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Woody Allen has settled his breach of contract lawsuit against Amazon, which cancelled a four-movie deal with the filmmaker amid the #MeToo movement.
Allen’s attorneys and Amazon’s lawyers filed a joint notice dismissing the case on Friday night. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed, reports variety.com.
Allen filed the suit in February, alleging that Amazon had unilaterally backed out of the deal due to a “25-year-old baseless allegation”. Allen’s daughter, Dylan Farrow, has alleged that he raped her when she was seven years old, and Allen has denied the charge.
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Allen claimed that Amazon was fully aware of that controversy when it entered the contract, and that the streaming giant owed him $68 million in minimum guarantee payments.
Amazon shelved the release of “A Rainy Day in New York” in 2018, and then cancelled a deal for three more films. At the time, Amazon cited Allen’s “controversial comments” about the Weinstein scandal.