Michael Lucas (director) company launched its "Men of Israel" website to promote the film, which announced its release for July 22. 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". 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 trademark and copyright
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