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Hey, Ho, Let’s Go…To Court: Ramones Heirs Locked In Legal Battle Over Pete Davidson’s Joey Ramone Movie
There’s a new front in the long legal war between the family members of late Ramones founders Joey and Johnny Ramone, this time over a planned Netflix movie starring Pete Davidson centered on the pioneering punk band.
In a lawsuit filed Saturday (Jan. 21) in Manhattan court, Johnny’s widow, Linda Ramone, claims that Joey’s brother, Mickey Leigh (Mitchel Hyman) “covertly developed an unapproved and unauthorized Ramones-based biopic” based on his own “one-sided recitation of the history of the Ramones.”
Though the lawsuit doesn’t identify Netflix by name, it says that the disputed movie will be based on Leigh’s memoir, I Slept with Joey Ramone. Netflix’s planned movie, announced in 2021, has the same name; is based on the same book; and is being developed with the “support of the Estate of Joey Ramone.”
Since Linda and Leigh split ownership of the intellectual property for the
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I Slept With Joey Ramone
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Pete Davidson
Jason Orley
Davidson, Leigh, Rory Rosegarten, and David Spiegelman will serve as executive producers. The project has the cooperation and support of the Estate of Joey Ramone and with the assistance of Rosegarten Films.[1]
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Ramones Netflix Film Starring Pete Davidson in Doubt as Johnny Ramone’s Estate Wins Latest Legal Round
After years of protracted legal turmoil in the Ramones estate, the future of Netflix‘s film adaptation of Mickey Leigh’s memoir “I Slept With Joey Ramone” with Pete Davidson attached to star could be in doubt, due to a new arbitration that also saw a director of the groundbreaking punk-rock group’s parent company removed.
The decision was a legal victory for Linda Cummings-Ramone, who is Johnny Ramone’s widow, as Ramones Productions Inc. director David Frey was ordered to be removed as director of RPI immediately and cannot be reelected to the same post again for five years. Frey previously managed Cheap Trick for many years but split acrimoniously with the band in 2013 — taking founding drummer Bun E. Carlos with him, as the two sued the three other bandmembers for hundreds of thousands of dollars in allegedly unpaid touring fees and other expenses.
In a statement shared with Billboard, Cummings-Ramone said she
Ramones Netflix Film Starring Pete Davidson in Doubt as Johnny Ramone’s Estate Wins Latest Legal Round
After years of protracted legal turmoil in the Ramones estate, the future of Netflix‘s film adaptation of Mickey Leigh’s memoir “I Slept With Joey Ramone” with Pete Davidson attached to star could be in doubt, due to a new arbitration that also saw a director of the groundbreaking punk-rock group’s parent company removed.
The decision was a legal victory for Linda Cummings-Ramone, who is Johnny Ramone’s widow, as Ramones Productions Inc. director David Frey was ordered to be removed as director of RPI immediately and cannot be reelected to the same post again for five years. Frey previously managed Cheap Trick for many years but split acrimoniously with the band in 2013 — taking founding drummer Bun E. Carlos with him, as the two sued the three other bandmembers for hundreds of thousands of dollars in allegedly unpaid touring fees and other expenses.
In a statement shared with Billboard, Cummings-Ramone said she
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