The producer of “Safehaven,” an unreleased TV show, has been accused in a lawsuit of siphoning funds from the show’s budget to pay his personal expenses, including payments to keep his house out of foreclosure.
David Ozer, the president of Strong Studios, is alleged in the complaint to have fabricated invoices and created fake vendors in order to hide the theft.
The plaintiff, Kevin V. Duncan, is a producer and investor in the series. The pair earlier produced the Nicolas Cage horror film “Willy’s Wonderland.”
Ozer is a veteran entertainment executive, having previously worked at Sony, Starz and as president of Idw Entertainment.
According to the complaint, Duncan and Ozer sought to produce “Safehaven” as a 10-episode supernatural series for Crackle, the free ad-supported streaming service. The show is based on a 2017 graphic novel by James Seale.
Duncan alleges that the show ran into financial difficulty as production was...
David Ozer, the president of Strong Studios, is alleged in the complaint to have fabricated invoices and created fake vendors in order to hide the theft.
The plaintiff, Kevin V. Duncan, is a producer and investor in the series. The pair earlier produced the Nicolas Cage horror film “Willy’s Wonderland.”
Ozer is a veteran entertainment executive, having previously worked at Sony, Starz and as president of Idw Entertainment.
According to the complaint, Duncan and Ozer sought to produce “Safehaven” as a 10-episode supernatural series for Crackle, the free ad-supported streaming service. The show is based on a 2017 graphic novel by James Seale.
Duncan alleges that the show ran into financial difficulty as production was...
- 5/2/2024
- by Gene Maddaus
- Variety Film + TV
Los Angeles, May 2 (Ians) After his second conviction, former entertainment mogul Harvey Weinstein has hired a new legal team to handle his Los Angeles appeal, after he was found guilty by a jury of sexual assault and rape with a judge sentencing him to 16 years, reports ‘Variety’.
Weinstein has hired California-based attorney Michael Freedman, who will work alongside Jennifer Bonjean, the criminal defence attorney who got Bill Cosby’s conviction overturned. Bonjean will act as Weinstein’s lead counsel for his West Coast appeal.
The attorney, according to ‘Variety’, has become known for defending some of the most high-profile men accused throughout the #MeToo movement.
In addition to representing Cosby on his appeal before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which resulted in him being freed from prison, she was rapper R. Kelly’s lead attorney during his criminal trial in Chicago. She also represented Nxivm sex cult leader Keith Raniere.
Weinstein...
Weinstein has hired California-based attorney Michael Freedman, who will work alongside Jennifer Bonjean, the criminal defence attorney who got Bill Cosby’s conviction overturned. Bonjean will act as Weinstein’s lead counsel for his West Coast appeal.
The attorney, according to ‘Variety’, has become known for defending some of the most high-profile men accused throughout the #MeToo movement.
In addition to representing Cosby on his appeal before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which resulted in him being freed from prison, she was rapper R. Kelly’s lead attorney during his criminal trial in Chicago. She also represented Nxivm sex cult leader Keith Raniere.
Weinstein...
- 5/2/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Over the years, “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” — more than the other installments in the Bravo franchise — has struggled to produce story arcs that aren’t dull and drama-free. Its cast, several of whom are actors who know how to exert self-control, have often been overly guarded, and have abstained from orchestrating the unbridled, potentially life-ruining shenanigans offered by some of the other cities. Instead, the women of “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” have had season-long fights about, to use a particularly bleak example, a dog named Lucy Lucy Apple Juicy, or whether Denise Richards cheated on her husband with former cast member, current shit-stirrer Brandi Glanville.
But not this time. In the 11th season of “Beverly Hills,” the story of Erika Girardi — whose persona over her six seasons on the show had previously been the most carefully managed — has proven to be riveting television. Erika, who has...
But not this time. In the 11th season of “Beverly Hills,” the story of Erika Girardi — whose persona over her six seasons on the show had previously been the most carefully managed — has proven to be riveting television. Erika, who has...
- 7/28/2021
- by Kate Aurthur
- Variety Film + TV
Robert J. “Bob” Fuss, the longtime radio journalist who covered everything from Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential election campaign to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton to 15 Academy Awards ceremonies while posted in Los Angeles, died Sunday at 64.
He had a rare form of leukemia and passed away at his Falls Church, Va home, according to his close friend and former CBS News colleague Peter Maer.
Fuss, who used crutches his entire life, won the Radio-tv Correspondents Association’s career achievement award in 2015, a year after he retired from CBS News where he was a congressional correspondent from 1998-2014. His first major assignment for CBS was Clinton’s impeachment hearings.
Before that, Fuss covered Congress for Mutual and NBC Radio for seven years. He got his start in radio working for Stanford’s campus station Kzsu, becoming a freelance reporter for Upi covering the Patty Hearst case in 1974. He eventually became...
He had a rare form of leukemia and passed away at his Falls Church, Va home, according to his close friend and former CBS News colleague Peter Maer.
Fuss, who used crutches his entire life, won the Radio-tv Correspondents Association’s career achievement award in 2015, a year after he retired from CBS News where he was a congressional correspondent from 1998-2014. His first major assignment for CBS was Clinton’s impeachment hearings.
Before that, Fuss covered Congress for Mutual and NBC Radio for seven years. He got his start in radio working for Stanford’s campus station Kzsu, becoming a freelance reporter for Upi covering the Patty Hearst case in 1974. He eventually became...
- 5/28/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
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