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Disney could receive $50M for Carrie Fisher's death
NYPost ^ | December 31, 2016

Posted on 12/31/2016 2:41:03 PM PST by SMGFan

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To: SMGFan

When talking about a franchise that’s generating billions of dollars for Disney, describing a $50 million payout as a windfall is an overstatement, (and slightly offensive).


21 posted on 12/31/2016 3:49:23 PM PST by Wayne07
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To: SMGFan

Rick Peck: They're going to kill him!

Les Grossman: And we'll weep for him... in the press, set up a scholarship in his name. Eventually - and I'm talkin' way, way down the road - we file an insurance claim.

Studio Executive Rob Slolom: Preferably before the end of the fiscal year. Actually, the claim alone would net us more than the movie would lose.

22 posted on 12/31/2016 4:08:56 PM PST by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: SMGFan
"That was no heart attack. It was murder, I tell you!"


23 posted on 12/31/2016 4:13:48 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: Future Snake Eater

I love that movie SOOOO MUCH!


24 posted on 12/31/2016 4:32:22 PM PST by jocon307
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To: Mr. Blond
"Can’t believe any insurer would take on that liability for a well known drug addict."

* It is called "Key Man" Insurance.
* You have to have "Insurable Interest" (aka an incredible CEO or inventor etc within an organization ) to take out a policy.
* So it is insurance to find a replacement this valuable human asset.
* In Carrie's case, she was an irreplaceable part of the Star Wars Franchise.
* Sounds like a strong case for insurable interest for Disney to me.
* Attached to these expensive policies are usually annual checkups, and more than the fog the mirror types, one gent I know in his 30's/40's in the late 80's had to even do the treadmill, and their was no family history of heart disease.

25 posted on 12/31/2016 4:39:15 PM PST by taildragger (Do you hear the people singing? The Song of Angry Men!....)
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To: PAR35

Yep. When they are worth more dead than alive strange things can happen.


26 posted on 12/31/2016 4:40:04 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: taildragger

Robert DeNiro personally paid for John Cazale’s “Key Man” insurance, so he could be in “The Deer Hunter” while Cazale was dying of cancer.


27 posted on 12/31/2016 4:42:11 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: KarlInOhio

Any bets on whether the insurance company claims that Disney left off some material fact on the policy and tries to void it or negotiate a smaller payout?
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Don’t know ,, but that kid that got eaten by the gator this year cost Disneys insurers $50M ... $35M from their primary and the rest from re-insurers...


28 posted on 12/31/2016 4:44:16 PM PST by Neidermeyer (Bill Clinton is a 5 star general in the WAR ON WOMEN and Hillary is his Goebbels.)
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To: taildragger

Interesting. However actors just get the cgi treatment.


29 posted on 12/31/2016 5:24:47 PM PST by Mr. Blond
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To: SMGFan

Who at Disney told her to lose weight for the Star Wars movie?
I bet she took diet pills to lose the weight. Disney gets $50 million for that decision.


30 posted on 01/01/2017 12:49:03 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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