Editing Forrest Gump (section)

=== Author payment controversy ===

[[Winston Groom]] was paid $350,000 for the screenplay rights to his novel ''[[Forrest Gump (novel)|Forrest Gump]]'' and was contracted for a 3&nbsp;percent share of the film's ''net'' profits.<ref name="FGLostMoney">{{cite news|last=Horn|first=John|title='Forrest Gump' Has Yet to Make a Net Profit|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4182/is_19950525/ai_n10082506/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071214194835/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4182/is_19950525/ai_n10082506|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 14, 2007|work=[[The Journal Record]]|publisher=[[FindArticles]]|date=May 25, 1995|access-date=July 1, 2009}}</ref> However, Paramount and the film's producers did not pay him the percentage, using [[Hollywood accounting]] to posit that the blockbuster film lost money. Tom Hanks, by contrast, contracted for a percent share of the film's ''gross'' receipts instead of a salary, and he and director Zemeckis each received $40&nbsp;million.<ref name="FGLostMoney" /><ref name="HanksPoints">{{cite journal|last=Davis|first=Charles E.|title=Accounting is like a box of chocolates: A lesson in cost behavior|journal=Journal of Accounting Education|doi=10.1016/S0748-5751(97)00008-0|pages=307–318|volume=15|issue=3|date=Summer 1997}}<!--|access-date=July 1, 2009--></ref> In addition, Groom was not mentioned once in any of the film's six Oscar-winner speeches.<ref name="NoMention">{{cite news|last=Turan|first=Kenneth|title=Calender Goes to the Oscars Analysis Life Is Like a Box of Oscars But Statues Are Divvied Up, Quite Fittingly|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/22753498.html?dids=22753498:22753498&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+28%2C+1995&author=KENNETH+TURAN&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+%28pre-1997+Fulltext%29&desc=Calender+Goes+to+the+Oscars+Analysis+Life+Is+Like+a+Box+of+Oscars+But+Statues+Are+Divvied+Up%2C+Quite+Fittingly&pqatl=google|format=Fee required|work=Los Angeles Times|date=March 28, 1995|access-date=June 13, 2010|archive-date=July 7, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707203448/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/22753498.html?dids=22753498:22753498&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+28%2C+1995&author=KENNETH+TURAN&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+%28pre-1997+Fulltext%29&desc=Calender+Goes+to+the+Oscars+Analysis+Life+Is+Like+a+Box+of+Oscars+But+Statues+Are+Divvied+Up%2C+Quite+Fittingly&pqatl=google|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Groom's dispute with Paramount was later effectively resolved after Groom declared he was satisfied with Paramount's explanation of their accounting, this coinciding with Groom receiving a seven-figure contract with Paramount for film rights to another of his books, ''[[Gump & Co.]]''<ref>[http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Gump-Author-Settles-Fight-With-Studio-3031365.php "'Gump' Author Settles Fight With Studio"]. ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' (June 15, 1995). Retrieved on June 9, 2015. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130617111830/http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Gump-Author-Settles-Fight-With-Studio-3031365.php |date=June 17, 2013 }}</ref> This film was never made, remaining in [[development hell]] for at least a dozen years.<ref name="2007Sequel">{{cite web|url=https://www.cinemablend.com/new/Forrest-Gump-Gets-A-Sequel-4626.html|title=Forrest Gump Gets A Sequel|last=Tyler|first=Josh|date=March 7, 2007|work=Cinema Blend|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101103161608/http://www.cinemablend.com/new/forrest-gump-gets-a-sequel-4626.html|archive-date=November 3, 2010|url-status=live|access-date=October 21, 2010}}</ref>