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  • Ben Affleck and Matt Damon Paid $1 Million for McDonald's Monopoly Scam (Movie)

    08/04/2018 12:05:00 PM PDT · by EdnaMode · 25 replies
    Hollywood Reporter ^ | August 3, 2018 | Seth Abramovitch
    Talk about supersizing it. The bidding war that erupted over a Daily Beast story published July 28 about a decadelong scam involving the McDonald's Monopoly contest has resulted in one of the most lucrative rights deals for a single article, sources with knowledge of the deal tell The Hollywood Reporter. In the end, it was 20th Century Fox and Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's Pearl Street Films' bid of $1 million — a huge sum for an 8,700-word web feature — that beat out other bids from Universal, Netflix and Warner Bros. Affleck has committed to directing the project, with...