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The most sensational fight of the year between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul is finally here. The bout has been making headlines ever since it was announced, with many critiquing the pairing between the 58-year-old legend and the 27-year-old controversial star. The match was postponed in July due to Tyson’s health scare.

During their weigh-ins, Tyson made headlines after he slapped Paul on stage. The young boxer reportedly shouted expletives at the veteran boxer and while it is not known why Tyson slapped Paul, many have speculated if it was staged to sensationalize the fight. However, Tyson is not a stranger to erratic behavior.

Many Claim Mike Tyson’s Slap To Jake Paul Might Have Been Staged Jake Paul and Mike Tyson | Credits: Instagram/JakePaul

Ever since the match between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul was announced, boxing pundits and fans have been questioning the legitimacy of the bout.

The holidays are upon us, so whether you looking for film-related gift ideas or simply want to pick up some of the finest the year had to offer in the category for yourself, we have a gift guide for you. Including must-have subscriptions, the best from The Criterion Collection and more home video picks, apparel, music, book picks, and more, dive in below.

Dietrich & von Sternberg in Hollywood

With her commanding screen presence, Marlene Dietrich was an early cinema force to be reckoned with. Taking far more control over her image that her colleagues, the German actress found a fruitful relationship with Josef von Sternberg in Hollywood. The handful of Paramount films they made together were feats of immaculate production design and powerful onscreen charisma, courtesy of Dietrich. The Criterion Collection’s beautiful box set is a gem, complete not only with sparkling restorations and special features, but a selection...

As a film student, I, like many before me, found myself caught under the mesmerizing spell of Russian auteur Andrei Tarkovsky soon after I watched the opening shot of his seminal Stalker in class. I rushed to find a copy and, sitting on my dorm room bed — laptop open, headphones blasting — I watched, mouth agape, as the sheer poeticism and beauty of his work washed over me. For some, Russian slow cinema is a sleep-inducing slog better left on the dusty shelves of film history. For others (myself included), it proves a rapturous experience through its challenges and subsequent rewards. Steeped in philosophy, dread, and beauty, Tarkovsky’s picture is a staple and lasting example of the medium’s particular powers. With each revisit, Stalker continually unfolds new layers to the attentive viewer: though it was released in 1979, essayists and scholars (not to mention teachers and students) are still having a field day.

Exclusive: Adam Cooper and Bill Collage are rewriting for New Regency and Ubisoft Assassin’s Creed, the live-action adaptation of the Ubisoft vidgame that is coming together as a vehicle for 12 Years A Slave star Michael Fassbender. Cooper and Collage have been on a roll of late. They most recently scripted the original draft of Exodus: Gods & Kings, with Steve Zaillian rewriting the biblical epic that Ridley Scott is directing with Christian Bale starring as Moses. They also scripted the George Washington pic The General for Noah helmer Darren Aronofsky and his Protozoa Pictures banner. That film is set at Red Granite. The scribes take on this high-profile job as they are adapting the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Devil In The Grove for producer Allison Shearmur at Lionsgate, and the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced earthquake movie Shake at Paramount. They also are working with Aronofsky and Protozoa on the epic The Maccabee for New Regency Television,...

Washington, Oct 2: White-collar criminals, convicted of fraud, embezzlement, tax violation, anti-trust and other business offenses, report no greater level of difficulty adjusting to prison than those in a general prison population, according to a new study.

The research from the University of Cincinnati found that when it comes to specific adjustment issues- problems with cell mates, feelings of safety and general difficulties, white-collar criminals actually report fewer problems than other prison populations.

Michael Benson, professor of criminal justice at Uc, said before entering prison, most white-collar criminals are.

Today sees an odd confluence of stories on Asghar Farhadi, his Academy Award-winner for Best Foreign Film, A Separation, and his follow-up, which will "center on a love story between a young Iranian woman and a North African man, and will begin filming within weeks," as the Afp reports. And while it'll be shot in France, Farhadi is insisting that "I love my country and I will not change it for anywhere in the world… I will never emigrate from Iran."

Meantime, the Center for Directors of Iranian Cinema and the High Council of Producers of Iranian Cinema had been planning a ceremony in Tehran, welcoming Farhadi back home, a gesture of appreciation. But as the AP reports, authorities called off the event, "even though the government had hailed his win as a triumph over a competitor from Israel."

For Salon, Rod Bastanmehr accompanied Payman Maadi, who plays Nadar, on...

