A California federal judge has rejected a copyright complaint targeting Zootopia, Disney's Oscar-winning animated film that grossed more than $1 billion two years ago. On Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Michael Fitzgerald ruled that the plaintiff hadn't show him enough to state a plausible claim for infringement.
Esplanade Productions filed the lawsuit in March. The plaintiff alleged that Zootopia was derived from work pitched by Gary L. Goldman, whose credits include writing Total Recall and Next and producing Minority Report. In his complaint, Goldman described working with Disney on another film and pitching his own project (titled Looney) to the studio at least...
Esplanade Productions filed the lawsuit in March. The plaintiff alleged that Zootopia was derived from work pitched by Gary L. Goldman, whose credits include writing Total Recall and Next and producing Minority Report. In his complaint, Goldman described working with Disney on another film and pitching his own project (titled Looney) to the studio at least...
- 7/11/2017
- by Eriq Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Mark Rylance, Ciro Guerra and producer Michael Fitzgerald have joined to bring J.M. Coetzee’s award-winning book Waiting For The Barbarians to the big screen. Coetzee, a Nobel Prize winner for literature, adapted the novel which the Nobel Prize committee called “a political thriller in the tradition of Joseph Conrad, in which the idealist's naiveté opens the gates to horror.” Waiting For The Barbarians, which first was published in 1980 and quickly amassed…...
- 10/13/2016
- Deadline
The judge in the Derrick Rose rape case reaffirmed his decision and will Not allow the accuser to use a pseudonym during the trial ... saying, "This is not a state secrets case." As we previously reported, the accuser had asked the judge to reconsider after he previously ruled that she must use her real name. But in a hearing Thursday afternoon, the judge shot her down. "This is not a state secrets case," Judge Michael Fitzgerald...
- 9/29/2016
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
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