Scarlett Johansson is suing Disney over Black Widow’s streaming release

Overnight · Aug 2, 2021

El OchoCinco said:
I love going to the movies but yeah..if it is going to be available cheaper on streaming.. my laziness wins
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Oh come on El Gato...If they released this in the theaters today, wouldn't it be a trip for you?

JSOP · Aug 2, 2021

El OchoCinco said:
It is not about the virus... courts review language in contracts for common usage within an industry. If this contract was drafted in 2018 or 2019 based on many previous contracts where a back end deal based on wide release was clearely understood to mean theaters across the country, then it is NOT a change in the interpretation of words in the contract. Both sides entered the contract believing in release in theaters otherwise Disney would have put it in the contract at the time. COVID changed EVERYTHING.

Many people here are not familiar with contract law but a court gives meaning to language in a contract based on intent of the parties and common usage within an industry. Again, if this contract was signed in 2018 it matters as Disney+ was announced in 2018 to launch in late 2019. The language of the contract mentions wide release and ScarJo cna show that language was used to mean theatrical in the several contracts all signed prior with other parties she can establish the intent and that changing the meaning or intent to now include streaming after the fact is something that would have to be in writing clearly. the court WILL NOT put into a contract something not clearly intended by the parties.

Therefore although the case is not super strong, Scarlett does have a valid point within the law of contract language interpretation.

DIsney us making hundreds of millions of dollars off of this movie so the claim that Scarlett is looking to profit to the DETRIMENT OF OTHERS is silly. Poor Disney... they will only make $500 million dollars instead of $550 million....
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You made good points until the last paragraph but totally misunderstood what I meant as the party that used a deadly virus to profit to the detriment of others.

JSOP · Aug 2, 2021

El OchoCinco said:
Again, I think Disney will cut her a deal because she was part of a successful series and Disney does not want to go to court and have a judge define future contracts with streaming now involved, they want to be able to handle it themselves.
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That would be the smart thing to do. That's exactly what I said before:

JSOP said:
If I were Disney, I would fire the PR guy and start negotiating with Johansson.
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Scarlett Johansson is suing Disney over Black Widow’s streaming release

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