A few weeks ago Jake hit you all with the news that the new CROW remake had hit a snag in the form of a lawsuit between Relativity Media and The Weinstein Company (Thank god!). Now I know you want on update on this shite and let me tell you, things aren’t pretty.
According to Variety, Relativity Media isn’t going down without a fight. After TWC filed a lawsuit against Relativity over rights to the remake of “The Crow” the studio turned around and accused the Weinstein Co. of intentionally masking its financial problems in order to induce Relativity to finance the TWC tuner NINE. Damn… now they’re tying in that crap flick NINE to THE CROW remake? This think just keeps getting worse and worse…
Relativity’s response, which seeks more than $20 million, stems from TWC’s injunction filed last month in which the company sought to halt Relativity from selling distribution rights to anyone but TWC. In response Realtivity is claiming that TWC’s “mishandling” of the co-financed B.O. disappointment “Nine” two years ago is reason enough to shop “The Crow” elsewhere.
Apparently Relativity claims “TWC’s unilateral, ill-founded decision regarding the film’s release directly resulted in the movie ‘Nine’ being a commercial disaster. Based on the information available to it, Relativity does not believe that TWC has the ability to meet ($70 million in P&A) obligations … and Relativity is under no obligation to allow TWC to ruin let another movie.”
Man this is a mess. All this legal hooplah and now this NINE situation thrown in? Hell all I can hope for is this halts THE CROW remake for a long while, if not forever. Hey a guy can dream right? As always we’ll be keeping a close eye on this situation till the end and will update you every step of the way.
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