Extra Cash From Tom Cruise?
Extras are Cruising toward a settlement!
Because you are obsessed with Popsquire, you remember that 12 extras are demanding $11 million from Tom Cruise and his production company for physical injuries they allegedly suffered during the filming of Valkyrie last year in Germany.
The head of the German studio that was co-producing the film now confirms that the studio’s legal department has made a settlement offer and are awaiting a response from the extras’ attorney. The studio head also added: “You have a different system in Germany. If you lose an arm, it’s not worth a million dollars.”
Popsquire’s perspective…
Settlement negotiations can be tricky. If you want to settle a case, you have to convey a desire to compromise, while simultaneously demonstrating the willingness to litigate if the appropriate agreement cannot be reached. In short, this explains the German studio’s offer of settlement coupled with a statement about how little money an arm is worth.
