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‘Suits: L.A.’ Nabs California Tax Credits to Relocate from Vancouver
A film and TV tax credit initiative designed to juice production and soundstage construction in California has lured Suits: L.A. to shoot in the state. The California Film Commission on Tuesday announced that the spinoff to the former USA Network series turned streaming juggernaut will get nearly $12 million, thanks to a program that incentivizes […]
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Yelp Sues Google After Search Giant Loses Antitrust Case
The government’s antitrust victory over Google has cleared the way for a lawsuit against the company from Yelp, a competing online service that lets users find and review local businesses. In a lawsuit filed on Wednesday in federal court in San Francisco, Yelp accuses Google of leveraging its monopoly power in general search to divert […]
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Warner Bros. TV, ‘ER’ Alums Sued by Michael Crichton Estate Over New Medical Drama
Warner Bros. Television’s ER revival look-alike has sparked a lawsuit from the estate of Michael Crichton, holder of the rights to the medical drama created by the prolific writer of technological thrillers who spawned various Hollywood blockbusters. Crichton’s estate, in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, accuses Warners and a trio […]
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Sean “Diddy” Combs Revealed to Be Among Investors in Elon Musk’s X Launch
After a federal court forced its hand, Elon Musk’s X Corp. has disclosed a list of shareholders for its parent company. Investors named in the document, unsealed on Wednesday evening, include entities linked to Sean “Diddy” Combs, Bill Ackman, Larry Ellison and Marc Andreessen. The disclosure stems from a lawsuit filed by former Twitter employees […]
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California vs. the World: The Race to Nab Film and TV Productions
Last year, New York dispersed about $124 million in tax credits to various entities belonging to Paramount Global as a reward for 10 projects that were shot in the state. Those productions — which encompassed an array of feature films, TV series and even a talk show, including Clifford the Big Red Dog, Blue Bloods and […]
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‘Rust’ Ricochet: Film’s Ammo Provider Questions New Bullet Evidence That Derailed Trial (Exclusive)
From the moment law enforcement arrived at the New Mexico set where the Rust shooting occurred, how exactly the live rounds got there was a key focus of the investigation. The prosecution, for years, maintained that they likely came from armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, who was convicted in March for involuntary manslaughter. But when a so-called […]
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New AI Lawsuit From Authors Against Anthropic Targets Growing Licensing Market for Copyrighted Content
Over the past two years, a thriving market for licensing copyrighted material to train artificial intelligence systems has emerged. OpenAI was the first to strike deals with publications, like Axel Springer, News Corp. and the Associated Press. A few others in the field followed. Such agreements weren’t in place when AI firms first started to […]
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Julia Ormond’s Lawsuit Against CAA, Disney Over Harvey Weinstein’s Sex Crimes Can Proceed, Judge Rules
CAA has lost its bid to dismiss a lawsuit from Julia Ormond faulting the agency for failing to warn her about Harvey’s Weinstein’s history of sexual misconduct before she took a meeting with the former movie mogul that led to her assault. Ormond last year filed a wide-reaching lawsuit accusing her ex-agency, Miramax and Disney […]
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FuboTV Wins Bid to Block Disney-Fox-Warner Sports Streaming Platform Over Antitrust Concerns
A federal judge has temporarily blocked a joint venture from media giants teaming up to pool together their sports licensing rights to form a new streaming service, which was challenged by rival sports streamer Fubo. U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett on Friday ruled against The Walt Disney Co., Fox Corp. and Warner Bros. Discovery in […]
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Graceland Fraud: Charges Brought in Multimillion-Dollar Scheme to Sell Presley Family Landmark
A foreclosure notice published in a Tennessee newspaper in May announcing that an unknown investment firm planned to auction Graceland to the highest bidder later that month sent shock waves through Elvis Presley’s family and the Memphis community where the landmark is located. It also sparked a criminal investigation into a well-known fraudster, who claimed […]
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AI Is Coming for Our Kids (or at Least Their TV Shows)
Last year, Kartoon Studios (then Genius Brands) unveiled two educational animated series that were almost completely created by artificial intelligence. ChatGPT wrote the scripts, with other AI tools generating the animation and voicing the characters. In one, Warren Buffett’s Secret Millionaires Club — intended to teach kids financial literacy — a 3D animated Buffett is […]
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CBS Loses Bid to Dismiss Lawsuit From ‘SEAL Team’ Scribe Over Alleged Racial Quotas for Hiring Writers
A lawsuit from a script coordinator for SEAL Team, who accused CBS Studios of carrying out illegal diversity quotas that discriminate against straight white men, will proceed, a court has ruled. U.S. District Judge John Walter, in an order issued Tuesday evening, rebuffed parent company Paramount’s bid to dismiss the case. He found that certain […]
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