The Book

The Book about A Bouquet for a Kill

o.k. let´s see what we have: a producer from Germany is shooting with Lydie Denier, Hollywood actress who did star and guest star in Acapulco H.E.A.T. , Tarzan, Melrose Place, Two Men and a Half and a wellknown German actress. While shooting Denier wants to push out Producer Michael Huck to take over the picure to Hollywood Mega Producer Avi Lerner. When Lydie´s take-over attempt fails she takes some tapes with original footage with her and Huck sends German police after her. Now Denier runs completely amok, goes to Santa Monica Court and says Huck is not a producer but a crazy fan, madly in love with her and has threatened to kill her!!!

I think this would make a lovely book and maybe one day a big Hollywood producer like Avi Lerner will buy this book to make a movie, a crazy comedy about crazy people. Nice idea, isn´t it? That´s what I think too, so the next couple of months I will write a book about what happened , right from the start.

This book will also give you some ideas how low budget filmmaking works, so I think it is really interesting, the book will also show show how difficult it sometimes will be to deal with actresses who are running amok and it will show how to finance and produce low budget thrillers.

What this book makes totally different from other books on filmmaking is of course the stalker chapter. It does not happen too often that a director / actress accuses her producer to be a stalker with all the legal problems attached, so this is also a very interesting issue and filmmakers can see how fast you can get involved in legal trouble.

I will publish some of the book´s chapters here on this blog.

Sincerely Yours,

Michael Huck

Photo above: Copyright 2007 by Jörg Peter.
This photo shows Lydie Denier with German super playboy Rolf Eden.
Jörg took the photo while shooting the long version. Rolf Eden is a good friend of my partner Katja Bienert and he allowed us to use one of his Rolls Royce automobiles and his home to shoot some scenes. I was not present that day at Rolf´s home but later that day met Lydie, Michael Worth and other cast and crew members at the Hedler Studios in Tempelhof where we shot the PI office scenes with Michael Worth. Jörg called me that day to tell me to have a look at a Newspaper. Lydie and Roswitha had given an interview to reporters while I was not present and told them A Bouquet for a Kill is an US production. They did not mention my name and later I read in another interview thay had given they told A Bouquet for a Kill is shot for an US "women´s channel".

Lydie´s Paintings 2

Lydie´s Paintings
You can see photos of some of Denier´s paintings on her facebook site. I like especially the one with the frog, it´s really cute. Some of those paintings she had left with me when we shot A Bouquet for a Kill.
How do you explain this, Lydie?
As I already mentioned, I do not want the paintings. They belong to Lydie. She did create the paintings and I always wanted the paintings to be returned to her.

It was Lydie´s decision to NOT pick them up or let them pick up for almost three years now. We had to rise the amount for storing the paintings now, maybe she will let pick them up now. The longer she waits the more it will cost. I had to ask a lawyer to take care of this problem and Lydie created the problem. And maybe she stops now to try to come up with new fairy tales.

What did she achieve? She did not finish our movie. So far I lost much money because of Lydie´s behavior. She did dissapoint crew and actors we worked with us when she did not finish her job as a director. Instead of dealing honest with the problems she herself had created she created more problems involving more and more lawyers and involving Santa Monica Court telling them I am a stalker and not her producer.
She did break US law in doing so. She did lie to US authorities. Trying to outsmart me she gets herself more and more in trouble.

Why does she do all this nonsense? It´s so easy to just tell the truth:
We shot a movie together. I am not a stalker. I am the producer of A BOUQUET FOR A KILL - the producer who paid the movie, Lydie´s flights, hotel stay...
It´s the truth. What is so difficult she cannot admit the truth? What´s her problem with the truth? What´s her problem with just being honest?

I am not Lydie´s enemy, I never was and I still do not consider her as an enemy. She told Santa Monica court, I love her and that I want to be together with her (in the romantic sense). This is not true. She told Santa Monica Court I threatened to kill her and that I hate her. This is also not true. I consider Lydie a wonderful actress but I will fight her as long as I live as long as she will not return my video tapes.

I do not hate Lydie, I fight her because it is my job as a producer to finish my movie and I need the tapes she took with her to edit the movie. The crew and actors who worked with Lydie and me can expect me to fight for our movie.
I never did involve Lydie´s paintings in this fight. I wrote her right in may 2007 she can pick up her paintings, the paintings are hers and I do not consider them part of our fight. So why didn´t she just call me and let some of her German "friends" pick up the paintings?

