What I’m Hearing: Lauren Sanchez’s Secret Movie

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Lauren Sanchez’s Adventures in the Screen Trade

Jeff Bezos’s ambitious companion self-financed a film that secretly shot last summer and includes a cameo by Bezos’s ultra-private daughter, but crew defections and a fired director turned a low-budget passion project into something far less hassle-free than buying undies on Amazon.

MATTHEW BELLONI

Have you ever had lunch with Lauren Sanchez? It’s a whirlwind of energy and ambition. I got the full experience in 2017, when Sanchez—a television news personality, helicopter pilot, and, at the time, wife of Endeavor executive chairman Patrick Whitesell—was trying to get attention for Black Ops Aviation, her company that helps film and TV productions on aerial shots. (It worked.)...

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