The author who inspired ‚Mean Girls‘ thinks Tina Fey and Paramount have been raking in the dough from the hit film and holding out on her. Now . she says she wants her cut, one way or another.
The lady who inspired „Mean Girls“ is pissed Tina Fey and Paramount have cashed in on her work while she’s been left with zilch … and now, she says she’s doing something about it.
Author Rosalind Wiseman told the NY Post this weekend that she and her lawyers are circling legal action to examine the movie studio’s accounting books in order to figure out if there’s money they’ve made from ‚Mean Girls‘ over the years that could be sent her way.
The reason … Wiseman says she feels like she’s been screwed out of a lot of potential cash since the hit 2004 film was released — especially in light of the Broadway musical that’s been made about it … which has done fairly well for years now in different markets.
According to RW, the deal she signed with Paramount and TF at the time — which made her a one-time $400k, and which she acknowledges relinquished any rights to the work and/or derivatives — guaranteed net profit points, meaning she could make more based on how well the flick did.
