Focus Features announced today that it will release James Gray’s semi-autobiographical drama Armageddon Time in limited theaters on October 28. The film will expand domestically on November 4 before going nationwide on the 11th.
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H.E.R. has filed a lawsuit against MBK Entertainment, the record label owned by her longtime manager Jeff Robinson.
Variety reports that the Grammy award-winning singer, whose real name is Gabriella Sarmiento Wilson, has sued for the rights to her music catalog. She signed with Jeff in 2011 at the age of 14.
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According to legal docs obtained by The Blast, H.E.R. has sued for declaratory relief and violation of the business and professions code and seeking to be let go from her contract with MBK. The lawsuit was filed on Thursday (June 16) in the Superior Court of the State of California in Los Angeles County.
All of H.E.R.‘s released have been released under the MBK logo and were distributed by Sony Music’s RCA Records. It’s not certain whether or not her dispute extends to her contract with Jeff.
The documents reportedly note that the contract makes H.E.R. an “exclusive employee” for an “initial period” which “ended the later of 15 months after May 19, 2011, or 12 months after the commercial release in the United States of Wilson’s first album under the contract, and up to five additional Option Periods of more than one year each.”
They also suggest that H.E.R. believed the contract would have made her an exclusive employee of MBK “past the current date [May 19, 2011] and potentially until much longer, as each Option Period is keyed to a commercial release by MBK of a record album.” In addition, she claims that Jeff fired the law firm that initially represented her and alleges that “Robinson caused his own lawyers to represent Wilson in the negotiation of subsequent contracts, including publishing and touring agreements.”
She also claimed that “those lawyers took 5% of the deals they
Focus Features announced today that it will release James Gray’s semi-autobiographical drama Armageddon Time in limited theaters on October 28. The film will expand domestically on November 4 before going nationwide on the 11th.
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Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorGabriella Sarmiento Wilson, the Grammy- and Oscar-winning singer-songwriter known as H.E.R., is suing MBK Entertainment, the record label owned by her longtime manager Jeff Robinson, for the rights to her music catalog. H.E.R.
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