A FULCHESTER man is celebrating after securing what he describes as “a first step towards victory” in his battle to extract royalty payments from the makers of the hit movie Jaws 2.
For almost five months, JOE TROUSERS has been pursuing Universal Pictures with his demand for 50% of all revenues generated by the 1978 film about a killer shark. And according to the 58-year-old ex-postman, they are lucky that he only wants half. “By rights, by rights, I should get the lot,” he told reporters, speaking from the betting shop that has become his home-from-home.
The follow-up to Steven Spielberg’s 1975 box-office smash Jaws was one of the most successful sequels in cinema history, and to date has realised a profit of some $188m. Since Boxing Day, however, the…
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