UPDATED with comment from Avi Lerner: A former employee today sued Avi Lerner and his Millennium Films and Nu Image Entertainment in a wide-ranging complaint that includes sexual harassment, hostile work environment and gender discrimination. The defendant, listed as Jane Roe, worked at Nu Image for five years until…

Chuck Wepner, the ex-boxer said to have inspired the Rocky Balboa character and who is the subject of the upcoming pic The Bleeder, is suing the producers of what he calls an unauthorized “copycat” film based on his life. The lawsuit, filed Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court (read it here), claims that the…

A veteran producer is suing Nu Image over the 2007 Jean-Claude Van Damme film Til Death, claiming that the company failed to pay his profit-participation fees. Moshe Daimant, who has produced several Van Damme movies, says he and his Signature Entertainment entered into a producing deal with Nu Image in March 2005 and…

Mass piracy with The Expendables 3 burned them last year, and this summer Avi Lerner's Nu Image and Millennium Films aren't going to stand by to see the same thing happen again. The companies have filed a copyright infringement suit in Oregon against over a dozen individuals who they claim have pirated spy thriller Sur…

It looked like it was over but Avi Lerner obviously decided it wasn't. Nearly 6-months after coming to a settlement with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees over health and pension contributions, Nu Image is taking the union plus the AFL-CIO to court over the same matter. Back in mid-2013, the IATS…

A familiar face will be stalking the Croisette this month, but he’s not someone you’d want to have drinks at the Carlton with. Nu Image has added to its Cannes sales slate Leatherface, Millennium Films’ prequel to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Directors Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury start production this month in…

Jeffrey Greenstein has been bumped up a notch to President Of International Sales & Distribution at Avi Lerner’s Nu Image. The five-year company vet will oversee and manage the foreign sales and distribution of all Nu Image and Millennium Films productions. Greenstein, who was VP International Sales & Distribution at…

Millennium Entertainment, the distribution arm of Avi Lerner's Nu Image, officially went up for sale back in April 2013. Now there is a deal from within after entities like Luc Besson’s EuropaCorp kicked the tires: The Millennium Entertainment management team led by CEO Bill Lee and private investment firm Virgo…

Security, an action spec from writer John Sullivan (Recoil) about a security guard who must protect a female witness from a gang of thugs in a mall after communication is knocked out from storm, has sold to Nu Image. The deal closed late last week and producers are eyeing A-list action talent to drive the pic. Security…

There might be one less name on the credits for The Expendables 3 if Millennium Films and Nu Image get their way. The producers have taken the Writers Guild of America West and scribe David Callaham to court this week for fraud, unjust enrichment and declaratory relief over the original Expendables. They claim a…

Entertainment One has teamed with with Avi Lerner and his Nu Image to develop and produce a television series based on the hugely successful Rambo feature franchise. According to the companies, Sylvester Stallone is in negotiations to be involved with the project on a creative level as well as potentially reprise his…

Millennium Entertainment, the distribution arm of Avi Lerner‘s Nu Image, is officially for sale, with investment bank Salem Partners brought in to shop a deal. Nu Image holds 60% of the company, while Nigel Sinclair and Guy East’s Exclusive Media has a 20% stake and hedge fund Prentice Capital has the other 20%. A…