{"id":26146,"date":"2015-08-26T19:03:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T23:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=26146"},"modified":"2015-08-26T19:03:23","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T23:03:23","slug":"michael-keaton-found-not-liable-in-breach-of-contract-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=26146","title":{"rendered":"Michael Keaton found not liable in breach of contract lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My career used to be film business–big films. If I’m reading this New York Law Journal abstract correctly, I can’t figure out how producers could file a lawsuit against a director–that it’s Michael Keaton isn’t particularly relevant–for, apparently, making a flop.<\/p>\n

Do you know how many directors make flops? Have you figured out how any film company can guarantee that the millions of dollars it spends on a production will pay them back? Indeed, I once had the temerity to tell Barry Diller, during a staff meeting shortly after he’d been named head of Paramount Pictures, that I’d always thought of the film business as a fun fair, not, say, a new toilet paper. That is, the sales potential of a motion picture was not testable before the money was spent and the film was made. (Yes, he fired me shortly thereafter.)<\/p>\n

Can you imagine a contract with a director that stipulated the film had to turn out to be successful? Can you imagine any director’s lawyer letting him sign it?<\/p>\n

Not possible.<\/p>\n

I’d strongly suggest to Mr. Keaton that he not work with these people again.<\/p>\n

Michael Keaton Not Liable for Box Office Flop ‘Merry Gentleman’<\/em><\/h1>\n

Seventh Circuit panel sides with actor in breach of contract case.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Mike Sacks<\/a>, The National Law Journal<\/small>

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A federal appeals court Tuesday sided with actor Michael Keaton in a breach of contract suit brought against him by the producers behind his box office flop “Merry Gentleman.” The movie, released in 2009, was Keaton\u2019s directorial debut.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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