As regulatory approval of Paramount’s sale to Skydance looms, the still Shari Redstone-owned studio now finds itself in a family dogfight over who wrote what on blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick. Filed last night in federal court in New York,

Maverick" screenwriter Eric Singer, sued Paramount Global on Sunday, saying the studio manipulated and exploited him out of credit and compensation for portions of the script he claims to have written.

Paramount Global was sued by a screenwriter in New York federal court late Sunday seeking a share of profits for his work on Paramount's hit film "Top Gun: Maverick."