Leah Remini has been sued today by her ex-mangers over commissions from her upcoming ABC Family Tools sitcom. The mid-season replacement doesn’t even debut until next month but in their complaint (read it here) management company The Collective say they want what is due to them from the actress – and they are naming very precise figures. “Notwithstanding
Plaintiff’s counsel in furthering Remini’s career, which among other things, led to her landing a role in the ABC television series Family Tools, Remini refuses to pay Plaintiff for its services in direct breach of the talent management agreement entered into between Plaintiff and Remini. Remini’s behavior will not be tolerated,” says the complaint filed Tuesday in LA Superior Court. After being represented by The Collective for just under a year, Remini fired them as her managers on October 26 of this year. While they might not have been happy about that, they are really not happy about being out tens of thousands in commissions for the ABC show. There is now due and owing the past-due sum of $67,000 for said commissions owed to Plaintiff by Remini and/or LMR. The $67,000 in commissions is calculated as follows: $l million in compensation received by Remini [$100,000 per episodes x l0 episodes = $l Million) minus the $330.000 hold fee from the Talent Holding Agreement = $670,000 in commissionable compensation,” The Collective’s suit says. The actress had a talent holding deal with ABC that was signed before she became The Collective’s client. They are not entitled, nor are they seeking, any of that money. However, Remini is supposedly due a four percent raise from her $100,000 an episode on Family Tools for each subsequent season it is renewed, if it’s renewed – which could factor in future fees for the management company. The nine-page complaint alleges Breach of Oral Contract, Quantum Meruit, Declaratory Relief and Accounting. Represented by lawyers Bryan Freedman, who also represents Deadline and its parent company PMC, and Bryan Turnauer, the plaintiffs have requested a three-day jury trial.
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Par for the course with this CRAZY woman. Hilarious. Good luck Collective
Actors…
Does anyone actually think that will get renewed?
“Colleen”, many mid-season shows get renewed especially at ABC.
Why not just pay the 10 % directly to the Devil? Never have I met a group of more blood-sucking, anti-creative idiots than the managers at the Collective.
Leah is sure greedy. All that being over paid and she can’t pay her mgr fee? Mistake number one who signs with a Mgr with a fat holding deal pre existing. Someone did someone a favor. Something is fishy.
She should pay them the 10% she owes them. Nothing complicated about it unless she can prove “they had nothing to do” with her 10 episodes for this new show that’s the only way she can avoid paying them the $67,000.
The comments are as e entertaining as the good reporting this site prides itself on. The Collective do a job & they do it well & they want their 10%. Simple! Cheap/unethical clients are bad clients and are a speed bump in a manager’s hectic day.
“Cheap/unethical clients are bad clients and are a speed bump in a manager’s hectic day.” That’s right…and BAD PEOPLE. We all want to be paid for our work. Wassup with that?
This seems very short-sighted of the Collective – who is going to want to sign with a management company that nickels and dimes its clients, especially on a show that is clearly going nowhere?
I call bullshit on these comments. What exactly did her managers do well? She had an abc deal before they signed her. She got plugged into a (crappy) show under terms they didn’t even negotiate. Sure, she’s difficult. Sam isn’t?
Wonder what made UTA endorse having a manager with a pre existing deal that was bound to happen…
Eh what does UTA care they are getting their % and Collective owes them a favor to boot.. sort of.
They call them the collective for a reason..
theyre busying collecting and not providing opportunities to workers not working.
How do they bump into this deal and expect to be paid because their name is on her resume….if they got her other work she probably would be fine paying them..
JEFF B
Let me get this shit straight: The Collective becomes a part of the team AFTER she signed her holding deal, then ABC finds her a project (they’re already paying her), then the managers do NOTHING, one of them FALLS ASLEEP in a meeting and they want ten percent of a show she would of been doing without them in the first place? THIS IS FUCKING INSANE. As a NY manager I continue to be appalled by lazy shithead LA managers who sit on their fat asses all day yet have the arrogance to think they deserve to be paid.
Superior much?- you have about 1/5 of the Casting offices to work on out there in NYC so don’t point fingers at us working stiffs with ALL the CD’s and our good relationships. Collective had an agreement and she’s trying not to pay them. They did their work for her. She needs to honor her agreement, fair & simple.
Please don’t think of coming to LA as that stinky attitude would get you nowhere fast.
Calling it like it is: The Collective is a joke. Bad guys, bad managers. All they know how to do is fight, one another and everyone else. They make Evolution look like the NY Yankees of management,
How exactly do you know it’s a crappy show? How do you know it’s not going to work, you fortune tellers, you?
Leah needs to do the right thing. It’s very clear. Her manager have earned this and more.