The French production company that failed to distribute Spike Lee’s film “Miracle at St. Anna” has been hit with a big money fine by a Paris court. Now that’s one helluva ho sit down, wouldn’t you say? TF1 Droits Audiovisuels has been ordered to pay $46 million to producers of Miracle at St. Anna for failing to honor a contract to distribute the World War II picture internationally. The dispute centered on a 2007 agreement between TF1 and the On My Own production company. According to the terms of the contract, TF1 was scheduled to release the film in markets across the world with the exception of the United States, Canada and Italy. TF1 argued that Lee had delivered a different kind of film than the one it was promised and refused to hand over a nearly $16 million advance. Now, according to the AFP, a Paris court has found that TF1 is at fault for breaching the contract, ordering the company to pay nearly $29 million in damages, and more for moral prejudice. Spike Lee gets one million euros and James McBride, the author of the novel the film was based on, gets 200,000 euros. TFP also was ordered to pay to $18 million to BNP Paribas bank. Spike Lee don’t play that isht… Now they gotta pay EVEN MORE than they would have if they would have just returned the stinkin’ advance money. SMH. Source
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Great news for the fans of Justin Bieber, who are eagerly waiting to see the screening of ‘Never Say Never’. Now, they can get the opportunity to see the advance screening of Justin Bieber’s ‘Never Say Never’. Paramount Pictures are not able to wait till the release of Justin Bieber’s Never Say Never this weekend. Paramount and RealD are hosting the advance special screenings of 3D ‘Never Say Never’ with a gift package included in the cost of the ticket. Considering the wide spread of fan base of Justin Bieber, the advance special screenings of 3D movie, will be hosted in selected 300 theaters with RealD 3D equipment across the country. The price of each ticket is $30 including the ‘Never Say Never’ gift package with ‘Purple’ 3D glasses as ‘Purple’ is Justin Bieber’s favorite color. More than 60,000 were issued fetching the revenue of $2 million. The amount of $1 million will be considered as the box-office revenues and the rest of the amount will be used for merchandising. Paramount has used the social networking sites, such as Twitter and Facebook, as they have been densely populated by the fans of Justin Bieber. The Facebook page of Justin has got more than 20 million friends. The studio is hoping that, the advance special screenings will ignite word-of-mouth about the movie ‘Never Say Never’ before the official release on Friday. Never Say Never is released by the Insurge banner of Paramount and will be screened in more than 3000 theaters. The movie Never Say Never is set for release on February 11, 2011 in United States and February 18, 2011 in United Kingdom.
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