History RoleEndingMisdemeanor / Film

* Isaac "Ike" Perlmutter's 22-year dominion at [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel]] came to an end in September 2015 when he tried to boot Creator/RobertDowneyJr from ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' despite Downey being a vital asset to the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse at this stage, resulting in Creator/MarvelStudios' head Kevin Feige going over his head, and Creator/{{Disney}} siding with him. In the aftermath, Perlmutter would ultimately lose his position as Marvel CCO to Feige as well, remanded to the position of chairman in the company. The incidents largely seen as the last straw were not only a donation to UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump's re-election campaign, but the first picture of the notoriously-secretive Perlmutter in years [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/reclusive-marvel-ceo-ike-perlmutter-photographed-public-959632 being one in which he appears with Trump]], especially as Trump's presidency was becoming increasingly more controversial. Disney then took several prior questionable decisions he had made over the past decade into consideration, such as replacing Creator/PattyJenkins with Alan Taylor as director of ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' over CreativeDifferences,[[note]]Jenkins would ultimately direct ''Film/{{Wonder Woman|2017}}'' for the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse, which would become a success for the up-to-that-point divisive DCEU, thus causing major embarrassment at Disney over the blown chance, while ''Thor: The Dark World'' would go on to be considered one of the weaker films in the MCU[[/note]] blackmailing Feige into allowing ''ComicBook/TheInhumans'' to be adapted as part of the MCU and trying to have them replace the X-Men franchise-wide because of Fox having the rights,[[note]][[Series/{{Inhumans}} the end result]] would go on to be considered the worst reviewed entry in the MCU ''overall'', beating out the other lesser-regarded installments ''The Dark World'', ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', ''Film/{{Eternals}}'', and ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' by a long shot[[/note]] and his attempts to quash the film adaptations of ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}'' and ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'', which both grossed over a billion dollars for Disney, with his excuse being that comic-book fans wouldn't go see a superhero movie with non-white male leads.[[note]]Which in the case of ''Black Panther'', was ironic for Perlmutter to say given the success of the ''[[Film/BladeTrilogy Blade]]'' movies for Creator/NewLineCinema.[[/note]]Perlmutter would eventually be ousted from Marvel altogether in 2023 after supposedly attempting to secretly get Kevin Feige fired via an ally in Disney's shareholders [[note]]said ally was, oddly enough, Nelson Peltz, who also had a hand in the ExecutiveMeddling that derailed ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' over a decade earlier. [/note]]

* Isaac "Ike" Perlmutter's 22-year dominion at [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel]] came to an end in September 2015 when he tried to boot Creator/RobertDowneyJr from ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' despite Downey being a vital asset to the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse at this stage, resulting in Creator/MarvelStudios' head Kevin Feige going over his head, and Creator/{{Disney}} siding with him. In the aftermath, Perlmutter would ultimately lose his position as Marvel CCO to Feige as well, remanded to the position of chairman in the company. The incidents largely seen as the last straw were not only a donation to UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump's re-election campaign, but the first picture of the notoriously-secretive Perlmutter in years [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/reclusive-marvel-ceo-ike-perlmutter-photographed-public-959632 being one in which he appears with Trump]], especially as Trump's presidency was becoming increasingly more controversial. Disney then took several prior questionable decisions he had made over the past decade into consideration, such as replacing Creator/PattyJenkins with Alan Taylor as director of ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' over CreativeDifferences,[[note]]Jenkins would ultimately direct ''Film/{{Wonder Woman|2017}}'' for the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse, which would become a success for the up-to-that-point divisive DCEU, thus causing major embarrassment at Disney over the blown chance, while ''Thor: The Dark World'' would go on to be considered one of the weaker films in the MCU[[/note]] blackmailing Feige into allowing ''ComicBook/TheInhumans'' to be adapted as part of the MCU and trying to have them replace the X-Men franchise-wide because of Fox having the rights,[[note]][[Series/{{Inhumans}} the end result]] would go on to be considered the worst reviewed entry in the MCU ''overall'', beating out the other lesser-regarded installments ''The Dark World'', ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', ''Film/{{Eternals}}'', and ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' by a long shot[[/note]] and his attempts to quash the film adaptations of ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}'' and ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'', which both grossed over a billion dollars for Disney, with his excuse being that comic-book fans wouldn't go see a superhero movie with non-white male leads.[[note]]Which in the case of ''Black Panther'', was ironic for Perlmutter to say given the success of the ''[[Film/BladeTrilogy Blade]]'' movies for Creator/NewLineCinema.[[/note]]

