Mad Max lawsuit: production firm accuses Warner Bros of "reprehensible" behavior
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http://www.indiewire.com/2018/04/mad-max-lawsuit-george-miller-warner-bros-sequels-1201953053/
The future of George Miller’s “Mad Max” franchise is in jeopardy as a court battle between the director’s production company, Kennedy Miller Mitchell, and Warner Bros. heats
up in Australia’s Supreme Court of New South Wales. Miller’s company is suing the studio for unpaid earnings on “Mad Max: Fury Road.” The director spoke briefly about the lawsuit last November, but The Sydney Morning Herald has obtained new court documents that detail the battle between the two companies.
The lawsuit accuses Warner Bros. of acting in a “high-handed, insulting or reprehensible” manner and “destroying” its relationship with Kennedy Miller Mitchell by refusing to pay the production company a bonus fee for delivering the movie under budget. Kennedy Miller Mitchell claims it is eligible for $9 million after it delivered “Fury Road” under the agreed budget of $157 million. The production company says “Fury Road’s” final budget was $154.6 million, although Warner Bros. claims the film went way over budget and cost $185.1 million.
In a cross-lawsuit filed by Warner Bros., the studio accuses Kennedy Miller Mitchell of breaking contract over the film’s intended runtime and rating. Warner Bros. says Miller’s production company signed a contract to deliver a 100-minute movie with a PG-13 rating. “Fury Road” ended up running 120 minutes and earned an R rating from the MPAA.
The lawsuit also mentions conflict between Kennedy Miller Mitchell and Warner Bros. over which scenes would be shot for the movie. The production company alleges Warner Bros. insisted Miller not shoot some of the scenes he had scripted, including those set in Immortan Joe’s Citadel. Kennedy Miller Mitchell accuses the studio of making a series of decisions that caused “substantial changes and delays” to the production, including cutting scenes and forcing re-shoots after seeing Miller’s rough cut.
“Fury’s Road” reshoots are another point of contention between the studio and the production company. Kennedy Miller Mitchell says Warner Bros. approved a $31 million plan to reshoot scenes for the movie and that the cost was to be excluded from the net cost of the movie. However, Warner Bros. says the company agreed to fund some of the additional filming and that it made changes without the studio’s approval that delayed production and raised the budget.
We're never gonna get another Mad Max again are we? God fuck Warner Bros.
Imagine if instead of trying to cheap out on that 9 million they had a healthy relationship and produced the other two movies in this planned new trilogy and made thirty times that amount.
Don't worry, they'll probably collapse in a few years due to their continued hiring of Hack Snyder causing movie bomb after movie bomb and they'll sell the IP to someone else.
honestly all the big hollywood companies need to get fucked
Imagine how awful the movie would have been if it were PG-13 and only 100 minutes. If anything I wanted it to be longer.
10 Oscar nominations (including best picture), six wins, widely considered one of if not the best action movie of all time?
Sorry! Should've made it a PG-13 like we asked!
Why don't you take a page from Snyder's playbook and not work so hard, then you'll get paid the money you're owed.
"Wtf they gave us bars of gold when we ordered dogshit!" - Warner Bros.
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