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Litigation

Oct. 26, 2011

Judge orders "Just Friends" distributor to pay producer

A judge doused a spat between the producer and the distributor of the 2005 Ryan Reynolds film "Just Friends" Monday when he ordered Inferno Distribution LLC to pay $3.4 million to Cinezeta Internationale Filmproduktionsgesellschaft mbH.

By Erica E. Phillips
Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES -- A judge doused a spat between the producer and the distributor of the 2005 Ryan Reynolds film "Just Friends" Monday when he ordered Inferno Distribution LLC to pay $3.4 million to Cinezeta Internationale Filmproduktionsgesellschaft mbH. District Judge John F. Walker ruled there were no issues of material fact in Cinezeta's breach of contract claim against its former partner and that Inferno could no longer hold out ...

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