New York ? A judge decided Friday that Woody Allen’s film producers wrongly interpreted contracts with the comic director, prompting settlement talks in his $12 million lawsuit over the films’ profits.

No settlement was reached.

Allen is suing former producer Jean Doumanian and her boyfriend and business partner, Jacqui Safra, saying they cheated him out of profits on eight movies since 1993.

To compute profits, Doumanian and Safra subtracted the losses of poorly performing films from the earnings of the winners, deducted expenses and then arrived at the “adjusted gross proceeds.”

Allen contends he, Doumanian and Safra agreed upon this method in their contract for his first three movies only, and no others.

Doumanian and Safra say each of the later one-picture deals extended the terms of the first contract.

Justice Ira Gammerman said he disagreed with the defendants’ position. “The one-picture agreements are not part of the three-picture agreement,” he said.

He said he would tell the jury there was no written extension to the three-picture agreement and the jurors should consider the parties’ intent in the one-picture deals.

The case is scheduled to resume Monday.

The eight movies are “Bullets over Broadway,” “Mighty Aphrodite,” “Everyone Says I Love You,” “Deconstructing Harry,” “Wild Man Blues,” “Celebrity,” “Sweet and Lowdown,” and “Small Time Crooks.”