Young screenwriter Carl Draper has just finished his first
script. It has action, drama, and humor, and he thinks it will be a
blockbuster. He takes the script to every motion picture studio in
town and tries to sell it but to no avail. Finally, ACME studios
offers to buy the script for either (a) $10,000 or (b) 2 percent of
the movie’s profits. There are two decisions the studio will have
to make. The first is to decide if...