Anonymous Vs. Steubenville Movie Updates

Sat., Apr. 5, 2014

from The Hollywood Reporter

Brad Pitt's Plan B Acquires Hacker Story 'Anonymous vs. Steubenville'

Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and their Plan B production company will produce a movie based on a true story about a hacker who helped catch two rapists.

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• changed the production status to Announced
• added Jeremy Kleiner as producer to credits
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• added Brad Pitt as producer to credits
• added Plan B Entertainment as a production company
• added New Regency Enterprises as a production company
• added RatPac Entertainment as a production company
• added drama as a genre
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• Deric Lostutter, a member of the hacker group Anonymous, helps expose a cover-up of the rape of a 16-year-old girl by two high school football players in Steubenville, Ohio. After releasing a video made by the football players, showing them with the ... show all rape victim, Lostutter's home is raided by the FBI and he is charged for obtaining tweets and social media posts that contain details about the rape and for threatening action against the rapists. He could spend more than a decade in prison -- while the rapists he helped catch spent only one year in jail.

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