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Director Sues Paramount And Universal After Both Deny Knowing Who Holds The Rights To His Film
techdirt.com 2 days, 19 hours agoRob Hyndman points us to the bizarre story of director William Friedkin, perhaps most well known for directing both The French Connection and The Exorcist in the early 1970s. However, right now he's in a bit of a legal dispute with both Paramount and Universal studios , who co-produced the film that came after both of those films, called Sorcerer . While not a box office success, apparently there's a fair bit of interest in the film these days, and there have been requests for Friedkin to screen it, and for
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William Friedkin To Serve As L.A. Film Fest's Guest Director
latimes.com 2 weeks, 2 days agoWilliam Friedkin, the Academy Award-winning director of 1971's "The French Connection," will serve as guest director of the Los Angeles Film Festival and will screen his new NC-17 movie, "Killer Joe," on June 15.














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