Marvel‘s first family has finally assembled. Marvel Studios has now officially announced the performers that will be playing The Fantastic Four in the 2025 film of the same name.
Reflecting the importance of this superhero team to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there are some big names involved including Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards and Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm. Slightly lesser known but no less interesting are Joseph Quinn (Stranger Things) as Johnny Storm and Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Bear) as Ben Grimm.
We’ve got a ways to go before The Fantastic Four premieres on July 25, 2025 so let’s spend some of that time delving deeper into an unheralded member of the film’s cast. We’re speaking, of course, about Ebon Moss-Bachrach. Though he just won his first Primetime Emmy Award for his role as Richie Jerimovich in FX’s brilliant The Bear, this Massachusetts-born actor has been putting...
Reflecting the importance of this superhero team to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there are some big names involved including Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards and Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm. Slightly lesser known but no less interesting are Joseph Quinn (Stranger Things) as Johnny Storm and Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Bear) as Ben Grimm.
We’ve got a ways to go before The Fantastic Four premieres on July 25, 2025 so let’s spend some of that time delving deeper into an unheralded member of the film’s cast. We’re speaking, of course, about Ebon Moss-Bachrach. Though he just won his first Primetime Emmy Award for his role as Richie Jerimovich in FX’s brilliant The Bear, this Massachusetts-born actor has been putting...
- 2/14/2024
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
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Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and CEO of failed at-home blood-testing startup Theranos, reported to a Texas prison on May 30 to begin her 11-year, three-month sentence, per The New York Times. Holmes received her prison sentence along with an additional three-year period of supervised release in November 2022, NBC News reported. According to the outlet, Holmes told the court, "I regret my failings with every cell of my body," before receiving her sentence.
Amid her infamous fraud trial, Holmes became the subject of several onscreen projects, including HBO's 2019 documentary "The Inventor" and Hulu's 2022 miniseries starring Amanda Seyfried, "The Dropout." With Theranos's technology, Holmes promised to rapidly conduct hundreds of medical tests with small amounts of blood. These claims, however, turned out to be false, even though Theranos's tests were being rolled out in drugstores across the country for the general public. Unlike...
Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and CEO of failed at-home blood-testing startup Theranos, reported to a Texas prison on May 30 to begin her 11-year, three-month sentence, per The New York Times. Holmes received her prison sentence along with an additional three-year period of supervised release in November 2022, NBC News reported. According to the outlet, Holmes told the court, "I regret my failings with every cell of my body," before receiving her sentence.
Amid her infamous fraud trial, Holmes became the subject of several onscreen projects, including HBO's 2019 documentary "The Inventor" and Hulu's 2022 miniseries starring Amanda Seyfried, "The Dropout." With Theranos's technology, Holmes promised to rapidly conduct hundreds of medical tests with small amounts of blood. These claims, however, turned out to be false, even though Theranos's tests were being rolled out in drugstores across the country for the general public. Unlike...
- 5/30/2023
- by Stacey Nguyen
- Popsugar.com
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is separating herself from the fictionalized portrayals of her personal, professional, and criminal life.
Convicted fraudster Holmes gave a controversial interview with The New York Times seemingly as part of a personal rebrand as a new mother of two.
“I made so many mistakes and there was so much I didn’t know and understand, and I feel like when you do it wrong, it’s like you really internalize it in a deep way,” Holmes said of founding Silicon Valley blood-testing company Theranos and infamously channeling Steve Jobs with a deep voice and black turtleneck uniform. “I believed it would be how I would be good at business and taken seriously and not taken as a little girl or a girl who didn’t have good technical ideas. Maybe people picked up on that not being authentic, since it wasn’t.”
Holmes addressed Emmy-winning limited...
Convicted fraudster Holmes gave a controversial interview with The New York Times seemingly as part of a personal rebrand as a new mother of two.
“I made so many mistakes and there was so much I didn’t know and understand, and I feel like when you do it wrong, it’s like you really internalize it in a deep way,” Holmes said of founding Silicon Valley blood-testing company Theranos and infamously channeling Steve Jobs with a deep voice and black turtleneck uniform. “I believed it would be how I would be good at business and taken seriously and not taken as a little girl or a girl who didn’t have good technical ideas. Maybe people picked up on that not being authentic, since it wasn’t.”
Holmes addressed Emmy-winning limited...
- 5/9/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
The quote that would secure Jim Mattis’ reputation as the most celebrated Marine general of his generation came during meetings he hadn’t wanted to attend. It was April 2004, a half-mile east of the Iraqi city of Fallujah, which had exploded in an insurrection that threatened to doom the American occupation after barely a year. Mattis hadn’t wanted to take Fallujah, recognizing that flattening the City of Mosques would throw gasoline on a smoldering nationwide insurrection. But he followed White House-pushed orders to invade, and after roughly a week...
- 3/5/2023
- by Spencer Ackerman
- Rollingstone.com
Elizabeth Holmes attempted to flee the country after her conviction for cheating investors out of millions with her biotech company Theranos, according to court documents that surfaced this Thursday.
The former entrepreneur, who at her peak had a net worth of approximately 4.5 billion, was found guilty of multiple counts of wire fraud on January 3, and sentenced to 11 years in prison in November 2022.
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“The government became aware on January 23, 2022, that Defendant Holmes booked an international flight to Mexico departing on January 26, 2022, without a scheduled return trip,” the prosecutors had said. “Only after the government raised this unauthorized flight with defense counsel was the trip canceled.”
Holmes’s lawyers wrote in an email obtained by ABC News that Holmes had booked the flight before January 3, 2022, and that she was planning on visiting a close friend for their wedding on the possibility that she would not be convicted.
The former entrepreneur, who at her peak had a net worth of approximately 4.5 billion, was found guilty of multiple counts of wire fraud on January 3, and sentenced to 11 years in prison in November 2022.
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“The government became aware on January 23, 2022, that Defendant Holmes booked an international flight to Mexico departing on January 26, 2022, without a scheduled return trip,” the prosecutors had said. “Only after the government raised this unauthorized flight with defense counsel was the trip canceled.”
Holmes’s lawyers wrote in an email obtained by ABC News that Holmes had booked the flight before January 3, 2022, and that she was planning on visiting a close friend for their wedding on the possibility that she would not be convicted.
- 1/21/2023
- by Brian Zhang
- Uinterview
UTA Publishing, a division at global entertainment, talent and sports agency UTA, has hired Ariele Fredman as an agent.
Fredman joins the company from Simon & Schuster imprint Atria Books, where she served as deputy director of publicity and marketing. She will report to Byrd Leavell and Christy Fletcher, co-heads of UTA Publishing.
“Our team at UTA Publishing has long admired Ariele’s unique style of author care, working to instill confidence in her clients and guide them through the publishing process in a way that expands the landscape and audience for their work,” Leavell said in a statement. “These are ideal qualities for an agent, and we look forward to the passion, expertise and energy she’ll bring to the team.”
In her new role, Fredman will work on building UTA’s commercial fiction program, leveraging her brand-building talents and experience working with authors as UTA Publishing grows its roster of novelists.
Fredman joins the company from Simon & Schuster imprint Atria Books, where she served as deputy director of publicity and marketing. She will report to Byrd Leavell and Christy Fletcher, co-heads of UTA Publishing.
