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28.02.2024 - 00:39 / deadline.com
“I want you to be nice until it’s time to not be nice,” Patrick Swayze’s James Dalton says in the original Road House from 1989.
That line from the screenplay co-written by David Lee Henry may have taken on a new significance for Amazon Studios, MGM Studios and United Artists on Tuesday with a new lawsuit aimed to TKO the Jake Gyllenhaal– and Conor McGregor-starring remake set to debut next week at SXSW.
The lawsuit accuses Amazon of a very serious digital sleight of hand during last year’s Hot Labor Summer.
“This case arises from Defendants’ blatant copyright infringement due to their willful failure to license the requisite motion picture and ancillary rights to Hill’s Screenplay underlying their derivative 2004 Remake as required by law,” reads the copyright complaint filed today in California federal court (read the lawsuit here).
In fact, R. Lance Hill, who goes by David Lee Henry professionally, isn’t just saying he wants an injunction against the Doug Liman-directed more. He’s saying a lot more.
Represented by studio-battling attorney Marc Toberoff, Hill claims to have pulled back the curtain on what could be the new reality of the entertainment industry. With Liman already boycotting the film’s SXSW premiere because of the decision to put the flick on streaming only March 21 instead of in cinemas, the 2024 film now seems to have stepped on a very 21st century landmine, according to Hill and his legal team.
“Hill is further informed and believes and based thereon alleges that Defendants went so far as to take extreme measures to try to meet this November 10, 2023 deadline, at considerable additional cost, including by resorting to the use of AI (Artificial Intelligence) during the 2023 strike of the Screen
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Jake Gyllenhaal is hitting the red carpet.
In the era of action films like John Wick, the bar for adrenaline-fueled entertainment has been set high, and there exists a fine line in the world of cinematic remakes that one has to draw between regard for the original and fresh perspectives. Doug Liman directs the remake of the classic 1989 film Road House, which premiered in the Headliner category at the 2024 SXSW film festival and unfortunately, this remake starring Jake Gyllenhaal, delivers a lackluster and ultimately unnecessary retread of the 1989 Patrick Swayze film.
Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic “Road House” is an infectiously stylish piece of slumming. It’s a remake of the 1989 Patrick Swayze cheeseball action cult film, and it’s staged with a verve and wit and dynamic grittiness that make the original film look even more rickety than it once did. Doug Liman, the director of the new “Road House,” has always been a gifted maverick, but I still like his earliest films (“Go,” “Swingers”) the best.
Shortly after the roaring world premiere of Road House at SXSW, a guest at the screening became dehydrated and passed out at Austin’s Paramount Theatre. The movie’s star Conor McGregor stayed behind to help get the guy back on his feet. Deadline was on the scene and witnessed. Before the EMT arrived, the gentleman was drinking water, with a towel on his head with McGregor sitting next to him.
After the rolling laughs, hoots, hollers, whistling and clapping at tonight’s world premiere of Road House at SXSW, Amazon MGM Studios may want to think again before putting this Jake Gyllenhaal–Conor McGregor rock ’em sock ’em beefcakes pugilist movie on Prime Video. It doesn’t take an elbow to the head to wake up to the fact that Road House clearly needs to make a destination to cinemas.
Selome Hailu After promising a boycott weeks ago, director Doug Liman made a surprise appearance at South by Southwest on Friday to attend the red carpet premiere of his “Road House” remake. The film’s star Jake Gyllenhaal introduced the screening at Austin’s Paramount Theatre, making a point of thanking Amazon executives including Jen Salke.
EXCLUSIVE: After declaring in a Deadline guest column that he would boycott the SXSW Opening Night debut of Road House, director Doug Liman has changed his mind, and is in the Paramount Theatre right at this moment. I’m told that Liman won’t take the stage to introduce the movie, he’ll just be in the crowd watching. It’s a tradition for him, slipping into theaters and watching how his movies play.
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Jake Gyllenhaal is honoring the late Patrick Swayze.
This year’s BRIT Awards has already seen some incredible looks hitting the red carpet, and we’re not just talking about the fashion.The attendees have already given us some major inspiration – and envy – with their glowing makeup, and Zara McDermott was leading the pack with her bronzed beauty look. The presenter looked stunning in a floor length red lace dress, but it was her makeup that really caught our eye, as she opted for classic glamour with a dark red lip and a fresh, natural-looking complexion.
hit with a lawsuit over its 2024 remake of the 1989 action flick “Road House.”The off-screen drama began Tuesday when the original film’s screenwriter, R. Lance Hill, filed a lawsuit claiming copyright infringement for refusing to license his 1986 screenplay for the original movie which starred the late Patrick Swayze.According to the lawsuit, Hill, 81, also claimed that Amazon used AI to mimic the voice of the movie’s stars in order to meet a self-imposed deadline — which was impacted by both the Writers Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists strikes.In response, an Amazon MGM spokesperson told Entertainment Weekly that “the lawsuit filed by R.
Jake Gyllenhaal and Conor McGregor star in the new movie Road House and there has been controversy recently over the way Amazon is releasing the project.
Katcy Stephan R. Lance Hill, the screenwriter of the original 1989 film “Road House,” has filed a law suit against Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its parent company, Amazon Studios, for copyright infringement. In the filing obtained by Variety, Hill (who uses pen name David Lee Henry) claims Amazon ignored his ability to reclaim the rights for his 1986 screenplay as they mounted a remake starring Jake Gyllenhaal, out March 21 on Prime Video.
The marketing campaign around Amazon MGM’s “Road House” release has been a mess and a bare-knuckle brawl since the beginning. On the same day that it was announced that the reimagining of the ’80s classic, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, would premiere at the SXSW Film & Festival in March, the film’s mercurial director, Doug Liman, announced he would be boycotting the premiere because Amazon was refusing to release the film theatrically.