Entertainment in Showtime Networks and Lionsgate beats the lawsuit, accusing them of depriving the 2015 survival thriller Eden exist Yellow jacket.

Both follow a football team whose members begin to show cult-like behavior after crashing in a remote location and consider cannibalism. U.S. District Judge Dean Pregerson dismissed the lawsuit Friday, finding that the plot, characters, themes and settings of the two works are not similar enough to constitute copyright infringement.

Edenwritten by Nate Parker and distributed by Voltage Pictures, was published in 2015. Yellow jacket It premiered in 2021 and received great reviews. Its season 2 opener became the studio's most popular debut ever, attracting about two million viewers across all platforms. The entire third season was the most watched season so far in the series, with the final observer drawn in three million observers in the first seven days.

The so-called plot similarities between movies and TV series are part of a court analysis, Pregerson discovers the current timeline Yellow jacket There is "little similarity" to the story of Eden.

Instead Eden The court argued that the film was hinting at cannibalism in a large number, but rather that the plot focused on the debate about the characters’ debate on whether to reject food from injured survivors. The order says that during the two weeks, the protagonist's faction successfully collected food without considering or resorting to eating humans.

Other similarities, the court said, are common tropes found in several survival thrillers. It points to the head coach and the death of his two children, the survivors attempt to escape isolation and divide the group into hostile factions.

"Escape attempts that have not escaped throughout the novel and history are common throughout the novel and history, from Odysseus, Robinson Crusoe, Gilligan to Shackleton and Uruguay rugby teams, have been commonplace throughout the novel and history," Presen wrote. "Competition, tribalism and factionalism are almost as common in disaster scenarios or in response to resource scarcity, from "storm" to "survivors" to "survivors" to many post-apocalyptic genres such as "The Mad Biggest" movies, or any of many zombie stories, to many monuments, most of the quirky ones are the Lord of Fros."

The court held that it was natural for the two works to have the same tone because they had a basic plot point. It explains: “It is hard to imagine how any serious drama involving ritualized cannibals and their consequences might exclude elements of solemnity and contemplation.”

In his ruling, Presen refused Eden and Yellow jacket With overlapping characters and settings. And the survivor Eden Leaded by Slim, an adult, male, black athlete who serves as the group’s moral compass – the team captain Jackie, portrayed as “a teenager, white, white, suspicious, self-absorbing girl”, who was ultimately excluded by her peers.

The judge also stressed that the Garden of Eden took place on an uninhabitable tropical island, which he said was not similar to the wilderness in northern Canada. Yellow jacket. Pregerson added: "In addition, the 'desolate area' environment highlighted by the plaintiff is a common factor in survival stories, including historical events such as the suffering of Antis in the Uruguayan rugby team in the Andes or the Donner Party in the Sierra Nevada."

Showtime did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Over the past few years, the creators and holders of copyright have become increasingly bold in filing theft lawsuit. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals filed an early rejection of curbing copyright infringement claims. In 2022, the federal court of appeals reversed the lawsuit against M. Night Shyamalan, allegedly deprived of 2013 independent films in his Apple TV+ series servant. This is in the writers Arthur Lee Alfred and Ezequiel Martinez Jr. Pirates of the Caribbean Movies, and the same decisions, bring life back to life The shape of water. The court found in both cases that they were dismissed prematurely because reasonable ideas may differ in the case of whether the works are basically similar.