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An attempt to block the release of a biopic of actress Linda Lovelace by the company that owns the rights to her most famous movie Deep Throat has been rejected by a judge in New York.

US District Judge Thomas Griesa dismissed a $10 million claim by Arrow Productions, enabling the film to open on Friday as planned.

One of the film’s producers expressed relief “that common sense prevailed”.

Amanda Seyfried plays Linda Lovelace in the new biopic.

Arrow filed its copyright action in Manhattan on Tuesday, claiming it had not been approached “for a license to use any of [its] intellectual property”.

Amanda Seyfried plays Linda Lovelace in the new biopic

Amanda Seyfried plays Linda Lovelace in the new biopic

It said that more than five minutes of footage was copyrighted material taken from Deep Throat that had been used “without license or permission”.

Arrow’s legal action revealed it had licensed Deep Throat to Inferno, another film about Linda Lovelace which was to have starred Lindsay Lohan and which was eventually abandoned.

“Arrow Productions’ complaint was transparent about its desire to control discussion about Deep Throat… and to hinder projects that would compete with theirs,” said Millennium Films’ Mark Gill in a statement.

“We believe this case was an insult to the legal safeguards in place maintaining our right to freedom of speech.”

Another of the defendants – Radius TWC, a division of The Weinstein Company – said it “couldn’t be more pleased”.

“The world will finally get a chance to see Linda’s real story unfold on screen in Lovelace,” said its co-presidents, Tom Quinn and Jason Janego.

“Never again will she be silenced by the producers and distributors of Deep Throat.”

Lovelace dramatizes the life of the actress born Linda Boreman in 1949.

It depicts her abusive marriage to her manager Chuck Traynor, her troubled relationship with her mother Dorothy and her role in the making of Deep Throat.

Deep Throat became one of the most successful movie in its category in the 1970s as well as a pop culture phenomenon.

It subsequently gained additional notoriety after its title was assigned to Mark Felt, the pseudonymous informant who assisted the Washington Post‘s investigation into the Watergate scandal.

Linda Lovelace died in a car accident in 2002 at the age of 53.

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Here Comes Honey Boo Boo’s finale for the first half of season one aired last night and TLC has already ordered more episodes.

The reality show stars pageant queen Alana Thompson, 7, and family members, dad Sugar Bear, mother June Shannon and big sisters Pumpkin, Chickadee and Chubbs.

Amy Winter, general manager of TLC, said yesterday: “Alana and her family have become a pop culture phenomenon.

“What you see is what you get, and we are excited to share even more of their unbridled hilarity, sincerity and love with our viewers.”

Here Comes Honey Boo Boo’s finale for the first half of season one aired last night and TLC has already ordered more episodes

Here Comes Honey Boo Boo’s finale for the first half of season one aired last night and TLC has already ordered more episodes

The Georgia-based family will also get three holiday specials – dubbed “HOLLAday” special shows, celebrating Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas with America.

Since its debut in August, the show has averaged 2.3 million viewers per episode.

The reality show topped all individual cable and network broadcasts of the Republican National Convention on August 19 getting a 1.3 rating with adults 18-49, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Honey Boo Boo’s family are reportedly asking for a raise for Season 2, hoping for $10,000 per episode.

The currently receive a reported $4,000-per-episode but TLC has not commented on the contract negotiations.

During the finale for part one of season one, the one-hour episode titled It Is What It Is will see Honey Boo Boo prep for her latest spectacle with her “rebelchious” Uncle Poodle.

Cartwheel lessons turn into a grass fight between Honey Boo Boo, Pumpkin and Poodle and fans can see the arrival of Chickadee’s two-thumbed baby Kaitlyn.

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