The producer of “John Wick” has been ordered to pay $2.4 million to Huayi Bros. in connection with a failed attempt to release the violent action film in China.
Huayi Bros. agreed in 2013 to pay the producer a $1.5 million minimum guarantee to distribute the film in China, provided the movie made it past the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, the Chinese censorship body.
After the film was produced, in late 2014, state-run distributor China Film Group reported that the film was simply too violent to get a China release.
Huayi Bros. asked the producer, a subsidiary of Basil Iwanyk’s Thunder Road Pictures, for the return of the $1.5 million. That was the beginning of a conflict — which is still ongoing five years later — over
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