[1] A lot of the reviews I've read of this fall's new series seem to keep returning to the same theme: television comedy is making a comeback. That's definitely the case in this edition of TV Bits, which includes news about the cancellation of NBC's much-hyped drama The Playboy Club, and new sitcoms for AMC and Fox. Hit the jump for more. Each fall season, there are a couple new series that get marketed extensively and still manage to flop. (Remember how hard it was to escape ads for My Generation last year? And then how quickly that series died?) This time around, that show seems to be The Playboy Club, which NBC has cancelled after just three episodes. The '60s-set drama, which starred Amber Heard as a recently hired Bunny, received disappointing ratings in each of its three outings and was little loved by critics. NBC will be replacing...

Exclusive: Just when we thought the trend of comedies based on blogs and Twitter feeds was cooling off, it’s back! Fox has tapped Ugly Betty creator Silvio Horta to develop a half-hour comedy based on the infamous blog Texts From Last Night. Happy Madison and Sony Pictures TV are producing. Fox has been high on the Web property. The network, Happy Madison and Sony TV first took a stab at developing a comedy based on the Web site two seasons ago with Steve Holland as the writer. Last season, it was redeveloped with different writers, Marc Abrams and Michael Benson. Now a new take will be written by Horta, who had been looking to branch out into half-hour comedies after creating 2 sci-fi dramas, The Chronicle and Jake 2.0 and a dramedy, ABC’s Ugly Betty. The user-generated Tfnl blog posts “regrettable,” often embarrassing text messages usually sent late at...

‘All My Children’ actress Rebecca Budig has confirmed to People Magazine that she’s engaged to boyfriend Michael Benson. This will be the third marriage for the 37-year-old star, who won the reality competition ‘Skating with the Stars’ last month. However, she admitted that they don’t have any official plans yet, but she thinks Benson is “an amazing man.” She added that they’re happy and enjoying their engagement for right now. Benson, who is a television marketing executive, proposed to Budig on Christmas Day. He gave her a ruby and an old European cut diamond in platinum and yellow gold. “It’s a really unique design and it’s really stunning,” she said of [...]...

Billy Miller admits it: He used to look down his nose at soap operas

"I think my mom watched them a little bit when I was a kid, but I was never super-familiar with any of them," the Arlington Lamar High School graduate says.

"Then I went to film school and my roommate would watch Passions every day. I just remember looking at him and asking, 'Really? You're a 220-pound dude watching Passions?'"

Little did Miller know that a future in daytime television awaited him. "Now that I'm looking back on it," the 30-year-old actor says, "I think I'm a little glad my roommate was watching that show."

Davetta Sherwood on lack of diversity at Y&R

“The experiences that I had with the lack of diversity, the lack of acknowledgment of the Winters family and just our ethnic background, was really disappointing,” she said. Sherwood said people on...

In addition to her victory on Skating with the Stars, actress Rebecca Budig now has another reason to celebrate: she's engaged! The All My Children star, 37, will tie the knot with beau Michael Benson, she confirms to People exclusively. "We don't have any wedding plans yet," Budig says. "He's an amazing man and we're just really happy."Benson, a television marketing executive, proposed on Christmas Day with a ruby and an old European cut diamond in platinum and yellow gold circa 1935 from Platt Boutique Jewelry. "It's a really unique design and it’s really stunning," says Budig, who met Benson nine months ago.

It looks like Bachelor Bob is getting beat to the altar. By his ex. Rebecca Budig—All My Children actress, Skating With the Stars winner and former wife to Bob Guiney of Bachelorette/Bachelor fame—got engaged over Christmas to her boyfriend, Michael Benson. "She hasn't broken the news to anyone but family members," a source close to the couple tells E! News. But why stop there, source? Now that you've let the cat out of the bag, how about some deets about the sparkler Budig received too? "She loved the ring and had actually seen it before Michael picked it out, and he didn't even know she wanted it," spills the insider. "It is very unique—platinum,...

The first hour of the final season of ABC's "Lost" has leaked online, and the reaction is not what industry insiders expected.

Though preview content for heavily serialized dramas such as "Lost" are typically and frantically consumed online by fans, the sixth season of the ABC hit has managed to build such an epic level of anticipation that many fans are doing the unthinkable: refusing to watch the leaks.

When the opening scene from the premiere popped up online after a fan promotion Friday, users of one popular social network site voted to "bury" the video.

"Why spoil it now?" wrote one fan with the moniker MyWhiteNoise. "I'd rather watch it in hi-def and surround sound than ruin the surprise and watch some (low-quality) video."

To TV executives, such statements are like something from an alternative universe, the polar-bear opposite of how young, Web-savvy viewers typically respond to content. Fans...

