Thunder g*n 4: Maximum Cool
Criminal Activities
Copyright Infringement
Creating, distributing, or publicly exhibiting a film that reproduces or attempts to continue a commercially protected franchise without authorization can constitute copyright infringement and/or trademark infringement under U.S. law when copyrighted characters, titles, or substantial elements of a protected work are used without permission.
Situation:
"The group repeatedly admits to watching and downloading franchise films from pirate websites (references to "MoviePirate.com," "FreeMovies/Arrrgh," "StolenMovies.free," and statements like "we went home, and we, we saw it on the Internet... Caught it online" and later "Five tickets for the price of zero" and "It's probably on the... Yeah. It's free."). The main cast present (Dennis, Dee, Charlie, Mac, Frank) participate in and encourage streaming/downloading the movie from pirate sites."
Making a bomb threat
Communicating a threat to detonate an explosive device (criminal threat/bomb threat), which is a felony under federal and state law when it causes fear, evacuation, or disruption.
Situation:
"During discussion of how they viewed the prior franchise installment, the group acknowledges that Frank "called in that b*mb threat," admitting he phoned in a bomb threat to the movie theater screening (transcript: "Oh, wait, no-no, hold on, but Frank called in that b*mb threat")."