Kirn, who wrote the book on which the best picture contender "Up in the Air" is based, posted a message on Twitter last week grousing about how Paramount Pictures hadn't invited him to the glitzy March 7 awards show.
"Novelists are like oil in H'wood: they drill us, pipeline us, pump us and then burn us," he tweeted.
The film studio responded by telling him they would try to find him a ticket, then eventually informing him he could go, the New York Post reported.
"Thanks to Paramount Pictures for coming through with Oscar tickets and proving true to its word, which I shouldn't have doubted," Kirn said in a Twitter posting Friday.
The film also earned Oscar nods for its stars, George Clooney, Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick, as well as for its writer-director, Jason Reitman.
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Kim is correct
Kim is right. This is how Hollywood does to authors like him and sometimes, they will forget where they got the story from. It's sad to know that there are other people who will get all the laurel for somebody else's work. I just hope they would change the way they look at authors who "supply" the story for the celluloid.
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