COMPANY TOWN ANNEX

Alexander Salkind Loses Another Legal Round: The movie producer, whose films include the “Superman” series, lost a bid to the U.S. Supreme Court to avoid answering a lawsuit brought by investors in the box office dud “Christopher Columbus: The Discovery.” The court let stand a Los Angeles County Superior Court ruling that Salkind must answer a summons. The investors, who include Salkind’s son, Ilya, and Jane Chaplin, daughter of Charlie Chaplin, are seeking the more than $8.5 million they invested. Stephen Crystie, attorney for the investors, said they will now seek to compel Salkind, who lives in Switzerland and has said he has not visited California since the late 1940s, to travel to Los Angeles for a trial on the issue. Salkind’s attorney, Vincent Chieffo, said Salkind does not fly and probably would not come to Los Angeles for a trial.