UPDATE, 5:50 PM, EXCLUSIVE: Now the Empire strikes back. “CAA denies Worldview's spurious allegations and will defend itself vigorously in court,” lawyer Jerry Bernstein told Deadline this evening in response to a scorching lawsuit filed earlier Thursday full of allegations of dirty financial deeds by the…

EXCLUSIVE: Already hobbled by venomous litigation among its past and present principals, outside investors and others, Birdman financier Worldview Entertainment now is trying some legal maneuvers of its own to get a hold of funds and due process it say it have been denied. Battling over European distribution of the…

The legal fallout continues after the shakeups started last June at the film financing company formerly run by Christopher Woodrow. This time it is the one of the biggest investors in Worldview Entertainment taking the once high-flying company that had multi-picture deals with The Weinstein Company and a $5.458…

EXCLUSIVE: Worldview Entertainment, one of the investors behind four-time Oscar winner Birdman, has closed its offices in New York and has moved to New Jersey. Despite rumors that the company has disbanded its operations, a company spokeswoman said it’s not true. They are said to have six projects still within the…

Days after Worldview Entertainment, one of the the investors behind the much acclaimed feature Birdman, sued its ex-CEO over embezzlement, Christopher Woodrow today struck back with his own lawsuit alleging damages of potentially more than $55 million lawsuit. "Defendants breached their fiduciary duty to Plaintiff by…

EXCLUSIVE: Green Inferno, the Eli Roth-directed film about student activists who travel from Gotham to save the Amazon rainforest only to be pursued by a cannibal tribe, has been taken off Open Road’s release calendar. The film was scheduled for wide release on September 5. I’m told this happened because financier Worl…

EXCLUSIVE: A major shakeup has gone down at Worldview Entertainment, and CEO Christopher Woodrow has exited abruptly amidst allegations of personal misconduct. I don’t have much more than that at this moment, but COO Molly Conners has taken the reins as acting CEO of the New York-based financing and production…

After finding success with its first documentary, the Oscar-nominated The Square, Worldview Entertainment has come aboard to finance and produce 52, about the search for the loneliest whale on the planet. Joshua Zeman is directing the film from his own treatment, centered on the real life whale that’s been recorded…

Clifford Werber, a former senior exec at 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros, has been tapped as president of the motion picture group for Worldview Entertainment, an indie that finances, produces and acquires feature films which has a five-year multi-pic partnership with The Weinstein Company. Werber will report to…

EXCLUSIVE: In a fast-mobilizing package at AFM, Worldview Entertainment has signed on to finance and produced The Intern, a new original comedy scripted and to be directed by Nancy Meyers. Robert De Niro and Reese Witherspoon are in talks to star. Meyers will produce with Scott Rudin and Worldview CEO Christopher…

The Artist helmer Michel Hazanavicius just inked actresses Bérénice Bejo and Annette Bening for his next film, a Chechnya-set adaptation of 1948 Oscar-winner The Search. Now Worldview Entertainment has snagged North American rights to the pic, which follows an NGO worker who bonds with a small boy who’s been separated…

UPDATE, 6:26 PM: Spike Lee is in early negotiations with producers to direct Spinning Gold, sources say. Foresight Unlimited is selling the the biopic about iconic 1970s record exec Neil Bogart internationally at AFM. Justin Timberlake has long been set to play the flamboyant Bogart in the biopic. Timberlake and…