The pitched battle that began between Sony Pictures and visual effects house Hydraulx over the alien movies Skyline and Battle: Los Angeles is over.Sony Pictures objected to the fact that Greg and Colin Strause made their low budget Skyline and benefited from the work their visual effects house Hydraulx did for the big budget Battle: Los Angeles.
At the time, the principals of Hydraulx (which has provided vfx for Avatar, 300 and other big pics) denied they did anything improper.
When financier Relativity Media refused to change the picture's opening from Nov. 12 until after Battle: Los Angeles's March 11 bow, Sony Pictures took the matter to arbitration.
- "Sony Pictures Entertainment announced today that it has dismissed its arbitration against visual effects company Hydraulx Entertainment and its principals, brothers Greg and Colin Strause.The suit arose from Hydraulx creating visual effects for SPE's “Battle: Los Angeles,” while at the same time providing special effects on the Strause brothers’ own alien invasion of Los Angeles themed picture, “Skyline,” which was released in November 2010.
SPE had received information that visual effects from “Battle: Los Angeles” had been used on “Skyline,” but after the discovery phase of the arbitration, SPE was satisfied its special effects were not used in “Skyline.”
If you want a short version we say:The brothers Greg and Colin Strause own a visual effects company called Hidraulx.
Sony Pictures Entertainment hired them for their future film visual effects Battle: Los Angeles.
Hidraulx guys, seeing the movie bits and idea, they made a movie quickly and launch it with the same idea and almost the same visual effects, which actually had been paid by SPE.
SPE caught them and sued the company, but now they droping any charges, because their film performed quite well in the Boxoffice.
Looks like Strause brothers escaped unpunished owning millions of dollars extra in pocket ...
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