This Is Spinal Tap actors Christopher Guest and Michael McKean and the mockumentary’s director Rob Reiner have joined co-star Harry Shearer’s lawsuit against the film’s rights holder Vivendi. “It’s impossible that Vivendi’s income from music sales and merchandising totaled just $179 over a more than 20-year period,” director says In October, Shearer filed a $125 million lawsuit against Vivendi, …
One day after This Is Spinal Tap star and co-creator Harry Shearer sued Vivendi for accounting misappropriation, fraud and breach of contract over the film and its soundtrack, Spinal Tap actor – director Rob Reiner has thrown his support behind Shearer. In the suit, Shearer alleged that he earned only $81 in merchandising income over a 22-year period and $98 for his contributions to the …
Harry Shearer, increasingly the sonorous voice of protest in various contract disputes, is suing the entertainment groups Vivendi and StudioCanal for $125 million , over profits he says he was cheated out of for This Is Spinal Tap . Shearer played Derek Smalls, bassist and self-described “lukewarm water,” in the 1984 metal mockumentary, which was based on characters he, Christopher Guest, and …