In a lawsuit filed even as the last ballots were being cast on Tuesday, Ms. Schulman accused Mr. Yari of acting from "greed and ego" in failing to pay at least $2 million in producing fees to her and her partner, the film's executive producer, Tom Nunan.
And the studio paid Adam Sandler $25 million in acting and producing fees for a remake of "The Longest Yard".
Managers, in their defense, note that while talent agents cannot collect producing fees, they can take lucrative packaging fees for pulling together projects for studios.
White next spent some time in Mexico producing "Nacho Libre," and after the movie wrapped, he and Jack Black donated their producing fees to charity.
"I waived all my producing fees on the movie," he says, and you know that it must have felt like passing a kidney stone.
Mr. Riggs claims that he was owed producing fees for previous shows or should have been bought out of an agreement with Mr. Burnett's production company, a situation Mr. Burnett shrugged off.
Appian Way is still at Warner Brothers but works with other studios too: it made "Red Riding Hood," almost made Michael Mann's "Public Enemies" and cuts deals that bring it fat producing fees, like the one that's supposed to turn Malcolm Gladwell's "Blink" into a film.
Revolution also collects a producing fee of $2 million to $3 million for every film it agrees to make.
and "World Trade Center," sued fellow producers Derek Anderson and Victor Kubicek, and their Halcyon Company, claiming that Mr. Borman had been cheated out of half of a $5 million producing fee and a promised role in creative decisions about the film.
