Investors Attack How Paramount Calculates Damages in Film Finance Lawsuit — hollywoodreporter.com

Quite possibly, Paramount Pictures will be going to trial to defend claims made by Wall St. investors who say they put up $40 million for a slate of films only to see no return. If such a trial takes place, the investors don't want the studio to bring forth an expert who would testify about what would have happened if the investors kept investing in Paramount films. The lawsuit concerns a a film slate known as "Melrose 1," 25 films released between April 2004 and March 2006 that included Mean Girls, Elizabethtown, Collateral and remakes of The Manchurian Candidate, The Stepford Wives and Alfie. 

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