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Scarlett Johansson sues Disney over ‘Black Widow’ Yahoo Movies Ethan Alter July 29, 2021, 1:43 PM Scarlett Johansson may have retired as the Avengers's resident Black Widow and passed the torch to Florence Pugh, but it appears that the actress still has some unfinished business with Marvel Entertainment and its parent company, Walt Disney. As originally reported in the Wall Street Journal, the actress — who played Natasha Romanoff over a 10-year period from 2010's Iron Man 2 to the Black Widow solo adventure that opened in July after a year-long delay — has filed a breach of contract lawsuit against her former employers. At issue is the way that Disney ultimately chose to release the movie. Originally scheduled to open exclusively in theaters in May 2020, Black Widow was repeatedly delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Eventually, the studio made the decision to pursue a hybrid release, opening the massively-budgeted movie in multiplexes the same day it premiered on the Disney+ streaming as a Premier Access title. (Premier Access films are available to Disney+ subscribers for an extra $29.99 surchage.) According to the lawsuit that Johansson filed on Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, that hybrid release plan breached her original contract with Marvel Entertainment and Disney, which reportedly guaranteed an exclusive theatrical release. Furthermore, her salary for the film would be based largely on how it performed at the box office. Although Black Widowgrossed more than $200 million worldwide during its opening weekend — including $80 million at the U.S. theatrical box office, and $60 million via Disney+ — the film experienced a significant drop-off in subsequent weeks. "Disney intentionally induced Marvel’s breach of the agreement, without justification, in order to prevent Ms. Johansson from realizing the full benefit of her bargain with Marvel," the lawsuit states. Sources told the Journal that the actress could stand to lose upwards of $50 million in bonuses over the move. (Requests for comment from Walt Disney were not returned at press time.) As the Wall Street Journal notes, Johansson's lawsuit could be the opening salvo in a looming battle between the creative and business sides of the industry as studios explore other release models beyond theatrical exclusivity. (Warner Bros., for example, is jointly releasing all of this year's slate simultaneously in studios and on HBO Max, a movie that has infuriated many filmmakers and stars.) "This will surely not be the last case where Hollywood talent stands up to Disney and makes it clear that, whatever the company may pretend, it has a legal obligation to honor its contracts," John Berlinski, an attorney at Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP who represents Ms. Johansson, told the newspaper. Notably, Marvel's next two movies, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and Eternals, will open only in theaters on Sept. 3 and Nov. 5 respectively. (Spider-Man: No Way Home, which is made in collaboration with Sony Pictures, will also be a theatrical exclusive when it arrives on Dec. 17.) But with the continued success of Marvel Cinematic Universe streaming shows like WandaVision and Loki, the future of the Marvel multiverse will inevitably encompass screens of all sizes. Black Widow is currently playing in theaters and streaming on Disney+. | |
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| 07-29-21 02:48pm - 1148 days | #2 | |
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Disney, the Mouse with a Heart of Gold (or maybe solid stone), fires back at Scarlett Johansson, asking why should be unhappy with her salary, because actors are only supposed to act, not worry about their salary. Also, Scarlett should be worrying about the Covid epidemic, instead of worrying about her salary. Does Scarlett have her heart in the right place? Why does she want more money from Disney, which wants to keep its money to pay the executive bonuses their execs deserve? Thank God for lawyers, who will fight to keep the peace between these actors and Disney, the studio that employs them. ------ ------ Jul 29, 2021 2:16pm PT Disney Fires Back at Scarlett Johansson, Calls ‘Black Widow’ Lawsuit ‘Sad and Distressing’ The Walt Disney Company clapped back at “Black Widow” star Scarlett Johansson, slamming the actress’s breach of contract lawsuit for showing “callous disregard for the horrific and prolonged global effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.” In a court filing on Thursday, Johansson said that Disney’s decision to send the Marvel movie to Disney Plus at the same time it was released in theaters cost her millions of dollars in backend compensation. Those bonuses were tied to hitting box office benchmarks that “Black Widow” likely won’t achieve. Disney is countering that it complied with the terms of Johansson’s deal to star in the Avengers spinoff film. “There is no merit whatsoever to this filing,” Disney said in an unusually fiery statement. “The lawsuit is especially sad and distressing in its callous disregard for the horrific and prolonged global effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.” The company went on to state that the star has already received $20 million for her work and argued that “…the release of Black Widow on Disney+ with Premier Access has significantly enhanced her ability to earn additional compensation on top of the $20M she has received to date.” Disney did not provide any information about whether or not Johansson’s pact was renegotiated so