Warner Bros. Discovery raised the hackles of some in Hollywood with last month’s launch of Max — the reskinned and renamed version of HBO Max — because the new service’s content details pages consolidated writers, directors, producers and others under a single “creators” heading.
Five weeks after issuing a mea culpa and promising to fix the situation, Wbd has now updated the listings in Max. The updates appear to be live on platforms including the max.com website and iOS and will be rolling out across all device platforms this week.
For example, on Max, the Oscar-winning film “Raging Bull” starring Robert De Niro now includes the following listings: Directors: Martin Scorsese; Writers: Paul Schrader, Mardik Martin; Producers: Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff; Based on Source Material by: Jake La Motta, Joseph Carter, Peter Savage. When Max launched on May 23, the service grouped all of those individuals under a single “creators” heading.
Five weeks after issuing a mea culpa and promising to fix the situation, Wbd has now updated the listings in Max. The updates appear to be live on platforms including the max.com website and iOS and will be rolling out across all device platforms this week.
For example, on Max, the Oscar-winning film “Raging Bull” starring Robert De Niro now includes the following listings: Directors: Martin Scorsese; Writers: Paul Schrader, Mardik Martin; Producers: Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff; Based on Source Material by: Jake La Motta, Joseph Carter, Peter Savage. When Max launched on May 23, the service grouped all of those individuals under a single “creators” heading.
- 6/28/2023
- by Todd Spangler
- Variety Film + TV
Warner Bros. Discovery will update its filmmaker credit listings on Max after facing pushback from viewers on social media as well as the Directors Guild of America and Writers Guild of America.
“We agree that the talent behind the content on Max deserve their work to be properly recognized,” a Warner Bros. Discovery spokesperson told TheWrap. “We will correct the credits, which were altered due to an oversight in the technical transition from HBO Max to Max and we apologize for this mistake.”
TheWrap’s review of the details section of films on the streamer like “Goodfellas” and “Superman the Movie” found that writers and directors of those projects had been lumped into a new “Creators” category.
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One social media user found the change on “Raging Bull,” which listed director Martin Scorsese, writers Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin and producers Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff under the category.
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“We agree that the talent behind the content on Max deserve their work to be properly recognized,” a Warner Bros. Discovery spokesperson told TheWrap. “We will correct the credits, which were altered due to an oversight in the technical transition from HBO Max to Max and we apologize for this mistake.”
TheWrap’s review of the details section of films on the streamer like “Goodfellas” and “Superman the Movie” found that writers and directors of those projects had been lumped into a new “Creators” category.
Max
One social media user found the change on “Raging Bull,” which listed director Martin Scorsese, writers Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin and producers Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff under the category.
The...
- 5/24/2023
- by Lucas Manfredi
- The Wrap
Warner Bros. Discovery’s newly launched Max lumped film directors and writers under a single “creators” heading — a change that prompted a backlash from filmmakers and Hollywood’s directors and writers guilds. Now the company says it is reverting the listings back to how they were presented on HBO Max, blaming the issue on a technical “oversight.”
“We agree that the talent behind the content on Max deserve their work to be properly recognized,” a Max spokesperson said in a statement to Variety. “We will correct the credits, which were altered due to an oversight in the technical transition from HBO Max to Max and we apologize for this mistake.”
Max’s move to consolidate writers, directors and other creatives under the single “creators” listing drew ire amid the ongoing Writers Guild of America strike, as the union is seeking to reach a new contract with major studios through the...
“We agree that the talent behind the content on Max deserve their work to be properly recognized,” a Max spokesperson said in a statement to Variety. “We will correct the credits, which were altered due to an oversight in the technical transition from HBO Max to Max and we apologize for this mistake.”
Max’s move to consolidate writers, directors and other creatives under the single “creators” listing drew ire amid the ongoing Writers Guild of America strike, as the union is seeking to reach a new contract with major studios through the...
- 5/24/2023
- by Todd Spangler
- Variety Film + TV
Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming app Max changed its name Tuesday, dropping the “HBO” from HBO Max when it merged with Discovery+. But as an eagle-eyed viewer discovered later in the day, it also changed how basic details about a film are listed. And movie fans are very displeased.
On Tuesday night, film commentator (and Twitter power user) John Frankensteiner shared a screengrab of the details section from the landing page for the film “Raging Bull,” as it currently appears on Max.
While the film’s principle actors are listed under “starring,” director Martin Scorsese, writers Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin, and producers Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff, are lumped together under a single listing: “Creators.” Included with them are Peter Savage, author of the book that inspired the film, and boxer Jake Lamotta whose life is depicted in it. Their individual roles are not differentiated.
“The new HBO Max...