“Our team at UTA Publishing has long admired Ariele’s unique style of author care, working to instill confidence in her clients and guide them through the publishing process in a way that expands the landscape and audience for their work,” Leavell said in a statement. “These are ideal qualities for an agent, and we look forward to the passion, expertise and energy she’ll bring to the team.”
In her new role, Fredman will work on building UTA’s commercial fiction program, leveraging her brand-building talents and experience working with authors as UTA Publishing grows its roster of novelists.
- 1/10/2023
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
UTA has acquired publishing agency Fletcher & Company, which will be folded into the overall UTA Publishing division at the firm.
As part of the deal, the New York-based fiction and non-fiction publishing house’s founder and CEO Christy Fletcher will co-lead the growing UTA Publishing department alongside current head Byrd Leavell. Both Fletcher and Leavell will report to UTA president David Kramer.
The entire Fletcher & Company staff will join the UTA Publishing in UTA’s New York office, including veteran agents Rebecca Gradinger, Eric Lupfer, Grainne Fox, Lisa Gr ubka and Peter Steinberg.
Per UTA, the acquisition will not prevent the talent agency from continuing to collaborate with other publishing agencies and authors, or Fletcher & Company’s agents from working with partners around the industry on behalf of their clients.
UTA’s purchase of Fletcher marks its latest step into expanding its literary ranks following the June 2022 acquisition of...
As part of the deal, the New York-based fiction and non-fiction publishing house’s founder and CEO Christy Fletcher will co-lead the growing UTA Publishing department alongside current head Byrd Leavell. Both Fletcher and Leavell will report to UTA president David Kramer.
The entire Fletcher & Company staff will join the UTA Publishing in UTA’s New York office, including veteran agents Rebecca Gradinger, Eric Lupfer, Grainne Fox, Lisa Gr ubka and Peter Steinberg.
Per UTA, the acquisition will not prevent the talent agency from continuing to collaborate with other publishing agencies and authors, or Fletcher & Company’s agents from working with partners around the industry on behalf of their clients.
UTA’s purchase of Fletcher marks its latest step into expanding its literary ranks following the June 2022 acquisition of...
- 1/4/2023
- by Jennifer Maas
- Variety Film + TV
UTA is starting 2023 with some M&a.
The talent agency is expanding its presence in the publishing space, acquiring the boutique literary agency Fletcher & Company. Founded and run by Christy Fletcher, Fletcher & Company will become part of UTA’s publishing division, based in New York.
Fletcher and UTA publishing chief Byrd Leavell will both report to UTA president David Kramer, and all of Fletcher & Company’s team will join UTA. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Fletcher & Company represents best-selling fiction and non-fiction authors like Maggie Shipstead, Stephanie Clifford, Daniel Mason, John Carreyrou, and Gretchen Rubin, among others. The firm’s client list includes Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winners, National Book Award recipients, and a bevy of New York Times bestsellers.
“Christy is an exceptional agent and business builder and the team at Fletcher & Company is among the best in the industry, so it’s exciting to welcome them to UTA,...
The talent agency is expanding its presence in the publishing space, acquiring the boutique literary agency Fletcher & Company. Founded and run by Christy Fletcher, Fletcher & Company will become part of UTA’s publishing division, based in New York.
Fletcher and UTA publishing chief Byrd Leavell will both report to UTA president David Kramer, and all of Fletcher & Company’s team will join UTA. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Fletcher & Company represents best-selling fiction and non-fiction authors like Maggie Shipstead, Stephanie Clifford, Daniel Mason, John Carreyrou, and Gretchen Rubin, among others. The firm’s client list includes Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winners, National Book Award recipients, and a bevy of New York Times bestsellers.
“Christy is an exceptional agent and business builder and the team at Fletcher & Company is among the best in the industry, so it’s exciting to welcome them to UTA,...
- 1/4/2023
- by Alex Weprin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
UTA has acquired Fletcher & Company, a 20-year-old literary agency with a roster of notable fiction and non-fiction authors.
As part of the deal, the full team at Fletcher & Company will join UTA in its New York office as the independent company is absorbed by its new parent. Founder and CEO Christy Fletcher will co-lead UTA’s publishing division, reporting along with current head Byrd Leavell to President David Kramer.
Founded in 2003, Fletcher & Company has made a name for itself as an independent literary agency. Its fiction list includes best-selling and award-winning authors like Maggie Shipstead, Daniel Mason, Ken Kalfus, Courtney Zoffness, Stephanie Clifford, Nina de Gramont and Robin Benway. The nonfiction stable features writers like Gretchen Rubin, John Carreyrou, Sonia Purnell, Melissa Urban, Eric Ries, Dr. Joy Bradford, Chip & Dan Heath and Kate Bowler.
The deal is of a piece with UTA’s acquisition last June of the UK-based Curtis Brown Group.
As part of the deal, the full team at Fletcher & Company will join UTA in its New York office as the independent company is absorbed by its new parent. Founder and CEO Christy Fletcher will co-lead UTA’s publishing division, reporting along with current head Byrd Leavell to President David Kramer.
Founded in 2003, Fletcher & Company has made a name for itself as an independent literary agency. Its fiction list includes best-selling and award-winning authors like Maggie Shipstead, Daniel Mason, Ken Kalfus, Courtney Zoffness, Stephanie Clifford, Nina de Gramont and Robin Benway. The nonfiction stable features writers like Gretchen Rubin, John Carreyrou, Sonia Purnell, Melissa Urban, Eric Ries, Dr. Joy Bradford, Chip & Dan Heath and Kate Bowler.
The deal is of a piece with UTA’s acquisition last June of the UK-based Curtis Brown Group.
- 1/4/2023
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Jennifer Lawrence recently dropped out of a new movie where she was set to portray Elizabeth Holmes.
Aside from giving up the role, she also walked away from working with director Adam McKay again after starring as the lead in McKay’s political satire “Don’t Look Up” last year.
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In a recent interview, the actress revealed why she decided to drop the film — an adaptation of Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley by journalist John Carreyrou.
Lawrence confirmed that she made the decision to give up the role after watching Amanda Seyfried‘s performance as Holmes in Hulu’s “The Dropout”, which earned the fellow actress an Emmy award.
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“I thought she was terrific,...
Aside from giving up the role, she also walked away from working with director Adam McKay again after starring as the lead in McKay’s political satire “Don’t Look Up” last year.
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In a recent interview, the actress revealed why she decided to drop the film — an adaptation of Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley by journalist John Carreyrou.
Lawrence confirmed that she made the decision to give up the role after watching Amanda Seyfried‘s performance as Holmes in Hulu’s “The Dropout”, which earned the fellow actress an Emmy award.
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“I thought she was terrific,...
- 11/3/2022
- by Melissa Romualdi
- ET Canada
There’s no bad blood between Jennifer Lawrence and Adam McKay. Surely she still likes the guy—she’s appeared in last year’s political satire “Don’t Look Up,” which was nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture—but now there’s literally no “Bad Blood,” a film she was set to star in and also co-produce with McKay concerning Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos fraud.
Speaking with The New York Times while promoting “Causeway,” Apple Original Films’ Ptsd drama directed by Lila Neugebauer co-starring Bryan Tyree Henry, the four-time Oscar nominee saluted the work of Amanda Seyfried in the limited series “The Dropout” on Hulu, another project on the same topic.
“I thought she was terrific,” Lawrence said, concerning Seyfried’s performance as the eerily deep-voiced medical industry huckster. “I was like, ‘Yeah, we don’t need to redo that.’ She did it.”
