US Director Spike Lee has scored a big win in a Paris courtroom this week. TF1 Droits Audiovisuels has been ordered to pay $46 million to the producers of the movie "Miracle at St. Anna" for failing to honor a contract to distribute the World War II picture internationally.

The dispute centered on a 2007 agreement between TF1 and the On My Own production company whereby TF1 was scheduled to release the film about four black soldiers in markets across the world with the exception of the United States, Canada and Italy. TF1 argued that Lee had delivered a different kind of film than the one it was promised and refused to hand over a nearly $16 million advance.

The court [...]

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