconduct could go back even as far as when he was a concert promoter in Buffalo, New York in the early 1980s.

On Saturday, The Washington Post wrote its own report on Weinstein and Lauri Githens, who at the time was a young disc jockey. She's quoted in the story recalling the unwritten rule in the Buffalo music scene in the '80s:

“Don’t mention the competition on the air. Don’t put two car ads in the same segment. And, if you’re a young woman, don’t be alone with Harvey Weinstein,” she said.   

Weinstein was fired on October 8 from the production company he cofounded with his brother Bob, The Weinstein Company. On Saturday, he was expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences due to the scandal. He is only the second member in the organization's 90-plus year history to lose membership.

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Netflix is set to report earnings after the bell on Monday, and the company's stock is slipping in anticipation of the report.

Netflix is trading 0.64% lower at $198.27 ahead of Monday's report.

Netflix is expected to report adjusted earnings of $0.41 per share on revenue of $2.974 billion. The company is also expected to report the number of added subscribers in the third quarter. Analysts are estimating a net add of 774,000 US streaming subscribers and 3.72 million international subscribers in the quarter, according to data from Bloomberg.

Wall Street is fairly bullish ahead of the earnings report. About 60% of investors surveyed by Bloomberg are bullish on the stock. Goldman Sachs is the most bullish on Wall Street, with a price target of $235, about 18% higher than Netflix's Monday price of $198.33.

Goldman upped its price target to $235 on Friday. The firm said it expects the stock to rise after the company releases earnings because it thinks current subscriber estimates are too low. Goldman expects 13.9 million new Netflix subscribers in the second half of the year, while the rest of Wall Street currently expects 10.8 million.

Netflix announced a price increase for its subscription services earlier this month. Some analysts said the increase will provide Netflix resources to spend more on producing original content, which is a big driver of new subscriptions for the company.

Netflix plans on spending $7 billion on original content in 2018. The company will have to spend more to fend off its growing competition in the space. Companies like Amazon, Hulu, Apple and many of the traditional studios are ramping up their original content spending to try and match pace with Netflix.

The head of Morgan Stanley's media research team told Markets Insider that Netflix's original content model is a "nice strategy" to fight off the competition. The company's vertical integration, along with the attractive licensing revenue it can offer traditional studios is enough to ensure its growth, at least for now, he said.

Netflix is up 55.42% this year and reports its third-quarter earnings after the bell on Monday.

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• Google wants to become an integral player in the TV ad landscape.
• The company is trying to get TV companies to adopt its video ad tech software – and in the process is looking to displace Comcast.
• The stakes are high, as Google would love to get a slice of the $72 billion US TV ad market. But the TV business has reasons to be wary of the search giant's clout.

For Google, TV is the final frontier. So it would make sense that to get there, the search giant started with Star Trek.

As CBS bets big on the latest original "Star Trek" series as the anchor series for its fledgling streaming subscription service CBS All Access, it is relying on Google's technology to deliver ads.

That partnership will hardly shift the power structure of the TV advertising business on its own. But it's a significant win for Google.

"The CBS partnership is big for us," said Rany Ng, Google’s director of product management for video. She points to the "Star Trek" digital distribution as an example of how seriously big media companies are taking the changes in TV. 

Google has attempted to wedge its way into TV several times over the last decade, with very mixed results. But over the last six months or so, Google has been quietly and deliberately trying to sell its ad serving software to big TV and video players.

That puts Google directly in competition with cable giant Comcast – which owns Freewheel, the leader in delivering ads to people who stream TV shows on the web.

In some cases, Google has held corporate level discussions with some of the giant TV conglomerates about strategic partnerships. Those deals would theoretically provide these TV companies with some incentives for adopting Google's video ad technology, such as including proprietary access to some Google data that could be used for ad targeting, said people familiar with the matter. 

The stakes are high. Though ad-free streaming services like Netflix still dominate, more and more people are streaming ad-supported TV content through smart TVs and apps, whether that's through Hulu, CBS All Access, or Watch ESPN.

