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03-04-2025
- Entertainment
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Netflix Gets Fall Trial Start Against Director Who Allegedly Scammed $11M Out Of Streamer
Netflix may never see the more than $11 million the streamer & the feds say Carl Rinsch owes them, but they will see the director in court later this year. In a hearing Thursday in federal court NYC Carl Rinsch entered a not guilty plea and Judge Jed S. Rakoff put a September 8, 2025 trial start date on the calendar. Indicted by the Department of Justice on March 18 for fraud, and 'engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from specified unlawful activity,' Rinsch is out on a $100,000 bond that he posted earlier this month. More from Deadline Naomi Baker & Jay Reeves To Lead New Tyler Perry Netflix Drama Feature 'Doing Life' 'Fubar' Season 2 Gets Summer Premiere Date; First-Look Images Reveal Carrie-Anne Moss As Arnold Schwarzenegger's Old Flame Meryl Streep In Talks To Play Aslan In Greta Gerwig & Netflix's Narnia Movie The director of the never completed and never to be seen android drama series White Horse/Conquest, the 47-year-old Rinsch could be incarcerated for the rest of his life if found guilty by a jury. Netflix wrote off its entire $55 million investment in the series in late 2020, but were awarded $11.8 million in mid-2024 out of arbitration proceedings with the 47 Ronin filmmaker. Rinsch is due on the West Coast later this month for a debtor's examination in L.A. Superior Court. Having spent millions on credit cards, lawyers, five Rolls-Royces and one Ferrari, luxury hotels, watches and antiques, Rinsch now claims to be totally broke. Netflix's outside attorneys want a through inventory of his assets and belongings to see if they can squeeze any of the cash they are owned from the Rinsch stone. Contacted this afternoon by Deadline, Netflix reps had no comment on the hearing in the Big Apple earlier Thursday. Arrested in the City of Angels by the feds and cops on March 18, Rinsch is 'charged with one count of wire fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison; one count of money laundering, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison; and 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,' according to the U.S. Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York. Coming off the flop of 2013's 47 Ronin but armed with the friendship and backing of Keanu Reeves, once prominent commercial director Rinsch found himself and the show then known as White Horse in the middle of a bidding war in 2018. Then Netflix exec Cindy Holland yanked the project out of the hands of Amazon with a $61 million deal. Any sunshine and rainbows that came out of that soon turned dark as Rinsch blew through millions and millions with nothing to show for it. Essentially getting money for nothing ($44 million, to be exact) final-cut holding, Rinsch asked and received another $11 million from the company in 2020. The director, who may have some mental health issues according to court filings, said the funds were for various and pre-and post-production needs to complete the series. That never happened. Best of Deadline Everything We Know About 'Hacks' Season 4 So Far 2025 TV Series Renewals: Photo Gallery 2025-26 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Tonys, Emmys, Oscars & More
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13-03-2025
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Netflix Circling Daniel Craig For ‘Chronicles Of Narnia' Movie: The Dish
EXCLUSIVE: While it is super early in the dealmaking process, sources tell Deadline that Netflix and director Greta Gerwig are aiming high for their next piece of casting on their Chronicles of Narnia movie, as Daniel Craig has an offer to join the cast. Sources stress that it is unknown whether Craig will ultimately come on board, but they do add that he does hold the offer. It is also unknown who he would be playing in the film. More from Deadline Charli XCX Eyed For Greta Gerwig & Netflix's Narnia Movie: The Dish 'Narnia' Imax Release Not A Change To Netflix's Theatrical Strategy, Ted Sarandos Says 'Myron Bolitar': David E. Kelley Joins Harlan Coben On Netflix's TV Series Adaptation Of Popular Books Even with it being early, the studio and Gerwig are clearly gearing up in a big way with production set to start later this year. Deadline was first to report that Charli XCX was in talks for the role of the white witch. In 2018, Netflix said it would develop new series and film projects based on C.S. Lewis' beloved The Chronicles of Narnia series and brought Gerwig on board in 2020 to adapt and direct the first movie. It remains in early stages, and details are scant. As previously reported, the movie is getting an exclusive two-week Imax global run for Thanksgiving 2026 in advance of the pic's drop on the streamer. If it makes, the deal would be reunion of sorts for Craig and Netflix, with Craig as super-sleuth Benoit Blanc anchoring Rian Johnson's Knives Out franchise which has a deal at the streamer. The first pic in that deal was 2022's Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, with the next installment Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery due out later this year. Will let you know more on Narnia as we find out. Best of Deadline How Jon Gries' Return To 'The White Lotus' Could Shape Season 3 Everything We Know About 'Nobody Wants This' Season 2 So Far 'The Last Of Us' Season 2 Cast: Who Plays Who?
