Yari bankruptcy: Creditor list includes Ed Norton, Paul Haggis, Warner Bros.

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Yari bankruptcy: Creditor list includes Ed Norton, Paul Haggis, Warner Bros.

Tue Jan 26, 2010 @ 04:37PM PST

By Matthew Belloni

Yari,bob What do Ed Norton, Paul Giamatti and writer-director Paul Haggis have in common? All are on the initial list of creditors in the recently filed bankruptcy of Bob Yari Productions. Warner Bros. and Sony's acquisitions group are on there too, as well as producer Michael London's company, producer Cathy Schulman, UTA, SAG, the DGA and -- oh heck, we'll just post the entire list from the filing in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, starting with the Top 20 unsecured claims....

Equity Pictures Medienfonds GmbH & Co. KG II ($7.63 mil)

James Robb ($3 mil)           

MHF Zweite Academy Film GmbH ($3.2 mil)

ApolloProScreen GmbH and Co. Filmproduction ($2 mil)           

Harvadania Corp ($1.6 mil)

Contagious Entertainment, LLC ($1.6 mil)

NTN, Inc./Edward Norton ($500,000)

Palatine  Hills/Paul Giamatti ($300,000)

Holland + Knight LLP ($208,165)

Michael London Prod Inc ($150,000)

Nixon Peabody, LLP ($123,066)

Bananafish Filmworks, Inc ($73,000)

Levien Works, Inc. ($73,000)

Spillane Shaeffer Aronoff Bandlow LLP ($28,001)

Levine, Sullivan, Koch & Schulz, LLP ($25,549)

Heenan Blaikie LLP ($25,383)

Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C ($23,535)

Thomson CompuMark ($17,996)

Canipre ($16,654)

Chubb Insurance Company of Canada ($10,000)

And the rest....

Persik Productions, Inc           

Winthrop Couchot Prof Corp           

Office of the U.S. Trustee           

Alliance Atlantis Releasing Ltd., dba Momentum

Bank Leumi USA

Barkley Court Reporters

Baseline, Inc.

Baute & Tidus

Canipre

Cathy Schulman

Chubb Insurance Co of Canada

City of Los Angeles Ofc Fin

Corporation Service Company

D.R. Reiff & Associates

Daniel Keston

Directors of Guild of America, Inc.

Employment Development Dept.

F.A.W. Pictures Inc.

Fleetwood Limousine, Ltd

Franchise Tax Board

Genga & Associate

Grosvenor Park Investors, LLC

ICB Entertainment Fin/Imperial Ca. Bank

Internal Revenue Service

Jacobson Russell

Katy Garfield

Los Angeles Cnty  Tax Coll

Los Angeles County Assesor

Martin Norseman

Momentum/Aurum/MPD

Nixon Peadbody, LLP

Paul Haggis

Proskauer Rose LLP

Rogue Pictures/Focus Features LLC

Screen Actors Guild

State Board of Equilization

The Penstock Group

Union Bank of California

United Talent Agency

Warner Brothers Entertainment, Inc.

Warner Independent Pictures, Inc.

Warner Specialty Films, Inc.

Winstead Sechrest

Worldwide SPE Acquisitions, Inc

Zeleve

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