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From copyright infringement to on-set accidents, Hollywood's legal battles can be just as dramatic as the films themselves. Join us as we examine shocking movie scenes that landed studios in court! From Tarantino's NFT drama to tragic helicopter accidents, these cinematic moments triggered lawsuits that changed the industry forever.
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00:00B-A-B-Y, baby.
00:04I have a question.
00:06What's that song you're singing?
00:07Welcome to WatchMojo.
00:09And today, we're counting down our picks
00:11for the most compelling legal actions
00:13based on a single scene in a movie.
00:20Number 30, Royale with NFT, Pulp Fiction.
00:25They call it Royale with cheese.
00:28Royale with cheese.
00:29It's common for someone to sue a studio
00:31over an iconic script years after the fact.
00:34But what about the studio doing the suing?
00:37In 2021, Quentin Tarantino auctioned off an NFT
00:40featuring an early draft of and commentary on
00:44the Royale with cheese dialogue in Pulp Fiction.
00:47The plan to sell six more NFTs
00:49was canceled over market concerns.
00:52The film's distributor Miramax
00:53then issued a copyright suit,
00:56claiming that they own the material
00:57Tarantino made for them
00:59and that his auctions compromised
01:01the studio's own NFT plans.
01:04Mm-hmm.
01:05This is a tasty burger.
01:08Vincent, you ever had a big galuna burger?
01:12Want a bite?
01:13They're real tasty.
01:14The case was settled out of court,
01:15but sparked debates about artists' rights
01:17with their own creation.
01:19As Pulp Fiction showed,
01:20feuds over valuable goods can get especially messy
01:23when secrecy is involved.
01:25Royale with cheese.
01:27Royale with cheese.
01:29You know why they call it that?
01:32Because of the metric system?
01:36Check out the big brain on Brad!
01:39Number 29.
01:40Nice Pool.
01:41Deadpool and Wolverine.
01:43Ryan Reynolds himself created a Wade Wilson variant
01:46who seems to be a play on the wholesome stereotypes
01:49of the actor's native Canada.
01:51And yet, it was the American actor-filmmaker,
01:53Justin Baldoni,
01:54who took the jabs personally.
01:57Amid a legal battle with Reynolds' wife,
01:59Blake Lively,
02:00he issued a $400 million defamation suit
02:03against the couple and other relevant parties.
02:05Can I have it?
02:06Ha!
02:07Over my dead body.
02:09You're fun.
02:10Baldoni claimed that the purposefully obnoxious
02:13and ill-fated nice pool
02:14was actually an esoteric spoof of his own personality.
02:18He even claimed to have highly confidential material
02:21about the character's development,
02:23which proved this.
02:24Listen to me, gorgeous.
02:25How long does it take for you to regenerate?
02:27Regenerate?
02:29Although the judge promptly dismissed the case,
02:32one way or another,
02:33it goes to show that the Baldoni-Lively feud
02:35was very far from nice.
02:37It actually gets worse.
02:39Yeah.
02:39No way.
02:40Not possible.
02:40It does.
02:41Number 28.
02:43Zanja Madre.
02:44Batman Forever.
02:45It wasn't just the second bank of Gotham
02:47being robbed in the opening scene of Batman Forever.
02:50The use of Los Angeles' iconic 801 Tower
02:53for the bank's facade is already disillusioning
02:56for viewers familiar with the area.
02:58This included Andrew Lester,
03:00who designed the property's award-winning
03:03Zanja Madre Plaza.
03:05He sued Warner Brothers for copyright infringement,
03:07fearing his art's permanent association
03:10with Batman Forever.
03:11The judge ruled that an architectural structure
03:20could be photographed with permission
03:21from the owner of the property it's built on.
03:24This was upheld on appeal five years later.
03:26The good news is that the Zanja Madre Plaza
03:29is mostly remembered on its own.
03:31The bad news is that Lester is remembered
03:33for being thwarted by Batman twice.
03:40Number 27.
03:42Reckless product placement.
03:44Cliffhanger.
03:44The harrowing, heartbreaking hook in Cliffhanger
03:47immediately broke it from the usual action flick.
03:50Audiences were so on the edge of their seats
03:52that they might have noticed
03:53that the faulty climbing harness
03:55was a black diamond design.
04:02Or at least that's what the equipment manufacturers said
04:05when they claimed this sequence
04:06seriously misrepresented the quality of their product.
04:10They won their case against the production company,
04:12Karolko Pictures,
04:13ahead of the film's release,
04:15forcing the credits to include a note
04:17that the harnesses were modified.
04:19We're willing to bet that a lot more people noticed
04:21the product placement than the disclaimer.
04:23Even details of this infamous case
04:25have gotten lost in the abyss over the years.
04:35Number 26.
04:36Deborah.
04:37Baby Driver.
04:38The soundtrack driving Baby Driver is so dense
04:41that one could joke about the music supervisors
04:43for getting a license.
04:45Baby, what, baby?
04:48Baby, what, baby?
04:51Well, it wasn't a joke to Roland Feld,
04:55the son and heir of T-Rex guitarist Mark Bolin.
04:58He sued Sony over the allegedly unauthorized use
05:02of the 1968 single Deborah,
05:04which scores the introduction of the hero's love interest
05:07of the same name.
05:08Deborah.
05:09Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
05:13Da-va-ree-da-ka-ka-ka-ka-ka-ka-ka-ka-ka-ka-ka-ka-ka-ka-ka-ka-ka-ka-ka-ka-ka-ka-ka-ka.
05:16Feld claimed he didn't even know the song was in the movie
05:19until the company's music division sought its licensing
05:22for the soundtrack album.
05:24Supposedly unable to get their stories straight,
05:26Sony ultimately settled out of court.
05:29Even if a theft is too quick for even the perpetrators to notice,
05:32the law is bound to catch up.
05:34Aren't you mysterious?
05:36Maybe.
05:36Maybe.
05:40Number 25.
05:41Slip and slide responsibly.
05:43Dickie Roberts, former child star.
05:46It's all fun and games watching David Spade wipe out on a slip and slide.
05:50We can safely assume that this standout gag
05:52in Dickie Roberts, former child star,
05:55is discouraging using the water slide without water or with oil.
05:58But the manufacturer Wham-O didn't see it that way
06:07when they sued Paramount Pictures
06:09for both unauthorized representation of the product
06:12and promoting misuse of it.
06:14To be fair, the company is regularly blamed
06:16for young people's dangerous experiments
06:18with the slip and slide in real life.
06:20Nonetheless, the court ruled that Dickie Roberts
06:23practiced fair use with the product
06:25and did not encourage its misuse.
06:27Wham-O would at least agree that irresponsible playing
06:31should be discouraged as much as possible.
06:36Number 24.
06:38Abomination.
06:39Underworld.
06:492003's War of the Wolves wasn't just on the screen.
06:53The publisher White Wolf Incorporated
06:55and author Nancy A. Collins
06:57claimed 17 counts of Underworld
07:00ripping off the World of Darkness game series
07:02and Collins' work.
07:04The generic genre movie overlapping
07:06with another specific vampire-werewolf lore
07:08would be dismissed as coincidence
07:10were it not for the film's climax.
07:13As the Lycan, Michael, transforms into a vampire,
07:16Victor reflects on his daughter becoming pregnant
07:18with an abomination by a Lycan.
07:20This seemingly unique concept of a vampire-werewolf hybrid
07:24is in fact featured in the World of Darkness games,
07:26where the creatures are named Abominations.
07:29I loved my daughter.
07:34But the abomination growing in her womb
07:37was a betrayal of me and of the coven.
07:39Such damning evidence prompted the makers of Underworld
07:42to settle the case,
07:43then proceed with their not-so-creative film franchise.
07:46We all hate it when movie trailers
07:52misrepresent a story with certain scenes,
07:55particularly ones that don't make the final cut.
07:57In 2022, Peter Rosa and Connor Wolfe
08:00went as far as suing Universal Pictures
08:03for false advertising after renting Yesterday.
08:06The trailer suggested that Anna de Armas
08:08might be prominently featured in the film
08:10after her character appeared on The Late Late Show
08:13with James Corden.
08:14I don't know if we've never met before,
08:15but it's really nice to meet you.
08:16I'm a big fan.
08:17Nice meeting you.
08:18Me too.
08:18Her subplot was in fact small enough
08:20to be cut entirely following test screening backlash.
08:24The judge ultimately dismissed Rosa
08:26and Wolfe's backlash
08:27and ordered them to cover Universal's legal fees.
08:31So this is something.
08:36Though a settlement worked around that,
08:38buying the Blu-ray to watch a deleted scene
08:40with De Armas would have been much cheaper.
