Family Sues Paramount Pictures over Rights to 'Top Gun'

2022-06-11

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  • The major hit movie Top Gun was released in 1986.
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  • The film was based on a true story about fighter pilots in training and was published in a magazine three years earlier.
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  • Paramount Pictures bought the rights to the story written by Ehud Yonay and made the film to great success.
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  • Now, the wife and son of Yonay are suing Paramount about its new movie, Top Gun: Maverick.
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  • Shosh Yonay and Yuval Yonay brought the legal action to a California federal court Monday.
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  • They say that they control the rights to Ehud's story and that they became its owners again on January 24, 2020.
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  • The lawsuit accuses Paramount of releasing the new film without the rights to do so legally.
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  • A spokesperson for Paramount Pictures said in a statement that the claims are without standing.
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  • Yonay's story centered on "Yogi" and his friend "Possum" as they train to become pilots for the United States Navy.
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  • It was published in the May 1983 issue of California magazine. Soon after, Paramount Pictures bought the movie rights to the piece.
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  • Top Gun was released in 1986 and went on to become the top-selling film of the year.
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  • The lawsuit says that Paramount had known since 2018 that the Yonays planned to recover the rights.
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  • The lawsuit says the mother and son sent a cease-and-desist order in a letter to Paramount last month.
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  • A cease-and-desist order demands that someone stop an action.
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  • Paramount answered the Yonays' order.
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  • The company said that the film had been mostly completed by January 24, 2020, and that it was not influenced by the magazine story.
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  • The Yonays argue that the new film would not have been developed without Ehud's story.
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  • And the lawsuit says that Top Gun: Maverick did not finish filming until May 2021, more than a year after the Yonay's recovered the property.
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  • The Top Gun sequel has been in development for years.
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  • Production and release was delayed many times, most recently and extensively as a result of the pandemic.
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  • The film opened in theaters on May 27 and has spent two weeks as the top-selling movie.
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  • It has already made close to $560 million in theater admissions sales worldwide.
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  • I'm Dan Novak.
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  • The major hit movie Top Gun was released in 1986. The film was based on a true story about fighter pilots in training and was published in a magazine three years earlier. Paramount Pictures bought the rights to the story written by Ehud Yonay and made the film to great success.
  • 2
  • Now, the wife and son of Yonay are suing Paramount about its new movie, Top Gun: Maverick.
  • 3
  • Shosh Yonay and Yuval Yonay brought the legal action to a California federal court Monday. They say that they control the rights to Ehud's story and that they became its owners again on January 24, 2020.
  • 4
  • The lawsuit accuses Paramount of releasing the new film without the rights to do so legally.
  • 5
  • A spokesperson for Paramount Pictures said in a statement that the claims are without standing.
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  • Yonay's story centered on "Yogi" and his friend "Possum" as they train to become pilots for the United States Navy. It was published in the May 1983 issue of California magazine. Soon after, Paramount Pictures bought the movie rights to the piece. Top Gun was released in 1986 and went on to become the top-selling film of the year.
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  • The lawsuit says that Paramount had known since 2018 that the Yonays planned to recover the rights. The lawsuit says the mother and son sent a cease-and-desist order in a letter to Paramount last month. A cease-and-desist order demands that someone stop an action.
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  • Paramount answered the Yonays' order. The company said that the film had been mostly completed by January 24, 2020, and that it was not influenced by the magazine story. The Yonays argue that the new film would not have been developed without Ehud's story. And the lawsuit says that Top Gun: Maverick did not finish filming until May 2021, more than a year after the Yonay's recovered the property.
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  • The Top Gun sequel has been in development for years. Production and release was delayed many times, most recently and extensively as a result of the pandemic. The film opened in theaters on May 27 and has spent two weeks as the top-selling movie. It has already made close to $560 million in theater admissions sales worldwide.
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  • I'm Dan Novak.
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  • The Associated Press reported this story. Dan Novak adapted it for VOA Learning English.
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  • sue - v. to use a legal process by which you try to get a court of law to force a person, company, or organization that has treated you unfairly or hurt you in some way to give you something or to do something
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  • sequel - n. a book, movie, etc., that continues a story begun in another book, movie, etc.
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  • lawsuit - n. a process by which a court of law makes a decision to end a disagreement between people or organizations