Comedian Jerry Lewis filed a $2.3 million lawsuit in the Los Angeles Superior Court against two entertainment companies, Spyglass Entertainment Group and Hollywood Pictures Corp. The suit claimed the companies owe him money over a proposed remake of his 1961 movie "The Errand Boy."
The lawsuit said Lewis and JAS Productions Inc. entered into an agreement with Hollywood Pictures in 1996 that gave the film company an option to remake "The Errand Boy." Lewis was to act in the film and serve as a consultant and executive producer if the option was exercised.
Between 1999 and 2001, Hollywood assigned its rights to Spyglass, which never made the movie but prepared a screenplay and hired script writers, according to the lawsuit.
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