Rosalind Wiseman Breaks Her Silence On ‘Mean Girls’

Mean Girls, the 2004 movie and later the 2018 Broadway musical, has
made more than a quarter billion dollars in ticket sales. But the
author of the original source material, Rosalind Wiseman, reveals
for the first time on Art of Power that she did not reap the
significant financial benefits attached to her creative work. In
her contract with Paramount Pictures, Wiseman was promised 5% of
net proceeds. Paramount claims the blockbuster film is in the red
and has not paid her not a single penny in profits. Wiseman opens
up about her disappointment with Paramount Pictures and
screenwriter Tina Fey. Wiseman asked the celebrity comedian to use
her power to help. Fey said she would, and then ghosted the fellow
writer. This episode is about bad deals, Hollywood accounting,
power and the people who use it.