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CBS Sports and Big3, the professional 3-on-3 basketball league founded by Ice Cube and Jeff Kwatinetz, have agreed to an exclusive deal for live broadcasts of Big3’s 2019 season. Games will be shown on CBS and CBS Sports Network, with more than 20 hours throughout the season on the former and more than 25 hours on the…

EXCLUSIVE: Excessive Force, a story about racism and corruption based on a story and script written by Jeff Kwatinetz and Ice Cube, is planning to go into production this fall with Carl Franklin (Devil In The Blue Dress, One False Move) at the helm. Excessive Force, to be produced by Joe Roth and CubeVision, will star…

UPDATED to include comment from the Qatar government’s communications office. Big3 basketball league founders Ice Cube and Jeff Kwatinetz are suing a group of Qatari nationals for $1.2 billion, claiming the investors boasted of connections to the royal family and its riches, but paid little more than half of the money…

EXCLUSIVE: The Firm is making changes after its founder Jeff Kwatinetz exited the company to go work with attorney Mark Geragos and concentrate on his other companies with Ice Cube. Three lower-level employees were laid off as well as Kevin McKeon, who was Head of Film Robbie Brenner’s No. 2 exec. The company also is…

EXCLUSIVE: Jeff Kwatinetz, who went to Harvard Law School and graduated near the top of his class, is leaving The Firm as CEO after relaunching the company two years ago. He will now move into the law firm of Geragos & Geragos to practice civil rights litigation, though he will remain actively involved in CubeVision…

Fox Sports just gave a vote of confidence to Big3, the new 3-on-3 professional basketball league co-founded by Ice Cube and entertainment exec Jeff Kwatinetz. The sports broadcaster says that it added a year to its agreement to offer matches. Big3 was introduced in January, and its first Championship airs this…

EXCLUSIVE: Forty-seven years ago today, one of the most important moments in baseball history was made: Pirates’ player Dock Ellis took to the mound and pitched a no-hitter against the San Diego Padres. Ten years later it was revealed that Ellis accomplished that feat while high on LSD. Now the story of Dock Ellis is…

EXCLUSIVE: The Firm has just picked up the untitled Big Pharma/Whistleblower, a corporate thriller from screenwriters Hayley Schore and Roshan Sethi. The ensemble piece tells intersecting stories surrounding a new controversial behavioral drug being willfully peddled to inner city families while a scrappy, driven…

Cube Vision, Ice Cube's Film production company, has entered into a strategic partnership with AID Partners, a media investment company founded by Hong Kong entrepreneur Kelvin Wu whose other investments include Legendary Pictures and Golden Harvest Entertainment, among others. The deal is said to be in the 8-figure…

Ice Cube’s Cube Vision has signed a wide-ranging first-look deal with 20th Century Fox TV and its division Fox 21 Television Studios for TV projects targeting broadcast, cable and streaming platforms. Under the two-year pact, Cube has teamed up with his longtime manager Jeff Kwatinetz of The Firm to run Cube Vision’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Relativity president of production Robbie Brenner is finalizing a deal to join Jeff Kwatinetz’s reconstituted management/production company The Firm. She will become a partner in the venture and president of its film division, reporting directly to CEO Kwatinetz. Brenner, who was Oscar nominated for…

Jeff Kwatinetz is bringing back The Firm, almost seven years after the management and production company folded following his exit as CEO. Kwatinetz, who went on to launch Prospect Park with ex-Walt Disney Studios president Richard Frank, will be relaunching The Firm, which he originally established nearly two decades…