Man invested $45M in a Nicolas Cage movie. It got stolen off Netflixâs desk | TheBriefWire
Man invested $45M in a Nicolas Cage movie. It got stolen off Netflixâs desk
Published 31 July 2026 ¡ entertainment
Netflix has been sued after admitting that an unencrypted drive containing an unreleased, hotly anticipated 2026 blockbuster starring Nicolas Cage was stolen from its offices
Netflix has been sued after admitting that an unencrypted drive containing an unreleased, hotly anticipated 2026 blockbuster starring Nicolas Cage was stolen from its offices. In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, Netflix was accused of waiting a week to warn the production company, Op-Fortitude, that the movie, Fortitude, was swiped, along with other drives that were âstolen right off a Netflix desk.â âSomeone stole a good amount of drives from our office desks this past week,â Sean Berney, director of Netflix Original Film, said in an email to a production company representative after several attempts to get Netflix to return the drives were allegedly ignored. Read full article Comments
Published: July 31, 2026 ⢠9:47 PM IST ¡ Updated: August 1, 2026 ⢠12:36 AM ISTBy TheBriefWire Editorial Team
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Netflix has been sued after admitting that an unencrypted drive containing an unreleased, hotly anticipated 2026 blockbuster starring Nicolas Cage was stolen from its offices.
In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, Netflix was accused of waiting a week to warn the production company, Op-Fortitude, that the movie, Fortitude, was swiped, along with other drives that were âstolen right off a Netflix desk.â âSomeone stole a good amount of drives from our office desks this past week,â Sean Berney, director of Netflix Original Film, said in an email to a production company representative after several attempts to get Netflix to return the drives were allegedly ignored.
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