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Legal battle over Star Wars actor ‘resurrected’ in Rogue One moves to next stage


A legal battle over the digital resurrection of actor Peter Cushing in the Star Wars spin-off film Rogue One has reached the Court of Appeal, with film companies arguing the claim should be dismissed.
Tyburn Film Productions is pursuing legal action against Lunak Heavy Industries (UK) Ltd, a Disney-owned entity that produced Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, concerning its use of Cushing’s likeness.
Cushing, renowned for his portrayal of imperial commander Grand Moff Tarkin in 1977’s Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, passed away in 1994.
However, his character was brought back to the screen in the 2016 film through advanced special effects, following an agreement between Lunak and the executors of Cushing’s estate in 2016.

Tyburn initiated legal proceedings in 2019 against Lunak and Lucasfilm, the studio behind the original Star Wars saga, alleging "unjust enrichment" from the use of Cushing’s image in Rogue One without their consent.
The company asserts that it entered into a "letter agreement" with Cushing in 1993, which, it claims, prohibited the reproduction of his appearance via special effects without Tyburn’s explicit permission.
Lunak and Lucasfilm contest this claim, having previously informed the High Court that they believed no such permission was required under the terms of Cushing’s original contract for A New Hope.

Two previous judicial rulings have rejected attempts by Lunak and Lucasfilm to have the case thrown out before a full trial. The companies subsequently escalated the matter to the Court of Appeal on Wednesday.

Edmund Cullen KC, representing the defendant companies, submitted in written arguments that Tyburn’s case was "legally unsustainable" and "beyond any plausible argument".
He stated: "A case such as the present does not involve any enrichment of the appellants at the claimant’s expense."

In court, Mr Cullen elaborated: "(Cushing’s executors) have not given us anything that the claimant had some contractual entitlement to. The claimant was not contractually entitled to the licence we were granted."

there's more to the article, but i got tired of copypasting n editing the post. anyways, fuck disney
 
Demonic87

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minty said:
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Legal battle over Star Wars actor ‘resurrected’ in Rogue One moves to next stage


A legal battle over the digital resurrection of actor Peter Cushing in the Star Wars spin-off film Rogue One has reached the Court of Appeal, with film companies arguing the claim should be dismissed.
Tyburn Film Productions is pursuing legal action against Lunak Heavy Industries (UK) Ltd, a Disney-owned entity that produced Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, concerning its use of Cushing’s likeness.
Cushing, renowned for his portrayal of imperial commander Grand Moff Tarkin in 1977’s Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, passed away in 1994.
However, his character was brought back to the screen in the 2016 film through advanced special effects, following an agreement between Lunak and the executors of Cushing’s estate in 2016.

Tyburn initiated legal proceedings in 2019 against Lunak and Lucasfilm, the studio behind the original Star Wars saga, alleging "unjust enrichment" from the use of Cushing’s image in Rogue One without their consent.
The company asserts that it entered into a "letter agreement" with Cushing in 1993, which, it claims, prohibited the reproduction of his appearance via special effects without Tyburn’s explicit permission.
Lunak and Lucasfilm contest this claim, having previously informed the High Court that they believed no such permission was required under the terms of Cushing’s original contract for A New Hope.

Two previous judicial rulings have rejected attempts by Lunak and Lucasfilm to have the case thrown out before a full trial. The companies subsequently escalated the matter to the Court of Appeal on Wednesday.

Edmund Cullen KC, representing the defendant companies, submitted in written arguments that Tyburn’s case was "legally unsustainable" and "beyond any plausible argument".
He stated: "A case such as the present does not involve any enrichment of the appellants at the claimant’s expense."

In court, Mr Cullen elaborated: "(Cushing’s executors) have not given us anything that the claimant had some contractual entitlement to. The claimant was not contractually entitled to the licence we were granted."

there's more to the article, but i got tired of copypasting n editing the post. anyways, fuck disney
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Meh, if I ever became famous and started in long running film series, sitcoms, ect., and my monkey ass kicks the bucket, show a tombstone, hologram from previously shot takes, or whatever. Screw the film companies and screw my family for trying to pinch a penny off of my cold, dead corpse. Lol
 
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like a lot of british actors of the period, cushing (and christopher lee) appeared in some real stinkers
most of those old hammer horror titles of the 60s and 70s were so bad they became "camp classics"
can't sit thru them myself, always start laughing.........

but what is he "most famous" for? a minor role in the film that made George Fatass Lucas a nerd god
 
lurk

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Quence said:
I’d be shocked if you could pry your desiccated corpse out of a recliner during a screening of Paedo Joe’s Greatest Dementia Brain Farts Retrospective.
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why do you have to shit up every fucking thread you look at?

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man who consistently posts ai slop does not like classic cinema n practical effects made by working human hands
take your art-deprived shit ass out my thread, slut
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ai has its place, but there's no denying the amount of hard work that goes into something as "simple" as a shootout scene (just ask alec baldwin).
 
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