And why does she not return my tapes? I offered her we both can edit our own versions. I will edit my producer´s cut and I will give her a HDD with all scenes so she can edit a direcor´s cut, the way she wants to do it - and then we release both versions. Lydie and Roswitha told the press how great this movie is. So what is her problem? Does she really still think she can push me out and make believe people A Bouquet for a Kill is NOT Unhappy End! but a Lydie Denier movie? I think almost everyone from here to China knows now that A Bouquet for a Kill is a remake of Du sollst nicht Ehebrechen - Unhappy End!
So why not stop this stupid fight and do what I always suggested: She gives me the footage of may shooting and I give her a HDD with the scenes from february and april shooting and we just do what we promised when we signed the contracts and when Lydie came to Berlin to shoot with me A Bouquet for a Kill ?

Sincerely Yours,

Michael Huck

Photo: Copyright 2007 by Jörg Peter. Another photo of Lydie taken during shooting A Bouquet for a Kill in 2007 in Berlin, Germany.

The Painting Wars

The Paintings of Lydie Denier

And here is another nice story about Lydie and how she succeeds in creating problems where no problems have been before.
Lydie Denier is not only an actress, she is also an artist and she is painting. When we shot in Berlin she gave me some of her paintings she hoped she could sell in Germany. This was when we shot the short version. After the trouble in may, the paintings were still with me and I wrote her and her German friends, asking them to pick up Lydie´s paintings. No answer. I emailed to Lydie and I asked my lawyer to write a letter to Lydie´s agent in Paris. The letter came back. We wrote Lydie if she will not pick up or let pick up her paintings we will charge her 40 € a month to store the paintings. So for half a year I did not charge anything inspite of what Lydie did when she tried to steal my movie. I informed German police I have the paintings and I declared I do not want the paintings, and I wrote to Lydie inspite of the fact she took my video tapes, she can pick up her paintings whenever she wants because in my eyes that´s a different story. Lydie did not answer my mails and did not care about her own paintings. She did not contact neither me nor my lawyer.

Some time later, my lawyer got a letter from a Berlin lawyer who wrote that his client Sacha K. did meet in Cannes with Lydie Denier and she did sell him the paintings she once gave to me. And the lawyer asked us to give the paintings to his client. I wondered why a stranger should buy paintings from Lydie he never had seen. No art collector would buy paintings, he never had seen, would he?
Furthermore the lawyer presented us a handwritten letter, saying it is from Lydie Denier, and the letter said, Lydie had sold the paintings to Herrn K. giving him the address of my lawyer and writing the paintings are "held hostage" by a certain Michael Huck. I wondered what kind of art collector would buy PAINTINGS HE HAD NEVER SEEN BEFORE , ESPECIALLY WHEN HE IS TOLD THE PAINTINGS ARE HELD HOSTAGE BY SOMEONE ELSE !!! This made absouletly no sense to me and we asked the lawyer of Herrn K. to show us the contract with Ms Denier and I asked that Lydie calls and writes me to confirm she really wanted me to give her paintings to Herrn K. I also asked Herr K. had first to pay for storing the paintings.

I did some research and found out that Herr K. is a friend of Lydie´s German actress-friend.
Our Lawyers exchanged several letters and as usual it went nowhere. Then Herrn K.´s lawyer informed us that HERR K. DID RE-SELL !!!!! the paintings to Ms Denier and the laywer now wrote he is representing now Ms Denier and she wants the paintings back now. I informed him we gladly will return the paintings, after we know it is really Denier we are dealing with and AFTER SHE HAS PAID FOR THE STORING OF THE PAINTINGS.
In the meantime Lydie started to tell US courts and media the stalker story. She did not explain of course WHY SHE GAVE HER PAINTINGS TO SOMEONE WHO ACCORDING TO HER HAD STALKED HER SINCE YEARS AND THREATEND TO KILL HER !!!

It´s so sick. Lydie just cannot do something without getting herself and everyone else in trouble. Why didn´t she just let pick up the paintings up when we asked her to do so?

I hereby declare: I NEVER wanted the paintings. I want Lydie to pick up or let pick up her paintings. I never did held this paintings "hostage". I do not do things like that. Lydie did take my videotapes of my movie. That´s her "style". Not mine. I don`t steal other peoples paintings. She can have the paintings whenever she wants as soon as she confirms it is really she behind this lawyer and as soon as the money for storing is paid.

Sincerely Yours,
Michael Huck

Photo above: Copyright 2007 by Jörg Peter. This photo of Lydie had been taken as PR for A Bouquet for a Kill. We have lots of photos from this PR shooting. Jörg is also the DP of A Bouquet for a Kill.