Director Kevin Connolly and John Gotti's daughter blasted previous "fake news."

Headlines came out yesterday claiming "Gotti," which costars Kelly Preston, Travolta's real-life wife, as Victoria Gotti.

It was presented as bad news, with no explanation, so Connolly, Angel Gotti, and an executive producer on the film shot back:


They soon set the record straight via Deadline:


According to Deadline's sanctioned report, this is good news because Lionsgate Premiere wasn't going to give the film a wide release -- it was going limited and On Demand Dec. 15 -- but the Gotti producers decided they wanted to give the movie a wider release. And funding arrived to make that happen:

"There was a buy-back clause in the distribution agreement, so the producers exercised it. It was never a matter of Lionsgate dumping the film. An outside investor has backed Gotti so that it could get a wide release in May, and Lionsgate was generous to let the film go. Gotti has been sold back to its producers, Emmett/Furla/Oasis, which produced the film alongside Highland Film Group and Fiore Films."

So instead of opening on December 15 -- aka Star Wars Day, where it would be crushed like Alderaan -- the film will now open wider in May. (Where, let's be honest, it will probably be crushed by the Avengers.)

Anyway, it's good news for "Gotti."

Here's the trailer:

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