- When Fox Searchlight and Gary Gilbert refused to pay anymore for a film that seemed like it would never be released during the post-production process, Kenneth Lonergan turned to friend Matthew Broderick who lent him some money to continue working on his project.
- The lengthy editing process of the movie sparked two lawsuits. Studio Fox Searchlught sued financier Gary Gilbert, because he failed to pay the studio half of the film's production costs. Gilbert followed by suing Searchlight and director Kenneth Lonergan, because he felt that they refused all of Gilbert's help to finally finish the movie during the editing process with the help of producers, directors and editors like Scott Rudin, Martin Scorsese, Thelma Schoonmaker and Sydney Pollack.
- In early 2009, the movie was deemed "unreleasable" due to different lawsuits concerning director Kenneth Lonergan's failure to complete the movie during the editing process.
- Despite Kenneth Lonergan's extensive and troubled editing process, studio Fox Searchlight was not willing to fire the "final cut"-director, because they didn't want to destroy their reputation among other directors.
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