* Subverted when actor Creator/JohnHurt was fired from ''Film/ZuluDawn'' because his name was brought up at customs in South Africa, where the film was to be shot, as suspicious. Turns out, he had been confused with an American anti-apartheid activist with a similar name. Happily, that just happened to make him available for [[Film/{{Alien}} another film]] when one of its stars contracted pneumonia very early on in production.

* Actor Creator/JohnHurt was fired from ''Film/ZuluDawn'' because his name was brought up at customs in South Africa, where the film was to be shot, as suspicious. Turns out, he had been confused with an American anti-apartheid activist with a similar name. Happily, that just happened to make him available for [[Film/{{Alien}} another film]] when one of its stars contracted pneumonia very early on in production.

The cinema industry takes advantage of entertainment with feature-length movies to earn credibility. from popcorn to the box office, filming a movie takes alot of effort to make a successful career. However, [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor if any misbehavior happens,]] [[ProducePelting you really can't help yourself but throw produce at them]]. As such, for those who want to work for the filming industry, here are examples to keep in mind.

The cinema industry takes advantage of entertainment with feature-length movies to earn credibility. from popcorn to the box office, filming a movie take alot of effort to make a successful career. However, [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor if any misbehavior happens,]] [[ProducePelting you really can't help yourself but throw produce at them]]. As such, for those who want to work for the filming industry, here are examples to keep in mind.

The cinema industry takes advandage of entertaiment with feature-legnth movies to earn credability. from popcorns to the box office, filming a movie take alot of effort to make a successful career. However, [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor if any misbehavior happens,]] [[ProducePelting you really can't help yourself but throw produce at them]]. As such, for those who want to work for the filming industry, here are examples to keep in mind.

* The film industry in the Western world was rocked by the "Weinstein effect", which saw numerous actors and producers seeing themselves booted from prominent films as a result of sexual misconduct allegations:

* During the late 1980s, Creator/RobLowe was celebrated as the new male sex symbol in films and television. This ended after he was caught in a sex tape scandal (before sex tapes became popular shortcuts to fame).[[note]]Adding to the controversy was that the other person in the sex tape was a 16-year-old girl, although no legal issues came from that as the age of consent in Georgia (where the tape was made) was 14 at the time.[[/note]] His performance of "Proud Mary" alongside Eileen Bowman as WesternAnimation/{{Snow White|AndTheSevenDwarfs}} at the start of the 1989 UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s ceremony shortly afterwards certainly didn't help matters. While Lowe has still appeared mostly on television in major roles in series such as ''Series/TheWestWing'' and ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'', his career has never been as popular as it was before the scandal.

* Creator/RaquelWelch was fired from the film adaptation of ''Literature/CanneryRow'' after five days of filming and replaced by (the much younger) Creator/DebraWinger. Welch subsequently sued Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer for wrongful firing, claiming that she was only used by the studio to get financing and her firing was inevitable. The courts sided with Welch, but the subsequent lawsuit blackballed her from the industry. She continues to get work, but only in supporting roles; one of the few big things Welch did since then was a guest spot [[AsHimself as herself]] on an episode of ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''.

* A ''Franchise''-Ending Misdemeanor is Creator/WesleySnipes' three-year prison sentence for tax evasion, which has [[FranchiseKiller directly resulted in the termination]] of Creator/NewLineCinema's ''[[Film/BladeTrilogy Blade]]'' franchise. Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}} reacquired the film rights to ''ComicBook/{{Blade}}'' when New Line[=/=]Creator/WarnerBros were deemed unable to produce a fourth film on time due to Snipes' absence. In 2019, a new ''Blade'' film was announced for the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse... without Snipes, his role as the titular character going to Creator/MahershalaAli, whom previously played Cottonmouth in ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}'' as part of the MCU's Creator/{{Netflix}} television series.

