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Rebel Wilson is clearing the air after social media posts about The Deb made headlines amid the ongoing legal fight surrounding the movie.

In response to video of The Deb actress Charlotte MacInnes singing at Cannes on Friday from the yacht owned by the film’s financier Len Blavatnik, The Deb’s Instagram account posted stories with captions critical of MacInnes. Wilson is said to be in control of the account for the movie that does not have a release plan in light of the project’s legal battle.

“Charlotte MacInnes in a culturally inappropriate Indian outfit on Len Blavatnik’s luxury yacht in Cannes — ironically singing a song from a movie that will never get released because of her lies and support for the people blocking the film’s release,” read one caption. A follow-up post included the message, “So glad you got your record deal Charlotte at the...

It was a typical scene in Cannes. On May 16, about 50 people converged on billionaire Len Blavatnik’s luxury liner dubbed Odessa II to celebrate his three films premiering at the festival including the provocative Joaquin Phoenix drama “Eddington.” The guest list included industry heavy hitters like “Pulp Fiction” producer Lawrence Bender and Access Entertainment president Danny Cohen. As revelers sipped rosé and sampled the luncheon buffet, singer-actress Charlotte MacInnes performed a cover of Chappell Roan’s “Pink Pony Club.”

Within hours, Rebel Wilson began posting from the official Instagram account of her upcoming film “The Deb.” “Charlotte MacInnes in a culturally inappropriate Indian outfit on Len Blavatnik’s luxury yacht in Cannes — ironically singing a song from a movie that will never get released because of her lies and support for the people blocking the film’s release,” Wilson wrote. “So glad you got your record deal Charlotte at the...

Rebel Wilson has lost a bid to dismiss a defamation lawsuit brought by three producers behind her directorial debut, The Deb, who said they were falsely accused by the actress of sexual harassment and embezzlement.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Thomas Long ruled that the lawsuit will move forward, finding that Wilson can’t take advantage of a California statute allowing for the early dismissal of cases intended to chill free speech. The actresses’ “statements are not protected activities” and were made in the context of a private business dispute, the court concluded in an order issued on Thursday.

In an Instagram video posted in July, Wilson said she reported producers on The Deb last year when she discovered “inappropriate behavior towards the lead actress of the film” and “embezzling funds from the film’s budget.” She accused them of blocking the movie from premiering at the closing spot of...

Rebel Wilson’s hopes to squelch The Deb producers’ defamation lawsuit against her have been stymied by a Los Angeles judge.

“Because the Court finds that the statements are not protected activities subject to an anti-slapp motion, the Court does not proceed to the second prong of the analysis for the Plaintiffs’ likelihood of prevailing on the merits,” ruled LA Superior Court Judge Thomas D. Long last night, confirming his tentative of earlier on November 21. “Accordingly, the anti-slapp motion is hereby Denied.”

“The fact that defendant’s statements accuse plaintiff of criminal conduct make them defamatory on their face,” he stated.

The ruling comes after a long-ish hearing in downtown LA on Thursday where dueling lawyers for Amanda Ghost, Gregor Cameron and Vince Holden went head-to-head with attorney for the Pitch Perfect star over Wilson’s claims of “vile and disgusting behavior” earlier this year against the producers.

In an Instagram video,...

In documents filed to an LA court, Charlotte MacInnes alleges that she told Wilson no misconduct happened, calling it ‘absurd’

A young Australian actor at the centre of a multimillion-dollar defamation case in the US alleges in documents filed to the Los Angeles superior court that Rebel Wilson made up lies about her and bullied and harassed her on the set of The Deb.

Charlotte MacInnes, who stars in the comedy which premiered at the Toronto international film festival in September, alleged in the documents that Wilson repeated claims that one of the film’s three producers, Amanda Ghost, sexually harassed and abused MacInnes, even after she told Wilson no such behaviour had occurred.

Rebel Wilson has filed a motion to strike the “meritless” defamation claims from “The Deb” producers.

The actress/director’s legal documents were filed in Los Angeles on Monday and deny that she published “allegedly defamatory matter,” as suggested by Amanda Ghost, Gregor Cameron and Vince Holden. The filing also stated that the plaintiffs have not been able to prove that anything Wilson has said of the trio is “not substantially true.”

“This motion was filed to ensure that Rebel can use her voice for what she has always done which is advocate for herself and others,” her attorney Bryan Freedman said in a statement.

“The Deb” served as Wilson’s first time in the director’s chair. However, that “dream project turned into a nightmare when she discovered that plaintiffs were, among other egregious conduct, embezzling money from ‘The Deb’s’ budget and treating the film’s lead actress inappropriately,...

Rebel Wilson has filed a new countersuit against the producers of her directorial debut The Deb, which include some of her previous allegations of embezzlement, sabotage, and harassment.

The filing is a response to a defamation suit brought by The Deb’s producers Amanda Ghost, Gregor Cameron, and Vince Holden earlier this summer. They filed their suit after Willson took to social media to accuse them of embezzling funds from the film’s budget and acting inappropriately towards the movie’s lead actress. Wilson also claimed that after she raised these issues privately,...

Update: The Deb star Charlotte MacInnes released a statement responding to Rebel Wilson‘s claims.

“There is no truth to the allegations made involving me. I made a statement to the film team when this was first said in September 2023 and am saying this now to draw a line under it,” Charlotte shared in a statement with JustJared.com. “Making false accusations undermines real victims and I won’t be the subject of a fabricated narrative.”

Original Post: Rebel Wilson is hitting back at the producers of her movie The Deb with a countersuit after they filed a defamation lawsuit against her.

For those who don’t know, Rebel made her directorial debut with the movie and also stars in it as well.

The drama all started after Rebel accused the producers of misconduct, embezzlement, and attempting to block the movie from premiering at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival. They...

Almost three months after being sued for defamation by the producers of “The Deb,” Rebel Wilson has filed a countersuit in which she accuses executive producer Vince Holden and producers Amanda Ghost and Gregor Cameron of “theft, bullying and sexual misconduct.”

“The Deb,” a musical comedy that premiered during the Toronto International Film Festival, is Wilson’s directorial debut; she also wrote and stars in the film.

In the lawsuit, filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Wilson says Ghost, Cameron and Holden’s “involvement in the film was marked by a troubling pattern of egregious and illicit behaviors, including theft, bullying and sexual misconduct.”

The filing states that when Wilson attempted to report these “despicable” actions, the three producers “resorted” to what is referred to as “the Amanda Ghost strategy: Intimidation and bullying to silence her and evade accountability.”

The lawsuit frequently singles out Ghost in particular, claiming in...

Rebel Wilson is countersuing The Deb producers Amanda Ghost, Cameron Gregor and Vince Holden, accusing them of a “troubling pattern” of “theft, bullying and sexual misconduct.”

The cross-complaint comes months after Ghost, Gregor and Holden sued Wilson for defamation in July after she initially accused them of sexual harassment and embezzlement in an Instagram video. The producing trio alleged in their lawsuit that Wilson lied in an attempt to release her movie The Deb — which Wilson directors, produced and starred in — at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, as well as secure a writing credit on the film.

Wilson’s new suit alleges that Ghost was sexually harassing the film’s lead actress, Charlotte MacInnes, and “forced MacInnes to live in her Bondi Beach penthouse apartment with her,” where “Ghost took a shower and a bath with MacInnes.” It also claimed that “Ghost was overheard making overtly sexual remarks to MacInnes on set.

Its been clear for months that Rebel Wilson was going to formally hit back against the litigating producers of her film The Deb with a lawsuit of her own, and now she has.