08:43Number 22, Dueling Banjos, Deliverance.
08:47Before things escalate for the City Boys
08:49and Kahulawasi River locals,
08:52guitarist Drew bonds with a young banjo player
08:54over a jam session.
08:56Alas, the civility of this iconic scene
08:58in Deliverance fell apart
09:00after Dueling Banjos became a hit.
09:02Eric Weisberg and Steve Mandel
09:04were credited with arranging
09:06the bluegrass standard feud in banjos.
09:08Arthur Guitar Boogie Smith sued Warner Brothers
09:20for neglecting to mention
09:21that he composed the original piece.
09:30This landmark case in copyright law
09:33ended with a settlement
09:34that awarded the plaintiff credit
09:35on the soundtrack and royalty rights.
09:38Still, Smith was content
09:39with not being credited in the film itself,
09:41as he was personally offended
09:43by its depiction of the rural American South.
09:46Number 21, Horseplay, Heaven's Gate.
09:49Animal rights in Hollywood
09:51were literally built on horseback.
09:53A fatal horse stunt in 1939's Jesse James
09:56established the rule
09:58that the American Humane Association
10:00must oversee film production's treatment of animals.
10:03If the legendary bomb Heaven's Gate
10:05was known for nothing else in 1980,
10:08it was for defying that rule
10:09during the Western's epic final battle.
10:17A horse owner won a settlement
10:19after accusing the filmmakers and a wrangler
10:21of physically and psychologically traumatizing
10:24her priced Arabian.
10:26The AHA cited this case in their assessment
10:28that, without their supervision,
10:30multiple horses were injured
10:32or even killed in the frantic sequence.
10:34With yet more stories of abuse,
10:36it's speculated that Heaven's Gate
10:38inspired the filmmaking disclaimer,
10:40no animals were harmed.
10:44Last year, I was in Paris.
10:47Number 20, Avatar.
10:54Oh my God.
10:57Say what you will about the movie itself,
10:59but seeing Avatar on the big screen
11:01was a borderline religious experience in 2009.
11:04Many people remember seeing Pandora for the first time.
11:08The floating islands and cascading waterfalls
11:11burned into memories the world over.
11:13Everyone loved it.
11:14Everyone but Roger Dean.
11:16Dean is a renowned artist who designs album covers,
11:19and his work is noted for featuring
11:21fantastic alien landscapes similar to Avatar.
11:25In fact, he sued James Cameron for plagiarism,
11:28claiming that the director had copied 14 of his original works,
11:32including Floating Jungle.
11:33He sought damages of $50 million,
11:36but a judge ultimately dismissed the case.
11:41You should see your faces.
11:43Number 19, Happy Death Day.
11:49Yo, I think your friends went the other way.
11:51Can I help you?
11:59A fun movie that brings Groundhog Day into the slasher genre,
12:03Happy Death Day sees Tree Gelbman reliving the day of her murder
12:07over and over again.
12:09She first encounters her killer in a tunnel,
12:11and viewers are quick to notice that they're wearing a baby mask.
12:14Most people were probably creeped out,
12:16maybe a little bemused,
12:17but not Johnson Berticelli.
12:19He is the creator of King Cake Baby,
12:22the official mascot of the New Orleans Pelicans.
12:25Perhaps not coincidentally,
12:26the film also happens to take place in New Orleans.
12:30Berticelli sued the filmmakers for copyright infringement,
12:33and sought to receive half of the movie's profits.
12:36In 2021, Universal City Studios reached a private settlement with Berticelli,
12:41the details of which were not released.
12:44Look, weirdo, I'm not scared.
12:46Why don't you go try this with one of the heifers at Delta Gamma?
12:49They're in the cosplay.
12:51Number 18, Rasputin and the Empress.
12:54Open your eyes.
12:57Now, can you hear me?
13:00Can you hear me?
13:02You're so far away, Natasha.
13:05Turns out, you can't just make up facts and present it as history.
13:08There's one scene in the movie where Rasputin overpowers Princess Natasha
13:12and puts her into a trance.
13:14It's also heavily implied that he overcomes her sexually.
13:18Natasha is modeled after Princess Irina Alexandrovna,
13:22whose husband, Prince Felix, helped murder Rasputin in 1916.
13:27In real life, Princess Irina was never overcome by Rasputin,
13:31and attorney Fanny Holtzman filed a libel lawsuit against the studio on her behalf.
