John Mattson

John Mattson is an American screenwriter and author. His screenplay for the film Milk Money sold to Paramount Pictures for an outright purchase of $1.1 million[1] ($1,968,366 in 2018 US dollars)[2] after Paramount topped a $1 million bid from Dino De Laurentiis Communications.[3] He is the co-writer of Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home (for which he won the 1996 Environmental Media Award) and the writer of Free Willy 3: The Rescue. Ebert and Siskel called Free Willy 3 "the best of the Free Willy movies."[4] His story "Figure and Ground" won the 2018 R. N. Kinder Prize for Realistic Fiction,[5] and was published by Pleiades Magazine in 2019. His story "Eric Clapton's Girlfriend" won the 2019 Los Angeles Review Literary Award for Flash Fiction,[6] judged by Rob Koertge and will be published by the Los Angeles Review in 2019.

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References
  1. O'Malley, Kathy; Collin, Dorothy (1992-11-29). "Inc". Chicago Tribune. p. 5.
  2. "Template:Inflation", Wikipedia, 2019-05-31, retrieved 2019-07-14
  3. Eller, Claudia (1992-11-12). "Par in 'Money' as DDLC riled". Variety. Retrieved 2010-12-05.
  4. Ebert, Roger. "Free Willy 3: The Rescue Movie Review (1997) | Roger Ebert". www.rogerebert.com. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
  5. "Winner of the 2018 R.M. Kinder Prize: John Mattson « pleiadesmag". Retrieved 2019-07-13.
  6. "Awards". The Los Angeles Review. Retrieved 2019-07-13.


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