Producer sues Netflix for $105 million over missing Nicolas Cage movie

3 min readLos AngelesJul 31, 2026 09:33 AM IST A producer is suing Netflix for $105 million, claiming an unreleased Nicolas Cage film was stolen from the company's Hollywood studios, jeopardising its distribution prospects due to piracy concerns.A movie producer is seeking $105 million in damages from Netflix after he says a copy of his unreleased Nicolas Cage movie was stolen from the streaming service’s studios in Hollywood. Attorneys for producer Simon Afram said in a lawsuit filed on Wednesday in California that the filmmakers had delivered an unencrypted master copy of the World War II ⁠drama “Fortitude” ​to Netflix in June at the company’s request. Afram invested more than $45 million in the production, which took seven years to complete, and he was in the process of trying to sell t