'The Butler' Battle : Harvey Weinstein Calls Warner Bros A Bully

Harvey Weinstein, CEO of The Weinstein Company, accused Warner Bros. of bullying on 'CBS This Morning' on Tuesday.

"One hundred and twenty two times in the history of movies, titles have been used and repeated," he said. "And our understanding with Warner Bros. was that this was just going to be a simple process that it always is. Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy have a movie out called 'Heat'. Jason Statham is shooting a movie called 'Heat,' Bob Deniro and Al Pacino made a movie called 'Heat,' and 10 years before that Burt Reynolds made a movie called 'Heat.'"

Weinstein believes that Warner Bros is upset over The Weinstein Company's ownership of 'The Hobbit' and  is using 'The Butler' to obtain rights.

He added, "I was asked by two execs at Warner Bros, which I'm happy to testify to, that if I gave them back the rights to 'The Hobbit' they would drop the claim for a 1916 short? This was used as a bullying tactic. This was the big guy trying to hit the small guy."

Warner Bros denies any correlation between 'The Hobbit' and this battle.

'The Butler' will open in theaters on August 16.