Erin Brockovich: Last News

America’s sweetheart! Julia Roberts‘ film career has spanned decades and genres, even earning her an Academy Award for her hard-hitting role in Erin Brockovich and charming audiences with her Golden Globe-winning part in Pretty Woman.

Netflix series Toxic Town.Written by Jack Thorne (His Dark Materials), the series follows a group of mothers who are fighting for justice after a link is discovered between toxic waste in the town and their children being born with defects.Jodie Whittaker and Aimee Lou Wood lead the cast, alongside Robert Carlyle, Rory Kinnear, Joe Dempsie, Brendan Coyle, Claudia Jessie and Lauren Lyle.Toxic Town is produced by Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones’ production company Broke & Bones, with Minkie Spiro serving as director.Netflix has not announced any plans for a second season. The show was originally billed as a miniseries, so it’s highly unlikely a second season will be commissioned.The story of the Corby scandal was also concluded across the show’s four episodes, so there’s little reason for the show to continue unless it tackles another case entirely.The true story behind Toxic Town is often described as the English version of Erin Brockovich, a paralegal who was instrumental in building a case against Pacific Gas & Electric Company in relation to water contamination in Hinkley, California.This case was covered in the 2000 biographical film Erin Brockovich with Julia Roberts in the lead role, who won an Oscar for her performance.As for other similar cases, 2019 film Dark Waters is a dramatised version of Robert Bilott’s case against the chemical manufacturing company DuPont.

Contrary to some people’s beliefs, Legally Blonde is not, in fact, a documentary about the actress Reese Witherspoon.

Wicked, Dune: Part Two, and Emilia Perez lead the list of American Cinematheque honorees for the 4th annual Tribute To The Crafts which will take place at AC’s Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood on Thursday January 9, 2025.

Addie Morfoot Contributor Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has signed on to executive produce “Unearth,” a new documentary that will make its world premiere at DOC NYC on Nov. 16. Directed, produced and shot by Hunter Nolan, “Unearth” tells the story of two sets of siblings — the Salmon sisters and the Strickland brothers — who live in Alaska’s Bristol Bay.

EXCLUSIVE: An award-winning documentary about the woman known as “the Russian Erin Brockovich” is getting support from… the real Erin Brockovich.

EXCLUSIVE: Indie sustainability-focused network EarthxTV has teamed with Singapore’s Bomanbridge Media to co-produced The Climate Restorers.

Julia Roberts will receive the Honorary César at the 50th César Awards Ceremony due to take place at the Olympia Hall in Paris on February 28, 2025.

William Earl administrator Jason Yu’s feature debut, “Sleep,” is a supernatural domestic thriller about a South Korean couple named Soo-jin and Hyeon-soo (Jung Yu-mi and Lee Sun-kyun) who are torn apart by his increasingly dark sleepwalking habits. As they welcome a baby into their world, things take a turn for the worse, and she investigates what is really causing her husband’s frightening behavior. Yu cut his teeth as Bong Joon-ho‘s right-hand man during the two-and-a-half-year filming of “Okja,” and considers the director a mentor and inspiration for the project.

EXCLUSIVE: Golden Globe-nominee and Independent Spirit Award-winner Aaron Eckhart will star in the Jesse V. Johnson-directed action thriller Scorpion, written by Corey Large (Detective Knight trilogy) and Ed Drake (Gasoline Alley).

, then , now Lonely Planet. Hollywood's over-40 A-list actors continue to win the affections of beefy younger men, with Laura Dern and Liam Hemsworth being the latest romantic pair.Netflix just gave us a first look at Dern, 57, and Hemsworth, 34 in the unexpected love story, and based on these sets alone, we know it's going to a gorgeous film if nothing else.Here's everything we know about the streamer's latest, Lonely Planet:According to Netflix, the story goes something like this: “At a retreat in Morocco, a woman meets a young man whose acquaintanceship evolves into an intoxicating, life-altering love affair.” specifies that Katherine Loewe (Dern) is a newly-single novelist who hopes that a writing retreat can cure her writer's block.

Michaela Zee Disbarred personal injury lawyer Tom Girardi has been found guilty of leading a years-long scheme in which he embezzled tens of millions of dollars from his clients. After a 13-day trial, Girardi was convicted Tuesday of four counts of wire fraud. He is scheduled for a Dec.

Liam Hemsworth and Laura Dern will be playing a couple in the upcoming Netflix romance film Lonely Planet and the streamer just debuted the first look photos!

accused of deceiving his clients and pilfering from settlement funds they had obtained in personal injury cases.“Tom Girardi built celebrity status and lured in victims by falsely portraying himself as a ‘Champion of Justice,'” US Attorney Martin Estrada said in a statement. “In reality, he was a Robin-Hood-in-reverse, stealing from the needy” to support a “lavish, Hollywood lifestyle.”Girardi’s federal public defenders did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Girardi blamed the alleged fraud on Christopher Kamon, the former chief financial officer of their law firm Girardi Keese.

A Los Angeles jury convicted Tom Girardi of running a massive 10-year Ponzi scheme in which he allegedly siphoned at least $15 million in settlement funds from four of his clients. The 85-year-old estranged husband of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Erika Jayne was found guilty of all four wire fraud charges and faces a potential prison sentence of up to 20 years on each count.

EXCLUSIVE: After directing Aaron Taylor-Johnson in the lead role of the Spider-Man spinoff Kraven the Hunter, J.C. Chandor has closed a deal with Sony Pictures to direct a new untitled contemporary drama he has written. It might be his next outing as director. This comes after Sony saw Chandor’s latest cut, which prompted a move to a December 13 release slot. The new trailer for Kraven bows shortly.

The Locarno Film Festival will hand American producer Stacey Sher its Raimondo Rezzonico Award at this year’s edition, which runs August 7 – 17. 

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent U.S. producer Stacey Sher — whose credits include Quentin Tarantino‘s “Pulp Fiction,” “Django Unchained” and “The Hateful Eight” as well as Steven Soderbergh’s “Erin Brockovich,” “Out of Sight” and “Contagion” — will be honored by the Locarno Film Festival with its Raimondo Rezzonico Prize, which celebrates a producer who epitomizes the indie ethos.

Glen Powell has found another new movie to star in!

Angelique Jackson Glen Powell, Anthony Mackie and Academy Award winner Laura Dern have signed on to star in “Monsanto,” the latest film from writer-director John Lee Hancock (“The Blind Side,” “Saving Mr. Banks”). The film follows the true story of young, untried attorney Brent Wisner (Powell), who in 2019 took on a seemingly insurmountable case against the giant U.S.

The third installment of the Sands: International Film Festival of St Andrews has set its slate, and that will include director Steven Soderbergh engaging in a conversation with directors Anthony and Joe Russo. I will moderate that discussion, which will touch on the preposterously unlikely way that Soderbergh discovered and godfathered the career of the duo that directed Hollywood’s all-time highest grossing film, Avengers: Endgame. The festival runs next month from April 19-21.

American Cinematographer Ed Lachman will be the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s Camerimage Film Festival.