Henry Cavill nodded to his tumultuous historical past with post-credits scenes throughout a latest screening of his new Man Ritchie-directed film “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.” As reported by Insider, Cavill made some introductory remarks earlier than the movie and references his different Ritchie movies, together with his main flip within the 2015 spy movie “The Man from U.N.C.L.E” and his look “in a post-credits scene” for the director’s 2017 field workplace disappointment “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.”

“Seems, I don’t have a lot luck with post-credit scenes,” Cavill then wisecracked to a lot viewers laughter. “So, I’ll surrender on these.”

Cavill is probably going referring to how “King Arthur” didn’t get a sequel as a result of it flopped on the field, but additionally a debacle ensued years later when he confirmed up as Superman within the post-credits scene of the 2022 comedian ebook tentpole “Black Adam,” headlined by Dwayne Johnson. The second heralded the return of his iteration of the Man of Metal and arrange a future within the DC Universe the place he’d go toe-to-toe with Johnson’s Black Adam.

The actor confirmed in an Oct. 24, 2022 social media put up that he can be returning as Superman in a brand new Warner Bros. film following his cameo on the finish of “Black Adam.” The actor wrote to his followers: “I wished to make it official: I’m again as Superman … Thanks to your assist and thanks to your endurance. I promise it is going to be rewarded.”

Two days later, Cavill spoke publicly for the primary time about his Superman return throughout a reside recording of the “Completely satisfied Unhappy Confused” podcast at 92NY in New York Metropolis.

“The character means a lot to me. It’s been 5 years now. I by no means gave up hope,” Cavill advised the viewers. “It’s superb to be right here now speaking about it once more. There may be such a shiny future forward for the character. I’m so excited to inform a narrative with an enormously joyful Superman.”

Nonetheless, Cavill’s Superman return was short-lived. Simply over a month later, Warner Bros. and DC Studios introduced James Gunn and Peter Safran because the latter firm’s new bosses. The duo had been tasked with overhauling the DC Universe on the massive display, and their plan included bringing in a brand new Superman actor to anchor their universe. It was an particularly powerful blow for Cavill, who had exited his starring position on Netflix’s “The Witcher” presumably as a result of his future appeared to incorporate extra Superman initiatives previous to Gunn and Safran’s hiring.

David Corenswet is formally taking on the position of Superman in a brand new movie written and directed by Gunn. “Superman” will open in theaters subsequent 12 months.

“I might like to see someone do an upbeat, throwback [take on Superman],” Corenswet beforehand advised Leisure Weekly earlier than his casting. “I like the Henry Cavill darkish and gritty take, however I might like to see the following one be very shiny and optimistic.”

An “upbeat” and “optimistic” Superman sounds precisely just like the sort of Superman that Corenswet shall be enjoying. As Gunn advised Selection throughout his casting search, “The subsequent Superman must be somebody who has all of the humanity that Superman has however he’s additionally an alien. It’s gotta be someone who has the kindness and the compassion that Superman has and be someone who you need to give a hug.”

Gunn’s “Superman” opens June 11, 2025 from Warner Bros.

Leslie Moonves, the previous CEO of CBS, was fined $15,000 on Wednesday by the L.A. Metropolis Ethics Fee for acquiring secret data in 2017 about an LAPD intercourse assault investigation of which he was the goal.

The fee voted 4-0 to approve the penalty, which is the utmost allowed for ethics violations underneath the L.A. Metropolis Constitution. The vote got here two months after the fee rejected a $11,250 tremendous, discovering it didn’t match the egregious nature of the violation.

The case, which reminded some observers of the police corruption depicted in “L.A. Confidential,” centered on Cory Palka, the retired commander of the Hollywood division. Palka additionally labored as a non-public safety guard for Moonves for a few years when the CBS chief would attend the Grammy Awards.

In November 2017, on the top of the #MeToo motion, former TV govt Phyllis Gottlieb walked into the Hollywood LAPD station to report that Moonves had assaulted her within the Eighties.

Inside hours, Palka alerted a CBS senior vp of the state of affairs. The next day, Palka offered CBS with Gottlieb’s confidential police report. A pair weeks later, he met with Moonves at a restaurant to debate the case, and he later suggested that the case possible wouldn’t be prosecuted.

