Inside the Industry

DAVID YURMAN AND GEENA DAVIS TO PARTNER ON DOCUMENTARY ABOUT GENDER: The New York-based jewelry company David Yurman has announced a partnership with the Oscar-winning Geena Davis to exec produce a documentary about unconscious gender bias in the entertainment industry. Davis, Shonda Rhimes, Jessica Chastain, Zoe Saldana, Judd Apatow, Yara Shahidi, Paul Feig, Chloe Grace Moretz, Gillian Anderson, Sharon Stone, Alan Alda and Lena Dunham have all signed on to share personal anecdotes.

NETFLIX DROPS FIRST TRAILER FOR THE PUSH: Could you be incentivized to commit murder? In the upcoming Netflix special the “winner” of The Push decides to not commit murder … which … good job? British psychological illusionist Derren Brown is out to test the moral limits of contestants (and society at large?) as actors attempt to pressure them into helping them commit and cover-up a homicide. The special starts streaming February 27^th. You in?

DAVID PARFITT ACCUSES HARVEY WEINSTEIN OF ASSAULT: The My Week With Marilyn producer David Parfitt is claiming that Harvey Weinstein physically assaulted him during production of the Michelle Williams feature released in 2011. He made the claims in Channel 4’s Working With Weinstein documentary, which aired on Tuesday in the U.K. “When we actually got through the main shoot and into the test, he decided it wasn’t enough Marilyn’s film and that he wanted more Marilyn,” Parfitt said in the documentary. “The scores came in at the end of the test and they were very good, and I think he’d expected it to be not good. In his fury about it doing so well when he thought it wouldn’t, he physically assaulted me. We were talking at the back of the theater after the audience had left, but the Miramax crowd were around, and he pinned me up against a Coke machine and threatened all sorts of stuff. It was very scary. But he was just furious that the film in our version had worked.” My Week With Marilyn was released by The Weinstein Company and starred Williams, Kenneth Branagh, Eddie Redmayne, Dominic Cooper, Judi Dench, Emma Watson and Julia Ormond.

JOAQUIN PHOENIX IS FINALLY ENJOYING HIMSELF: It took several decades, but Joaquin Phoenix, notoriously allergic to interviews and press conferences, admits that he’s actually having fun at the Berlin Film Festival. The 43-year-old was in town to promote Gus Van Sant‘s Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot, and he made the startling admission to reporters, Deadline reports. “Typically when I go to film festivals, I just show up and do press and that’s it. So I usually hate film festivals. Last night, Gus was doing the Berlin Talents and I went along to watch and saw all these young filmmakers that are curious about the process and hearing Gus speak, I had a real appreciation for a film festival. It’s odd that I’m so old and that it’s the first time I really experienced a film festival for what it is for people so I was grateful for that experience,” he said. In Don’t Worry, Phoenix plays an alcoholic cartoonist. It drops July 13^th on Amazon.

21^st CENTURY FOX IN LAST-DITCH BID CLINCH SKY DEAL: In a bid to clinch a deal with Sky, 21^st Century Fox is doubling down on its promises. Fox is now pledging to maintain a well-funded Sky-branded news service in the U.K. for at least a decade, up from the five years it floated just weeks ago. It also agreed that their agreement would no longer subject Fox to owning more than its current 39.14% stake in Sky, Deadline reports. Fox has spent the past year attempting to purchase 61% of Sky, which is controlled by the Murdoch Family Trust (which also controls News Corporation).

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