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In four pages an overview and analysis of this famous case in which Main Line Pictures, Inc. sued actress Kim Basinger for reneging on a handshake agreement to star in the 1993 Jennifer Lynch film Boxing Helena are presented with various questions pertaining to this court case also answered. Four sources are listed in the bibliography.
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Basinger was scheduled to begin following completion of Final Analysis, a film for which she would be paid $3 million (Thompson, 1992). The plot revolved around a doctors obsession
with an accident victim, in which after amputating her legs, the doctor also amputates her arms and puts them in a box (OSteen, 1993). Although Basinger had reportedly verbally
committed to starring in the film, she began to have second thoughts about the nudity and the difficulties associated with entrusting such a controversial film in the hands of a
novice director (OSteen, 1993). Because of the bankability of its star, Main Line Pictures, Inc. was able to secure "$3 million in potential domestic and $7.6 million in foreign
pre-sale agreements" in Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Australia (Barton, Shenir, and Marinas, 1996; Thompson, 1992). Basinger was to receive a total of $1 million, with $600,000 guaranteed and
$400,000 that would be paid out of producer revenues prior to making loan payments on the financing for the film (Barton et al, 1996). When Basinger backed out of
the film after Main Line and Lynch rejected her major script revisions, she was replaced by an actress of considerably less marquee value, Sherilyn Fenn, a B-movie actress who had
starred in David Lynchs television series Twin Peaks (Thompson, 1992). As a result, one of Main Lines partners advanced $1.7 million to cover production costs that domestic box office
revenues were to pay for (Barton et al, 1996). Main Line Pictures, Inc. subsequently sued Basinger and others to collect more than $6.3 million in damages from falling far
short of domestic sales and foreign pre-sales that Main Line President Carl Mazzocone asserted resulted from Basingers withdrawal from the project (OSteen, 1993). The breach of contract case, which
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