History RoleEndingMisdemeanor / Film

* In March 2023, Creator/JonathanMajors was [[HollywoodHypeMachine a star in the making]] coming off of critically acclaimed performances in ''The Last Black Man in San Francisco'', ''Film/CreedIII'', and ''Film/AntManAndTheWaspQuantumania''. That changed overnight after he was arrested in New York City after getting into a violent dispute with his girlfriend Grace Jabbari that ended with her being hospitalized. This set off a domino effect that saw several other women accuse Majors of assault, him being let go from his agencies and several upcoming projects (such as an Music/OtisRedding biopic and an adaptation of the Walter Mosley novel ''The Man in My Basement''), and his upcoming film ''Magazine Dreams'' being [[TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment shelved indefinitely]]. For a while, Creator/MarvelStudios held off on the big bullet, letting him go from his role as [[Characters/MCUKangTheConqueror Kang the Conqueror]] in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, but once he was convicted of assault and harassment in December, they fired him in a matter of hours

* This happened to ''Creator/DavidNiven'', of [[QuintessentialBritishGentleman all people]]. At some point in the 1930s, Niven was carrying on a torrid affair with Merle Oberon. During this time he accompanied Oberon on a rail trip from UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity to UsefulNotes/LosAngeles, spending the entire trip doing exactly what you're thinking in Oberon's private carriage. The only problem was that the US had a law at the time called the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann_Act Mann Act]]'', which forbade the interstate transport of women for "immoral purposes." Although the law was originally intended to simplify the prosecution of pimps and pedophiles, in practice it was often used maliciously against "undesirables" such as interracial couples, foreigners, or those naughty, nasty movie stars—and Oberon and Niven fit into all three categories. Niven later wrote that he found himself having to go to ground for a while to avoid prosecution, and lost at least half a dozen parts over the kerfuffle. Note that this was a consensual relationship between two unmarried adults and that Oberon's career was also tarnished, although she was never targeted by the police (and, as Niven had asked, refused to speak to them).

* A temporary case with Creator/JamesGunn. He was initially dismissed from directing the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse film ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3'' 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/TwentiethCenturyStudios Twentieth Century Fox]] 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}}'', after which production on ''Vol. 3'' resumed and the film set for release on May 2023. Gunn would later be hired to co-run the newly-reorganized Creator/DCStudios in late 2022.

* In March 2023, Creator/JonathanMajors was arrested in New York City after a dispute with a woman who accused him of harassing and assaulting her. Although the initial accuser withdrew her claims, many others came forth accusing him of attacking them. This resulted in a domino effect of negative consequences for the actor as he was let go from some of his agencies plus several upcoming projects, such as an Music/OtisRedding biopic and an adaptation of the Walter Mosley novel ''The Man in My Basement''.

* In March 2023, Creator/JonathanMajors was [[HollywoodHypeMachine a star in the making]] coming off of critically acclaimed performances in ''The Last Black Man in San Francisco'', ''Film/CreedIII'', and ''Film/AntManAndTheWaspQuantumania''. That changed overnight after he was arrested in New York City after getting into a violent dispute with his girlfriend Grace Jabbari that ended with her being hospitalized. This set off a domino effect that saw several other women accuse Majors of assault, him being let go from his agencies and several upcoming projects (such as an Music/OtisRedding biopic and an adaptation of the Walter Mosley novel ''The Man in My Basement''), and his upcoming film ''Magazine Dreams'' being [[TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment shelved indefinitely]]. For a while, Creator/MarvelStudios held off on the big bullet, letting him go from his role as [[Characters/MCUKangTheConqueror Kang the Conqueror]] in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, but once he was convicted of assault and harassment in December, they fired him in a matter of hours.

* In March 2023, Creator/JonathanMajors was arrested in New York City after a dispute with a woman who accused him of harassing and assaulting her. Although the initial accuser withdrew her claims, many others came forth accusing him of attacking them. This resulted in a domino effect of negative consequences for the actor as he was let go from some of his agencies plus several upcoming projects, such as an Music/OtisRedding biopic and an adaptation of the Walter Mosley novel ''The Man in My Basement''. He has kept his role as [[Characters/MCUKangTheConqueror Kang the Conqueror]] in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse for now, though Creator/MarvelStudios has gotten criticized for keeping him cast.

