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I'd be very surprised if a court allowed an injunction against a finished film, but I've done no research on the matter, so it might have happened before. Permanent injunctions show a fairly dramatic showing of hardship, and one of the primary defense to issuing one is laches, which is when a party's delay in bringing suit causes the other party injury. Seems like waiting until the movie was wrapped with a release date to file is a pretty classic laches situation. Which says nothing for the fact that I don't see any reason why monetary damages weren't sufficient. Fox sure as shit wasn't doing anything with this, and I'm sure they'd recoup the $1M they already put into the project. Their comment about copyright to the contrary, I'm pretty sure this isn't the kind of situation where money damages are insufficient.
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