Ryan Faughnder

Jordan Belfort is suing production company Red Granite Pictures for more than $300 million, saying he didn’t know the film was funded with dirty money.

With indie film box office declines and more movies coming into the Sundance Film Festival with distribution, the days of sky high sales could be over.

Burbank-based Walt Disney Co. is selling the game maker to Culver City-based company Scopely.

The Century City-based talent representation giant’s co-chairmen, Richard Lovett, Bryan Lourd and Kevin Huvane, will remain with the company.

Major studios are once again preparing for WGA strike, but much has changed since the last walkout in 2007-2008.

Talent agencies are under growing pressure to raise capital to finance growth at time of rapid changes in the media industry. The rise of streaming and expected decline of TV packaging, combined with the effects of a longstanding boycott by Writers Guild of America, have put the squeeze on talent agencies, some of which have laid off workers.

The market for physical discs has evaporated. So Universal Pictures and Warner Bros. are looking for a way to save the format.

The Burbank studio has broken ground on two new Frank Gehry-designed office towers fashioned to look like icebergs floating alongside the 134 Freeway.

Netflix had a strong showing in the Academy Award nominations for ‘The Irishman.’ But as the Golden Globes showed, there’s a big difference between being nominated and winning.

Universal Pictures’ World War I movie goes wide this weekend after earning two Globes: best drama and director, for Sam Mendes.