** Disney decided to not renew his ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' contract during the production of ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMenTellNoTales'' in Australia for his behavior while filming that lead to several on-set issues and a PR nightmare for Disney. The first of which was that he'd recently fallen off the wagon and spent the production drinking and doing hard drugs and was often late to set because of it. Disney had to hire a production assistant just to watch his rental house after he left the whole set waiting around for hours and hours at one point. One weekend, he took about eight ecstasy pills and went on a rampage where he did approximately $100,000 worth of damage to the house (which Disney was paying for) and severed his fingertip. He had to be flown home to the US after this to see a specialist which cost production to shut down for a precious and expensive two weeks. All of this paled in comparison to his legal issues with the Australian government that embarrassed Disney. He and then wife Creator/AmberHeard had lied on biosecurity paperwork to try to bring their dogs with them without being subjected to the mandatory quarantine period. The whole drawn-out saga took a year and had everyone from fans to Disney wondering if he was going to be charged with dog smuggling. He and Heard ended up taking a deal where she pleaded guilty to perjury because the dogs were technically hers but they both had to publicly admit to breaking the law and pay a huge fine. The affair was a huge draw on Disney's already thinning patience with him because they believed he'd lied to them and their insurers about being sober when his contract was renewed and were upset with him about the damage to the rental house and in large part led to them deciding to part ways with him for good and reboot the series from scratch.

** Disney decided to not renew his ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' contract during the production of ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMenTellNoTales'' for his behavior during its production. He'd recently fallen off the wagon and was often late to set, to the point where Disney had to hire someone to watch his rental home to let them know when he woke up after he left 1,000 extras waiting around for hours and hours. He and then-wife Creator/AmberHeard also got in trouble with the Australian government for sneaking their dogs in without the proper paper work. Heard was charged with perjury since the dogs belonged to her but they signed a non-prosecution deal where they had to pay a fine and admit to breaking the law. The straw that broke the camel's back was him going on an MDMA fueled weekend-long rampage where he severed his fingertip while doing $100,000 worth of damage to the house. He was flown home to the US to see a specialist after this and cost the production a precious and expensive two weeks. Although, they waited until after the film had released several years later to formally announce this.

* 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/MaxLandis was fired from the UsefulNotes/WorldWarII horror project ''Shadow in the Cloud'' in April 2019 after it came to light that he allegedly was a serial rapist and sexual predator, with the film's star Creator/ChloeGraceMoretz and the producers confirming that the script was being extensively re-written by director Roseanne Liang. Soon after the allegations came to light that June, he was dropped by his agent Britton Rizzio and his upcoming film ''Deeper'' starring Creator/IdrisElba was canned altogether.

* This happened to ''Creator/DavidNiven'', of [[QuintessentialBritishGentleman all people]]. At some point in the 1930s, Niven was carrying on a torrid affair with Merle Oberon. During this time he accompanied Oberon on a rail trip from UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity to UsefulNotes/LosAngeles, spending the entire trip doing exactly what you're thinking in Oberon's private carriage. The only problem was that the US had a law at the time called the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann_Act Mann Act]]'', which forbade the interstate transport of women for "immoral purposes." Although the law was originally intended to simplify the prosecution of pimps and pedophiles, in practice it was often used maliciously against "undesirables" such as interracial couples, foreigners, or those naughty, nasty movie stars. Most infamously, it was used to destroy the life of Jack Johnson, the first African-American boxer to win the heavyweight title. Oberon and Niven, meanwhile, fit all three categories; Niven later wrote that he found himself having to go to ground for a while to avoid prosecution, and lost at least half a dozen parts over the kerfuffle. Note that this was a consensual relationship between two unmarried adults and that Oberon's career was also tarnished, although she was never targeted by the police (and, as Niven had asked, refused to speak to them).

* A temporary case with Creator/JamesGunn. He was initially dismissed from directing the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse film ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3'' 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}}'', after which production on ''Vol. 3'' resumed and the film set for release on May 2023. Gunn would later be hired to co-run the newly-reorganized Creator/DCStudios in late 2022.

