MOVIE BOSSES FIRE BACK AT ‘REPREHENSIBLE’ ACCUSATIONS MADE BY MURPHY’S =
WIDOWER Movie executives at Warner Brothers are firing back at "false, reprehensi= ble, and defamatory" accusations levelled at them by actress BRITTANY MUR= PHY’s widower.
Producer Simon Monjack has hinted he’s planning to file a wrongful-deat= h suit against the movie studio bosses for allegedly firing the actress f= rom Happy Feet 2 two weeks before her death.
He claims she suffered a heart attack as a result of stress related to = being let go from the project.
Monjack recently told TheDailyBeast.com, "They killed her… She was de= vastated.
"All she wanted to do was to make movies. She was waiting for the role = that would revive her career, waiting for the call from Penny Marshall or= Gary Fleder, people she had worked with before, that they might remember= how talented an actress she was and call with a new magical role." But a Warner Brothers representative tells U.S. news show Access Hollyw= ood that studio bosses aren’t taking Monjack’s accusations lightly: "Any = claim that Warner Bros. Pictures was somehow responsible for Brittany Mur= phy’s tragic death is demonstrably false, reprehensible, and defamatory.
"Despite press reports to the contrary, Warner Bros. Pictures and Ms. M= urphy never entered into any deal for Happy Feet 2."
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