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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on October 6, 2009 under Documentary, Legal | 
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Regina Kimbell filed a $5 million lawsuit in Los Angeles’ District Court this week claiming that actor/comedian Chris Rock stole her idea for his upcoming documentary ‘Good Hair’ about African-American hairstyles.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on September 28, 2009 under Legal | Comments are off for this article
Film director Roman Polanski was arrested late Saturday as he arrived at the Zurich airport in Switzerland for the Zurich Film Festival. Polanski was arrested on a 31 year old U.S. arrest warrant, paving the way for his possible extradition to the United States.
The Polish-born director fled the United States in 1978, a year after pleading guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl. The victim in the case, Samantha Geimer, has since publicly identified herself and expressed forgiveness for Mr. Polanski.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on September 26, 2009 under Legal, drama | Comments are off for this article
A federal judge has dismissed a breach-of-contract case filed by the Weinstein Co. against the producers of “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire,” ruling that TWC’s lawsuit failed to state a valid legal claim that it was entitled to distribute the award-winning movie.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on September 14, 2009 under Film Festival, Legal, People | Comments are off for this article
Gerald Green and Patricia Green, Los Angeles-area film executives, were found guilty late last Friday of conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and money laundering laws of the United States, as well as substantive violations of the FCPA and U.S. money laundering laws in relation to a sophisticated bribery scheme that enabled the defendants to obtain a series of Thai government contracts, including valuable contracts to manage and operate Thailand’s yearly film festival, announced Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Lanny A. Breuer and Acting U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California George S. Cardona.
Patricia Green was also found guilty of falsely subscribing U.S. income tax returns in connection with this scheme. The Greens were found guilty by a federal jury in the Central District of California on Friday, Sept. 11, 2009, after a two-and-a-half week trial.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on May 18, 2009 under Faith-based, Foreign Film, Legal | Comments are off for this article
Screenwriter Benedict Fitzgerald has settled his lawsuit against Mel Gibson over “The Passion of the Christ” weeks before the trial was scheduled to start on June 3.
Fitzgerald sued Gibson and several companies for $10 million claiming that the budget for the film was understated. Fitzgerald also claimed that Gibson spent thousands of dollars on expenses and told him that he would not receive any money from the film. Several other claims had been earlier thrown out.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on May 17, 2009 under Documentary, Legal, Television | Comments are off for this article
“Farrah’s Story,” the documentary that shows Farrah Fawcett’s battle against cancer, was NBC’s most-watched program in its Friday night time slot in more than a year, excluding the Olympics, according to preliminary ratings released Saturday. The doc drew an estimated 8.9 million viewers, NBC said. Fawcett, 62, was diagnosed in 2006 with anal cancer that has spread to her liver.
In related news, Craig Nevius, one of the producers on the documentary is suing the actress, Ryan O’Neal, and good friend Alana Stewart — claiming that all three physically threatened and “otherwise blocked him from any role in the documentary.”
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on April 22, 2009 under Documentary, Legal | Comments are off for this article
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael S. Mink denied rapper Lil Wayne’s request for a preliminary injunction this week to block the release of QD3 Entertainment’s documentary “The Carter.” The Carter is a documentary about Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. aka Lil’ Wayne.
Lil Wayne sued QD3, Quincy Jones III and Digerati Holdings last month, alleging that he was not allowed to exercise his right of approval over the contents of the film, which premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on April 17, 2009 under Documentary, Legal | Comments are off for this article
Documentary filmmaker, Republican John Ziegler, was arrested placed in handcuffs at the USC Journalism School the other night where Katie Couric was being honored at the Walter Cronkite Awards Dinner. So many questions?? [via]
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on April 2, 2009 under Documentary, Film Festival, Legal | Comments are off for this article
Rapper Lil Wayne filed a lawsuit Wednesday against film production companies Digerati Holdings and QD3 Entertainment over a “scandalous portrayal” of him in the 2009 Sundance Film Festival documentary film “The Carter.” The lawsuit also includes Quincy Jones’ son, Quincy Delight Jones III as one of the defendants.
The lawsuit charges that the company failed as promised to give Lil Wayne approval over the final cut. And instead presented an attempted scandalous “documentary” at Sundance. Interestingly, the lawsuit include some reference to Bernie Maddoff. [via: Radaronline]
The Carter is a documentary about Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. aka Lil’ Wayne. An internationally known rapper, his most recent album went platinum in a week, and he just might be the voice of his generation. But this ain’t no VH1 rock doc. Rather, it is an intoxicating, cinematic journey into the thoughts and world of an extremely complicated man whose creative force is something to behold. He never stops recording. He has a portable studio that he carries around in a black bag, and it allows him to lay down a track anytime anywhere. It is his pressure valve and makes him a refreshing anomaly in a sea of manufactured prefab “”singers.”" His work is his own: unfiltered, uncensored, raw, and powerful. Director Adam Bhala Lough, whose fiction film Weapons premiered in competition at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, has unbelievable access to Lil’ Wayne’s public and private lives. He captures remarkably candid moments, such as Lil’ Wayne recounting his first sexual experience, as well as him talking openly about his drug habits. Following him all over the country and to Amsterdam, Lough mixes fly-on-the-wall footage of Lil’ Wayne in his hotel room and on his bus with artfully composed concert footage. The result is a shockingly intimate portrait of one of the most inspired (and eccentric) musicians of modern America. [via: Sundance Film Festival]
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on March 27, 2009 under Legal, drama | Comments are off for this article
As if the Weinstein Company doesn’t have enough going on, now comes word that the “Nowhere Boy,” the planned film on John Lennon’s early life set for release in 2010, is facing legal issues over the book on which the movie is based.
The Weinstein Co.-distributed film, which is being directed by Sam Taylor-Wood and stars Kristin Scott Thomas and Aaron Johnson, is said to be based on the biography “Imagine This: Growing Up With My Brother John Lennon,” written by his sister, Julia Baird published in 2007
However, way much earlier, in the late 1980’s, Julia Baird collaborated with Geoffrey Giuliano on another book “John Lennon, My Brother.”
Giuliano has accused Baird of basing her biography on his previous research into Lennon’s life and is now claiming he’s entitled to 50% of her earnings from the picture.
“More than half the material in the book is a result of my research,” Guliano told the website. “Additional information in ‘Imagine This’ was uncovered by me in my original research. I was the person who conceptualised the original book.”
via: Hollywood Reporter and Contact Music