Transformers: Age of Extinction Producers May Be Sued By Another Sponsor

For the second time in under a month, one of the Chinese sponsors who paid for placement [...]

By Russ Burlingame

For the second time in under a month, one of the Chinese sponsors who paid for placement in Transformers: Age of Extinction are mulling legal action against the producers of the film.

Local representatives of UNESCO World Heritage site the Wulong Karst National Park located in Chongqing say they are considering taking legal action against the film. Accoding to Deadline, Huang Daosheng, the head of the landscape management committee, says the park's name was supposed to be featured on screen announcing the locale, but is not in the finished film.

Less actionable but also apparently part of the issue is that there is concern that because the scenes immediately following take place in Hong Kong, it mistakenly gives the impression the two are nearby when they are actually over 700 miles apart. Such cuts, of course, are common in film. Just ask anyone who lives in cities like New York, Los Angeles or Chicago about car chase scenes in movies and TV look like to a local.

Liang Longfei, head of m1095 a subsidiary of Age of Extinction production and promotional partner, China Movie Channel, said that Wulong delayed payment of about $1 million to Paramount for five months.

That, he said, resulted in "production time being very limited" and further led to a misunderstanding with the non-Chinese production team which was working under high pressure, China.org reported. Wulong Park's Huang is in Beijing to discuss the issue with m1095, and said, "If the result is not satisfactory, we will file a lawsuit."

Paramount Pictures have not yet commented.

Last month, Pangu Investments, a real estate group, filed suit claiming that their facilities had not been spotlighted in the movie as promised and that they had entered into the agreement with the impression that the World Premiere would take place at one of their hotels. The suit was dropped within days after an undisclosed agreement waas made.

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