“The Dropout” was nominated for four Primetime Emmys,...
Speaking with The New York Times while promoting “Causeway,” Apple Original Films’ Ptsd drama directed by Lila Neugebauer co-starring Bryan Tyree Henry, the four-time Oscar nominee saluted the work of Amanda Seyfried in the limited series “The Dropout” on Hulu, another project on the same topic.
“I thought she was terrific,” Lawrence said, concerning Seyfried’s performance as the eerily deep-voiced medical industry huckster. “I was like, ‘Yeah, we don’t need to redo that.’ She did it.”
“The Dropout” was nominated for four Primetime Emmys,...
- 11/3/2022
- by Jordan Hoffman
- Gold Derby
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Jennifer Lawrence says she has departed Adam McKay’s Bad Blood, the writer-director’s take on Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’ fraud controversy.
The New York Times‘ Kyle Buchanan was first to report the departure, tweeting what Lawrence had told him about the decision following the publication of his profile on the Causeway star. The Times awards season columnist said the decision followed Lawrence seeing Amanda Seyfried play Holmes in the Hulu limited series The Dropout.
“I thought she was terrific,” Lawrence, who was also a producer on the film, told Buchanan. “I was like, ‘Yeah, we don’t need to redo that.’ She did it.”
Picked up by Apple in December 2021, Bad Blood had Lawrence attached to pull double-duty as lead actress and producer, with McKay writing and directing. It was a reteaming for the duo following their work on the Oscar-nominated Don’t Look Up.
Jennifer Lawrence says she has departed Adam McKay’s Bad Blood, the writer-director’s take on Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes’ fraud controversy.
The New York Times‘ Kyle Buchanan was first to report the departure, tweeting what Lawrence had told him about the decision following the publication of his profile on the Causeway star. The Times awards season columnist said the decision followed Lawrence seeing Amanda Seyfried play Holmes in the Hulu limited series The Dropout.
“I thought she was terrific,” Lawrence, who was also a producer on the film, told Buchanan. “I was like, ‘Yeah, we don’t need to redo that.’ She did it.”
Picked up by Apple in December 2021, Bad Blood had Lawrence attached to pull double-duty as lead actress and producer, with McKay writing and directing. It was a reteaming for the duo following their work on the Oscar-nominated Don’t Look Up.
- 11/2/2022
- by Abbey White
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jennifer Lawrence will no longer portray Elizabeth Holmes in Adam McKay’s forthcoming movie Bad Blood.
According to The New York Times reporter Kyle Buchanan, who recently interviewed the Hunger Games star, Lawrence made the decision to pull out of the role after watching Amanda Seyfried’s Emmy-winning portrayal of the former Theranos founder in the Hulu miniseries The Dropout.
Buchanan made the announcement on Twitter today (2 November), writing that Lawrence had told him: “I thought [Seyfried] was terrific. I was like, ‘Yeah, we don’t need to redo that.’ She did it’.”
Lawrence has yet to comment on her apparent decision publicly. It is unknown who will replace her. The Independent has contacted Lawrence’s representatives for confirmation.
McKay’s film will be an adaptation of John Carreyrou’s 2018 book of the same name about the rise and fall of Holmes’s Silicon Valley start-up, which had sought to revolutionise blood tests.
According to The New York Times reporter Kyle Buchanan, who recently interviewed the Hunger Games star, Lawrence made the decision to pull out of the role after watching Amanda Seyfried’s Emmy-winning portrayal of the former Theranos founder in the Hulu miniseries The Dropout.
Buchanan made the announcement on Twitter today (2 November), writing that Lawrence had told him: “I thought [Seyfried] was terrific. I was like, ‘Yeah, we don’t need to redo that.’ She did it’.”
Lawrence has yet to comment on her apparent decision publicly. It is unknown who will replace her. The Independent has contacted Lawrence’s representatives for confirmation.
McKay’s film will be an adaptation of John Carreyrou’s 2018 book of the same name about the rise and fall of Holmes’s Silicon Valley start-up, which had sought to revolutionise blood tests.
- 11/2/2022
- by Inga Parkel
- The Independent - Film
Amanda Seyfried‘s Emmy-winning turn as Elizabeth Holmes in Hulu’s The Dropout is beyond reproach — so much so that Jennifer Lawrence will no longer be playing the disgraced Theranos founder on the big screen.
According to New York Times‘ Kyle Buchanan, Lawrence backed out of her starring role in director Adam McKay’s in-the-works Holmes movie Bad Blood after watching Seyfried’s acclaimed performance.
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- 11/2/2022
- by Michael Ausiello
- TVLine.com
If you've been waiting to see Jennifer Lawrence don Elizabeth Holmes' black turtleneck, it sounds like you're out of luck. The actress is no longer set to play the Theranos fraudster in Adam McKay's "Bad Blood," according to The New York Times' Kyle Buchanan. The writer revealed as much in a tweet today after sharing his Nyt profile about the "Don't Look Up" actress.
According to Buchanan, Lawrence had a change of heart about taking the role after witnessing Amanda Seyfried's Emmy-winning performance as the biotech star turned convicted criminal in Hulu's series "The Dropout." In a move that's rare in the era of competing true crime retellings, Lawrence conceded that her turn as Holmes wasn't needed after all. "I thought she was terrific," Buchanan quotes her as saying. "I was like, 'Yeah, we don't need to redo that.' She did it."
It's unclear as of...
According to Buchanan, Lawrence had a change of heart about taking the role after witnessing Amanda Seyfried's Emmy-winning performance as the biotech star turned convicted criminal in Hulu's series "The Dropout." In a move that's rare in the era of competing true crime retellings, Lawrence conceded that her turn as Holmes wasn't needed after all. "I thought she was terrific," Buchanan quotes her as saying. "I was like, 'Yeah, we don't need to redo that.' She did it."
It's unclear as of...
- 11/2/2022
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
Jennifer Lawrence will no longer be playing Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes in Adam McKay’s film “Bad Blood.”
Lawrence revealed the development during interviews with The New York Times’ Kyle Buchanan for a profile he wrote on her for the publication, according to a tweet by the reporter.
Lawrence said she dropped out of the film after watching Amanda Seyfried’s Emmy award-winning performance as Holmes in Hulu’s “The Dropout.”
“I thought she was terrific,” the actress said, according to Buchanan. “I was like, ‘Yeah, we don’t need to redo that. She did it.'”
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Lawrence revealed the development during interviews with The New York Times’ Kyle Buchanan for a profile he wrote on her for the publication, according to a tweet by the reporter.
Lawrence said she dropped out of the film after watching Amanda Seyfried’s Emmy award-winning performance as Holmes in Hulu’s “The Dropout.”
“I thought she was terrific,” the actress said, according to Buchanan. “I was like, ‘Yeah, we don’t need to redo that. She did it.'”
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Seyfried won her first Emmy Award in September for her role in “The Dropout,” for best actress in a limited series or TV movie.
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- 11/2/2022
- by Aarohi Sheth
- The Wrap
“It’s a dream come true,” admits director Francesca Gregorini about receiving her first career Emmy nomination for directing on the acclaimed limited series “The Dropout.” “It’s an incredible show and Liz Meriwether, my hat is off to her; she’s just brilliant,” she remarks about her excitement for the show being so enthusiastically embraced by the TV academy, humbly adding “this is a team sport, film-making is very much a team sport so it’s a group effort. There was so much talent in front and behind the camera and the writing, that it was just destined for greatness.” Watch our exclusive video interview above.
