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Complainants Robson Orr Entertainment,
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REGENCY ENTERTAINMENT
(USA), INC., a California corporation;
and MONARCHY ENTERPRISES
S.ARL. a Luxembourg company, ,
Plaintiffs,
v.
TATIRA 2, LLC, a California limited
liability company; CBLS CORP... a
California corporation; CONSIDERED
ENTERTAINMENT, LLC, a Delaware
limited liability company; DEMAREST
FILMS, LLC, a Delaware limited
liability company; OA3, LLC, a
Delaware limited liability company;
RATPAC ENTERTAINMENT, LLC, a
Delaware limited liability company;
ROBSON ORR ENTERTAINMENT,
LLC, a Delaware limited lability
company; WINDSOR MEDIA, INC., a
California corporation; WORLDVIEW
ENTERTAINMENT PARTNERS IX,
LLC, a Delaware limited liability
company; and DOES 1 through 10,
inclusive,
Defendants.
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Case No. BC687109
CROSS-COMPLAINT FOR BREACH OF
ORAL CONTRACT, FRAUD,
RESCISSION, BREACH OF WRITTEN
CONTRACT AND AN ACCOUNTING
(Jury Trial Demanded)
Assigned To: Hon. Michael L. Stern
Action Filing Date: December 15, 2017
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ROBSON ORR ENTERTAINMENT,
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LLC, RATPAC ENTERTAINMENT,
LLC, 0A3, LLC, CBLS CORP., and
DEMAREST FILMS, LLC,
Cross-Complainants,
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ARNON MILCHAN, REGENCY
ENTERTAINMENT (USA), INC
MONARCHY ENTERPRISES
SARL. and DOES 1 through. 10,
Cross-Defendants.
Cross-Complainants allege the following:
PRELIMINARY STATEMENT
Based on the fraudulent promises of Arnon Milchan, a well known Israeli producer
and distributor, cross-complainants and their fellow investors put up the cost of producing
ofa moderately budgeted film, directed by and starring Warren Beatty, an Academy
Award winning actor and director with a worldwide reputation for excellent films. The
investors had high hopes for the film, buoyed by Milchan’s false promises. ‘The film was
generally well reviewed and should have been at least a moderate success at the box office
and possibly a significant hit. Instead, despite its quality and generally favorable reviews,
the film became a total box office failure in the U.S. and was given virtually no release at
all in overseas theatres.
The evidence will show that this unexpected and unnecessary disaster-was the
result of the extraordinary breach of contract and fraud by Milchan and his controlled
companies. That provable misconduct led inexorably to the unnecessary but complete
financial failure of a promising film, resulting in cross-complainants losing every penny
of their sizeable investment.
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Milchan and his companies seek by their lawsuit to significantly increase the
investors’ already substantial loss by exacting still more money from them ~ money to
which Milchan’s companies are not entitled. Defendants’ Answer and this Cross-
Complaint by the investors seek to redress the harm Milchan and his companies have
already caused and to avoid the significantly increased harm Milchan seeks to impose on
them.
FIRST CAUSE OF ACTION
(Breach of Oral Contract — Against Ammon Milchan)
1. Cross-complainants invested in the motion picture “Rules Don’t Apply” (the
“Picture”), which was to be distributed by Regency Entertainment (USA), Ine. and
Monarchy Enterprises $.A.R.L. (called the “Regency Distributors”).
2. Cross-complainants are informed and believe and, on that ground, allege
that the Regency Distributors are corporations or LLCs conducting business as financiers,
producers and distributors of motion pictures. Arnon Milchan (“Milchan”) is a well-
known and highly experienced motion picture executive, an Istaeli citizen, but a long time
resident of Los Angeles County, California. Milchan, or entities owned or controlled by
him, are the principal shareholders, owners and representatives of the Regency
Distributors.
3. The true names and capacities of cross-defendants named herein as Does 1
through 10 are unknown to cross-complainants who therefore sue said cross-defendants
by such fictitious names. Cross-complainants will ask leave of this court to amend this
complaint to show their true names and capacities when,the same have been ascertained.
Cross-complainants are informed and believe, and, on that ground, allege, that Does 1
through 10 were responsible, in some manner, for cross-defendants’ acts hereinafter
alleged, for which they are also liable to cross-complainants.
