Just more than 24 hours ago, newly minted Paramount CEO David Ellison and his top flight team was talking up what a top priority a Top Gun 3 is for their regime. Well, the sequel may be getting ready for take-off, but there’s a new counterclaim spin this week in the legal dogfight with self-declared co-screenwriter Shaun Gray over the Oscar-nominated script for the 2022 blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick , which has grossed $1.5 billion and counting.

“With these Counterclaims, PPC sets the record straight about who is the true aggrieved party in its dispute with Shaun Gray,” Paramount Pictures Corporation proclaims in its defendant’s answer and counterclaims filing of August 13 in New York federal court. The counterclaims come two weeks after Judge Jed S. Rakoff, who is also over

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