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An Italian investigating judge Wednesday ruled that director Paul Haggis will remain under house arrest amid ongoing investigations into allegations of sexual assault against him. Haggis, the Canadian film director whose Crash won the Best Picture Oscar in 2006, has been under police detention in a hotel in the town…

Canadian film director Paul Haggis maintained his innocence today [Wednesday] at a first court appearance in the southern Italian port city of Brindisi where he is answering questions related to allegations of sexual assault. Haggis has been under house arrest in a hotel outside Brindisi since Sunday following…

Italian authorities have detained Oscar-winning screenwriter and director Paul Haggis for investigation of allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman in southern Italy, according to the Associated Press, quoting Italian news media via local prosecutors. Haggis, 69, won a 2006 screenwriting Oscar for Crash…

Screenwriter and director Paul Haggis, who is due to stand trial for allegedly raping publicist Haleigh Breest, will also face charges of violating a New York City law aimed at preventing “gender-motivated violence.” That was the determination of the First Department of New York’s Appellate Division in a ruling…

Paul Haggis and Dan Krauss's doc 5B—playing at Cannes as a special screening—seeks to shine a light on the history of the pioneering caregivers at the San Francisco General Hospital who tackled the AIDS crisis at the height of the fear and paranoia as the virus took its greatest toll. Interspersing archival footage of…

(UPDATED with statement from Haggis lawyer) Having already been tossed out of court once, Paul Haggis is now crashing his own appeal against a film publicist's sexual assault allegations against him. “We are counsel to Plaintiff-Appellant Paul Haggis,” said Jeffrey Movit in a letter to New York Supreme Court clerk…

(Updated with Scientology statement) Facing accusations of sexual misconduct from four women, Paul Haggis has repeatedly pointed to the Church of Scientology as perhaps playing a role in those claims. Today, Leah Remini and another high-profile former Scientologist and critic of the organization has come forward to…

UPDATED To include comment from the Church of Scientology. EXCLUSIVE: In the wake of several women coming forward with sexual assault allegations against Crash director Paul Haggis — charges he has denied — the filmmaker’s ex-wife asked Deadline to add her voice to the narrative, in support of her ex-husband. Deborah…

UPDATED to include comment from the Church of Scientology. (UPDATED WITH STATEMENT FROM CHARITY) In what looks to be the first face-to-face in a case of alleged sexual assault in Hollywood’s post-Harvey Weinstein era, Paul Haggis will be grilled by his accuser's lawyers later this month in a deposition by the…

UPDATED To include comment from the Church of Scientology. Facing fresh allegations of sexual misconduct, Paul Haggis today postulated that the new charges were a tactic to force a mutimillion dollar settlement or the result of his long estrangement from Scientology. Three women have come forward to accuse Haggis of…

After being accused of "a shocking and egregious case of rape and sexual assault" by publicist Haleigh Breest today, Oscar winner Paul Haggis is fighting back in court against what he says were demands for $9 million payment to make "these outrageous and wholly baseless demands" go away. "There was no such 'violence…