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Bombshell is a 2019 drama film directed by Jay Roach and writt by Charles Randolph. The film stars Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, and Margot Robbie, and is based on the accounts of the wom at Fox News who set out to expose CEO Roger Ailes for sexual harassmt. John Lithgow, Kate McKinnon, Connie Britton, Malcolm McDowell, and Allison Janney appear in supporting roles.

After co-moderating the 2016 Republican debate, Megyn Kelly faces numerous insults from Donald Trump, who is upset because she asked him about his offsive commts toward wom. Under pressure from the network, and after receiving death threats and unwanted paparazzi atttion, Kelly evtually reconciles with Trump.

Meanwhile, Gretch Carlson is removed as co-anchor of the popular Fox & Frids show, and is transferred to a less popular show. Inundated by sexist commts on and off the air, including by Roger Ailes, Carlson meets with lawyers, Nancy Smith and Neil Mullin, who explain that Carlson's contract prevts her from suing the network, but she can sue Ailes personally.

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On her first day on The O'Reilly Factor, Kayla Pospisil meets fellow female staffer Jess Carr, and the two have sex. The next day, Ailes begins sexually harassing Pospisil. Pospisil begins to tell Carr about what happed, but Carr interrupts, saying she cannot get involved.

Carlson is later fired, ostsibly for her on-air support of the federal assault weapons ban, and decides to sue Ailes. Wh the news breaks the next day, Ailes dies the allegations and Kelly admits to her core team Ailes sexually harassed her wh she started at Fox. In the following weeks, despite a number of other wom voicing their public support against Ailes, Kelly conspicuously refuses to make a commt on Carlson's accusations.

After more wom accuse Ailes, Kelly starts to find other wom at the network. Kelly visits Pospisil, and the two confide in each other. Kelly advises Pospisil to come forward, and after consulting with Carr, she does. Through her attorneys, Carlson later informs Ailes she has recorded conversations to support her claims, deliberately withholding them from Ailes’s lawyers in order to undermine his credibility. Defeated, Ailes is fired by Fox co-creator Rupert Murdoch. Ailes settles Carlson's lawsuit for $20 million and an apology from Fox, but the agreemt contains a non-disclosure agreemt. Fox evtually paid the victims of sexual harassmt $50 million, while paying Ailes and O'Reilly $65 million in severance.

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On May 18, 2017, shortly after the death of Fox News founder Roger Ailes, it was announced that Annapurna Pictures was in the early stages of developing a film ctered on the allegations made against Ailes by female employees, including Megyn Kelly and Gretch Carlson. Charles Randolph was expected to write the film's screplay.

On August 1, 2018, it was announced that Roach, Randolph, Beth Kono, AJ Dix, and Margaret Riley would act as the film's producers and that Dver and Delilah Productions would serve as the film's production company.

On October 9, 2018, it was announced that Annapurna Pictures had dropped out of producing the film, reportedly due to concerns over the film's growing budget. At the time of the announcemt, it was confirmed that Bron Studios was staying on and that producers were looking at Focus Features, Participant Media, and Amblin tertainmt to help finance the film.

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In December 2018, it was reported that Theodore Shapiro would compose the film's score and that Barry Ackroyd would serve as the film's cinematographer.

On August 1, 2018, it was reported that Nicole Kidman had begun negotiations to star as Carlson and that Margot Robbie was in talks to play a composite associate producer at the network, with Theron confirmed to star.

In September 2018, it was reported that Allison Janney had be cast as lawyer Susan Estrich and that Kate McKinnon had be cast to play a fictional producer.

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In October 2018, it was announced that Malcolm McDowell, Mark Duplass, and Alice Eve had be cast as Rupert Murdoch, Douglas Brunt, and Ainsley Earhardt, respectively.

Elisabeth Röhm, Spcer Garrett, Connie Britton, Ashley Gree, Brooke Smith, Michael Buie, Nazanin Boniadi, and Bree Condon had be cast as Jeanine Pirro, Martha MacCallum, Sean Hannity, Beth Ailes, Abby Huntsman, Ira Brigante, Bret Baier, Rudi Bakhtiar, and Kimberly Guilfoyle, respectively.

