Critical Reception
The film garnered a poor reaction from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 25% out of 134 reviews gave the film a positive review, with the site consensus being: "Even though Oscar-bearers Nicolas Cage, Angelina Jolie, and Robert Duvall came aboard for this project, the quality of Gone in 60 Seconds is disappointingly low. The plot line is nonsensical, and even the promised car-chase scenes are boring."
In 1995, Denice Shakarian Halicki entered into a license contract to produce the remake with Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer for the film Gone in 60 Seconds. Filming began in 1999, with Denice Shakarian Halickias Executive Producer. The movie premiered on June 5, 2000.
The popularity of the original film and car character star Eleanor, lead to Eleanor reprising her starring role and Eleanor popularity in the remake 2000 as a custom 1967 Ford Fastback Mustang. A number of car shops started to produce the Copyrighted Character Eleanor image & trademark name and Denice Halicki again had to resort to legal action to protect the trademark and the copyrighted Eleanor's image. In 2008, Denice Shakarian Halicki won a case against Carroll Shelby, who had been selling "Eleanor" using Eleanor's Trademark name and Copyrighted image. http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/11/13/idUS192963+13-Nov-2008+BW20081113 http://www.gmsr.com/news_win.cfm?id_news=1321 http://www.gonein60seconds.com/gone2k.htm
2008 Appeal court states that remake Eleanor is copyrighted Character and that includes her image.
In 2010 Denice Shakarian Halicki won Eleanor's Trademark Name and Copyrighted Image court judgment CV08-0351(JTLx) against Edward Monfort/Roneale LLC for copyright and trademark infringement the copyrighted Eleanor's character's image. The Eleanor replicas where call Roneale, Eleanor spelled backwards. The appeal case and this case the courts deemed that Eleanor image and not just Eleanor's name is protected under the law.
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