If Google can insert itself into the TV ad ecosystem as the provider of the pipes through which most ads flow, it could establish a powerful position that could theoretically set it up to take on more.

For example, Google could offer some of its consumer data to help TV companies sell more targeted ads. It could maybe even build a TV ad exchange, accelerating a future when TV ads are traded "programmatically" much like web ads, using automated software.

"If you think about Google’s future growth, it’s not clear they can maintain the momentum they have without taking over the TV industry," said a media insider.

That is, if the TV business decides to let Google into its world. There are many that don't want them around.

Google's tried to crack TV for a long time

Google's current push into TV is a essentially a two-pronged approach. Besides trying to displace Comcast for ad delivery, last spring Google also rolled out an ad buying software tool, as Ad Age reported.

This is not the first time Google has made this move. As far back as 2007, Google had a business promising to bring elements of digital advertising to the TV world. It had deals to help TV networks sell excess inventory, but that initiative, Google TV Ads, never took off and was shuttered in 2012.

In addition, Google also has Android TV, software that powers many smart TVs. But its initial ambition to own the TV screen interface never materialized.

This time around, Google appears to have some real momentum.

Besides CBS, Google has inked deals with a growing number of TV networks to deliver ads in streams, including Bloomberg, AMC, the CW, BBC America and Lifetime. A few weeks ago, Google rolled out a slew of new ad products on this front – which AdExchanger covered in depth.

To date, over 50 top TV and entertainment companies in the US, Canada, and and Latin America use Google's ad platform. 

To be sure, Comcast's Freewheel has a big head start in this space, and works with lots of marquee TV companies, including NBCUniversal, Disney and Turner. They won't be easy to unseat. 

TV and the web are getting married

"This new generation is just not going to understand this concept of scheduled programming," said Ng at Google. "They are really screen agnostic. This is a massive viewer paradigm shift and something the whole industry is trying to figure out."

To help figure things out, Google promises media companies that its tech can yield much more sophisticated TV advertising. For example:

• Google can tell you what people search for directly after watching a show or watching an ad.
• TV networks can use Google's tools to gain more insight into the audiences that watch their shows, which can help with forecasting and managing revenue.
• Advertisers can also use the Google software to bring their own data to the table for ad targeting.
• Plus Google says its tools will make sure that people don't see the same ads over and over again and that competitive advertisers won't find theirs ads running next to each other.

"We use millions of signals," said Ng. "This is really about how to make TV ads smarter. Understanding people's interest and intent will help you really capture their attention."

What helps is that while Google is a relative newbie in TV production or ads sales, the company has a long track record in providing ad serving technology. The company's DoubleClick business is the most commonly used ad platform among publishers and advertisers to deliver web ads to the right place at the right time.

So if anyone's going to build the "DoubleClick of TV" it may as well be Google.

Google's track record, vs. Google's track record

"Google is going to be seen as very legitimate in the marketplace," said Dave Morgan, CEO of the TV ad targeting firm Simulmedia. "This is a more natural way for them to get in through technology. I think they'll be formidable."

Yet Google will face some real resistance. Many in the TV industry fear the very idea of programmatic advertising to begin with, associating it with low prices and unnecessary middlemen.

And then there's the general fear of giving Google even more power, as TV executives watch it and Facebook – the dreaded duopoly – thoroughly dominate all comers in digital advertising.

Jason Burke, VP of strategic development at Clypd, an ad tech company with a foothold in the TV ad business, said that given Google's long-held, advantaged position as managing the leading ad delivery system in digital media (DoubleClick), they are surely salivating over making that thing same happen in the massive TV market. "But there are significant challenges."

For one, the technology is very different in TV, Burke said. Not to mention that Google competes with TV networks for ad budgets on YouTube.

"You'll have to consider whether you want to partner with a company that wakes up every morning trying to kill you," said a media executive. 

The biggest hurdle Google faces, said Burke, is that digital advertising deals with an oversupply of ad inventory. There's more ads than anybody can buy. So ad tech is very useful.