PromaxBDA president Jonathan Block-Verk has been given the additional title of CEO at the marketing association.

Block-Verk's contract was not up for renewal until December, but the PromaxBDA board of directors decided to go ahead with the promotion as "a definitive show of our confidence in his vision and leadership," chairman Michael Benson said.

Block-Verk became PromaxBDA president in 2007.

John Sayles, known for both writing and directing films like “Silver City”, “Sunshine State” and “Lone Star”, has been tapped to pen the small-screen HBO series adaptation, based on the best-selling autobiography “Scar Tissue” by Anthony Kiedis, frontman of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. Marc Abrams will be producing along with his Catapault 360 partner Michael Benson. “John writes from a real human place, and has already tapped into the relationship between young Anthony and his dad,” Abrams told Variety.com when Sayles’ confirmation was announced. The series, tentatively titled either “Scar” or “Scar Tissue”, will detail the early years of Kiedis and his father Blackie Dammett, a [...]...

HBO is picking up a new series based on the life of Anthony Kiedis and has hired "The Spiderwick Chronicles" writer John Sayles to handle the project. Set as a drama, it will be centered on the early life of the Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman in 1970s West Hollywood and Los Angeles.

Having "Scar Tissue" as its working title, the series chronicles the childhood of Kiedis who lived with his mother in Grand Rapids, Michigan before moving to L.A. to live with his father when he was eight.

Kiedis' father, known as Spider, was dealing drugs for living in Sunset Strips and allegedly was supplying rock stars such as The Who and Led Zeppelin. All the while, hoping to get into the show business.

Kiedis is involved in the project and so is his father. Marc Abrams and Michael Benson from Catapult 360 said that Sayles has been in...

Debuted November 20 during the airing of "Grey's Anatomy" is the promo video of "Lost" that features the new single from The Fray. The video that is produced by ABC and Epic Records combines exclusive scenes from the upcoming fifth season of the drama thriller series plus the band's live performance footage on "You Found Me".

Rooting from their successful debut album "How to Save a Life" (2005), The Fray will drop their self-titled sophomore effort on February 3, 2009 with "You Found Me" as the lead single. "The record definitely has some isolation and loneliness rolled into the fabric of the sound and lyrics," frontman Isaac Slade explains. "We'd been gone from our family and friends for more time than we'd been home. You start to lose sight of priorities and lose sight of balance and you don't really have the luxury of a routine. When that happens, naturally it comes out in the music.

HBO and Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis are developing a series based on the singer’s unconventional, rock 'n' roll childhood. Kiedis has partnered with Catapult 360 partners Marc Abrams and Michael Benson to create the series, tentatively titled Scar Tissue. Abrams and Benson are scouting for a writer to pen the script, which will center on Kiedis' relationship with his father, Spider, who sold drugs and mingled with rock stars on the Sunset Strip, all while aspiring to get into showbiz. The show will begin with young Kiedis moving from Grand Rapids, Michigan, to West Hollywood to live with his dad. But Kiedis' father, having been raised in a tyrannical household, decided to go to the other extreme. The show will also center on West Hollywood and Los Angeles in the early 1970s, including the rock stars encountered by Kiedis and his father (who, according to rumors, was...

"Zip" is back in contention at NBC.

NBC has handed out a cast-contingent pilot order to the Universal Media Studios/Reveille project, which was originally developed last season when it was picked up by the network as a pilot directed by Dan Attias and starring Rob Huebel.

Written by Mark Rizzo, Marc Abrams and Michael Benson, "Zip" revolves around "have nots" living in a ZIP code full of "haves."

NBC's previous regime passed on the pilot in May. When Reveille's Ben Silverman joined the network as co-chairman in June, he put the project back in development.

Rizzo, Abrams and Benson penned a new script, which is getting a cast-contingent green light. Richard Shepard is set to direct the new pilot, which is exec produced by Abrams and Benson. Rizzo is serving as supervising producer.

"Zip" is one of two Reveille/UMS comedy pilots at NBC, along with "Kath & Kim," which also is casting.

Reveille Llc. is partnering with the writer-producer team of Marc Abrams and Michael Benson, a first for the independent studio-distributor behind NBC's The Office. Abrams and Benson, who are coming off co-executive producer roles on HBO's Entourage, have formed Catapult Llc. with the intent of introducing a slate of series in varying genres, some of which they themselves will write. Reveille has a first-look deal with Catapult, which has already sparked a bidding war among multiple broadcasters for the drama Ghosts. Abrams and Benson, who also served as co-executive producers and head writers on Fox's The Bernie Mac Show, are also gearing up to pitch their first comedy project since Entourage.