WSJ Staff Everett Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone in “The Godfather” (1972) If Paramount Pictures gets its way, the latest “Godfather” sequel novel will sleep with the fishes. The film studio has sued the estate of Mario Puzo, arguing that the heirs of...

Paramount Pictures filed a lawsuit against Anthony Puzo, the executor of the estate of "The Godfather" author Mario Puzo last week, seeking to block the estate from publishing a "Godfather" sequel, "The Family Corleone," later this year. In the papers,...

So it’s suing the Puzo estate in U.S. District Court in New York to stop publication of The Family Corleone later this year. The complaint filed late last week says Paramount bought the copyright of Puzo’s novel in 1969 and allowed Random House to...

YORK (Reuters) - The movie studio that controls the rights to "The Godfather" has sued the estate of its creator Mario Puzo, accusing his heirs of wrongfully authorizing new book sequels to the fictional mafia family's story. Paramount Pictures studio,...

An attorney for the Puzo family, Bertram Fields, was not immediately available to comment on the lawsuit. The 1972 movie "The Godfather" was directed by Francis Ford Coppola and won three Oscars. Puzo, an Italian-American crime writer who died in 1999,...

Pictures has sued the estate of "The Godfather" author Mario Puzo, claiming that Puzo's heirs gave the greenlight to a new novel even though the studio has long held the rights to such sequels. In a suit filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, Par...