Porno movie titles are known for terribly clever puns: Romancing the Bone, Fill Bill, E3: The Extra Testicle. But porn producer Michael Lucas took things a step further with La Dolce Vita, a gay adult movie that borrows both the title and the plot of Fellini’s classic flick of the same name.

The XXX Vita — shot in NYC with a $250,000 budget that makes it one of the most expensive gay pornos ever made — was at the center of a legal tiff recently, as a company claiming ownership of the original’s copyright sued Lucas, alleging copyright infringement. But this week a judge ruled that copyright ownnership could not be shown, and the remake could proceed. Check out a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the movie that New York magazine called a “glossy gay remake” of Dolce here: