Hollywood news banter: The hazards of making movies about real people

The new Clint Eastwood movie ‘Richard Jewell’ includes a journalist character who shares the name with a real Atlanta-based reporter. In the movie, she sleeps with a source for information. In real life, there’s no evidence she did any such thing, and she’s no longer alive to defend herself.

Apple is trying to get into the movie game, and they’re finding out quickly just how difficult that is. ‘The Banker,’ a movie they acquired, had to have its premiere canceled when molestation allegations came to light involving the son of the real person the movie is based on.

Pondering the future of Star Wars, and of Kathleen Kennedy.