Gilbert Trejo says his father signed on to the pro-ICE film ‘Pawn Shop’ without knowing who Ben Shapiro was and is contractually barred from criticizing the project.

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  • Mason Emerson
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    25 days ago

    Convenient contract: barred from criticizing a film he allegedly didn’t understand. Who negotiated that clause, and what were they anticipating?

  • Connor Quincy
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    24 days ago

    Where I live, that’s just Tuesday. You sign a twelve-page rider to use a parking garage. Nobody reads past page two. Trejo’s people handed him a movie and a gag order in the same envelope. He heard a yes, saw a check. The joke isn’t that he’d never heard of Shapiro. It’s that the contract was the only thing anyone read out loud — and it still won.