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Buffalo 8 Buys Comedy-Drama ‘Beyond The Likes’ – Cannes

Exclusive: Buffalo 8 Distribution has acquired comedy-drama Beyond the Likes at the Cannes Film Festival. Set in Chicago in 2008, it stars Matt Rife (Wild ‘n Out), Don Benjamin (Him), Terrance J (Think Like a Man), Stephanie Nur (1883), Andrew Bach (To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before) and George Lopez (George Lopez) and follows five friends navigating adulthood and stumbling upon the formula to become the world’s first influencers. When Cam (Benjamin), the group’s aspiring model, meets wealthy Abu Dhabi heiress Nefertari (Nur), their instant connection leads to a clash of cultures. Rhyan Lamarr is the director and Adam Key (NCIS: Los Angeles) is the writer. Shooting took place in Abu Dhabi, Chicago and L.A., with Elijah Long and Qais Qandil the producers. Grady Craig, Buffalo 8’s President, negotiated the deal and is an exec producer along with Buffalo 8 co-founders Matthew Helderman and Luke Taylor.

Unless you followed the ups and downs — well, mostly the downs — of Julian Assange’s life over the past 15 years, you’ll have to wait until the last half-hour of Eugene Jarecki’s new documentary, The Six Billion Dollar Man, to understand what its title means.

By that point, the WikiLeaks founder had been holed up for over six years at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he faced imminent arrest by the UK authorities. It’s then that we learn how the first Trump administration offered, via the Imf, to loan Ecuador’s government $6.5 billion if they agreed to kick Assange out. The move is not exactly shocking, especially coming from a dealmaker like Trump, and it shows just how much the U.S. authorities were willing to pay so they could nab one of their most wanted men.

Much of Jarecki’s jam-packed and informative two-hour feature, which...

Julian Assange spent $500,000 to fly to a remote island after taking a plea deal with the U.S. government and being freed from prison.

The WikiLeaks founder was freed from U.K. prison on Monday morning, where he was being held on a charge of conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense information. The 52-year-old released classified reports on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq on his site, according to court documents.

Assange flew from London Stansted Airport to Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands, a flight that cost him half a million dollars. On Wednesday, he had a U.S. federal court hearing from the island, where he pleaded guilty to the charge.

The leaker reportedly refused to step foot on the American mainland and chose to fly to the tropical island due to its proximity to Australia, where he is from. He is said to have wanted a U.

Julian Assange has landed back in his native Australia after entering a guilty plea at a U.S. District Court in the Northern Mariana Islands.

The Wikileaks founder pleaded guilty to one count of illegally disseminating national security material in a deal with the U.S. Justice Department, in exchange for his freedom after five years of incarceration in the UK.

Assange gestured towards photographers after touching down at Canberra Airport today and was embraced by his family, who along with friends and politicians have been campaigning for his release.

“Julian needs time to recover, to get used to freedom,” his wife Stella Assange said at a news conference soon after, according to the BBC.

Assange has spent five years in a UK prison as he fought extradition to the U.S. after publishing a series of leaks that were provided to him by former intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning. The...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has agreed to a U.S. plea deal that will see him plead guilty to one criminal charge and walk free after five years in a British jail.

The 52-year-old has left the U.K. and will not be extradited to the U.S., but will return to his native Australia, WikiLeaks has said. On X (formerly Twitter), the organization’s account said that Assange left Belmarsh prison Monday after 1,901 days in a small cell. He was released at London’s Stansted Airport on Monday afternoon. A video shared online by WikiLeaks appears to show Assange being driven to the airport before boarding a plane.

The development follows a lengthy and arduous legal battle across the High Court in England and the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. In May, Assange was granted an appeal on his extradition order as the Biden administration was unable to...

Julian Assange is not yet being extradited to the U.S. The Wikileaks founder has in the past few minutes won the right to appeal against the extradition following a ruling by the UK’s High Court.

Today was a big one in Assange’s ongoing legal battle and his wife Stella Assange told the BBC in the past few hours that it was a “decisive” day.

The decision means Assange will be able to challenge U.S. assurances over how his prospective trial would be conducted and whether his right to free speech would be infringed, according to the BBC, which said his lawyers hugged after the ruling.

Assange has spent the past five years in a prison in London while awaiting the extradition hearing. At a briefing last week, Stella Assange and supporters pleaded passionately over his innocence.

Today’s ruling means the Australian-born journalist will not yet...