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Damn
Bird boxed
Pretty good. I don’t even remember him being in that movie.
Hollywood accounting
Anti dentite
Art Buchwald should not have settled his suit over Coming to America. He could have exposed so many illegal practices. They paid him to go away and keep the cash flowing.
At first, I was like, “Who?”
Then I remembered and was like, “Ohim!”
… I’ll see myself out.
Far from cheating Oher, the Tuohys’ lawyers said in the statement, the couple “spent tens of thousands of dollars of their own money to support Mr. Oher during his high school and college years.”
Is a really bad argument when you claim to have adopted him. Of course you supported your kid while they were in school.
Redditors trying to cope so hard to save face on this LOL
Yeah and 100% of the movie rights should really be his anyway.
They’re being sued. They are showing the profits they received were split fairly and then some. This is for the courts so I have no problem with this.
So that’s like 32% of what they claimed to have gotten paid according to the article, which doesn’t seem exactly fair to me. He’s more than a third of the story, more than half even
Look, the fact they put him under conservatorship rather than adopting him means I don’t give a shit what they say. That mere fact shows they didn’t see him as their son and they were in no hurry to correct that.
And given how much that movie made $138K is shockingly just a pittance. It’s his story, not theirs. And they had him use a family friend as his agent while they used an actual agent if I’m remembering correctly when it came to this movie.
The money is a pittance because getting a movie made about you is not lucrative. Michael Lewis sold the rights to this movie two times. The first time he sold it, they were paid a flat fee. That fee was $250K split among all of them. That’s the market rate for what a studio is willing to pay for a story like this. It’s very very low.
The first studio never made the movie, so then they sold it the second time. The second time, they instead got a variable fee based on how much the money made at the BO. This time they got $700K (of which, half went to Lewis). That’s almost triple what they got with their fixed deal. They ultimately got a good deal, for something that is not paid very highly
Absolutely a moroic take, and from a fellow Bengals fan…
My guy, the family total made like $600k including Michael’s share.
Also, when you have money and attorneys, and you bring in a late-teenage into your family that has never had access to money nor has he ever been properly educated on spending, a conservatorship is completely acceptable.
It’s like you saw the Brittany thing and immediately went “conservator bad” without even a moment of critical thought.
Conservatorships are actually extremely good in concept. If the people in control are terrible, then it can be really bad. If they are good people, it can be incredibly beneficial. Don’t be so black and white.
He’s suing the Tuohys for ripping him off. He’s not suing because the Tuohys used a consevatorship over adoption to get him into college (something Oher knew about years ago per his biography). Now the fact that Oher indeed got paid is definitely something his lawyers give a shit about. The prospect of a payday for both them and Oher just sank.
Idk why this is such a sticking point for people.
They’ve said the lawyer said it was a problem to try adoption and that the conservatorship was the way to go. Isn’t it very possible they heard that then never looked into it further, thinking the guy gave them good info?
It doesn’t sound like they’ve done anything wrong with the money or anything. I’m sure he’s been invited to every Christmas, etc.
At what point is the piece of paper important if everything else is above board?
They’ve said the lawyer said it was a problem to try adoption and that the conservatorship was the way to go
Because a simple Google search for state laws will tell you otherwise. Because of his age there was no restriction on him being adopted. It was simple paper work that, IIRC, you dont even have to go to a court hearing for. The paper just gets filed and thats that. The conservatorship was actually more of a process that adopting him would have been.
BOOOOOO… we don’t want your facts when we have arguments based on emotional and biased premises that support our conclusions!!! Get outta here already!
Or if their main goal was to get him into Ole Miss without triggering NCAA violations, and if consevatorship was both simpler and sufficient, why look any further into adoption? Just do the less complicated thing.
Did you watchtl the movie? It was more about the mom than anything. Also, with movies it’s a complete fool’s errand to look at the end result profits and determine if the deal signed was unjust to anyone, that’s how contracts work in every field of business where the outcome is unknown, it’s a gamble on the movie producer’s part as well. You are ignorant of what people are typically paid for their rights to a story, what he was paid, and each of the family as well which was the same amount, was actually an overpay when compared to what’s typical. These are objective facts, some people appreciate them, others don’t as many have clearly illustrated.
They spent 10s of thousands of their own money on him. They flew him around on a private jet, paid for his food and housing for years. I think that shows a level of care
Look, the fact they put him under conservatorship rather than adopting him means I don’t give a shit what they say. That mere fact shows they didn’t see him as their son and they were in no hurry to correct that.
I think the Tuohys probably had ulterior motives for “adopting” Oher, such as having a talent play for their high school and college.
I’m pretty sure the “adoption” was mainly to circumvent NCAA rules about boosters providing benefits to players. The exception, of course, would be providing to your own child. So they “adopted” Oher so he could play for Ole Miss.
The problem was that if they actually legally adopted Oher, he would be an inheritor of the Tuohy’s estate. So their lawyers came up with the conservatorship idea to be able to say Oher was their son.
So I don’t think the Tuohys are pure and innocent, but I doubt the Tuohy’s used the conservatorship itself for financial gain like signing contracts on Oher’s behalf and keeping the money, like Oher alleged.
Most likely Oher’s agent/lawyer told him there’s no way he got paid his fair share of the movie profits. Let’s sue and try to get some payday.
Still not much
Now Michael Oher is riding around on a bike and yelled “bing bong”
He was… blindsided
Which would be kinda crazy, assuming he knew he received a lot of money for the movie.
I thought he didn’t see anything from it.
I’m not overlooking the conservatorship they had over him, which is fucked up, but the fact he claimed he never received any money from the movie and this comes out is a bad look. Others have mentioned ‘Hollywood accounting’ in this thread, which is shady accounting they do to report zero profits or losses, yet he received $138K. Not a whole lot, given the film’s numbers, but still more than he claims and more than people who choose film royalties.
It must be nice when you can be that confident, “I NEVER SAW A DIME FROM THAT MOVIE, well yeah the hundred and thirty eight thousand dollars, SO BASICALLY NOTHING!”. I feel like there are a decent amount of people where that’s close to like a decade of 50 hour work weeks. But he’s so talented, should’ve been making 138 million /s
If he was under conservatorship and he received money that means they controlled the money he received right?
maybe Oher thought the Tuohys got millions from the movie, so $100k was “nothing”.
ESH
Gotta pay those movie executives millions first. Then catering. Then taxes. Royalties way down the line. lol
Seems like they all got fleeced on the deal lol. The fam made less than 500k which was paid out over 15 years and Oher got 138k
The total payout may be less than expected. But the family has all along said they split the proceeds evenly between all the family members and Oher. So, the numbers here, incl. Oher’s amount, roughly work out.
But when you see 300 million and your payout was 130k that you received over the span of 15 years it prob doesn’t make sense
He got 5% of the profits. That’s pretty good.
Interesting to see how he lied though.
seems fair for doing nothing?