Top Shooter: Maverick continues to give rise to talk, albeit this time for reasons least desirable to the filmmakers. Paramount Pictures, the production company behind Tom Cruise’s new film, has been sued for copyright infringement by an Israeli journalist. Ehud Jonaywho wrote the article on which the original 1986 film was based.
as assembled BBC, the lawsuit was filed yesterday, Monday, in federal court in Los Angeles, California. It bears the names of Shosh Yonai, the author’s widow, and Yuval Yonai, the couple’s son. Both claim that Paramount Pictures has moved forward with production Top Shooter: Maverick knowing that the rights to work as a journalist they have expiredand that they were not reacquired.
The yonai seek unspecified damages, but they seek a share of the profits made from Top Shooter: Maverick. Note that, as reported Checkout Mojofeature film directed by Joseph Kosinski has already raised nearly $560 million since the premiere Of the total, $295.6 million came from the US box office (roughly 53%), with the remainder coming from the international box office.
The charge against the producer after Top Shooter: Maverick did not go unnoticed. Paramount Pictures Warranty that the claim is unfounded and that the production company would defend itself “strongly”.
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Who is Ehud Yonai and what does he have to do with it? Top Shooter: Maverick?
Ehud Yonai worked as a magazine reporter california magazinewhere in May 1983 he published an article entitled The best guns. He himself followed Yogi and Possum, an F-14 Tomcat pilot and his RIO, the English acronym for Radar Intercept Officer (Radar Intercept Officer), respectively. The publication offered a very detailed overview of the training and work of the main characters, students Navy Fighter Weapons School in Miramar, California, as well as his flight experience, and was used as a base for the best weaponfilm by Tony Scott released in 1986.
The lawsuit, filed by Yonai’s relatives, alleges that Paramount Pictures’ rights to the aforementioned article expired January 2020. He also mentions that the producer knew about it; in 2018, he was already notified that the copyright for journalistic material would expire in two years. Plaintiffs allege that both the best weapon which Top Shooter: Maverick they would not have seen the light of day were it not for the work of Ehud Yonai and his “literary endeavors and evocative narrative prose”.
Recall, the first rumors about the sequel the best weapon they met in 2010. But the project was halted after Tony Scott’s suicide and only resumed in 2017 with the election of Joseph Kosinski as director. Pre-production began at the end of May 2018, and filming continued until April 2019.
It should be noted that the film experienced several release date delays; It was originally supposed to be released in July 2019, but Paramount Pictures delayed it by almost a year. However, the COVID-19 pandemic forced a subsequent postponement until Top Shooter: Maverick finally saw the light in May last year.
Since the rights to Yonai’s article expired in January 2020, its hypothetical premiere in March of that year would also have been controversial. “As much as Paramount tried to pretend otherwise, they made a sequel to Top Gun after they lost their copyright,” a lawyer for the Israeli reporter’s family said.
It is currently unknown how long it may take for this story to be resolved fairly; but everything says it won’t be right away. At that time, Top Shooter: Maverick continues to break records with remarkable box office returns.
Source: Hiper Textual
