Woody Allen sues Amazon for ending movie deal

Grammys, Grande trade words about axed performance

Grammys producer Ken Ehrlich said the show had multiple conversations with Ariana Grande about possibly performing Sunday but the singer “felt it was too late for her to pull something together,” but Grande accused Ehrlich of lying.

Ehrlich told The Associated Press that Grande isn’t performing at the Grammys and that the Recording Academy wanted her to perform after having “conversations over the past month or so.”

“As it turned out when we finally got the point where we thought maybe it would work, she felt it was too late for her to pull something together for sure,” Ehrlich said Thursday.

Grande fired back on Twitter, saying “i’ve kept my mouth shut but now you’re lying about me.” She wrote that she “can pull together a performance overnight and you know that, Ken.”

Variety reported this week that Grande had a disagreement with producers on which songs she would perform, so she pulled out.

Filmmaker Woody Allen is suing Amazon for at least $68 million, saying that the company ended a four-picture movie deal last year after old accusations against him resurfaced in the press. The lawsuit, filed Thursday, says that Amazon knew about a “25year-old” allegation before signing with Allen in 2017, but still used it as an excuse to back out of the deal.

Allen’s daughter, Dylan Farrow, has said Allen molested her in an attic in 1992 when she was 7, which the filmmaker has repeatedly denied. The allegations were made public in 1992, and Farrow wrote about them in 2014, and then appeared in a TV interview early last year for the first time.