Suge Knight biopic planned after Death Row Records co-founder sells life rights

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EXCLUSIVE: Producer Steve Whitney and his company TSW Films have purchased Suge Knight’s life rights with plans to develop a biopic on the infamous music mogul, bringing Nick Cassavetes and Anthony Thorne aboard to write the script.

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Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaWalk Like a Duck Entertainment has acquired the life rights to the story of John Fairfax, an adventurer who crossed both the Atlantic and the Pacific in a rowboat.The company plans to make a film about Fairfax and believes his extraordinary exploits have the making of gripping cinema.

Bruce Springsteen has sold his music rights to Sony Music for at least $500 million, according to reports.Billboard reported last month that Springsteen was in talks to sell his recordings catalogue to Sony, and that he was also shopping his publishing catalogue around too. Sony seemingly put in a high bid in order to secure both, taking full control of his more than 300 songs and 20 studio albums.For Sony, this is a return of many of those master rights.

Bruce Springsteen has sold his music rights to Sony Music for at least $500 million, according to reports.Billboard reported last month that Springsteen was in talks to sell his recordings catalogue to Sony, and that he was also shopping his publishing catalogue around too. Sony seemingly put in a high bid in order to secure both, taking full control of his more than 300 songs and 20 studio albums.For Sony, this is a return of many of those master rights.

reported by Billboard and would represent one of the most lucrative music catalog deals in industry history – surpassing Bob Dylan’s blockbuster sale of his work to Universal Music Group for around $400 million.Sources told Variety that Springsteen’s sale is a “done” deal and the New York Times reported the agreement was struck in recent weeks.The 72-year-old signed in 1972 with Sony subsidiary Columbia Records, and he has owned the rights to his music since sometime in the 1990s, according to