Business Tesla, Warner Bros. sued for allegedly ripping off images from ‘Blade Runner 2049’ to promote cybercab By Reuters Published Oct. 21, 2024, 6:38 p.m. ET ...

Alcon Entertainment, the production company that made Blade Runner 2049, is suing Tesla, its CEO Elon Musk and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) over the imagery.

Tangent “Blade Runner 2049” opened in theaters in October 2017, directed by Denis Villeneuve and starring Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford. The movie, a sequel to “Blade Runner” (1982), was ...

A federal judge has narrowed the scope of a lawsuit from a production company for Blade Runner 2049 accusing Tesla of feeding images from the movie into an artificial intelligence image generator ...

Alcon Entertainment, the production company behind "Blade Runner 2049," has sued Elon Musk, Tesla Motors and Warner Bros. Discovery over the car company's use of AI-generated images that were used ...

Tesla impressed its fans during the We, Robot event on October 10, but it also irked Blade Runner 2049 producers by using AI-generated images inspired by the movie without permission.

WBD was Alcon’s domestic distributor for the 2017 release of Blade Runner 2049. It has limited clip licensing rights, though not for Tesla’s livestream TV event, the lawsuit claims.

The original movie has a reported budget of $30 million and it would go on to take in $42 million worldwide. Blade Runner 2049 had a reported budget of $150 million and took in nearly $260 million.

Blade Runner 2049 is looking sharp. The long-gestating sequel to Ridley Scott’s iconic 1982 sci-fi epic is tracking to open to $40 million or more in North America when it hits theaters on Oct ...

Musk’s livestreamed presentation — a grand unveiling of a car that Tesla says will be able to drive itself — did not use exact “Blade Runner 2049” images, according to the complaint.