{"id":128165,"date":"2012-07-26T21:59:01","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T21:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2012\/07\/26\/kevin-costner-suing-robin-hood-production-company\/"},"modified":"2012-07-26T21:59:01","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T21:59:01","slug":"kevin-costner-suing-robin-hood-production-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2012\/07\/26\/kevin-costner-suing-robin-hood-production-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Costner suing \u2018Robin Hood\u2019 production company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/KGMJYDYNDLRWQKVDBYLE.jpg>Kevin Costner is suing producers of \u2018Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves\u2019 for his share of the film\u2019s profits. The 57-year-old star claimed in a Los Angeles lawsuit that Morgan Creek Productions had not paid him for two years.<\/p>\n<p>However bosses said they had paid the actor $40 million and had been \u201cvery nice to him\u2019\u2019 in regards to the movie which made $390 million.<\/p>\n<p>A lawsuit filed today in Los Angeles Superior Court by Kevin starts out with very harsh words for the independent studio that backed the 1991 blockbuster.<\/p>\n<p>It alleges: \u201cEvery actor hopes to star in a great movie that makes substantial profits. But if you\u2019re hoping to earn profits based on the success of your film and you want to be paid on a timely basis, then one company you certainly do not want to do business with is Defendant Morgan Creek Productions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kevin, represented by Marty Singer and Michael Holtz at Lavely &amp; Singer, says that Morgan Creek promised it would share profits with him but \u201cwhen it came time to report and account &#8230; Morgan Creek was less than forthcoming,\u201d with no participation statements rendered in 2010 and 2011 and late statements from 2004 to 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan Creek CEO James Robinson responded: \u201cWhy is it after 22 years Mr. Costner finds fault with our accounting procedures or for that matter our way of doing business? \u201cWe have paid him over $40 million. I think we\u2019ve been very nice to him. <\/p>\n<p>I wonder how much money he has made from other films where he is participant. We\u2019ve been very straight with him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Costner is suing producers of \u2018Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves\u2019 for his share of the film\u2019s profits. The 57-year-old star claimed in a Los Angeles lawsuit that Morgan Creek Productions had not paid him for two years. However bosses said they had paid the actor $40 million and had been \u201cvery nice to him\u2019\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}