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An extra has alleged in a Los Angeles court filing that British actor Mia Goth kicked him in the head on the set of slasher film MaXXXine.James Hunter, a background actor on the latest instalment in the X series, which follows on from the success of X and Pearl, claims he was covered in fake blood and told to lie in the ground and play dead for a scene filmed in April 2023.In his lawsuit, he alleges he “laid in the dirt for several hours, enduring ants and mosquitoes” during a scene in which Goth was supposed to step over…

Two months after they prompted a lawsuit by voting to block a partly built development in their small mountain hamlet, leaders in Georgetown reversed course Tuesday night. The Georgetown Board of Selectmen, its governing body, voted unanimously to approve a settlement that ends the legal case and allows Bighorn Crossing to keep being built. Just off Interstate 70 and just west of Georgetown Lake, Bighorn Crossing is a mixed-use development that broke ground in 2018 and currently includes seven townhomes, a Wyndham hotel…

Mia Goth has been sued by a background actor, who accused her of intentionally kicking him in the head during a scene for Maxxxine. Director Ti West and A24 were also named in the complaint, filed Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court, over the alleged injury the actor suffered during the shooting of the last installment of the horror trilogy, which also includes X and Pearl.  In the scene, Hunter was told to lay down in the dirt and play dead. “Goth was to run past plaintiff on the ground;…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeMia Goth has been accused of intentionally kicking a background actor in the head during the production of the horror sequel Maxxxine.James Hunter claimed in a lawsuit filed on Friday 12 January, that he was left with a concussion after the alleged incident last April.The film is the third in a trilogy from director Ti West and studio A24, following X and Pearl (both 2022), all of…

An Air Force veteran who previously claimed she was drugged and sexually assaulted by rapper T.I. and his wife, Tameka Harris, in 2005 sued the couple in Los Angeles late Tuesday. The Jane Doe plaintiff says she was around 22 or 23 years old and stationed in Los Angeles when she attended a party at Coolio’s house and met a man who purportedly worked for T.I. and Tameka, also known as Tiny. She alleges the man, who went by the name “Caviar,” helped facilitate a meeting with T.I. and Tiny at a club the following…

Financial Times: Former employees at IRL, which is being sued by SoftBank for fraud, detail several problems that were apparent from the start, including inflated user metrics — Japanese group claims it was duped, founder says he was a scapegoat and ex-employees say there were problems from the start Financial Times: Former employees at IRL, which is being sued by SoftBank for fraud, detail several problems that were apparent from the start, including inflated user metrics — …

Just days after Paula Abdul sued “American Idol” and “So You Think You Can Dance” producer Nigel Lythgoe for alleged sexual assault, Lythgoe is facing a new lawsuit from two Jane Does who claim he forced himself on them while they were contestants on his 2003 reality game show “All American Girl.” The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Tuesday, begins with the allegation Lythgoe “openly swatted and groped” the two plaintiffs’ buttocks as he roamed around the show’s set while contestants were…

A woman has sued Jermaine Jackson, older brother of Michael Jackson and a member of the Jackson 5, alleging that the singer sexually assaulted her.In the suit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday, Rita Barrett claims that she knew Jackson through her husband’s friendship with Motown Records founder Berry Gordy. She alleges in the suit that, in 1988, “Defendant Jackson arrived at Plaintiff’s home unannounced. Defendant Jackson forced himself into Plaintiff’s home, and with force and violence sexually…

The New York Times has become the first major media organization to take on AI firms in the courts, accusing OpenAI and its backer, Microsoft, of infringing its copyright by using its content to train AI-powered products such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In a lawsuit filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan, the media giant claims that “millions” of its copyrighted articles were used to train its AI technologies, enabling it to compete with the New York Times as a content provider. The New York Times said in the lawsuit…

Amid rising concerns and multiple legal battles of authors, publishers, and media houses over large language models (LLMs) using their copyrighted work to train AI systems, the New York Times has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft. The publisher has alleged that the two AI firms have been using the former's copyrighted published work unauthorized to train their respective AI models. This lawsuit has now heightened the conflict between publishers and AI companies, as regulatory institutions still try to figure…