Woody Allen has reached a legal settlement with Amazon Studios for backing out of a four-film deal.
In February, the filmmaker filed a $68 million lawsuit for breach of contract, accusing the streaming giant of canceling a film deal because of a "baseless" decades-old allegation that he sexually abused his daughter.
According to Reuters, Allen and Amazon notified the federal court in Manhattan, New York, on Friday night that the lawsuit was being voluntarily dismissed.
Allen said Amazon sought to terminate the film deal in June, and refused to pay him $9 million in financing for his latest film, A Rainy Day in New York, his lawyers at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan alleged.
That film was one of several to be produced with the Oscar-winning director under a series of agreements reached after Allen made the Crisis in Six Scenes program for Amazon, which was then a new content provider.
Amazon argued that Allen's comments about the #MeToo movement "sabotaged" its attempts to promote his new films and pointed out that "scores of actors and actresses expressed profound regret for having worked with Allen in the past, and many declared publicly that they would never work with him in the future".
Allen has been accused of molesting Dylan Farrow, his adopted daughter, when she was seven years old in the early 1990s.
He was cleared of the charges, first leveled by his then-partner Mia Farrow, after two separate months-long investigations, and has steadfastly denied the abuse. But Dylan, now an adult, maintains she was molested.
