LOS ANGELES: A US judge threw out a lawsuit by Quentin Tarantino seeking $1 million from a gossip website for helping leak a screenplay for his latest planned movie.

US District Judge John F. Walter said Wednesday that Tarantino had failed to demonstrate "direct infringement" by the Gawker website of his copyright for the script of "The Hateful Eight".

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