This week Lana Del Rey made headlines when she tweeted that Radiohead was suing her over similarities between her Lust For Life song “Get Free” and group’s 1992 hit “Creep.” “Although I know my song wasn’t inspired by Creep, Radiohead feel it was and want 100% of the publishing — I offered up to 40 over the last few months but they will...Read More
George Zakk, who served as an executive producer on xXx and Riddick, has filed a lawsuit against frequent collaborator Vin Diesel, claiming that he worked on xXx: the Return of Xander Cage and was never credited or paid for his work.TMZ reports that this lawsuit represents Zakk’s second go-’round with the legal system in this case, after a...Read More
Local production company and dear Hollywood Lawyer client, GenerAsian Pictures, will be releasing a new action thriller from director, Benny Tjandra, called ‘Syndicate Smasher‘. The film features a group of mercenaries hired as contract killers who are hunted down by the Mafia, the Yakuza, the Russian Mob, and the Tongs all at once. Look for ‘Syndicate...Read More
When it comes to reporting on Spotify and the company’s strained relationship with songwriters and publishers, it’s beginning to sound like a broken … system. But a possible fix is in. Just two days before New Year’s Eve, the music publishing company Wixen, which manages the compositions of a wide cross section of artists from...Read More
Warren Beatty’s production company is being sued by Regency Entertainment for allegedly failing to pay back costs for the 2016 film Rules Don’t Apply.Regency claims it entered into talks with Beatty in 2013 to finance and distribute the Howard Hughes biopic, which was written and directed by Beatty and who also starred in the film as...Read More
