Law360, Los Angeles (February 06, 2013, 8:22 PM ET) -- A New York state judge on Tuesday dismissed a movie financier from a $50 million suit over The Weinstein Co. LLC's “Escape From Planet Earth,” saying the film's director hadn’t shown the company had interfered with a profit-allocation contract.
Judge Barbara J. Jaffee dismissed director Tony Leech’s motion for a declaratory judgment on his claims that a compensation contract for the film states Leech, producer Brian Inerfeld and Protocol Pictures should get first dibs on the box office profits instead of financier JTM Escape Co. Ltd.,...
Financier Gets Out Of $50M 'Escape From Planet Earth' Suit
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