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Dec 10, 2013 16:56:30 GMT -5
Post by will on Dec 10, 2013 16:56:30 GMT -5
Maybe this has more to do with Wolf of Wall Street, but I'll put it in here:
www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/hollywood-docket-martin-scorsese-silence-664448
On December 18, one week before Martin Scorsese's Wolf of Wall Street hits theaters, attorneys for the director are scheduled to appear in a L.A. courtroom in an effort to save part of his financial take from the film.
The dispute involves Cecchi Gori Pictures, which has sued Scorsese for failure to live up to an agreement to direct Silence, based on an award-winning Japanese novel by Shusaku Endo about the persecution of a Jesuit missionary in 17th Century Japan. The producer says Scorsese agreed to do that in 1990, and throughout the years, put other film projects first. The parties have come to agreements in the past, and in the latest lawsuit, Cecchi Gori demanded money from Scorsese's recent work, including Hugo and The Wolf of Wall Street.
All that said, this past spring, Scorsese committed to finally working on Silence, and the financing has been coming together. After Scorsese's lawyers filed papers in an effort to undercut Cecchi Gori's legal claims of breach of contract and fraud, the parties suspended the proceedings and informed the court they were working on a settlement.
With the clock ticking on a hearing in the dispute, attorneys for Cecchi Gori finally responded to the director's attempts to strip away some of its claims. Here's the opposition to the demurrer and the argument that the film company sufficiently alleged the ways it had suffered damages from Scorsese's wait to direct Silence.
Don't read too much into it, Cecchi Gori CEO Niels Juul cautions.
"It's a formality and we're moving towards a larger settlement," Juul tells The Hollywood Reporter. "Silence is definitely on track. We have been given dates to start production, and everything is fully financed and pre-sold."
Alluding to the need to have the settlement cover Scorsese's past film work, Juul adds, "Nothing is ever simple in Hollywood."
The dispute involves Cecchi Gori Pictures, which has sued Scorsese for failure to live up to an agreement to direct Silence, based on an award-winning Japanese novel by Shusaku Endo about the persecution of a Jesuit missionary in 17th Century Japan. The producer says Scorsese agreed to do that in 1990, and throughout the years, put other film projects first. The parties have come to agreements in the past, and in the latest lawsuit, Cecchi Gori demanded money from Scorsese's recent work, including Hugo and The Wolf of Wall Street.
All that said, this past spring, Scorsese committed to finally working on Silence, and the financing has been coming together. After Scorsese's lawyers filed papers in an effort to undercut Cecchi Gori's legal claims of breach of contract and fraud, the parties suspended the proceedings and informed the court they were working on a settlement.
With the clock ticking on a hearing in the dispute, attorneys for Cecchi Gori finally responded to the director's attempts to strip away some of its claims. Here's the opposition to the demurrer and the argument that the film company sufficiently alleged the ways it had suffered damages from Scorsese's wait to direct Silence.
Don't read too much into it, Cecchi Gori CEO Niels Juul cautions.
"It's a formality and we're moving towards a larger settlement," Juul tells The Hollywood Reporter. "Silence is definitely on track. We have been given dates to start production, and everything is fully financed and pre-sold."
Alluding to the need to have the settlement cover Scorsese's past film work, Juul adds, "Nothing is ever simple in Hollywood."
www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/hollywood-docket-martin-scorsese-silence-664448
) but what exactly is Cecchi Gori's input in this production? They're not financing but are they even producing at all?
