Did anyone see this film? ;-) - Mel Gibson's Icon Distribution Inc. filed suit against Regal Entertainment Group.
Regal is a huge movie theater chain here in America. In fact according to the Reuters report on Yahoo!® News Australia, Regal is the number one movie theater chain. Which just happens to be where I saw the "Passion" twice.
Reuters reports:
In the suit, filed on Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Icon said its agreement with Regal called for the companies to share receipts on "studio terms," which Icon defined as 55 percent of gross ticket sales paid to it and 45 percent retained by Regal.
Icon claims Regal has reneged on that deal and offered to pay Icon only 34 percent, instead.
That's a lot of cash. Icon is looking for $40 million plus in damages.