that she could share in streaming rental revenue. In March, Disney announced that “Black Widow” and several of its 2021 films such as “Cruella” and “Jungle Cruise” would premiere on the studio’s subscription-based streaming service at the same time they hit theaters. Those films were made available for a $30 rental fee to Disney Plus subscribers. The studio positioned the move as a concession to the damage COVID-19 had inflicted on the theatrical distribution landscape. On July 9, “Black Widow” set a pandemic-era box office record with a $80 million in North America. It earned an additional $78 million overseas and $60 million on Disney Plus. Despite those impressive numbers, ticket sales steeply declined in subsequent weeks and the film’s gross currently stands at $319 million globally. Given that many Marvel movies top $1 billion at the worldwide box office, “Black Widow” is on pace to become one of the company’s lowest-grossing releases. “It’s no secret that Disney is releasing films like Black Widow directly onto Disney Plus to increase subscribers and thereby boost the company’s stock price – and that it’s hiding behind Covid-19 as a pretext to do so,” John Berlinski, an attorney for Johansson, said in a statement to Variety. “But ignoring the contracts of the artists responsible for the success of its films in furtherance of this short-sighted strategy violates their rights and we look forward to proving as much in court. This will surely not be the last case where Hollywood talent stands up to Disney and makes it clear that, whatever the company may pretend, it has a legal obligation to honor its contracts.” As Berlinski suggests, Johansson’s lawsuit could impact the way that movie stars are compensated in the streaming era and may inspire a wave of fresh legal action by actors upset that their films are not exclusively debuting in theaters. | |
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| 07-30-21 09:47am - 1147 days | #3 | |
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My question: why is the guy who did the actual killing let off with such a lenient sentence? An innocent girl was sentenced to prison for 26 years. But the real murderer was only sentenced to 16 years. And the Italian courts ruled that the murderer could complete his term by doing community service. Was the murderer doing a public service by killing an innocent girl? What the fuck is the Italian court thinking? ------ ------ Amanda Knox Slams Matt Damon’s ‘Stillwater’ as ‘Rip Off’ of Her Life Story Knox was wrongly convicted in the murder of her roommate and acquitted in 2013 Samson Amore | July 29, 2021 @ 5:05 PM In an essay Thursday, Amanda Knox called out the upcoming Matt Damon-led crime drama “Stillwater” — a fictional story similar to Knox’s own harrowing experience being wrongly convicted of the 2007 murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher, and her six-year-long legal battel to prove her innocence — for using her life story as inspiration without her consent and in a way she argues is a slander. Knox then used the matter as a jumping off point for a wide ranging discussion of sexism, erasure of victims from their own stories, and the often abusive and unfair treatment she’s received in the press and popular culture since she was first became a public figure following her arrest. The 34-year-old lambasted the film and its director Tom McCarthy in a detailed Twitter thread and Medium article published Thursday afternoon, questioning why her unfortunate experience as the victim of a gross miscarriage of justice overseas is still fodder for Hollywood more than a decade later. Focus Features, which produced “Stillwater,” declined to comment. Knox did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment. “This new film by director Tom McCarthy, starring Matt Damon, is ‘loosely based’ or ‘directly inspired by’ the ‘Amanda Knox saga,’ as Vanity Fair put it in a for-profit article promoting a for-profit film, neither of which I am affiliated with,” Knox wrote. “I want to pause right here on that phrase: “the Amanda Knox saga.” What does that refer to? Does it refer to anything I did? No. It refers to the events that resulted from the murder of Meredith Kercher by a burglar named Rudy Guede.” Knox continued, “in those four years of wrongful imprisonment and 8 years of trial, I had near-zero agency. Everyone else in that ‘saga’ had more influence over the course of events than I did. The erroneous focus on me by the Italian authorities led to an erroneous focus on me by the press, which shaped how I was presented to the world. In prison, I had no control over my public image, no voice in my story.” McCarthy told Vanity Fair his goal with “Stillwater” was to “take this piece of the story—an American woman studying abroad involved in some kind of sensational crime and she ends up in jail—and fictionalize everything around it.” In a separate interview with Yahoo, McCarthy said, “all I wanted was that bit of the story – American woman, student rather even, in jail for a crime she may have or may not have committed. Beyond that, there is not really much comparison that I know of to the Amanda Knox story.” To be clear, there is no ambiguity about Knox’s case. She did not commit the crime she was falsely accused of. Knox also called out Deadline reviewer Pete Hammond directly in her note; she was angry that Hammond’s review of “Stillwater” described her as “the American convicted in an Italian court of murdering her roommate.” As Knox noted, she was convicted but it is inaccurate to describe her case that way, since she didn’t kill Kercher and was