Apparently Hollywood is just like high school: everyone cheats…or gets accused of cheating, at least.

Fresh from his Best Director Oscar loss for Inglorious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino is now being sued by a man who says that the quirky film director stole his concept for “Kill Bill,” according to a TMZ report.

In a lawsuit that was filed Tuesday (March 9), Dannez Hunter says that in 1999 he submitted a treatment to Miramax about a made-up character named Ren. He claims that eventually Miramax, Harvey Weinstein and Tarantino ripped-off his ideas, including the “concept/character name Ren.” Hunter says that Tarantino copied everything from Ren witnessing her mother’s gruesome murder to the knife through the abdomen, etc.

To make matters worse, Hunter, who says he was from the inner city, applied for a job at Miramax but “was never given a return phone call, as numerous similar situated less qualified Jewish and White people were bestowed job after job after job.”

Hunter, who it could be argued has some deeper issues than just the “stealing” of his ideas, alleges that he was denied royalties in the “Kill Bill” franchise compared to similarly situated Whites and Jews. He is suing for over one million dollars.

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Bill may be dead, but that doesn’t mean the killing is over.

“Kill Bill” director Quentin Tarantino recently told an Italian talk show that he wants to do a third installment in the film franchise, it just won’t be for a few years yet, according to MTV News.

While on the talk show Tarantino claimed that, “The Bride will fight again!” However, the eccentric film director also said he wanted 10 years to pass before making the third movie, which could see it being released no earlier than 2014.

Why the big gap between films? “Two reasons,” Tarantino said, “One: I think Uma [Thurman] and I needed a 10 year break cause the first one was so hard. And second: I really love the character. And I think she deserves a 10 year release of no fighting and being with her [daughter].”

It seems that Tarantino really isn’t ready to be finished with Beatrix Kiddo (Uma Thurman’s character). He first brought up the idea of a third (as well as a fourth) “Kill Bill” on the set of his most recent film,”Inglorious Basterds,” according to The Playlist. Rumors have also been floating around about a prequel to the first two films.

But with his appearance on the Italian TV show, it looks like Tarantino’s ideas are finally starting to come alive. It has long-been speculated that Vernita Green (Vivica A. Fox)’s daughter, who is around 6 years old in “Kill Bill 2,” will grow up and come back in the third film to seek revenge on the woman (Thurman) who killed her mother.

If the third film does get made, regardless of when that is or which characters are invovled, one thing can be expected: blood. Tons, and tons, of blood.

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In the midst of the tumultuous investigation surrounding his death, David Carradine has been laid to rest in Los Angeles.

Private funeral services took place Saturday afternoon for the Kill Bill star, with more than 400 mourners turning out at the Forest Lawn cemetery to pay their respects.

Reports from E! online state that several celebrity friends attended the memorial service, including Kill Bill costars Lucy Liu, Darly Hannah and Michael Madsen, as well as Tom Selleck, Jane Seymour, Edward James Olmos, Ali Larter, Frances Fisher, James Cromwell and Rob Schneider.

The body of the 72-year-old David Carradine was found June 4, hanging naked in a hotel room in Bangkok. Despite initial speculation that Carradine’s death was a suicide, the Carradine family’s forensics expert, Michael Baden, announced Thursday that the actor did not take his own life.

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Uma Thurman is engaged to her Swiss financier beau, Arpad “Arki” Busson, reports E! News.

According to the actress’s rep, Busson popped the question to Thurman this week while they were in town for Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday bash. Apparently the diamond ring is so big “she can’t fit it through the sleeve of her coat” – a friend of the “Kill Bill” star is quoted as saying.

This will be the star’s third try at marriage. Thurman was previously married to Gary Oldman and later to Ethan Hawke, with whom the couple has two children.
Thurman and Busson have been together since last year. Thurman’s new fiancé has also been previously engaged to Aussie supermodel Elle Macpherson. The couple did have two children together but broke up before tying the knot in 2005.

No word yet on when Thurman and Busson plan to wed.

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