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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3. 2014
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Director Quentin Tarantino sued Gawker Media on Jan. 27 for copyright infringement. The site leaked a copy of his script for a film called "The Hateful Eight."
Tarantino sues Gawker over leaked movie script
ANDREW HOSKINS entertain@kansan.com
Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino filed a lawsuit for contributory copyright infringement against Gawker Media at the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on Jan. 27. The lawsuit seeks at least $1 million in damages from Gawker for posting a link to a leaked copy of his latest script, "The Hateful Eight."
According to USA Today, the lawsuit declares, "There was nothing newsworthy or journalistic about Gawker Media facilitating and encouraging the public's violation of [Tarantino's] copyright in the Screenplay, and it's conduct will not shield Gawker Media from liability for their unlawful activity." The suit also claims Gawker, a celebrity gossip blog based in New York, "actively solicited" people to submit the script its site on Jan. 22, one day after the script officially leaked.
The details of the leak remain unclear, but the script was allegedly posted on anonfiles.com and scribd. com by anonymous sources on Jan. 21. Gawker's "Defamer" blog, self-described as "yellow journalism for the red carpet," posted a link to the AnonFiles' script a few days later. During a Jan. 21 interview with Deadline Hollywood, Tarantino said he showed only four colleagues
the script's first draft: "Diango Unchained" producer Reginald Hudlin and actors Tim Roth, Bruce Dern and Michael Madsen. To Tarantino's knowledge, only one other person saw the script; Hudlin's unnamed associate who is a Hollywood agent.
In Tarantino's Deadline interview, the mystery lies in the hands of an unknown sixth person. He expressed certainty of his close friend Roth's innocence, but said
"He has a great reason for wanting to bypass 'Hateful Eight' in favor of something else and a leak like this is a perfect reason."
MATT JACOBSON Associate professor
he believes either Madsen's or Dern's agent is responsible for the leak. He said he more strongly suspects Creative Artists Agency, a leading entertainment and sports agency representing Dern.
"One of the others let their agent read it, and that agent has now passed it on to everyone in Hollywood." Tarantino said in the interview.
"I'll publish it," Tarantino said in the interview. "I'm done. I'll move on to the next thing. I've got 10 more where that came from."
Tarantino also announced in the interview a halt to the entire project. He then revealed his next move and the
script's fate.
Gawker posted a response to the suit on Jan. 27, reinforcing the fact that they were not the actual leakers and defending the post's newworthiness, stating Tarantino's interview with Deadline itself was the biggest cause of the leak's notoriety.
University of Kansas Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies Matt Jacobson brought an alternative theory to light, sharing a circulating speculation that Tarantino perhaps intentionally leaked the screenplay.
"Putting an un-watermarked script out there, without any type of non-disclosure paperwork, just means that there was every probability that someone was bound to leak this," Jacobson said. "He has a great reason for wanting to bypass 'Hateful Eight' in favor of something else and a leak like this is a perfect reason. It'll be easy to raise a budget for 'Kill Bill': Vol. 3,' a sequel to two successful, profitable films."
"The Hateful Eight" was a western scheduled to begin production next winter.
— Edited by Amber Kasselman
Philip Seymour Hoffman found dead in apartment
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Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead in his home on Sunday. Law enforcement suspects that he died of an accidental heroin overdose.
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NEW YORK — Philip Seymour Hoffman, who won the Oscar for best actor in 2006 for his portrayal of writer Truman Capote and created a gallery of other vivid characters, many of them slovenly and somewhat dissipated, was found dead Sunday in his apartment with what officials said was a needle in his arm. He was 46.
Kevin Costner said in an AP interview: "Philip was a very important actor and really takes his place among the real great actors. It's a shame. Who knows what he would have been able to do? But we're left with the legacy of the work he's done and it all speaks for itself."
"No words for this. He was too great and we're too shattered," said Mike Nichols, who directed Hoffman in "Charlie Wilson's War" and in "Death of a Salesman."
Two law enforcement officials, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk about the evidence, said the actor apparently died of a drug overdose. Glassine envelopes containing what were believed to be heroin were found with him, they said.
Tributes poured in from other Hollywood figures.
Hoffman made his career mostly as a character actor, and was one of the most prolific in the business, plying his craft with a rumpled naturalism that also made him one of the most admired performers of his generation.
The stage-trained actor was nominated for Academy Awards four times in all: for "Capote," "The Master," "Doubt" and "Charlie Wilson's War." He also received three Tony nominations for his work on Broadway, which included an acclaimed turn as the weary and defeated Willy Loman in "Death of a Salesman."
The law enforcement officials said Hoffman's body was discovered in a bathroom at his
Hoffman spoke candidly over the years about past struggles with drug addiction. After 23 years sober, he admitted in interviews last year to falling off the wagon and developing a heroin problem that led to a stint in rehab.
Greenwich Village apartment by a friend who made the 911 call and his assistant.
Late Sunday, a police crime-scene van was parked out front, and technicians carrying brown paper bags went in and out. Police kept a growing crowd of onlookers back. A single red daisy had been placed in front of the lobby door.
"We are devastated by the loss of our beloved Phil and appreciate the outpouring of love and support we have received from everyone," the family said in a statement.
Hoffman's family called the news "tragic and sudden." Hoffman is survived by his partner of 15 years, Mimi O'Donnell, and their three children.
More recently, he was Plutarch Heavensbee in "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" and was reprising that role in the two-part sequel, "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay," which is in the works. And in "Moneyball," he played Art Howe, the grumpy manager of the Oakland Athletics who resisted new thinking about baseball talent.
Just weeks ago, Showtime announced Hoffman would star in "Happyish," a new comedy series about a middle-aged man's pursuit of happiness.
He was nominated for the
2013 Academy Award for best supporting actor for his role in "The Master" as the charismatic leader of a religious movement. The film, inspired in part by the life of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, reunited the actor with Anderson.
He also received a 2009 best-supporting nomination for "Doubt," as a priest who comes under suspicion because of his relationship with a boy, and another best-supporting nomination as a CIA officer in "Charlie Wilson's War."
Born in 1967 in Fairport, N.Y., Hoffman was interested in acting from an early age. He studied theater as a teenager with the New York State Summer School of the Arts and the Circle in the Square Theatre. He then majored in drama at New York University.
He could seemingly take on any role, large or small, loathsome or sympathetic, and appeared to be utterly lacking in vanity.
On Broadway, in addition to starring as Willy Loman, he played Jamie in "Long Day's Journey Into Night" and both leads in "True West." All three performances were Tony-nominated.
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