13:36She ultimately won an out-of-court settlement with MGM
13:39and received $127,000 in an English court.
13:43The offensive scene was also removed from future releases,
13:46and the lawsuit gave rise to the all-persons fictitious disclaimer
13:50that is often seen at the end of movies.
13:53Keep looking, or you'll be lost forever in the dark.
13:59Number 17, The Blues Brothers.
14:01You got us into this parking lot, pal.
14:03Now you get us out.
14:06You want out of this parking lot?
14:09Okay.
14:10In one of the movie's most iconic sequences,
14:12Jake and Elle would engage the police in a car chase through the Dixie Square Mall.
14:17This was a very short-lived mall in Chicago,
14:20opening in 1966 and closing just 12 years later in 1978.
14:25The empty mall was then converted into a temporary school
14:28for the Harvey Dixmore School District.
14:30It was still serving as such when John Landis rented the building for filming.
14:34The cars caused a considerable amount of damage inside the mall,
14:38damage that was never fixed or paid for.
14:40As such, the school district sued Universal Pictures for damages.
14:44However, they too left the mall soon after,
14:47and it lay abandoned until 2012 when it was finally demolished.
14:51Number 16, Resident Evil, The Final Chapter.
15:07One of the most catastrophic on-set injuries in movie history
15:11occurred while filming Resident Evil, The Final Chapter.
15:14Mila Jovovich's stunt double, Olivia Jackson,
15:17was driving a motorcycle at high speeds without a helmet when she collided with a camera crane.
15:22Jackson was in a coma for two weeks and suffered a litany of horrific injuries,
15:28including a crushed face, a twisted spine,
15:30and a paralyzed left arm that was eventually amputated.
15:34Jackson sued the producers, claiming that the stunt was negligently planned
15:38and that they lied to her about medical insurance that didn't actually exist.
15:42The court ruled in favor of Jackson,
15:44and she was awarded an undisclosed settlement.
15:47And the next thing I remember, I woke up three weeks later after being in a coma
15:51and then saw my family.
15:54Sorry.
15:55Sorry.
15:56Sorry.
15:57Number 15, Rocky.
15:59He's dancing around.
16:02I don't believe it.
16:04The champ is down.
16:05Yes, he is.
16:06It was March 24th, 1975,
16:09and the legendary Muhammad Ali was fighting underdog Chuck Wepner.
16:13Nobody expected Wepner to do well, but he nearly went the distance,
16:17finally being TKO'd in the 15th and final round.
16:21Even more incredible, Wepner actually managed to knock down Ali,
16:25one of only four times that Ali had been knocked down in his entire career.
16:30Sound familiar?
16:31Sylvester Stallone watched the fight on TV,
16:34and believing that it was, quote,
16:36an incredible triumph of the human spirit,
16:38wrote Rocky immediately after.
16:40Fast forward to 2003,
16:42when Wepner sued Stallone,
16:44claiming that he never received official credit or recognition
16:47for inspiring the famous movie.
16:49Unlike the boxing match,
16:51he won the lawsuit,
16:52receiving an undisclosed amount.
16:54Ain't gonna be no rematch.
16:56Ain't gonna be no rematch.
16:58The long one.
16:59Number 14, The Hangover Part 2.
17:02Where are we?
17:02Oh my God, Alan.
17:08Your head.
17:10No, your head.
17:11Can you copyright a tattoo?
17:13That was the main question behind this lawsuit.
17:16In one of the movie's most famous scenes,
17:18Stu wakes up and discovers that he now has Mike Tyson's iconic face tattoo.
17:23He then goes the entire rest of the movie with the tattoo on his face.
17:26This did not sit well with S. Victor Whitmill,
17:29who designed Tyson's tattoo.
17:31He filed a copyright lawsuit against Warner Brothers,
17:34and the studio in turn defended themselves,
17:37arguing that tattoos do not fall under copyright law.
17:40The judge hilariously called this defense, quote,
17:43silly, and affirmed that yes,
17:45tattoos do in fact fall under copyright,
17:47being considered original works of art.
17:50They were forced to settle with Whitmill for an undisclosed amount.
17:53That's good.
17:54Why don't you try to wash it off?
17:56It's not coming off!
17:59Number 13, Lay the Favorite.
18:01Sports books.
18:02A sports book is where you go to make a bet on a sporting game.