Just more than a week after the musical drama had its world premiere on the closing night of the Toronto Film Festival, Deb director Wilson and her lawyer Bryan Freedman assert in a September 26-filed counter-complaint that the Pitch Perfect star is “determined to fight not only for herself but also for The Deb and for all those who have silently suffered” from producer Amanda Ghost’s “reprehensible actions over the years.”

“At its core are three co-producers — Ghost, Cameron, and Holden — who operated under the delusion that they could act at the expense of others with complete impunity,” says Wilson’s nine-claim breach of contract suit against Ghost and fellow Deb producers Gregor Cameron and Vince Holden.

Rebel Wilson is calling out rising star Charlotte MacInnes, who is the leading actress of Rebel‘s directorial debut movie The Deb.

If you didn’t know, Rebel has been in a bitter lawsuit with the producers of The Deb after she accused them of misconduct and embezzlement. They responded by filing a defamation lawsuit against her.

Rebel also accused the producers of “inappropriate behavior” toward an actress in the movie and it was just revealed that Charlotte was at the center of those claims.

Charlotte spoke out to deny that there was any inappropriate behavior and now Rebel is calling her out, claiming that the actress retracted her accusations to get a new job from the producer.

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In a statement to Daily Mail, Charlotte said, “There is no truth to the allegations made involving me. I made a statement to the film team...

The Toronto Film Festival kicked off September 5 with a multi-move opening night that included David Gordon Green’s family comedy Nutcrackers starring Ben Stiller. It kicked off a slate of world premieres and buzzy movies across 11 days for the 49th edition of one of North America’s biggest film festivals.

Other key titles making their debuts in Toronto included The Luckiest Man in America starring Paul Walter Hauser, the Amy Adams-starring Nightbitch, theater guru Marianne Elliott’s The Salt Path, DreamWorks Animation’s The Wild Robot and Mike Flanagan’s The Life of Chuck, which won the coveted People’s Choice Award.

Documentaries that made a splash included Elton John: Never Too Late and Paul Anka: His Way.

Click below to read Deadline’s reviews from the ground in Toronto, where the festival wrappred September 15.

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Theres a song in the Aussie musical The Deb called pretty strong, and thats a fine descriptor for Rebel Wilsons directorial debut. This colorful, exuberant musical about finding glamour in a dusty small town is at times as infectious as its songs, at times as broad as its boldest characters, and at times as dull as the landscape around the town of Dunburn, Australia. Based on the 2022 musical, with songs written by Megan Washington, lyrics by Washington and Hanna Reilly, and the theatrical book by Reilly, this is the story of a very online Maeve (Charlotte MacInnes), attendee at a private girls school and nascent social media starlet. The first to chastise those whose behavior she disputes, or take credit for whatever activism mode she chooses to amplify, she soon takes one too many chances before exposing herself (literally), and thus becoming the cancel pig, demonized and expelled from her cloistered environment.

The Deb had the honor of being the closing film at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, and Rebel Wilson's directorial debut left quite an impression. The Australian star, whose film is based on the stage play by Hannah Reilly, leans into her comic roots by bringing to the festival a cheeky, outrageous musical about two teens who come together to participate in a small town's annual debutante ball. The Deb's timing feels fortuitous; it feels like a natural companion to the Mean Girls musical released earlier this year.

The Deb

Director Rebel WilsonWriters Hannah Reilly, Meg Washington, Rebel WilsonCast Ben Turland, Susan Prior, Sheree da Costa, Ioane Saula, Naomi Sequeira, Steph Tisdell, Tara Morice, Shane Jacobson, Hal Cumpston, Rebel WilsonCharacter(s) Razzie, Dimity, Damo, Shell, Lucinda, Janette, Tish, Mitch, Rick, DancerRuntime 121 MinutesGenres Comedy, Musical The Rebel Wilson Musical Comedy Is Entertaining

The film follows queen bee Maeve (Charlotte MacInnes...

