Weinstein Company Blasts Open Road & ‘little Prince’ Producers Over $35m ‘playmobil’ Breached Deal

Dominic Patten, Deadline.com
Tue, 05/31/2016 - 3:57pm

EXCLUSIVE: The Weinstein Company says it had a $35 million-plus deal for an animated movie based on the Playmobil toys, and today the company went to court to make sure that agreement is enforced or some hefty damages are paid out — even though Open Road now has picked up the pic. “The Producer Defendants materially breached the Agreement by retracting their promise to sell TWC the Playmobil Movie distribution rights and refusing to negotiate a written deal memo (the…

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Weinstein Company Blasts Open Road & ‘little Prince’ Producers Over $35m ‘playmobil’ Breached Deal

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