Fame remake

The 2009 remake of the classic movie "Fame" was realeased on September 25th, while many awaited for the premeire and enjoyed the movie, the original director wasn't to thrilled with it. In a recent interview, the current director of the remake, Kevin TancHareon, claimed he had asked the original director, Sir Alan Parker, about remaking the fim. He said they had "called him to tell him that they were going to remake his movie, and he was happy about it. He gave us all his blessings and just let us do it."

Apparently, this isn't true. Sir Alan Parker reported in an interview that "I have never had a single prone call from anyone - the studio, the producers - about this remake. No-one spoke to me about it...I feel very much that Fame is mine. I spent months with the kids at the school then spent a year making the movie. You do the work and make it as good as it can be, and you try to protect it. …Then, because the copyright is owned by the studio, as with almost all American feature films, they can do a remake like this. It's extremely galling. There is no other area of the arts where you can do that. …
It's a bit like being mugged. Such are the realities of Hollywood manners and American copyright law."

Sir Alan Parker is considering legal action over MGM's use of the "Fame" logo, which is the only thing the studio dosen't have the rights to.