Toronto – There have been a number of unexpected news reports about “The Deb,” the feature directorial debut of Rebel Wilson, over the past few months. Wilson has been in a war of words with the producers of the indie production since July. The comedy star posted to her 11 million followers on Instagram to denounce the producers for attempting to stop the movie from being selected as the closing night film at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Continue reading ‘The Deb’ Review: Natalie Abbott, Charlotte MacInnes & These Aussie Kids Can Sing [TIFF] at The Playlist.

Australian actress and comedian Rebel Wilson made her directorial debut with the musical film “The Deb,” which premiered at the closing night of the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday. Wilson both directed and starred in the movie. She explained her passion for musicals developed after watching a stage production as a teenager that helped her through dark times.

“The Deb” tells the story of two cousins from different backgrounds who both seek attention and discover themselves through their rural Australian high school’s upcoming debutante ball. Taylah Simpkins, played by Natalie Abbott, is an outcast who sees the ball as her chance to transform. Meanwhile, her city-dwelling cousin Maeve, played by Charlotte MacInnes, views the traditional event as outdated and looks to challenge social norms.

Inspired by classic Australian movies like “Muriel’s Wedding” and “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert,” Wilson said she wanted to create a...

Pitch Perfect actress Rebel Wilson directed, produced and starred in The Deb, an Australian musical comedy that had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on Saturday night.

And Wilson, who was on hand for a post-screening Q&a at Roy Thomson Hall for TIFF’s closing night film, explained why her next directorial efforts will only be musicals. “When I was a teenager, it was a pretty dark time, and I got to see a musical at 14 years of age, because my dog auditioned for it,” she recalled.

The dog didn’t get the gig, but Wilson got hooked on musicals. “I saw these people dancing and singing on stage, they were so colorful and joyful, and that really helped me through my teenage years,” she added.

Wilson said she’s had two offers to direct musicals in the near future. “That’s why, if I’m directing more movies,...

Rebel Wilson is having a triumphant moment at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, and she’s celebrating with her daughter Royce!

On Saturday evening (September 14), the Pitch Perfect actress hit the red carpet outside Roy Thomson Hall for the premiere of her directorial debut The Deb in Toronto, Ontario.

She was joined at the event by her fiancee Ramona Agruma, her nearly two-year-old daughter and members of her cast, including the likes of Tara Morice, Costa D’Angelo, Alex Champion De Crespigny, Shane Jacobson, Stevie Jean, Sophea Pennington, Amanda Kour, Michaeljon Slinger and Natalie Abbott. We’ve got photos of all of them in the gallery.

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Here’s the movie’s official synopsis from the TIFF website: “Maeve (Charlotte MacInnes) is queen bee at her exclusive private school in the city. But when one of her misguided crusades provokes outrage, she gets not only disciplined...

When Maeve (Charlotte MacInnes) gets suspended from school after a political demonstration backfires, her mother (Susan Prior), who also happens to be the institution’s principal, sends the Sydney teenager to live with her cousin Taylah (Natalie Abbott) in the Australian outback.

Dunburn, the fictional locale in which Rebel Wilson’s uneven directorial debut The Deb is set, is a small town recovering from a years-long drought and dereliction of duty by national ministries. The local government desperately needs money to maintain their water supply and have resorted, in one of the film’s more humorous gags, to making a viral video to bring attention to their plight. Of course, none of these issues concern Maeve, who arrives in Dunburn already plotting her escape.

Premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival, The Deb chronicles Maeve’s fish-out-of-water adventures in Dunburn. Upon arrival, the cosmopolitan teen loudly rejects the town’s regressive traditions.

Of all the projects Rebel Wilson could have taken on for her directorial debut, there’s much about “The Deb” that makes sense. Based on a largely well-received stage musical, it’s got a sturdy if straightforward premise about the fictional town of Dunburn, Australia with all the many distinct characters that call it home and the outsider protagonist who finds herself part of the community.

