Deadline: Fox Hit With Massive Bill In ‘Bones’ Profit Battle; Vows To Gut Award In Appeal

[Slayven]

https://deadline.com/2019/02/bones-...schanel-david-boreanaz-fox-appeal-1202564758/

Almost two years after Bones ended its run of more than a decade at Fox, the stars and executive producer of the crime drama have partially prevailed in their profit participation battle with the company, for now



Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz and EP Barry Josephson have been issued a hefty award of almost $179 million in the case, it was revealed today in a court petition by attorney Dale Kinsella and lawyers for the actors. However, the matter looks to be far from over as Fox is appealing the awarding of more than $128 million in punitive damages that it says are in contradiction to the initial contracts the actors and Josephson inked for Bones years ago.


"This is a tremendous victory for the Bones profit participants who created and starred in the longest-running drama series to air on the FOX network," Josephson lawyer Kinsella said today about what is one of the largest awards in TV legal history (read the award here).


"Fox's fraudulent conduct toward the series' creators and stars, perpetrated over many years, has finally been brought to light, and Fox has been held accountable for its actions," the Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump & Aldisert attorney wrote. "After extensive testimony, the arbitrator found that Fox manifests 'a company-wide and accepted climate that envelops an aversion for the truth.' "

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Dat Hollywood Accounting

 

[Soda]

I'm not understanding. Did FOX lie about how much they made from Bones to pay less to the stars, because their contracts earned them a percentage of profits from the show? And now, it has been uncovered that FOX lied, so a court ordered FOX to pay up?

 

[Mariolee]

"After extensive testimony, the arbitrator found that Fox manifests 'a company-wide and accepted climate that envelops an aversion for the truth.' "

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Damn

 

[Fat4all]

got damn, that's a cool couple mil rite there

 

[TAJ]

So... Fox basically admitted that they didn't pay these people what they were supposed to, lol.
I guess they're trying to say that the punishment is too harsh (It isn't.) or that this was an accident. (It wasn't.)

 

[MikeHattsu]

Already a thread:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/fo...eating-and-reprehensible-studio-fraud.102314/

 

[Slayven]

The take away is Bones made a half a billion dollars in it's life time and might have been the network's most profitable show

I'm not understanding. Did FOX lie about how much they made from Bones to pay less to the stars, because their contracts earned them a percentage of profits from the show? And now, it has been uncovered that FOX lied, so a court ordered FOX to pay up?

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Yeah, that is actually pretty common.