Hollywood version of Agri-Business tax subsidies to NOT PRODUCE - Universal / Star Trek

[LVZ]

http://normanspinradatlarge.blogspot.com/

What I have recently learned is that the reason for this is that as long as the studio can claim that the BUG JACK BARRON project is technically “active” they can use it as an overhead deduction for tax purposes. This does not only apply to BUG JACK BARRON but to scores, perhaps hundreds, of “ghost projects” at Universal, and who knows how many industry-wide. Scores of millions of dollars of tax deductions are involved in this shady though apparently legal tax scam, maybe even hundreds of milions.

Which is why Universal has stone-walled agents, producers, directors, myself, and so forth demanding that they produce a copy of the contract--the underlying one with Gary Weis--giving them the film rights to BUG JACK BARRON in perpetuity, namely because they can’t. Instead they claim they don’t have too.

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1. Where does Star Trek fit into this?

That being said, I read that the reason Spider-man is being rebooted again is because failure to do so would mean the rights to it go back to Marvel. Same kind of thing.

[LVZ]

2. The author's screenplay was originally written as a Star Trek episode.

The screenplay is available as a free Kindle download Feb 24-26 on Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/JACK-BARRON--screenplay-Norman-Spinrad-ebook/dp/B007BGPL64/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1329838703&sr=1-1