Filmmaker Brad Wigor has filed a $7 million lawsuit against Hallmark Hall of Fame Prods and McGee Street Prods, claiming theft of his work to create a TV movie similar to his treatment about a troubled boy who meets an angel, gains the power to fly and uses it for good during the Christmas season. "Whether due to changing tastes, evolving technology or both, recent years have not been kind to Hallmark," says the plaintiff's lawsuit filed today filed in federal court in California. "Faced with declining viewership and languishing interest, Hallmark has become desperate for quality original content.
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- 8/16/2012
- by Eriq Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Bonnie Eskenazi Of Greenberg Glusker filed the lawsuit this morning accusing Hallmark Hall Of Fame Productions and McGee Street Productions of usurping screenwriter, director, and producer Brad Wigor’s intellectual property rights for a Christmas TV story called The Night Flyer. Sure, a lot of people claim their project was stolen but few attract a pitbull litigator like Eskenazi who, for instance, has repped the estate of Jr Tolkien among other clients against this kind of theft. And Wigor is a four-time Daytime Emmy nominee for Children’s Specials. This project in dispute was a family movie about a troubled teenage boy who lives in Los Angeles and meets an angel, then sprouts angelic wings himself, and after a few false starts ultimately uses his power for good during the Christmas season. Read the entire lawsuit here. “For more than 60 years, defendant Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions has produced...
- 8/15/2012
- by NIKKI FINKE
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: Bonnie Eskenazi Of Greenberg Glusker filed the lawsuit this morning accusing Hallmark Hall Of Fame Productions and McGee Street Productions of usurping screenwriter, director, and producer Brad Wigor’s intellectual property rights for a Christmas TV story called The Night Flyer. Sure, a lot of people claim their project was stolen but few attract a pitbull litigator like Eskenazi who, for instance, has repped the estate of Jr Tolkien among other clients against this kind of theft. And Wigor is a four-time Daytime Emmy nominee for Children’s Specials. This project in dispute was a family movie about a troubled teenage boy who lives in Los Angeles and meets an angel, then sprouts angelic wings himself, and after a few false starts ultimately uses his power for good during the Christmas season. Read the entire lawsuit here. “For more than 60 years, defendant Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions has produced...
- 8/15/2012
- by NIKKI FINKE
- Deadline Hollywood
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