Settlement proceeds from a writers’ dispute involving the film “Olympus Has Fallen” must be further divided pursuant to one of the writer’s divorce agreements, the Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled.

A unanimous three-judge panel of the court ruled in Bausch v. Green that screenwriter John Green, who co-wrote the 2013 thriller starring Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman and others, needed to halve the $175,000 he received from a settlement agreement with his former writing partner, who had marketed and sold the script allegedly without his knowledge. The ruling affirmed a decision from the Delaware County Court of Common Pleas.

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