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Stuff.co.nz
January 21, 2018
Four years later, former Hollywood executive Scott Neeson stoops to squeeze the boy's arm as he lies unmoving and staring into space on a bed in a centre for ... Neeson says the moment he decided to quit Hollywood for Cambodia came 14 years ago when during a visit to a rubbish dump an 86-year-oldÃâà...
Voice of America
January 17, 2018
The bail verdict in an increasingly high profile Cambodian espionage case against Australian filmmaker James Ricketson was postponed on Wednesday because the prison delivered him to the court late. Ricketson, who was charged with espionage after reportedly flying a drone at an opposition rally inÃâà...
The Phnom Penh Post
November 27, 2017
Scott Neeson, the founder and executive director of the Cambodian Children's Fund, was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Social Work from St Elizabeth University of Health and Social Sciences in Slovakia yesterday. The former Hollywood executive's foundation recently opened the Neeson CrippsÃâà...
The Phnom Penh Post
November 27, 2017
Scott Neeson, the founder and executive director of the Cambodian Children's Fund, was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Social Work from St Elizabeth University of Health and Social Sciences in Slovakia yesterday. The former Hollywood executive's foundation recently opened the Neeson CrippsÃâà...
Film Journal
June 13, 2017
It was a natural event for the CCF, which was founded in 2004 by former 20th Century Fox International and Sony executive Scott Neeson, profiled in full in our July 2016 issue. It was at last year's CineEurope awards dinner that Neeson gave a presentation on the CCF that was seen by representatives fromÃâà...
ABC Online
June 12, 2017
The video shows a Cambodian man with a mangled foot pulling himself along on his belly, led on a string by a girl who looks about five years old. He moves painfully slowly along the busy road, stopping occasionally to pray as a few bank notes are dropped into his faded plastic basket. The video was shotÃâà...
RT
April 5, 2017
In Scott Neeson's stellar career, he went from being a poor young immigrant in Australia working as a projectionist in a drive-in movie theater to a top ... When he left his job as president of 20th Century Fox International in 2003 to take an even better job with Sony, he decided to take a five-week break toÃâà...
Lion's Roar
March 16, 2017
Scott Neeson, seen here with Harrison Ford, started out as a projectionist at a drive-in and worked his way up to president of Twentieth Century Fox International. ... But what he experienced wasnt the peaceful reprieve he had envisioned—while in Cambodia, he decided to make an unusual request.
Business Insider
February 7, 2013
Zohar123/Wikimedia Commons In 2002, Scott Neeson was the President of 20th Century Fox International overseeing films like "Titanic" and "X-Men." ... During a second trip to Cambodia, Neeson was trying to help sick children near the dump when he received a call from an agent whose A-list client wasÃâà...
People Magazine
February 7, 2013
Scott Neeson's life in Hollywood was dreamy – he had the million-dollar salary, the yacht, the A-list contacts and a packed social calendar. ... Once president of 20th Century Fox International, overseeing films from Titanic to X-Men, the Scottish-born executive drove a Porsche and lived in ritzy Brentwood.
Christian Science Monitor
August 10, 2012
Phnom Penh, Cambodia — Scott Neeson's final epiphany came one day in June 2004. ... Much to everyone's surprise, within months the Australian native, who as president of 20th Century Fox International had overseen the global success of block-busters like "Titanic," "Braveheart," and "Die Another DayÃâà...