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Landis sues Jacko over Thriller “profits”

John Landis, director of Michael Jackson’s Thriller – probably the most celebrated music video of all time – is suing Jackson for profits from the video-cum-mini-film that he believes are owed to him, due to the contract he signed to direct the video back in 1983. As well as a fee, it appears that Landis’s [...]