Ya got trouble, Clint. According to Deadline, producer Ryan A. Brooks has filed a lawsuit claiming Warner Bros ripped off three copyrighted scripts and a concept reel belonging to him for their 2012 feature, Trouble With The Curve. Clint Eastwood’s Malpaso Productions as well as talent agencies UTA and Gersh are also named in the […]
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James Cameron’s Avatar sued – again – by artist for copyright infringement
July 1, 2013 
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It’s been four years since it was released, but copyright lawsuits keep getting lobbed at James Cameron’s $2.8 billion grossing Avatar. The latest suit comes from artist William Roger Dean, who is responsible for the fantastical album covers of Yes, Asia, and others. According to Deadline, Dean is seeking more than $50 million in damages. He […]
Continue readingMartin Scorsese set to shoot Silence in 2014
April 22, 2013 0 Comments
Martin Scorsese is finally set to take on Silence, a project that has been on his slate since 1991. According to Deadline, Scorsese is looking to shoot the adaptation of Shusaku Endo’s novel in July of 2014. That shoot date will depend on how quickly a cast comes together. Daniel Day-Lewis, Benicio Del Toro, and Gael Garcia […]
Continue readingIran suing Hollywood over Argo and similar “distorting” movies
March 14, 2013 0 Comments
Iran has recruited French lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre to file suit against Hollywood for promoting “Iranophobia” in their movies. Ben Affleck’s Best Picture winner Argo has been targeted in the suit, as well as 300, Not Without My Daughter, and The Wrestler. According to The Guardian, Coutant-Peyre revealed details of her task at Tehran’s recent Hoax of Hollywood conference. Speaking with […]
Continue readingPoster Debut: Sofia Vergara in Machete Kills
March 11, 2013 0 Comments
Posted without comment. Sofia Vergara stars opposite Machete himself, Danny Trejo, as well as Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez, Charlie Sheen, Lady Gaga, and Mel Gibson. Weird cast. We’ll get to see them all in action later this year. That is, so long as Overnight Productions’ lawsuit against Robert Rodriguez’s Quick Draw Productions doesn’t bar the film from release. Overnight are seeking $2 million […]
Continue readingMachete Kills may not see the light of day
November 22, 2012 0 Comments
A lawsuit could keep Robert Rodriguez’s grindhouse sequel Machete Kills from ever seeing the light of day. According to Deadline, Overnight Productions – who hold the original rights to Machete – wish to overturn their decision to allow Rodriguez’s Quick Draw Productions to make the flick. Overnight seek to end the agreement, claiming they have been kept in […]
Continue readingMore beautiful – Margaret: Extended Cut review
October 16, 2012 0 Comments
Margaret: Extended Cut – Starring Anna Paquin, J. Smith-Cameron, and Jeannie Berlin. Directed by Kenneth Lonergan. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. Before being granted a theatrical release in Australia, Kenneth Lonergan’s Margaret screened on international Qantas flights; a comically fitting yet wildly unfair outlet to complement the feature’s pitiful roll-out in a handful of American cinemas […]
Continue readingAvatar plagiarism lawsuit dismissed
September 19, 2012 0 Comments
The copyright suit against James Cameron’s Avatar has been dismissed, with the judge ruling that the highest-grossing film of all time was an original idea, Deadline reports. The lawsuit was filed against James Cameron and 20th Century Fox early in 2012 by writer Elijah Schkeiban, who claimed that the box office hit was based on […]
Continue readingDisney threaten makers of Brave rip-off
September 13, 2012 0 Comments
A lawsuit may be brewing between Disney and Brightspark Production Ltd. over an animated fairytale called Braver, The Guardian reports. Not only has the UK company tacked an ‘r’ onto the end of Disney Pixar’s latest hit film Brave, but the cover and character art looks incredibly close to Disney’s concept (albeit an el-cheapo version). […]
