Sundance’s biggest legal brawls
Kurt & Courtney, Nick Broomfield‘s documentary about the death of Kurt Cobain, got pulled from the 1998 festival after Courtney Love threatened to sue.
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That’s just one of many suits that have swirled around Sundance,
In 2004, there was a filing for $10 million by Napoleon Dynamite‘s producers over the contracts signed at Sundance with Fox Searchlight.
Then in 2008, there was a suit over Michael Keaton‘s failure to appear at the Sundance screening of The Merry Gentleman.
In 2009, no fewer than four lawsuits over the Grand Jury Prize-winning drama Precious, between The Weinstein Co. and Lionsgate over disputed North American rights;
A defamation suit filed by real estate mogul David Siegel just before the 2012 festival screening of The Queen of Versailles, a documentary about his life that filmmakers were billing as “rags-to-riches-to-rags story.”
Also in 2012, an $11 million suit filed by a branding agency called Hype Creative Agency over an event that never took place at Redford’s Park City restaurant, Zoom.
