Fabrications plague `American Gangster'
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In "American Gangster," which is "based on a true story," Denzel Washington Â as the `70s drug lord Frank Lucas Â confidently marches deep into the jungles of Southeast Asia as the Vietnam War rages in the background. He is looking for drugs.
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There is a sober intelligence behind Douglas Buck's low-budget gore, but its shrill excess drowns out the ring of truth.
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Two men behind a Hollywood flop are locked in a legal battle over who is to blame for the movie's failure.
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A new documentary exposes the absurdities of Hollyywood's rating system
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'Most of the movie is not true' A group of former Drug Enforcement Agency members has filed a class action lawsuit against the makers of American Gangster claiming it's defamatory in its depiction of DEA operatives as "villains".â¦
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Three former Drug Enforcement  Administration agents filed a $55 million defamation lawsuit  against the movie studio that made "American Gangster" on  Wednesday, claiming it tarnished hundreds of reputations.
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A federal judge has dismissed a $55 million lawsuit filed by former Drug Enforcement Administration agents against the movie studio that made "American Gangster," but said the film got its facts wrong at the end.
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Who can deny some fascination with the art heist? If you could, then movies and books that use this sort of crime as a plot device wouldn&#39;t be so plentiful and so popular.
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"American Gangster" just got served. A group of ex federal agents filed a class-action lawsuit against NBC Universal on Wednesday, accusing the studio of smearing their reputations by playing with the facts in its hit crime thriller starring Oscar winn...
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A group of retired federal drug enforcement agents sued NBC Universal on Wednesday, saying the movie "American Gangster" falsely portrayed them as villains in the story of a Harlem heroin trafficker.
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It has been ridiculed by critics and shunned by cinema-goers but the latest film from the controversial director Oliver Stone has still managed to raise hackles across the US.
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Thematically, it is a very interesting conflict: a gangster villain who works in a scrupulously ethical manner, contrasted opposite a staunchly idealistic cop who just happens to be a womaniser with a failed-marriage behind him.
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Jay-Zâs 10th proper album, âAmerican Gangster,â was inspired by the new movie â directed by Ridley Scott, starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe â for which itâs named.
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Ken Silverstein says he lied, deceived and fabricated to get the story.
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When American film maker Quentin Tarantino called today's Italian cinema "depressing", many in the industry hoped the Venice film festival would prove him wrong.
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Some scientists argue that a number of central points in Al Goreâs film, âAn Inconvenient Truth,â are exaggerated and erroneous.
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United Artists in its new incarnation is a basket of contradictions and question marks.