Quentin Tarantino has been thrown into a legal dispute with Miramax, the film studio founded by Harvey Weinstein, which has moved to block the auction of NFTs related to the film Pulp Fiction.
Tarantino in early November was tied to the launch of an NFT project that sought to sell digital assets based on his handwritten screenplay for Pulp Fiction, and purported to include uncut versions of scenes from the movie along with some ‘secrets’ from the filmmaker about the movie.
Digital props and scans of the original script were also said to be part of the NFT project.
Miramax has reportedly sought to block the auctions as they argue that while Tarantino has the rights to the script, a print publication of the script and an NFT of the script are not the same thing.
Instead, in its Los Angeles lawsuit, Miramax claims: "Miramax holds the rights needed to develop, market, and sell NFTs relating to its deep film library."
Miramax was founded by Harvey and Bob Weinstein in 1979 and was acquired by Disney in 1993, before a series of further transactions which later saw Qatar media group BeIN take control in 2016.
BeIN last year dealt ViacomCBS into a 39% stake in the Hollywood company, through a US$375mln transaction that closed in April 2020.