![]() ![]() Co-founded by the reactionary pundit Ben Shapiro and former film producer Jeremy Boreing, the outlet has long made a mockery of the #MeToo movement-and even called for its end. It was also discovered that Sonnier and Presmyk had brushed aside an allegation of sexual harassment during the filming of VFW, with acting vet Fred Williamson accused of groping an assistant costume designer during a wardrobe fitting (Williamson denies this) that they had pressured actress Ruby Modine (daughter of Matthew) into performing a sex scene with a fanboy on Satanic Panic and that Sonnier had failed to properly address an alleged incident on the set of his horror film Condemned involving actor Johnny Messner exposing himself to a costume designer.Įnter The Daily Wire. An apology would be the right thing to do, but at this point I can’t expect that from them.” “After the article came out, there was nothing,” Haynes tells me. According to Haynes, she hasn’t heard from Sonnier or Presmyk since the story ran. The Donaghey audio, which was published in our story, was common knowledge within the Dallas film world, including by Sonnier and Presmyk. One of Donaghey’s victims was Haynes, who’d managed to capture audio of him sexually harassing her during the making of the 2014 film Occupy Texas. “When you hire someone who has been accused of sexually assaulting someone, and you put them in charge of writing checks for everyone in your entire company, are you not giving that person power to abuse further-whether sexually or through forced labor?” “At that point, it’s a safety issue,” a crewmember on Satanic Panic told me. In April of 2020, Donaghey, co-producer of A Ghost Story and the Cinestate films Satanic Panic, VFW, and Run Hide Fight, was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault of a minor after a woman in the Texas film scene came forward alleging he’d raped her when she was 16. Cinestate had a virtual monopoly on film production in the Dallas region, where film work is relatively scarce, and took full advantage, pressuring its crew into 18-hour days with no overtime pay and forcing them into compromising situations-the most hazardous of which concerned their producing partner Adam Donaghey. Starring Isabel May, Thomas Jane, and Radha Mitchell, the actioner is produced by Dallas Sonnier and Amanda Presmyk, the team behind Cinestate-a Dallas-based movie studio specializing in “populist” films for the Trump crowd like Dragged Across Concrete, a nasty piece of police brutality apologia starring Mel Gibson. ![]() “If I’d known… I’ve never wanted to take my name off of a project more.”ĭirected by Kyle Rankin, Run Hide Fight follows a group of high school teenagers fighting for their lives against live-streaming gunmen. ![]() “Is there a way to remove your name from a crew list?” asks Cristen Leah Haynes, the film’s additional second assistant director. When the news broke last week that The Daily Wire, a right-wing Facebook publisher co-founded by Ben Shapiro that regularly traffics in misinformation, would be making its first foray into the movie biz with the acquisition of school shooting thriller Run Hide Fight, a number of crew members who worked on the film were caught by surprise. ![]()
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