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    Will Smith Settles Lawsuit Over Biopic of Serena and Venus Williams' Father

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    Overbrook Entertainment owned by the ‘Aladdin’ actor has reached a settlement after the company was sued over Richard Williams’ life story which is turned into a movie.
    Aug 10, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Will Smith’s production company, Overbrook Entertainment, has reached a settlement after being sued over “King Richard” – a biopic based on the life of Serena and Venus Williams’ father, Richard Williams.
    In court documents obtained by Entertainment Tonight, it is claimed Overbrook chiefs “have entered into a settlement” with TW3 Entertainment and Power Move Multimedia, who are “dismissing their claims against defendants with prejudice.”
    The two parties, however, ask the court to retain “jurisdiction over the Parties to enforce the payment term in the settlement.”
    Also named as defendants in the suit are Warner Bros., Williams and his son and business partner Chavoita LeSane, and production company Star Thrower Entertainment, as well as its executives Timothy and Trevor White.
    Back in June (20), it emerged that bosses at TW3 Entertainment and Power Move Multimedia were suing over the project, claiming that they were the true owners of the tennis coach’s life rights.
    They claimed they bought the rights to Williams’ 2014 memoir, “Black and White: The Way I See It”, in 2017 from LeSane, who allegedly had been given power of attorney by his father for the “purposes of dealing with film and media rights for his book.”
    LeSane was allegedly involved in an initial draft of a script for the project too, before Williams later sold the rights to his story for “King Richard” for $1 million (£800,000).
    “King Richard”, starring Will as Richard, Saniyya Sidney as Venus, and Demi Singleton as Serena, is slated for a 2021 release.

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      Serena Williams' Father Sued Over Will Smith Movie

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      Richard Williams is slapped with a lawsuit by companies which claim to have bought the rights to his book before the ‘Bad Boys for Life’ actor began producing a biopic based on his life.
      Jun 25, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Richard Williams, the father of tennis aces Serena Williams and Venus Williams, has been served with a lawsuit over a biopic about him. TW3 Entertainment and Power Move Multi Media filed the lawsuit in L.A. Superior Court on Tuesday, June 23, accusing Richard of breach of contract.
      The companies claim that they bought the rights to Richard’s book “Black and White: The Way I See It” and life story back in 2017, before Will Smith began producing the movie starring himself as Serena’s father. In the docs, the plaintiffs state that the contract barred anyone else from making a movie based on Richard’s life.
      “This case presents an unfortunate and tawdry situation: the cold and calculating misappropriation and interference with Plaintiffs’ intellectual property,” read the complaint. “Plaintiffs’ good faith and contractually protected efforts to bring an amazing story into visual art form were met with Defendants’ greed and disregard for Plaintiff’s existing rights.”
      The lawsuit names Richard, his son and sometimes business partner Chavoita Lesane, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Will’s production company Overbrook Entertainmentand production company Star Thrower Entertainment as defendants. “Defendant Warner Bros. used Plaintiffs’ ideas and materials in ‘King Richard’, and such ideas and materials provide substantial value to Defendant,” the complaint continues to read.
      TW3 and PMMM are now seeking “an injunction requiring all profits for any project using the Richard Williams Rights to be placed in trust for Plaintiffs’ benefit” in addition to unspecified damages from the big budget “King Richard” movie.
      “King Richard” previously faced backlash over the casting of Will Smith as Richard Williams. The critics accused the filmmakers of colorism, believing that the role should go to a darker-skinned actor. “Colorism matters..love will Smith but there are other black actors for this role,” one tweeted at the time.
      The film is said to focus on Serena and Venus’ father as he “overcame tremendous hardship, skepticism and his own troubled past to raise two of the game’s greatest players” despite lacking tennis background. It eyes a 2021 release date.

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      Liev Schreiber Joins Biopic About Serena Williams' Coach Father

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      The ‘Ray Donovan’ actor has been signed on to join Will Smith in an upcoming true-story feature film chronicling Serena and Venus Williams’ father Richard.
      Mar 1, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Liev Schreiber has joined Will Smith in the cast of “King Richard”, a biopic centred on Serena Williams and Venus Williams’ tennis coach father Richard.
      According to The Hollywood Reporter, Schreiber will play tennis coach Paul Cohen, a noted instructor who worked with John McEnroe and Pete Sampras, who Richard brought on board to give his daughters lessons.
      Reinaldo Marcus Green is directing the drama, which features Will in the title role and Saniyya Sidney and Demi Singleton as Venus and Serena, respectively. Aunjanue Ellis and Jon Bernthal will also star.
      The script by Zach Baylin depicts how the uncompromising tennis dad trained his two daughters to play tennis on the cracked courts in Compton, Los Angeles, and coached them all the way to Grand Slam wins and all-time greatness.

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