{"id":10336,"date":"2012-08-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ftllp.net\/?p=10336"},"modified":"2024-11-04T11:42:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T19:42:51","slug":"judge-upholds-325000-award-against-barry-sonnenfeld-over-mib3-commissions-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.creativespikedigital.com\/lftc\/news\/entertainment\/judge-upholds-325000-award-against-barry-sonnenfeld-over-mib3-commissions-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Upholds $325,000 Award Against Barry Sonnenfeld Over &#8216;MiB3&#8217; Commissions (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A federal judge has upheld a $325,000 arbitration ruling against filmmaker&nbsp;<strong>Barry Sonnenfeld&nbsp;<\/strong>for refusing to pay commissions from&nbsp;<em>Men in Black 3<\/em>&nbsp;to his former talent agency.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a decision issued Wednesday and obtained by&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/thr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a>, U.S. District Court Judge&nbsp;<strong>S. James Otero<\/strong>&nbsp;agreed with an arbitrator&#8217;s March&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/thr-esq\/men-in-black-barry-sonnenfeld-arbitration-uta-316008\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">decision<\/a>&nbsp;that United Talent Agency is owed 10 percent on $3.25 million of Sonnenfeld&#8217;s $7 million&nbsp;<em>MiB3<\/em>&nbsp;fee despite parting ways with him many years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The backstory on this case is interesting: Sonnenfeld signed with UTA in 1990 and closed a deal dated April 4, 1995, to direct the first&nbsp;<em>Men in Black<\/em>&nbsp;(1997) for a fee of $3.25 million. His original pact gave him a &#8220;rolling right of first negotiation&#8221; to direct future sequels at a salary equal to or better than what he got on&nbsp;<em>MiB<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/sites\/default\/files\/custom\/Documents\/Sonnenfeld.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Read the Order Here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right around when the deal was negotiated, Sonnenfeld left UTA and later went to CAA, which got him $20 million to direct&nbsp;<em>Men in Black II<\/em>&nbsp;in 2002 after the first film became a huge hit. CAA had agreed to indemnify Sonnenfeld if UTA ever made a claim, which it did, so CAA ended up paying UTA $325,000, or 10 percent of the $3.25 million floor that UTA had negotiated in the original deal.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flash forward to 2009, when Sonnenfeld had left CAA (he&#8217;s now with WME). After much negotiation with Sony, he scored a deal to be paid $7 million plus bonuses to direct the third film in the&nbsp;<strong>Will Smith<\/strong>&#8211;<strong>Tommy Lee Jones<\/strong>&nbsp;series. UTA then made a claim that it is owed the same $325,000 it received on&nbsp;<em>MiB2<\/em>, and Sonnenfeld refused. The third film was released this summer and has generated $621.6 million at the worldwide box office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As an arbitrator, the parties chose Hollywood litigator&nbsp;<strong>Howard Weitzman<\/strong>, who agreed with UTA and awarded $325,000 in commissions to the agency in March. Sonnenfeld appealed, arguing in part that Sonnenfeld&#8217;s new deal for&nbsp;<em>MiB3<\/em>&nbsp;features totally different terms than the original deal. &#8220;Columbia approached other directors about&nbsp;<em>MiB3&nbsp;<\/em>before approaching Sonnenfeld and refused to offer Sonnenfeld the contractually required 10 percent of first-dollar gross on&nbsp;<em>MiB 3<\/em>&nbsp;and final cut, among other highly material terms,&#8221; he argued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the judge now has decided to uphold the award. In the eight-page ruling, he gives Weitzman a lot of leeway as an independent arbitrator tasked with interpreting the arrangements between the parties. &#8220;That Sonnenfeld or the Court might interpret the Agency Agreement differently is of no import,&#8221; the ruling states. UTA also would be entitled to the same commission on any future&nbsp;<em>Men in Black<\/em>&nbsp;movies that Sonnenfeld directs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sonnenfeld&#8217;s reps did not immediately respond to a request for comment. <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.creativespikedigital.com\/lftc\/attorneys\/bryan-j-freedman\/\">UTA attorney\u00a0<strong>Bryan Freedman<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>declined comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Email: Matthew.BellonI@thr.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Twitter: @THRMattBelloni<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge has upheld a $325,000 arbitration ruling against filmmaker&nbsp;Barry Sonnenfeld&nbsp;for refusing to pay commissions from&nbsp;Men in Black 3&nbsp;to his former talent agency.&nbsp; In a decision issued Wednesday and obtained by&nbsp;The Hollywood Reporter, U.S. District Court Judge&nbsp;S. 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