* Creator/MarilynMonroe was fired from what would be her last film, ''Something's Got To Give''. She had been suffering from several ailments - including bronchitis, fever and chronic sinusitis - and this caused delays. While George Cukor opted not to delay production for a month, as suggested by the studio doctor, and just shoot scenes the actress didn't need to be there for to allow her time to recover, the following month saw her only occasionally showing up because of said ailments. The production fell ten days behind schedule and went overbudget, and the script was being rewritten nightly, which exacerbated Marilyn's anxiety over having to memorise new lines. While they celebrated her 36th birthday on set after a full day of working, she soon experienced a flare up of sinusitis and called in sick for the next day. 20th Century Fox, fearing a disaster similar to the recent ''{{Film/Cleopatra}}'', fired her four days later. The film itself ended up cancelled after star Dean Martin refused to continue with another actress, and she was rehired with production tentatively set to resume in October of that year. Unfortunately, she would pass away in August, leaving the film uncompleted.

* On February 1, 1922, William Desmond Taylor, a popular figure in the growing Hollywood culture, was shot in the back inside his home in Los Angeles. His murder, which is unsolved as of 2023, produced a number of suspects that the press, already in frenzy over Arbuckle's trials, would bring to ruin in the years to come:
** Margaret Gibson, who had already been in trouble with the law before Taylor’s death for vagrancy and allegations of opium dealing, was arrested for felony extortion late in 1923. Though the charges were dropped, the damage was done; she would only work in bit parts and supporting roles until the industry’s transition to sound film spelled the end of her career. Although Gibson didn’t even warrant a mention in the investigation of Taylor’s murder, and no evidence linking her to it exists, she reportedly confessed to the deed shortly after suffering the heart attack that would claim her life in 1964.
** Mary Miles Minter, a child star and ''protégée'' to Taylor, was deeply infatuated with the man and wrote a number of love letters to him—none of which were answered on account of Taylor being thirty years older than her. Some of those letters, however, were found in Taylor’s apartment and wound up in the press—and the media circus that followed left Minter’s career in tatters. 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 her fatal stroke in 1984.
** Mabel Normand, who had frequently collaborated with Arbuckle and Charlie Chaplin, was the last person known to have seen Taylor alive. It was this that caused her to be labeled another suspect in his murder—and although she was eventually ruled out, by that point her career was already in decline: Normand’s work with Arbuckle meant that the ban on his film roles stifled her exposure as well. Several relapses from a cocaine addiction she was nursing at the time—along with an incident where her chauffeur had used her gun to shoot and wound a wealthy oil broker—further damaged her reputation and eventually led to her retirement from film. She died of tuberculosis in 1930.

* On February 1, 1922—while the aforementioned Fatty Arbuckle saga was unfolding—William Desmond Taylor, a popular figure in the growing Hollywood culture, was shot in the back inside his home in Los Angeles. His murder, still unsolved more than a hundred years later, produced a number of suspects that the press, already in frenzy over Arbuckle's trials, would bring to ruin in the years to come:

* Creator/{{Paramount}} fired Creator/MaeWest after she got Creator/{{NBC}} in hot water with the FCC by appearing alongside Creator/EdgarBergen and Charlie [=McCarthy=]. Already a fading star due to the Production Code and the rise of Creator/ShirleyTemple, she only appeared in a few more movies after that, the most successful of them being ''My Little Chickadee''.

* Production on Creator/AzizAnsari's directorial debut ''Being Mortal'' was suspended in early 2022, after a complaint was filed against actor Creator/BillMurray accusing him of inappropriate behavior. This led to an avalanche of past misconduct allegations involving Murray coming out of the woodwork. The accusers included, among others, Creator/GeenaDavis, Creator/RobSchneider, Creator/SethGreen, Creator/LucyLiu, and numerous cast members of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''. Currently, filming still hasn't resumed on ''Being Mortal''.
* 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, who previously played Cottonmouth in ''Series/{{Luke Cage|2016}}'' as part of the MCU's Creator/{{Netflix}} television series.

