His whole claim is that they defrauded him on millions based on merchandising and other subsidiary rights. If a contract is based on a percentage, and they ferried all these deals off to various companies that are *part* of New Line's enterprise, they pocket a pile of cash and he gets screwed, right? Right. The claim is more or less valid, no matter how greedy he seemed. 250 million? Pocket change!
I'd like to think not everyone involved in the "field" is a scumbag criminal in cahoots with the Russian mafia. Go ahead, prove me wrong! Despite the seemingly faceless nature of corporations, it's always human beings like you and me that get screwed in the end.
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His whole claim is that they defrauded him on millions based on merchandising and other subsidiary rights. If a contract is based on a percentage, and they ferried all these deals off to various companies that are *part* of New Line's enterprise, they pocket a pile of cash and he gets screwed, right? Right. The claim is more or less valid, no matter how greedy he seemed. 250 million? Pocket change!
I'd like to think not everyone involved in the "field" is a scumbag criminal in cahoots with the Russian mafia. Go ahead, prove me wrong! Despite the seemingly faceless nature of corporations, it's always human beings like you and me that get screwed in the end.