The filmmaker is suing Amazon after the studio dropped his movie deal.
Thursday, Woody Allen filed a lawsuit towards Amazon Studios, in search of $68 million in damages, accusing the studio breaching contract once they dropped a four-movie deal that they’d beforehand struck with the filmmaker and declined to distribute his A Wet Day In New York movie, citing sexaul assault allegations towards Allen as grounds for terminating the contract.
The go well with alleges that Amazon determined to finish issues by “referencing a 25-year outdated, baseless allegation towards Mr. Allen.” The case in query is greater than seemingly the accustations that Allen confronted for allegedly molesting his adopted adughter Dylan Farrow in 1992. The case most just lately resurfaced in 2017 in mild the #MeToo motion in Hollywood.
“That allegation was already well-known to Amazon (and the general public) earlier than Amazon entered into 4 separate offers with Mr. Allen,” the lawsuit states. “And, in any occasion, it doesn’t present a foundation for Amazon to terminate the contract. There merely was no legit floor for Amazon to renege on its guarantees.”
Allen met with executives in December 2017 when the allegations as soon as once more plagued him. Amazon Studios beforehand confronted scrutiny over its affiliation with the likes Harvey Wenstein and Roy Value and proposed delaying the discharge Woody Allen’s A Wet Day In New York till 2019. However earlier than the yr arrived, Amazon introduced its intent to sever its relationship with Allen in June 2018 by stating that, “supervening occasions, together with renewed allegations towards Mr. Allen, his personal controversial feedback, and the rising refusal high expertise to work with or be related to him in any means,” are grounds for termination.