** After misconduct allegations came out against him just before the release of ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'' in November 2017, Creator/JohnLasseter took a leave of absence from Creator/{{Disney}} and ultimately fell on his sword the following June, deciding to resign from the company by the end of the year. Lasseter would get a second chance with Skydance Animation following his resignation from Disney; however, it remains to be seen how that will pan out, especially considering [[OvershadowedByControversy his mere hiring cost]] Creator/SkydanceMedia [[OvershadowedByControversy as a whole a quite bit of respect]]. Nearly 35 years earlier, Lasseter's first stint at Disney ended with his being fired outright for [[FelonyMisdemeanor promoting computer animation]]. Skydance's hiring of Lasseter prompted Creator/EmmaThompson to leave the production of the studio's animated film ''Luck'', even after doing some voice work on it.

** Harvey Weinstein was a popular film producer and co-founder of Creator/{{Miramax}} and Creator/TheWeinsteinCompany who had several [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscars]] to his credit. On October 5, 2017, however, his career came to an end when several investigative reports - first by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey in ''The New York Times'' and then in [[https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/from-aggressive-overtures-to-sexual-assault-harvey-weinsteins-accusers-tell-their-stories a widely-read article]] by Ronan Farrow in ''The New Yorker'', reports that won the trio a Pulitzer Prize - led to the discovery of sexual harassment allegations against him going back decades. Three days later, Weinstein was dismissed from TWC. At the same time, [[https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/10/harvey-weinstein-accusers-sexual-harassment-assault-rose-mcgowan-ashley-judd-gwyneth-paltrow several A-list Hollywood actresses]] - including Creator/RoseMcGowan, Creator/AnnabellaSciorra, Creator/GwynethPaltrow, Creator/AshleyJudd, and Creator/AngelinaJolie - accused Weinstein of sexual assault, rape, or misconduct. The ensuing firestorm evaporated Weinstein's considerable clout in Hollywood virtually overnight, and further cost him his membership in the Academy, along with his marriage. He was eventually arrested on May 25, 2018. [[MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot And that was just the beginning]]: It also encouraged other women (and a few men) to publicly charge [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_too_(hashtag)#Aftermath others in Hollywood]] of sexual abuse, which led to the accused being fired from their respective jobs as well. On February 24, 2020, Weinstein was convicted of one count of rape in the third degree and a criminal sexual act in the first degree, and on March 11th, he was sentenced to 23 years in prison, where (assuming he isn't granted parole or early release) he will probably die (he is scheduled for release at 90 years of age).

** Creator/JohnnyDepp was dropped from his role as Gellert Grindelwald in the middle of production of the then-upcoming ''Film/FantasticBeastsTheSecretsOfDumbledore'' when he lost a libel lawsuit in November 2020 against a tabloid who called him a "wife beater" amidst his feud with ex-wife Creator/AmberHeard. His role was recast with Danish actor Creator/MadsMikkelsen.

** Kevin Guthrie, who played Grindelwald's follower Abernathy, was also fired from ''The Secrets of Dumbledore'', although he was fired at an indeterminate time before production started. He was charged and later convicted for a sexual assault that occurred in 2017. As a result, he did not come back for this film.

** Creator/JohnnyDepp was dropped from his role as dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald in ''Film/FantasticBeasts'' series in the middle of production of the then-upcoming ''Film/FantasticBeastsTheSecretsOfDumbledore'' when he lost a libel lawsuit in November 2020 against a tabloid who called him a "wife beater" amidst his feud with ex-wife Creator/AmberHeard. His role was recast with Danish actor Creator/MadsMikkelsen.

** Creator/JohnnyDepp was dropped from his role as dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald in ''Film/FantasticBeasts'' series in the middle of production of the then-upcoming ''Film/FantasticBeastsTheSecretsOfDumbledore'' when he lost a libel lawsuit in November 2020 against a tabloid who called him a "wife beater" amidst his feud with ex-wife Creator/AmberHeard. The judge ruled that since he found 12 of the 14 instances used in the trial to meet the civil standard of domestic violence, it was not libelous to call him such. His role was recast with Danish actor Creator/MadsMikkelsen.