There is plenty of room for heartfelt charm, chaotic shenanigans and more biting observations about its culture clash to be explored, though rarely does “The Deb” capitalize on this. It’s a meandering experience defined by the broadest of narrative strokes, cardboard cutout characters and musical numbers that start fun before growing more oddly obligatory in nature.

With all that in mind, while “The Deb” is unlikely ever to be considered one of the great movie musicals, it still has a smattering of playful...

With the goal of making a big-screen Australian musical in the vein of movies like Muriel’s Wedding and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert that made such an impression on her growing up, Rebel Wilson has in many ways measured up to the delights that made those films modern classics in The Deb, which just had its world premiere at the closing night of the Toronto Film Festival.

Overshadowed in the past few weeks by a public dispute between Wilson and the film’s producers that nearly derailed this premiere, that kind of negative energy should not cloud what, for much of its two-hour running time, is a toe-tapping, dazzling, fun and young musical entertainment with an exceptional cast in the kind of showcase that makes future stars. Wilson knows exactly what kind of entertainment she wants to serve up here, and for at least the first half...

According to tradition, debutante balls are designed to introduce young ladies to polite society. But in Australian comedy star Rebel Wilson’s rowdy directorial debut, “The Deb,” there isn’t really anything that resembles “polite society.” Wilson’s characters run the gamut from uncouth to in-your-face offensive — none more than the tacky small-town beautician Wilson embodies in a brash, John Waters-esque musical satire, situated where overzealous progressive values meet old-school pageantry at its most patriarchal.

It’s unfortunate that the film’s Toronto Film Festival closing-night premiere is overshadowed by legal disputes between Wilson and three of her producers, since “The Deb” delivers where it counts. The project pokes fun at all parties while rewriting the codes of teenage romance for the 21st century. Right out of the gate, it’s “Hairspray” meets “High School Musical,” as the elaborately choreographed, radio-inappropriate opening number, “Fml,” sets the tone for all that follows.

Rebel Wilson took to social media on Wednesday, July 31 to express her distaste for the producers of her upcoming directorial debut, The Deb, following news of the lawsuit against her for defamation. Despite not formally responding through her lawyers, the actress fired back via an Instagram story.

Reported by Deadline, Wilson spoke directly to her film's billionaire investor Len Blavatnik to stop funding and protecting producers Amanda Ghost, Gregor Cameron and Vince Holden. She spoke about the lawsuit and retaliation by the producers in response to her accusations.

"Clearly these recent press articles and constant retaliations against me for speaking the truth on my small Australian movie are False... All I did was tell the truth about these absolute f***wits now they launch a bogus defamation suit and bogus articles to inflict further harm."

Also reported first by Deadline on July 18, following the defamation lawsuit announcement, Wilson hired Hollywood...

Rebel Wilson’s The Deb will close the Toronto Film Festival on September 15 after all. This is after the actress claimed on social media that the pic’s EPs blocked her feature directorial debut from making its world premiere as the closing-night title at TIFF.

Meanwhile, David Gordon Green’s Nutcrackers with Ben Stiller is set to open the fest on September 5. Both films will be making their world premiere.

Wilson on July 10 took to social to bash her backers for getting in the way of her feature musical’s debut at TIFF, saying for them to “turn around and say that no, the movie can’t premiere, is just beyond devastating.”

She claimed in her post that the business partners Amanda Ghost and Gregory Cameron had “bad behavior.”

“And so I said — reported, I guess you would say — their bad behavior when I found out not minor things, big things,...

Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) will open on September 5 with the world premiere of Ben Stiller comedy drama Nutcrackers directed by David Gordon Green and close with Rebel Wilson’s directorial debut The Deb.

Stiller stars as strait-laced workaholic Mike, who is thrust into becoming a caregiver to his rambunctious orphaned nephews.

Green and Stiller shot the film late last year in Ohio. Rivulet fully financed the film and produced with Rough House.

