Lucas Entertainment and Michael Musto. In 2006, the studio released "Michael Lucas' La Dolce Vita Parts 1 & 2", a gay pornographic remake of the 1960 Fellini classic "La Dolce Vita". At a budget of $250,000, the studio contends it is the most expensive gay pornographic film ever made. The film won a record fourteen awards at the 2007 GayVN Awards, winning in every category in which it was nominated. In February 2007, International Media Films, Inc., which owns the rights to Fellini's "La Dolce Vita", filed suit against Lucas (as Andrei Treivas Bregman), Lucas Entertainment, Inc., and Lucas Distribution, Inc. for
La Dolce Viva revealed the seedier side of Andy Warhol’s entourage through Viva. “I had never seen anything like it,” Tom Wolfe wrote of accompanying nude photos from Diane Arbus. According to contemporary "New York Times" review of the book, "La Dolce Viva" gave an insight to Warhol’s relationship to other people. But the articles appearance in the "New York" hurt the magazine ("The Nude Photos that Nearly Destroyed New York"), and "New York"s editor, Clay Felker, was aware of the commercial risk he ran in publishing the piece. Some reviewers of "La Dolce Viva" were generally hesitant to read this piece, but