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Controversial Film ‘Flay’ Finally Has A Release Date

Phame Factory‘s controversial indie film Flay finally has a release date. The independent production company successfully took on Sony and headed to court after Sony attempted to stop their movie Flay from being released. Flay, originally due for release in 2017, tells of a young woman who goes up against a malevolent faceless spirit. Sony claimed Phame Factory’s film was a rip-off of the Slender Man legend, which the studio believed they had exclusive rights to. As a result of the messy legal tangle, writer and producer Eric Pham opted not to release the film until he met the studio in court. Sony, whose Slender Man movie was coming up for release, argued that Flay‘s villain was too similar to Slender Man (the Slender Man movie was released in August 2018). I’m now very happy to say that we obtained a very favorable resolution of this lawsuit and finally have the legal right to release our feature film”, says Eric

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Controversial Film ‘Flay’ Finally Has A Release Date

Phame Factory‘s controversial indie film Flay finally has a release date. The independent production company successfully took on Sony and headed to court after Sony attempted to stop their movie Flay from being released. Flay, originally due for release in 2017, tells of a young woman who goes up against a malevolent faceless spirit. Sony claimed Phame Factory’s film was a rip-off of the Slender Man legend, which the studio believed they had exclusive rights to. As a result of the messy legal tangle, writer and producer Eric Pham opted not to release the film until he met the studio in court. Sony, whose Slender Man movie was coming up for release, argued that Flay‘s villain was too similar to Slender Man (the Slender Man movie was released in August 2018). I’m now very happy to say that we obtained a very favorable resolution of this lawsuit and finally have the legal right to release our feature film”, says Eric

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