** Jamie Waylett was dropped from ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' after being charged with cannabis possession in 2009. Instead, Blaise Zabini appears as Draco's second sidekick rather than Crabbe [[spoiler:[[DeathByAdaptation and Goyle is killed in Crabbe's place]], with Crabbe himself [[PutOnABus not appearing or being mentioned at all]]]]. Waylett was later sentenced to two years in prison for participating in the 2011 UsefulNotes/{{England}} riots.
** Creator/JohnnyDepp was fired from the ''Film/FantasticBeasts'' series in the middle of production of the then-upcoming [[Film/FantasticBeastsTheSecretsOfDumbledore third film]] in late 2020 when he lost a defamation lawsuit against a tabloid in the UK court system that resulted in him being able to legally be called a “wife beater”. The judge found it wasn’t defamatory to call him such because the defense was able to prove, to a civil standard, that 12 instances of domestic violence (as well as two instances of sexual assault) against ex-wife Creator/AmberHeard had occurred. His role was quickly recast with Danish actor Creator/MadsMikkelsen whose schedule was free because his original project for 2020, ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny '', was delayed until after COVID-19 vaccines were ready due to Creator/HarrisonFord’s age. Depp would emerge victorious in a defamation trial in the US directly against Heard (albeit in split decision with the jury also finding Depp liable for defamation via a statement put out by his attorney that called Heard's allegations a hoax) but they eventually settled after they both filed an appeal. Heard ended up paying him a million dollars (when the original judgement was $10 million) but admitted no culpability and was able to get away without having to sign an NDA.
** Kevin Guthrie, who played Grindelwald's follower Abernathy, was also fired from the third film, although he was fired at an indeterminate time before production started. He was charged and later convicted for a sexual assault that occurred in 2017. As a result, he did not come back for this film.

** Creator/JeffreyTambor was also fired as the voice of Boomer the Bear and had to be replaced by Ken Hudson Campbell. This also led to his role as King Peppy in ''WesternAnimation/{{Trolls}}'' being recast to director Walt Dohrn in [[WesternAnimation/TrollsWorldTour the sequel]].

** Creator/JohnnyDepp was fired from the ''Film/FantasticBeasts'' series in the middle of production of the then-upcoming [[Film/FantasticBeastsTheSecretsOfDumbledore third film]] when he lost a libel case against a tabloid in the UK in November 2020. The tabloid had run a headline calling him a "wife beater" in the context of talking about him remaining in the series despite allegations of domestic violence against him by ex-wife, Creator/AmberHeard. The judge in the lawsuit ruled in favor of the tabloid, saying the tabloid's (and, by extension, Heard's) allegations were "substantially true", with twelve of fourteen instances used by the defense meeting the civil standard for domestic violence. His role was quickly recast with Danish actor Creator/MadsMikkelsen. Depp would emerge victorious in a defamation trial in the US directly against Heard (albeit in split decision with the jury also finding Depp liable for defamation via a statement put out by his attorney that called Heard's allegations a hoax) but they eventually settled after they both filed an appeal. Heard ended up paying him a million dollars (when the original judgement was $10 million) but admitted no culpability and was able to get away without having to sign an NDA.

* Creator/ArmieHammer announced in January 2021 that he would be stepping down from his role in ''Shotgun Wedding'', a film he was to star in alongside Music/JenniferLopez, after screenshots of Instagram messages purportedly from Hammer's secret account circulated on social media. The messages generated controversy as they not only showed him messaging with various women while he was still married, but also contained what were described as "disturbing sexual fantasies" which included cannibalism. By February he was forced to leave the Creator/ParamountPlus series ''The Offer'' and had been dropped by both his publicist and his talent agency. He was later accused of raping a woman in 2017, for which the LAPD opened an investigation. Disney retained him for its adaptation of ''Film/{{Death on the Nile|2022}}'', precisely because of the film having already been completed for more than a year and already sitting on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment because of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, and that their acquisition of Fox came with the stipulation that all the films completed prior to the merger had to receive a first-run theatrical release. He was, however, removed from ''Film/NextGoalWins'' in December 2021, with Creator/WillArnett cast to replace him.

