Tarantino Shelves The Hateful Eight Due To Leaked Script
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Tarantino Suing Gawker Over Posting Hateful Eight Script
Filmmaker goes toe-to-toe with the blog network.
by Max Nicholson JANUARY 27, 2014
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Quentin Tarantino is planning to strike down upon Gawker Media with great vengeance and furious anger for allegedly posting his unproduced script The Hateful Eight online.
Last week, the famed filmmaker was outraged to learn that his western screenplay had been leaked and circulated. He was so upset in fact that he announced on Tuesday that he would no longer be making the film as his next feature, opting instead to publish the story in book form.
Then on Thursday, Gawker's Defamer blog posted an article linking to the Hateful Eight script for all the world to see (and download).
"Gawker Media has made a business of predatory journalism, violating people's rights to make a buck," stated Tarantino's lawsuit, via THR. "This time, they went too far. Rather than merely publishing a news story reporting that Plaintiff's screenplay may have been circulating in Hollywood without his permission, Gawker Media crossed the journalistic line by promoting itself to the public as the first source to read the entire Screenplay illegally."
The document continues, "Their headline boasts... 'Here,' not someplace else, but 'Here' on the Gawker website. The article then contains multiple direct links for downloading the entire Screenplay through a conveniently anonymous URL by simply clicking button-links on the Gawker page, and brazenly encourages Gawker visitors to read the Screenplay illegally with the invitation to 'Enjoy!' it."
This isn't the first time Gawker has pushed the boundaries of sensitive material. Last year, for example, the blog site squared off with Lena Dunham after they refused to remove her book proposal that they posted. According to Tarantino's suit, Gawker has yet to back down from "repeat demands for the removal of the posted URL links," and at the time of this writing, that remains to be true.
THR notes that Tarantino is demanding "actual and statutory damages as well as Gawker's profits in the amount of at least $1 million."
Filmmaker goes toe-to-toe with the blog network.
by Max Nicholson JANUARY 27, 2014
SUBMIT TWEET SHARE +1 SHARE
Quentin Tarantino is planning to strike down upon Gawker Media with great vengeance and furious anger for allegedly posting his unproduced script The Hateful Eight online.
Last week, the famed filmmaker was outraged to learn that his western screenplay had been leaked and circulated. He was so upset in fact that he announced on Tuesday that he would no longer be making the film as his next feature, opting instead to publish the story in book form.
Then on Thursday, Gawker's Defamer blog posted an article linking to the Hateful Eight script for all the world to see (and download).
"Gawker Media has made a business of predatory journalism, violating people's rights to make a buck," stated Tarantino's lawsuit, via THR. "This time, they went too far. Rather than merely publishing a news story reporting that Plaintiff's screenplay may have been circulating in Hollywood without his permission, Gawker Media crossed the journalistic line by promoting itself to the public as the first source to read the entire Screenplay illegally."
The document continues, "Their headline boasts... 'Here,' not someplace else, but 'Here' on the Gawker website. The article then contains multiple direct links for downloading the entire Screenplay through a conveniently anonymous URL by simply clicking button-links on the Gawker page, and brazenly encourages Gawker visitors to read the Screenplay illegally with the invitation to 'Enjoy!' it."
This isn't the first time Gawker has pushed the boundaries of sensitive material. Last year, for example, the blog site squared off with Lena Dunham after they refused to remove her book proposal that they posted. According to Tarantino's suit, Gawker has yet to back down from "repeat demands for the removal of the posted URL links," and at the time of this writing, that remains to be true.
THR notes that Tarantino is demanding "actual and statutory damages as well as Gawker's profits in the amount of at least $1 million."
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Lol thats what he gets for being in his feelings like that. Its his work so he had the right to feel that way but he didnt have to go to the media last week dropping names and ? . All he had to do was shelve it. He named names so someone was gonna burn him.
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I read about this
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He should do ? bill 3 next
A movie in this time(like a pulp fiction type) -
I read the Django script long, long before it came out. The final version was a different to the script I read, though.
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After Quentin Tarantino sued Gawker Media on Monday for linking to a leaked script of his project “Hateful Eight,” the company defended its post and suggested that it was the director himself who bore responsibility for calling attention to the script.
Tarantino sued Gawker Media in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, claiming contributory copyright infringement, after its Defamer site linked to an AnonFiles posting of the script. The director also sued AnonFiles for direct infringement, but the challenge there will be to actually find the identity of the defendant.
Gawker’s John Cook wrote in a post on Monday that “contributory infringement is a legal theory that has traditionally been deployed against file-sharing sites and search engines—venues that explicitly exist as directories to copyrighted content. Gawker and Defamer are news sites, and our publication of the link was clearly connected to our goal of informing readers about things they care about.
Cook pointed out that it was not Gawker that leaked the script, and that the director was the one “who turned his script into a news story, one that garnered him a great deal of attention.” He cited a quote that Tarantino gave to Deadline in which he said of his material, “I do like the fact that everyone eventually posts it, gets it and reviews it on the net.”
http://variety.com/2014/film/news/gawker-quentin-tarantino-to-blame-for-script-frenzy-1201073266/
Tarantino bout to catch a next L. -
I was excited to get another QT movie soon. Hopefully he has something else in the works.
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He may just tweak the screenplay a bit .. He said he might not ditch it completly according to reports
Bruce Dern was one of those casted -
genuinely believe tino could decimate an entire entity with a single headbutt.
