Michael Moore says that the Weinsteins are a "force for good" who should give him more money

Michael Moore says his recently filed lawsuit against Harvey and Bob Weinstein—in which he accuses them of unfairly sucking up profits from Fahrenheit 9/11 like so many scattered M&Ms on a screening room floor—will definitely not end in a settlement. “No interest in one,” Moore said, who believes that dragging his longtime collaborators to court will “reveal how the accounting is done, once and for all,” and probably make for a dramatic movie someday. Not that the Weinsteins will ever have a hand in releasing it, or anything else Moore does for that matter: Although Moore insists that the brothers are “a force for good for indie filmmakers” for whom he holds “no ill will,” adding that he actually puts all the blame on “accountants and business-affairs people,” the Weinsteins’ lawyer has already retorted that Moore has been “paid everything he should be paid.” Nevertheless, Moore remains optimistic that he and the Weinsteins can resolve this soon and then “get back to raising a ruckus together”—which, maybe in a “half-price-beer-and-chicken-wings night at Dave & Buster’s" kind of a way, but probably not in terms of making more movies together.

 
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