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Fitzgerald’s Film Loot For ‘The Great Gatsby’

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Monday April 29, 2013 @ 3:03am PDTTags: F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

F Scott Fitzgerald‘s handwritten ledger chronicling his film payments 1919-1938 is now online just weeks before the release of Baz Luhrmann’s new film adaptation of The Great Gatsby. Which, according to these meticulous records, first earned Fitzgerald $16,666 from Hollywood. Including a 10% commission he paid. Twice. This fascinating document is part of the Matthew and Arlyn Bruccoli Collection of F Scott Fitzgerald held by the Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections located in the Ernest F. Hollings Special Collections Library at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, S.C. The writer meticulously tracked his earnings. Here in chronological order is what the movie industry coughed up to him before commissions were taken out. Math wizards can computate what these numbers mean in today’s dollars. But, hey, isn’t that price for a treatment what MGM is still paying?

Head And Shoulders - $2,500.00
Myra Meets His Family – $1,000.00
The Off Shore Pirate – $2,250.00
‘Option on my output’ – $3,000.
The Beautiful And Damned – $2,500.00
This Side Of Paradise – $10,000.00
The Camel’s Back – $1,000.00
Grit – $2,000.00
Titles for Glimpses Of The Moon – $500.00
The Great Gatsby – $16,666.00
‘California work’ on Lipstick - $3,500 00
‘Additional Payment’ The Great Gatsby - $3,333.00
‘Treatment’ Metro Goldwyn Mayer – $6,000

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Ben Affleck Circling Big ‘Great Gatsby’ Role

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday April 7, 2011 @ 6:05pm PDTTags: Baz Luhrmann, Ben Affleck, Bruce Dern, Carey Mulligan, Catherine Knapman, Catherine Martin, Craig Pearce, Doug Wick, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lucy Fisher, The Great Gatsby, Tobey Maguire
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Ben Affleck is in talks to play the role of Tom Buchanan in The Great Gatsby, the Baz Luhrmann-directed 3D adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald literary classic at Warner Bros. Now, Affleck will have to work to fit … Read More »

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Baz Luhrmann Tells Deadline: Carey Mulligan Is My Daisy Buchanan

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday November 15, 2010 @ 6:35pm PSTTags: Baz Luhrmann, Baz Luhrmann Workshops The Great Gatsby, Carey Mulligan, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Leonardo DiCaprio, Movie Deals, Movies, The Great Gatsby, The Great Gatsby Casting, The Great Gatsby Daisy Buchanan, The Great Gatsby Remake
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Baz Luhrmann has found his Daisy Buchanan. He has officially given the starring role in The Great Gatsby to Carey Mulligan, the Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and Never Let Me Go star who’ll play the manipulative heroine … Read More »

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Baz Luhrmann Workshops ‘The Great Gatsby’ In New York

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday October 18, 2010 @ 5:23pm PDTTags: Baz Luhrmann, Baz Luhrmann The Great Gatsby, Baz Luhrmann Workshops The Great Gatsby, Craig Pearce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Leonardo DiCaprio, Movie Deals, Movies, Rebecca Hall, Sony Pictures Entertainment, The Great Gatsby, Tobey Maguire
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: While Baz Luhrmann hasn’t settled on whether he’ll make The Great Gatsby his next film, he workshopped the adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel that he wrote with … Read More »

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