2025-12-11
'47 Ronin' director found guilty of defrauding Netflix out of $11 million
A director who was charged with defrauding Netflix out of millions of dollars has been found guilty, Business Insider reports. Carl Rinsch, director of the 2013 Keanu Reeves movie 47 Ronin, now faces up to 90 years in prison.
Rinsch began filming the project, White Horse (later renamed Conquest), around 2017. (Its premise: A scientist creates an organic humanoid species that turns on its creators.) The director completed six short-form episodes with his own money and investor funds. He then used those episodes to pitch studios for the money to complete the first season. Net [...]
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'47 Ronin' director charged with $11 million fraud over doomed Netflix sci-fi series
Carl Erik Rinsch, the director of 47 Ronin, has been charged for defrauding a streaming service out of $11 million, according to the Southern District of New York's US Attorney's Office. Whi [...]
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2025-11-14
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Netflix is getting rid of another of its game studios by selling it back to its founders
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Man from Alabama pleads guilty over SEC's fake bitcoin post on X
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