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Netflix Sued For $105M After Unreleased Nicolas Cage Movie Stolen From Office

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LOS ANGELES — A British production company has filed a federal lawsuit in California seeking $105 million in damages from Netflix over the alleged mishandling and theft of an unreleased World War II film starring Nicolas Cage. The film, titled Fortitude and directed by Simon West, cost more than $45 million to produce and features an ensemble cast including Ben Kingsley, Ron Perlman, Matthew Goode, Michael Sheen, and Alice Eve. According to the complaint, producer Op-Fortitude provided Netflix with an unencrypted digital cinema package copy of the movie on June 16, which the company stored on hard drives at a Netflix office. LOS ANGELES — Nine days after delivery, a Netflix executive emailed the producers with the subject line “Stolen DCP,” stating that a quantity of hard drives had been taken from office desks during the week and suggesting the theft appeared motivated by scrap value. Netflix offered to reimburse the cost of the physical hardware, but Op-Fortitude argues that the loss of control over the unreleased work destroyed the film’s market exclusivity and calculates potential damages based on a valuation of $112.5 million. Netflix disputes liability, contending that the producers delivered the film without industry-standard safeguards and accusing the plaintiffs’ lawyers of pursuing an inflated and improper demand.

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