Paramount being sued for Transformers 4 not having enough product placement

[Chaotic]

http://comicbook.com/2016/04/27/para...-having-enoug/

[Petra_Kalbrain]

Can someone quote the article within the thread please? My phone doesn't recognize a link in the OP.

[Chaotic]

Paramount Pictures and China Movie Channel, producers of the Michael Bay directed Transformers 4: Age of Extinction, are being sued for failing to place a logo in the final cut of the film.

Transformers 4 shot parts of the movie in Wulong Karst National Park, and the Wulong Karst Tourism company made a deal with Paramount to display its logo in the film via THR. The deal paid Paramount $750,000, but the lawsuit they've filed is for $27.7 million.

While both Paramount and China Movie Channel admit to not being able to get the logo in, they have already attempted to appease Wulong Karst Tourism with an advertisement for their resort, as well as the fact that they left sets and props at the resort to encourage tourism to their establishment.

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[ArmyOfDarknessAW]

Paramount Pictures and China Movie Channel, producers of the Michael Bay directedTransformers 4: Age of Extinction, are being sued for failing to place a logo in the final cut of the*film.

Transformers 4 shot parts of the movie in Wulong Karst National Park, and the Wulong*Karst Tourism*company made a deal with Paramount to display its logo in the*filmvia THR. The deal paid Paramount $750,000, but the lawsuit they've filed is for $27.7 million.

While both Paramount and China Movie Channel admit to not being able to get the logo in, they have already attempted to appease Wulong*Karst*Tourism*with an advertisement for their resort, as well as the fact that they left sets and props at the resort to encourage tourism to their establishment.

The matter is currently being reviewed in a Chongqing*City court, though it was originally filed in 2014.

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[chip75]

How could they tell their logo wasn't there? Most people had no idea what the heck was happening on-screen during the fourth movie ...

Also they charge about $15 to get into the park. They think they've lost nearly 1.9 million customers because their logo wasn't on-screen for 0.25 seconds?

[tiger_qc]

Originally Posted by chip75

How could they tell their logo wasn't there? Most people had no idea what the heck was happening on-screen during the fourth movie ...

Also they charge about $15 to get into the park. They think they've lost nearly 1.9 million customers because their logo wasn't on-screen for 0.25 seconds?

No, lawyers always start with ridiculous numbers to settle with more than they should. They are a bunch of bloodsuckers but it doesn't bother me much, they're suing Michael Bay.

[karlpilkington4PM]

best thread title eeeeveeeeer!

[Astro Zombie]

I knew something was missing from that movie

[Foggy]

Nice one Chaotic, but April Fools is at the beginning of the month.

[Jimmy Smith]

Oh my God that's funny. The Onion couldn't have come up with anything so ironically hilarious. Michael Bay's movies are giant commercials with his horrible product placement. But his fans are like drrr commercials are tough to find. Its not like their are ads on television or something

[Tony208]

you guys act like Bay goes into a store and points at all the products he wants in his movie

studios do it cause they're cheap

[imsounoriginal]

Is this the park/forest where Optimus wakes up the Dinos? I dunno how the hell they'd even get an ad in there, it's supposed to be desolate anyway. Sounds like the studio made promises it knew it wouldn't keep.

[blonde_devil]

While I find this incredible dumb, the fact is they were paid to put the logo in the movie and didn't. Doesn't matter what they tried to do to make them happy, the deal was the logo was in the movie and Paramount didn't hold up their end of the deal so no surprise they are mad. But like I said, this is so dumb I hope the judge throws it out and tells them to act like adults for a change.

[Petra_Kalbrain]

Originally Posted by Astro Zombie

I knew something was missing from that movie

You bastard! You made me ! How DARE you!

[Zillamon51]

Doesn't corrupt China always short the studios on box office receipts anyways? Just call it even.

[BozQ]

A deal is a deal. It doesn't matter how bad the movie was or how much money was made.
$750,000 is no small sum either. They could have at least gotten a refund.

But judging from Michael Bay's style of shooting, the logo would have been destroyed by the Dinobots before you could say China.

[pksmith74]

Did they check the deleted scenes?

[JeffTheMovieGuy]

Originally Posted by Astro Zombie

I knew something was missing from that movie

[DragonOfTheBlackPool]

Paramount should be sued for letting Michael Bay direct this franchise.

[spectre08]

Originally Posted by DragonOfTheBlackPool

Paramount should be sued for letting Michael Bay direct this franchise.

Sued for making movies that lots of people love and make billions of dollars?

yeah, good luck with that.