The misconduct was first revealed in a securities investigation performed by the New York Legal professional Normal’s workplace in 2022. The investigation concluded that Moonves had labored with Palka to attempt to suppress the story.

At one level, Palka despatched a message to Moonves by which he professed his “allegiance” to the CBS chief.

After conducting its personal inquiry, the fee discovered Moonves accountable for three violations of the town ethics code, together with prices of aiding and abetting the discharge of confidential data and inducing one other particular person to misuse their place.

The fees carry a most penalty of $5,000 per violation. In February, the fee workers beneficial the decreased penalty of $11,250, noting that Moonves had cooperated with the investigation.

The fee unanimously rejected that settlement proposal. The commissioners expressed that the $5,000 restrict needs to be elevated, which might require placing a Constitution modification on the town poll.

In February, the fee additionally rejected a $2,500 settlement with Ian Metrose, the CBS vp who acted as an middleman between Palka and Moonves. The fee workers has not reached a revised settlement with Metrose.

Moonves was fired in 2018 after a number of allegations of sexual misconduct got here to gentle. Palka retired from the LAPD in 2021. Gottlieb died in 2022. Metrose left the corporate in 2023.

Documentary “Fixing the Warfare,” about information fixers in Ukraine, was certainly one of 15 initiatives chosen on this week’s version of VdR-Pitching, Visions du Réel’s worldwide co-production and financing platform. Selection accompanied the crew as they pitched to potential companions.

The movie’s producers Gary Lennon of Plainsong Movies and Olga Kravchenko of Moon Man have been in Nyon to pitch the movie, which is directed by Clare Stronge and Vadym Ikov. “Fixing the Warfare” was pitched as the primary movie to indicate the important position of the information fixers, who’re locals employed to assist a journalist working abroad navigate every little thing from logistics to translations or issues of safety.

The pair began with a 12-minute pitch to a room stuffed with trade professionals, throughout which they outlined their mission and illustrated it with a clip.

Stronge, who’s at present on a shoot, described her intention in a recorded video message, explaining why she needed to crew up with Ikov and Kravchenko, herself a former fixer when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.

“One of many busiest jobs in Ukraine proper now’s fixing. As a result of we dwell on this age of disinformation, it’s attention-grabbing to empower audiences to grasp. [To do this] we would have liked a Ukrainian director and producer, not foreigners. It’s a messy and harmful enterprise.”

A co-creation between Stronge’s Plainsong Movies and Kyiv-based Moon Man (“A Home Product of Splinters”), the movie will mix observational documentary-style footage of fixers on the bottom with frontline footage and intimate interviews.

“Fixing the Warfare” is supported by Display screen Eire and the Irish movie tax break and is in late improvement. The crew hopes to plug the 25% funding hole, with a launch date scheduled for the second half of 2025.

Following the morning pitching periods, each mission crew was invited to a sequence of 5 intensive 20-minute roundtable periods with trade professionals, which included consumers, commissioners and potential co-producers.

Requested what they took away from the expertise, each have been enthusiastic.

“The roundtables happen proper after the pitch, so our presentation was nonetheless recent of their minds,” Kravchenko informed Selection. “This was our first massive public presentation, which was necessary as a result of we’ve been engaged on the movie for simply over a yr, and we’d like a reality-check with the trade: Do they just like the mission? How will they react to it? We have been glad to see that it went very well, and we hope collaborations will come out of it, as a result of our purpose is to shut the price range hole and transfer ahead with manufacturing.”

The roundtables have been adopted the subsequent day by a sequence of one-to-one 15-minute conferences with decision-makers, arrange by the VdR-Business crew to match initiatives with potential companions. The crew from “Fixing the Warfare” had no fewer than 20 conferences over two days, and was heading to a different after talking to Selection on Wednesday, the fourth and remaining day of Vdr-Business.

Requested what their primary take-aways have been and whether or not the talks had helped outline their mission, Lennon was upbeat. “You go into this with a certain quantity of worry that you just’re going to be grilled. However there was a really optimistic feeling: fairly than looking for holes in our mission, they requested for clarifications – about our characters, the stylistic components of the movie – this gave us an opportunity to elucidate all of this. It was very helpful,” he mentioned. “While you work by yourself, you don’t know if what you’re doing is true, so it gave us a variety of confidence. We began speaking about how we might work collectively, it was extremely encouraging!”

