Former FilmRise director of acquisitions Faye Tsakas has been hired as VP Development and Production at Passage Pictures, the indie production company behind films including Marjorie Prime and the upcoming biopic Tesla starring Ethan Hawke. She will work with CEO Uri Singer to develop and produce new film and TV…

EXCLUSIVE: Passage Pictures, the Uri Singer-topped indie producer behind Marjorie Prime and the soon-to-begin-production Tesla starring Ethan Hawke, has added a pair of action titles to its development slate. The first is The Redeemer, to be written and directed by Crank creator Mark Neveldine. The film centers on a…

James Murdoch, who is in the final stages of detaching from 21st Century Fox before most of it is formally acquired by Disney, has emerged as the favorite to replace Elon Musk as chairman of Tesla, the Financial Times has reported. Musk agreed to step down as chairman of the auto company in late September as part of a…

After three years, Tesla chief executive will bow out as chairman and pay a $20 million fine after a deal was struck with the Securities and Exchange Commision in regards to a securities fraud case. The deal comes just two days after the SEC filed a lawsuit against Musk for fraud and misleading investor investors…

Securities regulators have accused Tesla CEO Elon Musk of misleading investors with false statements, in a move that could result in his removal from the electric car company he helped launch 15 years ago. In a lawsuit filed in federal court in New York, the Securities and Exchange Commission accuses Musk of…

Mary McCormack, an actress known for roles on The West Wing and USA’s In Plain Sight, tweeted a startling video that showed her husband’s Tesla sports car on fire on LA’s Santa Monica Boulevard. (See tweet and video below.) Tagging Tesla’s corporate handle, she wrote, “This is what happened to my husband and his car…

Entrepreneur Elon Musk has always had the pioneer spirit. So it’s no surprise that the man spearheading a manned trip to Mars and building electric vehicles is in the forefront of the #deletefacebook campaign. Taking up an online challenge  from a Twitter follower, Musk has taken down Tesla and SpaceX’s Facebook…

On the 50th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, noted entrepreneur and expansive thinker Elon Musk discussed his fears about artificial intelligence that were more chilling than the cinematic HAL-9000 supercomputer of science fiction. The founder of SpaceX and Tesla, who made a surprise appearance a…

Discovery will launch new series Tesla (working title) Tuesday, January 2, less than two weeks after the December 22 airing of a new special highlighting the work of inventor Nikola Tesla. The new series follows military investigator Jack Murphy and Tesla historian Cameron Prince as they journey the globe hunting for…

Tesla’s Elon Musk turned to the media world to help him address the criticism from several major shareholders that the auto company’s board was too beholden to him. It said today that Fox CEO James Murdoch and Johnson Publishing Company CEO Linda Johnson Rice — whose company publishes Ebony and Jet magazines — have…

EXCLUSIVE: Director Michael Almereyda is teaming with producer Uri Singer on Tesla, a biopic about legendary inventor Nikola Tesla, whose real-life inventions and exaggerated public image have inspired future scientists as well as countless works of fiction, from comics to novels and films including The Prestige. Tesla…