Because there are only so many ads that can be shown on TV networks in a 24 hour period, TV has a constrained supply, in contrast. The number of TV ads is essentially finite.

"The supply and demand dynamic is flipped,' said Burke "That's a pretty damn big difference." Plus, TV ads are typically sold weeks or months in advance, when web ads can be purchased at the last second.

And one top TV ad sales executive said that Google's TV ad tech is actually inferior to Freewheel's, and the switching challenges are "massive."

Yet Megan Latham, global head advertising operations for Bloomberg Media raved about the tech, which the company uses to deliver ads via Apple TV and plans to eventually employ for its live streaming. "They are using machine learning to help you make the most money you can from your ads," she said. "It really answers all of our needs."

Mad Men vs. Silicon Valley

Google also faces a big cultural barrier. TV is a $72 billion ad market in the US, one that's been growing of late.

Consider the recent TV ad sales upfront, the annual period when top TV networks sell upwards of two thirds of their its ad space. Despite all of the ratings challenges in TV, the market was , was robust, reported Variety. 

And many of these big deals include streaming TV inventory. Meaning that TV ad networks aren't sitting on lots of unsold ad space.

So folks who've worked in TV for a long time may think, why mess with it?

"They are in an industry that has been established for years, and they're protecting an infrastructure," said Keith Grossman, chief revenue officer at Bloomberg. "But that's not the way brands want to operate."

"Some of these people are in denial that this is happening, or thinking, it's not going to happen before I retire," said Burke at Clypd. "A lot of people in the industry are very worried and scared."

You are not alone

Google isn't the only tech company trying to conquer TV ads. Facebook has been running tests with a handful of video partners to help them use Facebook's robust consumer data to target connected TV ads, reported Recode.

AT&T, with its pending acquisition of Time Warner, is pledging to reinvent TV advertising. And of course, there's Amazon, which is dipping its toe into TV ads this year by streaming NFL games.

Google may be just the most methodical about its plans at the moment. 

"There's just so many things we can improve," said Ng "We think there's an opportunity to reinvent that 30-second commercial. I think people have been open to partnering with us. We're getting pretty strong traction."

After all, it might be a chance for TV to go boldly where it's never gone before.

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Mayim Bialik, one of the stars of the popular sitcom "The Big Bang Theory," received criticism on social media Saturday over an op-ed she wrote for The New York Times about the allegations of sexual assault and harassment against Harvey Weinstein. 

Many reacted to the op-ed negatively, saying that it was victim blaming, especially because Bialik wrote, "I dress modestly. I don't act flirtatiously with men as a policy."

Bialik also wrote, "I quickly learned even as a preteen actress that young girls with doe eyes and pouty lips who spoke in a high register were favored for roles by the powerful men who made those decisions," which some interpreted as blaming women's looks for their sexual harassment or assault. 

Bialik has since responded to the backlash. On her official Facebook page, she wrote:

“I also see a bunch of people have taken my words out of the context of the Hollywood machine and twisted them to imply that God forbid I would blame a woman for her assault based on her clothing or behavior,” she wrote. “Anyone who knows me and my feminism knows that’s absurd and not at all what this piece was about. It’s so sad how vicious people are being when I basically live to make things better for women.”

She also announced she would be doing a Facebook Live with the New York Times on Monday.

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"Saturday Night Live" featured a favorite target, President Donald Trump's top counselor Kellyanne Conway, mocking her desire for media attention. 

The skit is a play on the new horror movie, "It," depicting Conway as the movie's sewer-dwelling villain, luring CNN host Anderson Cooper into the gutter. 

"Hello, Coopy. It's me, Kellyanne Conway," says comedian Kate McKinnon, who won an Emmy for her work playing Conway and Hillary Clinton on SNL. 

"Don't you want a quote? I'll give you a crazy quote," McKinnon asks Cooper, played by Alex Moffat, from inside a street sewer. "Okay so, Puerto Rico actually was worse before Hurricane Maria and the hurricane actually did blow some buildings back together, and I don't know why Elizabeth Warren won't tweet about that." 

