Talk:Franchise Pictures

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Lead weirdly silent

I don't know in what universe this material (newly added) does not belong in the lead:

In 2004, in a case heard before a jury in a Los Angeles federal courtroom, Intertainment Licensing GmbH v. Franchise Pictures, et al.,^[1] Justice Stotler awarded a plaintiff's verdict for $121.7 million against Franchise Pictures and Elie Samaha for fraudulent accounting. Samaha vowed to appeal but the fraud judgment destroyed Franchise's viability; the company and its subsidiaries all filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy petitions on August 19, 2007.^[2]

References

^ Adler, Michael S. (n.d.). "Intertainment Licensing GmbH v. Franchise Pictures, et al". morelaw.com. MoreLaw. Retrieved 4 October 2022. Franchise admitted that the budgets were inflated but contended that Intertainment did not agree to pay on the basis of the budgets.

^ Shprintz, Janet; Dana Harris (August 23, 2007). "Elie's new chapter: Samaha's Franchise files for bankruptcy". Variety. Archived from the original on November 4, 2012. Retrieved 2010-07-01.

This summarizes the article below, but adds some extra authority by providing the explicit case name and presiding judge, with best (and only) citation I could find.

I'm going like, woah, this is covering the demise of Gawker Media without mentioning Peter Thiel in the lead. — MaxEnt 20:25, 4 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

[MoreLaw-1] Adler, Michael S. (n.d.). "Intertainment Licensing GmbH v. Franchise Pictures, et al". morelaw.com. MoreLaw. Retrieved 4 October 2022. Franchise admitted that the budgets were inflated but contended that Intertainment did not agree to pay on the basis of the budgets.

[Shprintz2007-2] Shprintz, Janet; Dana Harris (August 23, 2007). "Elie's new chapter: Samaha's Franchise files for bankruptcy". Variety. Archived from the original on November 4, 2012. Retrieved 2010-07-01.

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