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Litigation

Aug. 31, 2011

Flap over actor's contract nears trial

A studio's loss from a contractual blunder with "No Country for Old Men" star Tommy Lee Jones should not be passed on to the film's financiers, Marathon Funding LLC will argue before a jury Sept. 19.


By Erica E. Phillips


Daily Journal Staff Writer


LOS ANGELES - A studio's loss from a contractual blunder with "No Country for Old Men" star Tommy Lee Jones should not be passed on to the film's financiers, Marathon Funding LLC will argue before a jury Sept. 19.


Marathon, a film finance company that agreed to fund 14 Paramount movies in exchange for 25 percent of the revenues from each, filed a complaint against Paramount Pict...

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