13 November 2009 2:11 PM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
For once it isn't M. Night Shyamalan getting stuck into a bitter dispute over a film's title (see The Woods/The Village and the Avatars) but some fresh meat. The combatants this time are documentarian Alex Gibney and sometime documentarian, sometime fiction filmmaker George Hickenlooper. At this moment, they're both at work with films about the disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff - Gibney a doc, Hickenlooper a drama set to star Kevin Spacey - and both of the films are claiming the title Casino Jack. A cease and desist letter has been sent to Hickenlooper from the legal representatives of Gibney, threatening "any and all necessary action" if Casino Jack the second doesn't budge over and find a new handle. What could "any and all necessary action" actually amount to? Some excerpts from the letter and from Hickenlooper's stinging response coming right up after the break. Why should it matter if »
- Brendon Connelly
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