MUMBAI: Claiming that they owe him at least $ 2.7 million in profits from his 2004 hit Fahrenheit 9/11, Michael Moore has filed a lawsuit against Weinstein brothers.

In the papers filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, Moore‘s lawyer, Larry Stein, claimed that the producers used "bogus accounting methods to hide the true amounts" that they owe Moore.

The director claimed that the Weinsteins and an affiliated entity called the Fellowship Adventure Group had a prior agreement to split the film‘s profits 50/50, but after conducting an audit on the film in 2008, he discovered "substantial irregularities in the accounting" and "a gross underpayment to him [Moore]