According to The National Post, Brazil’s Catholic Church is suing Columbia Pictures for using unauthorized images of Rio’s famous giant Christ statue in its disaster movie blockbuster 2012.
Columbia had requested to show the statue being destroyed by a giant wave, but Rio de Janeiro’s archdiocese, which allegedly owns a copyright on the statue, apparently said no, according to their attorney, Claudine Dutra,
“The archdiocese refused the use of the religious symbol during pre-production of the movie, but Columbia Pictures did not respect the prohibition,” she said. Dutra added that “many faithful have said they are shocked and offended by the images of the destruction of this sanctuary that the archdiocese wanted to preserve.”
No word yet on whether anyone has sued Columbia for just making a lousy movie in the first place, costing millions of customers ten bucks.
