Village Roadshow Entertainment Group, a longtime partner with Warner Bros. Pictures and a co-producer on “The Matrix: Resurrections,” is suing Warner Bros. for breach of contract over the release of the film on HBO Max, saying that it’s part of coordinated efforts by the studio “to eviscerate the significant value of Village Roadshow’s intellectual property in order to prop up the new HBO Max streaming service.”
Village Roadshow’s lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday and obtained by TheWrap. It claims that despite more than 25 years of collaboration on producing and distributing 91 films, during which the suit says Village Roadshow has paid WB more than $4.5