The real-life characters of Netflix’s “The Laundromat” are trying to block the Gary Oldman-Antonio Banderas film about offshore banking, suing for libel. Good luck.
Past defamation/libel claims against movies — which failed — show that Hollywood has running room to tell stories, especially about topics of public interest.
Here are five film cases that provide context for the pending lawsuit against Netflix (Mossack Fonseca v. Netflix), which was moved on Oct. 17 from federal court in Connecticut to California.
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