Rebel Wilson's Co-Producers Were Awarded A$10. She Was Awarded A$359,000.
Rebel Wilson has been ordered to pay A$10 (US$7, £5) in damages after emerging victorious from a legal fight with the co-producers of her film The Deb. Justice Elisabeth Peden awarded the trio A$10 in the New South Wales supreme court and otherwise dismissed their summons. Peden also awarded Wilson A$359,000 plus interest in a brief decision, which will be followed by a written judgment.
The Deb is a musical comedy Wilson directed, co-produced and starred in, and it became the battleground for multiple legal battles in Australia and the US. Filmed on a $22m budget, The Deb made just $335,000 (US$235,000, £175,284) at the local box office and is yet to screen outside Oceania.
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Against the A$359,000 awarded to Wilson, the co-producers' A$10 looks less like compensation than a judicial punctuation mark.
The odder comparison is with the film: Wilson's A$359,000 award is slightly more than The Deb's A$335,000 local box office. That makes the whole fight look like an expensive rounding error.