Doesn't Deserve 10 MIL!
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OptimusPrime2 — 20 years ago(March 26, 2006 07:55 AM)
It's a stupid lawsuit because how on Earth would they of known that it was going to make a lot of money. Anyways they paid him1c84 low because it was a low budget movie. It only cost 14 million to make. What does he expect to be paid. Hes not even a big actor either. I honestly didn't even know his name and I watch a lot of movies. This guy is a greedy bastard.
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swordoftheshogun — 20 years ago(March 26, 2006 08:23 AM)
Thank you Optimus for being the exact moron I was speaking of. You completely ignored everything we said in this mans defense and still sadly assume this lawsuit has everything to do with the money it made. It doesn't, it had everything to do with the budget.
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Lias — 20 years ago(March 30, 2006 06:02 AM)
Where your argument breaks down is: he didn't have to do the movie. He could have gone off and done something where he got his usual.
What is all this "lied to" stuff anyway? No one could predict this movie would take off. If Randy had asked for points up front, they might have given it to him. But HE didn't even have enough faith in the money making power of this movie to ask for that.
He needs to just deal with the fact that he signed a legal contract of his own free will. It's not as if he was tied up there for months. Instead of spending his time in court, he should try to salvage his reputation and get out there and make a blockbuster so he can get some of that big money he's so worried about. -
Lias — 20 years ago(March 30, 2006 05:55 AM)
He did not work for free. His union would never allow that in the first place. Secon5b4d, even with his "pay cut" I guarantee he made more than the rest of us make in the same amount of time on the job. Maybe more than some of us make in a year.
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ashedmaniac — 20 years ago(March 30, 2006 10:17 AM)
I never said he worked for free, so I hope you weren't replying to me there. Also, regardless of how much he made "compared to us" - that shouldn't discount his earnings. If someone is paid three dollars when they should have been paid five - it's wrong. If someone is paid three million dollars when they should have been paid five million - it's wrong. I'm not going to get into the ethics of actors being paid so much for their work - as that's not the issue here. The issue here is with the deception that the makers of the film MAY have taken part in.
-Ash
"YDuzItSeemPepleConsidaCaring2BTheAbility2Say"ICare"&Not2ExpresItThruActions,Insite,OrUndastandin?" -
Lias — 20 years ago(March 30, 2006 11:02 AM)
He "should" get paid what his contract said he would get paid. No more, no less. If what he was to be paid was contingent on the budget, then that has to be in the contract. If it's not, then he has no case. No one forced him to be in that movie.
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ashedmaniac — 20 years ago(March 30, 2006 11:05 AM)
Lias - regarding the above post - I agree with you - with the exception of the potential of a verbal agreement in regards to the budget (or mass release) effecting the contract. Then again, that could be chalked up to a "5b4;bad agent" or something if the contract itself says nothing to do with thatso who knowsbut yes, I agree with you in principal. The specifics there are where we're probably going to get blurry.
-Ash
"YDuzItSeemPepleConsidaCaring2BTheAbility2Say"ICare"&Not2ExpresItThruActions,Insite,OrUndastandin?" -
Lias — 20 years ago(March 30, 2006 05:51 AM)
Not going to happen. I sign a contract, just like Randy did. Quaid isn't claiming he didn't get what was in the contract - which he had every opportunity to refuse to sign in the first place if it was not to his liking.
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MidNYteStorm — 20 years ago(March 28, 2006 04:51 PM)
I agree brotherhoodzstar. I mean can anyone guarantee a box office hit?? I don't think so and you can guarantee it will bomb either. So Quaid should just accept the fact that he didn't make millions of dollars. Its just a stupid movie, not the end of his life.
I'm an atheist and thats my right.
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prettyeyes58 — 20 years ago(March 28, 2006 08:48 PM)
i hope quaid gets more than 20 mil he deserves every penny.
No he doesn't. Of all my friends who saw
BBM
, none of them went because of him. By that standard, Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams and Anne Hathaway, the
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Lias — 20 years ago(March 29, 2006 05:56 AM)
Then he should have held out for more. Or not done the movie.
No one made him sign the contract. He is not contesting what the budget was to make the movie. They didn't have 10 million to give him at the time, and would have been nuts to promise it to him since this movie could have lost money. The people who made it had no way of knowing if it would do well at all.
Bottom line, you don't get to renegotiate your deal after the fact. If he wanted a cut of the gross, he should have put that in his contract or refused to do the movie.