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Legendary filmmaker Alex Gibney has been quietly finishing a new HBO documentary about Elon Musk, but legal experts have concerns that "deep-pocketed pushback" could stall the project — and others, according to a new report from Status.

Brian Lowry, media columnist and critic, described how Musk has threatened to drag Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) into court after the lawmaker's "assertion that the USAID cuts he engineered while overseeing DOGE for the Trump administration will cause millions of deaths." And with Academy Award-winning Gibney's upcoming documentary, executives could get cold feet.

"Gibney, the director behind memorable examinations of figures like Julian Assange, Theranos’ Elizabeth Holmes, and Steve Jobs, declined an interview request, but a spokesperson confirmed he’s currently in postproduction on the film, which Bleecker Street agreed to distribute theatrically last year, before the project lands on the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned network," Lowry wrote....

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. brought in more than $10 million last year across various sources — from a health organization and law firm campaigning against vaccines to a right-wing college and a conservative book publisher — according to his latest public financial disclosure.

Kennedy, who is running for president as an independent, earned more than $400,000 each from conservative book publisher, Skyhorse Publishing, and JW Howard Attorneys, which litigated more than 40 cases against vaccine mandates, according to his public personal financial disclosure, which the Federal Election Commission released Monday afternoon and required of all presidential candidates.

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - John Oliver, the British comedian whose career took off as the nonchalant news correspondent on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," will debut his new HBO series "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" on April 27, the network said on Wednesday.

The makers of College Humor have made a hilarious video that actually makes a totally great and serious point: HBO is great at showing women's breasts and terrible at showing men's genitals.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor James Gandolfini, best known for his Emmy-winning portrayal of a conflicted New Jersey mob boss in the acclaimed HBO cable television series "The Sopranos," has died while vacationing in Rome, the network said on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON — Eddie Murphy is to star in a television film under development by HBO about Washington's colorful and controversial former mayor Marion Barry, the US cable channel said Tuesday.