CAA Seeks $1M in Unpaid Commissions from Tony Scott Estate

4:52 PM PST 1/30/2013 by Matthew Belloni

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UPDATED: A creditor's claim says the filmmaker, who jumped to his death from a bridge in August, owed money from several projects

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Tony Scott

CAA has filed a creditor claim against the estate of late filmmaker Tony Scott seeking more than $1 million in unpaid commissions from several projects he worked on before jumping to his death last year.

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In a 10-page filing in Los Angeles Superior Court obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, CAA says Scott owes the agency a 10 percent cut of his fees on several projects. The filing says the agency is entitled to more than $70,000 in commissions for Unstoppable, $450,000 for Man on Fire, $110,000 for The Taking of Pelham 123 and $400,00 for Deja Vu, among others. The total amount owed, CAA claims, is $1,040,522.

Read the full court filing here.

Scott was found dead last August after jumping from a bridge in Los Angeles. It's a routine move for a creditor to file a claim against the estate of a recently deceased person.

"This is a standard legal procedure," a Scott family representative tells The Hollywood Reporter. "The Scott estate has every intention to pay as soon as possible. Tony and CAA had a wonderful relationship."

The filing first was reported by TMZ.

CAA is represented in the claim by a team from LA's Proskauer Rose firm.

Email: Matthew.Belloni@thr.com

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