On Monday, Paramount Pictures celebrated its 357 million global box-office performance for “Maverick-2022-movie-posters/”>Top Gun: Maverick” — and faced a federal copyright lawsuit from the heirs of the late Ehud Yonay, author of the 1983 magazine story that inspired the original “Top Gun.”Nearly four decades ago, Paramount secured rights to “Top Guns,” an article published in the May 1983 issue of the now-folded California magazine; Yonay received a writing credit for the article on the original 1986 film, with a screenplay by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr.In 2018, Yonay’s heirs filed for what’s known as termination rights.
So now they argue it is them — not Paramount — who currently owns the underlying rights to make any movies based on “Top Guns.” They claim Paramount didn’t ask for permission — or pay them to make “Maverick.”The plaintiffs are Ehud’s window Shosh and his son Yuval.
On June 6, they asked a Los Angeles
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