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UPDATED, 3:12 PM: A Los Angeles judge has exonerated The Matrix, Die Hard and Lethal Weapon producer Joel Silver from civil liability in the drowning death of his personal assistant during a 2015 trip to Bora Bora. Read details of the case below. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Dennis J. Landin on Friday granted…

Carmel Musgrove, associate producer and assistant to Joel Silver, has died while vacationing with Silver, his family and Silver Pictures employees in Bora Bora. She was 28. Musgrove was found dead on the beach Thursday morning. Authorities believe she drowned, but an autopsy has yet to be performed. A spokesperson for…

EXCLUSIVE: Steve Richards, a 19-year vet of Silver Pictures who most recently was Co-President, has left to start Endurance Media, a company that’s launching with a $250 million financing structure to produce and finance films in the $20 million-$60 million range. Endurance will put two pictures in production this…

Silver Pictures‘ action thriller Autobahn is revving up for a production start May 5. IM Global is backing the picture with additional financing from Sycamore Pictures and Beijing-based DMG Entertainment. Penned by Black List writer F. Scott Frazier (The Numbers Station), the project already had folks buzzing in…

EXCLUSIVE:  Big shakeup at Silver Pictures, Joel Silver‘s producing label. I’m told that his two top creative executives — president Andrew Rona and EVP Alex Heineman — have just left the company. Both Rona and Heineman came there after Universal sold Rogue Pictures to Relativity and Rona, who ran that label, moved…

EXCLUSIVE: Voltage Pictures has committed to finance Home Invasion, a thriller developed by Silver Pictures’ low–budget label Zinc Entertainment. The plot is being kept under wraps, but the title offers clues aplenty. I’m told the story involves a family imprisoned in their own home by intruders who play a…

Back in June, Joel Silver inked a 12-film distribution deal with Universal Pictures a month after he ended his 25-year relationship at Warner Bros. At the time, we told you the Matrix and Sherlock Holmes producer made a pitch to the Venice Neighborhood Council to purchase the 1939-built U.S. Post Office on Windward…

EXCLUSIVE: Well, that didn’t take long. Six weeks after I scooped the news that Joel Silver and Warner Bros agreed to sever their 25-year relationship by the end of the year, the producer has plans to set up shop as an indie filmmaker. And just as I toldja, he’s landed at Universal. This is by no means the ful-frills…

Here’s a first look at Project X, the $12 million budget, hard R-rated comedy from Warner Bros that marks the directing debut of British video/commercials director Nima Nourizadeh. The project was deliberately crafted to be populated with a cast of complete newcomers, and it was creatively godfathered by Todd…

While Ben Affleck is busy directing and starring in Argo, the director of The Town is looking at future projects at Warner Bros. He’s attached to direct and star in Line of Sight, an action film set up at Silver Pictures about an elite commando squad on a secret mission. F. Scott Frazer wrote the script. Affleck will…

EXCLUSIVE: On the heels of his first pilot order last season, CBS’ The Odds, Jeff Wadlow has landed two projects this season, Hail Mary at CBS and Rush at the CW. Both are from Warner Bros. TV and Silver Pictures, which also produced The Odds. Hail Mary is about a female P.I. in the South who partners with her…