Skyline will be released November 12 by Universal. Making the situation even more incestuous is that Battlefield: Los Angeles is part of the slate financing deal that Ryan Kavanaugh’s Relativity has with SPE, and he acquired Skyline. One day after SPE previewed a Battle: Los Angeles trailer and introduced its cast, Universal Pictures debuted its Skyline trailer, with the Strause brothers presiding over a panel. But SPE legal only to delve into the conflict of interest issue after Comic-Con. Sources said that SPE looked at the film at that time. I reported the plot-four friends return from a night of hard partying to down L.A., slowly realize they are among a small group of survivors after most of humanity was wiped out by a deadly unknown force, and I mentioned an “extraterrestrial twist.” Deadline exclusively splashed a story in May about the film when Relativity Media acquired the picture–Brett Ratner was the catalyst and is a producer–at a time when IM Global’s Stuart Ford had brokered deals for most major world territories. Now, Skyline didn’t exactly come out of nowhere. The Strause brothers had already seen the Battle: Los Angeles script, I’m told, because they were considered as potential directors. That gave Hydraulx access to proprietary information that included script drafts, storyboards, and pre-viz animatics. Hydraulx was hired by SPE in early 2009 to be one of the primary VFX vendors on Battle: Los Angeles. Hydraulx Filmz is a major VFX company for commercials and cutting-edge visual films that have included Avatar, 300, Terminator 3, The Day After Tomorrow, Constantine, X-Men: The Last Stand, and the SPE hit 2012. At issue: did Hydraulx and its owners owe SPE a heads-up?Īnd is SPE trying to create a legal issue with a film that can’t afford it, to leverage a release date change that delays Skyline? Battle: Los Angeles could certainly have its thunder stolen. But Skyline created strong buzz at Comic-Con that will give it a wide release through Relativity and Universal Pictures. David story considering that the Strause brothers shot most of their film in an apartment, with the entire film costing a fraction of what SPE has spent for a full-scale alien battle film. SPE lawyers have just started digging into the matter. SPE higher-ups discovered it was in a real horse race after Universal Pictures released a trailer that showed Los Angeles denizens being vacuumed into the sky by hovering space ships. But Hydraulx never informed SPE the siblings were directing a VFX-driven rival alien invasion feature that will hit theaters four months before SPE’s Marelease. At issue: Greg and Colin Strause, the owners of visual effects house Hydraulx, were paid millions of dollars to generate visual effects work for Battle: Los Angeles. Sony Pictures Entertainment, the studio behind the big budget Battle: Los Angeles, is exploring its legal options. EXCLUSIVE: A real battle is brewing between rival aliens-invade-Los Angeles films Skyline and Battle: Los Angeles.
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