Film rights are rights under copyright law to produce a film as a derivative work of a given item of intellectual property. In US law, these rights belong to the holder of the copyright, who may sell (or "option") them to someone in the film industry—usually a producer or director, or sometimes a specialist broker of such properties—who will then try to gather industry professionals and secure the financial backing necessary to convert the property into a film. Such rights differ from the right to commercially exhibit a finished motion picture, which rights are usually referred to as "exhibition rights" or "public-performance rights".
Filmrights are rights under copyright law to produce a film as a derivative work of a given item of intellectual property. In US law, these rights belong...
Productions, which now holds the adaptation rights to all of Fleming's Bond novels, made all but two films in the film series. In 1961, producers Albert R. Broccoli...
studios to produce films based on Marvel Comics characters. One of Marvel's superheroes, Spider-Man, was optioned in the late 1970s, and rights reverted to Marvel...
the superpowers they attain. Constantin Film bought the filmrights for the characters in 1986. A low-budget film was produced in 1992 by New Horizon Studios...
the filmrights and Universal owns the distribution rights, for this film as well as the right of first refusal to distribute future Hulk films. According...
bought the filmrights. David Fincher, Gore Verbinski, Lasse Hallström, Miloš Forman, and Cameron Crowe were all considered to direct the film before Spielberg...
released the first Superman feature film, Superman and the Mole Men, starring George Reeves, in 1951. In 1973, the filmrights to the Superman character were...
Rights are legal, social, or ethical principles of freedom or entitlement; that is, rights are the fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of...
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