"That's insane," Cooper says. 

"I know," Conway responds. "Do you want another one?"

"No, shut up," Cooper responds before "Kellywise" sinks her fangs into his arm. 

The skit is reminiscent of SNL's "Fatal Attraction" sketch, which also depicted Conway as desperate for media attention and was criticized as sexist and overly harsh. 

Watch the full SNL skit below: 

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With Sebastian Kurz expected to become Austria's next chancellor, Europe is about to have its first millennial leader.

The young generation, though, has already made itself known around the world.

Roughly defined as people born between 1980 and 2000, millennials have risen to influential roles in government, business, and activism.

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15. Enrico Carattoni, 32, is the recently elected co-Captain Regent of San Marino, a tiny republic surrounded by Italy. His six-month term will last until April 2018.

14. Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV, 25, is the king of Toro, a kingdom in Uganda. He has been the kingdom's ruler since he was a toddler, after his father died in 1995.

13. Malala Yousafzai, 20, is a Pakistani activist and the youngest ever Nobel Prize winner. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work towards women's education rights, Malala is currently attending the University of Oxford.

Netflix crushed its Q3 subscriber growth targets, blowing past them on both the domestic and international fronts by adding 5.3 million total.

The streaming giant beat slightly on revenue as well, though it turned in lower EPS than Wall Street was expecting.

The stock was up around 3% in the immediate aftermath of the news. (It had closed at a record high of $202.68 going into earnings.)

This beat on subscriber targets is an encouraging sign for investors, since Netflix recently started its first price hike since 2015, which some worried might weigh down growth. However, lower-than-expected US subscriber growth guidance for Q4 might signal that the price bump could still have some negative effect.

This is especially important because Netflix may have to continue to raise prices in the future to fund its massive investment in programming — which will be $7 to $8 billion in 2018, with $17 billion in total future commitments over the next few years, according to Netflix's letter to shareholders.

Here were the key numbers from Netflix's Q3 earnings:

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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings understands the value of video — and now he's using it to do some serious product placement. 

Every quarter, Hastings and other company executives discuss Netflix's latest financial results in a recorded video interview with a financial analyst. During Monday's video interview to discuss the company's third-quarter earnings, the CEO and his lieutenants interrupted questions on financial metrics and the regulatory environment to don garish sweaters with blinking lights sewn in.

Although the woolly abominations might not win many style points among fashionistas, the sweaters were instantly recognizable to fans of Netflix's hit series, "Stranger Things." (The string of Christmas tree lights with letters under each bulb were an important part of the plot in the show's first season.)

The stunt was a promotion for the second season of the show, which Netflix will release on October 28. And it also hints at what could turn out to be an important new business for the company — selling merchandise, such as lunchboxes, backpacks, and action figures, that capitalizes on the popularity of its shows. 

"We’re celebrating both the amazing content that’s coming in ten days or so and also Target's great promotion strategy," Hastings announced on the video after his wardrobe change. 

"We’re learning how to do merchandising," he continued. "We’ve got some amazing displays and amazing materials out at Target."

Whether the next season of Stranger Things proves as popular as the first  remains to be seen. But Hastings proved he's a master promoter by getting the most of his video airtime.

And if really you like his sweater, you can buy it for $32.99 at Target. 

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Oscar-winning actress and producer Reese Witherspoon says she was sexually assaulted by a director when she was 16, and it wasn't the last time it happened to her. 

Witherspoon, 41, said that she felt "true disgust" at the director who assaulted her, and anger at the agents and producers who made her feel like "true silence was a condition" of her employment, during her speech at Elle's Women in Hollywood event in Beverly Hills on Monday night.

Witherspoon began her speech saying how hard it has been over that past week for women in the industry and women all over the world. 

