SPENDING SPREE
FUTURE OF BEST SELLERS The future seems financially brighter for writers of best-sellers. After more than a year of sparing, hard-bargain-ing purchaser, Hollywood appears to be working up to a story-spending spree during the closing weeks of 19-10. Writers feel it when the pmvies don't spend. It doesn’t look like hard times m dastudios when Paramour', can pm £20.000 for a story, as it had recently for rights to Ernest Hemingway . "For Whom. The Beil Toll.-." to be followed by M.-G.-M’s.£ 15.000 buy of James Hilton’s ‘Random Harvest.” The latter story is yet to be published. The arrangements with Hemingway is new in film annals. In addition u> the £20,000 sum paid him for movie rights, Paramount will pay the write.” 2td per book for each volume sold As tile first edition is 200.000, this may mount into a tidy .sum. Eighteen months ago no studio would have dared purchase . t:eh a story .. - ‘ For Whom The Bell Tolls, because of censorship certain to have been trained on it:: Spana h rev ini ■ • background. Now the I reign m; . j'.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 January 1941, Page 9
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181SPENDING SPREE Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 January 1941, Page 9
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