4. During 2013, before the contracts alleged in the complaint were signed,
Milchan represented to the principal officers of Tatira 2 and CBLS Corp. that he was
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putting up a part of the $30 million cost of producing the Picture; and Milchan entered
into an oral contract with them (the “Milchan Contract”), expressly intended and made by
the parties to benefit all of the investors in the Picture. In that contract, Milchan promised
that, if cross-complainants and their fellow investors agreed to put up the rest of the cost
of production, Milchan would actively function as lead producer of the Picture, would
personally and actively supervise its marketing and distribution, would personally stay in
regular and meaningful consultation with Beatty, the Picture’s director, throughout its
making, marketing and distribution and would personally make sure that the Picture was
treated as a first class film in every respect. The Milchan Contract is enforceable by
cross-complainants as intended third party beneficiaries of that contract.
5. Cross-complainants and their fellow investors did all things required of
them under the Milchan Contract to entitle them to enforce Milchan’s promises
thereunder. They agreed to invest and invested over $27 million of the $30 million cost of
producing the Picture, while Milchan’s company invested only the balance; and cross-
complainants are in no manner or respect in breach of the Milchan Contract. The Picture
was produced and was released in November 2016. It received generally favorable
reviews. Examples of those reviews are attached as Exhibit “A” hereto.
6. Milchan, however, willfully and materially failed and refused to perform his
promises under the Milchan Contract. For example, Milchan totally failed and refused to
function as producer of the Picture, failing and refusing personally or actively to supervise
the making, marketing or distribution of the Picture and generally absenting himself from
cach of those critical phases of his promised responsibilities. Milchan also failed and
refused to remain in regular, meaningful consultation with Beatty, the director of the
Picture, during its making, marketing and distribution, and failed and refused to ensure
that the Picture was treated in every respect, or any respect, as a first class film, all of
which caused the Picture’s disastrous box office results and the loss of cross-
complainants’ entire investment.
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7. Asa direct and proximate result of the foregoing acts and omissions of
Milchan in willfal and material breach of the Milchan Contract, cross-complainants
suffered monetary damages which they are informed and believe and, on that ground,
allege exceed $20 million, and, if cross-complainants were held liable for a claimed
distribution shortfall, would excéed $40 million.
SECOND CAUSE OF ACTION
(Fraud — Against All Cross-Defendants)
8. Cross-complainants incorporate by reference paragraphs | through 6
hereinabove as though fully set forth herein,
9. During late 2013, to induce cross-complainants to make their investment in
the Picture and to sign P & A Shortfall Guarantees, cross-defendants, including Milchan,
acting as an individual and also as an authorized agent and representative of the Regency
Companies, made the misrepresentations and concealed the facts alleged hereinbelow, all
with intent to deceive and with knowledge that his representations were false and
misleading and that the facts he concealed were essential to prevent his affirmative
statements from being false and misleading,
a, Having insisted that he be publicly billed, advertised and proclaimed
as the lead “producer” of the Picture and that his companies receive a share of the
Picture’s gross receipts, Milchan falsely promised cross-complainants that, he would.
actively function in the critical role of the Picture’s lead producer and would personally
and actively supervise its marketing and distribution, In making those promises, Milchan
knew that they were false and had no intention of actively functioning as a producer or
personally and actively supervising the marketing or distribution of the Picture. In fact, he
did not function as a producer of the Picture and had no significant involvement in
supervising its marketing or distribution, absenting himself totally from such involvement
and from the required functions of a producer, for example, never attending any filming
session, going only once to the editing rooms, sleeping through the only screening of the
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Picture he attended before the editing was completed, and turning over supervision of the
Picture’s marketing and distribution to his son, Yariv Milchan, who had neither the
experience nor the skill riecessary to perform those critical functions. Among other results
of Milchan’s utter failures to keep his false promises concerning marketing, the Picture
was so poorly and ineffectively marketed that it had a disastrous public “unaided
awareness” score of only 1% at the time of its release.
b. While making such affirmative representations to cross-complainants,
about the key role he would play as lead producer and in supervising the marketing and
distribution of the Picture, Milchan concealed from cross-complainants that he did not
intend to play any significant role as a producer of the Picture or in supervising the
| marketing or distribution of the Picture and intended essentially to absent himself from
those functions so critical to the film’s financial success. Milchan also concealed from
cross-complainants that his personal dependencies and disabilities, his need to sell his
company and to raise a vast and critical loan, and his direct involvement in an Istaeli
bribery case, would, in any event, prevent or severely hamper his playing any active role
in producing and supervising the making, marketing or distribution of the Picture.
