2Nd Update: Peter Hewitt tells me he has left the production amid accusations that producer Philippe Rebboah has not paid below the line staff, an allegation which Rebboah denies in an interview with me. Production on Sweet Baby Jesus was due to start September 15. Hewitt, director of Garfield and Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey, tells me that he’s never been properly paid, despite the verbal offer of a pay-or-play deal. “It’s been a catalogue of delays and trouble right from when I signed on in February,” he tells me. “I kept giving Rebboah the benefit of the doubt but he never paid me.” Studio Eight, the London-based producer and financier has also exited the project saying it can longer work with Rebboah. Jamie Brown, managing director of Studio Eight, Brown tells me: “What I don’t understand is that the money was all in place and we were all set to go.
- 9/16/2010
- by TIM ADLER
- Deadline London
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