![]() The documentary, which was released widely in March, focused on Wade Robson and James Safechuck and their allegations against Jackson of sexual abuse. On Saturday, Leaving Neverland, the headline-making two-part documentary directed and produced by Dan Reed and distributed by HBO and Channel 4, took home the 2019 Emmy for Outstanding Documentary/Nonfiction Special. With the constant whiff of legal action in the air, representatives for the estate of Jackson - who died in 2009, four years after being acquitted of seven counts of child molestation and two counts of giving a drug to a 13-year-old boy - previously tainted Neverland as “just another rehash of dated and discredited allegations.Michael Jackson's estate is not mincing words about this 2019 Emmy win. Since it was announced in early January that Leaving Neverland would open at Sundance, Jackson fans around the world have taken to social media and elsewhere to condemn the documentary. HBO had no comment on the letter to Plepler when contacted by Deadline. We know that this will go down as the most shameful episode in HBO’s history.” “We know that HBO is facing serious competitive pressures from Netflix, Amazon and other more modern content providers, but to stoop to this level to regain an audience is disgraceful,” he says “We know HBO and its partners on this documentary will not be successful. Pulling all his horses in line, Weitzman then paints a picture intended purely to cast HBO in the most craven of contexts. ![]() “That HBO has now joined the tabloid media’s ‘Michael Jackson cacophony’-ten years after his death-is truly sad,” the detailed letter from the Hollywood heavyweight attorney asserts. However, it is clear from the deliberate leak of the letter today that a bruising battle could be getting started – on many fronts. The five-pager did not directly threaten legal action against HBO over the planned airing of Leaving Neverland later this year. In his first direct correspondence with the premium cabler, Weitzman’s long and strongly word letter this week outlined the issues the estate have with the primary participants and their accusations against the Thriller performer. The family and estate of the decade-long dead Jackson has been outspoken and scathing in its criticism of the film, sight unseen. With death threats against the director and amidst heighten security, Leaving Neverland premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last month. Having been termed an “admittedly one-sided, sensationalist program” by Weitzman too, HBO today at TCA dated the small screen debut of the Dan Reed directed two-part film for March 3-4. “If HBO does care about such things, this documentary will never air on HBO.” “HBO apparently no longer cares about these ethical and normative checks on documentary filmmaking and journalism anymore,” the rarely nuanced Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump Aldisert LLP partner added in the letter ( read it here). ![]() “HBO is relying on the uncorroborated stories of two admitted perjurers over the weight of the American justice system,” said Howard Weitzman in a letter to HBO CEO Richard Plepler dated February 7. PREVIOUSLY, 2:54 PM: With the debut of the controversial Leaving Neverland documentary less than a month away on HBO, attorneys for the estate of Michael Jackson have ripped into the premium cabler. HBO said Friday that Leaving Neverland would premiere on the network over two nights March 3 and March 4.Īs for the estate, it looks like they are warming up to take this battle to the courts with this week’s letter as the latest shot across the programming bow. 'True Detective': HBO Boss On Season 3 & Potential Fourth Installment ![]()
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