¢. Milchan falsely promised cross-complainants that, throughout the
making, marketing and distribution of the Picture, he would personally remain in regular
and meaningful consultation with the director of the Picture. -In fact, Milchan had no
intention of keeping his promise in this regard and did not do so. On the contrary, as
Milchan intended when he made the foregoing false promise, he subsequently announced
that he would not want to speak to the director about the Picture and failed and refused to
consult in any significant way with the director, Bing or any other representative of the
investors about making, marketirig or distributing the Picture, even instructing his son
Yariv, who Milchan put in charge of supervising the Picture’s marketing and distribution,
to avoid consulting with the director about those critical processes. For example,
following Milchan’s instructions, Yariv falsely represented to the director that he was
absent from the studio when the director tried in vain to meet him there to discuss
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distribution of the Picture. In fact, Yariv was present at the studio at the time; but, based
on his father’s instructions, he simply lied to the director to avoid consulting with him,
d. While making positive statements about his regularly consulting with
the director of the Picture, concerning its making, marketing and distribution, Milchan
concealed from cross-complainants that he had no intention of consulting with him in any
significant way and Milchan did not engage in such consultation.
e. Cross-defendants falsely promised cross-complainants that, in its
distribution, the Picture would be treated in every respect as a first class film, distributed
in theatres and on home video in all major territories and in all territories in which
‘Twentieth Century Fox (“Fox”) customarily distributes and would be distributed in pay
and free TV and put through cross-defendants’ lucrative television output deals. In
making those promises, cross-defendants did not intend that they would necessarily keep
their promises or that the Picture would necessarily be treated as a first class film or would
necessarily be distributed as so promised, and cross-defendants did not treat the Picture as
a first class film or distribute it as so promised. On the contrary, since production and
domestic marketing and distribution of the Picture was primarily financed by others,
cross-defendants intended that they might well direct their efforts and attention to other
more expensive pictures financed by them. And, in fact, cross-defendants did direct their
efforts and attention to “A Cure For Wellness” and “Assassin’s Creed,” two films in
which they made substantial investments and which were vastly more expensive to
produce, market and distribute than the Picture (¢.g., $150 million to produce “Assassin’s
Creed” and $49 million to produce “A Cure For Wellness,” as apposed to their investing
only $2.5 million to produce the Picture) and which films, unlike the Picture, had received
disastrously poor critical reviews. For example, according to “Rotten Tomatoes,” the
“Top Critics” reported 63% “fresh” (i.e., good) reviews for the Picture vs. only 17%
“fresh” ({.e., good) reviews for “Assassin’s Creed” and 29% “fresh” (i.e., good) reviews
for “A Cure For Wellness.” Cross-defendants did not act effectively or even reasonably
in marketing or distributing the Picture as would have been necessary and would have
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occurred in the case of a first class film. For example, although there were good reviews,
for the Picture, cross-defendants took out few, if any, ads quoting those reviews, and
cross-defendants failed to provide posters, devices and artwork displays to the theatres
where the Picture was to play and, as a result of the utter failure of cross-defendants’
marketing, public awareness of the Picture at the time of its opening was only 1%, a
marketing disaster; and, three days after the opening of the Picture, Milchan directed that
no further money be spent on advertising or promoting the Picture. And cross-deferidants
did not even release the Picture in theatres in most foreign territories in which Fox
customarily distributes and in which any fist class film would have been theatrically
released, and, because, unlike the domestic release, the cost of overseas distribution was
to be borne by cross-defendants themselves, even in those few isolated foreign territories
in which the film was theatrically released, cross-defendants spent virtually nothing on
advertising or promotion, so that the truncated release of the Picture overseas remained
essentially unknown to the general public overseas, resulting in what was essentially no,
theatrical revenue from the entire world outside the U.S., a disastrous result that, in itself,
cost cross-complainants the loss of their investment.
£ While making such positive statements to cross-complainants about
the first class marketing and distribution that would be accorded the Picture, éross-
defendants concealed that, contrary to what they said, they would not distribute the
Picture as they represented if, for example, they had self-financed, more expensive films,
to distribute at or about the same time, in which case their priority would be to devote
their time, attention and efforts to distribution and marketing of those vastly more
expensive, self-financed films rather than to give the Picture, production of which they
were not financing, treatment in every respect — or in any respect — as a first class film and
that they might not even distribute the Picture in theatres in major territories since cross-
defendants had to pay the cost of distribution,
10. As Milchan and cross-defendants knew, their affirmative representations
were false, and full disclosure of the matters they concealed was necessary to prevent their
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affirmative statements from being materially misleading. In reasonable reliance on the
foregoing representations and unaware that those representations were false or of the
matters concealed from them, all as alleged hereinabove, cross-complainants agreed to
and did invest most of the $30 million cost of producing the Picture, and signed
documents (the “P & A Shortfall Guarantees”) purporting to obligate cross-complainants
to pay any.““distribution shortfall,” i.e., the amount by which the total gross receipts of the
Picture in the U.S. are even less than the costs of its U.S. distribution, a'sum cross-
defendants now claim exceeds another $20 million. In further such reasonable reliance,
cross-complainants paid out substantial sums in attorneys’ fees and expenses, as well as
expending their own time and effort in negotiating and reviewing the relevant agreements
and in preparation for production and distribution of the Picture.
