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Ex-Wife Entitled to Payment from Script Settlement

By Max Mitchell
May 01, 2018

Settlement proceeds from a writers' dispute involving the film Olympus Has Fallen must be further divided pursuant to one of the writer's divorce agreements, the Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled. Bausch v. Green, 18-0463.

A unanimous three-judge panel of the court decided that screenwriter John Green, who co-wrote the 2013 thriller starring Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman and others, needed to halve the $175,000 he received from a settlement agreement with his former writing partner, who had marketed and sold the script allegedly without Green's knowledge. The ruling affirmed a decision from the Delaware County Court of Common Pleas.

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