NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers have driven a stake into the ™Buffy the Vampire Slayer sing-along. The TV show didn’t exactly die when the show and its demon-fighting heroine went off the air three years ago. Driven by a fiercely loyal following, fans put together the sing-along event, a la "Rocky Horror Picture Show," where people turn up for midnight screenings of a musical episode of the show, often dressed up in costume as their favorite characters. That all came to an end this week when the studio that owns the rights to the show got wind of what was going on. Lawyers for Twentieth Century Fox Television, a division of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., told a licensing company that had given the green light for the sing-along events that it had gone beyond limits of the show’s licensing agreements. Chris Alexander, a spokesman for the studio, said that "significant payments" would have to be made to Hollywood unions for the show to be screened in movie theaters, which is a highly unusual arrangement anyway and usually reserved for situations like one-time charity events. That came as a shock to Clinton McClung, who had organized the sing-along events. "I understand how the entertainment industry works, but I don’t understand why it has to work against me," he said. |
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