DREAMWORKS - BATTLE ALREADY BEGINS OVER SPIELBERG'S MLK BIOPIC

BATTLE ALREADY BEGINS OVER SPIELBERG'S MLK BIOPIC

Two of the three children of Martin Luther King have implied that they will sue to halt a deal between DreamWorks and their older brother Dexter, who is chairman/CEO of the King estate. In an interview with the Associated Press, Bernice King, who said she was also speaking for her brother, Martin Luther King III, claimed that producer Steven Spielberg had entered into a deal "believing that they have the blessing of the King Estate. They don't have the blessings of Bernice and Martin King," she said. Daily Variety , which originally broke the story of the King deal, quoted unnamed DreamWorks insiders as saying that they are confident that the family feuding will not affect the production. For his part, Dexter King said on Tuesday that he alone can grant rights to his father's intellectual property and that he is "committed to working very closely with DreamWorks.

20/05/2009