On Tuesday night, film commentator (and Twitter power user) John Frankensteiner shared a screengrab of the details section from the landing page for the film “Raging Bull,” as it currently appears on Max.
While the film’s principle actors are listed under “starring,” director Martin Scorsese, writers Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin, and producers Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff, are lumped together under a single listing: “Creators.” Included with them are Peter Savage, author of the book that inspired the film, and boxer Jake Lamotta whose life is depicted in it. Their individual roles are not differentiated.
“The new HBO Max...
- 5/24/2023
- by Ross A. Lincoln
- The Wrap
Are you ready for "a big ball of wibbly wobbly, time wimey stuff" that has very little to do with "Doctor Who," other than the fact that it happens to star Peter Capaldi, the Twelfth Doctor? If so, look no further than "The Devil's Hour," which perp-walks Capaldi in a red prison jumpsuit for all the world — or at least Prime Video viewers — to see. You don't have to be a subscriber to Prime Video to watch the trailer for "The Devil's Hour," but that's where this new six-episode series will be streaming.
"The Devil's Hour" sees Capaldi sitting across an interrogation room table from Jessica Raine, who plays a woman named Lucy Chambers, with a link to one of several victims that Capaldi's character, Gideon, is suspected of killing. The series is created by Tom Moran, but there's one other "Doctor Who" connection with it in that Steven Moffat...
"The Devil's Hour" sees Capaldi sitting across an interrogation room table from Jessica Raine, who plays a woman named Lucy Chambers, with a link to one of several victims that Capaldi's character, Gideon, is suspected of killing. The series is created by Tom Moran, but there's one other "Doctor Who" connection with it in that Steven Moffat...
- 9/23/2022
- by Joshua Meyer
- Slash Film
In lauding Martin Scorsese's seventh feature film, "Raging Bull," about the life of middleweight champ Jake Lamotta, renowned critic Pauline Kael declared it to be "about movies and about violence" as much as it is about boxing. Scorsese, of "Mean Streets" and "Taxi Driver," could speak the languages of rage and guilt fluently, but boxing was a whole other issue. So when Robert De Niro handed the director a copy of Lamotta's 1970 memoir, "Raging Bull: My Story," written with Peter Savage and Joseph Carter, Scorsese dismissed the idea of turning into a project.
Peter Biskind expands on the story in his New Hollywood account, "Easy...
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Peter Biskind expands on the story in his New Hollywood account, "Easy...
The post The Reason Martin Scorsese Nearly Didn't Make Raging Bull appeared first on /Film.
- 4/18/2022
- by Anya Stanley
- Slash Film
The U.S. Supreme Court might have revived a long-running dispute over rights to Martin Scorsese's classic film Raging Bull, but the parties involved in the battle have figured out a way to hang up their gloves. On Friday, a federal judge was informed that a settlement had been reached. Paula Petrella, whose father, Frank Petrella, wrote works that became the basis of the 1980 film starring Robert De Niro as real-life boxer Jake Lamotta, sued MGM and 20th Century Fox for copyright infringement over the continued distribution of the motion picture. Petrella asserted rights to her father's works
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- 4/5/2015
- by Eriq Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
On Monday, the United States Supreme Court decided a copyright case that may have far reaching effect. In a 6-3 decision, the Court decided that Paula Petrella, the copyright heir to the original “Raging Bull” 1963 screenplay, could proceed with her infringement claim against MGM despite an 18-year delay in filing suit. After Jake Lamotta retired from boxing, he collaborated with his best friend, Frank Petrella, to create a book and two screenplays about Lamotta’s life that became the basis for the 1980 award-winning Martin Scorsese film, Raging Bull, starring Robert De Niro. When
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- 5/24/2014
- by Bonnie Eskenazi and Jonathan Sokol
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Washington (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a copyright lawsuit over the 1980 Oscar-winning movie "Raging Bull" can go forward, a decision that could open Hollywood studios to more claims from people seeking a share of profits from classic films, TV shows and other creative works. In a 6-3 decision, the justices said that Paula Petrella, daughter of the late screenwriter Frank Petrella, did not wait too long to file her lawsuit against Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer claiming an interest in the film. Petrella's father collaborated with legendary boxer Jake Lamotta on a book and two screenplays, which inspired the movie directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert DeNiro. The elder Petrella died in 1981 and the copyrights passed to his daughter. She sued MGM in 2009 seeking royalties from continuing commercial use of the film. But a federal judge said she waited too long because she had been aware of the potential to file...