* ''Film/JurassicWorldDominion'' brought back the character Lewis Dodgson from the original ''Film/JurassicPark'' film as a major antagonist. However, this time he's played by Campbell Scott, as the original actor Cameron Thor was sent to prison for lewd conduct with an underage girl in 2016.
* When it was decided to give ''Film/SnowWhiteAndTheHuntsman'' a sequel, the original film's director Rupert Sanders was not chosen to return, presumably due to his affair with Creator/KristenStewart. Although Stewart was slated to appear in the sequel, Creator/{{Universal}} ended up dropping her, too, outside of archival footage, from the film, now called ''Film/TheHuntsmanWintersWar''. Stewart claims she opted not to stay with the franchise due to disliking the scripts she was offered. The [[BoxOfficeBomb results]] [[FranchiseKiller were disastrous]].

** Dylan Brown was fired as the director but because work on the film was nearly complete, distributors Creator/{{Paramount}} and Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} could not credit a replacement. When ''Wonder Park'' was released in early 2019, he went [[UncreditedRole completely uncredited]].

** Disney decided to not renew his ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' contract during the production of ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMenTellNoTales'' for his behavior during its production. He'd recently fallen off the wagon and was often late to set, to the point where Disney had to hire someone to watch his rental home to let them know when he woke up after he left 1,000 extras waiting around for hours and hours. He and then-wife Creator/AmberHeard also got in trouble with the Australian government for sneaking their dogs in without the proper paper work. Heard was charged with perjury since the dogs belonged to her but they signed a non-prosecution deal where they had to pay a fine and admit to breaking the law. The straw that broke the camel's back was him going on a weekend-long rampage where he severed his fingertip while doing $100,000 worth of damage to the house. He was flown home to the US to see a specialist after this and cost the production a precious and expensive two weeks. Although, they waited until after the film had released several years later to formally announce this.

* Creator/JohnnyDepp got the boot from [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean two]] [[Film/FantasticBeasts separate]] franchises over the course of several years due to his worsening personal behavior and legal issues:
** Disney decided to not renew his contract for ''Pirates'' during the production of the [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMenTellNoTales fifth film]] for his behavior during its production. He’d recently fallen off the wagon and was often late to set, to the point where Disney had to hire someone to watch his rental home to let them know when he woke up after he left 1,000 extras waiting around for hours and hours. He and then wife Creator/AmberHeard also got in trouble with the Australian government for sneaking their dogs in without the proper paper work. Heard was charged with perjury since the dogs belonged to her but they signed a non-prosecution deal where they had to pay a fine and admit to breaking the law. The straw that broke the camel’s back was him going on a weekend long rampage where he managed to sever his fingertip while doing $100,000 worth of damage to the house. He had to be flown home to the US to see a specialist after this and cost the production a precious and expensive two weeks. Although, they waited until after the film had released several years later to formally announce this.
** He 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 the UK in November 2020 that found Heard’s domestic violence allegations were true to the civil standard. The judge found that 12 of 14 instances of DV met this bar and therefore it wasn’t libelous to call him a “wife beater”. One instance was inconclusive and one wasn’t ruled on since he hadn’t been able to sit for a full deposition. He was quickly re-cast with Danish actor Creator/MadsMikkelsen.

** As mentioned in his own section. Johnny Depp was fired from his role as Gellert Grindelwald when he lost a lawsuit that found it was legally permissible to call him a “wife beater”.

** 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 British tabloid who called him a "wife beater" amidst his feud with ex-wife Creator/AmberHeard. His role was recast with Danish actor Creator/MadsMikkelsen.

* While the Creator/FattyArbuckle saga was unfolding, director William Desmond Taylor was found murdered in 1922. One of the several 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 unanswered love letters to him that Taylor never answered for because of their age gap. 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 damage Minter's reputation. 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.
** Taylor was much closer to another actress, Mabel Normand, than he was to Minter—to the point that Normand was the last person known to have seen Taylor alive. It was this that caused Normand to be labeled another suspect in his murder, and while she was eventually ruled out, by that point her career was already in decline; Normand's work with Arbuckle meant that the ban on his film roles stifled her exposure as well. Several relapses from a cocaine addiction she was nursing at the time—along with an incident where her chauffeur had used her gun to shoot and wound a wealthy oil broker—damaged Normand's reputation and eventually led to her retirement from film. She died of tuberculosis in 1930; Taylor's murder, meanwhile, has never been solved.

