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When does a screenwriter get paid?
Okay, so let's say I write a script & a studio likes it and wants to make it a movie. They use the script, film the movie, but it turns out terrible or gets too far over-budget and for one reason or another is never released. Does the writer still get paid if the script goes into production, but never gets produced or released? Or does the writer get paid back at the start when they say "We'd like to use your script."
Not that I have a script worth selling or anything, I'm just curious as to how that works.
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