Author Michael Lewis responds to Michael Oher’s claims about ‘Blind Side’ money.
the Tuohy family promised to adopt him, but, instead, they used a conservatorship to avoid paying him any profits from the movie. According to the filing, the Tuohys and their two birth children each received $225,000, plus 2.5 percent of the film’s “defined net proceeds.”Lewis said Twentieth Century Fox paid $250,000 for the option to make “The Blind Side” into a movie. Lewis said he split that money with the Tuohy family.
The film made around half a billion dollars, but the equity stake in the movie was not as much as it would seem to be, Lewis explained.
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