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Quaid Less Sore over "Brokeback"
Randy Quaid says potato. Focus Features says po-tah-to. Quaid says the company's gonna pay him. Focus says it has no idea what he's talking about.
A little more than a month after saying that Focus Features, the art-house division of Universal Pictures, duped him out of fair compensation for his role in the Oscar-winning Brokeback Mountain, Quaid has dropped his lawsuit against the studio, announcing Tuesday it has agreed to pay him a bonus.
But there appears to be some disagreement as to what the terms are. For its part, Focus isn't even acknowledging having any deal with the 56-year-old actor.
"The circumstances of him dropping the suit are as mysterious as the circumstances under which he filed his claim," a spokesperson for Focus Features said in a statement. "Focus Features never negotiated, offered or agreed to any settlement agreement with Mr. Quaid or his attorneys, but we are happy to put this behind us, and do wish Mr. Quaid all the best."
A rep for Quaid told Variety that the deal is an unofficial backdoor agreement and that the veteran character actor wanted the bonus split among him and his fellow castmembers.
Quaid's camp is keeping the actual amount of the un-settlement bonus under wraps. In his lawsuit he asked for $10 million in damages. His attorney didn't respond to requests for comment.
Quaid sued Focus Features and Del Mar Productions Mar. 23, claiming that Brokeback Mountain's producers had pitched the movie to him as a low-budget indie project that had no real chance of making big money. According to court documents, he stipulated that Focus's David Linde and James Schamus knew that the Ang Lee-directed film would be a big deal at the box office.
Becoming maybe the most buzzed about film of the year, the word of mouth really did translate into dollars. To date, Brokeback Mountain has grossed more than $170 million worldwide in ticket sales. The film's production budget amounted to about $13.9 million.
The lawsuit didn't reveal what, if anything, Quaid was paid for playing ranch manager Joe Aguirre, who spies his two employees, played by Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger, tending to each other rather than the sheep they've been hired to watch.
Next up for the now less disgruntled Quaid is a role as Spain's King Carlos IV in Milos Forman's Goya's Ghost costarring Natalie Portman, Javier Bardem and Stellan Skarsgård as painter Francisco Goya.
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