Pharrell’s Lego Biopic ‘Piece By Piece’ Premieres At Telluride
Pharrell‘s animated Lego biopic Piece By Piece is finally out in the world, at least to one film festival audience.
The movie, directed by 20 Feet From Stardom filmmaker Morgan Neville, premiered on Friday (August 30) at the Telluride Film Festival in Telluride, Colorado.
“I’m so excited to be at a competition that doesn’t present many animated motion pictures, however they selected mine,” Pharrell informed Variety.
At the screening, Neville described the movie as an “ode to the power of magical thinking.”
The film acquired a constructive discover from Deadline(“it brings a freshness and originality to a docu format that makes it feel all new again”), however was dinged for “typical hagiographic evasiveness” by The Hollywood Reporter, although the publication additionally referred to as the movie “inventive.”
IndieWirefamous that Pharrell’s Neptunes manufacturing associate Chad Hugo seems within the movie, however is “mostly relegated to the background” as “comic relief.”
Hugo and Pharrell have been having some points exterior of the silver display screen just lately, with the previous submitting with the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board this previous spring, accusing his longtime pal and co-producer of committing fraud by trying to register logos for the Neptunes title with out his title on it.
“Throughout their over thirty year history, [Hugo] and Williams agreed to, and in fact, have divided all assets,” the paperwork learn. “By ignoring and excluding [Hugo] from the any and all applications filed by applicant for the mark ‘The Neptunes,’ applicant has committed fraud in securing the trademarks and acted in bad faith.”
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A consultant for the “Happy” hitmaker made a press release to Billboard on the time, saying: “Pharrell is surprised by this. We have reached out on multiple occasions to share in the ownership and administration of the trademark and will continue to make that offer. The goal here was to make sure a third party doesn’t get a hold of the trademark and to guarantee Chad and Pharrell share in ownership and administration.”
Hugo’s lawyer, alternatively, felt that was a lie.
“If Pharrell’s intent was to include Chad in the filing, he should have registered it in the name of their jointly owned company Neptunes, LLC and not in his own name,” he stated. “This was a land grab in a long simmering dispute that has yet to be resolved.”
As of earlier this month, Hugo and Williams had been engaged in negotiations in the direction of a settlement.
