Mohamed Ramadan appeals decision fining £ 12.5million

Egyptian artist Mohamed Ramadan has appealed against the decision against him to pay £ 12.5million to “Al-Adl Group” for artistic production, due to the termination of his contract on one of the films with society.

And the court of first instance of North Giza issued a decision obliging the artist, Mohamed Ramadan, to pay an amount of 12 million pounds, to the company “Justice Group”, within the framework of the agreed compensation stipulated in the agreement contract, the document of the dispute, and required him to pay costs and in exchange for attorney fees.

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And the northern Giza court of first instance forced Muhammad Ramadan to pay £ 12.5 million to one of the artistic production companies for not respecting the contract signed between them to make the film “Ordinary Hero”, a film which did not obtain the approval of the regulatory authorities for it until after modifying certain scenes by terminating the contract of the agreement entitled “Contracting an Agreement”. Between a producer and an actor playing in a film with a working name “Ordinary Hero”, and the editor is between the plaintiff in his capacity and the defendant and dated October 23, 2018.

The court also ordered Ramadan to pay the company, up to £ 500,000, the payment from the contract supplier he received at the Contracts Board, and the legal interest on this amount at the rate of 4% to from the date of the court decision. claim up to the date of payment.

In its ruling, the court revealed that there was evidence that Ramadan had breached his contractual obligations, which were to refrain from performing the role entrusted to him under the October 2018 agreement contract, who is the main role in the film titled “Ordinary Hero” temporarily without legal justification, which is the question with which he ruled The court obliged Ramadan, including the verdict.

In his lawsuit, the plaintiff said he was one of the leading media and artistic production companies in Egypt and the Arab region, and under an agreement he contracted with artist Mohamed Ramadan to play the main role of the film to be produced by the company.

The terms of the contract included Ramadan’s approval to play the lead role and accept it as it is, and agree to start filming it on any date set by the company and announce Ramadan. without objection on his part, provided that he receives an amount of 6 million pounds, including taxes and value added tax.

Ramadan has received an advance of 500,000 pounds, provided that he devotes himself fully to the performance of the tasks entrusted to him under the contract, and he has undertaken not to contract with any other producer in any cinematographic field. for the duration of the work specified for the shooting of the film, within one year, and this commitment is an essential condition of the contract.

The lawsuit also clarified that at the end of the contract, the plaintiff company hastened to submit the work to the supervisory authority to obtain the supervisory approval, and this remained the case until ” it is able to obtain inspection approval for the work covered by the contract on December 10, 2019.

Source: Egyptian media

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