 In 2016, Steven Soderbergh announced he would produce a film about the Panama Papers affair.The comedy-drama "The Laundromat" premiered at the Venice Film Festival on 1 September 2019.Mossack and Fonseca tried to block the film's release on Netflix by filing a defamation lawsuit against Netflix in October 2019, arguing that the ongoing FBI investigation and possible trial in New York as well as their defence against criminal charges in Panama could be negatively prejudiced by the way they are portrayed in "The Laundromat".