.It's been reported that Sean Tuohy and Leigh Anne Tuohy and their family received 2.5 percent of the film's profits — the film grossed approximately $309.2 million — but that's not accurate.
ET has learned that the family deal actually paid them the aforementioned percentage of, which is based on money left over after all costs are distributed.All in all, it's believed the family earned under $1 million from the 2009 film based on Michael Lewis' 2006 bestseller of the same name, which centered around Michael Oher and the evolution of the integral role played by the left tackle, or «the blind side.»The «under $1 million» figure lines up with what the Tuohys' family attorneys said at a Wednesday news conference in Memphis, Tennessee.
It was attorney Randall Fishman who insisted that each member of the Tuohy family — including Oher — were paid approximately $100,000 after it was all said and done.«Well, each member of the family has received the same amount of money,» Fishman said. «So, imagine a pie divided by five, OK?
We estimate each person received $100,000.»That's a stark contrast to allegations made by Oher in the 14-page petition he filed in Shelby County, Tennessee, probate court, in which he claimed that the Tuohys used their power as conservators to negotiate a deal with 20th Century Fox that paid them and their biological children — Collins Tuohy and Sean Tuohy Jr. — millions of dollars in royalties from The Blind Side.
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