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The War of ‘Small Soldiers’

So, who’d want to take credit for “Small Soldiers,” the live-action/animated big-screen mess from 1998? The guy who says the idea was originally his.

Thursday in Los Angeles, filmmaker Gregory Grant filed a federal copyright suit against one Steven Spielberg, claiming the mogul’s Amblin Entertainment ripped off his award-winning short about toy soldiers (“Ode to G.I. Joe”) to make its own non-award-winning feature film about, yes, toy soldiers.

DreamWorks and Universal Pictures, which distributed “Small Soliders,” also were named in the action.

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Spielberg’s camp says it hasn’t seen the lawsuit yet, hence the obligatory: No comment.

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