Bombshell (2020)

Starring Academy Award® winner Charlize Theron, Academy Award® winner Nicole Kidman, Academy Award® nominee John Lithgow and Academy Award® nominee Margot Robbie, based on the real scandal, Bombshell, released on DVD and Blu-ray 18th May 2020 from Lionsgate Home Entertainment, tells the explosive story of the women who brought down the man who helped create the most powerful and controversial media empire of all time, Fox News. But at heart of the film is also an exhilarating portrait of how courage is forged in the moment, as three very different women resolve to fight back against unchecked power and abuse.

No one saw it coming. Not a soul could have predicted that one of the first strikes in the catalytic movement to overturn the long history of workplace harassment would come from inside the least likely place: at the core of deeply conservative, profoundly loyalist Fox News. Yet, as the world would soon come to see, this was not an issue of right, left or center, but of righting a legacy of wrongs.

The fuse was boldly lit in the summer of 2016 by Gretchen Carlson, once the unswervingly perky co-host of influential "Fox & Friends." When the recently fired Carlson slapped Fox News' founder Roger Ailes with a lawsuit alleging sexual harassment, most expected Carlson to get crushed. After all, Ailes was the untouchable master of the media universe-ready to use his influence and resources to defeat any foe.

Instead, what happened next reverberated around the world.

In just 16 wild days, Ailes would take one of the most dizzying falls from elite heights in corporate history. For even he could not survive the force of multiple women coming forward with their own stories, including superstar Fox News correspondent Megyn Kelly.

But it was never just about the women at Fox. What happened in those two weeks-as Gretchen Carlson, Megyn Kelly and the women of Fox rang the alarm bells of cultural change-became a harbinger of a defining moment of our era. Just over a year later, in October 2017, the New York Times would report multiple accusations against entertainment titan Harvey Weinstein, a story that would then combust, growing the small, pre-existing #MeToo movement into a massive global phenomenon. By then, it was clear the corporate codes of silence were being detonated across every industry.

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