The Blind Side Producers Defend Film While Revealing How Much The Tuohys Actually Made!
25.08.2023 - 21:51
/ perezhilton.com
The producers of The Blind Side are finally speaking out.
The film has been cast under a dark shadow ever since Michael Oher filed a lawsuit against the people we thought were his adoptive parents, Sean and Leigh Anne Toughy. According to him, they never actually adopted him but allegedly tricked him into a conservatorship.
The athlete argues they then used their story and his name and likeness to make millions, all while having control over his finances. The family has clapped back at the allegations.
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Coming to the Tuohy family’s defense, the Alcon Entertainment co-founders and co-CEOs Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove — the production company that financially backed the sports drama — told People on Thursday afternoon that there were “many mischaracterizations and uninformed opinions” swirling in the last 10 days.
To shut down some of the controversy, they insisted the Tuohy family was collectively paid approximately $767,000, which was delivered through their talent agency. The deal “was consistent with the marketplace at that time for the rights of relatively unknown individuals,” they noted:
According to the company, Twentieth Century Fox negotiated film rights to Michael Lewis’ 2006 book about Oher and other associated rights contracts for the film. Alcon then inherited said rights when the film was greenlit. Altogether, the movie has made over $330 million — but it doesn’t sound like the Tuohys have gotten much of that at all.
But it may not have been the specific film profits that padded their pockets – but the visibility it gave the parents. You see, per the New York Times, Leigh Anne has been charging $30,000 – $50,000 to appear as a motivational speaker,