as NBCUniversal vice chairman after he disclosed that he had made payments to cover up an old affair., who briefly dated Meyer about a decade ago, The Times has previously reported. Meyer’s sudden exit appeared to derail the 50-year career of one of Hollywood’s most popular moguls.
Meyer had spent a quarter-century in senior leadership positions at Universal, including as head of Universal Studios. Before that, he was a founding partner at Hollywood talent agency CAA with Michael Ovitz and others.Before the revolver fired, Alec Baldwin was rehearsing how to point it toward the camera, says an affidavit laying out new details of the shooting.
The company, which is based in Berlin and Paris, has about 125 employees and a film library of about 2,500 titles. Thesaid it had facilitated the international distribution of a number of well-received films, including “The Artist,” “Blue is the Warmest Color,” “Fahrenheit 9/11,” “The King’s Speech,” “March of the Penguins,” “Pan’s Labyrinth” and “Sin City.”