Bankruptcy and Film Rights
In 2011, Premise Media Holdings LP, the company that produced the Expelled, declared bankruptcy and auctioned the rights to the movie. In June it was sold for $201,000 to Walt Ruloff and his associates, who were the original producers of Expelled.
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