Here's the rest of her speech that she made before introducing Laura Dern, her "Big Little Lies" costar to the stage:

“I have my own experiences that have come back to me very vividly and I find it really hard to sleep, hard to think, hard to communicate a lot of the feelings that I’ve been having about anxiety, honest, the guilt for not speaking up earlier. [I feel] true disgust at the director who assaulted me when I was 16 years old and anger at the agents and the producers who made me feel that silence was a condition of my employment. And I wish that I could tell you that was an isolated incident in my career, but sadly it wasn’t. I’ve had multiple experiences of harassment and sexual assault and I don’t speak about them very often. But after hearing all the stories these past few days and hearing these brave women speak up tonight about things that we’re kind of told to sweep under the rug and not to talk about, it’s made me want to speak up and speak up loudly because I actually felt less alone this week than I have ever felt in my entire career. But after hearing all the stories these past few days and hearing these brave women speak up tonight about things that we’re kind of told to sweep under the rug and not to talk about, it’s made me want to speak up and speak up loudly because I actually felt less alone this week than I have ever felt in my entire career.”

Over the past several years, Witherspoon has made an effort to produce and star in more female-driven stories for women of all ages. Witherspoon, along with her costar Nicole Kidman, executive produced HBO's Emmy-winning series, "Big Little Lies." Witherspoon also helped books like "Wild" and "Gone Girl" get adapted from page to screen. 

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Jennifer Lawrence shared a personal story about a "degrading and humiliating" experience she had with a Hollywood producer during her speech at Elle's Women in Hollywood event Monday night.

Lawrence, one of eight honorees at the event, said when she was just at the beginning of her acting career, she was told by a producer on a film she was working on to "lose 15 pounds in two weeks.”

Another actress had already been fired from the project for "not losing enough weight fast enough," according to Lawrence.

“During this time, a female producer had me do a nude line-up with about five women who were much, much, thinner than me. We stood side-by-side with only paste-ons covering our privates,” Lawrence recounted.

Lawrence said the line-up had been "degrading and humiliating," and that afterwards, the same female producer told her to use the naked photos of herself "as inspiration" to lose weight.

Lawrence, who took issue with the "unrealistic diet regime" she was expected to maintain, went to another producer to discuss it.

“He said he didn’t know why everyone thought I was so fat, he thought I was ‘perfectly f—able,’” Lawrence said.

The actress described feeling "trapped" and powerless by the entire experience. “I let myself be treated a certain way because I felt I had to for my career,” Lawrence said. She said she felt that she was still negotiating how to stick up for herself without being labeled as "difficult" — although according to Lawrence, the producers on that film did call her a "nightmare." 

Lawrence said when working on "The Hunger Games" films, she was extremely conscious of the effect that harsh beauty standards can have.

"We will stop normalizing these horrific situations," Lawrence said. "We will change this narrative and make a difference for all of those individuals pursuing their dreams." 

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Last month, a fan released on-set footage of Rami Malek performing as Freddie Mercury in "Bohemian Rhapsody," an upcoming biopic on the late singer of Queen. 

Now, the film's director, Bryan Singer, has taken to Instagram to share an iPhone shot of another concert scene from the movie. 

"Couldn't help myself and had to post this iPhone pic," Singer wrote in the caption.

Malek told Entertainment Weekly last month that the film's performances would feature a synthesized combination of his own voice and Mercury's. 

"We're going to use Freddie as much as possible and use myself as much as possible," Malek said. "I'm in Abbey Road [Studios] right now if that should say anything to you. I'm not working on my acting."

"Bohemian Rhapsody" is set for release on December 25, 2018. 

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Shares of Netflix hit a record high of $204.38 early Tuesday after the company reported subscriber growth that blew past estimates. Shares have since pared their gains, and are currently up 0.51% at $203.72. 

The company reported a total net add of 5.3 million subscribers in the third quarter, which was above estimates of 4.5 million. It missed slightly on earnings per share, coming in at $0.29 versus the Wall Street consensus of $0.32. Revenue beat, coming in at $2.99 billion versus the $2.97 billion expected.

Following the results, a number of analysts upgraded their price targets for Netflix, which Goldman Sachs said could happen if the company had a good earnings report. The consensus price target among analysts rose 8.4% to $217.74 from $200.85 from before the report, according to data from Bloomberg.