** Creator/JohnnyDepp was fired from the ''Film/FantasticBeasts'' series in the middle of production of the then-upcoming [[Film/FantasticBeastsTheSecretsOfDumbledore third film]] when he lost a libel case against a tabloid in the UK in November 2020. The tabloid had run a headline calling him a "wife beater" in the context of talking about him remaining in the series despite allegations of domestic violence against him by ex-wife, Creator/AmberHeard. The judge in the lawsuit ruled in favor of the tabloid, saying the tabloid's (and, by extension, Heard's) allegations were "substantially true", with twelve of fourteen instances used by the defense meeting the civil standard for domestic violence. His role was quickly recast with Danish actor Creator/MadsMikkelsen, even though Depp himself eventually emerged victorious in the subsequent lawsuit.

* A temporary case with Creator/JamesGunn. He was initially dismissed from directing the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse film ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy, Vol. 3'' by Creator/{{Disney}} chairman Alan Horn -- unilaterally, it turned out, and without consulting anyone else -- shortly before production after the resurfacing of tweets he had made a decade prior that joked about rape and pedophilia. Gunn had apologized for these tweets in the past, but they were dug up in July 2018 by alt-right political commentator Mike Cernovich, who began a campaign to get Gunn fired from the movie for them. It was later revealed that Cernovich dug up dirt against Gunn to protest Disney's firing of virulent UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump supporter Creator/RoseanneBarr for her racist tweets (Gunn has made it clear on social media that he is not a fan of Trump or his policies). Although pretty much no one defended the content of Gunn's tweets, many people called out Disney for firing Gunn for years-old comments while buckling to the extremely controversial Cernovich, with many pointing out that his apology for the tweets predated his hiring by Disney and they should have known about them already. A petition made to reinstate Gunn to the film would eventually garner 345,000 signatures, and the entire cast of the film released a signed statement in support of him (with one of them, [[Wrestling/{{Batista}} Dave Bautista]], actually threatening to quit the film and join Gunn in whatever new project he would make). Despite the pushback, and the fact that Disney didn't have anyone but Gunn in mind to direct ''[=GOTG3=]'', since Disney was at the time trying to acquire Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox and didn't want to show any sign of weakness, the company had no choice but to place Gunn under suspension, and officially deny from time to time that they had any plans of bringing him back, until March 2019. In the interim, Gunn decided to help out next door at the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse by directing ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'' and ''Series/{{Peacemaker|2022}}''. Production on ''Guardians 3'', now bumped to 2023 following the whole fiasco, is currently slated to resume after Gunn completes his DC film and series.

* Isaac "Ike" Perlmutter's 22-year dominion at [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel]] came to an end in September 2015 when he tried to boot Creator/RobertDowneyJr from ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' despite Downey being a vital asset to the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse at this stage, resulting in Creator/MarvelStudios' head Kevin Feige going over his head, and Creator/{{Disney}} siding with him. In the aftermath, Perlmutter would ultimately lose his position as Marvel CCO to Feige as well. The incidents largely seen as the last straw were not only a donation to UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump's re-election campaign, but the first picture of the notoriously-secretive Perlmutter in years [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/reclusive-marvel-ceo-ike-perlmutter-photographed-public-959632 being one in which he appears with Trump]], especially as Trump's presidency was becoming increasingly more controversial. Disney then took several prior questionable decisions he had made over the past decade into consideration, such as replacing Creator/PattyJenkins with Alan Taylor as director of ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' over CreativeDifferences,[[note]]Jenkins would ultimately direct ''Film/{{Wonder Woman|2017}}'' for the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse, which would become a success for the up-to-that-point divisive DCEU, thus causing major embarrassment at Disney over the blown chance, while ''Thor: The Dark World'' would go on to be considered one of the weaker films in the MCU[[/note]] blackmailing Feige into allowing ''ComicBook/TheInhumans'' to be adapted as part of the MCU and trying to have them replace the X-Men franchise-wide because of Fox having the rights,[[note]][[Series/{{Inhumans}} the end result]] would go on to be considered the worst reviewed entry in the MCU ''overall'', beating out the other lesser-regarded installments ''The Dark World'', ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', ''Film/{{Eternals}}'', and ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' by a long shot[[/note]] and his attempts to quash the film adaptations of ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}'' and ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'', which both grossed over a billion dollars for Disney, with his excuse being that comic-book fans wouldn't go see a superhero movie with non-white male leads.[[note]]Which in the case of ''Black Panther'', was ironic for Perlmutter to say given the success of the ''[[Film/BladeTrilogy Blade]]'' movies for Creator/NewLineCinema.[[/note]]

