Company sues Netflix for $105M for losing master copy of unreleased film

A production company is suing Netflix for $105 million for losing a master copy of an unreleased movie, which it claims will hurt its sales prospects.

A lawsuit claims Netflix lost an unencrypted $45 million thriller, risking piracy and demanding $105 million in damages.

Producer Simon Afram claims an unencrypted master copy of “Fortitude”, a World War II drama starring Nicolas Cage, was delivered to Netflix in June at the company’s request while negotiations were under way to secure a distribution deal.

Simon Afram and his company Op-Fortitude said that the hard drive which contained an unencrypted master copy of the film went missing after it was delivered to Netflix.

Lawsuit alleges that a drive storing $45 million spy film starring Nicolas Cage was "stolen right off a Netflix desk."

A film producer sued Netflix for $105 million on Wednesday after the company lost an unencrypted copy of his World War II film “Fortitude,” starring Nicolas Cage and Ben Kingsley. Simon Afram, a Swiss businessman, wrote the script and spent seven years and $45 million bringing it to the screen, according to his lawsuit

Call it the case of the missing movie! On June 15, an unencrypted master copy of a buzzy, unreleased Nicolas Cage thriller was hand-delivered to Netflix’s Hollywood headquarters at the streamer’s request. It was the type of transfer that happens daily around town during a movie sale process. In order to properly review