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Two men allegedly plotted to kill a rapper performing at a show last week during Austin’s South by Southwest Music Festival. The alleged hit would have taken place at a March 10 show unaffiliated with the festival, according to an affidavit obtained by Fox 7 Austin. Many shows take place in…

Once again, life has imitated art. A billboard in Los Angeles has been vandalized in an homage to Curb Your Enthusiasm. The billboard, located at Centinela Ave. and Santa Monica Blvd., depicts an advertisement for Susie Essman’s Caftan. On the show, the Susie character started her own business and…

A temporary guardian argued in a lawsuit filed last month that Lifetime’s documentary Where Is Wendy Williams? was a “blatant exploitation of a vulnerable woman with a serious medical condition,” and that the talk host had lacked mental capacity to enter a contract to do the show, according to newly…

Less than six months before Alec Baldwin is set to go on trial for involuntary manslaughter over the on-set 2021 shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, the actor who steadfastly claims he never pulled the trigger says prosecutors "have stacked the deck" against him. "The State prosecutors…

Pierce Brosnan pleaded guilty Thursday to stepping off a trail in a thermal area during a visit to Yellowstone National Park on Nov. 1, 2023. He was fined $500 and ordered to make a $1,000 donation by April 1 to Yellowstone Forever, a nonprofit organization created to support the national park…

Leah Remini’s defamation and harassment suit against the Church of Scientology is far from dead, but it’s constitutionally wounded. In a March 12 split final ruling from Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Randolph Hammock (read it here), the David Miscavige-led organization has prevailed on getting…

Found guilty of involuntary manslaughter last week out of the fatal 2021 shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, former Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed  will find out her incarceration fate in just over a month. Today New Mexico Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer designated a sentencing hearing for…

The world’s first law governing artificial intelligence (AI) was today adopted by European lawmakers — a move that could have significant impact on film and TV production. The Artificial Intelligence Act are an attempt to government how companies and individuals use AI, as use of generative systems…

EXCLUSIVE: Amid allegations of financial impropriety and corporate skullduggery, the collapse of the relationship between UTA and MediaLink founder Michael Kassan now sees the parties battling it out with competing legal actions  and lots of finger pointing – even by Hollywood standards. Having…

Prince Harry may still be quarrelling with his family and the British courts, but Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has put a dispute with one of her relatives behind her. After almost two years of litigation and several amended complaints, a federal judge today threw out the defamation case from the…

Currently on trial in France for decrying the sexual assault claims from actress Charlotte Lewis, Roman Polanski now finds himself facing a trial next year in the United States over allegations of raping a minor in 1973. The Oscar winning director is set to face American justice starting on August…

UPDATE, 10:55 AM: A fraud lawsuit against a documentary about Billy Preston did not stop the film’s debut at SXSW last week. Today, the multi-Emmy winning director of Billy Preston: That's The Way God Planned It responded to the action by Sam Moore and others, and their claims of misrepresentation by…