Rex gives a brief ac­count of why he is "the Hol­ly­wood poster boy for idea theft". He pre­sents, here, and in his pro­file, the case for how the theme, de­tails & char­ac­ter­i­za­tions for the New Line Cin­e­ma movie "Wed­ding Crash­ers" (which made $400M!) were stolen from him. Some six months be­fore they start­ed pro­duc­tion, Rex had pitched their CEO a treat­ment for a movie called "Par­ty Crash­ers", which was vir­tu­al­ly iden­ti­cal in ev­ery par­tic­u­lar. Yet, New Line claimed they came up with it en­tire­ly on their own. When he sued, a sum­ma­ry judg­ment was im­prop­er­ly used to de­ny him his day in court