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Originally Posted by Chiefspants
If I recall correctly, the author of Forrest Gump was never paid any royalties due to the movie being a box office "failure"
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You may be correct. I left there in early 1997 and there's usually a three year grace period in which to audit and for all I know, they missed the window.
This is one of the big reasons why I was so Pro-SAG and Writer's Guild a few years back. I'm not a big believer in most unions because they're very different than "artistic" unions, but if the Producers had their way, no one ever would receive internet residuals, whether that was YouTube or HBO Go and so on.