Actor alleges that Chinese financier and production company Kylin Pictures used his name to help get backing for film, then fired him without paying
Kevin Costner is suing a Chinese production company for allegedly using his name to help sell a film and then removing him from the project without paying him.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Costner says Kylin Pictures signed a contract with his Treehouse Films production company to produce and rewrite the screenplay for a film called Shanghai Sojourners.
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Kevin Costner is suing a Chinese production company for allegedly using his name to help sell a film and then removing him from the project without paying him.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Costner says Kylin Pictures signed a contract with his Treehouse Films production company to produce and rewrite the screenplay for a film called Shanghai Sojourners.
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- 10/26/2016
- by Alan Evans
- The Guardian - Film News
Kevin Costner and his Treehouse Films have filed a $3,85 million breach of contract suit against Chinese financier Kylin Pictures and various unnamed defendants for backing out of a proposed film Shanghai Sojourners. The film is described on Kylin’s website as follows: “During WWII while Shanghai was under control by Japanese forces, a young Chinese woman falls in love with a young Jewish man exiled from his home in Europe. Together, they plot his escape from China before…...
- 10/26/2016
- Deadline
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