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Will there ever be a great book about the film business as it is now? I still think not. What used to be called The Industry, as it exists today, might be grist for a eulogy, a festival panel discussion or possibly an online technical manual—10 steps to reboot the software that made your last…

EXCLUSIVE: Harvey Weinstein is looking for some new lawyers to lead his Los Angeles rape verdict appeal. Earlier today, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge tossed out a trio of remaining sexual assault charges against the incarcerated Pulp Fiction producer after Deputy LA County District Attorney Paul…

Harvey Weinstein was sentenced Thursday in downtown Los Angeles to 16 years in prison for rape and other sex crimes. With the already incarcerated former producer in attendance at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center courtroom today, the somewhat delayed ruling by Judge Lisa B. Lench is…

UPDATED with statement from Weinstein spokesperson: Just weeks before Harvey Weinstein could discover his sentencing fate from the mixed verdict of his Los Angeles rape trial, the woman at the center of the case filed a rape lawsuit of her own today.  A former model-actress whom Weinstein identified…

(Updated with LA DA response) As expected, Harvey Weinstein's defense team have moved to ask for a new West Coast trial for the incarnated producer. In a risky move, the Oscar winner's Werkman Jackson & Quinn attorneys are putting the credibility of Jane Doe #1 and the LA County District Attorney's office…

2ND UPDATE, 9:50 AM: Harvey Weinstein will not know how long he is going to spend in a West Coast prison until at least next month. Facing a maximum of 18 years based on the mixed verdict delivered by a Los Angles jury last month on multiple sex crimes charges, the Pulp Fiction producer was…

Throughout Danny Masterson's rape trial last year, defense lawyers sought repeatedly to have almost all mention of the Church of Scientology and "the prosecution’s insinuations of drugging" drinks scratched out of the courtroom proceedings. With a second criminal trial poised to start later this year…

Harvey Weinstein is a "serial predator" and rapist said Jennifer Siebel Newsom today after a Los Angeles jury was unable to come to a unanimous verdict on the much-accused producer's guilt in allegedly attacking her back in 2005. "Harvey Weinstein will never be able to rape another woman,"…

Hollywood Commission chairperson Anita Hill responded today to the conviction of Harvey Weinstein on three sex crime charges by a Los Angeles jury that could mean a sentence of 18 to 24 years behind bars for the Oscar-winning producer. Many of Weinstein’s accusers have said they were lured to hotel-room…

Harvey Weinstein’s fate is now in the hands of the jury. After hearing a final rebuttal in the prosecution’s closing argument this morning, the West Coast panel of nine men and three women have begun their deliberations in the much-accused producer’s rape trial. The jury is set to go behind closed…

"Regret is not the same thing as rape, and it's important we make that distinction in this courtroom," Harvey Weinstein's defense attorney Alan Jackson said Thursday of Jennifer Siebel Newsom during his closing argument in the much-accused Weinstein's Los Angeles sex crime trial. Calling Weinstein’s…

"In 2005, who would have thought that the most powerful man in Hollywood was a closet rapist?” Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Marlene Martinez asked jurors Wednesday in Harvey Weinstein’s West Coast rape trial. “Who could blame her for thinking that she could handle herself,” the prosecutor…