** Creator/JohnnyDepp was fired from the ''Film/FantasticBeasts'' series in the middle of production of the then-upcoming [[Film/FantasticBeastsTheSecretsOfDumbledore third film]] when he lost a libel case against a tabloid in the UK in November 2020. The tabloid had run a headline calling him a "wife beater" in the context of talking about him remaining in the series despite allegations of domestic violence against him by ex-wife, Creator/AmberHeard. The judge in the lawsuit ruled in favor of the tabloid, saying the tabloid's (and, by extension, Heard's) allegations were "substantially true", with twelve of fourteen instances used by the defense meeting the civil standard for domestic violence. His role was quickly recast with Danish actor Creator/MadsMikkelsen.

** The [[UsefulNotes/DFWMetroplex Dallas]]-based independent film studio Cinestate collapsed in June 2020 after producer Adam Donaghey, a core member of the studio's production team, was arrested for sexual assault of a minor. Soon after, [[https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2020/august/cinestate-metoo-abuse-scandal-dallas-sonnier/ allegations poured out]] claiming that Cinestate heads Dallas Sonnier and Amanda Presmyk had known that Donaghey was a sexual predator and covered up his behavior for years, that he had racked up a litany of sex offenses on the sets of their films, and that said films also had NoOSHACompliance and endured {{Troubled Production}}s, long hours, and frequent injuries to cast and crew as a result. In the aftermath, Cinestate sold off ''Fangoria'' magazine (which it had relaunched to much fanfare in 2018) and the film website ''[=Birth.Movies.Death.=]'' (which it had just recently purchased from the Alamo Drafthouse theater chain in May), and shut down its film website ''Rebeller'' and its corporate website. Sonnier has since founded a new production company called Bonfire Legend.
** Cinematographer Adam Kimmel, best known for working on ''Film/TheRef'', ''Film/{{Capote}}'' and ''Film/LarsAndTheRealGirl'', was expelled from the Academy and forced to leave the American Society of Cinematographers in March 2021 after an investigation by ''Variety'' the previous November revealed he was a convicted sex offender, after having pleaded guilty in 2004 to third-degree rape; a subsequent arrest in 2010 for sexual assault also cost him his job as cinematographer on ''Film/{{Moneyball}}''.

* The handling of the promotion of ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' and the Black Friday cut of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'' both became this for Jeffrey Katzenberg's career at Creator/{{Disney}}. After fellow exec Frank Wells was killed in a helicopter crash before the release of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'', Michael Eisner passed him over for Wells's spot as president, which led to Katzenberg to resign as chairman in August 1994 and eventually establish Creator/DreamWorksAnimation as a serious rival to Disney's dominance in the animation sector two months later. Many saw the slight as an example of Eisner's growing ego, but Eisner did have a point: Katzenberg's reckless actions in promoting ''Aladdin'' had permanently strained Disney's relationship with Creator/RobinWilliams, and though Williams would return to work with Disney a few more times following Katzenberg's resignation (including ''WesternAnimation/AladdinAndTheKingOfThieves''), the whole fiasco resulted in serious repercussions for decades to come[[note]]Namely, a stipulation in Williams's will declaring that no one was to use any more new materials from Williams for 25 years following his death[[/note]]. As for the Black Friday cut of ''Toy Story'', [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor it was exactly what Katzenberg had asked for]],[[note]]Both Katzenberg's and Eisner's visions demanded a more cynical outlook, which was depicted with the toys meaner than in the final draft, with Woody in particular deliberately throwing Buzz out the window rather than getting jealous, but only accidentally knocking him out of it in the final version[[/note]] and it nearly got the film totaled.

