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Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticEXCLUSIVE: Less than a week after Empire co-creator Danny Strong and long-time director and executive producer Sanaa Hamri reunited on a Taraji P.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticA dispute over rights to a Sin City TV series and a Hard Boiled film have turned hardcore between Cursed co-creator Frank Miller and producer Stephen L’Heureux.Hardcore to the tune of more than $25 million, as a defamation and economic interference lawsuit from the Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame to Kill For producer is seeking.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticOver four months after being sentenced to 23 years behind bars for rape and other sex crimes, the currently incarcerated Harvey Weinstein now will have to finally face Ashley Judd in court in the Berlin Station actor’s sexual harassment case.Reversing a lower court’s 2018 decision on the grounds of a perceived lack of an employment relationship to toss out Judd’s claims, a trio of Pasadena-based judges on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals today set

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticTwo weeks after a federal judge decimated a proposed $19 million class action settlement for victims of the currently incarcerated Harvey Weinstein, lawyers for several women involved want the New York Attorney General to put the brakes on an emerging sleight of hand legal move.“It appears that Harvey and Robert Weinstein, their insurers and corporate enablers are so desperate to secure the deal that Judge Hellerstein immediately rejected as

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticThe almost first female POTUS is in the game, but the playoff in the Emmy docuseries looks to be a battle between Joe Exotic and Michael Jordan.Facing Hulu’s Hillary, PBS’ venerable American Masters and HBO’s McMillion$, the very well watched Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness and The Last Dance snagged six and three nominations respectively from the TV Academy this morning.With directing, picture editing, sound editing, music composition, sound

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticRolled out in a very different manner than in previous years due to the coronavirus pandemic, today’s Emmy nominations unveiling still contained unexpected omissions and admissions galoreDelivered remotely by Leslie Jones, Laverne Cox, Josh Gad and Tatiana Maslany this morning, the contenders for the 72nd Emmys Awards saw some powerful swings for Watchmen, Dead To Me‘s Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini, Succession and The Handmaid’s Tale.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV Critic“Today, we take a big step forward …to ensure equity and justice and fairness for every Angeleno by creating the Community Safety Partnership bureau in the Los Angeles Police Department,” said Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti in a somber update on the metropolis’ battle with the coronavirus, public safety and police reform.“This new bureau makes CSP both a program and a philosophy,” Garcetti added in the evolving “co-ownership” plan to place police

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticAs the 2020 Emmy nominations unveiling loom, the multiple Emmy winner and former longtime composer for The Simpsons has called out Disney, 20th Century Fox TV and Films and James L. Brooks’ Gracie Films for their alleged “lies and deceit” over his 2017 termination.“Through Defendants’ own documents and subterfuge of lies, Mr.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticEXCLUSIVE: Heading into a fall that is full of Genius: Aretha, Power Book II: Ghost and more, Anthony Hemingway has inked an overall deal with 20th Century Fox Television.The two-year pact with the filmmaker’s Anthony Hemingway Productions will encompass projects for Hemingway to both develop and direct for the Disney-owned unit on a multitude of platforms“We live in a world that has consistently proven that basic opportunity just isn’t enough for

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticThe much anticipated Zack Snyder cut of Justice League won’t make an appearance on streamer HBO Max until next year, but the superhero team up flick’s original director today teased out a taste of what is to come – a small taste.Though Warner Brothers didn’t bring any of its caped crusaders to this year’s virtual Comic-Con@Home, Snyder and the portraying Ray Fisher individually joined fanfest Justice Con on Saturday to talk about the 2017 film.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticThe virtual Comic-Con@Home received a very real blast from the past today – with more to come.Unplugged since 2014, video game network G4 TV is coming back to life next year.The NBCUniversal-owned once time home of Attack of the Show and X-Play sparked up earlier Friday with a PONG playing G4 TV website and a short “2021” tease on social media that resembled an eighties teen flick – in the best way:We never stopped playing.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticThe 11th season of The Walking Dead is unsurprisingly not coming this October, but there will be more of Season 10 next year, says showrunner Angela Kang.Having revealed that the coronavirus delayed Season 10 finale will air on October 4 earlier today at Comic-Con@Home during the prerecorded TWD panel, Kang just told fans that an extra six episodes of the AMC zombie apocalypse series are coming in 2021.To that end, the EP confirmed what everyone

