It’s not just bad PR, I think they were more afraid of the precedent it set if ScarJo won in court. Pretty much everyone who had a similar contract with Disney would have filed a similar suit citing her case and it would be hard to see how they would lose. Rumor has it that Emma Stone was seriously considering a…

Disney considers anyone over 10 to be an “adult.” Given that this probably would be a waste of money for kids much younger than 10, it’s probably won’t be as uncommon a combination as you would think.

I think it could potentially mitigate her sentencing, since it could be seen as a malign influence that clouded her judgment, especially if she cooperates with prosecutors working on the case against Sunny, but I agree no matter how extensive the abuse, it can’t possibly justify a full acquittal.

“I can understand that perhaps it became a case of her knowing what was going on was wrong and wanting to stop, and Sunny using abusive tactics to keep her out there lying.”

To be fair, despite the improbability of success it’s probably the best defense she has, and also there is plenty of documented evidence of Sunny’s abusive and manipulative behavior at Theranos, so it would frankly be more surprising if that behavior didn’t exist in his professional/personal relationship with Holmes.

The thing is, the more I read about it the more I think that some version of the concept could have worked had Holmes not been so insistent on it meeting such difficult design parameters. Like if they had either settled, at least at launch, for a bigger box or a smaller box with a smaller variety of only the most…

Yeah, I don’t think there’s any doubt from the copious documented evidence out there that Sunny had a malign influence on Holmes and was clearly abusive to employees at least. Whether that influence was more coercive in nature or whether his presence helped her keep the fantasy alive and allowed her to ignore reality…

I get the impression that she genuinely believed that the technology was possible to make early on (or at least she willfully ignored any evidence to the contrary). After all, it’s not fraud to claim you will create a successful product years down the line if you really believe it.  It was only after years without…

It’s the perfect ending moment for that movie. Especially if you look at it as a nightmarish comedy about Tom Cruise getting continually cock-blocked despite finding himself involved in a series of increasingly absurd and baroque sexual situations.

I can’t believe the final lines of Eyes Wide Shut weren’t on this. They are my all time favorite ending lines and also the only possible way that movie could have ended.

I fully agree that I wish we spent some more time with the final four queens to see their reactions and less time with Carson’s lame play-by-play. Aside from Silky’s dominance (it was close between her and Jan, but I’m fully here for the psychological torture hunty) the best part was watching the final four get their…

I don’t really think it’s the Taliban GOP. My guess is that OnlyFans is getting serious interest from venture capitalist investors, investment banks that work with SPACs, hedge funds, private equity firms, etc., who have buckets of money to throw around. You don’t do $2 billion in transactions as a “social media”…

Maybe my interaction with OnlyFans is different, but as the article correctly points out, what you describe is already a thing. It’s called Patreon, or for bloggers who want to monetize there’s Substack. I’ve almost only interacted with OF as an amateur porn site, that did give a lot of adult performers a space to…

JustForFans pretty much does this. I think it might be more targeting the gay male market rn, but I’m sure they would welcome any hetero refugees from OF that want to join, albeit they would probably have to upgrade their server capacity and whatnot to do so.

Yeah that’s pretty much the answer. These venture capitalists are mostly idiots who get lucky every so often/invest so much money into a company that it destroys its competitors, even if it’s not a sustainable model (see, WeWork). All these VC types see with OnlyFans is the $2 billion in transactions, regardless of…

I was also sort of confused how the Dubai Air issue was just coming up now. I guess the ad is more direct, but if Sam’s dad has such strong feelings about his son being a shill for them why wouldn’t he have brought it up when he saw Sam playing every match in a jersey emblazoned with their logo? The only explanation I…

So that means Disney can screw her over while lining its own and their executives’ pockets? If you don’t like Johansson, there are almost certainly other big actors who also signed contracts with Disney/Marvel before the pandemic and before anyone could have ever imagined that Disney would release even an MCU movie…

Thanks! Also, the PR spin issue is fair to bring up, but that’s not really the lawyers’ job and also it’s not a good look for the lawyers to try to use traditional PR techniques in these kind of cases. I read the complaint and the main focus is on Marvel/Disney’s failure to renegotiate the contract when they made the…

Employment contracts don’t usually have a force majeure clause, they are far more likely to have the harder to enforce MAE/MAC clause, or material adverse effect/condition clause. And unless Johansson’s lawyers were incompetent there’s no way Disney would be able to invoke it. Even though COVID is an “adverse…

To follow up on my last comment, I would also be more worried about an arbitration clause in her contract than anything else. Like if SCOTUS allows for arbitration clauses to exist in contracts where we have no control over the terms, like when signing up for a credit card, if there’s an arbitration clause in her…