Celozzi, an LA-based producer, accuses 308 of multiple contractual breaches.
The company contests those claims and has filed a motion to dismiss and has provided a comment below.
Aprils hearing will be the latest stage in the months-long legal standoff.
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The meat and potatoes are as follows.
We broke the newsback then.
Celozzi and Mamet agreed to share the writing credit.
Celozzi also contests the historical accuracy of Levinson and 308s script.
Pia Patatians Cloud9 Studios is now shopping the project and will be taking the film to the upcoming EFM.
Celozzis legal representatives referred us back to the filing.
The lawsuit is purposefully vague and incomprehensible, and that is because the plaintiff has no case.
We have filed a motion to dismiss this frivolous case, and will be filing counterclaims of our own.
Celozzi is seeking $1M in damages.
Despite the suit, we understand there are ambitions to begin production on the film in the coming months.
Theres been some toing and froing on casting.
Celozzi will also be at EFM with his true crime project titledNovember 1963: The Killing of a President.
Roland Joffe (The Mission) is attached to direct.
K5 is selling the film.
He debuted his latest project,Bucks County, USA, at this years Sundance Film Festival.
