Legal Battle Over Guitarist Johnny Winter’s Music Heats Up

The Smiths bassist Andy Rourke has passed away after a battle with pancreatic cancer.

Priscilla Presley and Riley Keough are moving on after settling on their legal battle. The celebrity family is “stronger than ever” after coming to an agreement, as revealed by Priscilla in a new statement to ET.“As a family, we are pleased that we resolved this together,” She revealed.

Johnny Depp is returning to the big screens after his high-profile legal case against ex-wife Amber Heard. During a recent press conference for his new movie Jeanne Du Barry at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, the 59-year-old actor revealed he did feel “boycotted” by Hollywood when many companies canceled him.“You’d have to not have a pulse at that point to feel like, ‘No, none of this is happening. This is actually just a weird joke,’” said Depp during the event.

Basking in the applause. Johnny Depp was taken aback after receiving a standing ovation during the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.

Priscilla Presley and Riley Keough has come to an end, now that a settlement has been reached over the control of Lisa Marie Presley’s estate. Priscilla’s lawyer, Ronsen Shamoon, shared more information about the case.

A point of closure. Lisa Marie Presley’s mother, Priscilla Presley, and daughter Riley Keough have reached a settlement in the battle over her trust.

Manori Ravindran Executive Editor of International A trademark battle is brewing between two Indigenous North American producers over the use of an Indigenous descriptor in their respective company names. The bubbling dispute between Frisco, Texas-headquartered IndigiStudios — founded by actor Gary “Litefoot” Davis, known for his role as Little Bear in the 1995 film “The Indian in the Cupboard” — and Kelvin Redvers’ Vancouver-based IndigiFilm Media raises questions about the use and protection of cultural identity-based descriptors in corporate names. Canadian producer Redvers, a member of the Dene nation, set up film and TV production company IndigiFilm in June, with an eye on developing and producing scripted and unscripted projects in Canada and overseas.

Sometimes fear can be just as strong a motivator as love. That was the case for Showtime’s George & Tammy music producer and engineer Rachael Moore.

Priscilla Presley is taking some time to meet with her friends in Los Angeles, amid her legal battle with granddaughter Riley Keough. The 77-year-old star was spotted wearing an all-black outfit and having a casual conversation during a recent dinner outing.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Dolph Lundgren revealed for the first time during an interview on “In Depth With Graham Bensinger” that he’s been privately battling cancer on and off for the last eight years. Doctors first discovered and removed a cancerous tumor on the actor’s kidney in 2015. “Then I did scans every six months, then you do it every year and it was fine, you know, for five years,” Lundgren said. “In 2020, I was back in Sweden and had some kind of acid reflux or… I didn’t know what it was. So I did an MRI and they found there were a few more tumors around the area.” Lundgren said six more tumors were discovered at the time, one of which had grown too large to remove so he had to start systemic therapy. More tumors were discovered in the fall of 2021, when Lundgren arrived in London to film movie sequels to his “Aquaman” and “The Expendables” franchises.

Two months later, around the same time Cosmo was cracking his first smiles, Johansson and Disney settled the suit. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Johansson’s payout reportedly eclipsed $40 million. In the history of Hollywood, the stars who have successfully sued studios are few and mostly men, from Burt Lancaster to Kevin Costner to Sylvester Stallone, with Olivia de Havilland and Elizabeth Taylor being rare exceptions.

