Monthly Archives: October 2014

GETTING CLIENTS PAID: Rachel in The Washington Post About Past Due Film Profits Owed to Her Clients

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By Aaron Gregg

AMC NETWORKS COULD CLAIM CONTROLLING STAKE IN ROBERT L. JOHNSON’s MOVIE FIRM

"Robert L. Johnson, the pioneering founder of Black Entertainment Television, faces the prospect of giving up control of RLJ Entertainment, a new-media company he started four years ago in Silver Spring, Md...."

"...Some debts apparently included royalty payments due to Bill Duke and D. Channsin Berry, who produced “Dark Girls,” a documentary examining “color-ism within our own community,” referring to the bias against darker skin within black communities.  Their attorney, Rachel Stilwell, provided a legal document claiming that RLJ Entertainment defaulted on $7,286 worth of royalty ­payments...."

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