The Mexican food restaurant says it paid Ocean $212,500 to lend his vocal skills to an ad campaign, and that the musician backed out without delivering the song.
According to Sony Pictures, there's a sports-themed restaurant in Fort Worth, Texas where the waitresses are known as "Smokin' Hotties" and wear midriff- and cleavage-bearing crop tops and short skirts.
The name of this establishment is "Ricky Bobby Sports Saloon & Restaurant," which is of concern to the studio behind the 2006 Will Ferrell comedy Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. On Thursday, Sony filed a trademark lawsuit in Texas federal court.
On Friday, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals denied Aereo's emergency motion to stay an injunction.
The development came after a Utah judge two weeks ago ruled that Fox Broadcasting and some local stations were likely to succeed on the merits of their copyright claim and be irreparably harmed by Aereo's service that captures over-the-air TV signals and transmits them to subscribers' digital devices.
A former deputy manager in NASA's shuttle project office is claiming that the Science Channel's Challenger Disaster doesn't have its facts straight in advancing knowledge of the famous 1986 mission that resulted in the loss of seven crewmembers.
Personal managers nationwide have overwhelmingly rejected the SAG-AFTRA Personal Manager Code of Ethics and Conduct, said the National Conference of Personal Managers Inc. (NCOPM) in announcing the results of a web survey emailed to more than 1,200 personal managers nationwide and responded to by around 200 managers.
Talent agent Peter Strain has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $500,000 from his clients, according to law enforcement authorities.
According to allegations made by prosecutors, between 2011 and 2013, Strain diverted money he received on behalf of three clients in the TV industry and used it to pay for $161,000 in jewelry, more than $310,000 in artwork and more than $57,000 at luxury goods retailers. He is also accused of paying back clients by stealing from other clients.
Most everyone is familiar with the classic excuse, "It got lost in the mail."
For Harold Frasier's Specialists Entertainment, the excuse triggered a lawsuit against pop superstar Pink and Sony Music over royalties owed more than a decade ago. This week, Specialists struck out in its attempt to recover the money.
The new SAG-AFTRA Personal Manager Code of Ethics and Conduct is off to a bumpy start. Not only is it opposed by two trade associations of personal managers, as The Hollywood Reporterpreviously reported, now at least one manager has turned down a potential client because of the Code, blaming the union and the fact that the actor is unrepresented.
For the past 40 years, there's been a policy that if a home professional football team hasn't sold out tickets at least 72 hours prior to kickoff, the game is subject to a broadcast blackout. The rules also prevent cable and satellite companies from retransmitting a distant signal telecast if the local station isn't televising the same event. The policy is political pigskin, kicked around by fans, lawmakers and TV companies everywhere.
Legendary Pictures has suffered another loss in its ongoing legal battle with three producers who claim they were unfairly ousted from the upcoming film, Godzilla. On Tuesday, a California appeals court rejected the company's contention that a clause in an unsigned contract required arbitration.
Moving to regulate an area previously ungoverned by guilds or state agencies, SAG-AFTRA introduced a code of ethics and conduct for personal managers Tuesday, the union said in a statement. The nine-page code is voluntary: Managers are not required to sign up, and SAG-AFTRA members are free to engage managers who haven’t. Those managers who do sign up will be listed on the union’s website.