18:06You can do that here in Vegas,
18:07or you can do it online overseas,
18:09but I gotta do it here.
18:11So I gotta send guys that run and take the money down there
18:14and make the bets for me.
18:14Maybe that's something you can do if you come down here to work.
18:17Have you ever heard of this movie?
18:19Probably not,
18:20considering it was ravaged by critics
18:21and made peanuts at the box office.
18:24In the background of an office
18:25is a watercolor map of Curacao,
18:27which was painted by artist and mapmaker Victor Baker.
18:31The map was used without Baker's permission,
18:33so he sued Amazon, Netflix, and Random House Films.
18:37He also claims that the map plays a key role in the plot,
18:40as the characters establish a legal gambling operation in Curacao
18:44to bypass American financial laws.
18:46Baker sued the streamers and the studio for $150,000.
18:51Not a huge sum by any means,
18:53but about seven times what the movie made at the domestic box office.
18:57Here's what just happened in New York.
18:59They're moving their lines,
19:00so now we're trying to move our lines accordingly
19:02to adjust for a couple hours
19:03that haven't moved their lines yet.
19:05You understand?
19:06Number 12.
19:07Blazing Saddles.
19:09I.
19:09I.
19:11Your name.
19:12Your name.
19:14Schmucks.
19:14Pledge allegiance.
19:17Pledge allegiance.
19:19To Hedley Lamar.
19:20To Hedy Lamar.
19:22That's Hedley.
19:24That's Hedley.
19:25One of the primary villains of this legendary comedy
19:28is Hedley Lamar,
19:29a cricket attorney general
19:30who wishes to ruin the town of Rock Ridge.
19:33His name is a play on Hedy Lamar,
19:35an actress who enjoyed great success in the 1940s.
19:38Unfortunately,
19:39Lamar wasn't very pleased with her name being used
19:42as the source of a running joke,
19:43claiming that it was an invasion of her privacy.
19:46So she sued Warner Brothers for $100,000,
19:49about $700,000 when adjusted for inflation.
19:53Writer-director Mel Brooks found it an honor
19:55to be sued by Lamar,
19:56and neither he nor Warner Brothers
19:58found the lawsuit worth fighting.
20:00So they simply settled out of court
20:02for an undisclosed amount.
20:03Thank you, thank you, Hedy, thank you.
20:06It's not Hedy, it's Hedley, Hedley Lamar.
20:09The hell are you worried about?
20:10This is 1874.
20:12You'll be able to sue Hart.
20:14Number 11, Back to the Future, Part 2.
20:17What happened to Grandpa?
20:18Oh, he threw his back out again.
20:20How's Granddad's little pumpkin?
20:22How did you do that?
20:23How did he do that?
20:24Oh, out on the golf course.
20:26This movie set a huge precedent
20:28for the future of film.
20:29Turns out you can't just model one actor after another
20:32and pretend that it's them.
20:34Crispin Glover refused to return
20:36for Back to the Future, Part 2,
20:38citing an insulting salary
20:39and a disagreement around the first movie's
20:42consumerist ending.
20:43Robert Zemeckis got around that
20:45by hiring another actor named Jeffrey Weissman
20:48and dressing him up as Glover
20:50with the use of facial prosthetics.
20:52Glover was irate and sued the producers,
20:55claiming that they had no right to use his likeness.
20:57He was right, and the party settled out of court.
21:00There is now a legal clause in the screening
21:02Actors Guild forbidding filmmakers
21:04from doing this again.
21:06How many times have we heard it, George?
21:08Mom, I can't let them think I'm chicken.
21:11You're right.
21:12Well, you're right.
21:14Number 10.
21:15The Devil's Advocate.
21:16Here's a warning to all future filmmakers.
21:19Be really careful that your designs
21:21weren't accidentally lifted from something else.
21:23When The Devil's Advocate was released in 1997,
21:27sculptor Frederick Hart noticed that the sculpture
21:29in Milton's apartment looked suspiciously like his ex-nihilo,
21:33which is adorned on Washington's Episcopal National Cathedral.
21:37Both Hart and the cathedral sued Warner Brothers,
21:40and a judge claimed that they had a substantial likelihood
21:43of winning the case.
21:44Warner Brothers settled with the plaintiffs before it went to trial,
21:47and they were forced to make digital edits
21:49before the movie could be released for sale.
