Columbia Footage and George Gallo, who wrote the story that was developed into the 1995 motion hit Unhealthy Boys, have settled a lawsuit over the rights to the film franchise.
Either side, in a joint court docket submitting on Friday, notified the court docket of a settlement. Phrases of the deal weren’t disclosed.
Unhealthy Boys, which marked Michael Bay’s first function and starred Martin Lawrence and Will Smith, has spawned two sequels and a TV spinoff. A fourth installment to the franchise debuted final week to sturdy field workplace numbers.
When phrase of Unhealthy Boys 4 broke out, Gallo served the studio with termination notices that presupposed to terminate the task of his copyrights to each Columbia Footage and Candy Revenge Productions, his personal mortgage out. He alleged Columbia Footage misplaced its U.S. rights as of June 27, 2022, to make new works based mostly on his 1985 story that Unhealthy Boys relies on, known as Bulletproof Hearts.
Columbia Footage argued in a lawsuit filed final yr that Gallo can’t exploit a provision in copyright legislation that enables authors to claw again possession of their works after a sure time period. It requested the court docket for a declaration that Gallo penned the story as a piece made for rent, which might make it ineligible for termination.