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Stolen Material

posted 12 years ago by sluevano
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This is an absolute unbelievable display of unprofessionalism in this industry. My company has been working on a feature film project entitled, "Amber Alert" for 2 1/2 years. The material is copyrighted with the WGA and the Library of Congress. If these people pursue to release this film without my permission full legal action will be pursued against them. No one was working on such a project or theme until I posted it on my company website online and now this film is coming out. Ridiculous, cruel, and completely stolen. I reccomend no one to see this film. cheating is cheating and this idea was stolen from me.

[–] iraz 12 years ago

I wish I had seen your message before watching this piece of garbage. The movie is absolutely horrible, very boring and most of the movie is two people arguing with each other about their course of action. No suspense, I'm sure it was made for very little movie. It's a complete waste of time. I wish you the best of luck with your project and I just wanted to let you know it's been released. I saw it on my cable provider.

[–] thebratt72 12 years ago

You wanted to slap the main character too? By the end of this movie my niece was begging me to pull the plug on it. The only reason I watched the whole thing was to see if the little girl got saved. BIG mistake. Horrible movie

"Can Gods hands fit through windows?"-Judith Barsi

[–] JustingimmieMoore 12 years ago

well from the sounds of it your film was never gunna take off anytime soon if its already taking you two years. you can cry about it or put out your film as well, have you not seen the movies these days most are similar to each other with same themes and what not. maybe they saw your idea and maybe not i have no idea but my point is your complaining about something that is useless these days as i said most films coming out have the same themes and ideas...

[–] cinematic22 12 years ago

No one is crying, BUDDY. WHATS RIGHT IS RIGHT. Films, even big budgeted, take several years to get off the ground, pal....even with A-list talent attached, so dont tell me our film wasnt going anywhere after only two years in development. I'm letting you know right now, that legal action is being taken agaisnt them becuase this is no coincidence at all. legally it is not "useless" to stand up to people who cant come up with ideas of their own and steal the work and creations of those who can. Justice will be served.

[–] dycaite 12 years ago

Don't be rediculous; they released a movie with the same name as yours, its not the first time its ever happened. Did they use your story? Did they use your script? No? Then they've obviously done nothing wrong, and you're just pissed they took the name before you could. You wanna see some real stolen material, check out films by The Asylum.

[–] Sweet_and_Lowdown77 12 years ago

you know you can't copyright an idea. There's a tons of similar ideas for movies that get made (A BUG'S LIFE & ANTS - ARMAGEDDON & DEEP IMPACT, OBSERVE & REPORT and MALL COP = all films released close to one another that were the same "idea" but different stories).

Unless you know for a fact they stole your story, script, etc., they simply beat you to it.

[–] tsm767 12 years ago

Obvious troll is obvious.

[–] meltzercool 12 years ago

the troll is right. unless they lifted the exact same script...there is no legal recourse.

[–] Thief500 12 years ago

Pics or it didn't happen.

[–] HisNamewasRobertPaulson 12 years ago

Even if they did steal your idea, you shouldn't claim they did, cause this movie looks f*^*(& awful.

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[–] beliefpictures316 12 years ago

There are many projects that may share the same title but may utilize different subject matter. I don't think you can really claim ownership over an idea just individual works.

[–] Creepshow_tonite 12 years ago

To OP. You're being slightly irrational for thinking you're the only person to have this idea.

[–] greginess7878 12 years ago

I'm afraid to tell you this...as much as I don't want to, as I didn't care for this movie, but legally, one cannot copyright movie titles. The legal infringement would be if they copied your script....If you still need proof.... look up the film 'deep blue sea'. You find at least two: One about a shark monster, and another post-war British woman facing an existential crisis.