* Creator/KimBasinger suffered a huge hit to her career for several years after she officially agreed to star in ''Film/BoxingHelena'', only to be horrified when she actually read the script and refused to do the film. Such a contract breach is a ''huge'' deal in Hollywood, and hardly anyone would touch her until she finally was able to get a CareerResurrection with her [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]]-winning role in ''Film/LAConfidential''. It's actually now generally agreed that she made the right decision, as ''Helena'' ended up such a disaster that her career would have taken an even bigger hit if she'd appeared in it.

* Creator/ArmieHammer announced in January 2021 that he would be stepping down from his role in ''Shotgun Wedding'', a film he was to star in alongside Music/JenniferLopez, after screenshots of Instagram messages purportedly from Hammer's secret account circulated on social media. The messages generated controversy as they not only showed him messaging with various women while he was still married, but also contained what were described as "disturbing sexual fantasies" which included [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalism]]. By February he was forced to leave the Creator/ParamountPlus series ''The Offer'' and had been dropped by both his publicist and his talent agency. He was later accused of raping a woman in 2017, for which the LAPD opened an investigation. However, Disney, of all companies, is retaining him for its adaptation of ''Film/{{Death on the Nile|2022}}'', precisely because of all the complications the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic introduced to any effort to pull a Kevin Spacey on him and the film having already been completed for more than a year and already sitting on TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment because of the pandemic. There's also the fact their acquisition of Fox came with the stipulation that all the films completed prior to the merger had to receive a first-run theatrical release. He was, however, removed from one Disney-backed project (Creator/TaikaWaititi's upcoming film adaptation of ''Film/NextGoalWins'') in December 2021, with Creator/WillArnett cast to replace him.

* The promotion of ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}''—or, rather, how it was handled—and the Black Friday cut of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'' both became this for Jeffrey Katzenberg's career at Creator/{{Disney}}. After fellow exec Frank Wells was killed in a helicopter crash before the release of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'', Michael Eisner passed him over for Wells's spot as president, which led a disgruntled Katzenberg to resign as chairman in August 1994 and eventually establish Creator/DreamWorksAnimation as a serious rival to Disney's dominance in the animation sector two months later. Many saw the slight as an example of Eisner's growing ego, but Eisner did have a point: Katzenberg's reckless actions in promoting ''Aladdin'' had permanently strained Disney's relationship with Creator/RobinWilliams, and though Williams would return to work with Disney a few more times following Katzenberg's resignation (including ''WesternAnimation/AladdinAndTheKingOfThieves''), the whole fiasco resulted in serious repercussions for decades to come (namely, a stipulation in Williams's will declaring that no one was to use any more new materials from Williams for 25 years following his death). As for the Black Friday cut of ''Toy Story'', [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor it was exactly what Katzenberg had asked for]],[[note]]Both Katzenberg's and Eisner's visions demanded a more cynical outlook, which was depicted with the toys meaner than in the final draft, with Woody in particular deliberately throwing Buzz out the window rather than getting jealous, but only accidentally knocking him out of it in the final version[[/note]] and it nearly totaled the film before it even got off the ground.

* Creator/JayneMansfield was the target of numerous tabloid sex scandals in the 1950s, which at the time was enough that no studio would touch her. She retreated to the more open-minded independent American film industry and European film industry and got by on several quick and cheap films for a few years, in the meantime becoming the first major American actress in a post-silent Hollywood film to have a nude scene in ''Film/PromisesPromises1963'', until Hollywood was in a more forgiving mood. Mansfield did show some signs of being able to regain her former career but was sadly killed in a car accident in 1967 before she could fully capitalize on it.

