asia argento, seen in this photo hugging movie co-star and former child actor jimmy bennett, the man she s accused of assaulting. argento and bennett first met when the then 7-year-old played her son in the 2004 film the heart is deceitful above all things. i want my mama! take me home! reporter: the new york times reports it received settlement documents from an anonymous encrypted e-mail, outlining a $380,000 settlement between argento and bennett, alleging that argento sexually assaulted him in a california hotel room. claiming argento gave him alcohol, and kissed him before engaging in sexual activity. at the time, bennett was 17, and argento was 37. the age of consent in california is 18. argento, a prominent voice in the #metoo movement, speaking out often direct publically to fellow moviemakers. sitting among you, there are those who still have to be held against women. reporter: according to the dates in the document,
selection committee watches hundreds yes we three curators also watched hundreds we ended up with forty seven movies in total that that number wasn t fixed beforehand because active on it s just in time so if we went out into the world to latin america and asia traveled throughout europe africa and india. everywhere we asked what is occupying movie makers and their protagonists these days. give up or talk and that s how we found our topics and the powerful movies we wanted to showcase in our potter rama. because he s a fitness instructor that was forty seven movies in total feature films and documentaries we have twenty documentaries which is very important to us because the us what did you discover. what moviemakers occupied was now. a decisive resistance to male mikey s no one patriarchal power structures. how the christian church interferes in our lives. and to binary gender roles and hetero normative values. this is
a brazen robbery captured on surveillance tape. a brazen robbery captured on surveillance tape. robbers used a backhoe to smash into a texas gun store. that eventually sent the walls of the store crashing down as you see right there. but after all that effort, the suspects got away with one lone rifle. one of them uses it to try to bust open the glass case, the glass showcase. that failed. all those other guns are locked inside a safe. police are now searching for the suspects. now to hollywood and the remembrance coming in for one of the biggest moviemakers in the business. producer jerry weintraub started in a mail room and rose to the top of the showbiz empire. talk about rags to riches. he died of a heart attack in santa barbara at the age of 77. but that s not how he s going to be remembered. kabc s george pennacchio has our tribute.
this morning on world news now, homegrown terror. an american citizen from ohio accused of plotting an unthinkable attack on u.s. soil. i think we have to be concerned about americans doing this. emerging details about his alleged links to isis and his training overseas. facing a judge. the florida postal worker who flew a gyrocopter under the radar into washington s restricted air space. i don t believe that the authorities are going to shoot down a 60-year-old mailman in a flying bicycle. new questions about security and what happens next to this fearless pilot. and later, star wars sneak peek. the new trailer is out and moviemakers reveal new hints about the long awaited next chapter. it s friday, april 17th.
sets and the costumes. and the types of actors in it and ken directing. it s been just so wonderful. i m just kind of excited about my niece, my baby niece, watching the film and seeing her uncle be the prince. they re all looking at you. believe me, they re all looking at you. reporter: richard says dancing in cinderella was more difficult than his game of thrones swordfighting scenes. he trained on the dance floor for months. and he believed the moviemakers created the perfect arena. we built that ballroom. there s 2,000 lit candles in the scene. there s 600 extras in costume and dancers performing. it was magical being there. reporter: and there was the swarovski crystal glass slipper. did you wear it? or was it movie magic? it s movie magic. yeah. it sort of breaks my heart every time i say it. i feel like it shatters the illusion, that prince charming