Is Michael Moore tries to send a message to voters Academy?
Just in time for Oscar season of fierce campaigning and perhaps hoping to put a dent in their chances of taking home the best film, the filmmaker has filed a lawsuit instigated against Harvey and Bob Weinstein, accusing the producers of the speech of the King of screwing over $ 2.7 million in profits from their successful 2004 documentary Fahrenheit 9 / 11.
This is the legal dustup critiically acclaimed film stop in their tracks?
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"This is the terrible moment for Harvey, now it is back in a big way", famous Oscar prognosticator Tom O'Neil, editor of GoldDerby.com, told E! News. "It's the warrior Oscar who fought his way back after the break with Disney, and now he is back and will probably win his first Oscar for best film since it was out of their own. "
For breach of contract complaint filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday (read the court docs here), claimed Moore brothers and a subsidiary called Adventure Group Scholarship committed "financial fraud" using accounting difficult to ride on clean boxes was paid to the director for his statement on the Bush administration, which reported $ 222 million worldwide.
Among the allegations of Moore: The Weinstein did not comply with an agreement to share all revenues from worldwide sales of 50 percent, and the irregular accounting practices secretly removed $ 2.5 million of revenue in the interest held by Icon Entertainment International, and charged one percent 7.5 "charge back" the costs of advertising that they are forbidden to do.
Just in time for Oscar season of fierce campaigning and perhaps hoping to put a dent in their chances of taking home the best film, the filmmaker has filed a lawsuit instigated against Harvey and Bob Weinstein, accusing the producers of the speech of the King of screwing over $ 2.7 million in profits from their successful 2004 documentary Fahrenheit 9 / 11.
This is the legal dustup critiically acclaimed film stop in their tracks?
PLUS: Five nastiest campaigns Oscar
"This is the terrible moment for Harvey, now it is back in a big way", famous Oscar prognosticator Tom O'Neil, editor of GoldDerby.com, told E! News. "It's the warrior Oscar who fought his way back after the break with Disney, and now he is back and will probably win his first Oscar for best film since it was out of their own. "
For breach of contract complaint filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday (read the court docs here), claimed Moore brothers and a subsidiary called Adventure Group Scholarship committed "financial fraud" using accounting difficult to ride on clean boxes was paid to the director for his statement on the Bush administration, which reported $ 222 million worldwide.
Among the allegations of Moore: The Weinstein did not comply with an agreement to share all revenues from worldwide sales of 50 percent, and the irregular accounting practices secretly removed $ 2.5 million of revenue in the interest held by Icon Entertainment International, and charged one percent 7.5 "charge back" the costs of advertising that they are forbidden to do.
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