* While the Creator/FattyArbuckle saga was unfolding, director William Desmond Taylor was found murdered in 1922. One of the dozen or so people named as suspects was child star Mary Miles Minter, who was a full thirty years younger than Taylor at the time of his death, and who wrote a number of love letters to him that Taylor never answered for exactly the reasons you might imagine. Some of those letters, however, were found in Taylor's apartment and wound up in the press—and with the public already in a frenzy over the Arbuckle trials, it didn't take long for them to leave Minter's reputation equally scorched. The actress, who by then had acted in over fifty films, many of them lost, only acted in a grand total of four after that—all of which have since been lost as well. She would receive offers for more, but Minter declined them all, living the rest of her life in relative peace and quiet until she died of a stroke in 1984.

* Isaac "Ike" Perlmutter's 22-year dominion at [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel]] as a whole came to an end in September 2015 when he tried to boot Creator/RobertDowneyJr from ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' despite Downey being a vital asset to the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse at this stage, resulting in Creator/MarvelStudios' head Kevin Feige going over his head, and Creator/{{Disney}} siding with ''him''. In the aftermath, Perlmutter would ultimately lose his position as Marvel CCO to Feige as well. The incidents largely seen as the last straw were not only a donation to UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump's re-election campaign, but the first picture of the notoriously-secretive Perlmutter in years [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/reclusive-marvel-ceo-ike-perlmutter-photographed-public-959632 being one in which he appears with Trump]], especially as Trump's presidency was becoming increasingly more controversial to discuss anywhere (it certainly didn't help his case that Creator/ArmieHammer publicly called him out over the donation on Website/{{Twitter}}). Disney then took several prior questionable decisions he had made over the past decade into consideration, such as replacing Creator/PattyJenkins with Alan Taylor as director of ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' over CreativeDifferences,[[note]]Jenkins would ultimately direct ''Film/{{Wonder Woman|2017}}'' for the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse, which would become a success for the up-to-that-point divisive DCEU, thus causing major embarrassment at Disney over the blown chance, while ''Thor: The Dark World'' would go on to be considered one of the weaker films in the MCU[[/note]] blackmailing Feige into allowing ''ComicBook/TheInhumans'' to be adapted as part of the MCU and trying to have them replace the X-Men franchise-wide because of Fox having the rights,[[note]][[Series/{{Inhumans}} the end result]] would go on to be considered the worst reviewed entry in the MCU ''overall'', beating out the other lesser-regarded installments ''The Dark World'', ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', ''Film/{{Eternals}}'', and ''Series/{{Iron Fist|2017}}'' by a long shot[[/note]] and his attempts to quash the film adaptations of ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}'' and ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'', which both grossed over a billion dollars for Disney, with his excuse being that comic-book fans wouldn't go see a superhero movie with non-white male leads.[[note]]Which in the case of ''Black Panther'', was ironic for Perlmutter to say given the success of the ''[[Film/BladeTrilogy Blade]]'' movies for Creator/NewLineCinema.[[/note]]

* Creator/JohnLandis' film career was abruptly halted after an incident on the set of ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie'', where a helicopter crash killed on Creator/VicMorrow and two (illegally employed) child actors, which uncovered a litany of violations from [[IgnoredExpert ignoring the advice of his safety officials and the pilot of the helicopter itself]] to illegal child labor. Although never convicted of manslaughter charges, he did plead guilty to the labor violations, and the incident essentially snuffed out any future of directing feature films. The incident also caused major bad blood between him and Creator/StevenSpielberg, who removed Landis from his Director's Cut of ''Film/NineteenFortyOne1979''. The footage was eventually restored for the Blu-ray release, though Landis' film career never fully recovered, leaving him mostly relegated to television production work to this day.

* Creator/JohnLandis' film career was brought to a screeching halt following an incident on the set of ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie'', where a helicopter crashed down on Creator/VicMorrow and two (illegally employed) child actors, killing the three, which uncovered a litany of violations from [[IgnoredExpert ignoring the advice of his safety officials and the pilot of the helicopter itself]] to illegal child labor. Although never convicted of manslaughter charges, he did plead guilty to the labor violations, and the incident essentially snuffed out any future of directing feature films. The incident also caused major bad blood between him and Creator/StevenSpielberg, who removed Landis from his Director's Cut of ''Film/NineteenFortyOne1979''. The footage was eventually restored for the Blu-ray release, though Landis' film career never fully recovered, leaving him mostly relegated to television production work to this day.