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Disney's response to Scarlett Johansson's lawsuit over Black Widow 's streaming release has fans predicting an ugly legal fight between the actress and House of Mouse. The latest Marvel blockbuster has not been performing well after a successful first weekend at the box office and Johansson is taking Disney to court over it. In a lawsuit filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Johansson's legal team alleges that the star's contract was breached when the studio streamed the movie at the same time as its theater release. Johansson's attorneys say that this affected ticket sales for the movie's theatrical release, thus impacting the star's compensation which they say was tied to Black Widow 's box office performance. "Disney intentionally induced Marvel's breach of the agreement, without justification, in order to prevent Ms. Johansson from realizing the full benefit of her bargain with Marvel," the suit reads, per Variety . T...

Amanda Knox lashed out at the new Matt Damon film "Stillwater" — claiming the movie profits off her real-life struggle for a wrongful murder conviction. The 34-year-old lamented how her name continues to be associated with a killing she didn’t commit – and is now linked to a film she had no part in making. "Does my name belong to me?" she wrote in a Thursday tweet storm . "My face? What about my life? My story? Why does my name refer to events I had no hand in? I return to these questions because others continue to profit off my name, face & story without my consent. Most recently, the film #STILLWATER " Knox also took issue with the fictionalized character she now feels associated with because the film’s ending veers from actual events in a sinister twist. MATT DAMON'S ‘STILLWATER’ BANKING ON THEATERS-ONLY RELEASE Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were twice convicted and later acquitted in the 2007 killing of Knox’s roommate Meredith Kercher ...

As far as King Arthur films go, “The Green Knight” has a lot more in common with “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” than most newer, high-energy takes, such as Guy Ritchie’s “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.” Running time: 125 minutes. Rated R (violence, some sexuality and graphic nudity.) In theaters. That’s not to say there are shrubberies, coconuts and Tim Curry, but there is almost no action in this movie. No long, swashbuckling sword fights. No fast-paced chases on horseback. The score is medieval — think lutes and harps — not modern. The journey of Sir Gawain ( Dev Patel ), one of the Knights of the Round Table, is a quest in the most pastoral sense.  And damn is director David Lowery’s forrest-filled movie beautiful to look at. Dev Patel goes on a quest to meet his maker in “The Green Knight.” Courtesy Everett Collection This telling of the tale sees the young Gawain desperate to become one of King Arthur’s brave soldiers. In a bold move, although we meet Arthu...

If Scarlett Johansson's lawsuit against Disney over the studio's dual release of Black Widow in theaters and on Disney+ simultaneously hasn't caused enough fuss on its own, the corporation has fired back a scathing response, in which they branded the actress "callous" and even went to the unprecedented lengths of revealing just how much money the actress has made from the movie to make their point. In the lawsuit filed today, Johansson made the claim that the release of the movie on Disney+ breached her contract and caused a loss of theatrical revenue that she would have received if the movie had been released only in cinemas. RELATED: Disney Gets Sued by Scarlett Johansson Over Black Widow Disney+ Streaming Release A spokes person for the Walt Disney Company said, "There is no merit whatsoever to this filing. The lawsuit is especially sad and distressing in its callous disregard for the horrific and prolonged global effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. D...

DaBaby  isn't letting up. The "Rockstar" rapper has responded to Questlove in a series of Instagram Stories. "I ain't even tryna be funny when I say... I do not know who dis n***a is dawg," he wrote. "And I do not care bout losing you as a fan my boy lol @questlove. You or any other n***a who wanna play follow the leader. This superstar was a fan of is stand up n***a, yeen never seen one of these huh?" Last night (July 28), Questlove made a statement on Instagram condemning DaBaby for his homophobic comments during his set at Rolling Loud Miami this past weekend. The Roots cofounder posted a screenshot that showed a list of artists—The Roots, A Tribe Called Quest, The Isley Brothers, Rihanna, Sade, Megan Thee Stallion, DaBaby, Hiatus Kaiyote, Sault—but Baby's name was scribbled out. "I was hypothetically asked if I was curating an updated version of #SummerOfSoul who would be my acts? I gave my dream list," he wrote. "And n...

In this article CMCSA US journalist Amanda Knox addresses a panel discussion titled "Trial by Media" during the Criminal Justice Festival at the Law University of Modena, northern Italy on June 15, 2019. VINCENZO PINTO | AFP | Getty Images Amanda Knox is speaking out against the new Matt Damon film "Stillwater." The journalist, who was wrongfully convicted of the murder of Meredith Kercher and later acquitted of the crime, took to Twitter on Thursday to lambast the film's director Tom McCarthy as well as the media for linking her name to the project. "Does my name belong to me? My face? What about my life? My story? Why does my name refer to events I had no hand in? I return to these questions because others continue to profit off my name, face, & story without my consent," she wrote in the first of a series of tweets. Knox's Twitter thread, which is also posted as an essay on Medium , went on to address sexism, the era...

The Walt Disney Company clapped back at “ Black Widow ” star Scarlett Johansson, slamming the actress’ breach of contract lawsuit for showing “callous disregard for the horrific and prolonged global effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.” In a court filing on Thursday , Johansson said Disney’s decision to send the Marvel movie to Disney Plus at the same time it was released in theaters cost her millions of dollars in backend compensation. Those bonuses were tied to hitting box office benchmarks that “Black Widow” likely won’t achieve. Disney is countering that it complied with the terms of Johansson’s deal to star in the Avengers spinoff film. “There is no merit whatsoever to this filing,” Disney said in an unusually fiery statement. “The lawsuit is especially sad and distressing in its callous disregard for the horrific and prolonged global effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.” The company went on to state that the star has already received $20 million for her work and argued that “the re...