In light of the Nepal earthquake, Warner Bros. will evaluate the worldwide marketing campaign for its upcoming disaster film "San Andreas," the studio said Wednesday.
Warner Bros. representative Paul McGuire said the studio wants to ensure it is sensitive to people affected by the tragedy.
The powerful earthquake Saturday in Nepal killed more than 5,000 people, injured twice that many and left tens of thousands of people homeless.
The film "San Andreas" imagines the aftermath of a devastating earthquake in California. Promos for the film to be released May 29 show Los Angeles and San Francisco landmarks crumbling on a mass scale and wreckage flying at crowds of people.
In upcoming promos, the studio will be including information on how to help the relief efforts in Nepal and also how to prepare for natural disasters.
Warner Bros. had already planned public service announcements about preparedness around the marketing of the film starring Dwayne Johnson and Carla Gugino but adjusted and accelerated those efforts after Nepal.
Universal Pictures has the film "Everest" set for release in September. The story is based on Jon Krakauer's non-fiction novel "Into Thin Air" about a tragic 1996 expedition. It follows a climbing group that is devastated by a severe storm.
With 19 people killed on Mount Everest in the recent earthquake, Universal will also be weighing changes to its promotion of the film.
Harvey Weinstein hit with new sex crime charge in New York
Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a new sex crime charge in New York, as he awaits retrial in his landmark #MeToo case.
Details of the new allegations were not immediately available. He was charged with committing a criminal sex act.
The jailed ex-movie mogul has long maintained that any sexual activity was consensual.
Prosecutors revealed last week that Weinstein had been indicted on additional sex crime charges that weren't part of the case that led to his now-overturned 2020 conviction. But the new indictment was sealed until his arraignment.
Prosecutors have said that the grand jury heard evidence of up to three alleged assaults — two in hotels in the Tribeca neighborhood and one at a lower Manhattan residential building. The purported incidents took place from the mid-2000s to 2016, prosecutors said.
But it's not clear whether any of those allegations underlie the new indictment.
While bracing for the new charges, Weinstein also is awaiting retrial after New York state's highest court this spring overturned his 2020 conviction on rape and sexual assault charges involving two women. The high court, called the Court of Appeals, ordered a new trial, which is tentatively scheduled to begin Nov. 12.
The Court of Appeals ruled that the then-trial judge unfairly allowed testimony against him based on allegations that were not part of the case. That judge's term expired in 2022, and he is no longer on the bench.
Prosecutors have said they'll seek to fold the new charges into the retrial, but Weinstein's lawyers say it should be a separate case.
Weinstein, who also was convicted in 2022 in a Los Angeles rape case, remains behind bars while awaiting his New York retrial.
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