11. Contrary to his false promises and representations, Milchan failed to render
any material services as producer of the Picture, generally absenting himself from the
making, marketing and distribution of the Picture, and leaving supervision of the critical
process of marketing and distributing the Picture to his son, Yariv, who had neither the
skill nor the experience to do the job; and Milchan failed and refused to consult in any
material or regular way with the director, or with Bing or any other representative of the
investors, during the making, marketing or distribution of the Picture. In addition, eross-
defendants failed and refused to treat the Picture as a first class picture, or to distribute it
as they represented, For example, because cross-defendants had to pay any overseas
distribution expenses, they failed and refused to distribute the Picture in theatres in most
territories where Fox customarily distributes, and, even in those few overseas countries in
which the Picture was theatrically released, there was no material advertising or
promotion, and the Picture’s “run” was severely truncated, And cross-defendants failed
and refused to provide reasonable or effective marketing or distribution of the Picture or
the expenditures required for such marketing. The Picture received generally good
reviews; but, as a proximate result of cross-defendants’ utter failure to perform their false
and fraudulent promises, its marketing and distribution was a disastrous failure,
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eliminating any chatice of cross-complainants recouping their investment of in excess of
$20 million and even subjecting them to the claim of an additional $20 million loss for an
asserted distribution shortfall.
12. — Cross-complainants first learned of the matters concealed from them by
cross-defendants and first suspected that cross-defendants had never intended to keep their
promises and had thus committed fraud during 2017. Prior to-that point, they were aware
that cross-defendants had not kept some of their promises but did not yet realize that those
promises were fraudulent.
13. During November, 2017, continuing and aggravating their fraudulent
conduct, cross-defendants falsely and fraudulently claimed that an extraordinary
distribution shortfall of $20 million had been incurred on the Picture and demanded that
cross-complainants and the other investors immediately pay that sum to cross-defendants.
Cross-defendants intentionally and fraudulently overstated the amount of any claimed
P & A Shortfall; and, if there was any distribution shortfall at all, it is significantly less
than the $20 million cross-defendants have represented; and any distribution shortfall that
may exist is the direct and proximate result of cross-defendants’ fraud and material breach
of contract. .
14. Asa direct and proximate result of the fraudulent representations and
concealment alleged hereinabove, cross-complainants have been damaged in a substantial
sum, which cross-complainants are informed and believe and, on that ground, allege
exceeds the sum of $20 million and, if cross-complainants were held liable for the claimed
distribution shortfall, would exceed $40 million.
THIRD CAUSE OF ACTION
(In the Alternative, For Rescission of the So-Called “P & A
Shortfall Guarantees” ~ Against the Regency Distributors)
15. Cross-complainants incorporate by reference paragraphs 1 through 13
hereinabove as though fully set forth herein.
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16. _ In addition to the pervasive fraud alleged hereinabove, cross-defendants’
inaccurate and inflated demand for substantial payments from cross-complainants that are
not, in fact, payable, based on a claimed, but inflated, P & A Shortfall, constituted a
repudiation by cross-defendants of the documents called P & A Shortfall Guarantees and
the material breach by cross-defendants of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing
implied in those documents. .
17. _ By reason of cross-defendants’ fraud, repudiation and breach alleged
hereinabove, cross-comiplainants are entitled to rescind and cancel the P & A Shortfall
Guarantees and, by this action, do rescind and cancel them,
FOURTH CAUSE OF ACTION
(Breach of Written Distribution Agreement ~
___ Against the Regency Distributors)
18. _ Cross-complainants incorporate by reference paragraphs 1, 2 and 3
hereinabove as though fully set forth herein.
