'The notion that the Tuohys were paid millions of dollars by Alcon to the detriment of Michael Oher is false,' say Alcon's Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove.
, broke its silence Thursday after more than a week of the movie generating headlines as the subjects of the film traded accusations of ill-intentions and shakedowns. In a lawsuit filed Aug. 14, former NFL star andsubject Michael Oher said he was cheated out of profits for the film by the family at its center.
But Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy have said they split profits from the movie with Oher and accused him of a $15 million “Now Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove, the co-heads of Alcon, defended their true-life Oscar hit, released in 2009, calling accusations of the story it portrayed as fabricated or lies as “mischaracterizations and uninformed opinions.” They also provide an accounting of payments made in relation to the life rights to the project.
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