The new movie “American Gangster” has gotten great reviews and attracted the attention of cinema patrons since its release, proving to be another hit in the career of everyone involved with it. Unfortunately not everyone is happy with the movie.

A retired Drug Enforcement Agency has sent off a cease and desist letter to Universal Pictures, the movie company that released the picture. According to Gregory Korniloff the movie made multiple errors including its portrayal of the New York DEA agents portrayed in the film. Korniloff alleges that the movie also took liberties in how much money was stolen from the home of heroin dealer Frank Lucas (played by Denzel Washington in the film) as well as how the illegal drug entered the city (it wasn’t in the coffins of Vietnam veterans coffins as the movie shows.)

Korniloff was there on the day that the Drug Enforcement Agency arrested Lucas and worked on the case against the drug kingpin. Korniloff’s attorney claims that the depiction of law enforcement officers in “American Gangster” “destroys the reputation of honest and courageous public servants by deliberately misrepresenting the facts.”

Denzel Washington will star in a remake of “The Taking of Pelham 123”. The star of “Man on Fire” and “Crimson Tide” will reunite with the director of those pictures, Tony Scott, on the new movie. Washington will play the character that Walter Matthau played in the original 1974 film about four criminals that take the passengers of a New York subway car ransom and the tense standoff that follows.

Washington will next be seen in “American Gangster” playing opposite Russell Crowe. “American Gangster” was directed by the brother of the director that will make the “Pelham” remake, Ridley Scott. It seems that working with the Scott brothers is becoming a bit of a habit for Denzel.

On Christmas Day Denzel will have another new movie out in theaters called “The Great Debaters”. This is the second movie that Washington will have directed after making “Antwone Fisher” in 2002. He also stars in the film as a black Texas university professor in the 1930s that went on to lead his school’s debating team to the national championship against Harvard University.