Los Angeles, July 1 -- Filmmaker Carl Rinsch, best known for directing Keanu Reeves starrer '47 Ronin', has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison - half of the government's recommended sentence after Judge Jed Rakoff considered evidence of his mental health issues from Reeves and other witnesses, reported Variety.

In December last year, a jury convicted Rinsch of wire fraud and money laundering charges after prosecutors stated that he defrauded Netflix out of roughly USD 11 million during production of the never-completed sci-fi series 'White Horse', also known as 'Conquest'.

Instead of completing the project with the funds, the filmmaker gambled much of the money in the cryptocurrency market before spending millions more on lux...