暮光之城系列电影背后的官司

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        U.K. movie distributor and financier Goldcrest Film Distribution III Limited has filed a breach of contract suit against Summit Distribution, charging that on the 2008 movieTwilight it used “deceptive accounting practices” to “systematically understate revenues and overstate its costs."英国电影经销商和投资商Goldcrest Film Distribution III 有限公司以违反合同为由将Summit Distribution公司告上法庭，声称其对于2008年的《暮光之城》电影采用了“欺诈性的财务手段”“系统性的低估利润并高估成本”。
        Goldcrest claims it is due an additional payment of nearly $7 million and possibly much more, and says Summit has refused to provide the full documentation from the making and selling of the movie and it needs to determine what is owed.Goldcrest公司称他们应收到一笔将近7百万美元甚至更多的额外开支，并且Summit公司拒绝提供用以判断制作和销售电影过程中的收入全部文件信息。
        “Defendant made over $39.3 million worth of errors in the calculation of the Goldcrest Participations,” says the suit, “resulting in a $6.3 million loss to Goldcrest and its other counterparties in the transaction.”“被告人在计算Goldcrest公司账务时出现了价值三千九百三十万美元的错误，案宗显示，“给Goldcrest公司以及交易中涉及到的其他合同方造成了六百三十万美元的损失。”
       

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        In the filing in L.A. Superior Court on Wednesday, Goldcrest cited payments made to castmembers and the writers as items for which it was improperly charged.在星期三洛杉矶最高法院的案宗中，Goldcrest称支付给主演和作者的金额是不合理的。
        The suit says that after Twilight became a much bigger success than expected, as part of plans to continue the series, Summit went back to actors Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg and book author Stephenie Meyer and voluntarily paid bonuses totaling $6 million ($2.5 million each to Pattinson and Stewart, and $500,000 each to Rosenberg and Meyer).案宗显示当暮光之城的实际收效比预期要好得多的时候，为了继续拍摄后续系列电影，Summit公司又找到了两位主演Robert Pattinson和Kristen Stewart，编剧Melissa Rosenberg和原著作者Stephenie Meyer，并且主动支付给他们总价值6百万美元的奖金。（其中两位主演每人250万美金，编剧和作者每人五十万美金）
       

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        The real purpose of that money, says the suit, was to convince the actors and writers to sign on for the first sequel, New Moon, charges Goldcrest, and so that money should not have been recorded as an expense against their profit participation.根据卷宗来看，这笔钱的真正目的是为了让演员和作者都可以继续签约Goldcrest公司负责的这个系列的下一部电影《新月》，所以这笔钱不应该作为他们利润计算份额的额外部分。