'Kid' Stays in Picture as suit alleges contract breach on biopic. (Media & Technology).The Robert Evans There are several well-known people named Robert Evans, including:
The producer of "Chinatown" and "Rosemary's Baby Rosemary’s baby through witchcraft, child born with horns and tail. [Am. Lit.: Rosemary’s Baby] See : Witchcraft ," whose rapid rise as a Hollywood producer earned him the nickname "Golden Boy" in the '70s, has been sued over "The Kid Stays in the Picture," the 2002 documentary based on his autobiography. David Weisman, who produced the 1985 film "Kiss of the Spider Woman Kiss of the Spider Woman (El beso de la mujer araña) may refer to:
In the suit, Weisman said he produced a 16-minute demo film in early 1998, and that Evans wanted to move forward with him, the suit says. But, the suit says, when the project wasn't able to be financed Evans "appeared to abandon the documentary." Later, directors Brett Morgen and Nanette Burstein, along with Graydon Carter Edward Graydon Carter (born 14 July 1949) is a Canadian-born American journalist and author. He is editor of Vanity Fair. He also co-founded, with Kurt Andersen, the satirical monthly magazine Spy in 1986. , editor of Vanity Fair, persuaded Evans to make the film. "The Kid Stays in the Picture" featured interviews with Evans, his ex-wife Phyllis George and Dustin Hoffman. The 1994 book chronicled Evans' rise through the movie industry, which began as an actor and eventually led in 1964 to his appointment as chief of production for Paramount Pictures, where he remained for a decade. He was 44 when he left the post. In addition to "Chinatown" and "Rosemary's Baby," Evans produced "The Godfather," "Love Story," "The Odd Couple" and "Harold and Maude." His career faltered in the '80s after he was convicted of cocaine possession and sentenced to a year's probation and his marriage to Ali MacGraw failed. James DeJulil, development executive at Robert Evans Co., said Evans would have no comment on the suit. The Weisman suit named the film's distributor, Vivendi Universal Entertainment LP and its subsidiaries USA Films Inc., Focus Features LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control and USA Interactive Corp. Angela Johnson, a spokeswoman for Focus Features, returning calls to Universal, declined comment. Also named were Morgen, Burstein and their production company, Highway Films LLC. They could not be reached. Carter and his production company, Ministry of Propaganda An agency or ministry of propaganda is a part of the government that is in charge of coordinating propaganda, and which bears a name which describes this function. Though governments routinely engage in propaganda, propaganda ministries are exceedingly rare, especially in the years LLC, also named as defendants, declined comment through Vanity Fair spokeswoman Beth Kseniak. Weisman's lawyer, James O'Callahan, at Girardi and Keese, could not be reached. |
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