JAY-Z and Eminem are suing the Weinstein Company, Deadline.com is reporting. According to the outlet, both recording artists/businessmen claim that they are owed hundreds of thousands of dollars each for previous movie deals that they had with disgraced Hollywood exec Harvey Weinstein's company.
This news comes just days after JAY-Z announced his new television division at Roc Nation, which former Weinstein Company exec VP and co-head of the television department Patrick Reardon will be heading. Deadline reports that both Hov and Em filed their legal documents last week.
Eminem claims that the production company owes him $352,000 for license fees for his songs “Phenomenal,” “Phenomenal 2” and “Kings Never Die” for the 2015 boxing movie Southpaw starring Jake Gyllenhaal. "Claiming that just $48,000 has been paid, Eminem’s lawyers could have thrown a high-profile spanner in the works of any potential sale by asserting that 'to date, no licenses have been granted to TWC or Producer to Exploit the Music Party Repertoire embodied in the Southpaw film, trailer(s), and/or any other related assets,'" Deadline reads.
As for JAY, the mogul claims that he's owed $480,000, which should be paid separately in two sets of $240,000 payments. Hov says that this money belongs to him for his 2017 docu-series Time: The Kalief Browder Story, as well as upcoming series Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story, which is scheduled to premiere in July 2018.
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