Gary Dretzka
Leonard Klady
David Poland
Ray Pride
Patricia Vidal

Update: 12/3/03
Harvey Weinstein's Declaration

 

*** MEDIA ALERT ***

Specialty Studio Chiefs Subpoenaed to Appear Wednesday A.M. for MPAA Screener Ban Suit
Three More Plaintiffs Sign On

WHO: Antidote International Films, Elemental Films, Forensic Films*, GreeneStreet Films*, Head Quarter Pictures, Independent Digital Entertainment, Independent Entertainment, Killer Films, Open City Films, Paradigm Consulting*, Salty Features, Sandcastle 5 Productions, Sanford/Pillsbury Productions, Talking Wall Pictures, This is that Corporation, IFP/Los Angeles, IFP/New York; (*Denotes new litigants)
v.
Motion Picture Association of America

Subsequent to last Wednesday's emergency hearing on the request for a temporary restraining order to lift the MPAA screener ban, the following heads of specialty divisions of major film studios have been subpoenaed to appear on Wednesday a.m.: Harvey Weinstein, president, Miramax Films; Michael Barker and Tom Bernard, co-presidents, Sony Pictures Classics; David Linde and James Schamus, co-presidents, Focus Features; Bingham Ray, president, MGM-United Artists.

WHAT: An evidentiary hearing before U.S. District Chief Judge Michael B. Mukasey, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, preparatory to ruling on the Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, enjoining the MPAA from implementing its mandated ban on the promotional distribution of screener tapes by MPAA signatory distribution companies and their subsidiaries: The Walt Disney Company, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures Corporation, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., Universal Studios, and Warner Bros.

WHEN: Wednesday, December 3, 2003
9:30 a.m.

WHERE: Daniel Patrick Moynihan Courthouse in Foley Square
500 Pearl Street
Floor and Room: 21st Floor, Room 21-B

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