Adi Shankar, the producer of Netflix's Castlevania, says his upcoming project Superman Vs. the Ku Klux Klan has been indirectly energized by Bill Maher’s put-downs of comic book culture and comments about the late Stan Lee. Shankar said the firebrand comedian’s appraisal of comic book culture as an example of “using…

UPDATED with Al Jean response: The Simpsons showrunner Al Jean has weighed in on claims that the show’s controversial character Apu will be written out the show. Jean was responding to producer Adi Shankar’s remarks in an interview with Indiewire that he was told by “multiple sources” that Apu would be quietly dropped…

Producer Adi Shankar has penned an open letter imploring Americans of Muslim, Indian and Asian descent to peacefully resist Trumpism and the politics of division. He's also urging his fellow entertainers to "use our canvases to create the change we wish to see in the world." Speaking out after the election of Donald Tr…

HBO has acquired U.S. rights to Leah Wolchok’s documentary Very Semi-Serious: A Partially Thorough Portrait Of New Yorker Cartoonists, with the pic premiering on the network December 7 following an Oscar-qualifying theatrical run starting November 20 in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. The pic, which had its…

UPDATE, March 23, 2:08 PM: After a review of the James Bond bootleg from producer Adi Shankar, Google/YouTube removed the copyright strike against him and is allowing the parody directed by Tyler Gibb to stand. The video is back up. According to a source with knowledge of the events, after it was successful in…

The producer behind the Power Rangers bootleg fan video is now taking on Bond. James Bond. The video is called James Bond: In Service Of Nothing and is an animated take this time around, using Sean Connery’s likeness. Asked if he is worried about similar legal issues as those he encountered with Saban Entertainment…

EXCLUSIVE: The Power Rangers fan film dispute has been settled. Following an agreement late Friday, the fan video is back on YouTube and Vimeo after a legal chest bumping between lawyers for franchise copyright holder Haim Saban and film fan producer Adi Shankar. Both hosting sites had pulled the video due to…