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Gilmore Girls executive producer Gavin Polone has sued WBTV, the WB and the CW, over breach-of-contract related to the series.
The lawsuit, which was filed on Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, accuses WBTV and the WB of “self-dealing at all levels”, claiming that they purposely defrauded the originator of the Gilmore Girls series “with a scheme that rivals the greed and bravado of any story line defendants could script.”
Essentially, the lawsuit refers to a 2000 agreement between Gavin Polone’s company and WBTV, and a 2002 amendment that would guarantee Gavin’s produing company a percentage of the “modified adjusted gross”. This means Polone would get a percentage of the profits the show made, after costs were deducted.
According to Polone, Gilmore Girls was “in the red” (i.e. not profitable) early on in its production, he’s disputing a claim that WBTV made in 2006 that the show was in the red by a $53 million deficit for the first 6 seasons. Polone audited the books in 2006 and alleges the balance was understated by more than $45 million. He alleges this was done purposefully. WBTV disputed this audit in June, and now it looks like Polone has taken things a step further with the lawsuit.
The lawsuit is seeking millions of dollars in damages.
Thanks Alli! Via hollywood reporter ; image: TheWB.com
612 days ago
So This Means no tv movie, No Nothin
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611 days ago
When I read that, I immediately thought about my post of:
Dec 7, 2008 at 9:39 am, I post here for a last time:
[[[Nothing comes out from nothing or nowhere. The forces that made the show possible were coming from many sources, and were converging to some spots we could call energy spots. And there, there were some collectors, (we can call them writers, actors, producers, bankers…), that gave some forms to those forces and energy. Veronica Mars and GG came out of them. Then life went on with the merging of UPN and CW. That meant that many people and thinking were concerned and taken in the tornado, and nothing was like it was before. Those forces that were coming to UPN and CW are not the same that come to WB. The former forces and energies are now dispersed, some great supporters of the show are now involved in other projects, often elsewhere.
When someone wants something, he always has to address the right person, not a surrogate. There is no any right person anymore to address in order to ask him or her to get back the show again. That person or spirit vanished when the fusion between the two companies occurred. Of course, we may argue about what happened next about the hesitancy about the signing process, and so one, but if the right atmosphere was gone, things couldn’t go on, that’s a law.
The process of the fusion occurred while the sixth season was airing, and already we could feel the difference. It didn’t survive the seventh. The forces that made GG to happen were dispersed, and nobody was there to address, or to defend or to take it.
Now, it’s only a matter of civil matter, law matters, rights to broadcast matter, and so one. No real person to address, only legal texts that assume the process, only legal texts that receive the petitions coming from all the fans around the world, no one to listen to. It’s a kind of department of the public reaction, and those that are employed, or at work here are there to assume a function about the rating, the reaction of the public and the right way to response to them. Not a heart, not an ear, only texts, and functions: Public relation is made of that stuff. There is no message in it. There is nothing. Only some staffs assuming the role of saying NO, “we are not concerned”, in a polite way that may look like a yes, or a perhaps, but that IS a definitive way of saying NO. “NO WAY!”]]]
Do you understand!
The show was destroyed in such a way that betrayed everything. That was really unjust for all the fans that followed the girls for seven years. It’s only a show said many people. Yet producers should ask why so many women felt greater while seeing the show? They should ask why mothers and daughters happened to know better each others while it was airing. They should ask why so much better understanding was coming on, (out), between both sexes? The response is on the structure, the right basis of the show, that people felt right. Even the errors that were made were often right, for, we can’t live without doing some, we couldn’t grow if not.
It was a show still full of possibilities that was destroyed only for mercantile reasons. Even the idea that it was in the red don’t stand, for, ask to ASP to come back and all the things could go on again.
I saw a movie long time ago: a big shareholder gave the presidency of a big society to someone he expects to be a failure, hopping that he will provoke a bankruptcy. That’s what we feel while seeing the end of season six, and the seven, something that has lost the essential. Yet, all things could become alive again. Ask ASP to come back, finish the job in one or two seasons, and the whole thing will be right in the red.
