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Nu Image Films is suing thousands of filesharers who allegedly illegally downloaded their Sylvester Stallone action movie The Expendables.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Nu Image has teamed up with The US Copyright Group to bring a lawsuit against those who obtained the movie using file-sharing application BitTorrent.

USCG’s lawsuit has subpoenaed ISPs to identify customers who have downloaded the copyrighted content and letters are being issued to individuals with settlement demands. Should the individuals not meet the settlement, they could potentially be pursued in follow-up litigation.

Thomas Dunlap of USCG has suggested that those living in “a $100,000 house” will be more appealing targets than those in a “$10,000 trailer”.

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Warner Bros has been named the top-earning movie studio of 2010 with $1.89 billion in North American ticket sales.

The box office success of Christopher Nolan’s Inception ($292.5 million) and Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 ($283 million) helped Warner Bros retain the studio market share for the third consecutive year, says The Hollywood Reporter.

Warners took 18.3% of 2010’s gross revenue, which came in at just under $10.57 billion. The total is a dip of less than 1% from the studio’s 2009’s figures.

Paramount, which released big-earners Iron Man 2 ($312 million) and Shrek Forever After ($238 million), is in second place with a 16.1% market share and $1.67 billion in earnings.

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Forbidden Planet actress Anne Francis has died at the age of 80.

The film and TV star passed away on Sunday at a Santa Barbara nursing home, a funeral director confirmed to The AP.

Her daughter said that Francis died of complications of pancreatic cancer, the Los Angeles Times reports.

Francis was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2007.

Forbidden Planet was hailed by critics as one of the best sci-fi films of its time. Francis played Altaira ‘Alta’ Morbius in the 1956 classic, also starring Walter Pidgeon and Leslie Nielsen.

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Little Fockers has managed to pull back from a disappointing New Year’s Eve showing to remain at the top of the US box office.

The film, which starts Robert de Niro and Ben Stiller, took $26 million, beating off competition from Joel and Ethan Coen’s True Grit, which took slightly less with $24.5 million.

Falling to third place is the Disney sequel Tron: Legacy which took $18 million, followed by family film Yogi Bear at $13 million.

Rounding out the top five films of the weekend is the third film in the Chronicles Of Narnia franchise, which took $10.5 million.

The rest of the box office top ten is filled up with a number of smaller independent films, including The Fighter and Black Swan.

The US box office top ten in full:
1. Little Fockers – $26,300,000
2. True Grit – $24,500,000
3. Tron: Legacy – $18,300,000
4. Yogi Bear – $13,000,000
5. The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader – $10,500,000
6. Tangled – $10,008,000
7. The Fighter – $10,000,000
8. Gulliver’s Travels – $9,100,000
9. Black Swan – $8,500,000
10. The King’s Speech – $7,600,000

David Fincher has confirmed that his upcoming adaptation of literary classic 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea will be his first movie to be filmed in 3D.

The director of The Social Network also admitted that it was likely that 20,000 Leagues would be his next project after finishing filming on his adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s thriller The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

“Yes it will be in 3D,” Fincher admitted in an interview with Collider.

While the helmer wouldn’t specify whether the film would definitely be his next project due to the amount of movies that he is currently involved in, he did point it out as being one of his top priorities.

Fincher’s next film, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, is scheduled to be released on December 21, 2011.