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Hulu’s “The Dropout” stars Oscar nominee Amanda Seyfried as entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes, who was convicted of criminal fraud for swindling investors on the accuracy of her groundbreaking blood test technology. The eight-part series follows the compelling...
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Hulu’s “The Dropout” stars Oscar nominee Amanda Seyfried as entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes, who was convicted of criminal fraud for swindling investors on the accuracy of her groundbreaking blood test technology. The eight-part series follows the compelling...
- 8/3/2022
- by Rob Licuria
- Gold Derby
Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, the former president and chief operating officer of healthcare startup Theranos, was found guilty on Thursday of defrauding former investors and patients of the company.
As reported by AP News, Balwani was convicted by a San Jose, Calif. jury on all 12 charges brought against him. The verdict follows the Jan. 3 conviction of Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos CEO and founder and Balwani’s former romantic partner, on four accounts of investor fraud and conspiracy during their time at Theranos.
During Holmes’ trial, she accused Balwani of sexual abuse throughout their relationship, which Balwani has repeatedly denied since his trial began in March.
Founded by Holmes in 2003 when she was 19-years-old, Theranos was a healthcare startup focused on creating blood tests that could be performed rapidly with extremely small amounts of blood. The company grew to a 10 billion valuation at its peak, developed a lucrative partnership with Walgreens and received...
As reported by AP News, Balwani was convicted by a San Jose, Calif. jury on all 12 charges brought against him. The verdict follows the Jan. 3 conviction of Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos CEO and founder and Balwani’s former romantic partner, on four accounts of investor fraud and conspiracy during their time at Theranos.
During Holmes’ trial, she accused Balwani of sexual abuse throughout their relationship, which Balwani has repeatedly denied since his trial began in March.
Founded by Holmes in 2003 when she was 19-years-old, Theranos was a healthcare startup focused on creating blood tests that could be performed rapidly with extremely small amounts of blood. The company grew to a 10 billion valuation at its peak, developed a lucrative partnership with Walgreens and received...
- 7/7/2022
- by Wilson Chapman
- Variety Film + TV
Spoiler Alert: This piece contains spoilers for “Lizzy,” the finale of “The Dropout,” which premiered April 7 Hulu.
When Elizabeth Meriwether was first planning “The Dropout” — her Hulu adaptation of the popular ABC News podcast of the same name, which chronicled the spectacular rise and precipitous fall of Theranos founder, Elizabeth Holmes — she had an idea about where she wanted the story to end: Burning Man. “It seemed like an interesting place for a kind of quote-unquote rebirth, you know?” Meriwether said.
She could picture Elizabeth, played by Amanda Seyfried, along with her mysterious new boyfriend Billy Evans, as Burners frolicking in the desert without a care in the world. After all, in August 2018, images of the couple at the annual late-summer festival had emerged on social media: In a viral photograph, Holmes can be seen in a T-shirt and fur-collared jacket, wearing hot pink sunglasses and a blissed-out grin. Gone...
When Elizabeth Meriwether was first planning “The Dropout” — her Hulu adaptation of the popular ABC News podcast of the same name, which chronicled the spectacular rise and precipitous fall of Theranos founder, Elizabeth Holmes — she had an idea about where she wanted the story to end: Burning Man. “It seemed like an interesting place for a kind of quote-unquote rebirth, you know?” Meriwether said.
She could picture Elizabeth, played by Amanda Seyfried, along with her mysterious new boyfriend Billy Evans, as Burners frolicking in the desert without a care in the world. After all, in August 2018, images of the couple at the annual late-summer festival had emerged on social media: In a viral photograph, Holmes can be seen in a T-shirt and fur-collared jacket, wearing hot pink sunglasses and a blissed-out grin. Gone...
- 4/7/2022
- by Kate Aurthur
- Variety Film + TV
In last week’s review, I posited John Carreyrou’s Wall Street Journal exposé as the beginning of the end for Theranos. That’s technically true, but this episode reminds us that journalism is often ephemeral; a story is only as powerful as its tail is long. This was especially true in the Trump era, when the media…...
- 4/7/2022
- by Randall Colburn
- avclub.com
Welcome to our weekly column Can’t Miss Episode of the Week! Every Saturday we’ll be spotlighting a different episode of television from that week that we thought was exceptional and a must-see. Check back to see if your favorite show got the nod — or to learn about a new one! Spoilers ahead. The Dropout has been a slow descent. A dramatization of the Elizabeth Holmes saga, every episode of the Hulu series shows how Holmes’ struggling blood-testing company Theranos took increasingly desperate steps that led them deeper and deeper into fraud. But in the penultimate episode of the limited series, which aired on March 31, that downward spiral finally reached the part viewers have all been waiting for: Theranos’ fall. This episode has its foot on the gas, and does not let up for even a moment. As The Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) gears up to finally publish his exposé,...
- 4/2/2022
- TV Insider
Spoiler Alert: This piece contains spoilers for the first three episodes of “The Dropout,” which premiered on Hulu March 3.
In the final moments of the third episode of “The Dropout,” Amanda Seyfried’s Elizabeth Holmes finally transforms into the figure that those of us obsessed with her story — as recounted in John Carreyrou’s book “Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup,” Alex Gibney’s documentary “The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley” and indeed in “The Dropout” podcast on which Elizabeth Meriwether’s Hulu adaptation is based — have been waiting to see. Throughout the episode, Elizabeth has been practicing her newly baritoned voice, and having batted back Theranos’ insurrectionist board of directors — powerful men of her own choosing, who’ve nonetheless started to realize that she’s lying about the company’s technology — she dons the all-black Elizabeth Holmes uniform from tip to toe. Staring into a mirror resolutely,...
In the final moments of the third episode of “The Dropout,” Amanda Seyfried’s Elizabeth Holmes finally transforms into the figure that those of us obsessed with her story — as recounted in John Carreyrou’s book “Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup,” Alex Gibney’s documentary “The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley” and indeed in “The Dropout” podcast on which Elizabeth Meriwether’s Hulu adaptation is based — have been waiting to see. Throughout the episode, Elizabeth has been practicing her newly baritoned voice, and having batted back Theranos’ insurrectionist board of directors — powerful men of her own choosing, who’ve nonetheless started to realize that she’s lying about the company’s technology — she dons the all-black Elizabeth Holmes uniform from tip to toe. Staring into a mirror resolutely,...
- 3/3/2022
- by Kate Aurthur
- Variety Film + TV
This article contains potential spoilers for The Dropout.
Fraud: so hot right now.
We’ll leave it to the sociologists to determine exactly why, but stories about big time liars are huge right now. The recent trend arguably got started this year with the Netflix series Inventing Anna, which covered one woman’s successful attempts to convince New York society she was a German heiress. Coming up later in March is WeCrashed on Apple TV+, which will follow the meteoric rise and precipitous fall of joint workspace company WeWork.
Now Hulu is presenting its own fraudulent epic with limited series The Dropout, which is set to unpack arguably the most flagrant, outrageous, and bizarre case of corporate fraud in the new millennium. The Dropout is based on an ABC News podcast of the same name, which was in turn inspired by Wall Street Journalist John Carreyrou’s coverage of entrepreneur...
Fraud: so hot right now.
