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Hopkins Seeks Merchant Ivory Green
Call it The Remains of the Pay.
Anthony Hopkins has filed legal papers seeking to take art-house fave Merchant Ivory Productions to arbitration for refusing to pay $750,000 he claims he's owed for their most recent movie together, The City of Your Final Destination.
The film, directed by James Ivory and penned by longtime collaborator Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, finished shooting late last year and is currently in post-production.
In a complaint filed on his behalf by his trust, Samson Inc., and first reported by TMZ, the Oscar-winning thesp alleges Merchant Ivory "materially breached" a performance agreement by failing to deliver the agreed-upon sum in two parts. Hopkins says he the initial $375,000 was payable in weekly installments beginning Dec. 29, 2006 and continuing through Jan. 10, while the second $375,000 was due no later than Sept. 30.
Hopkins says he "suffered damages in an amount to be proven at trial, but in no event less than $750,000" for services rendered. He's also seeking accrued interest, payment of attorneys' fees and any associated costs of the arbitration.
There was no immediate comment from either party.
Some of Hopkins' most acclaimed roles have come under the aegis of Merchant Ivory Productions and its late producer, Ishmail Merchant. Hopkins' first movie for the company, 1992's Howard's End, earned nine Academy Award nominations including Best Picture. He earned a Best Actor nod the following year as a repressed butler in The Remains of the Day.
Hopkins reteamed with Merchant Ivory for the 1996 biopic Surviving Picasso, with Hopkins as the fiery artist.
City of Your Final Destination is based on the novel by Peter Cameron and costars Laura Linney and Charlotte Gainsbourg. It revolves around a naive doctoral student who delves into a mystery surrounding a late writer. Hopkins plays one of the author's executors. The film is scheduled to hit theaters next year.
Hopkins is in theaters next with Slipstream, a psychological thriller that he also wrote and directed. The film opens in limited release Oct. 26.
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