Talk:Franchise Pictures

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Lead weirdly silent
I don't know in what universe this material (newly added) does not belong in the lead:

In 2004, in a case heard before a jury in a Los Angeles federal courtroom, Intertainment Licensing GmbH v. Franchise Pictures, et al., Justice Stotler awarded a plaintiff's verdict for $121.7 million against Franchise Pictures and Elie Samaha for fraudulent accounting. Samaha vowed to appeal but the fraud judgment destroyed Franchise's viability; the company and its subsidiaries all filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy petitions on August 19, 2007.

This summarizes the article below, but adds some extra authority by providing the explicit case name and presiding judge, with best (and only) citation I could find.

I'm going like, woah, this is covering the demise of Gawker Media without mentioning Peter Thiel in the lead. &mdash; MaxEnt 20:25, 4 October 2022 (UTC)