Claire Folger/Warner Bros. Pictures, via Associated Press
A war of words erupted on Monday between The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Warner Bros. over “Richard Jewell,” a new Clint Eastwood-directed film that depicts the newspaper’s reporting after a bomb exploded at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
The movie, which opens Friday and tells the story of how Richard A. Jewell, a security guard, was wrongly suspected of planting the bomb, includes the apparently fabricated detail of a reporter’s offer of sex with a federal agent in exchange for a scoop.
On Monday morning, The Journal-Constitution and its parent company, Cox Communications, sent the studio, Mr.