Hidden Figures. The King's Speech. Moneyball. The Big Short. Zero Dark Thirty. And on and on...
What these films have in common is that they are inspired by real-life stories about real-life people. And according to the Motion Picture Association of America, such works are now under threat, thanks to a ruling in February from a New York appeals court which revived a lawsuit from the convicted murderer Christopher Porco against Lifetime Television over the ripped-from-the-headlines television movie Romeo Killer.
On Monday, Lifetime submitted a bid for a re-argument at the appeals court, and sensing danger, the MPAA...
What these films have in common is that they are inspired by real-life stories about real-life people. And according to the Motion Picture Association of America, such works are now under threat, thanks to a ruling in February from a New York appeals court which revived a lawsuit from the convicted murderer Christopher Porco against Lifetime Television over the ripped-from-the-headlines television movie Romeo Killer.
On Monday, Lifetime submitted a bid for a re-argument at the appeals court, and sensing danger, the MPAA...
- 4/4/2017
- by Eriq Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - TV News
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