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EXCLUSIVE: After helping to hatch the MI6 formation story Section 6 that Universal will make with Joe Cornish directing and Jack O’Connell starring, and doing it again on a Winter’s Knight sale to Sony that got Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales helmers Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg attached to…

EXCLUSIVE: It looks like everyone is shaken but not too stirred after all. Today, MGM and James Bond producer Danjaq filed for a dismissal of their copyright infringement lawsuit against Universal over the latter's Section 6 project (read the filing here). The legal action against screenwriter Aaron Berg over the…

The Comcast-owned heavyweight may have lost round one of the studio Bond battle with MGM and 007 producer Danjaq, but they were firing from the legal trenches today. "Plaintiffs' lawsuit is the desperate attempt of a rival studio to misuse its copyrights in order to kill a competitor's project before it even gets off…

The same day the case over who owns sequel rights to Dungeons & Dragons wrapped, the case over the alleged "James Bond knockoff" received the go-ahead to continue. In a sealed order, a federal judge is denying the motion by Universal to toss the multi-claim copyright infringement Section 6 lawsuit from MGM and Bond…

To quote heavy metal rock gods Judas Priest, if Universal think they're going to get the multi-claim copyright infringement Section 6 lawsuit from MGM and James Bond producer Danjaq easily dismissed, the plaintiffs just told them they've got another thing coming. "Plaintiffs have alleged past and ongoing conduct by…

UPDATED, 4:10 PM: The Section 6 lawsuit that sees two studios pitted against each other is starting to move faster than the opening sequence of a James Bond movie. Just three days after Universal responded to the multi-claim complaint from MGM and Bond producer Danjaq, the plaintiff today fired back with a response to…

Turns out there's not enough room in Hollywood for two British agents with a license to kill. Aiming for a clean shot, MGM and James Bond producer Danjaq earlier this week went after Universal in federal court over the latter's Section 6 project. Calling the WW1-set Aaron Berg-scripted pic a "James Bond knockoff" the…

Universal has set Attack The Block helmer Joe Cornish to direct Section 6, the Aaron Berg-scripted formation of the British intelligence agency MI6 during WWI. Unbroken star Jack O’Connell is starring. The Wrap had this first. Cornish directed Attack The Block, the story of a group that protected its neighborhood…

Jack O'Connell is in final negotiations to star in the thriller Section 6 for Universal Pictures. This is the pic for which the studio won a bidding war in October 2013 for the spec script written by Aaron Berg, picking it up for seven figures in a late-night deal with no attachments. It revolves around the origins of…