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Twentieth Century Fox and Marvel Enterprises have filed a lawsuit to delay the release of Zoom from Sony Pictures and Revolution Studios.
The applicants feel that Zoom, in which children with special powers become outcasts and are sent to a special school to learn to handle their abilities, is suspiciously similar to X-Men, in which children with special powers become outcasts and are sent to a special school to learn to handle their abilities.
Fox are particularly concerned that Sony have shifted Zoom's release date to two weeks before that of X3 on May 26, 2006. IMDb quotes legal papers as saying: "Just days after Fox announced X3 would be released on May 26, 2006, Sony and Revolution deliberately moved up Zoom's release so that it would come two weeks before, instead of 11 weeks after the release of X3."
Further, Fox and Marvel want similarities to the X-Men films to be removed from Zoom by order of the court. The lawsuit continues: "Although Revolution changed some parts of Zoom's Academy script... those few cosmetic changes cannot cover up the fact that Zoom continues to copy key elements, concepts, themes, characters and story lines from X-Men."
The applicants feel that Zoom, in which children with special powers become outcasts and are sent to a special school to learn to handle their abilities, is suspiciously similar to X-Men, in which children with special powers become outcasts and are sent to a special school to learn to handle their abilities.
Fox are particularly concerned that Sony have shifted Zoom's release date to two weeks before that of X3 on May 26, 2006. IMDb quotes legal papers as saying: "Just days after Fox announced X3 would be released on May 26, 2006, Sony and Revolution deliberately moved up Zoom's release so that it would come two weeks before, instead of 11 weeks after the release of X3."
Further, Fox and Marvel want similarities to the X-Men films to be removed from Zoom by order of the court. The lawsuit continues: "Although Revolution changed some parts of Zoom's Academy script... those few cosmetic changes cannot cover up the fact that Zoom continues to copy key elements, concepts, themes, characters and story lines from X-Men."
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