How much did Tuohy family & Michael Oher earn from The Blind Side? In the fallout of Oher's accusations, Alcon Entertainment – the production company behind The Blind Side – has spoken out to claim that the former pro football player and the Tuohy family were collectively paid around $767,000 for the film.
In a lengthy statement sent to PEOPLE on Thursday afternoon, Alcon Entertainment co-founders and co-CEOs Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove defended the film's authenticity and clarified that Oher, now 37, and the four members of the Tuohy family were collectively paid approximately $767,000 in payments delivered ...
According to the legal filing, the movie paid the Tuohys and their two birth children each $225,000, plus 2.5% of the film's "defined net proceeds." The movie became a critically acclaimed blockbuster, reportedly grossing more than $300 million at the box office, and tens of millions of dollars more in home video sales ...
They say in the document that Oher said in his 2011 book “I Beat the Odds” that he knew the Tuohys were his conservators. Oher accused the Tuohys of representing themselves as his adoptive parents publicly and for their benefit.
Sean Tuohy and Leigh Anne Tuohy's combined net worth in 2023 is $100 million. The Tuohys are the couple featured in the Oscar Award-winning film “The Blind Side” that showed how they became the guardians of Michael Oher, who went on to become an NFL offensive lineman.
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Does the Tuohy family still own Taco Bell?
Tuohy and his wife owned 115 fast food franchises, including those of Taco Bell, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pizza Hut and Long John Silver's, but as of 2019, they own 11 Taco Bells, having sold the majority in six separate transactions. Tuohy has also been a broadcaster for the Memphis Grizzlies of the NBA since 2001.
How much did Sandra Bullock get for The Blind Side?
According to The New York Times, her salary for starring in 'The Blind Side' was reportedly set at 5m dollars, which remains substantial for any professional actor. She also won an Oscar for best actress for that performance, which boosted her standing even more.
The Blind Side film received mixed reviews and also soon found itself at the center of controversy. Critics argued that the portrayal of Oher played into Uncle Tom stereotypes about Black people as submissive to white authority.
In their 2010 book reflecting on their life story that inspired the Oscar-winning film The Blind Side, Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy make dozens of references to adopting Michael Oher despite claiming in a recent legal filing there was “never an intent to adopt” him.
Michael was released by the squad in July 2017 after a failed physical, having suffered a concussion the prior season. He then retired from the NFL at the age of 30. Michael is a published author, writing the 2011 best selling memoir, I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness to The Blind Side and Beyond.
He said Oher hired his own agents, entered his own contracts, and managed his own money. The only exception, Fishman said, was the Tuohys sent Oher his checks for the film and its residual payments.
After Oher initiated the case, Sean Tuohy said Oher wasn't adopted because lawyers told them they could not adopt someone over the age of 18. That has been shown to be inaccurate; under Tennessee law, they could have adopted him. So they admit they didn't adopt him.
The car accident was on a different street. But the scene where Michael Oher stops an air bag from hitting their son wasn't embellished. "That's 100 percent accurate,” Sean said. "The car behind them was someone from the basketball team.
A Tennessee judge has terminated the conservatorship of Michael Oher, a retired NFL player whose life story was chronicled in The Blind Side, under the Memphis couple at the center of the movie who allegedly took financial advantage of him.
The film premiered on November 17 in New York City and New Orleans, and opened in theaters in the rest of the United States and in Canada on November 20. Academy Award winner Julia Roberts was originally offered Bullock's role, but turned it down.
Based on court documents obtained by NBC News, Oher said that the film's portrayal of him as a Black teenager experiencing homelessness and drifting from school to school was accurate. But the premise of the movie — that he was adopted — is inaccurate, according to Oher. Instead, he entered into a conservatorship.
Personal life. Tuohy married her husband Sean Tuohy in 1982, and they live in Memphis, Tennessee. They have two children and were reported to have had Oher sign a conservatorship (not adoption) when he turned 18 years old. (He later went on to be an offensive lineman in the National Football League).
Sean Tuohy, who reportedly sold his fast-food franchise company for $213 million, claimed that he didn't need money from "The Blind Side." “The last thing I needed was 40 grand from a movie,” he said . “I will say it's upsetting that people would think I would want to make money off any of my children.”
How much did the Tuohys sell their restaurants for?
The couple also owned the real estate underlying 64 of those restaurants, the Times reported, though they sold all but 11 Taco Bells — all located in Florida — when they dissolved RGT Management back in 2019 through six separate transactions that earned the Tuohys $213 million.
According to court papers, the Tuohys tricked Oher into signing over the legal authority to use his name in business deals after he turned 18. The 37-year-old alleged the Tuohys used their conservatorship to make millions in royalties from the 2009 Oscar-nominated film.
Why did the Tuohys have a conservatorship over Michael Oher?
The Tuohys said the conservatorship was the tool chosen to comply with NCAA rules that would have kept Oher from attending the University of Mississippi, where Sean Tuohy had been a standout basketball player.
Oher, who filed a petition in August alleging that the couple cheated him out of millions of dollars they earned from his life story, said the Tuohys' accounting was "false on its face." Early on, the couple claimed they received nothing from the movie, or the best-selling book that preceded it.
