Mel Gibson: Exempted from editor's complaint

Mel Gibson: Exempted from editor's complaint

Actor Mel Gibson has got time to relax and enjoy. The scribe suing Mel Gibson for deception over a ‘royalty dispute’ that is associated with ‘The Passion of the Christ’ has issued an amended lawsuit on Monday. Such a step was taken after it was found that the original complaint "lacked specificity" and was taking a "chain letter" approach.

Details about Mel Gibson’s news have been gathered from quite a number of sources. According to them, Benedict Fitzgerald, who along with Mel Gibson has written down the Passion screenplay, files a suit against the filmmaker in the month of February for $10 million. He claimed that he was more or less forced to accept less than normal fees for working on the script. He did so when Mel Gibson told him that the film’s budget was very small and that Mel himself would not be taking any proceeds until he would remuneration for the crew members.

However the film made a profit of 600 million dollars worldwide.

In self defense the lawyers of Mel Gibson is trying hard to nullify six of the nine allegations leveled at him from Fitzgerald's suit.

According to the ruling of judge in the month of May all the financial records pertaining to the Passion's budget and box office will be kept secret. It would be made available only to each side's counsel.

Source: netglimse.com