Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American filmmaker, actor, film programmer, and cinema owner.
His films are characterized by nonlinear storylines, satirical subject matter, aestheticization of violence, extended scenes of dialogue, ensemble casts, references to popular culture and a wide variety of other films, soundtracks primarily containing songs and score pieces from the 1960s to the 1980s, alternate history, and features of neo-noir film.
Quentin Tarantino & Miramax ‘Pulp Fiction’ NFT Legal Dust-Up Ends; Director & Studio Look Forward To “Future Projects”
deadline.comUPDATE, 1:16 PM: Just under a year after it all started, Miramax and Quentin Tarantino have pulled the plug on their legal face-off over Pulp Fiction NFTs“The parties have agreed to put this matter behind them and look forward to collaborating with each other on future projects, including possible NFTs,” the Bill Block-led studio and the Oscar winning filmmaker said in a joint statement today.
No details of the settlement between the parties was made public, but clearly Mirmax has not stopped Tarantino from selling NFTs – which aren’t exactly capturing the big bucks they were just a year agoAlso worth noting that Tarantino’s last film, Once Upon A Time in Hollywood was produced by Columbia Pictures and released by Sony in 2019.In a surprisingly lawsuit launched in November last year, Miramax took its one-time golden boy to federal court in California to shut down Tarantino’s expressed desire to sell one of kind digital tokens from his acclaimed 1994 film.
The once Weinstein ruled studio asserted they owned almost all the rights to Pulp Fiction.A point Tarantino and his lawyer Bryan Freedman disputed.As recently as earlier this summer, Tarantino stated in court filings of his own that the NFT he was putting to market did not counter any Pulp Fiction copyright Miramax has.
Noting the NFTs were images based on the Pulp Fiction screenplay not the actual film, Tarantino asked the court in June to toss out Miramax’s case.Now that is all a moot point, or as Samual L Jackson says in Pulp Fiction: :If my answers frighten you, then you should cease asking scary questions.:PREVIOUSLY, JAN 10 PM: As the digital clock ticks away, Quentin Tarantino and Miramax’s legal dust-up over the Oscar winner’s plan to auction off NFTs of his
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