* Tenor and actor Creator/MarioLanza was dismissed by Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer after recording the songs for ''The Student Prince'' in 1952, due to CreativeDifferences with its director Curtis Bernhardt.
* 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. In the 1990's, Lowe made a comeback on the small screen with ''Series/TheWestWing'' and ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'', but his career has never been as popular as it was before the scandal.
* 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''. 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.

* Director Creator/JohnMcTiernan of ''Film/DieHard'' and ''Film/{{Predator}}'' fame saw his career collapse after he pleaded guilty to perjury and lying to the FBI over having a private detective illegally record phone conversations in the 2000s, one of which was fellow producer Chuck Roven. [=McTiernan=] had disagreed with Roven about the direction of ''Film/{{Rollerball}}'', and he hoped that if he uncovered evidence of Roven badmouthing the studio, he could blackmail him into going along with his vision by threatening to release it and have him fired. When this finally came out, [=McTiernan=] lied to the FBI twice by claiming that the private detective was related to his divorce and that there was no discussion of wiretapping. When caught in these lies, the plea deal he made was originally vacated and he faced much longer jail time. Ultimately, [=McTiernan=] would get a 12-month sentence, with the majority of it in a prison cell, and the last few months under house arrest. His decision to file for bankruptcy in an attempt to prevent the repossession of his ranch—combined with ''Rollerball'' has been a dud with both critics and audiences—all but ruined any chance of a possible comeback. Roven, by very stark contrast, would have a very successful career producing ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'' and much of the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse, including ''Film/{{Suicide Squad|2016}}'' and ''Film/{{Wonder Woman|2017}}''.
* Creator/RandallMiller will probably never direct another film after camera assistant Sarah Jones was killed on the set of his film, ''Midnight Rider''. He illegally filmed a dream sequence on an active railroad track rather than arrange with a railroad company to film on an inactive track. The film company scrapped the film while Miller served a year in prison for manslaughter.

* There are two conflicting accounts as to why 1930s film star Lee Tracy got canned from ''Film/VivaVilla''. Charles Clarke, the film's cinematographer, claimed that Tracy was standing on a balcony in Mexico when someone in a military parade flipped him the bird. When Tracy responded in kind, the Mexican press [[SeriousBusiness pounced]]. Desi Arnaz, however, claimed in his autobiography that Tracy had urinated off the balcony onto said parade instead, and that, from then on, it became the common practice for any crowd to suddenly disperse if an American was seen overhead. In either case, Tracy was fired, and his career was wrecked; he found little work as an actor until after World War II, and even then it was mostly on television until his Oscar nod for ''Film/TheBestMan'' in 1964.

* 1930s film star Lee Tracy was canned from ''Film/VivaVilla'' for one of two reasons. The more boring version of the story is that Tracy was standing on a balcony in Mexico when someone in a military parade flipped him the bird. Tracy then returned the gesture, which then became a [[SeriousBusiness big deal]]. The funnier version, as told by Desi Arnaz, is that a drunk Tracy urinated off the balcony onto said parade. In either case, Tracy was fired, and his career was wrecked; he found little work as an actor until after World War II, and even then it was mostly on television.

* ''Film/ZuluDawn'' fired actor Creator/JohnHurt because he was flagged as suspicious by immigration checks in South Africa, where the film was to be shot. It was later discovered that they'd actually confused him with an American anti-apartheid activist with a similar name, but by that point he'd lost the role. As it happens, that also made him available as a replacement actor for ''Film/{{Alien}}'' when one of its stars, Jon Finch, dropped out due to pneumonia.

* ''Film/ZuluDawn'' fired actor Creator/JohnHurt because he was flagged as suspicious by immigration checks in South Africa, where the film was to be shot. It was later discovered that they'd actually confused him with an American anti-apartheid activist with a similar name, but by that point he'd lost the role. As it happens, that also made him available as a replacement actor for ''Film/{{Alien}}'' when one of its stars dropped out due to pneumonia.

** 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. As of February 2023, he is serving a consecutive sentence of 39 years.

* A temporary case with Creator/JamesGunn. He was initially dismissed from directing the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse film ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3'' 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, 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]]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]]