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticIt may be “the end of the world,” according to the Whisperers’ advancing horde, but Maggie is coming back to hopefully help save the day and The Walking Dead’s Survivors.Along with a premiere date, that’s just some of what a peek at the delayed Season 10 finale of AMC’s original zombie apocalypse splashed on screen today at [email protected] the likes of Norman Reedus’ Daryl, Seth Gilliam’s Gabriel and Melissa McBride’s Carol scrambling to defend

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticThe heavens opened up on Major League Baseball’s opening day in more ways than one last night.With Biblical rain coming down on National Park on Thursday, the long awaited and coronavirus delayed face-off between the New York Yankees and Washington Nationals was cut short.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV Critic“The End Is The Beginning” declares some rough graffiti scrawled on a wall in the just released trailer for Season 6 of Fear the Walking Dead – and the end is looking very rough.Kicking off the zombie apocalypse mega-panel at the virtual Comic-Con@Home today, the first TWD spinoff aimed to give the people what they want – even if the FearTWD and the fans weren’t packed into the San Diego Convention Center’s huge Hall H as usual.To that end, FearTWD

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV Critic“This issue is not about one incident,” declared Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez today in a searing response to being accosted and insulted with profanity by Republican Ted Yoho of Florida earlier this week.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticThe Star Trek panel at Comic-Con@Home digitally went where no one expected for a while today at the virtual confab.About 15 minutes into the sprawling offering from the ever expanding Trekverse everything seemed to shut down on Comic-Con’s YouTube site.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticThe end of Empire may be just have been a stepping stone to a whole lot of Cookie.Development of a spinoff of the Danny Strong and Lee Daniels created series’ iconic matriarch is the first order of business in a new first look deal that Taraji P.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticEXCLUSIVE: Having just come off the fourth season of HBO’s Insecure, Issa Rae and her producing partner Deniese Davis is making some very secure moves into the management space.Rae and Davis have brought CAA’s Talitha Watkins onboard to top the newly formed management division of their 2014 formed ColorCreative banner.“ColorCreative has always prioritized women and minority creators and venturing into management allows us to double-down on our

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticEXCLUSIVE: Back in 1987, Star Trek: The Next Generation debuted and next year will see a further expansion of the Gene Roddenberry franchise for a new generation, literally.Set to premiere in 2021 on Nickelodeon, the kids orientated CG-animated series will be called Star Trek: Prodigy I can reveal. Here, as Comic-Con@Home really kicks into gear, is also a first look at the logo for show:

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticIn a decision that may send shudders up the spine of Frank Darabont and CAA’s long fought $300 million The Walking Dead profit participation war with AMC, the cabler just won a major battle that could prove a death knell to Robert Kirkman’s own legal actions.After a delay of several months due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic essentially shutting down the courts, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge today finally laid down the law on TWD creator

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticThe man who played Dirty Harry back in the day wants a group of CBD product online retailers to make his day in court to the tune of much more than a fistful of dollars. Seeking “an award of actual and compensatory damages in the millions of dollars” and more in profits, Clint Eastwood today fired off a federal lawsuit against a series of companies and their executives for placing metatags with his name in them to juice online searches.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticEXCLUSIVE: The first of many Power spinoffs is set to debut in September and a lot of the Courtney Kemp-created series is still under lock and key.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV Critic“We’re off last week, it’s good to be back,” declared Tucker Carlson at the outset tonight of his Fox News Channel show.And if viewers or critics were expecting the top-rated host to dive into controversies like a new lawsuit that alleges sexual harassment and retaliation by Carlson, they were barking up the wrong cable news tree.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticEXCLUSIVE: Proudly “boldly going where no Star Trek series has gone before,” as its trailer says, Star Trek: Lower Decks has now brought Paul Scheer on board to the animated CBS All Access series.Set to debut on August 6 on the ViacomCBS-owned streamer, the first comedy in the Trekverrse will see the Black Monday alum portraying Lt. Commander Andy Billups, the chief engineer on the USS Cerritos.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticEl Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie actor Johnny Ortiz is in a very bad place today, facing attempted murder charges that could see him behind bars for the rest of his life.Arrested back in late May, the 24-year old Ortiz and 18-year old co-defendant Armando Miguel Navarro appeared in court in downtown Los Angeles this morning on the felony charges.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticTucker Carlson is returning to Fox News Channel tonight after a sudden vacation, but along with the cabler newser itself, Sean Hannity and the now fired Ed Henry, the top rated host also finds himself in the center of a whole new legal spotlight of alleged misconduct at the now Suzanne Scott and Jay Wallace-run outlet.“It is widely documented in the public record that Fox News has not only cultivated and fostered sexual harassment and misconduct,

