'Rush Hour 4' will be distributed by Paramount after Trump's reported request

NEW YORK (AP) — After President Donald Trump’s reported intervention, Paramount Pictures is set to distribute Brett Ratner’s “Rush Hour 4,” a project that Hollywood had eschewed after earlier sexual misconduct allegations against the director. Paramount Pictures on Tuesday was in closing talks to distribute the film, according to a person close to the negotiations who requested anonymity because they weren’t authorized to announce a deal. Paramount would be stepping in to take a distribution fee on the film, not finance it. In 2017, during the #MeToo movement, six women said Ratner sexually harassed them in a Los Angeles Times report.

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