Law360, New York (August 30, 2012, 1:59 PM ET) -- The estate of "The Godfather" author Mario Puzo asked a New York federal judge on Thursday for permission to cancel a 1969 book rights contract with Paramount Pictures Corp., saying the studio breached the deal by trying to block a new novel based on the gangster epic.
Paramount sued the estate in February, seeking to halt the novel on the grounds that it infringed the studio's intellectual property. Anthony Puzo, executor of his father's estate, has countered that the contract his father signed with Paramount in...
'Godfather' Estate Says Paramount Poisoned Book Deal
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