{"id":346330,"date":"2025-10-31T20:12:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T20:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/346330\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T20:12:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T20:12:15","slug":"donald-sutherland-memoir-blocked-by-late-actors-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/346330\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Sutherland Memoir Blocked by Late Actor&#8217;s Estate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/donald-sutherland\/\" id=\"auto-tag_donald-sutherland_1\" data-tag=\"donald-sutherland\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Sutherland<\/a>\u2018s memoir reflecting on his life and career as a pillar of Hollywood is being held up by his estate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn a lawsuit filed in New York federal court on Thursday, Penguin Random House details a dispute with McNichol Pictures in which the company failed to deliver a manuscript of Made Up, But Still True because the estate of the late actor didn\u2019t approve the draft. The publishing house seeks the return of a $400,000 advance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe M*A*S*H, Ordinary People and The Hunger Games actor, whose career spanned six decades, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/donald-sutherland-dead-mash-ordinary-people-hunger-games-actor-1235928023\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/donald-sutherland-dead-mash-ordinary-people-hunger-games-actor-1235928023\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">died<\/a> last year. Before his passing, a draft of the memoir had been submitted, with Crown announcing a release in November. The book, described as \u201cbracingly candid\u201d and \u201cutterly unpredictable,\u201d chronicles behind-the-scenes stories of movies he\u2019s starred in and a glimpse inside the private life of the Hollywood icon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBut after Sutherland\u2019s death, Crown was told that Sutherland\u2019s estate had undisclosed issues with the book, according to the complaint. In November, after several failed attempts at engaging McNichol, Crown set a final delivery date of December, which wasn\u2019t met.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tUnder the deal, Penguin Random House paid an advance against royalties totaling $1.25 million, including a $400,000 payment upon signing. The lawsuit, which alleges breach of contract, accuses McNichol of refusing to return the money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn its release announcing the book, Crown said that the memoir will reveal\u00a0 \u201cthe onstage triumphs that began his career; the pitfalls that threatened it and the movies that burnished it; and the on- and off-set hijinks that gave it all color.\u201d It appears that the release date has been pushed to 2026. Expect a toned down version if it\u2019s published. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Sutherland\u2018s memoir reflecting on his life and career as a pillar of Hollywood is being held up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":346331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,41180,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-346330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-donald-sutherland","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115470607738007566","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}