{"id":10359,"date":"2012-04-25T22:45:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T05:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ftllp.net\/?p=10359"},"modified":"2024-11-04T11:57:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T19:57:54","slug":"men-in-black-director-barry-sonnenfeld-loses-325000-arbitration-to-uta-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.creativespikedigital.com\/lftc\/news\/entertainment\/men-in-black-director-barry-sonnenfeld-loses-325000-arbitration-to-uta-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Men in Black&#8217; Director Barry Sonnenfeld Loses $325,000 Arbitration to UTA (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">UPDATED: The arbitration ruling was confirmed in a court filing Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court. Sonnenfeld has appealed with a petition to vacate the award.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>An arbitrator has ruled against director<strong>&nbsp;Barry Sonnenfeld<\/strong>&nbsp;in a dispute with his former talent agency over whether he is required to pay commissions on money he earned from the upcoming&nbsp;<em>Men in Black 3.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a Directors Guild of America-Association of Talent Agents arbitration ruling filed Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Sonnenfeld is being forced to pay a 10 percent commission to United Talent Agency on his $3.25 million fee despite parting ways with the agency years ago.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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). His original pact for the film 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>, according to the arbitrator&#8217;s award, a copy of which was obtained by&nbsp;<em>THR<\/em>. Sonnenfeld later helmed&nbsp;<em>Men in Black II<\/em>&nbsp;in 2002 and is behind the camera on the upcoming&nbsp;<em>Men in Black 3<\/em>, which Sony will release during Memorial Day weekend. The&nbsp;<strong>Will Smith<\/strong>&#8211;<strong>Tommy Lee Jones<\/strong>&nbsp;threequel is expected to be a another huge hit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sonnenfeld argued that he parted ways with UTA in mid-April 1995, or just after the&nbsp;<em>MiB<\/em>&nbsp;deal was negotiated (he went to CAA and is currently repped by WME), and argued that he wasn&#8217;t required to pay his former agents a commission on work he did years after severing ties. UTA, however, argued that the&nbsp;<em>MiB 3<\/em>&nbsp;directing job flowed from the smart work the agency did for the original film, and thus it should be paid its proper commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Evidence was submitted that Sonnenfeld paid UTA a 10 percent commission on the $3.25 million he received up front to direct the first&nbsp;<em>MiB<\/em>. For&nbsp;<em>MiB 2<\/em>, Sonnenfeld paid CAA a $325,000 commission, but CAA had agreed to indemnify the director if UTA made a claim on the money, which it did, so CAA ended up forwarding the $325,000 on to UTA, according to the ruling. UTA then argued that it should be paid for the third film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hollywood litigator&nbsp;<strong>Howard Weitzman<\/strong>, who served as the private arbitrator for the case, agreed with UTA, awarding $325,000 in commissions to the agency. The March award was filed with the court Wednesday because it still must be confirmed. But such approvals are typical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>UPDATE:&nbsp;<\/em>Sonnenfeld has appealed the ruling, filing a petition in federal court to vacate the award.&nbsp; In the petition, Sonnenfeld argues that the DGA&#8217;s agreement that governed his relationship with UTA precludes the agency from seeking commissions years after the relationship ended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, Sonnenfeld argues that Sony&#8217;s Columbia Pictures didn&#8217;t agree to the same terms of the original&nbsp;<em>Men in Black&nbsp;<\/em>deal for the third film, and that Weitzman ignored this fact when reaching his decision. &#8220;Columbia approached other directors about&nbsp;<em>MiB 3&nbsp;<\/em>before approaching Sonnenfeld, and refused to offer Sonnenfeld the contractually required ten percent of first dollar gross on&nbsp;<em>MiB 3<\/em>&nbsp;and final cut, among other highly material terms.&#8221; (The petition says Sonnenfeld ultimately made $20 million for&nbsp;<em>MiB 2<\/em>\u2014wow\u2014but agreed to direct the third film for less than half that.) Thus, the petition argues, &#8220;UTA is clearly not entitled to any commission from Sonnenfeld and the illegal arbitration award must be vacated.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sonnenfeld was represented by\u00a0<strong>Edward Anderson<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Camille Rustia<\/strong>\u00a0of Anderson General &amp; Entertainment Law. <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.creativespikedigital.com\/lftc\/attorneys\/bryan-j-freedman\/\">UTA was repped by\u00a0<strong>Bryan Freedman<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Steven Stiglitz<\/strong>\u00a0of Freedman &amp; Taitelman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>E-mail: 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>UPDATED: The arbitration ruling was confirmed in a court filing Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court. Sonnenfeld has appealed with a petition to vacate the award. 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