Mortal Kombat movie company sues Midway over property rights
The maker of the Mortal Kombat films has filed a lawsuit against Midway that could prevent Warner from buying the struggling publisher.
Threshold Entertainment’s chairman and CEO Lawrence Kasanoff is suing Midway in the US Bankruptcy Court over the intellectual property interests in the Mortal Kombat series, GamePolitics reports.
The case could block Warner Bros’ proposed $33 million purchase of Midway’s assets, including the rights to Mortal Kombat.
Kasanoff is demanding the right to create derivative film and television projects based on the beat-em-up franchise, as well as copyrights to certain characters, including Sonya Blade and Scorpion. He claims his company’s work with the series’ assets has been crucial to Mortal Kombat’s success.
In his official complaint, Kasanoff said: “The Mortal Kombat series, as it stands today, is far more a creation of Threshold and Kasanoff than of Midway. Midway’s creative input was almost entirely limited to the video games.
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“On their own, the video games provided only minimal back-story and mythology, and only flat ‘stock’ characters… Kasanoff and Threshold were responsible for virtually all of the creative input that went into turning the video game concept into a multimedia enterprise.”
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Yeah
Yeah right! Because the movies were such a big hit! Kasanoff is clearly trying to cash in!
w000t!
I didn't even realise there WAS a Mortal Kombat movie. I didn't really rate the games TBH, compared to Streetfighter on the SNES. Now I DO remember there was a Streetfighter movie. Anyway, from my POV my awareness of the Mortal Kombat franchise owes everything to the games and nothing to this "movie" of which they speak. I bet the movie was even derivative of the Streetfighter movie. I can't imagine there was much "plot" or "character development" in the Mortal Kombat movie.. it's not a genre best known for those qualities.
Eh??
Hey frank..Yes the movies sucked xD
I gotta say im pissed at this..iv grown up with the mortal kombat games..they were awesome..the movies really did suck and they planned making another movie but then stopped making it due to hurricane katrina now apparently they are remaking it again..he is prob just trying to cash in to pay for this movie and it will prob suck again..
agreed
being a fan of the arcade games, the movies did nothing for the franchise in my opinion. if anything, it only ruined the brand. either step up and make a decent film or get off the potty.
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