Filmmaker Carl Erik Rinsch gambled a chunk of his production budget on shares, then bought a fleet of Rolls-Royces. Now he says the streaming giant owes him.
After suitors flocked to a sci-fi project by Carl Rinsch, director of a single movie, the winner handed over money and control. They’re still fighting. Near.
The project with Rinsch has turned into a costly fiasco, a microcosm of the era of profligate spending that Hollywood studios now are scrambling to end. Netflix burned more than $55 million on Rinsch s show and gave him near-total budgetary and creative latitude but never received a single finished episode.
The death of troubled eye surgeon Mark Sawusch in his Malibu oceanfront house exposes how a Fresno hairstylist and Hollywood actor took over his home, dropped acid with him and drained his fortune.