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It must be in the air just now for lawsuits to be flying around Hollywood, and this latest one features some big names. Tommy Lee Jones is suing Paramount Pictures for a figure that could be well over US $10 million for his appearance in No Country for Old Men.

The documents filed claim that there were errors in the contract he was given and that Paramount admitted to knowing about these errors before he signed. Pretty expensive errors it would seem.

The lawsuit documents that have been raised on behalf of Tommy Lee Jones apparently state that he signed a contract from Paramount that had a reduced upfront fee with bonuses and a percentage should the film do well in the box office.

According to the stories in Variety and Deadline Hollywood Daily it was a month after the release of the film that Tommy Lee Jones was told by Paramount that there had been a mistake in his contract and that they were aware of the mistake before the contract was signed.

Then, another month later, they pulled the same trick and revealed that there had been a mistake in the contract on the way that they calculated box office returns for No Country for Old Men.

What's most interesting about this lawsuit, and perhaps the thing that suggests that Jones is being legitimate in his claim, is that it requests that an independent auditor should investigate how much is owed.


Proof that Hollywood stars only look at the number of zeros on their contratcs and not the actual details perhaps?

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Filmstalker with some news that should be filed under "Well duh!"...


Steven Spielberg is one of a few people being sued over Disturbia, starring Shia LaBeouf. It stems from the films likeness to Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window.

According to the law suit, the film makers failed to get the appropriate rights to the book on which both appear to be based.

Disturbia was made by among others, Steven Spielberg's Dreamworks, Viacom Inc, and Universal Pictures. All three are named in the lawsuit, and are accused of copyright infringement and breach of contract.

Rear Window was originally based on the short story Murder from a Fixed Viewpoint, when Alfred Hitchcock and James Stewart made Rear Window they obtained the rights to the short story. The lawsuit claims that the makers of Disturbia did not.


'What the defendants have been unwilling to do openly, legitimately and legally, (they) have done surreptitiously, by their back-door use of the 'Rear Window' story without paying compensation.'


Reuters through Yahoo! News, say the lawsuit claims both films are essentially the same. And that there are similarities between the two films, and the short story. Both in characters involved and the plot.


'In the Disturbia film the defendants purposefully employed immaterial variations or transparent rephrasing to produce essentially the same story as the Rear Window story'


I can't believe it's taken this long for this lawsuit to hit. Rear Window is my favourite Hitchcock film, and one look at the trailer for Disturbia shows the similarities. Maybe it's an oversight on their part not to get the rights to the original short story, but why kick up a fuss now? Anyone out there seen both films in their entirety? Is Disturbia merely a modern take on Rear Window?

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