Fact Check: Sophia Stewart Did NOT Win $2.5 Billion Lawsuit Over Ideas For Terminator, Matrix Movies

Did Sophia Stewart win a $2.5 billion lawsuit against Warner Bros., Twentieth Century Fox and other Hollywood filmmakers for stealing ideas from her manuscripts to make "The Terminator" and "The Matrix" movies? No, that's not true: Stewart filed a lawsuit against these defendants, claiming they stole her ideas for the blockbuster movie franchises, but a California judge dismissed her case in 2005, according to documents publicly available online. Stewart did not receive anything, much less $2.5 billion, from the lawsuit.