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Keanu Reeves is eager to put a speedy end to this legal drama.

Keanu Reeve’s legal counsel visited the Los Angeles Superior Court Tuesday, appealing to have the lawsuit filed against Reeves by a shutterbug who alleges he was beaten up by the revved-up actor last year be moved to arbitration.

Jeffrey Redd officially made the appeal in court papers filed earlier this month and today requesting the court for a continuance until the May 5 trial, when he will properly progress to strike the cameraman’s demand for considerable castigatory compensation.

Legal counsel for the Beatles filed a court case to avert the allocation of never-released recordings supposedly made during Ringo Starr’s first gig with the band.

The disagreement involving Apple Corps Ltd., the London-based faction created by the Beatles that facilitates the security of their legacy, and Fuego Entertainment Inc. of Miami Lakes, stems from recordings the Fab Four supposedly completed during a 1962 performance at the Star Club in Hamburg, Germany.

Eight never-released singles are assumed to be among the recordings, counting Paul McCartney playing Hank Williams’ Lovesick Blues and McCartney and John Lennon singing Ask Me Why.

Mel Gibson is seeking to chop down this lawsuit in half.

In court credentials submitted Tuesday, the actor/director’s attorneys appealed to cancel six of nine allegations leveled at Gibson by a piqued writer who claims he was deceived into taking a pay cut for his employment on The Passion of the Christ screenplay.

Benedict Fitzgerald, who cowrote the screenplay with Gibson, accused in his Feb. 11 protest that he was advised the movie’s financial plan was between $4 million and $7 million and that Gibson wouldn’t be getting his share of the profits until his crew and actors had been paid. The writer consequently agreed to a “relatively small salary,” two $75,000 bonuses and 5 percent of the theatrical revenues.