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticFirst it was Twitter VIPs getting hacked earlier this week and today large swaths of the Internet itself went down for a while. An outage of the Cloudflare DNS service saw websites and connections all over the globe DOA for almost an hour this afternoon.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticRevelations of a potentially pervasive toxic environment the Washington Redskins means the Dan Snyder-owned team may be losing more than their long offensive name if the NFL has anything to do with it.A day after the Washington Post published a scathing expose of 15 female former Redskins employees that have accused the organization of sexual harassment and fostering a culture of abuse, the Roger Goodell-led league has finally stepped on the field –

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticUPDATED, 3:10 PM: A California judge has denied Netflix’s second motion to dismiss Mo’Nique’s racial and gender bias against the streamer in which she alleges gender and racial discrimination over pay for a potential comedy special.The comic and Precious Oscar winner, real name Monique Hicks, says the $500,000 offered by Netflix in 2017 for a stand-up special was not just an insult but illegal.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticAs the world outside North America hesitantly moves back into film and TV production out of the COVID-19 pandemic, Netflix’s newly minted co-CEO believes the entertainment industry will never be the same – but things are “ramping up”“I think the safety protocols will become a permanent part of production, which is a good thing,” Ted Sarandos said today on the Q2 earnings videoconference.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticComing off a coronavirus pandemic dominated second quarter, Netflix today revealed not just strong subscriber and revenue growth, but also a lot of eyeballs for some key series and films.“In Q2, we notched successes in many of our key content verticals,” the the now Ted Sarandos co-CEO’d streamer circumspectly noted in the letter to shareholders that was released Thursday just after the market closed.While nowhere near breaking any records for

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticWhen the feeds of some of the most high-profile people in the world are hacked, your internal systems are undermined and your stock takes a 4% drop, “tough day” may be a severe understatement.Yet, that is what Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said today after Joe Biden, Kanye West, Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Amazon kingpin Jeff Bezos, ex-NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Bill Gates plus the corporate feeds of Apple and saw their accounts taken over for a spell on

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticAmidst a growing chorus of objections, a federal judge this morning just killed the proposed $19 million settlement for victims of Harvey Weinstein.“Based on my studies of the papers, based on my study of the objection papers, and based on the flaws that I have already noted, I will not give preliminary approval to the settlement,” declared Judge Alvin Hellerstein on Tuesday.With repeated questioning, the US District Court judge pulled apart the

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticJeffrey Katzenberg’s Quibi hasn’t had a lot of good news since its April 6, but today the courts gave the A-lister rich mobile streamer a boost.“The Motion fails to make a sufficient showing of irreparable harm to Eko’s reputation and goodwill because of the technical implementation of Turnstyle that allegedly resulted from misappropriation of Eko’s claimed trade secret Mobile Device Optimized RTS,” ruled a federal judge today in the Meg Whitman-run

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV Critic“We should also point out to the ghouls that are beating their chest in triumphant at the destruction of a young man that self-righteousness also has its costs,” said Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson tonight on his top-rated primetime show after one of his top writers was exposed for frequently posting racist, sexist and homophobic comments on a legal message board.“We are all human, when we pretend we are holy, we are lying,” Carlson continued in