Visions du Réel runs in Nyon till April 21.

When Andy Grush and Taylor Stewart, higher referred to as The Newton Brothers, took on the job of scoring Disney+’s “X-Males ‘97,” they knew they’d have a mighty activity forward of them – they’d should discover a strategy to put their stamp on the long-lasting synth-heavy theme music from the unique 1992 animated sequence, whereas nonetheless retaining the acquainted melody.

As followers of composer Ron Wasserman’s authentic theme, they first requested themselves what they’d wish to see and listen to. They knew they didn’t wish to do one thing tremendous fashionable. “That will wreck the nostalgic vibes,” explains Stewart.

There wanted to be sincerity in any model they put collectively. And that wasn’t straightforward. Grush says, “The unique is honest, good and does all the things it ought to do. We needed to make sure that we weren’t concerned in staining the observe, however bolstering it.”

They opted for an strategy that featured orchestral music, fashionable synths and a choir which was all woven in on a delicate degree.

As soon as that they had clearer concepts about route and the way it will sound, Stewart and Grush went away and got here up with their compositions. “We ended up with eight totally different variations, and Andy and I gave each other notes, we went forwards and backwards, after which we introduced it to the workforce,” says Stewart.

Narrowing down the alternatives was not a straightforward activity.

Every model differed.

Says Grush, “We had an all-orchestra model, an all-analog synth. And it got here down to 2 variations. These variations meandered down the paths they went down, and we landed the place we did. However there’s lots of trial and error in that as a result of lots of the stuff that we had been doing within the model that now exists obliterated a few of the sonic landscapes which can be in there.”

In the long run, after placing these concepts in entrance of the present’s creators, the ultimate theme got here collectively. “A couple of issues are taking place which can be necessary. We had a theme being performed with synth, enjoying the lead melody,” says Grush. “As soon as that was in place, Nili Brosh got here in and she or he’s a rad guitar participant. You may hear that, she’s enjoying together with the synths we’re enjoying, and there are rhythm guitars underneath that.”

Grush describes the “motor-like sound” that begins the theme off as being the trickiest component to make work. “It’s very particular. In the event you begin too huge to start with, it makes the observe really feel small. And it’s 5 tracks of synths taking place in rhythm with synth arpeggiators taking place all on the identical time.” He provides, “That performs all through the piece, and was the spine of the theme.”

By all measures, Ziffren Brittenham senior accomplice Clifford Gilbert-Lurie has had a storied run as an leisure legal professional. Over the course of his four-decade-plus profession, he has made huge offers for a protracted checklist of loyal shoppers which have generated pages upon pages of headlines within the present enterprise trades. For these skilled accomplishments, alongside along with his philanthropic efforts, he’s being honored with Selection’s Energy of Legislation Award at a breakfast April 18 on the 4 Seasons Resort in Beverly Hills.

But when one needed to level to a single metric that sums up how a lot he’s valued, it might be a British luxurious automotive topped by a big purple bow.

Extra particularly, a Bentley, gifted to him by producer Dick Wolf.

Sandra Bullock vividly remembers the evening. The 12 months was 2004. She had come to Gilbert-Lurie’s fiftieth birthday celebration armed with what she thought was the right present, an 18th century silver wine sediment sifter.

“They’re arduous to seek out intact,” explains Bullock, a Gilbert-Lurie consumer since 1996. “I used to be strolling as much as his home, so excited, holding it prefer it was the holy grail, and there was that attractive black Bentley with the big-ass bow. I used to be simply… the fashion.”

Wolf insists the Bentley was not a mere birthday present for Gilbert-Lurie, however a thanks for closing the most recent in an ongoing string of huge total offers. He says that over the past three and a half many years they’ve had essentially the most profitable lawyer-client relationship within the historical past of the tv enterprise, which is not any idle boast coming from a person with 9 community exhibits at present airing on broadcast TV, together with the highest two longest-running, live-action, scripted, U.S. primetime TV collection of all time (“Legislation & Order: SVU” and “Legislation & Order”).

