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"Mall Cop": Same Title, Same Plot, Trouble For Sony?
Legal moves over rights to the film’s story may smear the glowing success story of an unlikely box office hero.
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"With an implied contract or submission claim, the plaintiff would have to prove that he submitted his idea to the company and said that ‘if you use it, you must compensate and credit me.’"
But such cases are often hard to win for screenwriters going up against big studios or conglomerates, said Linda Lichter, who practices entertainment law with Lichter, Grossman, Nichols & Adler.
“Pretty much every single successful movie has a claim against it and the screenwriters rarely win,” she said.
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Directed by Steve Carr. With Kevin James, Keir O'Donnell, Jayma Mays.By the time this movie was released in American theaters, there were no longer any Sharper Image retail stores.
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Catalfo's "Mall Cop" has a plot very close to Sony’s lightweight hit comedy: a security guard -- Art Stover, rather than Paul Blart -- with low self-esteem and a beer belly helps save a mall from bank robbers.
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Paul Blart: Mall Cop is a 2009 American action comedy film starring Kevin James, Keir O'Donnell, Jayma Mays. It was released on January 16, 2009, in the United States by Columbia Pictures.
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We're adding those links now... they should have been there sooner, you're both right. Thanks for keeping us on our toes.
Anonymous Says
Peter Knegt's indieWIRE blog did too:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/thelostboy/archives/paul_blart_script_stealer...
Which was cited in pieces for
Defamer:
http://defamer.com/5144904/should-paul-blart-be-arrested-for-stealing
New York:
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2009/02/paul_blart_mall_cop.html
and
The Huffington Post:
huffingtonpost.com/sean-l-mccarthy/brotherly-love-the-secret_b_163710.html
Anonymous Says
Jim Emerson's Scanners blog had this last week.
http://blogs.suntimes.com/scanners/2009/01/who_ghostwrote_mall_cop.html
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