Doesn't Deserve 10 MIL!
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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
real
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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.