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Owed Money? 'Exorcist' Author Claims Warner Bros 'Won't Let Him Inspect The Books'

First Posted: 09/08/10 02:07 PM ET Updated: 05/25/11 06:35 PM ET

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William Peter Blatty -- who wrote the book and wrote the screenplay for which he took home an Oscar -- claims the movie company won't let him inspect the books -- to figure out exactly how much the movie grossed. Blatty thinks he may have been screwed out of some of the profits.

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William Peter Blatty -- who wrote the book and wrote the screenplay for which he took home an Oscar -- claims the movie company won't let him inspect the books -- to figure out exactly how much the mo...
William Peter Blatty -- who wrote the book and wrote the screenplay for which he took home an Oscar -- claims the movie company won't let him inspect the books -- to figure out exactly how much the mo...
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RGKahn
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11:31 PM on 09/08/2010
Oops. The movies was Coming to America staring Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones, John Amos and Madge Sinclair to name just a few
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RGKahn
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11:27 PM on 09/08/2010
Its a story as old as the movie companies themselves. The have been cheating the script writers, the screenplay writers and the original writers out of their negotiated compensation through the use of cooked books and phony and exaggerated expense items. I believe that Art Buchwaldt, the columnist, write the original screenplay. It was his idea that he brought to the studio. He was to get a percentage of the net profits. According to the studio, there were no net profits. The most successful movie. up till that time, movie ever made, actually lost money according to the movie company. So cheating the on the part of movie executives is nothing new.
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