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Louis C.K. Buying Back 'I Love You, Daddy' Following Scandal
EXCLUSIVE: The Orchard has confirmed that they are wrapping up a deal to sell the global rights for I Love You, Daddy back to its filmmaker and star, Louis C.K.
The Orchard acquired worldwide on the black and white comedy out of the Toronto Film Festival for $5M. C.K. will reportedly pay back any money received from that MG as well as any marketing costs (~$500K-$1M) incurred by The Orchard. As a result, The Orchard will not incur any financial setback from the return deal. Such money spent includes a brief awards mailing numbering 12K DVD screeners to AMPAS, SAG, Golden Globes and Critics’ voting members. C.K.’s attorneys at Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern have been working on the deal with The Orchard. C.K.’s 3 Arts manager Dave Becky, who is named as a producer on I Love You, Daddy, hasn’t been involved in the return deal as he dropped his client following the scandal.
No word as to when C.K. plans to release the film, and if so, if it will be on his website. The comedian previously streamed his 10-episode independent dramedy series Horace and Pete on his website last year, finding an immediate audience among his fans. Since being accused of sexual misconduct throughout his career last month, and losing his production deal at FX, as well as Orchard completely terminating the release of I Love You, Daddy among other things, C.K. said in a Nov. 10 statement that he “spent my long and lucky career talking and saying anything I want. I will now step back and take a long time to listen.”
When the news hit last month about five women accusing C.K. of sexual misconduct in the New York Times, The Orchard immediately put the brakes on a New York premiere of I Love You, Daddy and pulled the pic from its Nov. 17 release. In addition, having oversee of the pic’s foreign sales, Orchard put a stop on those deals promptly and made sure its partners weren’t financially impacted. However, an awards mailing was already underway with voters receiving I Love You, Daddy screeners in the mail following C.K.’s scandal. A mini-black market for the film’s screeners spurred on Ebay, and the Orchard has been working with the on-line retailer to squash those sales. It’s easy to indicate which voter from which group is attempting to sell copies based on the DVD’s cover.
Given C.K.’s scandal, there are elements in I Love You, Daddy that grossly hit too close to home: In the movie, a character pretends to masturbate at length in front of other people (which is what C.K. was accused of by other female comediennes), and other characters appear to dismiss rumors of sexual predation. I Love You, Daddy follows a TV writer (C.K.) whose teenage daughter (Chloe Grace Moretz) becomes the obsession of a much older filmmaker (John Malkovich).