Gerard Butler Sues Over ‘Olympus Has Fallen’ Profits – The Hollywood Reporter

In a lawsuit filed Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court docket, Gerard Butler alleges being owed no less than $10 million from the success of Olympus Has Fallen, the 2013 blockbuster about an assault on the White Home.

Butler brings a fraud declare with the assertion that defendants Nu Picture, Millennium Media and Padre Nuestro Productions by no means supposed to pay him internet earnings. The movie has grossed about $170 million worldwide, but he says he hasn’t seen a penny in internet earnings, with an audit of accounting statements elevating flags in a number of areas on the income aspect, each domestically and international.

The actor nods to how the producers are at the moment preventing with the DGA over pension funds and states that Nu Picture and Millennium are deducting residuals by no means paid out.

The go well with additionally assaults a “complete, premeditated scheme” to allegedly disguise cash and deprive Butler of internet earnings with phrase of agreements with distributors structured in order that not all gross receipts need to be reported. The case is being dealt with by attorneys at Greenberg Glusker.

Millennium didn’t instantly remark concerning the go well with.