“I can say with out hesitation I wouldn’t be the place I’m right this moment with out Cliff,” says Wolf. “We’ve by no means did not make a take care of anyone who truly wished to make a deal, which is in itself a miracle. That features networks, writers, producers and actors. It’s by no means actually been a difficulty, [whether it] requires the velvet Cliff or the metal Cliff.”

George Cheeks has noticed Gilbert-Lurie’s talent as a negotiator from throughout the desk for a few years, first as a prime exec at NBC and now as CEO of CBS, the place he has a three-show block of Wolf exhibits on Tuesday evening (“FBI,” “FBI: Worldwide” and “FBI: Most Needed”), in addition to two exhibits by one other of the legal professional’s mega-producer shoppers, Jerry Bruckheimer (“CSI: Vegas” and “The Wonderful Race”).

“We’ve been in negotiations the place I principally left feeling like I hadn’t received any of the factors I actually wished to win, but I used to be by no means offended with him, by no means felt taken benefit of, as a result of he has this potential additionally to be very clear about his strategy and what he must get the deal accomplished,” says Cheeks. “There’s no duplicity, no guile. He’s as easy as they arrive.”

Different present shoppers benefiting from Gilbert-Lurie’s dealmaking prowess embody Tina Fey, Claire Danes, Michael J. Fox, Sarah Silverman, Drew Carey, Patrick Stewart and Microsoft.

“I’ve all the time stated if I wanted a lawyer, I’d rent Cliff,” says Sam Fischer, who has been working with Gilbert-Lurie at Ziffren Brittenham for 38 years and right this moment serves alongside him as one of many agency’s two co-managing companions. “He does an unimaginable quantity of preparation and analysis concerning the specifics of a deal and the trade on the whole, taking a look at not simply the technicalities of a selected deal, but in addition all the time the larger image and future developments and the way it may impression his shoppers. It’s a thoroughness that
is extraordinary.”

CAA agent Jeff Jacobs, who has identified Gilbert-Lurie for greater than three many years and lately labored with him on Bruckheimer’s tv offers, says his profession brings to thoughts the adage that greatness is outlined as consistency over time at a excessive stage.

“You don’t hold the shoppers that he has except you do this in partnership with humanity, dedication, model and charm,” says Jacobs. “I feel he’s the personification of all that.”

As a baby rising up in Los Angeles, Gilbert-Lurie first turned enamored with the thought of being an legal professional when he learn outdated authorized journals despatched to him by an uncle who was a company lawyer in Detroit, with shoppers that included the Ford Motor Co.

“They’d digest the circumstances in what we’d time period sound bites right this moment,” says Gilbert-Lurie of the journals. “A variety of them had been legal circumstances and issues like that that even a child might perceive.”

On the time, Gilbert-Lurie had no thought what an leisure legal professional was. He thought he’d be a trial lawyer like those he noticed on TV exhibits like “Perry Mason” and “The Defenders.” However after his first 12 months of legislation faculty at UC Berkeley, he took a summer season clerkship at Rosenfeld, Meyer & Susman, a Beverly Hills agency whose principal consumer was leisure big MCA Common. After incomes his JD and passing the bar in 1979, he joined the agency as an affiliate, doing litigation involving contracts, copyrights, privateness and defamation.

When Common licensed Kamar Intl. to fabricate dolls of the title character from its 1982 blockbuster “E.T. the Additional-Terrestrial,” a battle of curiosity prevented Rosenfeld from repping the Taiwanese toymaker in trademark infringement lawsuits that arose from the Chinese language knockoffs that flooded the market. So Gilbert-Lurie and one of many agency’s companions left to launch a two-person apply dealing with the circumstances, which occupied them for the subsequent 18 months.

“As that was winding down, it was clear to me I needed to both determine to remain within the litigation apply or do one thing else,” says Gilbert-Lurie. “And I that’s the place I made a decision to go in-house at Disney and in essence retrain myself to turn out to be a transactional lawyer.”

At Disney, Gilbert-Lurie was concerned in negotiations with George Lucas to convey the Star Excursions experience to Disneyland, in addition to quite a few actor, director and author offers, and helped develop the studio’s revenue participation templates.

Roughly a 12 months and a half into his tenure, Gilbert-Lurie was knowledgeable that he was being promoted to basic counsel for Walt Disney Footage. He referred to as Ziffren Brittenham legal professional Tom Hoberman (now at Hansen, Jacobson) to ask him to barter his govt contract, and Hoberman stunned him by asking if he could be keen on coming to work for the agency as an alternative.

