OFF BEAT: Stallone wins ‘Expendables’ lawsuit

The redoubtable Sylvester Stallone has won another victory, but this time in the courtroom. A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by an author who charged the actor with copying his screenplay to make his 2010 movie “The Expendables,” according to news reports. U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in New York dismissed the lawsuit filed in October by Marcus Webb, who charged the screenplay was “strikingly similar and in some places identical,” to his own script, “The Cordoba Caper.”