Quaid dropped his lawsuit. His publicist said he decided to drop the lawsuit after Focus Features agreed to pay him a bonus. Focus Features denies making such a settlement.

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What's the "Equity story?"

For t1c84hose who keep saying that of COURSE Brokeback was going to make a lot of money, I have to ask: Why then do you think Hollywood hasn't greenlit a single A-list gay-themed project since? I don't mean quasi-gay joke movies like I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry. Making fun of gays or characters being "mistaken" for gay (a la Blades of Glory etc.and I'm not saying this is inherently offensive, sometimes it's good-natured as well as funny) is always commercial. (So is the occasional "hot" lesbian scene between straight actresses, because straight male audiences enjoy them.) But the Hollywood suits think "Brokeback" was just a flukeotherwise they'd be lining up serious gay romances, dramas, etc. with major stars playing sympathetic, non-grotesque or humorous gay lead roles. (Bizarro historical figures like Capote don't count.)
I think it was Entertainment Weekly that ran a feature not long ago asking just what happened to the supposed breakthrough heralded by Brokeback's success (and on a smaller plane that same year, Transamerica). It never happened, and I'm sure that's not because there weren't any gay themed scripts around. They're just not getting produced by anyone outside the small-budget indie world. The major studios don't think they are "bankable," or that the Brokeback lightning will strike twice.
Quaid is a good character actor with no real box office value, I would very much doubt he got paid more for any of the mostly low-grade projects he's worked on recently. This is just sour grapes. If he weren't acting so crazily since Brokeback (re: his recent hijinks getting banned from Equity, etc.) he probably could have parlayed this small but strong role in a highly regarded film into a significant career revival. Instead he's burning his bridges. Yeeshhe's got more in common with Britney Spears than his brother these days.

You also forgot the hit, Midnight Express.

Whether or not he is entitled to whatever amount they settle on will be decided by the courts. What I can't believe is the amount of bashing going on. Randy Quaid's career pre-dated his brother's by several years, unless I'm mistaken. He had already had a significant role in
The Last Detail
, before Deb68nnis ever did anything. He also had a pretty fair sized role in
The Last Picture Show
. Over the years he has done some stuff which was, I'm sure, just for eating money, but he has also done a lot of noteworthy work. He is far from the hack some of y'all are portraying him as. I doubt he will ever lack for work due to his status as a character actor and sometimes lead.
I have come to chew bubblegum and kick asssand I'm all out of bubblegum.

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aren't all independant movies about gay cowboys? if i was a film-maker i would pay cousin eddy 10 mil to be in everyone of my movies. he got the shaft on brokeback mountain. pun intended.

I haven't seen the movi111ce yet, and didn't even know Quaid was in it.
Given that his career is headed deep in the direction of absolute crap like "Category 7: The End Of The World," you'd think he'd be grateful for any work he gets.
Hope he enjoys his new "radioactive" status. Who's going to hire a sloppy dink who will sue you if your movie makes money?

I agree with you!! And he was on the mocie like for 30 seconds, and to be honest he has to be happy to be in a great movie!! Imagine if he deserves 10 millions, how much money does jake, michelle, ledger, anne derearves? I hope that nobody give him another movie anymore!!

Thats untrue. Its a lower budget film, yes, but not technically a low budget film. Quaid was likely lied to.

I am saying that it's not because you sue producers in Hollywood that you're dead.
True, but it doesn't help the career, as a rule.

I am saying that it's not because you sue producers in Hollywood that you're dead.

They told that to Crispin Glover after he successfully sued Spielberg and he is doing just fine.
Then again,
Back to the Future
wasn't an independent film.

They told that to Crispin Glover after he succesfully sued Spielberg and he is doing just fine.

Randy: Good luck trying to get a job anymore.

quang, it still doesn't matter. If he was lied to, he deserves the money he was owed, plain and simple. Do I agree with the lawsuit? No. But I agree he deserves the rest of his money IF (and that is the keyword here) he was lied to and was told the film was a certain budget but it was instead a bigger one with more room for profit.
I just don't understand the point of lying to the man, I mean it's not like it's a huge difference anyways. What was the point of hiring Quaid for this role and lying to the man? Couldn't they hire someone else for cheaper if they really wanted to avoid this sort of thing? Is Quaid really that high in demand these days doing b movies?
All we are asking is to not judge the man yet. Let's hear this out and if he is indeed in the wrong, i'll join you guys on the picket line if need be. Quaid isn't trying to beb68 selfish, he's trying to prove a point and everyone one of you would do the exact same if you felt you were owed money because someone lied to you. I would file a lawsuit for more actually, because it's very likely Quaid will be lucky to get a dime by the time this things ends. Look at the poor guy who helped in Chicago. The film earned hundreds of million in theatre and dvd sales and he is owed more then ten million and he'll be lucky to pick up half a mil tops. Where are you guys on this one? Why isn't anyone yelling at the Weinstein's? I'll tell you why, because half of you can't clear the crap from your eyes on this movie and assume Quaid is attacking the movie because he is greedy and ANY attack on this movie MUST mean you are either anti gay, pro cowboy or "just a hater". This is just a stereotype of course, I would none of you would think of any of those reasons being the reason behind this lawsuit. It's just a matter of words, that's all it is, and quite franky, it is none of our dam business.

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Well ,cyniclion, I do hope, likely in vain, that we all here can look beyond the surface.

He is a very talented actor but I am sure that being Dennis' brother must have helped him a bit.
In this case, he was lied too. The budget was twice the budget limit which the SAG gives to a movie to be labeled "low-budget".
A $30 million marketing budget was attached to it from the get-go.
Don't forget that this is an industry, not just an artform.
If in any type of project you lie to a partner and misrepresent your intentions, for instance telling an engineer that his work will be for a charity16d0 and it turns out to be a succesful commercial enterprise instance, then this engineer is going to sue you if he agreed to lower his salary.
Plain and simple.
And he is a very talented actor, better than his brother, just does not have the same good looks (I guess that years of boozing and good eatin' does get to you in the end).

Then he wouldn`t do your movie and the whole project would crumble under your know-it-all feet. Quaid deserves every penny.

Randy gets paid 2 million per filmphhhI would pay him like 400,000 tops to be in my moviehes not worth anything over a million