[pogo101]

Oddly enough, my first lawyering job was with the firm (and office thereof) that represented Buchwald in his action against Paramount. A pyrrhic victory: we made 'em open their books, but there was little in the way of "net profit" there, as you obviously know.

[xp38]

The real art in Hollywood is creative accounting as a wit noted some time ago.

[Terry Mross]

I was in a movie called DAZED AND CONFUSED. Universal said it's never made a profit but it's number 17 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the top 50 cult films of all time.

As for the "few sentences", you know more than I do but I assume it was a treatment. That's just as good as a script since the writer usually doesn't get writer's credit anyway.