The on-again, off-again litigation between director Julie Taymor and producers of the Broadway musical, Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark, appears to be going dark again. Earlier in the month, the litigation was revived when the parties admitted there was still some work on the settlement negotiating front. Last week, Taymor's attorney Charles Spada notified the court that a final settlement agreement would be executed soon, describing the hold-up as being for producer 8 Legged Production and non-party Marvel Entertainment to to amend a license to produce the Spider-Man musical. Spada said that "8 Legged and Marvel will be executing a formal amendment to their licensing agreement within days."
Speaking of Marvel, the studio has gotten out of an odd dispute over a briefcase featured in The Avengers. Last August, Rimowa GmbH, a German manufacturer of luxury travel briefcases, sued because the Topas attaché case seen being used by Samuel L. Jackson's character Nick Fury was allegedly repurposed as the packaging for Blu-ray versions of the film. Last week, the parties stipulated to dismiss the case with prejudice. No further terms of the agreement were made public.
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