Frank Miller’s former manager sued the graphic novelist and screenwriter, claiming Miller owes him his 10 percent commissions for several movie projects, including films in the “300” and “Sin City” franchises.
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J.R.R. Tolkien’s estate has settled copyright infringement claims against Warner Bros. over merchandising rights to the author’s most famous works, “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit.”
Read moreSAN FRANCISCO (CN) – A federal judge admitted to being “disturbed” by California’s demand that IMDb turn over data to
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French movie director and writer Luc Besson denies that he has anything to do with a new digital media series that its creators are marketing as his idea, and he sued them this week to make them stop.
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Two producers have sued New Line Cinema for $1 million, claiming the company reneged on a deal to give them right of first refusal on sequels and remakes to the Farrelly brothers’ comedy “Dumb and Dumber.”
Read moreChuck D, founder and leader of the rap group Public Enemy, filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against documentary film producers to protect the rights to his life story.
Read moreVinny Paz, a boxing champ who fought his way back into the ring with a broken neck, claims in court that a forged signature cost him the rights to his life story.
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Under a new settlement, one of the nation’s largest movie theater chains, AMC, will adopt sweeping reforms to give blind customers access to devices that describe visual elements in films.
Read moreRogue Marble Productions, the loan-out company for Sylvester Stallone, claims “notoriously greedy” Warner Bros. owes an accounting for revenue from the 1993 film “Demolition Man,” and damages for fraud and breach of contract, in Superior Court.
Read moreThe screenwriter who wrote “Total Recall” sued Walt Disney Co. on Tuesday, claiming it lifted multiple elements for its animated box office smash “Zootopia” from his work.
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The Second Circuit saw no reason Wednesday to disturb armed-robbery convictions that relied in part on a courtroom viewing of several scenes from Ben Affleck’s 2010 bank-heist film “The Town.”
Read moreTwisting the facts for a television movie about a man who killed his father with an ax may leave the Lifetime network liable, a New York appeals court ruled Thursday.
Read moreA federal judge warned California on Thursday that continuing to defend a seemingly unconstitutional law that restricts the publication of actors’ ages will likely divert more taxpayer dollars to the Internet Movie Database’s attorneys.
Read moreTaking the producers of a Matthew McConaughey film to court, a distributor claims that “Gold” debuted one day too early, breaching a deal to release the movie a full week after another star-powered title, “The Founder” with Michael Keaton.
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