22:00Copies that were already produced for rental were adorned with a sticker
22:03claiming that there was no relation between the movie sculpture and Hart's work.
22:08Number 9.
22:09Tears of the Sun.
22:10This Bruce Willis-led action thriller concerns a Navy SEAL team
22:14sent to rescue a United States citizen from the jungles of Nigeria.
22:18Action movies are tricky to film,
22:20owing to all the dangerous stunts and pyrotechnics,
22:22and sometimes things go wrong.
22:24In this case, things went wrong for the movie's star.
22:27You knew all the time when you didn't tell me.
22:32I didn't trust you.
22:34Willis was reportedly hit in the head by an unidentified projectile
22:38during one of the movie's action scenes,
22:40resulting in extreme mental, physical, and emotional pain.
22:44He sought financial damages and compensation,
22:46as he was, quote,
22:47required to employ physicians and other medical personnel
22:51to treat his unspecified injury.
22:53He claimed that the special effects team acted negligently
22:56and exposed the crew to ultra-hazardous activity.
23:00Number 8.
23:01American Hustle.
23:02This movie concerns a historic FBI sting operation,
23:06so it's not really surprising that it was pegged with a lawsuit.
23:09What is surprising was that it had nothing to do with the FBI.
23:13Merely, it concerns a microwave.
23:15Jennifer Lawrence's Rosalyn claims that she read in a Paul Brodeur article
23:19that microwaves zap food of their nutrition.
23:22That's bullshit.
23:23It's not bullshit.
23:25I read it in an article.
23:26Look.
23:27By Paul Brodeur.
23:30Bring something into this house that's gonna take all the nutrition
23:32out of our food and then light our house on fire?
23:35Thank God for me.
23:36Brodeur is a real figure
23:38and has written extensively about microwave radiation,
23:41but he never claimed that they suck nutrition from food.
23:44Brodeur filing a $1 million libel, slander, and defamation suit
23:49against the movie's production companies, including Columbia Pictures,
23:53saying the film attributes his name to a scientifically unsupportable statement.
23:58He told the court as much in his lawsuit, claiming that the movie defamed
24:01and portrayed him as a fear monger.
24:04However, a California appeals court stated that the movie was a, quote,
24:07farce, and that audiences were led to mistrust anything that the unhinged Rosalyn claimed.
24:13Number 7.
24:15Die Hard 2
24:16Product placement is all too common in blockbuster movies.
24:19As the budget for Die Hard 2 increased,
24:22Fox and Black and Decker reached an agreement.
24:24The power tool manufacturer would fork over $20,000
24:27in exchange for John McClane using their latest tool,
24:31the Univolt cordless drill, on screen.
24:33This is a first.
24:35Yeah, well, Holly told me I should wake up and smell the 90s.
24:38The company was excited about the promotion
24:40and even created a tie-in marketing campaign around the tool.
24:43However, the scene was cut from the final edit without Black and Decker's permission,
24:47and the company was cheesed.
24:49They sought $150,000 in damages and won,
24:52with 20th Century Fox settling out of court.
24:55Jeez, McClane, you all right?
24:56You want a medic?
24:57McClane, what the hell you think you're doing out there?
24:59I'm playing John Wayne.
25:01How'd you like to spend the rest of the night in his cell?
25:03But the best part about this story?
25:04Black and Decker never actually paid the agreed-upon $20,000.
25:09Number 6.
25:10Couples Retreat
25:11This romantic comedy stars Jon Favreau and Kristen Davis
25:15as unhappy high school sweethearts Joey and Lucy Tanzini.
25:19In one scene, Joey enjoys himself to an old photo of model Irina Krupnik.
25:25Krupnik had previously sold the photo to a stock image company,
25:28but she never intended it to be used in the movie's context.
25:31As per her lawyer, quote,
25:33Krupnik did not contemplate, intend, or consent to the use of her photograph or likeness
25:38in a quasi-pornographic context.
25:41It's good for sunburns, right?
25:42No.
25:43It's good, yeah.
25:44It's good for sunburns.
25:46Okay, so I don't see anything.
25:47She proceeded to launch a defamation suit and demanded $10 million in compensation.
25:52But by signing the rights away to the photo,
25:54Krupnik lost the ability to dictate how it was used.
25:58A judge threw out the case and Krupnik never saw a dime.
26:02Number 5.