exonerated by Italy’s highest court in 2013. “Don’t do what Pete Hammond did when reviewing Stillwater for Deadline, referring to me as a convicted murderer while conveniently leaving out my acquittal. I asked him to correct it. No response,” Knox said. Knox added that “Stillwater” is “by no means the first thing to rip off my story without my consent at the expense of my reputation,” and pleaded with McCarthy and other directors to stop using her name as the impetus for telling grisly true-crime stories centered around women. “If you’re going to ‘leave the Amanda Knox case behind,’ and ‘fictionalize everything around it,’ maybe don’t use my name to promote it,” Knox said. “You’re not leaving the Amanda Knox case behind very well if every single review mentions me. You’re not leaving the Amanda Knox case behind when my face appears on profiles and articles about the film.” “Stillwater” isn’t a direct representation of Knox’s case, but it’s very similar. Matt Damon plays Bill, a father who travels from Oaklahoma to France to help his daughter Allison get out of a murder charge that she says she’s innocent of. Here’s a refresher on Knox’s case: She was a 20-year-old American exchange student living in an apartment in the college town of Perugia, Italy, with several roommates including Kercher, an exchange student from the U.K., and was eventually wrongfully convicted of Kercher’s murder in 2007. After failing to get in contact with Kercher for roughly a day, Knox alerted her parents to call the authorities as she suspected Kercher was in trouble and no one in the apartment could successfully open Kercher’s locked bedroom door. Kercher was found dead in the bedroom of stab wounds and blood loss after a violent break-in. The case was subsequently pinned on Knox despite no substantial evidence. Knox became an immediate suspect along with her boyfriend at the time, Raffaele Sollecito, despite having spent the night at his home while Kercher was murdered and voluntarily going to the Italian police station. In a true miscarriage of justice, Italian authorities zeroed in on Knox and refused to adequately investigate other actual suspects like Guede for years. Knox was arrested and imprisoned for four years and was convicted by Italian courts of Kercher’s murder (and charges of faking a break-in, defamation, sexual violence, which amounted to a 26 year sentence). Knox was then acquitted, convicted again and finally fully acquitted for the last time by the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation in 2013. After she was released Knox returned to the U.S., so her acquittal technically happened in abstentia. Guede was eventually convicted of killing Kercher; he was a known burglar around Italy and was arrested once his bloodstained fingerprints were found on Kercher’s belongings. Guede was sentenced to a 16-year prison sentence, though an Italian court ruled in 2016 the killer could complete the term by doing community service. Read Knox’s full remarks on Medium here or on Twitter here. 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| 07-30-21 02:02pm - 1147 days | #4 | |
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Jul 30, 2021 1:47pm PT Gerard Butler Sues for $10 Million in Profits From ‘Olympus Has Fallen’ Gerard Butler filed a lawsuit on Friday alleging he is owed at least $10 million in backend compensation for the 2013 action film “Olympus Has Fallen.” Butler sued Nu Image/Millennium Films, claiming that the producer had understated domestic and foreign receipts by tens of millions of dollars and had failed to report $8 million that went to its own executives. The lawsuit comes a day after Scarlett Johansson filed a blockbuster compensation lawsuit against the Walt Disney Co., claiming that the simultaneous release of “Black Widow” on Disney Plus cut into her box office participation. Butler’s suit is a more traditional “Hollywood accounting” case. Butler starred as Mike Banning, a Secret Service agent who has to rescue the president from hostage-takers. The film grossed $170 million worldwide, and spawned two successful sequels, “London Has Fallen” and “Angel Has Fallen,” in which Butler reprised the role. “Producers have earned tens of millions of dollars from ‘Olympus,’ but refuse to pay Butler a penny of the grosses and profits promised to him in the parties’ agreement,” the lawsuit states. “Butler refuses to tolerate Defendants’ misrepresentations and other wrongful conduct. Butler worked with Defendants to create a highly successful movie franchise. He demands his fair share.” According to the suit, Butler’s contract entitled him to 10% of net profits, plus 6% of domestic adjusted gross receipts above $70 million and 12% of foreign adjusted gross receipts above $35 million. His production company was also entitled to 5% of net profits, and Butler was to receive certain bonuses for hitting box office thresholds. The suit alleges that Butler has received irregular accounting statements from the producer and that Butler has objected to the statements. According to the suit, Butler hired an auditor who found that domestic receipts were understated by $17.5 million, and producers’ receipts were understated by $12 million, including the $8 million that went to the executives. The suit also claims that the producers deducted the full cost of foreign publicity from foreign receipts, even though foreign distributors picked up half the cost. The suit also claims that Nu Image/Millennium instructed distributors to deduct certain expenses, such that receipts would be underreported. | |
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