Continue readingMartin Scorsese’s people respond to Silence lawsuit
August 27, 2012 0 Comments
Last week, Cecchi Gori Pictures filed a lawsuit against Martin Scorsese for failing to make for them the long-gestating Silence within a reasonable time-frame. Scorsese’s people have hit back at the suit, responding with the legal equivalent of “You talkin’ to me?” (Documented by Deadline…) “It is shocking to us that the lawyers for Cecchi Gori Pictures would file […]
Continue readingMourning glory – Margaret review
August 7, 2012 0 Comments
Margaret – Starring Anna Paquin, Jeannie Berlin, and J. Smith Cameron. Directed by Kenneth Lonergan. Rated MA. Originally published June 11, 2012. By Simon Miraudo. Margaret arrives on DVD in Australia August 8, 2012 October 17, 2012. The DVD also comes with an Extended Cut, though this review is of the Theatrical Cut. There might not be a sadder cinematic story than that […]
Continue readingKevin Costner sues for Robin Hood profits
July 26, 2012 2 Comments
Do you remember the 1991 film, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves? Kevin Costner sure does, and according to Deadline he has filed a law suit accusing Morgan Creek Productions of cheating him out of a contracted profit share. In the suit, Costner alleges that Morgan Creek Productions concealed true profit receipts on the movie in […]
Continue readingUniversal sues The Asylum over Battleship rip-off
May 2, 2012 2 Comments
The Asylum is famous for releasing direct-to-DVD soundalikes of popular movies: Transmorphers, The Day the Earth Stopped, Sunday School Musical. The list is, almost literally, endless. Universal Studios has taken umbrage with their latest mockbuster, American Battleship, claming that it’s a rip-off of their board-game adaptation Battleship (well… yeah). According to TMZ, Universal has filed […]
Continue readingNun sues Sister Act filmmakers for stealing her life story
November 14, 2011 2 Comments
Harlem nun Delois Blakely claims Walt Disney Co. and Sony Pictures unlawfully used her life story as the basis for the hit comedy Sister Act, and is suing accordingly. Blakely’s autobiography The Harlem Street Nun (published in 1987) detailed her experiences as a “young, Black, singing nun serving the street people and youths”. According to […]
Continue readingTabloid subject Joyce McKinney sues Errol Morris
November 9, 2011 0 Comments
Joyce McKinney, the subject of Errol Morris‘ documentary Tabloid, has filed a lawsuit against the Oscar winning director for portraying her as “crazy, a sex offender, an S&M prostitute, and/or a rapist”. Former beauty queen McKinney became a tabloid star in the 1970s when she was tried for kidnapping her boyfriend Kirk Anderson and forcing […]
Continue readingWoman sues over misleading Drive trailer
October 10, 2011 7 Comments
Have you ever watched a movie and thought, ‘this is nothing like the trailer promised!’? Then did you quickly get over it and carry on living your life? Not Michigan woman Sarah Deming! According to The Hollywood Reporter, Deming has filed a lawsuit against distributor Film District over their “misleading” trailer for Nicolas Winding Refn’s […]
Continue reading>Michael Moore sues the Weinsteins
February 9, 2011 1 Comment
>So it seems everybody’s “favourite”, “independent”, “documentary” filmmaker is suing producers Bob and Harvey Weinstein. According to Deadline, Michael Moore, who has built something of a healthy career off of exposé documentary films and his intrusive “search for the truth” style of investigative journalism, is now suing the Weinsteins for breach of contract, breach of […]
Continue reading>New Adrien Brody film no longer allowed to show Adrien Brody
November 25, 2010 0 Comments
>Dario Argento’s 2009 giallo thriller, ingeniously titled Giallo, has hit something of a snag in terms of further marketing and oh yeah, distribution. The film, which stars Adrien Brody as Inspector Enzo Avolfi, now faces the monumentally difficult task of finding its audience without the use of any images of Brody – in terms of […]
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