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Due to all the financial woes, Tom Hanks didn’t receive an actor’s fee. He chose to get paid in percentage points, which were around $40 million. The author was paid a mere $350,000 for the screenplay rights. Although he did get a 3% share of the film’s net profits. However as we already said, the film didn’t make a profit therefore Winston Groom didn’t get a penny. This led to a heated dispute with Groom and Paramount. The dispute was only later settled when Paramount bought the rights for another of his books.
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