Netflix sued for $105M after Nicolas Cage film stolen

Producer Simon Afram claims the streaming giant failed to protect the unencrypted master copy of "Fortitude," a World War II thriller that cost $45 million.

Netflix sued over stolen Nicolas Cage World War II movie  USA Today

Netflix is being sued for $105m (£78m) by a film producer after a copy of an unreleased Nicolas Cage film was stolen from its Hollywood studios.

A U.K. production company and filmmaker are suing Netflix for $105 million US, after a copy of an unreleased Nicolas Cage movie was stolen from the streaming giant's Los Angeles offices.

A U.K.-based production company and a filmmaker are suing Netflix for allegedly losing a "master copy" of an unreleased Nicolas Cage movie. CBS News' Vladimir Duthiers reports.

Filmmaker sues Netflix over stolen screener of unreleased Nicolas Cage movie.

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.

Netflix has been slapped with a $105 million lawsuit after the hard drive for an unreleased Nicholas Cage movie was stolen from his office.

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

The lawsuit states that an encrypted copy of the film was on one of several hard drives stolen from Netflix offices in Los Angeles last month, and that the theft has compromised the sale of the film.

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.

Netflix tells a producer that ’someone stole a good amount of drives’ from its desks, including the one containing Nicolas Cage’s unreleased World War II drama

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

Mario Anzuoni / REUTERS Netflix is being sued for $105 million over a new Nicolas Cage movie stolen from its offices. Fortitude, a World War II espionage action adventure, was filmed in London last year, with Cage playing real-life double agent Duško Popov. Simon Afram, a Swiss businessman who wrote the script, is suin

The producer behind the World War II spy thriller Fortitude has filed suit against Netflix, claiming that it bears responsibility for the theft of the hard drive of the upcoming film after it was delivered to the streamer’s headquarters for screening and possible purchase. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in L

A movie producer is seeking US$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.

The producer of Fortitude, a movie "tonally in the vein of Ocean's 11 or Inglourious Basterds," wants $105 million for the alleged gaffe

LOS ANGELES, July 30 : 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 del

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

Makers of unreleased $45m film Fortitude sue after hard drive stolen from streamer’s Los Angeles office Netflix is being sued for $105m over the theft of a hard drive including an unreleased Nicolas Cage war movie. The streamer’s Los Angeles office was the target of a robbery involving a number of hard drives, one of w

The lawsuit faults Netflix for losing a drive that contained a copy of World War II thriller 'Fortitude.' The company maintains it's not responsible for the loss of the movie, which it says was delivered "without proper industry-standard safeguards."

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