This is a wild story. 47 Ronin director Carl Rinsch has been arrested for straight up (allegedly) stealing $11 million from big dumb Netflix for a show he never made. In a move that proves just how little thought goes into the millions and millions these completely idiotic streaming companies with fat pockets will spend….they handed Rinsch millions of dollars AND final cut for some show called Conquest.
The show was supposed to be “a sci fi film set in a dystopian future where Sao Paulo serves as a shelter for refugees” and these geniuses gave numb-nuts a director with ONE notable film on his resume the goddamn Golden Corral buffet of trust.
This alleged dumb shit could spend THE REST OF HIS LIFE in jail for it, too.
First off, the laundry list of charges he’s facing:
- 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
- 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
That’s a lot of years in the clink-clink. What did he spend it on? Here comes laundry list #2, according to Deadline:
- To speculate on cryptocurrency, and on personal expenses and luxury items, including approximately $1,787,000
- On credit card bills; approximately $1,073,000
- On lawyers to sue Streaming Company-1 for even more money, and for lawyers related to his divorce
- Approximately $395,000 to stay at the Four Seasons hotel and at various luxury rental properties
- Approximately $3,787,000 on furniture and antiques,
- Including approximately $638,000 to purchase two mattresses and approximately $295,000 on luxury bedding and linens
- Approximately $2,417,000 to purchase five Rolls-Royces and one Ferrari
- Approximately $652,000 on watches and clothing.
Bro is about to go from $900K sleeping situation to a $27 cot and a protein loaf. Eh, he’ll probably be in rich dude jail where the bedding situation is somewhere in between and more comfortable than my 12 year old queen size from Amazon. I don’t know who is dumber in this situation…..Netflix or 47 Ronin guy. But between this proof of complete and total buffoonery from the studio when it comes to content creation and the recent news of studios casting movies based on actor Instagram follower counts….we’re all the losers here. The entertainment industry is worse off than we thought. But let’s end this on a high note! Here’s 10 underrated horror movies from the 2000s: