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Director Carl Rinsch found guilty of scamming $11M from Netflix – National
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Director Carl Rinsch found guilty of scamming $11M from Netflix – National

47 Ronin director Carl Erik Rinsch has been found guilty of defrauding Netflix out of $11 million for a show that never materialized, while he used the money for lavish purchases, including a Ferrari, several Rolls-Royces and luxury bedding, the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan said. Rinsch was found guilty following a one-week trial. He was convicted of one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering — each carrying a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced on Thursday.He was also found guilty of five counts of engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from specified unlawful activity, each of which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.The director began filming White Horse arou...
Fallout season 1 recap: Everything you need to know ahead of season 2 release
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Fallout season 1 recap: Everything you need to know ahead of season 2 release

The anticipation for Prime Video’s Fallout Season 2 is reaching a fever pitch. With the highly awaited second season set to premiere on December 17, creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, alongside showrunners Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner, are ready to invite us back into the wasteland that is teeming with radiation. Based on one of the most iconic video game series of all time, Fallout tells a story that explores the deep divide between haves and have-nots in a world where there is almost nothing left to have. Two hundred years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape of their ancestors — and find a universe that is as violent and complex as it is bizarre. Prime Video’s smash-hit adaptation returns o...
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs videographer addresses how Netflix got docuseries video – National
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs videographer addresses how Netflix got docuseries video – National

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ personal videographer has addressed how he alleges Netflix and 50 Cent obtained the behind-the-scenes footage of Combs for the docuseries Sean Combs: The Reckoning, which unpacks the allegations behind the rapper and his Bad Boy Entertainment empire. The videographer, Michael Oberlies, is alleging that the footage was released by a freelancer who was hired to fill in for him while he was out of state for a few days.“For over two years we have been working on a project profiling Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs,” Oberlies said in a statement to Rolling Stone. “The footage in question was not released by me or anyone authorized to handle Sean Combs’ materials; it was by a third party who covered for me for three days while I was out of state. This incident had nothing to do with any fe...
Grammy-nominated opera singer stabbed to death in his home, son arrested – National
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Grammy-nominated opera singer stabbed to death in his home, son arrested – National

Grammy-nominated opera and gospel singer Jubilant Sykes has died after being stabbed at his home in California. His son, 31-year-old Micah Sykes, has been arrested on suspicion of murder, Santa Monica police said in a statement on Tuesday.Officers responded to a 911 call on Monday at approximately 9:20 p.m. for an assault in progress. Officers were directed to the scene by the reporting party.Inside the residence, officers found Sykes, who had sustained critical injuries consistent with a stabbing. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.Police located the suspect, the victim’s son, inside the residence and took him into custody without incident, the statement added.Investigators are currently processing physical evidence collected at the scene, including a weapon recovered from the in...
Four More Shots Please trailer: Final reunion of the beloved girl gang
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Four More Shots Please trailer: Final reunion of the beloved girl gang

Prime Video unveiled the trailer of the fourth and final season of its International Emmy-nominated original series, Four More Shots Please!. Signing off the year in style, the final chapter arrives just in time for the holiday season, giving fans one last, full-hearted reunion with the beloved girl gang that defined modern female friendship on screen. The new season sees the four divas return for one last round – to finish what they started. Stronger. Wiser. Unapologetically themselves.  Produced by Pritish Nandy Communications and created by Rangita Pritish Nandy and Ishita Pritish Nandy, the final season of this International Emmy-nominated original series is directed by Arunima Sharma and Neha Parti Matiyani. Prime members in India and more than 240 countries and territories worldwid...
Sharon Osbourne reveals Ozzy Osbourne’s final words to her before his death – National
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Sharon Osbourne reveals Ozzy Osbourne’s final words to her before his death – National

Sharon Osbourne has revealed her late husband Ozzy Osbourne’s final words to her before his death, as she opened up for the first time about the rock icon’s last moments. The Black Sabbath lead singer died in July at the age of 76, nearly five years after he revealed his diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease and just two weeks after his last live performance with the original lineup of the band at Villa Park soccer stadium in their home city of Birmingham, central England.In an interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored, released on Dec. 10, Sharon, 73, said her husband’s final words to her were: “Kiss me. Hug me tight.”“The night before he passed, he was up and down to the bathroom all night, and it was like 4:30 a.m., and he said, ‘Wake up.’ I said, ‘I’m already bloody awake, you’ve woken me up,'” ...
Vipul Amrutlal Shah`s debut series Bawra Mann premieres on Dec 12
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Vipul Amrutlal Shah`s debut series Bawra Mann premieres on Dec 12

The first episode of filmmaker Vipul Amrutlal Shah’s debut web series for his newly launched digital vertical, Sunshine Pictures Digital, will drop tomorrow, marking a fresh beginning in his storytelling journey. The series is titled Bawra Mann, and its first episode will be available to stream tomorrow on YouTube. Bawra Mann is a stirring tale of ambition, gender bias, and the courage it takes to unlearn, evolve, and choose integrity over ego. Bawra Mann Plot Bawra Mann follows Ishaan, a brilliant but restless techie from Bengaluru, whose chase for success blinds him to the very dream that once defined him, uplifting rural women through meaningful innovation. His world collapses after a heated fallout with Megha, a bold and self-assured leader who forces him to confront his fragile mas...
‘Jeopardy!’ champ Joey DeSena arrested on felony secret peeping charges – National
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‘Jeopardy!’ champ Joey DeSena arrested on felony secret peeping charges – National

Descrease article font size Increase article font size A former two-time Jeopardy! winner from North Carolina has been arrested on two charges of felony secret peeping. Philip Joseph “Joey” DeSena, 42, is accused of installing cameras in a victim’s bedroom and bathroom, according to an arrest warrant filed by the Currituck County Sheriff’s Office and viewed by People.The warrant said the alleged crime happened on Oct. 10, but the warrant was not issued until Nov. 26.According to the warrant, authorities stated DeSena “unlawfully, willfully and feloniously,” secretly or surreptitiously, installed a “device that can be used to create [a] photographic image, namely a camera,” placed in the two rooms “with the intent to capture the image of anothe...
First look of Dave Cameron-starrer 56 days unveiled, check out
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First look of Dave Cameron-starrer 56 days unveiled, check out

On Wednesday, Prime Video released first-look images and announced the premiere date for the highly anticipated new thriller series, 56 Days, adapted from Catherine Ryan Howard`s best-selling novel. All eight episodes will be released on Wednesday, February 18, 2026, exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. About 56 Days The thriller series 56 Days follows Oliver and Ciara, who, after meeting randomly in a supermarket, fall for each other fast, and dangerously hard. Fifty-six days later, homicide investigators arrive at Oliver’s apartment to find an unidentified body—brutally murdered and intentionally decomposed. Did he kill her? Did she kill him? Intercutting between an intense single day in the present investigation, and the twisted trajectory o...
Paramount makes hostile bid for Warner Bros. days after Netflix’s $72B deal – National
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Paramount makes hostile bid for Warner Bros. days after Netflix’s $72B deal – National

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Paramount has gone hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, challenging Netflix which reached a US$72 billion takeover deal with the company just days ago. Paramount said Monday that it going straight to Warner Bros. shareholders with a $30 per share in cash offer for the entirety of Warner Bros. Discovery, including its Global Networks segment, asking them to reject the deal with Netflix.That is the same bid that Warner Brothers rejected in favor of the offer from Netflix in a merger that would alter the U.S. entertainment landscape.Paramount criticized the Netflix offer, saying it “exposes WBD shareholders to a protracted multi-jurisdictional regulatory clearance process with an uncertain...