A lawsuit that threatened to hold movie studios accountable for the content of their trailers — especially the ones that weren’t especially accurate depictions of their subjects — has been settled. It all stemmed from the Danny Boyle movie Yesterday. The film imagines a world where a musician (Himesh Patel) gets into an accident and when he wakes … Read more
The former contributing actress of The Mandalorian, Gina Carano, is suing Disney and Lucasfilm for wrongful termination with Elon Musk’s help. Gina Carano is suing Disney and Lucasfilm for discrimination and wrongful termination in a lawsuit with X Owner Elon Musk funding the actress’s fight against both studios. In a complaint filed on Tuesday in … Read more
Nearly all of Marvel’s great characters are fully owned and controlled by Marvel (and, by extension, Disney), but they were created by writers and artists who worked for the company on its comic books. The comics industry of the time when Marvel was introducing characters like the Fantastic Four, the Avengers, the X-Men, and so … Read more
Reports of Squid Game: The Challenge contestants threatening to sue Netflix have hit the web. Is there any truth to these reports? Is Netflix actually being sued? What is the Squid Game: The Challenge lawsuit? At the time of writing, an official lawsuit has not been filed against Netflix for Squid Game: The Challenge. A … Read more
Gerard Butler’s Olympus Has Fallen lawsuit settles after the actor and producer alleges producers owed him roughly $10M in profits. While Hollywood continues to negotiate with SAG-AFTRA for agreeable terms to the ongoing strike, Gerard Butler is resolving a dispute with producers of Olympus Has Fallen, the actor’s 2013 blockbuster starring Butler, Aaron Eckhart, and Morgan … Read more
George R.R. Martin, John Grisham, Jonathan Franzen and more prominent authors file a lawsuit against OpenAI. We’re in the midst of an exponential growth of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, which is equal parts fascinating and terrifying. As most AI systems are trained using copyrighted work, the legality of such systems has been the subject of … Read more
The Walt Disney Co. has dropped various claims from its ongoing lawsuit against Ron DeSantis, trimming down the suit to instead focus on alleged First Amendment violations. In a complaint filed on Tuesday (via The Hollywood Reporter), Disney amended its original lawsuit, dropping Contracts Clause, Takings Clause, and Due Process Clause violations. Instead, the suit … Read more
Director Guy Ritchie has responded to a lawsuit claiming that he stole the idea for 2019’s The Gentlemen from a script written by his friend. What lawsuit is Guy Ritchie involved in? The lawsuit comes from actor and writer Mickey de Hara, a friend of Ritchie’s who was actually in his 1999 film Snatch. De … Read more
A judge has dismissed the lawsuit involving 1968’s Romeo and Juliet, saying the stars don’t have enough evidence on their side. A judge has put a dagger in the heart of the lawsuit involving the stars of 1968’s Romeo and Julietsiding with Paramount Pictures in deciding that its use of underage nudity actually falls under … Read more
At the very end of 2022, Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey, the stars of the popular 1968 film of William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet filed suit against the movie’s distributor, Paramount Pictures, accusing the company of “sexually exploiting them and distributing nude images of adolescent children.” Whiting and Hussey claimed that the film’s director, Franco … Read more