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Ed Sheeran’s victory another high-profile headline-grabbing song-theft legal battle – this time over whether or not he ripped off Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ when he wrote his 2014 song ‘Thinking Out Loud’ – plus two sets of proposals for better regulating the sale of tickets put forward in US Congress late last month and another industry-led campaign launched last week that says it will advocate for “a ticketing experience better than the nightmare many fans and artists currently navigate”.SECTION TIMES01: Ed Sheeran (00:05:36)02: US tickets (00:18:52)(Timings may be slightly different due to adverts)SUBSCRIBE TO SETLISTListen to Setlist and sign up to receive new episodes for free automatically each week through any of these services…Acast | Amazon Music | Apple Podcasts | audioBoom | CastBox | Deezer | Google Podcasts | iHeart | Mixcloud | RSS | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneInSTORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK• Non-idiot (allegedly) Ed Sheeran testifies on first day of Thinking Out Loud song-theft trial• Ed Sheeran gets his guitar out in court as song-theft case continues• Ed Sheeran calls musicologist’s actions “criminal” in Thinking Out Loud song-theft trial• Ed Sheeran losing will remove “an essential element in every songwriter’s toolkit”, argues lawyer in song-theft case• Ed Sheeran did not rip off Let’s Get It On says jury in song-theft case• Live Nation responds to proposed new ticketing regulations in the USALSO MENTIONED• The Great Escape conferenceMORE FROM CMU• Upcoming CMU webinars• Buy MMF and CMU Insights’ Dissecting The Digital Dollar book on Amazon• Sign up to receive the CMU Daily news

Details are emerging after Tiger Woods‘ ex Erica Herman filed new court documents that accuse him of sexual harassment.

Britney Spears’ tell-all is… apparently telling ALL. And that may be a bit too much for a few fellow celebs’ liking.

Due to health circumstances, Lizzo has been forced to make the difficult decision to cancel her concert in Montreal.

Lizzo has been forced to make the difficult decision to cancel her concert in Montreal.The «Truth Hurts» singer appeared to be hurting fairly badly herself when she shared the news in a video message posted to Instagram on Thursday.A tearful Lizzo — wearing a face mask and wrapped in a blanket — explained that she's currently suffering from an illness that makes it impossible for her to perform.«I had a sore throat last night and a headache, and I went to bed. I woke up this morning and my body is weak and I have chills, and my head hurts,» Lizzo said in the video.

Writer-comedian Adam Conover, creator and host of Adam Ruins Everything and member of the WGA Negotiating Committee, had been outspoken on social media in the run-up to the guild’s talks with AMPTP, the collective bargaining representative of the major Hollywood studios.

Ryder Bachman shared on Facebook.“My Dad passed this afternoon. Thank You Everyone for the kind words,” Ryder wrote.

Eva Green has claimed that “justice prevailed” after successfully suing a production company over the collapse of an abandoned sci-fi film.The Casino Royal star was set to play the lead role in dystopian thriller A Patriot, but the production company, White Lantern Films, collapsed in October 2019.After the film was abandoned, Green sued the production company, claiming she was still entitled to her $1m (£810,000) fee.On Friday (April 28), the judge ruled in Green’s favour, stating that the actress was entitled to her fee. The counter claim, alleging that Green jeopardised the film by abandoning it, was dismissed.The judge said (via The Independent) : “In particular, I find that Ms Green did not renounce her obligations under the artist agreement; nor did she commit any repudiatory breaches of it.”Following the ruling, Green said in a statement: “My professional reputation has been upheld.“In this legal action I was forced to stand up to a small group of men, funded by deep financial resources, who tried to use me as a scapegoat to cover up their own mistakes,” she said.

suing the Florida governor for politically motivated “retaliation” — and Jimmy Fallon has a pretty good guess of which lawyer will be representing Disney in court.In the complaint filed this week, Disney cited a “targeted campaign of government retaliation” from DeSantis, as a result of the company’s response to the governor’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill last year. According to the complaint, the “targeted campaign of government retaliation – orchestrated at every level by Governor DeSantis as punishment for Disney’s protected speech – now threatens Disney’s business operations, jeopardizes its economic future in the region and violates its constitutional rights.”During Wednesday night’s monologue on “The Tonight Show,” host Jimmy Fallon read an additional statement from “the head of Disney’s legal team”: Donald Duck.“We will not give in to this outrageous government overreach,” the duck’s signature angry voice squawked.But just because Donald Duck is apparently the head of Disney’s legal team doesn’t mean he’ll be the one in the courtroom.