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The lawsuits aren't all over, but Aquaman star Amber Heard is out of the legal waters surrounding London Fields. Almost three years after the Matthew Cullen-directed pic was to debut at the Toronto International Film Festival and nearly two years after producers first sued Heard for breach of contract and more and a…

Add Amber Heard to the growing docket of lawsuits over London Fields, which was to debut at Toronto last year before being pulled amid legal wrangling between the pic’s director and producers. Now the actress, who is set to play Mera in a pair of Justice League movies for Warner Bros, is being sued for $10 million…

UPDATE, 3:33 PM: The battle over London Fields continues with producers Christopher Hanley and Jordan Gertner today promising to "vigorously oppose the lawsuit" filed two days ago by director Matthew Cullen. Calling Cullen's complaint "a publicity stunt," their statement (see in full below) comes just hours after the…

Lionsgate/Grindstone has just closed a low-seven-figure deal for London Fields, a film that opened with some controversy as director Matthew Cullen filed suit just before its Tuesday industry screening against producer Chris Hanley over a cut of the movie that wasn’t completely of the director’s making. The adaptation…

The same day that the film based on Martin Amis' 1989 novel had its media and industry screening at the Toronto Film Festival, Matthew Cullen today took producers Christopher Hanley and Jordan Gertner to court for "fraud and deceit" and a variety of damages of more than $1 million to be proved at trial. Why? "In this…

London Fields marks the feature directing debut of Grammy and MTV VMA winner Mathew Cullen. Set in a near-future world in turmoil, the noirish mystery stars Amber Heard, Billy Bob Thornton, Theo James and Jim Sturgess. Heard plays a clairvoyant whose life is upended when she has a premonition of her own murder. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Eric McCormack is set to star in indie The Architect for Parker Film Company, produced by Metallica’s Lars Ulrich. He’ll play Colin, who with wife Drew (Parker Posey) enlists the visionary modern architect Miles Moss (James Frain) to build their new home. As Drew is swept away by the artist’s sweeping…

EXCLUSIVE: Production is getting underway today in London on an adaptation of the Martin Amis novel London Fields. Mathew Cullen makes his feature directing debut on the adaptation of the futuristic murder mystery that Amis adapted with Roberta Hanley. Amber Heard, Billy Bob Thornton, Jim Sturgess, and Theo James are…