According to Hollywood trade paper, Daily Variety, Walt Disney's chief executive officer, Michael Eisner, has made a move to prevent its Miramax Films unit from distributing the film in the run up to the presidential elections in the US in November.
Directed by filmmaker Moore, 'Fahrenheit 911' follows up his Oscar-winning 'Bowling for Columbine' film and is due to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in France later this month, should Disney fail to block it.
Rumours have suggested a July release date in North America, although the film does not appear in Miramax's summer schedule.
Daily Variety claims that the move by Disney could herald one of the bloodiest political battles yet between Miramax's feisty chairman Harvey Weinstein and Eisner, who oversaw the purchase of Miramax ten years ago.
It quoted a Miramax spokesman as saying that the company was "looking forward to resolving this amicably".
It's not the first time Moore, a left-wing satirist, has had a run in with censors. Moore claims that publisher Harper Collins ordered him to rewrite sections of his book 'Stupid White Men' following September 11. When he refused, it threatened to pulp the book before a widespread campaign made it change its mind.
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