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Warner Bros. Repugnance Pic ‘The Conjuring’ Sees True Exposure in Producer’s All-Out Up front War
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Producer Claims New Line ‘Racketeering’ in Acquiring ‘Conjuring’ Rights
Producer Tony DeRosa-Grund, who has been involved in litigation with Warner Bros. over the rights to “The Conjuring” and “Annabelle,” is claiming that New Line Cinema and one its senior executives engaged in a racketeering conspiracy to wrest control of the properties.
In a filing in a Texas federal court on Wednesday, DeRosa-Grund claims New Line Cinema LLC and Craig Alexander, its senior VP and head of business and legal affairs, misrepresented to a bankruptcy court its intentions for the rights to the files of Ed Warren and Lorraine Warren, the real-life paranormal investigators who inspired “The Conjuring.”
Instead, it transferred the rights to parent Warner Bros., and the studio “assumed no obligations” to comply with New Line’s rights agreements even though it reaped the financial benefit, DeRosa-Grund contends.
A Warner Bros. spokesman said, “The case has no merit and we will vigorously defend it.”
DeRosa-Grund had obtained the rights to the files, but was forced into involuntary bankruptcy in 2009. He claims New Line, in its deal memo with him and his Evergreen Media Holdings, gained “enorm
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‘Conjuring’ Dispute Will Be Handled in Arbitration
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Ever since The Conjuring came out, it’s been the subject of a spooky legal dispute. The film grossed $318 million worldwide, and with sequels both released and forthcoming, Tony DeRosa-Grund‘s Evergreen Media Group has put up quite a fight over contingent compensation and the scope of rights. Now, thanks to a new decision by a Texas federal judge, the next round will take place in arbitration.
DeRosa-Grund has asserted many claims in his litigation campaign against Warner Bros. and its subsidiary New Line. He alleges the studio has breached agreements, denied him proper producer credit on the sequels, interfered with his exclusive agreement with real-life paranormal investigator Lorraine Warren, intentionally interfered with a deal his company was making with Lionsgate for a Conjuring television series, made false representations to him, published defamatory statements about his business, and much more.
U.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal isn’t going to address the claims. At least not at the moment.
In an opinion released on Tuesday, the judge examines the Quitclaim Agreement, where New Line bought DeRosa-Grund’s rights to certain case files and Warren’s life