Word: bernheimer
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SUIT SETTLED. By ART BUCHWALD, 69, and Paramount Pictures; for $825,000; after a protracted court battle; in Los Angeles. Satirist Buchwald and producer Alain Bernheim initially won their suit, which charged that the studio's Coming to America was based on a Buchwald scenario, after a 1992 trial made famous by Paramount's claim that the Eddie Murphy hit lost money...
...Buchwald, the hard part will be getting the money he thinks he has coming to him. Judge Schneider ordered the studio to pay $250,000 to Buchwald and Alain Bernheim, who was originally scheduled to produce the film. In the next phase of the trial, Buchwald and Bernheim will try to establish a dollar figure for the 19% of the net profits promised them in the 1983 contract. Trouble is, the studio claims that while the movie took in more than $300 million at the box office, it has made no net earnings -- at least according to the arcane accounting...