Wednesday, November 21, 2012

11.21 Producers Look To Block 'Machete Kills':

It appears Overnight Productions wants to cut ties with Robert Rodriguez’s Quick Draw Productions over the rights to Machete Kills. If successful, the court action could stop the release of the film – which Open Road acquired for distribution from Quick Draw last month. The complaint filed Tuesday (read it here), the producers of 2010’s Machete are seeking to terminate the April 2012 agreement in which they granted director/producer Rodriguez the rights to make another action movie about the rogue Mexican Federale. The rights would revert back to Rick Schwartz’s Overnight. The plaintiffs are seeking $2 million in damages..

Overnight claims that earlier this month they were not provided with Texas tax credit information as required under the agreement with Rodriguez’s company. And then there is the matter of Schwartz’s fee. “Defendants have also failed and refused to provide the required budget information to Overnight Productions so that it can determine the producer fee owed with respect to the sequel”. The plaintiffs estimate that they are owed in excess of $250,000 in this aspect of their legal action. Overnight Productions has been involved in the making of films such as 2008’s The Lucky Ones and 2010′s Darren Aronofsky-directed Black Swan.

Plot for Machete Kills: Plot: "The second film in the Machete trilogy finds Machete mourning the loss of his beloved Sartana, slain during a run in with the cartels. Machete is recruited by the President of the United States for a mission which would be impossible for any mortal man. Machete must battle his way through Mexico to take down a cartel leader, Mendez the Madman, who threatens to fire a missile on the US. Machete foils Mendez's plot only to find that the missiles are remote wired to and triggered by the madman’s still beating heart. The only man who can disarm the missile is eccentric billionaire arms dealer, Luther Voz, who has hatched a plan of his own to spread war across the planet with a weapon in space. Machete takes on Voz and his army in order to dismantle his master plan for global anarchy"...

The film stars: Michelle Rodriguez, Mel Gibson, Edward James Olmos, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexa Vega, Cuba Gooding Jr., Charlie Sheen U.S. President, Amber Heard, Jessica Alba, William Sadler, Marko Zaror, Lady Gaga and Danny Trejo as (Machete)...

Machete Kills is Written By: Álvaro Rodríguez and Kyle Ward - Directed By: Robert Rodriguez.. Open Road Films recently acquired Machete Kills for US Distribution with plans to release the movie theatrically in 2013..


 

(Source: Deadline.com)