Goldman, which was previously the most bullish firm on Netflix, raised its price target from $235 to $250 after the report and remains the most bullish. Oppenheimer raised its price target t0 $245 from $215.

"Everything moving in right direction now, but investor anxiety over 2018 cash burn and content competition looms if sub growth slows," Jason Helfstein, an analyst at Oppenheimer wrote.

Helfstein is referring to the $7 billion to $8 billion that Netflix has said it wants to spend on original content in 2018. The company raised its prices for US customers by an average of $1 recently, which should help with the growing content budgets, though Netflix said the timing of the price increase is not linked with the plan to grow its library.

"Many investors have sort of criticized us in the past for being under-priced, and I think for us, we want to make sure that we do this commensurate with value," David Wells, CFO of Netflix, said on the company's earnings call. "And as we take up the content library value as we're doing more global originals that people have exclusively and only on Netflix, there's a great association of that value, and we think that we can grow that value and that price slowly and steadily over time."

Netflix said it hopes to add another 5.05 million subscribers in the fourth quarter, due, in part, to several popular show releases set for the fourth quarter. 

Netflix is up 56.87% this year.

Read more about the results from Netflix's third-quarter earnings, click here. 

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Heather Ross, screenwriter and friend of the late Carrie Fisher, called into a local morning radio in Tuscon last Thursday to recount an amazing story about Fisher exacting revenge on her behalf in 2000.

Ross said she told Fisher that a Sony executive sexually harassed her — and two weeks later, Ross received word from Fisher that she had visited the office of that same Sony executive.

Fisher told Ross she decided to go to his office, where she "personally delivered a Tiffany box wrapped with a white bow."

Ross said the box contained a "cow tongue," in addition to a note from Fisher.

According to Ross, the note said: "If you ever touch my darling Heather or any other woman again, the next delivery will be (clears throat) something of yours in a much smaller box!"

Thanks to Ross, we have one more reason to mourn the loss of Fisher. 

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Netflix’s growth continues to explode overseas.

In addition to earnings that beat on both top and bottom line growth, the company on Monday said it added 4.45 million international subscribers, beating both Wall Street and in-house estimates.

Based on these impressive numbers, Morgan Stanley has raised its price target for shares of Netflix to $235 from $225 — 11% above the stock’s price of $200 Tuesday morning.

"Following the strong 3Q17 results and 4Q17 guidance, primarily driven by Netflix adoption internationally, we raise our long-term international subscriber forecast and currently expect +15.75mm international streaming net adds in '18E (vs. prior +14.2M)," analyst Ben Swinburne said in a note Tuesday morning.

This international growth, coupled with cable TV partnerships at home and its investment in original programming, will help Netflix strengthen its moat against encroaching competitors like Disney, which last month announced it would yank its content from Netflix and launch its own streaming service.

"As it navigates a wary but likely still willing partnership with traditional, vertically integrated media companies, its position as a studio and the clear positive impact that its original programming is having on the business provide a nice hedge to strategic shifts by historical suppliers such as Disney."

The news confirms Swinburne’s thesis that Netflix has created a model it can replicate in international markets. He explained how this works in an interview with Markets Insider last week ahead of earnings:

"History would tell you that given time, [Netflix] can ramp in almost any kind of market. It's probably intuitive that a market with a relatively developed economy like the US and the UK, and certainly English language with a strong technology adoption curve, strong broadband networks, would be a successful one for Netflix.

"Then you look at a market like Brazil — obviously an emerging market, with a much different income per capita, a much weaker broadband-network structure than what you typically see elsewhere, and the product has scaled to profitability and significant penetration rates that should give people confidence that they can scale in other kinds of markets."

Shares of Netflix rocketed past $200 and hit an all-time high Monday afternoon into Tuesday morning after the earnings report, but are currently trading down 1.22%. 

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The Sony-owned game studio behind the "Uncharted" series is facing allegations that it fired an employee the day after he complained of being sexually harassed. 

