In an interesting case, filmmaker, Michael Costanza, is suing Paramount Pictures, as well as, producers of the Paranormal Activity franchise. Big surprise. Michael Costanza is the writer and director of the no-budget 2002 independent horror film, The Collingswood Story.
Michael Costanza's claim tells, according to CinemaBlend.com, "...he presented sections Collingswood to the studio in 2010 for a pitch meeting that ended with his material being turned away, and that portions of the fourth entry of the found footage horror series are almost exactly the same as the ideas he brought to them."
Costanza is suing for unspecified damages. Part of the suit includes Paramount destroying all material based on any of his concepts. Michael Costanza can be best described in the immortal words of George Costanza,"I'm like a weed Jerry." I find this law suit credible and quite humorous. I'll have to see both films and see for myself, whether or not, Paramount Pictures used his ideas.
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