Will Smith’s movie about the life of the father of Serena Williams and Venus Williams maybe still be shut down from concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, but King Richard certainly is being serve…
and its key executives are also named as defendants in the often convoluted lawsuit.
Putting more of a backspin on the situation now, not only do the Neville Johnson represented TW3 and PMMM want wide ranging unspecified damages from the big budgetmovie, their court action also seeks “an injunction requiring all profits for any project using the Richard Williams Rights to be placed in trust for Plaintiffs’ benefit.”conduct as alleged above, whereby Plaintiffs disclosed ideas and materials regarding the Richard Williams Rights to Defendants for sale, i.e.
“Defendant Warner Bros. used Plaintiffs’ ideas and materials in King Richard, and such ideas and materials provide substantial value to Defendant,” the complaint goes on to assert amidst claims of a May 2017 Agreement for the rights to the elder Williams’s 2014 memoirNot only is the thrust that Star Thrower and WB knew TW3 and PMMM owned the rights to Williams’ book and life, but that they even saw the small company’s efforts directly.
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