Murdoch’s Fox Opts Not to Air Ads for Scandal Flick ‘Bombshell’
- Lions Gate sought to promote the film on Fox network
- ‘Bombshell’ depicts sexual harassment problems at Fox News
Charlize Theron, as Megyn Kelly, and John Lithgow, as Roger Ailes, in Bombshell.
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Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Corp. declined to run advertisements for “Bombshell,” a film about the sexual-harassment scandal at Fox News, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. movie -- debuting nationally on Friday -- is based on the accounts of female Fox News journalists who took on the network’s late chairman, Roger Ailes, after he allegedly sexual harassed them.