Stan Lee will forever be a comic book legend, but the company he left behind will also be a bit of an embarrassment on his legacy. The latest news about Stan Lee Media Inc. comes on Wednesday in the form of a short memorandum by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
On Tuesday, FCC chairman Tom Wheeler threw his support behind a rule change with the potential to transform the television industry — one that would give online video providers the same access to programming that cable and satellite operators currently enjoy.
The actor who says he was bumped up from an extra to a principal performer on James Cameron's Titanic is traveling a little lighter in his lawsuit over whether he is entitled to back pay from the 1997 blockbuster.
In many ways, the modern film industry derives from a 1948 Supreme Court antitrust decision that dealt with how big Hollywood studios were controlling both movie distribution and exhibition. As a result of the case, studios had to divest themselves of their theater chains. Now, more than 65 years later, the Justice Department's Antitrust Division is reportedly investigating "clearance" pacts between studios and theater chains that carve out exclusivity on first-run films in certain geographical regions. Today's question: Is the practice really illegal?
There's nothing funny about a new lawsuit from Keenen Ivory Wayans and Shawn Wayans in which they allege they’re being scammed for tax law services by lawyers not licensed to practice in California. The comedic siblings filed their claims against the New York law firm S&E Azriliant PC and its principals Sidney and Evan Azriliant in a Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday.
U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan has issued the long-awaited injunction over Aereo, the upstart service that once promised to pry open the delivery of television signals so that customers could access the major networks on digital devices.
In a ruling on Thursday, she writes that "in light of the Supreme Court's holding, Plaintiffs have demonstrated a likelihood of success on the merits, and Aereo has not demonstrated a likelihood of success on the merits of its novel affirmative defenses."
NBCUniversal has decided to make the historic step of settling claims of violating labor laws through its unpaid internship program by agreeing to pay $6.4 million.
Halloween cometh early for Warner Bros., which has been hit with a new lawsuit over The Conjuring horror franchise. In this instance, the big scare was delivered in a Houston, Texas, courtroom in the form of a claim that its subsidiary New Line Cinema violated a federal racketeering law by defrauding the creator of The Conjuring, by swindling Harvey Weinstein on The Hobbit and cheating other victims.
This story is about a judge denying trademark protection on a flavor of pizza, and we'll be up-front in saying that it doesn't directly relate to the entertainment industry though we could point out that the boom in food shows on television could theoretically prompt celebrity chefs to take their culinary bona fides to court. Ain't necessary, though, because we're talking about trademark protection on a flavor of pizza.
In what might be the wildest lawsuit of the year, actor Frank Sivero has filed a $250 million lawsuit against Fox Television Studios over one of the "wise guy" characters on The Simpsons.
On Tuesday, a judge ordered the unsealing of a deposition given by pop star Kesha in prior litigation with her former managers at DAS Communications. The sworn testimony appears to undercut allegations of sexual abuse made in a lawsuit filed last week against her producer Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald.
It's no secret that privacy is a scorching hot issue in the tech world, but without much of a legal regime to govern how companies keep and disseminate user records, some class action lawyers have turned to the Video Privacy Protection Act of 1988 to go after entertainment companies that knowingly disclose "personally identifiable information" regarding their consumers.
A producer who claims the idea for the Clint Eastwood movie Trouble With the Curve was stolen from his company refiled his lawsuit Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court, demanding at least $5 million. The suit was previously dismissed by a federal court.
The production company behind Cinemax's Femme Fatales has been given the green light by a California judge to go forward with its countersuit against Anne Greene for allegedly breaching the "Nudity Rider" of her contract by refusing to film nude sex scenes.
Greene, whose credits include Saw 3D: The Final Chapter, sued first, alleging in a complaint against Time Warner, HBO, Cinemax and production company True Crime that she was bullied, sexually harassed and placed in a dangerous work environment.