MICHAEL MOORE REACHES SETTLEMENT WITH WEINSTEINS

Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore has agreed to a settlement offer from The Weinstein Co. a month before his multi-million-dollar lawsuit against the company over alleged accounting irregularities was to go to trial, the Hollywood Reporter reported today (Thursday), citing recently filed court documents. Moore had hired an outside accounting firm to conduct an audit of [...]

MOORE SAYS HE HOLDS “NO ILL WILL” TOWARD WEINSTEINS

Michael Moore insists that he has no intention of settling his lawsuit against The Weinstein Co., whom he has accused of cheating him out of at least $2.7 million in profits from his 2005 documentary Fahrenheit 9/11. “No settlement. No interest in one. Discovery and depositions will reveal how the accounting is done, once and [...]

MICHAEL MOORE SUES WEINSTEINS

Add Michael Moore to the list of Hollywood celebrities who have sued a movie studio for allegedly manipulating box office receipts to deprive them of their share of profits. In a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles, Moore alleges that The Weinstein Co. hid at least $2.7 million in profits that he was entitled to for [...]

WIKILEAKS: ANOTHER BUSH ADMINISTRATION WHACK AT MICHAEL MOORE

The U.S. deputy chief of mission in New Zealand, David Burnett, attempted to block a planned screening of Michael Moore’s anti-Iraq-war documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11, when he heard that it was being hosted by a New Zealand cabinet minister, according to documents contained in the WikiLeaks papers and reported today (Wednesday) in Britain’s Guardian newspaper. In [...]