That is what I wish to all fans for the New Year.
However, I must be realistic, and I wish to all fans whatever they want for 2009.
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611 days ago
So Does that mean No Movie & we’re Screwed on not finding out what Happned to Luke & Lorelai
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609 days ago
IT IS VERY FRUSTRATING TO HEAR THIS-SO WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR US GILMORE GIRLS FANS? NO MOVIE? I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW SO IF THIS IS TRUE I CAN STOP CHECKING IF THERE IS HOPE FOR A MOVIE.
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609 days ago
All that Arieanna Schweber post here is true. So we can relieve to this information. It’s a shame of course, but a show like that couldn’t be removed in such a way for no reason. It was not even their interests, for, building such a strong basis of fans is not so easy at all. Basis fans mean that words can be spread all around the world, so that announcers can reach millions of consumers. So that, for the network, producers, and advertisers, the spreading of information becomes a gold mine. Yet, they let it go away, the fans, and the series; that is not rational, even as the economical matter is concerned.
A show may be in a red, but attract many consumers, and so the whole movie industry can catch advertisers, and be in the green. Now, what happens when too many fans find themselves screwed? They talk around, and many of the listeners don’t take the risk to be hooked by a show that has a reputation of an arguable ending, so the advertisers become shy and money is tightening. And when we notice that the basic fans were largely women, with children, it’s an open industry that could reach them. They had all kind of gold mine, from the cosmetic, to the clothing, to the fitness entertainment, food; any kind of books, everything you can imagine could be advertised thanks to this series and reach someone. No any series can do that. Throw away such a product without having explored all the possibilities? That’s incredible.
The same problem occurs as the sale of dvd is concerned. Actually, I wouldn’t have been able to buy the whole set if the price hadn’t gone down like this. Yet, remember what Tom Hanks says about the movie “Turner and Hooch”, “We would have sold many more dvd if we hadn’t killed the dog”. It’s so true; for, I love the movie, but never bought the dvd. This is what is happening unfortunately with GG’s dvd.
So, Sherry, I won’t say that there won’t be a movie, but till this comment [[[quietstormfst
Dec 6, 2008 at 3:06 am in GG 8: It was terribly disappointing to see how the series ended; just leaving us hanging like they did!!! It just proves that UPN made a terrible mistake by merging with CW.]]], I was looking for every bit of information through the net, looking to the eyes of the actors on video, trying to read between the lines and words, reading every article on the subject. Nothing was convincing. Then I read this comment, and everything became clearer, and I stopped searching, and I confess, even hoping.
If the WB had acted like real American entrepreneur, they would have known how to convince all kind of industries to put the money in the show, and then paid the actors, writers, and so one the right price, and things would have been profitable.
Remember “Gone With the Wind”, it cost a fortune, but the turnover was tremendous. Yet, for what had happened with GG, they missed all the opportunities that the show conveyed, for, they didn’t know what the show was. That was the big unfortunate mistake, the one biggest, that apparently no one really is recovering from.
Why? Because, sometimes, it’s better to avoid playing with the fire. For, if someone creates something from the real life, like GG is, where people can identify themselves in, then throw away all the matter, it’s a risky operation, a backfiring risky operation, for contrary forces are in stake until the balance is reached.
I read so many comments from mothers and daughters, women, and girls, young men, and older, and so one, all over the world, that wished so much that the show would come back! But unfortunately, I’m afraid they won’t be listened to, for there is no one to listen to them. But what the show gave them is still in their heart, for, if they weren’t sensible enough, they wouldn’t have been able to appreciate it. The show was built on their sensibility, their generosity, their capacity to love and share life, and all that belong to them, not to those who took it from them, and canceled everything as if it was theirs. The basis of GG belongs to the people who have it inside their heart, among other wealth.
God bless all of you!
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608 days ago
so were stuck with reading fan fictions on what happened to Luke & Lorelai. Oh well it’s better then nothin. Reading them is fun anyway
:(
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