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Peeved Writer Targets J.Lo, UPN
Before she gets ready to do Dallas, Jennifer Lopez and her production posse may have to wrangle in court.
The 36-year-old singer-actor, who recently signed on to play Sue Ellen Ewing opposite John Travolta's J.R. in a film based on the hit TV series, has become one of the targets of a lawsuit brought by a disgruntled writer who's claiming J.Lo's production company and UPN stole one of his ideas.
Television writer Jack Bunick filed a suit against Lopez's Nuyorican Productions, CBS Corp. and Viacom Inc. Apr. 11 in New York stating that he came up with the original idea for what became the now canceled UPN show South Beach, on which Lopez served as an executive producer.
Bunick is certainly covering all of his bases--UPN is an entity of CBS Corp. All was owned by Viacom until the firm split into CBS Corp. and Viacom Inc. (technically two separate publicly traded companies) in 2005. Cable networks such as MTV and Nickelodeon fall under Viacom Inc. jurisdiction and the UPN and CBS networks reside under CBS Corp.
(Just let the legalese wash over you like a warm bathÂÂ?) The point is, Bunick apparently found it necessary to sue Viacom Inc., as well, for the alleged sins of its fathers.
According to the Associated Press, the suit reads that Bunick wrote a pilot script in 1999 for a show he envisioned calling South Beach Miami and that he sent a copy to a UPN executive in 2000 but never heard back from her. Bunick said that the main theme of his script was that "the main character is from BrooklynÂÂ?and he is, in many ways, out of his element in South Beach, Miami."
UPN's fish-out-of-water drama South Beach was about two Brooklyn boys who moved to the party haven of South Beach and struggled with the copious amounts of leisure time, ladies and licentious behavior they were faced with. Yes, that rough Miami Beach spring break scene can be hell.
The hourlong show premiered Jan. 11 and lasted eight episodes, proving that there is a limit to how much tanning, nightclubbing and stereotypically snooty behavior viewers can stand.
Bunick is seeking monetary damages and an injunction barring any further broadcasting of South Beach (well, that second part sounds like a given anyway).
In the meantime, Lopez is waiting to move forward with the lawsuit she filed earlier this month against ex-husband number one Ojani Noa to halt publication of a tell-all book he's shopping about his relationship with the Monster-in-Law star. Part of her suit claims breach of contract, saying that Noa is breaking an earlier legal agreement they made that prohibits him from divulging intimate info about her. Lopez also states in the suit that Noa demanded $5 million to keep his manuscript under wraps.
With all this hullabaloo, it doesn't seem that J.Lo will have much time for any more courtside activities. The Out of Sight star has been busy putting the finishing touches on her Spanish-language album Como Ama Una Mujer (How a Woman Loves) and getting ready for a May 2 concert in Bulgaria. The busy woman from the block told the May issue of Harper's Bazaar that for her next album she's going to go with ska-tinged pop, à la Gwen Stefani.
Lopez recently finished shooting two indie films, the Hector Lavoe biopic El Cantante, costarring husband Marc Anthony, and Bordertown, with Antonio Banderas. Dallas, tentatively slated for a late 2007 release, will be directed by Bend It Like Beckham's Gurinder Chadha and will feature, along with Lopez and Travolta, Luke Wilson as Bobby Ewing and Shirley MacLaine as Miss Ellie.
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