Film rights are rights under copyright law to produce a film as a derivative work of a given item of intellectual property. In US law, these rights belong...

Productions, which now holds the adaptation rights to all of Fleming's Bond novels, made all but two films in the film series. In 1961, producers Albert R. Broccoli...

licensed the film rights to several Marvel characters before beginning to produce its own films in 2004, and has since regained many of those rights. It has...

purchased the film rights for global distribution and Pratt was cast as Garfield, with the rest of the cast joining the following year. The film was animated...

the superpowers they attain. Constantin Film bought the film rights for the characters in 1986. A low-budget film was produced in 1992 by New Horizon Studios...

following the first film's strong performance in Thursday late-night screenings, where it grossed $4.9 million. They acquired film rights to the Allegiant...

acquired the film rights. Following multiple writer and director changes and the casting of Amy Schumer and later Anne Hathaway as Barbie, the rights were transferred...

American superhero film series based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name. 20th Century Fox obtained the film rights to the team and other...

fought to secure the film rights one year before the novel was published. Producers Sydney Pollack and Mark Rosenberg acquired the rights in December 1986...

Rights (also known as Rights Volume I) is a 2007 Filipino short anthology documentary film produced by the collectives Southern Tagalog Exposure and the...

adaptations would be made for Netflix. C. S. Lewis did not sell the film rights to the Narnia series during his lifetime, as he was skeptical that any...

film. "The Help" brings to light the challenges and discrimination that African American people faced. DreamWorks Pictures acquired the screen rights...

begins his formal wizarding education. Warner Bros. Pictures bought the film rights to the book in 1999 for a reported £1 million ($1.65 million). Production...

released the first Superman feature film, Superman and the Mole Men, starring George Reeves, in 1951. In 1973, the film rights to the Superman character were...

Development for a Sonic film began in the 1990s but did not leave the planning stage until Sony Pictures acquired the film rights in 2013. Fowler was brought...

Grey (Dornan). Development of the film commenced in March 2012, when Universal and Focus Features secured the rights to the trilogy following a bidding...

motion picture adaptations across film and television. Tolkien was skeptical of the prospects of an adaptation. The rights to adapt his works passed through...

Award for Best Actress. The film's failure ultimately led producers Alexander and Ilya Salkind to sell the Superman film rights to The Cannon Group, Inc...

under Universal's tenure of the film rights, Piece by Piece, is set for release on October 11, 2024. All four films in the franchise were produced as...

film rights to Night Shift (1978), the anthology the story appeared in, in 1978. Edward and Valerie Abraham wrote a screenplay for an anthology film adapting...

and co-produce the film, with Carrey in the lead role. It was also reported that Universal Pictures paid $9 million for the film rights for Grinch and Oh...

to adapt it and bought the film rights in 1992. Stuart Gordon, David Cronenberg, and Rob Weiss considered directing the film before Harron and Turner began...

producer, had acquired the film rights in 1960 and had attempted to get Casino Royale made as an Eon Productions Bond film; however, Feldman and the producers...

director acquired the film rights to The Adventures of Tintin after the author's death in 1983, and re-optioned them in 2002. Filming was due to begin in...

Divergent began in March 2011 when Summit Entertainment picked up the film rights to the novel with Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher's production company Red...

Thomas Garrett C. Phillips In July 2020, Annapurna Pictures acquired the film rights to the then-unpublished Nightbitch, written by Rachel Yoder, with Amy...

interested in making a film about Garrison's life, but rather the story behind the conspiracy to kill Kennedy. He also bought the film rights to Jim Marrs' book...

rights to make Broadway stage and film adaptations of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with Douglas starring as McMurphy in both the play and the film...

the character's film rights were returned to Marvel Studios alongside the X-Men and the Fantastic Four. Deadpool & Wolverine, a third film starring Reynolds...

Rock). In the film, marines are sent on a rescue mission to a facility on Mars, where they encounter demonic-like creatures. After film rights deals with...