If you downloaded a copy of last summer’s “The Expendables” you could be looking at being part of a lawsuit.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, producer Nu Image Films has signed up with The U.S. Copyright Group and is looking to sue those who pirated the movie for copyright infringement.
According to Thomas Dunlap at USCG, a lawsuit is being prepared that will target thousands who shared Expendables on file-sharing service BitTorrent. The Sylvester Stallone action pic is just the first of several lawsuits planned over other Nu Image titles. The indie mini-studio is said to have signed up for the mass-suing over the holidays.
The suit is similar to one last year by producers of the Oscar-winning film “The Hurt Locker.”
Ah, the new Hollywood business model… Make a terrible movie that isn’t worth the price of a ticket and then file a lawsuit hoping to bring in more money than the box office did. How’s that working out?
Soooo, “the Pirates” are the excuse that the movie didn’t succeed in making bank. The top action stars of the ’80s who haven’t been able to sell baked beans in the last twenty years making a big budget FLOP has nothing to do with it… it was “the Pirate of the InterToobs” that were the problem….
*expletive deleted under mild protest*
How do any of these ever make it to court beyond the claim of IP spoofing or unsecured wifi? People simply need to band together, hire one kick azz law firm and shut these idiots down (kind of a reverse class action I guess!).
I find it ironic that they are suing people with no money.
So using their logic, anyone who paid to see the movie could sue the producers to get back the money and time stolen from them. (Fraud is a crime and the ads for this film should count as deceptive advertising.)
Don’t you deserve to be sued for bothering to download that movie?
Isn’t watching the movie punishment enough?
Where do you jackwagons come up with the movie being a flop? Or that it didn’t make money? Total box office and dvd was over $287,000,000. With a production cost of $82,000,000. According to my math that’s a profit of more than $205,000,000. No one expected to break records. And the movie was good for what it was meant to be, just a good ole fashion action flick to sit and watch and have fun. Nothing but a bunch of crying babies who are mad cause someone else is making lots of money and isn’t sharing it with them. Get out of your moms basements and get a job. Laws are laws and are meant to be followed whether you like them or not. If you don’t like them, then do something productive and change them.
Thanks for the info krazeytrucker. i have been meaning for a couple of months or so to find out what this stallone movie produced….in profits. At age 65 I am just getting in position to try and find funds for my own production concepts. I tried for extras when they were filming in New Orleans for Expendables because all my life from youth to more present time i was told by strangers I looked Stallone, Deniro or Dustin Hoffman, but, i wasn’t chosen for anything. probably a wise choice. Anyway glad to find out the production did that well. Krazytrucker, you got the worst most demanding job in the world. Drive on, brother, and safely….and i hope you can find your way out of it.