What director's go through to use the name of a film already used: 'The Butler' Battle: Director Lee Daniels Pleads His Case To Warner Bros.' Kevin Tsujihara

The director tells the studio's new CEO that if the Weinstein Company is forced to retitle the movie "it will most certainly hurt the film" about the African-American experience.

Further ratcheting up the Weinstein Company’s campaign to force Warner Bros. into granting it permission to call its upcoming Lee Daniels’ film The Butler, the director has sent a letter to Warner Bros. Entertainment’s new CEO Kevin Tsujihara in which Daniels argues that if TWC has to change the movie’s title “it will most certainly hurt the film.”

On Tuesday following an arbitration, the MPAA’s Title Registry Bureau ruled that TWC could not use the title because it’s also the name of a pre-existing 1916 short film that now resides in the Warner Bros. library.

Daniels concluded the letter by adding he has the support of its stars Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey,Cuba Gooding, Jr., and David Oyelowo as well as the film's screenwriter Danny Strong. Copies also were sent to Warners executives Sue Kroll, Greg Silverman and Dan Fellman. 

This is where order works. So beautiful.