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While Rihanna and Alexander Skarsgård have been busy fighting bad reviews aliens at sea in Battleship, Universal has been busy fighting a low-budget production company The Asylum in court over a straight-to-DVD knockoff.

The studio felt that the company's latest release, American Battleship, was titled to take advantage of their $30 million marketing campaign and the license they paid Hasbro a hefty sum for.

To avoid being taken to

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Have you ever noticed all of those low-budget knockoffs of big-budget blockbusters at the video store? Transmorphers, The Terminators, Battle Of Los Angeles, and Titanic II are just a few of the most obvious straight-to-DVD ripoffs that you may have seen in the $5 movie bin at Walmart.

They are all from a production company called The Asylum (which churned out THIS mega masterpiece) and Universal has finally had enough of the company capitalizing on its original ideas!

The studio behind Battleship has filed a lawsuit against

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