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Summary Sheen sues Warner Bros. for US$ 100 million after they fired him for criticising the producers.
Charlie Sheen has sued Warner Bros. for firing him from the hit TV series Two and a Half Men, for US$100 million claiming they fired him from the show after he criticised producers.Sheen, sued producer Chuck Lorre and a division of the Warner Bros. film and television studio on behalf of himself, the cast and crew of the No. 1-rated US TV comedy. The show employs about 200 people.The law suit stated that the defendant Chuck Lorre, one of the richest men in television believes himself to be so wealthy and powerful that he can unilaterally decide to take money away from the dedicated cast and crew. Sheen began criticizing Lorre and Warner Bros. in public over the past several weeks, following the current seasons cancellation. Warner Bros. then decided to fire the actor for what it claimed was breach of contract, the suit adds.Warner Bros. added that in recent months, Sheen had been forgetting his lines, turning up late, missing rehearsals and making derogatory comments which were disrupting working relationships.