19. During December 2013, defendant Tatira 2 entered into the written
agreement with the Regency Distributors attached as Exhibit “A” to the Complaint (the
“Distribution Agreement”). In addition to benefiting Tatira 2, the obligations of the
Regency Distributors under the Distribution Agreement were expressly intended by the
parties thereto to benefit cross-complainants and are enforceable by cross-complainants as
intended third party beneficiaries of those obligations.
20. Except to the extent excused by cross-defendants’ breach as alleged
hereinbelow, Tatira 2 fully performed its obligations under the Distribution Agreement
and is in no manner or respect in breach thereof. .
21. The Regency Distributors were and are in willful and material breach of
provisions of the Distribution Agreement intended to benefit cross-complainants as well
as Tatira 2. Such acts of breach include but are not limited to cross-defendants’ failing
and refusing to provide Milchan’s services as producer, failing and refusing to consult
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meaningfully or as promised with the director, during the making, marketing and
distribution of the Picture, which consultation was to be carried out by Milchan; failing
and refusing to act reasonably or prudently in the marketing or distribution of the Picture
so that, for example, there were few if any review ads and no material artwork displays for
the theatres, and the Picture had only a disastrous. 1% “unaided awareness” score at the
time of its release, and cross-defendants failed and refused to treat the Picture as a first
class theatrical feature, failing and refusing to release it in theatres and in home video in
all major territories and in all territories in which Fox customarily distributes, failing and
refusing to distribute the Picture theatrically in most overseas territories and, in the few
territories where it was distributed in any theatre, cross-defendants failed and refused to
spend any material sums on advertising or any other marketing or to provide anything
other than a severely truncated theatrical run, so that virtually no revenue was received
from theatrical distribution in most of the world. And cross-defendants failed'and refused
to distribute the Picture on pay and free television as agreed, failed and refused to support
the Picture financially, violated the confidentiality provisions of the Distribution
Agreement, failed and refused to obligate Fox to comply with the provisions of the
Distribution Agreement, failed to provide reasonable detail in a purported notice of a
P & A Shortfall, falsely and fraudulently overstating the amount of any claimed P & A
Shortfall and demanding sums from cross-complainants that were not payable; and cross-
defendants violated the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing inherent in the
Distribution Agreement as in every contract. Each of the provisions so violated by the
Regency Distributors, including the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, was
intended for the benefit of cross-complainants, as well as Tatira 2.
22. Asadirect and proximate result of the Regency Distributors’ breach of the
provisions of the Distribution Agreement intended to benefit cross-complainants as well
as Tatira 2, cross-complainants have suffered substantial monetary damages, which they
are informed and believe will exceed the sum of $20 million and, if cross-complainants
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damages.
FIFTH CAUSE OF ACTION ’
(In the Alternative, For an Accounting —
Against the Regency Companies)
23. Cross-complainants incorporate by reference paragraphs 1 through 22
hereinabove as though fully set forth herein.
24. As arresult of the foregoing facts, a dispute has arisen between the parties as
to whether, if the so-called “P & A Shortfall Guarantees” were held enforceable, cross-
complainants owe $20 million or any sum at all as a distribution shortfall pursuant to any
obligation under those documents. Accordingly, cross-complainants are entitled to an
accounting of the actual receipts of the Picture and the actual expenses of its distribution
and as to whether there is any actual distribution shortfall and, if there is, as to the actual
amount thereof.
WHEREFORE, cross-complainants pray judgment as follows:
1. For damages against all cross-defendants jointly and severally in the sum of
$50 million or such other and greater sum as shall be found;
2. For cross-complainants’ attorneys” fees and disbursements;
3. For exemplary damages against all cross-defendants in an amount sufficient
to punish them and deter further fraudulent conduct;
4, For judgment that the so-called “P & A Shortfall Guarantees” have been
rescinded and are of no further force or effect; :
5. Inthe alternative, for an accounting of the gross receipts of the Picture and
of the expenses of its distribution in order to determine what sum, if any, is due and
payable to cross-defendants; and
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DATED: March 14, 2018
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GREENBERG GLUSKER FIELDS.
CLAMAN & MACHTINGER LLP
By:
BERTRAM FIELDS (SBN 024199
Attorneys for Defendants Tatira 2, LLC, CBLS
Corp., Considered Entertainment, LLC,
Demarest Films, LLC, OA3, LLC, Ratpac
Entertainment, LLC and Robson Orr
Entertainment, LLC, and Cross-Complainants
Robson Orr Entertainment, Considered
Entertainment, LLC, Ratpac Entertainment,
LLC, OA3, LLC, CBLS Corp. and Demarest
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