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According to Connor Cochran, business manager of author Peter S. Beagle...
In the last two years, London-based Granada Media (a multibillion-dollar entertainment and news conglomerate) has sold over five hundred thousand DVDs and videotapes of The Last Unicorn. They've also made cable broadcast deals for it in several different countries, and they sold the live action remake rights for a quarter of a million dollars.The film is based on Peter S. Beagle's famous book. He also wrote the screenplay. The film is as good as it is because he put everything he had into it.
And you know what? Granada Media refuses to pay Peter what they owe him. They've made millions on his creativity. They owe him hundreds of thousands of dollars. But they won’t pay up.
It gets worse...
On top of everything else, there are serious family matters going on. Rebecca Soyer Beagle, Peter's 100 year-old mother, is facing major medical bills and assisted living costs because her appointed trustee stole everything she had and left nothing to support her in her final years. Peter had to spend seven months and the last of his savings waging a legal battle to take over his mother's care. Only now that he's won, he has almost nothing left to take care of her with.
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