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UPDATED: Century City boutique agency SDB Partners’ lawsuit against former client Chris Pine over commissions has been settled. I hear the two sides reached an agreement late last week, with the paperwork being filed at the court this week. Neither party is commenting but I hear that SDB, which had been seeking to get commission on about $10 million in past and future earnings by Pine, will land 10% on about $8 million. Pine dismissed SDB via email in November after nine years. In the February lawsuit, which provided a glimpse at Pine’s movie salaries in the past several years, SDB claimed Pine owes the agency commissions on projects including This Means War and his continuing role as Captain Kirk in Paramount’s rebooted Star Trek franchise. SDB’s lawsuit was filed by Bryan Freedman and Jesse Kaplan of L.A.’s Freedman & Taitelman.
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How were they ever owed so much? Pine has never earned 100 million or even 80 million. How could they demand 10 million? They settled for 8 million but there’s no way they ever got him 80 million in total salary.
Try reading it again. They were seeking commissions ON $10 million. That means Pine EARNED $10 million, and they wanted a cut of THAT. The end result was that they’re getting 10% OF $8 million, which means the agency will collect $800,000. Got it?
Remember when our teachers taught us to take word problems in math and translate them into basic formulae and equations? Let’s hear it for reading with compreshension!
These numbers are off! Is SDB implying that Chris Pine has made over $100M? Doing what? Somebody is lying.
Half of that is probably potential earnings on the basis of lots of contingency contract stuff regarding the series generally. We’ll never know. Smart to work it out now though.
Future earning based upon three picture deals that were negotiated SDB, including backend participation, could push the numbers up to $10mm.
Absolutely! The above posts clearly have no idea about the business! SDB made Chris Pine and deserve EVERY nickel they are getting!
Highly doubtful CP saw any backend participation on any project. Furthermore the Kirk role probably was a relatively low rate with a multi picture deal chocking off any major rate increases (similar to what the Avengers or Twilight actors got).
Has to be what they would be commissioning….so 10% of those numbers.
Congrats to RO and the rest of the gang. Well deserved win!!!
I think there’s a decimal place off somewhere. Based on the claims that were made in the original lawsuit, I would imagine SDB probably settled for $800K.
$8 million???… ummm… I doubt it!…
Like agents/agencies don’t dump clients via email?
No, some send letters.
Imagine if Ro and Susie had done right by the 31 year old, he’d have made 250MM, maybe a billion dollars by now. Thank God he got rid of them, clearly they had not been of service to him — we’re not even sure if he has contracts that will pay him a paltry hundred million dollars.
And this, ladies and gents, is why I happily moved on from representation; if 60 or 80MM in contracts ain’t good enough…
One last thing: when Chris leaves Carrabino, and he will, perhaps then, finally, John will be grateful that others are working to make sure managers can make an equitable settlement the way that Ro and Susie apparently have.
Did anyone think that when your a snore on screen and still doing well you fire your reps by email. He should bow down to his reps for getting him any employment. Another ungrateful actor. You get a job and you fire an agent or manager and you are an ingreat.
These actors should pay every penny to the reps.
You should learn to spell.
8 million seems awfully high, especially if there is no or only one Jack Ryan film. In the complaint the agency even forgot that Ben Affleck starred as Jack Ryan in “The Sum of All Fears.” Affleck’s deal probably called for him to star in Jack Ryan sequels, too.
An actor shouldnt forget who had their back for years without getting paid (or very little) but believed in them long enough to hang in there with them when nobody else would. Cheers to the agents and managers who are getting paid what they deserve and the guts for fighting for it when their greedy, ungrateful clients spit them out.
What comes first the chicken or the egg? I find it remarkable that anyone can claim to have ‘made’ anyone in this day and age. The business is of course a huge team effort, but CP still had to deliver when he turned up for the Trek audition. And the second audition. And the chemistry read. And the screen test. I baulk at the suggestion that his Agents or Managers made him who he is today, and would say that CP probably had a huge part to play in it. He’s a fantastic actor, and a man who can make his own choices in life without the ridicule that accompanies his decisions on forums like this.
SDB ought to be paying Pine that much for failing to steer him clear of the potential career train wreck that was ‘This Means War.’ That’s the kind of guidance actors are supposed to be able to rely on their reps to give them. That’s a large part of why ‘industry sages’ get paid as much as they do. And when they do right by their actors, they’re worth every penny.
But when critics overwhelmingly agree that the three leads in a film were good, and the film itself was a disaster that embarrassed all of them, and you were the rep who didn’t see that coming, anyone in the business can tell you what happens next. We’re actors, not indentured servants, and if you can’t guide our careers and safeguard our images, we have to find someone who can. We don’t get a second crack at this.
For Pine’s part, he’s talented. He’ll bounce back and keep going.