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MICHAEL JACKSON: Estate Sues HBO Over Doc

TeeRoy's 2 Cents:

  • Does that mean if Showtime or CBS or a channel not owned by AT&T's Warner Media tried to run the show, there'd be no grounds for a suit?
  • Interesting that the heirs seek damage, but are not asking for an injunction to bar HBO from airing it.
  • No court is going to penalize HBO for one film because of something in an unrelated matter it agreed to 27 years ago.
  • Wait! There are criminal charges involved here -- shouldn't that supercede "non-disparagement?"
  • HBO probably can't stop the film from being broadcast -- it's already been shown at the Sundance film festival.

The suit pivots on a clause in the HBO contract for airing the 1992 specialMichael Jackson in Concert in Bucharest: The Dangerous Tour. But basically they don't like what the film shows.

Attorney Howard Weitzmansays, "HBO and the director were well aware of their financial motives and that ample opposing facts are available from numerous sources, but made the unconscionable decision to bury any evidence casting doubt on their chosen narrative... Had they made an objective film it would have allowed viewers to make up their own minds about these allegations, instead of having a television network dictate to them that they must accept these false claims about Michael Jackson." (Variety)


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