Rivulet’s Rob Paris and Mike Witherill produced with Nate Meyer of Rough House. UTA Independent handles North American rights.

The Deb is a musical comedy about...

Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) will open on September 5 with the world premiere of Ben Stiller comedy Nutcrackers directed by David Gordon Green and close with Rebel Wilson’s directorial debut The Deb.

Stiller stars as strait-laced workaholic Mike, who is thrust into becoming a caregiver to his rambunctious orphaned nephews.

Green and Stiller shot the film late last year in Ohio. Rivulet fully financed the film and produced with Rough House.

Rivulet’s Rob Paris and Mike Witherill produced with Nate Meyer of Rough House. UTA Independent handles North American rights.

The Deb is a musical comedy about two...

Nutcrackers, David Gordon Green’s heartfelt comedy starring Ben Stiller, is set to open the 2024 Toronto Film Festival on Sept. 5.

The TIFF opener — marking Stiller’s first starring role in a movie since Mike White’s Brad’s Status and Noah Baumbach’s Netflix family drama The Meyerowitz Stories in 2017 — will have a world premiere at Roy Thomson Hall, which is filled with ordinary moviegoers (and not only industry people as in Cannes and Venice).

Written by Leland Douglas, Nutcrackers follows Mike (Stiller), a straight-laced workaholic who has to travel to rural Ohio to care for his four nephews after their parents die in a car accident. After weeks of farm-life mayhem, Mike realizes he won’t have to find a new home for the orphaned children. They found a new home for him.

Nutcrackers — with an ensemble cast that includes Linda Cardellini, Edi Patterson, Tim Heidecker and Toby Huss — is...

Rebel Wilson is stepping into the music industry.

The Australian actress and singer has signed a deal with Warner Music and will have her very own, exceptionally personalized label — Rebellionaire — Deadline reports.

“Take the ‘b’ out of billionaire and replace it with an ‘r’ for Rebel,” she told the publication of her partnership with the recording group, whom was set on partnering after hearing songs from Wilson’s feature directorial debut “The Deb” — a comedy/musical set in Australia.

The first release from Rebellionaire will be “The Deb”’s soundtrack, out late 2024 along with the film’s debut.

Wilson was first introduced to “The Deb” over three years ago via a scholarship program she supports at Sydney’s Australian Theatre for Young People (Atyp).

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“Basically, one young person wins it and then I mentor them for a year,...

Exclusive: Rebel Wilson has signed with Warner Music and will have her own highly personalized label: Rebellionaire. “Take the ‘b’ out of billionaire and replace it with an ‘r’ for Rebel,” she quipped.

The recording group partnered with Wilson after hearing songs from her feature directorial debut The Deb, a musical set in Australia that is set to begin shooting Down Under in October.

Rebellionaire’s first release will be The Deb’s soundtrack, due out later next year with the film’s launch.

Wilson was introduced to The Deb 3½ years ago through a scholarship program that she supports at Sydney’s Australian Theatre for Young People (Atyp). “Basically, one young person wins it and then I mentor them for a year,” she explained. “And as part of it, they have to pitch a show and write the show and hopefully finish it by the end of the year.”

The...

Rebel Wilson is set to direct her first feature, The Deb, a musical set in Australia “that brings the bush into the city.”

The Deb was written by Hannah Reilly and Meg Washington based on a stage show that Wilson championed when it premiered at Sydney’s Australian Theatre for Young People (Atyp) in 2022. Wilson revealed that she also will co-star in the film and told us that two songs not used in the stage production will be featured in the film.

Amanda Ghost, Len Blavatnik and Gregor Cameron are producing through their company Unigram (Tetris) and sister company AI Film.

Shooting on locations in Sydney and rural New South Wales starting in September, The Deb will be produced in partnership with Wilson’s Camp Sugar Productions and award-winning Australian producer Bunya Productions. Danny Cohen executive...