American director Woody Allen has filed a 68 million-dollar lawsuit against Amazon Studios for cancelling a four-film deal that affected the distribution of his most recent project, “A Rainy Day in New York.”
Amazon Studios cancelled the deal after a decades-old allegation that Allen had sexually abused his adoptive daughter, Dylan Farrow, resurfaced in the wake of the MeToo movement.
Allen has persistently denied the allegation, which was made by Farrow in 1992 and backed by her mother and his former partner, Mia Farrow.
In the breach of contract lawsuit filed on Thursday, Allen’s lawyers said, “Amazon has tried to excuse its action by referencing a 25-year-old baseless allegation against Mr. Allen, but that allegation was already well-known to Amazon (and the public) before Amazon entered into four separate deals with Mr. Allen—and in any event, it does not provide a basis for Amazon to terminate the contract,” Variety reported.
In June 2018, Amazon Studios sent Allen a notice terminating an agreement to make four movies for the streaming platform. Allen claimed that the company did not provide concrete reasons for ending the arrangement.
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