- 5/19/2014
- by Sam Hananel (AP)
- Hitfix
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Paula Petrella, whose father, Frank Petrella, wrote works that allegedly became the basis for Martin Scorsese's classic film Raging Bull, starring Robert De Niro. Petrella asserts that because her father died in 1981, before the original term of the copyright grant expired, rights to Raging Bull reverted to the heirs. She's suing MGM and 20th Century Fox for at least $1 million in damages from alleged copyright infringement in the continued distribution of the film. Before the case got to the Supreme Court, it was rejected by lower courts because
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- 5/19/2014
- by Eriq Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Supreme Court justices on Tuesday hearing a copyright appeals claim against Martin Scorsese’s 1980 Oscar-winning film “Raging Bull,” questioned the potential effects of allowing such a claim years after a movie is made or a copyrighted work is issued. Paula Petrella, whose father Frank Petrella wrote Jake Lamotta’s autobiography and contributed to a first draft of the screenplay in 1963, is seeking at least $1 million in damages from MGM and 20th Century Fox. Stephanos Bibas, an attorney for Petrella, told the court that any Congressional action altered the bar against filing copyright claims years later. The attorney also argued that courts have the.
- 1/22/2014
- by Ira Teinowitz
- The Wrap
The Supreme Court pondered Tuesday whether the daughter of the man whose work was the basis of the Oscar-winning movie Raging Bull should go another round with a major movie studio over copyright infringement for ownership of boxer Jake Lamotta’s life story.
The Raging Bull case involves an appeal from Paula Petrella, the daughter of Frank Petrella, whose written work inspired the movie. Frank Petrella collaborated with his friend Lamotta on two screenplays and a book, which were used to make the movie directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro. The 1980 film won two Oscars, including best actor for De Niro.
The Raging Bull case involves an appeal from Paula Petrella, the daughter of Frank Petrella, whose written work inspired the movie. Frank Petrella collaborated with his friend Lamotta on two screenplays and a book, which were used to make the movie directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro. The 1980 film won two Oscars, including best actor for De Niro.
- 1/21/2014
- by Associated Press
- EW - Inside Movies
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10. This Sporting Life
Lindsay Anderson brought to bear on his adaptation of David Storey's first novel, all the poetic-realist instincts he had been honing for the previous decade as a documentarian in the Humphrey Jennings mould. (Anderson had won the 1953 best doc Oscar for Thursday's Children.) Filmed partly in Halifax and Leeds, but mainly in and around Wakefield Trinity Rugby League Club, one of its incidental attractions is its record of a northern, working-class sports culture that would change out of all recognition over the next couple of decades.
The story of Frank Machin, a miner who becomes a star on the rugby field,...
• Top 10 superhero movies
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10. This Sporting Life
Lindsay Anderson brought to bear on his adaptation of David Storey's first novel, all the poetic-realist instincts he had been honing for the previous decade as a documentarian in the Humphrey Jennings mould. (Anderson had won the 1953 best doc Oscar for Thursday's Children.) Filmed partly in Halifax and Leeds, but mainly in and around Wakefield Trinity Rugby League Club, one of its incidental attractions is its record of a northern, working-class sports culture that would change out of all recognition over the next couple of decades.
The story of Frank Machin, a miner who becomes a star on the rugby field,...
- 11/25/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider a copyright claim on Martin Scorsese’s “Raging Bull” by the original screenwriter’s daughter, the high court announced Tuesday — an action that could take away a legal advantage widely used by studios if it breaks her way. The challenge comes from Paula Petrella, whose father Frank Petrella wrote boxing champ Jake Lamotta’s autobiography and an early draft of the screenplay in 1963. She claims rights to “Raging Bull” reverted to heirs when the author died in 1981, before the 28-year copyright term expired. Paula Petrella’s lawsuit accuses MGM and 20th Century Fox of.
- 10/1/2013
- by Josh Dickey
- The Wrap
More than three decades after Martin Scorsese directed Robert De Niro in the classic film, Raging Bull, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider a dispute that could impact the ownership of former boxing champion Jake Lamotta's story. On Tuesday, the high court announced that it would be reviewing a challenge made by Paula Petrella, whose father Frank Petrella wrote Lamotta's autobiography and an early screenplay in the 1960s. Photos: Robert De Niro's Top 20 Highest-Grossing Films Petrella asserts that that because her father died in 1981, before the original term of the copyright grant expired, that rights to Raging
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- 10/1/2013
- by Eriq Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jesse J. Holland, Associated Press
Washington (AP) The daughter of the man who wrote the Oscar-winning movie "Raging Bull" is hoping the Supreme Court will give her a final second Tko against a movie studio for ownership of boxer Jake Lamotta's life story.
The high court on Tuesday agreed to hear an appeal over the movie's copyright, one of eight cases granted by the justices as they prepare for the beginning of the new 2013-14 session on Oct. 7.
