{"id":1100,"date":"2008-09-09T10:18:09","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T14:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2018-11-18T23:37:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T04:37:13","slug":"speilberg-sued-for-copying-rear-window-with-disturbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/09\/speilberg-sued-for-copying-rear-window-with-disturbia\/","title":{"rendered":"Spielberg Sued For Copying REAR WINDOW With DISTURBIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When <strong>Disturbia<\/strong> was released last year, many folks noted the amazing number of similarities between the Shia LaBeouf movie and director Alfred Hitchcock&#8217;s 1954 classic <strong>Rear Window<\/strong>. Well, it looks like the copyright holder of the original short story that Hitchcock&#8217;s film was based on has noticed those similarities too, as they have filed an infirngement suit against <strong>Disturbia<\/strong> executive producer Steven Spielberg, studio Dreamworks, its parent company Viacom and the film&#8217;s distributor Universal Pictures.<\/p>\n<p>The suit was filed yesterday in Manhattan federal court by the Sheldon Abend Revocable Trust, the owners of the 1942 Cornell Woolrich short story &#8220;It Had To Be Murder,&#8221; upon which the Hitchcock film was made. The short story, Hitchcock&#8217;s film and <strong>Disturbia<\/strong> all feature protagonists who believe that they have witnessed a murder in an apartment in a building opposite of their own. &#8220;In the <strong>Disturbia<\/strong> film the defendants purposefully employed immaterial variations or transparent rephrasing to produce essentially the same story as the Rear Window story,&#8221; the filing stated.<\/p>\n<p>This should be an interesting case, as there have been many other films that have elements similar to Woolrich&#8217;s story. Woody Allen&#8217;s <strong>Manhattan Murder Mystery<\/strong> features a couple who believe their elderly neighbor has murdered his wife. Much of Brian DePalma&#8217;s early career contains nods to Hitchcock, with <strong>Rear Window<\/strong>&#8216;s influence being strongly seen on 1984&#8217;s <strong>Body Double<\/strong>. How does 2001&#8217;s <strong>Head Over Heels<\/strong>, with its plot of a woman falling in love with a man whom she thinks has committed a murder, not count as an infringemet of the story?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Via National Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">When Disturbia was released last year, many folks noted the amazing number of similarities between the Shia LaBeouf movie and director Alfred Hitchcock&#8217;s 1954 classic Rear Window. Well, it looks like the copyright holder of <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/09\/speilberg-sued-for-copying-rear-window-with-disturbia\/\" title=\"Spielberg Sued For Copying REAR WINDOW With DISTURBIA\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[572,571,61,570,8,573],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-alfred-hitchcock","8":"tag-disturbia","9":"tag-lawsuit","10":"tag-rear-window","11":"tag-remake","12":"tag-sheldon-abend-revocable-trust"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1100"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}