We’ll leave it to the sociologists to determine exactly why, but stories about big time liars are huge right now. The recent trend arguably got started this year with the Netflix series Inventing Anna, which covered one woman’s successful attempts to convince New York society she was a German heiress. Coming up later in March is WeCrashed on Apple TV+, which will follow the meteoric rise and precipitous fall of joint workspace company WeWork.
Now Hulu is presenting its own fraudulent epic with limited series The Dropout, which is set to unpack arguably the most flagrant, outrageous, and bizarre case of corporate fraud in the new millennium. The Dropout is based on an ABC News podcast of the same name, which was in turn inspired by Wall Street Journalist John Carreyrou’s coverage of entrepreneur...
- 3/3/2022
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Theranos founder and self-made tech billionaire Elizabeth Holmes is the subject of Hulu's new limited series titled "The Dropout." The eight-part series recalls the rise and fall of Holmes and her company amid its massive fraud scandal. In the early 2000s, Theranos followed in the footsteps of revolutionary tech companies like Apple and Facebook. Holmes boosted it as a promising solution to transform blood testing and democratize healthcare as we know it. But by 2015, the Palo Alto company, along with its former CEO, was in hot water once inaccuracies in Theranos's technology were exposed as well as Holmes's cover-up.
Holmes's professional demise came shortly after when authorities caught onto her scandal. She stepped down from her role as Theranos's CEO in June 2018, and around the same time, a federal grand jury indicted her on nine counts of wire fraud and two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. So...
Holmes's professional demise came shortly after when authorities caught onto her scandal. She stepped down from her role as Theranos's CEO in June 2018, and around the same time, a federal grand jury indicted her on nine counts of wire fraud and two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. So...
- 3/2/2022
- by Stacey Nguyen
- Popsugar.com
Elizabeth Holmes's billion-dollar business failure is one of the most unbelievable fraud stories in recent years. The disgraced Theranos founder managed to deceive investors and scientists by overselling the capabilities of her blood-testing system, which she claimed could diagnose tens of diseases with a pinprick's worth of blood. An investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission and an exposé from The Wall Street Journal revealed the device never worked and uncovered the web of lies Holmes weaved to keep investors in the dark, which ultimately led to her business's demise. However, one whistle-blower got the ball rolling in bringing Holmes's house of cards crashing down: Tyler Shultz. Here's what to know about the former Theranos employee and what he's up to now.
Who Is Tyler Shultz?
Shultz is among those affected by the Theranos scheme. He's the grandson of former Secretary of State George Shultz, a member of Theranos's board of directors.
Who Is Tyler Shultz?
Shultz is among those affected by the Theranos scheme. He's the grandson of former Secretary of State George Shultz, a member of Theranos's board of directors.
- 3/2/2022
- by Alicia Geigel
- Popsugar.com
Theranos was founded in 2003 by then 19-year-old Elizabeth Holmes. It claimed to be a revolutionary health technology company that would use rapid blood tests with the help of automated devices developed by the company, and in just a few drops of blood, it would be able to detect conditions such as diabetes or cancer. But in 2015, it started crashing down when the validity of Theranos’ technology was questioned by medical researchers such as professor John Ioannidis, Eleftherios Diamandis, and investigative journalist John Carreyrou of The Wall Street Journal. The company faced several challenges from then on. In early
Meet The Cast Of “The Dropout”...
Meet The Cast Of “The Dropout”...
- 2/27/2022
- by A.E. Oats
- TVovermind.com
“The Dropout” operates under no delusion of where Elizabeth Holmes ends up. Even if the saga of meteoric health tech startup Theranos wasn’t a ubiquitous, high-profile headline fascination of the last decade, the new Hulu series dramatizing the rise and fall of the company opens with a glimpse of that latter half. There’s Holmes (deftly played here by Amanda Seyfried), Theranos CEO, answering to federal investigators about what she knew about her company’s elaborate smokescreen, one that brought in billions of dollars before flaming out on the biggest stage possible.
Only, like Holmes herself, “The Dropout” is elusive in how much it actually answers. When presented with a basic overview of the Theranos story — an aspiring corporate wunderkind pitches a revolutionary idea about blood testing that was never really going to work the way she claimed it would — the lingering question is still a basic one: “Why?...
Only, like Holmes herself, “The Dropout” is elusive in how much it actually answers. When presented with a basic overview of the Theranos story — an aspiring corporate wunderkind pitches a revolutionary idea about blood testing that was never really going to work the way she claimed it would — the lingering question is still a basic one: “Why?...
- 2/25/2022
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
The upcoming Hulu series "The Dropout," starring Amanda Seyfried and Neveen Andrews, follows the rise and fall of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. Holmes founded Theranos in 2003 after dropping out of Stanford college and sought to make blood testing more accessible to the public through revolutionary technology. By 2014, Theranos had an estimated value of $9 billion, but as the company continued to grow, so did suspicions about the efficacy of its technology. After The Wall Street Journal published an exposé about Theranos and Holmes, her business and the house of cards she'd built to sustain it quickly crumbled.
"The Dropout" is a dramatization of Holmes's beginnings, her quick rise to becoming one of the world's richest self-made billionaires, and her demise. If you're looking for a refresher on the story of Theranos and Holmes before "The Dropout" hits Hulu on March 3, these documentaries and podcasts have you covered!
Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos...
"The Dropout" is a dramatization of Holmes's beginnings, her quick rise to becoming one of the world's richest self-made billionaires, and her demise. If you're looking for a refresher on the story of Theranos and Holmes before "The Dropout" hits Hulu on March 3, these documentaries and podcasts have you covered!
Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos...
- 2/24/2022
- by Alicia Geigel
- Popsugar.com
One of the trickier aspects of impersonating fallen Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is her deep-throated voice, but Jennifer Lawrence is set to take it on for the likely next film from her “Don’t Look Up” director Adam McKay, “Bad Blood.”
The film is based on John Carreyrou’s 2018 nonfiction book “Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley,” about the rise and fall of the multibillion-dollar Silicon Valley startup that set out to revolutionize blood tests but unraveled as Holmes was eventually convicted of four counts of wire fraud and conspiracy (out of 11 federal charges). Lawrence will be the first actress to portray Holmes on the big screen, though her story has been memorably brought to life in the podcast “The Dropout” and Alex Gibney’s documentary “The Inventor.”
McKay recently told Insider that Lawrence has already begun work on nailing that particularly unique accent of Holmes’.
“You know,...
The film is based on John Carreyrou’s 2018 nonfiction book “Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley,” about the rise and fall of the multibillion-dollar Silicon Valley startup that set out to revolutionize blood tests but unraveled as Holmes was eventually convicted of four counts of wire fraud and conspiracy (out of 11 federal charges). Lawrence will be the first actress to portray Holmes on the big screen, though her story has been memorably brought to life in the podcast “The Dropout” and Alex Gibney’s documentary “The Inventor.”
McKay recently told Insider that Lawrence has already begun work on nailing that particularly unique accent of Holmes’.
“You know,...
- 1/18/2022
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Jennifer Lawrence will be teaming up with Apple and Adam McKay for the Apple Original Film ‘Bad Blood.’
Lawrence takes on the role of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, it will follow her spectacular rise and fall, one that began with the promise of revolutionizing the health care system and ended with the collapse of her company and a trial for fraud.
Based on ‘Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley’ by the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist John Carreyrou. McKay will write, direct and produce the film.
