Johnny Depp’s Co-Producers Are Blocking the U.S. Release of Russian Blockbuster ‘Master and Margarita’ — Its Director Wants to Know Why

Russian American director Michael Lockshin heard along with the rest of the world Wednesday that Johnny Depp is set to produce the first English-language feature adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s masterpiece novel The Master and Margarita, with the announcement made at the Red Sea Film Festival

But Lockshin knows well Depp’s co-producers, Svetlana Migunova-Dali and Grace Loh, because he’s locked in an ongoing legal battle with them via his sales company, Luminosity Pictures, in the California Central District Court.

On Wednesday, Lockshin told The Hollywood Reporter Migunova-Dali and Grace Loh have been trying to block a U.S. release of his own Russian-language adaptation of Bulgakov’s masterpiece produced by Len Blavatnik. “I have met with them previously because they (Dali and Loh) have been trying to ban the release of my film in English language territories,” he said.

Lockshin’s Russian-language movie adaptation was shot in 2021, but…