A while back social media was a buzz with congratulatory messages for Priyanka Chopra on her new show Quantico. While the show has been doing well, it seems to have run into some legal trouble. In fact the producer of the show Mark Gordon has been sued by filmmakers, Jamie Hellman and Barbara Leibovitz, claiming that he stole the idea for the drama from their documentary film.
Apparently, both Jamie Hellman and Barbara Leibovitz were responsible for a 1999 documentary Quantico: The Making of an FBI Agent, which followed a class of recruits throughout their 16-week training program. Later the said documentary was presented to Gordon in 2001 by business executive Paula Paizes, following which Leibovitz and Hellman signed a deal with the Mark Gordon Company and provided all their notes, transcripts and other information pertaining to the documentary, with the surety that Gordon and his company would get back in...
Apparently, both Jamie Hellman and Barbara Leibovitz were responsible for a 1999 documentary Quantico: The Making of an FBI Agent, which followed a class of recruits throughout their 16-week training program. Later the said documentary was presented to Gordon in 2001 by business executive Paula Paizes, following which Leibovitz and Hellman signed a deal with the Mark Gordon Company and provided all their notes, transcripts and other information pertaining to the documentary, with the surety that Gordon and his company would get back in...
- 10/31/2015
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
ABC's breakout FBI drama Quantico may be under investigation itself. According to Deadline, a team of documentary filmmakers has accused series producer Mark Gordon of lifting the show's premise from their 1999 film.
The 35-page complaint says that Gordon and his company, Mark Gordon Company, had made plans with filmmakers Jamie Hellman and Barbara Leibovitz Hellman and business exec Paula Paizes in the early 2000s to develop the documentary Quantico: The Making of an FBI Agent. The film trailed a group of FBI trainees just as the series does. However, after some initial discussion of developing the Hellman's film into a movie or TV series, Gordon never followed up with the filmmakers.
The lawsuit alleges "breach of contract, fiduciary duty and more" and "the filing seeks a jury trial, actual and punitive damages and a 'based on' credit for Hellman and Leibovitz and their documentary."
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The 35-page complaint says that Gordon and his company, Mark Gordon Company, had made plans with filmmakers Jamie Hellman and Barbara Leibovitz Hellman and business exec Paula Paizes in the early 2000s to develop the documentary Quantico: The Making of an FBI Agent. The film trailed a group of FBI trainees just as the series does. However, after some initial discussion of developing the Hellman's film into a movie or TV series, Gordon never followed up with the filmmakers.
The lawsuit alleges "breach of contract, fiduciary duty and more" and "the filing seeks a jury trial, actual and punitive damages and a 'based on' credit for Hellman and Leibovitz and their documentary."
What...
- 10/31/2015
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Call this a federal case, of sorts. A new lawsuit claims the idea for ABC’s hit freshman FBI drama Quantico was lifted from a 1999 documentary that aired on CNN. Filmmakers Jamie Hellman and Barbara Leibovitz Hellman and business exec Paula Paizes filed a 35-page complaint Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court (read it here) that says series producer Ma…...
- 10/30/2015
- Deadline TV
Quantico is one of the success stories of the fall broadcast season. The ABC drama starring Priyanka Chopra and centered on a class of FBI recruits, one of whom is a sleeper terrorist, has held ratings week over week and is Sunday's top broadcast program among the advertiser-coveted adults 18-49 demographic. According to a Thursday lawsuit, it’s also stolen. Paula Paizes, Barbara Leibovitz Hellman and Jamie Hellman have sued Quantico producer Mark Gordon (whose credits include Grey’s Anatomy, Criminal Minds and films from Steve Jobs to Saving Private Ryan) and his Mark Gordon Company, claiming the company ripped off the series from a documentary by Hellman
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- 10/30/2015
- by Austin Siegemund-Broka
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
By Anjelica Oswald
Managing Editor
Directed by John Maloof and Charlie Siskel, Finding Vivian Maier documents Maloof’s journey to discover more about Vivian Maier after purchasing a box of her negatives in 2007. He began the search a few years later, after he realized the negatives consisted of some of the best undeveloped street photography of the 20th century. After some searching, it was revealed that Maier was a career-nanny who had died in 2009.
Since the documentary is in serious contention for a best documentary feature Oscar, we thought we’d check to see how many other photography-related films have managed to resonate with the Academy’s documentary branch and land a nomination in the same category. We found six.
The Naked Eye (1956)
Directed by two-time Oscar winner Louis Clyde Stoumen, this documentary celebrates photography through history by looking at pioneers in the field, such as Margaret Bourke-White. Though he covers works by multiple photographers,...
Managing Editor
Directed by John Maloof and Charlie Siskel, Finding Vivian Maier documents Maloof’s journey to discover more about Vivian Maier after purchasing a box of her negatives in 2007. He began the search a few years later, after he realized the negatives consisted of some of the best undeveloped street photography of the 20th century. After some searching, it was revealed that Maier was a career-nanny who had died in 2009.
Since the documentary is in serious contention for a best documentary feature Oscar, we thought we’d check to see how many other photography-related films have managed to resonate with the Academy’s documentary branch and land a nomination in the same category. We found six.
The Naked Eye (1956)
Directed by two-time Oscar winner Louis Clyde Stoumen, this documentary celebrates photography through history by looking at pioneers in the field, such as Margaret Bourke-White. Though he covers works by multiple photographers,...
- 11/7/2014
- by Anjelica Oswald
- Scott Feinberg
Filmmakers Barbara Leibovitz and Jaime Hellman are doing a high-wire act for Discovery Channel with plans for a documentary special about tightrope walkers. The deal for the project, dubbed Extreme Aerialists: The World's Great Tightrope Walkers, comes on the heels of the July 23 premiere of Leibovitz and Hellman's well-received docu for PBS and National Geographic titled The FBI, which offered an in-depth look at the daily lives of FBI agents. "Aerial tightrope walking is a culture of its own," Hellman said. "As filmmakers we have found the community of circus and carnival performance fascinating."...
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