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"I'm never wrong about this stuff, never," said a dismissive and scoffing Larry David earlier this year in that now infamous Super Bowl ad for investing in cryptocurrency exchange FTX. While the Seinfeld co-creator rejected the wheel, coffee, the U.S. Constitution, electricity, putting a man on the…

EXCLUSIVE: A most unusual rights deal has closed, as Boies Schiller Entertainment bested several producer/financiers vying to tell the story of Abdullahi Tumburkai. Who? He is a farmer in Nigeria, who, in a desperate race to save the lives of his two brothers, successfully negotiated and ransomed their freedom from…

EXCLUSIVE: Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda have committed to a big screen reteam in Moving On, a comedy written and to be directed by Paul Weitz. Malcolm McDowell and Richard Roundtree join them in a film about two old friends who reconnect at a funeral, and decide to exact revenge on the widower who wronged them decades…

Harvey Weinstein’s hiring of Black Cube, a private intelligence agency run largely by former officers of Mossad and other Israeli intelligence agencies, became a key topic on an otherwise subdued day at his rape trial in New York. The trial is likely to heat back up Friday when prosecutors call Jessica Mann to the…

Even before a jury has been selected, the first day of Harvey Weinstein's criminal trial for rape saw legal and cultural explosions going off inside and outside a Manhattan courtroom this morning. After an impassioned argument by Deputy District Attorney Joan Illuzzi-Orbon, a gag of sorts on Weinstein and his team…

Rose McGowan has filed a lawsuit alleging that Harvey Weinstein and what the suit claims is his “team of fixers” — attorneys David Boies and Lisa Bloom and an Israeli private-security contractor — conspired to silence sexual assault victims. Those accusers include McGowan, who wrote in her 2018 memoir Brave that…

There has been a wave of sexual harassment and sexual assault accusers who have come forward against Harvey Weinstein since the New York Times published its October 5 exposé on the Oscar-winning producer's alleged decades-long predatory behavior. But a more than $5 million class action lawsuit filed today in federal…

As the scandal-ravaged Weinstein Company looks to secure a financial lifeline, board members Tarak Ben Ammar and Lance Maerov blame attorney David Boies for failing to disclose that he had invested $30 million in three TWC films while simultaneously negotiating Harvey Weinstein’s 2015 contract extension. They also…

The aftermath of the Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment scandal continues with The New York Times firing the disgraced Hollywood producer’s lawyer David Boies who helped hire a private investigation firm to collect information about the women who accused Weinstein of sexual misconduct and reporters who were…

As the Weinstein scandal has unfolded over the past week, executives at the company and its diminished board of four directors insisted they knew nothing about financial settlements reached with women who were sexually harassed by co-founder Harvey Weinstein. On Tuesday, amid new allegations of extreme sexual…

EXCLUSIVE: Thanks to some persuasion by famed attorney and the film’s principal financier David Boies, Jane Got A Gun has just been extricated from Relativity Media ahead of an expected Chapter 11 filing tomorrow. Boies, the attorney who has been involved in everything from successfully suing states over Proposition 8…

BREAKING, With An Update: One day after Julian Assange and WikiLeaks announced it had indexed and cataloged all the e-mails that were stolen from Sony Pictures by computer hackers in a cyber hacking assault the U.S. government attributed to North Korea to put teeth in a threat to blow up movie theaters showing The Inte…