Mike Tyson

  • ‘Hangover’ Stars Earn Hefty Raise for WB’s Sequel

    Director-producer Todd Phillips will receive around $10 million against 10 percent of the film’s first dollar gross

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  • New Paparazzi Breed: More Aggressive, Connected, and Foreign

    Even veteran paps are faced with a business that’s become “survival of the fittest”

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  • Academy: ‘Tyson’ Extortion Charge Is False

    AMPAS has investigated James Toback’s charge that “extortion” kept his Mike Tyson doc off the shortlist, and found it groundless.

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  • Tyson Scores TKO in Battle With Paparazzo

    Heavyweight champ accused of slugging photographer at LAX.

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  • ‘Tyson’ Director James Toback: Grilled

    “I had no idea that he was carrying so much fear around with him.”

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    Jordan Riefe
    ‘Tyson’ Director James Toback: Grilled

  • A Sad Coda to the ‘Tyson’ Movie

    The news this week that Mike Tyson’s 4-year-old daughter Exodus died in a sudden home accident marks a horrible personal tragedy for the victim’s family. They deserve the right to mourn in private. However, Exodus’ death signals a new challenge for the retired boxer that’s immediately visible to the public, and unavoidably ripe for psychological…

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    Eric Kohn

  • Mike Tyson Explains Himself

    It’s hard to resist the primeval lure of “Tyson,” a documentary in which Mike Tyson candidly revisits his exclamation point of a life. Why are we so drawn to the former prizefighter, despite ourselves? Maybe it’s because Tyson’s devastation of his opponents was so disconcertingly beautiful. It gave us the same troubling fascination we have…

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    Desson Thomson