David Ballard, a former environmental artist at Naughty Dog, said on Twitter over the weekend that he was sexually harassed by a manager at the Sony studio near the end of 2015. When he told Sony's human resources representatives about the harassment he experienced several months later, they ended the call, he was fired the next day, and he's been unemployed ever since, he said.

"When interviewers ask why I left Naughty Dog, I say I was burned out by the crunch, ashamed to get to the root of the problem of being sexually harassed," he said on Twitter. "I'm speaking out now because of the strength I've seen in others coming forward about their experiences in the TV-Film industry."

He continued: "This is the hardest thing I've ever done. I will not let anyone kill my drive or love for the video game industry, my passions, or life."

In a joint statement, Sony and Naughty Dog said they hadn't "found any evidence" that they had received a complaint about sexual harassment from Ballard and said that they take such complaints seriously.

"We value every single person who works at Naughty Dog and Sony Interactive Entertainment," the companies said in the statement. "It is of utmost importance to us that we maintain a safe, productive workplace environment that allows us all to channel our shared passion for making games."

Based on Ballard's statements on Twitter, his harassment complaint may not have a paper trail for Sony to find. He said he discussed the harassment on a phone call in February 2016 with Sony's HR department, not that he filed an official complaint. That phone call was prompted by Ballard suffering a "mental breakdown" on the job, he said.

When Sony fired him, company officials told him the company was "moving in another direction" and no longer needed his services, he said.

"They tried to silence me by offering $20,000 if I signed a letter agreeing to the termination as well as to not discuss it with anyone," Ballard said. "I declined to sign."

Ballard, who did not name the person who allegedly harassed him, worked at Naughty Dog for nearly seven years in two separate stints, according to his LinkedIn profile. His most recent stint was from May 2015 to March 2016, which corresponds with when he said he was fired. He hasn't spoken publicly since making his story public on Saturday.

His statement comes as the entertainment industry is still roiling from allegations of sexual harassment and rape made against film mogul Harvey Weinstein. The women who have come forward with their accusations against Weinstein have spurred others in the industry to make public their own stories of sexual harassment and abuse. Last week, for example, actor Terry Crews said he had been sexually assaulted by a Hollywood executive last year.

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Ron Howard on Tuesday used Twitter to give "Star Wars" fans some news. Production on the standalone Han Solo movie is wrapping up, and the film now has a title: "Solo: A Star Wars Story."

Here's the director delivering the news:

For a movie that was given the code name "Red Cup" for three years through the different phases of production (a reference to the brand of Solo red cups), this title wasn't much of a stretch. Also, "Solo" has the double meaning of being Han's last name and also pointing out that he's a space smuggler who is a loner.

But now to the fun part: the internet's reaction. It's been swift, and people on social media seem very much unimpressed by the title choice. Below are some examples (we'll try to keep updating).

"Solo: A Star Wars Story" is set to arrive in theaters May 25.

Here are some of the best reactions to the "Solo" title we've seen so far:

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Roy Price, the head of Amazon Studios, resigned from his position on Tuesday, according to CNN's Brian Stelter. His resignation comes after a producer working for Amazon alleged he sexually harassed her.

According to CNN, Albert Cheng, who took over Price's position after he was suspended last week, will continue as the interim head of Amazon Studios.

Isa Hackett, a producer on Amazon's "The Man in the High Castle" — and the daughter of author Philip K. Dick, whose work the show is based on — told The Hollywood Reporter that Price sexually harassed her in 2015.

"You will love my d---," Price said, according to Hackett.

Price was suspended indefinitely from his position at Amazon Studios on Thursday evening, the same day THR published its report. However, news of the claim had been floating around since August, when the first report of his alleged harassment was published by The Information. That report did not contain the details that appeared in THR.

Price joined Amazon in 2004, when the company set out to start working in the on-demand video space. Amazon Studios has since grown into an original TV show and film studio. Under Price, Amazon launched shows including “Catastrophe,” “Bosch,” and the Emmy-winning “Transparent.”

