Producer Seeks $1Million in Damages For Intentional Name Misspelling in Movie Credits

Posted by on Apr 11, 2012 in Art, Business Litigation, Business Transactions, Entertainment, Film, News | 0 comments How much is a name worth? Well, if you are film producer Bob Van Ronkel, it is worth $1 Million (or at least according to the complaint he recently filed in Los Angeles Superior Court). Mr. Von Ronkel’s lawsuit lists causes of action for breach of written contract, breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, fraud in the inducement, negligent misrepresentation, injunctive...
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Actress’s Lawsuit Against IMDb.com and Amazon.com is One Step Closer to Trial

Posted by on Apr 10, 2012 in Business Transactions, Entertainment, Film, News, Television | 0 comments On March 30, 2012, the Washington Federal Court Ninth Circuit made several findings in the case of Huang Hoang, who has been making headlines in the entertainment industry for her lawsuit last October claiming website IMDb.com and its parent company Amazon.com are liable to her for damages because they had revealed her true age of 40 years old. Ms. Hoang, who is better known in the entertainment...
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Trial Date Set in Actress Huang Hoang’s Lawsuit Against IMDB and Amazon

Posted by on Mar 6, 2012 in Art, Employment, Entertainment, Film, News, Television | 0 comments The Texas-based actress suing IMDB and its parent company Amazon for publishing her true age on their website is now moving forward and the federal judge presiding over the case has set a trial date for January 07, 2013. Hoang’s lawsuit asserts causes of action for breach of contract, fraud, and violation of Washington’s Privacy and Consumer Protection Act. Now that the Ms. Hoang has...
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Actress Who Sued IMDB Over Her Age Disclosure Has Been Forced to Reveal Her Identity

Posted by on Mar 5, 2012 in Art, Entertainment, Film, News, Television | 0 comments Recently, an actress who originally sued the popular IMDB website, a subsidiary of Amazon, for disclosing her real age, revealed her true identity in court documents. The federal judge presiding over her case ordered her to identify herself by name and gave her fourteen days to do so or face having her case dismissed. Actress Huang Hoang has been praised by the Screen Actors Guild for her...
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IMDb Refuses to Delete or Change Actors’ Ages, Despite Talks with SAG and AFTRA

Posted by on Nov 7, 2011 in Art, Employment, Entertainment, Film, Music, News, Sports, Television | 0 comments Earlier last month, an anonymous actress filed a million dollar lawsuit against the IMDb (“Internet Movie Database”) website claiming that the database violated her constitutional right to privacy by accessing and providing personal information, specifically her age. It may come as no surprise that the entertainment industry is taking the recent lawsuit very seriously and has been in talks...
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