Lawsuit against Redford settled
Robert Redford’s Sundance Film Festival has concluded, and so too has a lawsuit filed against the filmmaker by two executives hired to run his failed production company. The parties have reached a confidential settlement, the terms of which were not announced.
Jeff Kleeman and Eric Greenfeld sued Redford for alleged breach of contract in 2003. Hired by Redford to run Sundance Productions, Kleeman and Greenfeld said Redford failed to make a series of payments totaling $750,000 to settle their contracts after he closed down the fledgling production company.
Kleeman and Greenfeld claimed Redford made one payment nearly a year late and never made the rest. The shutting down of Sundance Productions in late 2000 coincided with the collapse of Sundance Cinemas, a planned Redford-run art house chain that never got off the ground.
Although Sundance Productions is not around anymore, Redford does have an executive producer credit on the Oscar-nominated “The Motorcycle Diaries.”
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