The2022 BET Awards are here to honor Black excellence across music, television, film and sports! Some of the biggest celebs turned out for the big occasion.
08.06.2022 - 20:29 / deadline.com
UPDATE, 10:25 AM: Get your tickets now! WME is heading to trial next year over a fraud lawsuit from La La Land’s Oscar winning composer.
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge this morning set May 8, 2023 as the date the court battle between Justin Hurwitz and the Endeavor-owned talent agency and the now divested Endeavor Content. The almost certain to be juicy jury trial in DTLA will be overseen by Judge Barbara Scheper.
“Despite WME’s Writer’s Guild experience, it’s previous claims of conflicts of interest and the forced sale of 80 percent of Endeavor Content, in less than a year, WME will have to explain to a Jury why it continued its tortious conduct and disregarded the fiduciary duty it owed to its client Justin Hurwitz,” the composer’s lead attorney Bryan Freedman told Deadline today after a status conference on the matter. “That date cannot come soon enough.”
Hard hitting Freedman and colleague Tamar Yeghiayan sued the Ari Emanuel-led units earlier this year over an alleged financial reverse bait and switch that saw the now-CAA repped Hurwitz dramatically shortchanged for a touring version of his music from the acclaimed 2016 film from director Damien Chazelle.
WME did not respond to request for comment on the trial date being set. Previously, when the fairly vivid complaint was first filed in January, the agency had said “these claims are without merit and WME intends to vigorously defend itself.”
Which clearly they are going to have to now.
PREVIOUSLY, JAN 10 AM: EXCLUSIVE: A stinging lawsuit filed Monday by the composer of La La Land may leave WME wishing they’d been slipped the wrong envelope.
However, unlike the Academy Awards’ Best Picture debacle of 2017, the breach of contract, negligence and fraud complaint by
The2022 BET Awards are here to honor Black excellence across music, television, film and sports! Some of the biggest celebs turned out for the big occasion.
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2022 BET Awards are here to honor Black excellence across music, television, film and sports! Some of the biggest celebs turned out for the big occasion.This year's awards show was held at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles and hosted by Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning actress Taraji P. Henson for the second year in a row. Last year, Henson used her hosting position to honor some iconic Black women who have had an impact on pop culture with a memorable opening monologue and various ensembles that honored and celebrated the styles and looks of some groundbreaking artists.
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Beyoncé is back with her first new album in six years, and she gave fans a taste of what’s in store with the release of “Break My Soul,” the first single from. Not only that, but the vibrant new song reunited the singer with Big Freedia, the famed New Orleans bounce artist who previously appeared on “Formation.” While speaking with ET’s Kevin Frazier, the rapper opened up about what it meant to be featured on the new single.
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Whoa! We seriously did not think this was going to happen, but Blac Chyna and Rob Kardashian have officially agreed on a settlement — literally right before they were set to start their revenge porn trial!
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Rapper Nipsey Hussle was gunned down outside his clothing shop in a calculated, premeditated fashion by a man upset over a discussion about snitching, a prosecutor told jurors Wednesday at the outset of a long-delayed murder trial. Deputy District Attorney John McKinney said during his opening statement that there’s "no doubt" Eric R. Holder knew in advance that he would kill Hussle.The prosecutor described the sequence of events, including the talk about "snitching," before Hussle’s shooting death three years ago in the South Los Angeles neighborhood where both men grew up and the rapper was helping revitalize.Two others were wounded in the shooting.
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His candid experience. While reflecting on his past struggles with addiction, Bradley Cooper opened up about how it affected his career and why he decided to get sober.
As we’ve been reporting, soap opera star Jack Wagner’s son Harrison passed away last week. He was found dead in a parking lot in Los Angeles.
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As the production designer of Minx, Jefferson Sage was able to pull from his own past to create an old-school magazine. The process of publishing has changed a lot since the ’70s, but Sage knew he could find the research materials in his own archives.
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