A Chinese court has ordered Paramount Pictures to pay aboutย $295,000, or 2 million yuan, to a tourist resort over a breach of contract involving product placement in “Transformers: Age of Extinction.”
According to the South China Morning Post,ย the court found that Paramount and Chinese partner 1905 failed to include the logo of the resort in the final cut of the film, which had been agreed upon in 2013.
The lawsuit was filedย by the Wulong Karst National Geological Park’s management company, Wulong Karst Tourism, in 2014. The group claimed that itย had promised to pay sponsorship of 6 million yuan to Paramount and would allow the crew to shoot in the park in exchange for promotion of the park’s name in the film.