Abel Ferrara Says Wild Bunch & IFC Films Are "Sidestepping" The Issue Of Releasing "An Unauthorized Version" Of His Film

The back and forth continues between Abel Ferrara, IFC Films and Wild Bunch over the release of "Welcome To New York." It all started last fall when Ferrara shared that he was being pressured to cut his film. Things got even more heated when the director suggested that the R-rated cut coming this Friday was edited without his permission, and made a critical change to the central sexual assault sequence in his movie. Over the weekend, IFC Films responded underscoring that their contract with the sales agent of Wild Bunch was for an R-rated cut of the movie, and that they even offered Ferrara a chance to submit his own R-rated version — to which he didn't respond — and that the edit of the movie opening this weekend was cut by Wild Bunch. So, open and shut, right? Nope.

Ferrara has replied, and the core of his frustration seems to be that IFC Films won't release his unrated version of the movie (which they are not under any contract obligation to release), one that...