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Mortal Kombat Movie Producer is Suing Midway

June 27, 2009 in News comments 4

Midway just cannot have a break lately. After declaring bankruptcy, the film producer for the old Mortal Kombat movie is suing the company. He claims that the intellectual property interests in the franchise are his. Read on for more detail on the case.

The man who brought Mortal Kombat to the big screen has sued Midway in U.S. Bankruptcy Court over what he claims are his intellectual property interests in the franchise. The suit may interfere with a proposed $33 million sale of Midway assets to Warner Bros.

In a complaint filed yesteday, Lawrence Kasanoff, through his company, Threshold Entertainment, asked the Court to preserve his IP rights including copyrights to certain MK series characters. Kasanoff also wants to retain the right to create derivative film and television projects based on the popular fighting game franchise.
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  • 2
    Hideo1 Jun 28, 09
    This guy must be thick as pig shit. He was the producer. He didn't create shit. Regardless of whether the video-game characters in MK are just block characters with FFFF all story, who wrote the script for the films? The same people who came up with said block characters. So they created the characters as bare bones and added the skin and because you threw money at it, it's your property? Go *bleep* yourself.
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      Slumpy monkey Jun 28, 09
      Hey, when people sign contracts they have to follow through on them. Midway cant just sell the IP of which they don't have the full rights too.
      • 1
        Hideo1 Jun 28, 09
        That's why it's bullshit. He doesn't own them, video-game-wise, he just claims to have because a film he was the producer of made them more popular then they were. Midway aren't selling anything that isn't theirs, the legal movie rights still belong to his company and whoever else has a stake in them, the deal is for games alone. He either hasn't heard of research or is looking to take money from Midway which isn't rightfully his; either way he's a dick.
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    Existence Jun 28, 09
    Bullshit.

    MK is the IP of Midway, only adapted into a movie by the producer. If this goes to court, Midway is going to flatten him. But I don't think it will go there, the producer is probably looking for a settlement or something.

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