Worth

I.INTRODUCTION

Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 78 and Central District of California Local Civil Rule 7.11, the Court dispensed with oral argument on Plaintiffs Motion to Remand and took it under submission. Having reviewed all pertinent papers on file and for the reasons set forth below, the Court hereby DENIES Plaintiffs Motion.

II.FACTUAL BACKGROUND

Plaintiffs Howard Worth and Tony Anthony (“Plaintiffs”) bring this claim against Universal Pictures a division of Universal Studios, Inc.; f/k/a MCA, Inc.; and Does 1 through 30 for the unauthorized use of Plaintiffs’ movie screenplay entitled “The Tunnel”. Plaintiffs allege that Anthony conceived the idea for “The Tunnel” beginning in 1972. In 1989, Anthony joined with Worth and began to revise and modernize the original screenplay. (Compl. ¶ 2.) In 1981, Anthony registered his script of “The Tunnel” with the Writers Guild of America and the revised version in 1991. From 1972 through 1978, Plaintiffs submitted the script to various studios and agencies, one of which was Universal Pictures. (Compl. ¶¶ 8-9.) Plaintiffs allege that Defendants stole their idea for the screenplay since an almost identical movie entitled…