Thompson on Hollywood: Harvey Loses Warners Tussle Over 'The Butler,' Makes Statement UPDATED (VIDEO)

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Harvey Loses Warners Tussle Over 'The Butler,' Makes Statement UPDATED (VIDEO) Jul 22nd 2013, 19:34, by Anne Thompson and Beth Hanna In the end, Harvey Weinstein vs. Warner Bros. did not turn out well for The Weinstein Co., which as of Friday has been ordered by the MPAA to pay a $400,000 fine plus $150,000 in legal fees to the studio. According to one angry senior TWC exec, the company had received a go-ahead from the studio's distribution chief Dan Fellman--and done all the necessary legal work to clear the title. That's not what Warners says, however. They say that Weinstein needs to fulfill his legal paperwork like anyone else, and deny that the tussle is about "The Hobbit." "We may want to use the title someday," said one spokeswoman in Comic-Con.  That's valid. But Weinstein Co. says that Warners is trying to get away with paying the 5% of the gross that Harvey grabbed long ago on the "Lord of the Rings" films for just the first Peter Jackson "Hobbit" film--not all three. That is what the fight was about and TWC will fight to get paid in full. The problem for TWC is that "Lee Daniels' The Butler" --or... Media files: harvey-weinstein.jpg (image/jpeg)

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