Producer Alleges Profit-Share Betrayal Behind Obsession Hit

Leonora Ann Darby, a Tea Shop Productions producer who helped salvage the horror hit Obsession, sues Tea Shop and principals James Harris and Mark Lane, alleging a seven-year pattern of unequal treatment and that she was promised a one-third share of net profits on lead-produced films but was repeatedly undercompensated; she notes Obsession grossed nearly $510 million worldwide and seeks damages and an equitable accounting, with Focus Features not named as a defendant.