UPDATED with Bones lawyer and Fox statements: In a stunning win for Fox, a California judge on Thursday tossed most of a $179 million judgment that Bones stars Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz and executive producers Barry Josephson and Kathy Reichs were awarded by an arbitrator earlier this year. Mere days after pun…

Just over two months after Bones stars Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz and executive producers Barry Josephson and Kathy Reichs were awarded $179 million in their long-standing profit participation fight with 21st Century Fox, a California judge today heard arguments on the arbitrator's hefty decision. The now Disne…

Almost two years after Bones ended its run of more than a decade at Fox, the stars and executive producer of the crime drama have partially prevailed in their profit participation battle with the company, for now. Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz and EP Barry Josephson have been issued a hefty award of almost $179…

EXCLUSIVE: Massy Tadjedin has been set by Focus Features to direct Circle Of Treason. The political thriller is scripted by Anna Waterhouse & Joe Shrapnel, and Barry Josephson is producing. Two women in the CIA suspect there is a mole working there, but they have to overcome the institution’s hierarchy, and…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony pre-empted the supernatural thriller spec /reddoor over the weekend for producers Barry Josephson, Liz Bassin and Jim Wedaa, about a young journalist who discovers the new app game he is reviewing has the ability to kill the player once they’ve entered the game world. The project is said to be in the…

Bones returned television for its penultimate season last week, but a profit participation lawsuit by EPs and stars of the Fox drama will be staying out of sight after all. An L.A. Superior Court judge jumped his own schedule and ruled mainly in favor of Fox's desire for arbitration in the legal moves by EP Barry Josep…

Fox will have to wait another month to find out whether or not they will get their wish to shift the multi-million dollar Bones profit participation lawsuits to arbitration, as a L.A. Superior Court judge today pushed decision on the matter to May 4. In a downtown hearing Monday, lawyers for the Fox defendants and…

American Supergroup co-creators and exec producers Kevin Wayne Waldrop and Gary Wayne Bridges were at Mip-TV in Cannes this weekend to announce the launch of international format sales to the show (also exec produced by Barry Josephson, Bones). CAA is handling world rights. The project was originally hatched back in…

EXCLUSIVE: Bones executive producer Barry Josephson today began his stern push-back against Fox's attempts to move his multimillion-dollar profit participation lawsuit to arbitration and stay the case. He was joined by stars Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz and EP Kathleen Reichs, who filed a similar suit on November…

EXCLUSIVE: There was no chance that Fox was going to respond with anything less than a bonecrusher to claims by Bones executive producer Barry Josephson, stars Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz and EP Kathleen Reichs that they had been cheated out of contractually obliged big bucks from the long-running procedural…

EXCLUSIVE: Bones executive producer Barry Josephson and his lawyers have done the forensics on the long-running Fox series and claim they've found something rotten financially. In a detailed breach of contract and fraudulent inducement complaint filed today in L.A. Superior Court (read it here), Josephson says the…

Created by the comics legend with a script by Dan Gilroy (The Bourne Legacy), Annihilator is the story of Ming, a Chinese expatriate recruited by the U.S. military for a secret ‘super soldier’ program and granted incredible powers through genetic enhancements based on various animal species DNA. Josephson told…