"McTiernan claimed that he had no knowledge of any wiretapping conducted by Anthony Pellicano and had never discussed any wiretapping with (him)," the criminal complaint stated.
"In fact, as defendant McTiernan well knew, he had hired and paid Pellicano to conduct a wiretap of Charles Roven," the complaint said, adding that Pellicano had discussed the content of the information he had overheard with McTiernan.
The filmmaker is due to appear in court in Los Angeles April 17 for arraignment.
The affair has reportedly made some top Tinseltown players very nervous by threatening to blow the lid off the usually secretive -- and sometimes shady -- inner workings of Hollywood's wheels of power.
Hollywood made a transcendent leap onto the Internet Tuesday when the Oscar-winning Brokeback Mountain became the first blockbuster available for permanent download on the same day its DVDs hit the shelves.
Two competing download services announced Monday they will offer saveable downloads of such hit films as last year's Oscar-nominated King Kong and Memoirs of a Geisha just as they become available in video stores, allowing users to watch them any time they wish.
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