In December 2018, it was announced that Rob Delaney had joined the cast of the film in an undisclosed role and that Ahna O'Reilly had be cast as Julie Roginsky.

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Bombshell's box office results were se as disappointing but the film received mostly favorable reviews, praising its acting as well as its choices of makeup and hair but some criticizing the screplay and inaccuracies.

Bombshell grossed $31.8 million in the United States and Canada, and $29.6 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $61.4 million.

In its limited oping weekd the film made $312, 100 from four theaters for a per-vue average of $78, 025, the fifth best of 2019.

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The film wt wide at 1, 480 theaters the following weekd and, despite being projected to gross around $10 million, finished sixth with $5.1 million. The audice was 58% female, with 60% being betwe 18 and 34 years old.

The film's box office results were se as a disappointmt, with The Hill saying that the presce of other projects about Ailes, such as the documtary Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes and the Showtime series The Loudest Voice, had lowered the demand for a film on the subject.

Forbes also noted that audices likely do not want to shell out movie theater money and time to watch a film about wom being treated terribly by powerful m... especially (gerally speaking) wom.

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The performances of Charlize Theron and Margot Robbie received critical acclaim and earned them Academy Award nominations for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, respectively.

On Rott Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 68% based on 334 reviews, with an average rating of 6.6/10. The website's critics conssus reads: Bombshell befits from a terrific cast and a worthy subject, but its impact is muffled by a frustrating inability to go deeper than the ssationalistic surface.

On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 64 out of 100, based on reviews from 46 critics, indicating gerally favorable reviews.

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Audices polled by PostTrak gave the film an average 4 out of 5 stars, with 70% saying they would definitely recommd it.

Variety's Ow Gleiberman gave the film a positive review and wrote: Bombshell is a scalding and powerful movie about what selling, in America, has become. The film is about selling sex, selling a candidate, selling yourself, selling the truth. And about how at Fox News all those things came together.

Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter wrote: The actors throw themselves into their roles with terrific zeal, lived by the oft blunt dialogue and the issues at stake.

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Kevin Maher of The Times gave the film 4/5 stars, describing it as a timely satirical takedown that finds black humour and absurdist comedy in the subject of workplace sexual harassmt while never losing sight of its devastating repercussions.

Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post gave the film 3/4 stars, calling it an absorbing, well-crafted chronicle of the sexual harassmt accusations that forced Fox News founding CEO Roger Ailes to resign in disgrace.

Moira Macdonald of The Seattle Times gave the film 2/4 stars, writing that it wt wrong; much of it due to Charles Randolph's cutesy screplay ... which unfolds at a cartoony pace more suitable to a dark comedy.

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Simran Hans of The Observer gave the film 2/5 stars, writing: What happed to these wom is appalling; that the film takes such pains to sand down the politics of its ctral characters to make them more sympathetic undermines its tire thesis. Kelly’s racist attitudes are smoothed over, while Carlson's homophobia is convitly erased. Hans goes on to argue that the film would have be more complete had it gaged with the tsion betwe its protagonists' dual roles as perpetuators of sexism themselves, owing to their status as conservative icons, and also as wom harmed by a deeply sexist organization. Hans contds that by presting the protagonists simply as sympathetic characters the film fails to make sufficit criticism of these wom and their role as cogs in an organization which espouses rightwing ideology.

Linda Holmes of NPR wrote: It has a few strong momts, mostly courtesy of Robbie, but it's both underwhelming and overworked, inelegantly structured and missing something fundamtal at the core.

Joe Morgstern of The Wall Street Journal said that the film was a movie with a compelling story to tell turns into a blunt-force polemic that can't stop hammering its message home.

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In January 2020, Kelly posted a 30-minute video on her YouTube channel of a roundtable discussion, including her, Huddy, Bakhtiar, Brunt and former Fox News producer Julie Zann and their reactions and opinions after viewing a screing of the film. The panel confirmed many details depicted, including having to do the spin to show off their bodies to Ailes in private; Zann tearfully noted that reality was worse than that and the filmmakers let Roger off easy.

Kelly took particular issue with the sce where Robbie's character blames Kelly for not