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McKay and Kevin Messick will produce through Hyberobject Industries. Lawrence and Polsky will produce through Excellent Cadaver. Will Ferrell will produce through Gary Sanchez Productions.
Lawrence will next be seen in McKay’s Don’t Look Up alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep and Timothee Chalamet.
Lawrence takes on the role of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, it will follow her spectacular rise and fall, one that began with the promise of revolutionizing the health care system and ended with the collapse of her company and a trial for fraud.
Based on ‘Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley’ by the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist John Carreyrou. McKay will write, direct and produce the film.
Also in news – Colin Farrell to return to role of The Penguin in HBO’s ‘The Batman’ spin-off
McKay and Kevin Messick will produce through Hyberobject Industries. Lawrence and Polsky will produce through Excellent Cadaver. Will Ferrell will produce through Gary Sanchez Productions.
Lawrence will next be seen in McKay’s Don’t Look Up alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep and Timothee Chalamet.
- 12/8/2021
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Paul Bogaards, the storied publicity and marketing exec at Alfred A. Knopf, will step down from his job after a 32-year career with the publishing house.
His departure, effective Jan. 1, 2022, was announced today by Reagan Arthur, EVP, Publisher, at Knopf.
“Paul’s unparalleled impact on scores of best-selling and now-classic books cannot be overstated,” Arthur said in a statement. “His passion, creativity, and savvy media instincts have not only burnished the Knopf ethos but also shaped the reading and bookselling world at large.”
Continued Arthur, “Paul has worked his one-of-a-kind magic on several of the biggest books of our time. Even just a partial list of authors is staggering and counts among them Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winners, celebrities, debut novelists, politicians, and chefs.” Among those authors: Andre Agassi, Lidia Bastianich, Ken Burns, Robert Caro, John Carreyrou, Julia Child, President Bill Clinton, Michael Crichton, Joan Didion, Bret Easton Ellis,...
His departure, effective Jan. 1, 2022, was announced today by Reagan Arthur, EVP, Publisher, at Knopf.
“Paul’s unparalleled impact on scores of best-selling and now-classic books cannot be overstated,” Arthur said in a statement. “His passion, creativity, and savvy media instincts have not only burnished the Knopf ethos but also shaped the reading and bookselling world at large.”
Continued Arthur, “Paul has worked his one-of-a-kind magic on several of the biggest books of our time. Even just a partial list of authors is staggering and counts among them Nobel laureates, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winners, celebrities, debut novelists, politicians, and chefs.” Among those authors: Andre Agassi, Lidia Bastianich, Ken Burns, Robert Caro, John Carreyrou, Julia Child, President Bill Clinton, Michael Crichton, Joan Didion, Bret Easton Ellis,...
- 11/4/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
LisaGay Hamilton (To Kill A Mockingbird), Michaela Watkins (Werewolves Within), Ebon Moss-Bachrach (NOS4A2), Kevin Sussman (The Big Bang Theory), Sam Straley (Hala) and Shaun J. Brown are set for recurring roles opposite Amanda Seyfried in The Dropout, Hulu’s limited series about the rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos. The series hails from Liz Meriwether, Searchlight Television and Disney Television Studios’ 20th Television.
Created and executive produced by Meriwether, who also serves as showrunner, The Dropout is based on the ABC News/ABC Radio podcast. Holmes (Seyfried), the enigmatic Stanford dropout who founded medical testing start-up Theranos, was lauded as a Steve Jobs for the next tech generation. Once worth billions of dollars, the myth crumbled when it was revealed that none of the tech actually worked, putting thousands of people’s health in grave danger. Money. Romance. Tragedy. Deception. The story of Holmes and Theranos is...
Created and executive produced by Meriwether, who also serves as showrunner, The Dropout is based on the ABC News/ABC Radio podcast. Holmes (Seyfried), the enigmatic Stanford dropout who founded medical testing start-up Theranos, was lauded as a Steve Jobs for the next tech generation. Once worth billions of dollars, the myth crumbled when it was revealed that none of the tech actually worked, putting thousands of people’s health in grave danger. Money. Romance. Tragedy. Deception. The story of Holmes and Theranos is...
- 9/14/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced Silicon Valley entrepreneur once touted as the next Steve Jobs, will be portrayed in two upcoming fictionalized projects, one starring Jennifer Lawrence and the other with Kate McKinnon.
Lawrence’s big screen dramatization and McKinnon’s Hulu miniseries won’t be out for a while, but no waiting is required to see a nonfiction treatment of the Holmes story—The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley is available right now on HBO on demand. It’s in contention for multiple Emmy nominations.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney directed the documentary, about the Stanford University dropout who launched blood-testing company Theranos and became the youngest self-made female billionaire ever before the enterprise collapsed in a blizzard of fraud allegations. Gibney says he didn’t anticipate how much The Inventor would resonate with viewers.
“The way it broke through kind of surprised me in the sense that now...
Lawrence’s big screen dramatization and McKinnon’s Hulu miniseries won’t be out for a while, but no waiting is required to see a nonfiction treatment of the Holmes story—The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley is available right now on HBO on demand. It’s in contention for multiple Emmy nominations.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney directed the documentary, about the Stanford University dropout who launched blood-testing company Theranos and became the youngest self-made female billionaire ever before the enterprise collapsed in a blizzard of fraud allegations. Gibney says he didn’t anticipate how much The Inventor would resonate with viewers.
“The way it broke through kind of surprised me in the sense that now...
- 5/30/2019
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Former Theranos executive Elizabeth Holmes has already made history in some infamous ways. Now, on the heels of a buzzy HBO documentary, she is now the subject of two different scripted projects. The latest one, as reported by Deadline on Wednesday, comes in the form of a Hulu limited series starring Kate McKinnon.
“The Dropout,” adapted from the ABC News podcast of the same name, will star the current “Saturday Night Live” cast member as the founder of the ill-fated blood home testing kit company, which went from being valued at billions of dollars to the center of one of the biggest financial scams in American history.
“Bad Blood,” a feature film based on the reporting of John Carreyrou, is still in the works. Starring Jennifer Lawrence and directed by Adam McKay, both were attached to the project as far back as the summer of 2016.
Meanwhile, last June Holmes was...
“The Dropout,” adapted from the ABC News podcast of the same name, will star the current “Saturday Night Live” cast member as the founder of the ill-fated blood home testing kit company, which went from being valued at billions of dollars to the center of one of the biggest financial scams in American history.
“Bad Blood,” a feature film based on the reporting of John Carreyrou, is still in the works. Starring Jennifer Lawrence and directed by Adam McKay, both were attached to the project as far back as the summer of 2016.
Meanwhile, last June Holmes was...
- 4/10/2019
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Hulu is eyeing a series order for “The Dropout,” a limited series about Elizabeth Holmes, with Kate McKinnon set to play the disgraced tech whiz, Variety has learned.
The prospective show, based on the ABC Radio and ABC News podcast about Holmes, would hail from Fox Searchlight TV, with McKinnon also on board as an executive producer.
The title refers to the fact Holmes dropped out of Stanford to found Theranos, a company which invented the Edison machine, a revolutionary diagnostic tool that promised to give patients a cheap way to test their blood for 200 diseases at their local drug store with just a finger-prick.
However, the machine did not work as Holmes claimed, and her lies allowed her to reap a fortune from investors, and even appear on the front cover of Fortune magazine. Wealthy investors who fell for Holmes’ scheme and poured money into the company include Betsy DuVos and Rupert Murdock.