On Thursday, as details of Hackett's sexual harassment allegation broke, actress Rose McGowan tweeted that Price knew that "HW" (most certainly Harvey Weinstein) sexually assaulted her, and that Price ignored it.

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Movie executive Bob Weinstein — the cofounder of The Weinstein Company with his brother Harvey, who was recently fired following sexual harassment and assault accusations — is being accused of sexual harassment by a TV show executive producer.

Amanda Segel, an executive producer on "The Mist," said that Weinstein repeatedly made romantic overtures to her and invited her to private dinners with him, according to Variety.

The alleged harassment began in the summer of 2016 and went on for about three months, according to the trade.

"'No' should be enough," Segel told Variety. “After ‘no,’ anybody who has asked you out should just move on. Bob kept referring to me that he wanted to have a friendship. He didn’t want a friendship. He wanted more than that. My hope is that ‘no’ is enough from now on.”  

Segel told Variety that Weinstein's advances began when he invited her out to dinner in June of 2016. Segel had been told by coworkers that Weinstein asked if she was single, she said. Segel said she agreed to go to dinner with him to build a professional relationship, as “The Mist” was being made through Dimension, the genre arm of The Weinstein Company that Bob oversees.

During the dinner, Weinstein "asked Segel highly intimate questions and made romantic overtures to her," according to Variety. Then, partway through the dinner, Segel says Weinstein asked if she would take him back to the hotel so he could relieve his driver, and she agreed. When she took him to his hotel, he asked her to come up to his room, Segel said, but she declined.

Weinstein followed that up with emails "outside the scope of work," according to Variety, and he also invited her to his rented house in Malibu for a party. After asking for directions to the house, Segel said she suspected that there was no party and that she would be alone with Weinstein.

After having another dinner with Segel, in which she brought along “The Mist” executive producer and writer Christian Torpe, Weinstein stopped contacting her, Segel told Variety. However, during a conference call with network executives, Segel alleges that Weinstein got angry at her and screamed at her on the call. When asked about the interaction by others on the call, Segel reportedly told them she had been sexually harassed by Weinstein for three months.

After that Segel, her lawyer, and The Weinstein Company executives talked and came to an agreement that Segel would continue to work on the show, but she and Weinstein would never meet together in the same room or talk on the phone, according to Variety. Weinstein honored that agreement, Segel said.

Business Insider contacted The Weinstein Company for comment but did not get an immediate response. A representative of Weinstein issued a statement to Variety stating Bob Weinstein denied any inappropriate behavior towards Segel. “Bob Weinstein had dinner with Ms. Segel in LA in June 2016. He denies any claims that he behaved inappropriately at or after the dinner. It is most unfortunate that any such claim has been made,” the statement said.

Bob Weinstein's lawyer, Bert Fields, wrote the following statement to The Hollywood Reporter about Segel's accusations: “Variety’s story about Bob Weinstein is riddled with false and misleading assertions by Ms. Segel and we have the emails to prove it, but even if you believe what she says it contains not a hint of any inappropriate touching or even any request for such touching," he said. "There is no way in the world that Bob Weinstein is guilty of sexual harassment, and even if you believed what this person asserts there is no way it would amount to that.” 

In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, in which stories in The New York Times and The New Yorker accuse the movie executive of sexually harassing and assaulting women over decades, Bob has taken over The Weinstein Company and has said his brother is "a very sick man" and "world class liar."

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Augmented reality is a nascent industry, but it will eventually become a $70 billion business, according to top business consultant Michael Wolf.

That's just one of numerous predictions Wolf has for the future of the tech and media industries. He's also bullish on smart speakers and digital assistants such as Siri. 

Every year, Wolf puts together a slide presentation highlighting his forecasts. Wolf's consulting firm, Activate, released his latest presentation at the Wall Street Journal's D.Live conference in Laguna Beach, California, on Tuesday.

Wolf has a long history in tech and media, having served as a board member of Yahoo, managing partner at consulting powerhouse McKinsey, and chief operating officer of MTV networks.

You can go through Wolf's entire 140 presentation below: