Amazon settles $68 million lawsuit with Woody Allen
This appeared in The Millennial Source
Amazon has settled a $68 million breach of contract lawsuit with film director Woody Allen, who sued after the company backed out of a four-picture movie deal in June 2018, citing sexual misconduct allegations from the 1990s.
The one-page settlement was filed on November 8 in a New York Federal District Court in Manhattan, saying the lawsuit had been voluntarily dismissed with prejudice, which means that the case cannot be brought back to court. The details of the settlement were not disclosed.
Allen’s lawsuit against Amazon
Allen, 83, sued Amazon in February 2019, alleging that Amazon refused to release his film A Rainy Day in New York and reneged on a promise to produce three other movies.
Amazon severed its ties with Allen in June 2018, citing sexual assault allegations which had recently come back into the public’s attention during the #MeToo movement. Allen’s adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, alleged that she was molested by her father in 1992 when she was seven years old.
Amazon also cited Allen’s “ controversial comments” about the Weinstein scandal. In a 2017 interview with the BBC, Allen warned against a “witch-hunt atmosphere” in the…