The prospective show, based on the ABC Radio and ABC News podcast about Holmes, would hail from Fox Searchlight TV, with McKinnon also on board as an executive producer.
The title refers to the fact Holmes dropped out of Stanford to found Theranos, a company which invented the Edison machine, a revolutionary diagnostic tool that promised to give patients a cheap way to test their blood for 200 diseases at their local drug store with just a finger-prick.
However, the machine did not work as Holmes claimed, and her lies allowed her to reap a fortune from investors, and even appear on the front cover of Fortune magazine. Wealthy investors who fell for Holmes’ scheme and poured money into the company include Betsy DuVos and Rupert Murdock.
- 4/10/2019
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
Calculated or clueless? Savior or shark? The premiere of HBO’s “The Inventor” earlier this month has sparked new debate over disgraced entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes and just how much she knew about the demise of her healthcare technology company, Theranos.
The documentary, which tracks Holmes’ meteoric rise through Silicon Valley and her subsequent fall from grace when her startup is revealed to have defrauded investors with false claims and earnings, has also sparked renewed interest in the under-pinnings of the tech industry, where new ideas and young leaders are put up on a pedestal,...
The documentary, which tracks Holmes’ meteoric rise through Silicon Valley and her subsequent fall from grace when her startup is revealed to have defrauded investors with false claims and earnings, has also sparked renewed interest in the under-pinnings of the tech industry, where new ideas and young leaders are put up on a pedestal,...
- 3/27/2019
- by Tim Chan
- Rollingstone.com
Just a few years ago, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes was pronounced the youngest self-made female billionaire in America, but now, she is potentially facing 20 years in prison. Following the wild success of the recent pair of notable Fyre Festival docs, HBO recently released a documentary called The Inventor: Out For Blood in Silicon Valley, and it may be even crazier than the story of Fyre Fest.
The documentary tells the story of the brilliant Stanford dropout who founded Theranos. With her mission of performing blood tests using only small quantities of blood, Holmes received billions of dollars through fundraising efforts and investor enthusiasm - which would have been great if the technology actually existed. Once known for her trademark Steve Jobs-inspired black turtlenecks and revolutionary blood testing aspirations, Holmes is now better known for her decade of deception and her notably deep voice.
However, just like Fyre Media's CEO Billy McFarland,...
The documentary tells the story of the brilliant Stanford dropout who founded Theranos. With her mission of performing blood tests using only small quantities of blood, Holmes received billions of dollars through fundraising efforts and investor enthusiasm - which would have been great if the technology actually existed. Once known for her trademark Steve Jobs-inspired black turtlenecks and revolutionary blood testing aspirations, Holmes is now better known for her decade of deception and her notably deep voice.
However, just like Fyre Media's CEO Billy McFarland,...
- 3/25/2019
- by Corinne Sullivan
- Popsugar.com
Elizabeth Holmes jolted into the spotlight in 2015 when Forbes named the Theranos CEO and founder the world’s youngest and wealthiest self-made billionaire. Then it all came falling down when her allegedly revolutionary blood testing tool, once valued at $9 billion, faced fraud claims, leaving Holmes with a net worth of zero.
HBO’s new documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, inspired by John Carreyrou’s Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, explores Holmes’ quick rise and fall — and it won’t be the only movie to capture the 35-year-old’s journey from Silicon...
HBO’s new documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, inspired by John Carreyrou’s Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, explores Holmes’ quick rise and fall — and it won’t be the only movie to capture the 35-year-old’s journey from Silicon...
- 3/22/2019
- by Dana Rose Falcone
- PEOPLE.com
It’s been a bad few weeks — make that a bad year — for former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, the one-time Silicon Valley superstar who was charged in 2018 with fraud for lying to investors about her company’s technology.
Between the recent ABC podcast The Dropout, HBO’s new documentary The Inventor: Out For Blood in Silicon Valley and the upcoming movie Bad Blood, starring Jennifer Lawrence (based on the book by John Carreyrou), the public has suddenly become fascinated with the story of the wide-eyed woman with the oddly low voice, who loves to wear black turtlenecks.
One of the (frankly,...
Between the recent ABC podcast The Dropout, HBO’s new documentary The Inventor: Out For Blood in Silicon Valley and the upcoming movie Bad Blood, starring Jennifer Lawrence (based on the book by John Carreyrou), the public has suddenly become fascinated with the story of the wide-eyed woman with the oddly low voice, who loves to wear black turtlenecks.
One of the (frankly,...
- 3/22/2019
- by Gillian Telling
- PEOPLE.com
Elizabeth Holmes first rose to prominence in 2014 as the CEO of healthcare start-up Theranos, but the entrepreneur became infamous about 20 months later, after being charged with an “elaborate years-long” fraud having duped millions.
Ahead of the release of HBO documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley on Sunday, which traces the rise and fall of the one-time Silicon Valley darling, it was revealed that Holmes, 35, is currently engaged.
Vanity Fair was the first to break the news, reporting in a February story that Holmes is currently living in San Francisco, and “engaged to a younger hospitality heir, who...
Ahead of the release of HBO documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley on Sunday, which traces the rise and fall of the one-time Silicon Valley darling, it was revealed that Holmes, 35, is currently engaged.
Vanity Fair was the first to break the news, reporting in a February story that Holmes is currently living in San Francisco, and “engaged to a younger hospitality heir, who...
- 3/21/2019
- by Maria Pasquini, Kara Warner
- PEOPLE.com
You probably think you already know all there is to know about Elizabeth Homes, CEO/Silicon Valley wunderkind/wolf-puppy-haver who fell from grace when she was accused of building her health care company Theranos on sham science. The story of Theranos has been adapted into a book (John Carreyrou’s Bad Blood), a podcast (ABC News’ The Dropout), and is even set to be adapted for the big screen (Jennifer Lawrence is reportedly playing Holmes, natch.)
Yet to paraphrase the opening to The Real World, you think you may know the story,...
Yet to paraphrase the opening to The Real World, you think you may know the story,...
- 3/19/2019
- by EJ Dickson
- Rollingstone.com
In the fall of 2014, Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes was named one of Forbes’s richest women in America and her start-up company valued at $9 billion. Around 20 months later Holmes’ net worth was estimated at $0 and she was charged with an “elaborate years-long” fraud having duped millions.
The rise and fall of the one-time Silicon Valley darling is the subject of HBO’s documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, airing Monday night (March 18). Here are five things to know about Holmes and her elaborate scheme.
Holmes’s early beginnings
Holmes was born in Washington D.C. to father Christian Holmes,...
The rise and fall of the one-time Silicon Valley darling is the subject of HBO’s documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, airing Monday night (March 18). Here are five things to know about Holmes and her elaborate scheme.
Holmes’s early beginnings
Holmes was born in Washington D.C. to father Christian Holmes,...
- 3/19/2019
- by Kara Warner
- PEOPLE.com
Following a pair of notable Fyre Festival docs, the latest millennials-meet-true-crime documentary is HBO's The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, which revolves around the failed blood-testing startup Theranos and its founder Elizabeth Holmes. Building upon the book published last year by Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, the documentary (which premieres March 18) will tell the story of the brilliant Stanford dropout who promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood testing much faster and easier and who received billions of dollars through fundraising efforts - which would have been great if the technology actually existed.