26:0312 Monkeys
26:04In the very beginning of 12 Monkeys,
26:06Willis' James Cole is interrogated on an elevated chair
26:09while some weird futuristic sphere probes him for weakness.
26:13Like The Devil's Advocate,
26:15this room and setup bore striking similarities to another piece of work,
26:19this one being a close approximation of architect,
26:22Labaius Woods' neomechanical tower upper chamber.
26:25And just as The Devil's Advocate would have gone had Warner Bros. not settled,
26:30Woods won the case.
26:31He was awarded a high six-figure settlement from Universal Pictures
26:35in exchange for his work's use in the film.
26:37And the end credits claim that The Interrogation Room
26:40was inspired by the architectural work of Labaius Woods.
26:44Number 4.
26:45Romeo and Juliet
26:47This classic adaptation of one of literature's greatest love stories
26:59turned out to be more tragic than expected.
27:01Director Franco Zeffirelli had initially promised the underage leads,
27:06Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting,
27:08that they would wear flesh-colored undergarments during their love scene.
27:12However, just before shooting,
27:14he convinced them to go nude with only body makeup,
27:17falsely assuring them their private parts would not be visible.
27:21Although Hussey initially defended the nude scene in 2018,
27:25her stance changed five years later.
27:27How should this be prevented?
27:30What sayest thou?
27:31Has thou not a word of joy?
27:33She and Whiting sued Paramount Pictures for $500 million,
27:38claiming the incident caused them emotional damage.
27:41The lawsuit was dismissed, partly due to the statute of limitations,
27:45but it's still troubling that they were exploited in such a manner.
27:49Number 3.
27:51Borat
27:51Is this the most sued movie ever?
27:54Let's go through the list.
27:55The villagers of Glaude, Romania, sued,
27:58claiming that the movie made them look incestuous.
28:00She's my sister.
28:02A South Carolina resident claimed that Sasha Baron Cohen made crude comments about him.
28:07Give me a smile, baby. Why angry face?
28:10Well, what you're saying is very demeaning.
28:14Do you know the word demeaning?
28:15No.
28:15Driving instructor Michael Snixa sued over the use of his image in promotional material.
28:20The man who runs away from Borat in New York sued over public ridicule and humiliation.
28:26Perhaps the most notorious scene to cause a lawsuit, however,
28:30came when two of the frat brothers Borat met in South Carolina launched a defamation lawsuit.
28:36On top of this, singer Esma Rejipova sued over use of her song,
28:41even though the filmmakers had received permission.
28:44Funnily enough, this was the only lawsuit to kind of win,
28:47as she had not been notified by her production house.
28:50She was awarded just 26,000 euros of her 800,000 euro suit.
28:59Number 2. The Interview
29:02It was perhaps inevitable that a satirical film from Seth Rogen would stir some controversy.
29:07Sure enough, the interview contained a graphic death scene of Kim Jong-un
29:21that led to intimidating threats from the North Korean government.
29:25But as it turned out, the real issue arose from a much more innocuous detail.
29:30After hackers threatened to attack theaters that showed the movie,
29:33the studio opted for streaming. Colonel Films, the stealth startup handling the release,
29:39hired another company, Newstar, to ensure the streaming was secure.
29:44According to Newstar, though, Colonel never paid their $1.1 million fee,
29:49so they dragged them to court for it.
29:51How many times can the U.S. make the same mistake?
29:54As many times as it takes.
29:55In the end, the interview caused a lot more trouble than it was worth.
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30:15Number 1. Twilight Zone The Movie
30:18Much like an actual episode of the Twilight Zone series,
30:22its movie adaptation became linked to a real-life tragedy.
30:25In the film's Time Out segment,
30:34Vic Morrow plays a bigoted man who was sent back in time to experience life on the receiving end
30:39of Prejudice. The script initially featured Morrow's character rescuing two children during
30:44the Vietnam War. However, the young actors portraying the children were hired illegally
30:49and made to work at night. Tragically, while filming a scene involving a helicopter,
30:54Morrow and the children were killed when the aircraft crashed. Civil and criminal lawsuits
31:00were filed, with director John Landis and others being tried and ultimately acquitted of manslaughter.
31:07The bitter legal battles eventually led to stricter safety regulations in the industry.
31:12Oh, Talena! Hey, you guys! What happened up there?
31:17What are some other lawsuits that we missed over movie moments you may have missed?
31:21Give your statement in the comments.
31:24Thanks for having me.
31:27Goodbye.
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