"Nailed" is back, Tony Kaye is probably not.
David O. Russell ("I Heart Huckabees") and Tony Kaye ("American History X") are both fearsomely talented directors and, from most accounts, extremely difficult human beings; their projects attract trouble on a regular basis. Both had the bad luck to get tied up with Capitol Films when the company imploded. It's a complicated saga, but essentially Capitol heads David Bergstein and Ron Tutor owe a lot of people money and are trying to sell their remaining movies even though some of them are now owned by a different company. And their financial problems are far from over. Russell's "Nailed," a political comedy, was shut down four times because its financing sputtered out -- issues that weren't the famously temperamental director's fault, and in May Jessica Biel claimed the film was unfinished and the whole thing was missing too many scenes to be releasable. But producer Matthew Rhodes is now telling the...
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