Following Mitch Klebanoff's termination, the producers were forced to hire another director, Kelly Sandefur, at very short notice. Due to the exigent circumstances and their swift decision, the producer's choice of director was not approved by Sony. For this reason, Sony rescinded their offer to provide $500,000 of investment and informed producer Jungho Han that they would not distribute the picture. The true extent of Mr. Klebanof's incompetence, gross negligence and inability to perform his job requirements as a director became apparent once the new director began her filming of the picture. Not only was she able to complete the movie within the budget allocated, but, she completed approximately 80% of the script in 16 days. This included a significant number of scenes that had to be re-shot and scenes that were meant to be shot in Korea. By contrast, Klebanoff had only been able to shoot approximately 20% of the script in the 15 days he spent filming in Korea, and of that only around 20 minutes were usable. Mr. Klebanoff's negligence had cost the producers many hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages including the loss of a $500,000 investment and distribution agreement with Sony, the cost associated with hiring a new director, the millions of dollars wasted during the initial filming in Korea and the building of structures for filming that were never used.

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