Producer Joe Eckardt has filed a lawsuit against Amazon MGM Studios alleging that an executive at the company solicited kickbacks for post production work and blocked companies from servicing projects if they refused. The lawsuit alleges that Eckardtt was recruited to participate in an alleged scheme where he would be provided with the approved budget for a production to submit a winning bid and then pay head of unscripted post production Frank Salinas a percentage of the project value as repayment. An investigation into the allegations was conducted last year and found the claims were not substantiated.