The House of Mouse has tried to blunt the Black Widow’s bite, as expected. In a witching hour filing last night, the Walt Disney Company took Scarlett Johansson to task for daring to make her…
public. The Marvel parent company is demanding the whole thing go behind closed doors on the East Coast ASAP.
“Whether Periwinkle’s claims against Disney fall within the scope of that agreement is not a close call: Periwinkle’s interference and inducement claims are premised on Periwinkle’s allegation that Marvel breached the contract’s requirement that any release ofinclude a ‘wide theatrical release’ on ‘no less than 1,500 screens,” the 23-page motion adds, taking a direct swipe at the obvious Achilles’ heel of the longtime Marvel...
“In a futile effort to evade this unavoidable result , Periwinkle excluded Marvel as a party to this lawsuit––substituting instead its parent company Disney under contract-interference theories,” they lash out. “But longstanding principles do not permit such gamesmanship.” On the other hand, Disney did respond last night officially to Johansson and her lawyers’ interpretation of her contract with Marvel. Specifically, having seen execs Bob Iger and Bob Chapek’s payouts out in the actor’s legal action, the company and its hired muscle center on what putting the repeatedly pandemic delayedon streamer Disney+ as well as on the big screen when the Cate Shortland directed film was finally released on July 9.
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