Gerard Butler’s ‘Olympus is Fallen’ lawsuit reaches settlement
Gerard Butler attends FilmDistrict’s screening of Olympus Fell with Roger Dubuis and Gray Goose on Monday, March 11, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
Star actor Gerard Butler’s lawsuit over millions of dollars in profits he claims he is entitled to from his work on the movie “Olympus Has Fallen” is nearing a conclusion, the Los Angeles Superior Court heard on Tuesday. This was revealed in the settlement notice filed in .
According to a notice obtained by Law&Crime, both parties checked a box stating that the entire case would be dismissed as resolved, subject to “sufficient fulfillment of the specified conditions.”
A request to settle the lawsuit against New Image and Millennium Media is expected to be filed by January 5, three days before the trial begins, according to the filing.
The terms of the settlement were not disclosed, but when the lawsuit began in 2021, Gerard Butler, his production company G-Base Entertainment, and Comrie Co., Ltd. agreed to release Olympus Has Fallen, London Has Fallen, The actor who played Mike Banning in Angel Has Fallen was awarded more than $10 million for his efforts in the first of three action films.
“In 2012, representatives from New Image and Millennium asked Butler and his agent whether Butler would be interested in starring and producing for Olympus,” the complaint states. “Butler and his production company G-BASE became interested, and the two companies began negotiating a contract.”
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Butler claimed they had reached an agreement in principle for upfront compensation and “three forms of contingency compensation” based on the film’s success.
“Despite the tremendous success of Olympus, it appears that the producers had no intention of paying Butler a share of the box office revenue and profits,” the lawsuit continued. “Instead, the producers embarked on a scheme in which Butler materially misrepresented the film’s finances and led Butler to believe that there were no such payments.”
Claimed to be a “plan to hide profits from Olympus” [was] “It’s much bigger than we originally thought,” Butler said, insisting he would not tolerate “misrepresentation or other wrongful conduct.”
“Butler worked with Defendants to create a highly successful film series. He demands his fair share,” the lawsuit summarizes the actor’s position.
It now appears that a substantive agreement has been reached to resolve the long-standing dispute.
