The source material is a book by a Newsweek journalist who covered the case, and the author becomes a character in the film (played by Kate Beckinsale), as does a film-maker (Daniel Bruhl), eager to commit the case to celluloid.
District judge Timothy Workman, sending the case for sentence, said: "I'm satisfied that the powers of this court are insufficient to deal with this matter, and I'm therefore committing the case for sentence at the central criminal court".
"Sour Grapes" traces the rise and fall of Rudy Kurniawan, who committed the largest known case of wine fraud in history.
9.50am BST One of AstraZeneca's biggest shareholders has told the Guardian that the AZ board has committed the single biggest case of shareholder value destruction ever.
"Under the law in effect at the time the acts were committed, the prosecution's case was legally insufficient," Justice Stevens said, noting that Mr. Carmell would have been legally entitled to a judgment of acquittal.
Macdonald told the committee that while prosecutors normally have to use the full test - a realistic prospect of conviction - to charge a suspect, they are able to apply the lower test of "reasonable suspicion" that someone has committed the offence in the case of serious crimes.
An S.E.C. spokesman said that "the staff is fully committed to the case and will proceed as appropriate".
Never in modern times has the government been more rhetorically committed to the case for the other great cities, but we do not yet see the scale of investment outside London needed to turn it into reality.
It was a fresh reminder to Mr. Rich and Leonard Garment, the Washington lawyer whom he had added to his legal team seven years earlier, that prosecutors were still committed to the case.