“Cliff interviewed with us and we had been very impressed,” recollects Ziffren Brittenham founding accomplice Ken Ziffren. “He knew a whole lot of the stuff that we had been stressing in our apply, which is comply with the cash and know lots concerning the enterprise itself, and he was self-effacing and a very good listener and nice to be with. I made calls to Helene Hahn, who was the pinnacle of enterprise affairs and authorized at Disney at the moment, and I principally begged her to let him out of his contract.”

After Gilbert-Lurie joined Ziffren Brittenham in 1986, he was placed on Wolf’s account in a help function, dealing with paperwork. When Wolf’s level individual left to type his personal agency in 1987, Wolf adopted, however quickly grew dissatisfied. He referred to as Ziffren Brittenham founding accomplice Skip Brittenham and informed him he’d be keen on returning to the agency if he might get a wise, targeted, buttoned-down legal professional to deal with his affairs. Brittenham beneficial Gilbert-Lurie, and Wolf gave him a trial-by-fire audition negotiating a renewal of his total take care of Common Tv.

“The primary time I met him in-person was on the convention desk with 4 attorneys on the opposite facet and the senior enterprise affairs crew from Common,” recollects Gilbert-Lurie. “It was a really prolonged assembly, and we negotiated a really profitable deal. On the finish of it, Dick referred to as up Skip and stated, ‘That’s my man.’ And all the pieces took off from that time.”

On the time, Wolf was profitable on the showrunner stage, coming off a two-season stint as a author and co-producer of “Miami Vice.” In 1990, his present “Legislation & Order” debuted on NBC, launching him on a path to turn out to be one of the profitable TV present creators-executive producers of all time, with greater than 2,000 episodes of primetime TV to his credit score.

“I’ve seen each potential side of the tv enterprise by advantage of representing him,” says Gilbert-Lurie of Wolf. “He’s one in all my most defining shoppers, and I communicate with him just about day-after-day.”

Gilbert-Lurie has additionally had a serious function within the convergence of leisure and tech via his work with Microsoft. He helped the Seattle-based tech big launch its short-lived movie and TV manufacturing firm Xbox Leisure Studios in 2012 and extra not too long ago brokered offers for diversifications of a pair of its video video games, the Amblin Tv/Showtime Networks TV collection “Halo,” which not too long ago premiered its second season on Paramount+, and Warner Bros.’ “Minecraft” function, set for launch in 2025.

“Over that course of time, there’s been such huge shifts in enterprise and on the trade stage and on the firm stage, and I feel the agility with which Cliff was in a position to re-strategize and assist us work via that has all the time been invaluable,” says Kiki Wolfkill, head of Xbox IP growth and leisure at Microsoft. “He understands the sport facet of the enterprise, and the franchise and IP worth, and the way these diversifications match into our ecosystem in a method that advantages each the movie and TV companions we work with and ourselves on the sport facet.”

For Bullock, what stands out is the best way Clifford-Lurie has been in a position to stability the wants of his shoppers and his household, with whom she is shut. She recollects a second years in the past, when he was on his annual trip along with his spouse, the legal professional, writer and philanthropist Leslie Gilbert-Lurie, and their three now-
grownup youngsters.

“I used to be coping with a lot drama and chaos, and I had nobody to succeed in out to,” remembers Bullock. “He was someplace that had completely no cell service, in a cellphone sales space serving to me navigate a scenario, with a mud storm round him and a baby on his hip, screaming its head off. He’s like Superman.”
Gilbert-Lurie will flip 70 in September, which suggests there’ll seemingly be one other huge occasion and a chance for Bullock to avenge her present loss to Wolf. She might purchase her legal professional a particular stamp for his assortment or a locomotive for the mannequin railroad format he’s constructed in an upstairs room of his dwelling within the Brentwood neighborhood of West Los Angeles. However Bullock doesn’t consider that materials issues are what he needs or wants.

“I feel what Cliff would love essentially the most is having each single human being that he adores and that adores him all below one roof, and simply have a second of connection, laughter, pleasure and music,” says Bullock. “And my sifter might be there. Perhaps there’ll be one other Bentley.”