The "Raging Bull" case involves an appeal from Paula Petrella, the daughter of the movie's author, Frank Petrella. The elder Petrella died in 1981, with his copyrights reverting to his daughter. She sued Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. for copyright infringement for creating and distributing copies of the movie, but the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said she waited too long before filing her lawsuit.
She "was aware of her potential claim (as...
Washington (AP) The daughter of the man who wrote the Oscar-winning movie "Raging Bull" is hoping the Supreme Court will give her a final second Tko against a movie studio for ownership of boxer Jake Lamotta's life story.
The high court on Tuesday agreed to hear an appeal over the movie's copyright, one of eight cases granted by the justices as they prepare for the beginning of the new 2013-14 session on Oct. 7.
The "Raging Bull" case involves an appeal from Paula Petrella, the daughter of the movie's author, Frank Petrella. The elder Petrella died in 1981, with his copyrights reverting to his daughter. She sued Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. for copyright infringement for creating and distributing copies of the movie, but the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said she waited too long before filing her lawsuit.
She "was aware of her potential claim (as...
- 10/1/2013
- by The Associated Press
- Moviefone
Martin Scorsese's 1980 masterpiece squeezes in the brilliance, the charisma and the paranoia of Jake Lamotta without chaining itself to every point of fact
Director: Martin Scorsese
Entertainment grade: A
History grade: A–
Jake Lamotta was boxing's world middleweight champion between 1949 and 1951.
Character
The film begins in 1941, with Jake Lamotta (Robert De Niro) fighting in the ring and fighting his first wife, Ida. It's shocking – though not as shocking as in an earlier draft of the screenplay, in which he was to be shown kicking and punching her while she was pregnant. The violence isn't out of keeping with that admitted in Lamotta's 1970 autobiography, also called Raging Bull, in which he says he once thought he had killed Ida in a drunken fight, and owns up to a catalogue of violent incidents against various people including a couple of sexual assaults. If anything, Lamotta's terrifying characterisation in the film has...
Director: Martin Scorsese
Entertainment grade: A
History grade: A–
Jake Lamotta was boxing's world middleweight champion between 1949 and 1951.
Character
The film begins in 1941, with Jake Lamotta (Robert De Niro) fighting in the ring and fighting his first wife, Ida. It's shocking – though not as shocking as in an earlier draft of the screenplay, in which he was to be shown kicking and punching her while she was pregnant. The violence isn't out of keeping with that admitted in Lamotta's 1970 autobiography, also called Raging Bull, in which he says he once thought he had killed Ida in a drunken fight, and owns up to a catalogue of violent incidents against various people including a couple of sexual assaults. If anything, Lamotta's terrifying characterisation in the film has...
- 5/9/2013
- by Alex von Tunzelmann
- The Guardian - Film News
A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that MGM controls the rights to "Raging Bull," rejecting a challenge by the daughter of a screenwriter on whose work the film was based. Paula Petrella's father Frank Petrella -- also known as Peter Savage -- penned a 1963 screenplay about boxing champion Jake Lamotta, his former boyhood friend. The 1980 Martin Scorsese film was based on a book and a screenplay by Petrella but he did not get screenplay credit in the film. His daughter claimed that, when her father died in 1981, the rights...
- 8/30/2012
- by Alexander C. Kaufman
- The Wrap
MGM has emerged victorious in a ruling on Wednesday at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that confirms the studio's hold over the rights to Raging Bull. The challenge was brought by Paula Petrella, the daughter of Frank Petrella (aka Peter Savage), who in 1963 wrote a screenplay (and other later works) about former boxing champion Jake Lamotta, his childhood friend. Petrella has asserted that because her father died in 1981, before the original term of the copyright grant expired, that rights to Raging Bull, purportedly based on the old work, reverted to the heirs. Story: MGM Settling 'Raging Bull 2'
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- 8/29/2012
- by Eriq Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, which produced the 1980 Martin Scorsese–Robert De Niro boxing saga "Raging Bull," filed suit in Los Angeles against the producers of a sequel—dubbed "Raging Bull II"—and the iconic boxer Jake Lamotta, whose story is the basis of both flicks.MGM alleges that the new film violates a 1976 contract it signed with Lamotta giving the studio exclusive rights to his 1970 autobiography, "Raging Bull: My Story," co-written by Peter Savage. The studio contends the contract forbids Lamotta and Savage from producing any other work based on the "Raging Bull" tale without giving it first refusal. In 1986 Lamotta wrote a follow-up book, which MGM claims is covered in the contract.In the complaint MGM "requests that the Court rescind the agreement(s) by which Lamotta has granted Rbii Defendants rights in the Sequel Book and enjoin the Rbii Defendants from further producing, distributing, marketing, advertising, or otherwise exploiting the Sequel Picture.
- 7/5/2012
- by help@backstage.com (Simi Horwitz)
- backstage.com
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