March 6th, 2010
With apologies to the Coen brothers, Columbia Pictures is learning the hard way not to f— with the Jesus.
A lawyer for Brazil’s Catholic Church has gone public with a dispute over the destruction of Rio de Janeiro’s famous Christ the Redeemer statue in November’s global hit “2012.” Seems the church didn’t enjoy the scene as much as we did, prompting archdiocese attorney Claudine Dutra to tell the AFP that Columbia didn’t get a proper copyright license to depict the country’s most famous statue. MORE
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