When Holmes first appeared on the scene in 2004 with her mission of performing blood tests using only small quantities of blood, she and her new company, Theranos (a name created by combining "therapy" and "diagnosis"), received an impressive amount of interest.
When Holmes first appeared on the scene in 2004 with her mission of performing blood tests using only small quantities of blood, she and her new company, Theranos (a name created by combining "therapy" and "diagnosis"), received an impressive amount of interest.
- 3/18/2019
- by Corinne Sullivan
- Popsugar.com
Kylie Jenner isn't the only young, female self-made billionaire who's ever made headlines. Before she fell from grace, Elizabeth Holmes was given the same title by Forbes for founding the health tech company Theranos at age 19 and hitting a 10-digit worth by age 30. She and her team developed a device that streamlined medical testing by requiring no more than a small amount of blood. The innovative technology didn't actually work, but Holmes deceived investors, journalists, and thousands of patients before her Silicon Valley legacy collapsed. HBO is bringing the story to the small screen with The Inventor: Out For Blood in Silicon Valley, which premieres on March 18. Before you watch, here's the down-low on Holmes.
Born in Washington DC, Holmes grew up connected with high-profile names. Her father, Christian Holmes IV, was the vice president of Enron, and her mother, Noel Daoust, was a foreign policy and defense aide on Capitol Hill.
Born in Washington DC, Holmes grew up connected with high-profile names. Her father, Christian Holmes IV, was the vice president of Enron, and her mother, Noel Daoust, was a foreign policy and defense aide on Capitol Hill.
- 3/18/2019
- by Stacey Nguyen
- Popsugar.com
The fascinating story of Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos scandal is frustratingly underexplored in Alex Gibney’s disappointing new film
There’s a commonly held belief that the Us is a place where a person of humble means can make their way to the highest echelons of power through sheer grit. This myth remains stable, despite being repeatedly punctured by events like the Fyre Festival, Trump’s presidency and this week’s college admission scandal. In Alex Gibney’s newest documentary, The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, it receives another dent thanks to the incredible story of Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos scandal. It’s the story of a woman who managed to procure millions for a blood testing machine that didn’t exist, a classic tale of connections mattering more than cognition. It inspired an award-winning book, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup...
There’s a commonly held belief that the Us is a place where a person of humble means can make their way to the highest echelons of power through sheer grit. This myth remains stable, despite being repeatedly punctured by events like the Fyre Festival, Trump’s presidency and this week’s college admission scandal. In Alex Gibney’s newest documentary, The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, it receives another dent thanks to the incredible story of Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos scandal. It’s the story of a woman who managed to procure millions for a blood testing machine that didn’t exist, a classic tale of connections mattering more than cognition. It inspired an award-winning book, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup...
- 3/18/2019
- by Hubert Adjei-Kontoh
- The Guardian - Film News
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Alex Gibney, director of The Inventor, doesn't know if Silicon Valley has learned the right lessons from the Theranos fraud.
In late 2015, blood analyzing biotech company, Theranos, was worth around $9 billion thanks to the leadership of its wunderkind CEO Elizabeth Holmes. In October of that year, The Wall Street Journal published a heavily researched and reported expose from John Carreyrou revealing that Theranos's technology can only do a small fraction of what the company was purporting. Within a year, the company's value was effectively $0.
Theranos is one of the most prominent examples of overzealous marketing in Silicon Valley at best, and outright fraud at worst. Holmes started the company during her sophomore year at Stanford, and dropped out of school shortly thereafter to run it full time. For years, Theranos grew and grew through Holmes' charisma and Jobs-ian persona. But the company's technology was never properly vetted,...
Alex Gibney, director of The Inventor, doesn't know if Silicon Valley has learned the right lessons from the Theranos fraud.
In late 2015, blood analyzing biotech company, Theranos, was worth around $9 billion thanks to the leadership of its wunderkind CEO Elizabeth Holmes. In October of that year, The Wall Street Journal published a heavily researched and reported expose from John Carreyrou revealing that Theranos's technology can only do a small fraction of what the company was purporting. Within a year, the company's value was effectively $0.
Theranos is one of the most prominent examples of overzealous marketing in Silicon Valley at best, and outright fraud at worst. Holmes started the company during her sophomore year at Stanford, and dropped out of school shortly thereafter to run it full time. For years, Theranos grew and grew through Holmes' charisma and Jobs-ian persona. But the company's technology was never properly vetted,...
- 3/10/2019
- Den of Geek
Alex Gibney's The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley follows the rise and fall of Silicon Valley blood fraud Theranos
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Is there a conman and grifter renaissance afoot or - like Andy Samberg said at this year’s Golden Globes - does it just seem that way because of our phones?
The past few months alone have seen not one but two documentaries on Billy McFarland and Ja Rule’s fraudulent millennial influencer honeypot, Fyre Festival. Last month, actor Jussie Smollett apparently decided that an elaborate con was the simplest route to career advancement. Then, of course, there’s the “T” word. Not for nothing, but the President of the United States has been under legal scrutiny or outright investigation for the entirety of his term.
It’s hard to say whether this is a golden era for conmen, grifters, and the fraudulent or if this is...
Movies
Is there a conman and grifter renaissance afoot or - like Andy Samberg said at this year’s Golden Globes - does it just seem that way because of our phones?
The past few months alone have seen not one but two documentaries on Billy McFarland and Ja Rule’s fraudulent millennial influencer honeypot, Fyre Festival. Last month, actor Jussie Smollett apparently decided that an elaborate con was the simplest route to career advancement. Then, of course, there’s the “T” word. Not for nothing, but the President of the United States has been under legal scrutiny or outright investigation for the entirety of his term.
It’s hard to say whether this is a golden era for conmen, grifters, and the fraudulent or if this is...
- 3/8/2019
- Den of Geek
Only a few short years ago, Elizabeth Holmes, a Stanford University dropout turned technology startup CEO, was the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world and heralded as “the next Steve Jobs” by Silicon Valley’s elite. Theranos, the biotech company she founded in 2003, at age 19, raked in nearly $1 billion in venture capital funding for the development of affordable single-drop blood tests that Holmes promised would revolutionize the healthcare industry. Now, Holmes is facing 20 years in prison for wire fraud, accused by the federal government of scheming to defraud investors,...
- 1/23/2019
- by Amelia McDonell-Parry
- Rollingstone.com
Elizabeth Holmes, a former Silicon Valley darling whose rapid rise and fall as the founder of the life sciences company Theranos that inspired the upcoming Jennifer Lawrence film “Bad Blood,” was indicted Friday on wire fraud charges.
Also indicted was Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, who held several high-profile positions in Theranos, a company that told investors it would revolutionize medical testing through innovative new methods for drawing and testing blood.
Holmes and Balwani were charged with two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and nine counts of wire fraud, federal prosecutors said. They are accused of engaging in a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud investors, “and a separate scheme to defraud doctors and patients,” prosecutors said in a news release.
Theranos said Holmes would step down as CEO of the company and that general...
Also indicted was Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, who held several high-profile positions in Theranos, a company that told investors it would revolutionize medical testing through innovative new methods for drawing and testing blood.
Holmes and Balwani were charged with two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and nine counts of wire fraud, federal prosecutors said. They are accused of engaging in a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud investors, “and a separate scheme to defraud doctors and patients,” prosecutors said in a news release.
Theranos said Holmes would step down as CEO of the company and that general...
- 6/15/2018
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
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