No I think they persuaded Deadline to invest hell for leather in TG merchandising on the back of the fillum
which then sucked, bombed, and left all its investors including Deadline with nobbut the shirt on their backs.
May be urban myth but that's wot I heard.
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barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!,
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