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danyelleearly12
14.12.2021 • 
Law

ace productions has made a decision to produce the independent motion picture, joyless, and secures the contractual agreement of jennifer lawrence as its leading actor, for which she has agreed to be compensated $4,000,000 and is to arrive on the set to begin filming in six months. based on this agreement, ace productions is able to get its financing to produce the film, and spends the next month securing all necessary production staff and preparing the timeline for the production process. the next month, jennifer lawrence announces that she has signed on to another movie with joker productions which will begin shooting at the same time as joyless and thus will not be starring in joyless. ace production then spends the next couple of months and $50,000 traveling and meeting with other potential actors and their agents to try to find a replacement. ace productions learns that jennifer aniston has agreed to accept the lead role, but will require a fee of $5,500,000. although ace productions has its concerns about changing the lead to an actor who is 20 years older than initially envisioned, they believe that there is still much popularity attached to miss aniston. consequently, ace productions and miss aniston seal the deal and the production of joyless goes off without a hitch, is completed on time and released to theaters nationwide. it turns out that having seen miss aniston joyless once before in the movie, cake, most people did not want to see her in joyless such that the film was a box office flop resulting in a net loss of $2,000,000. ace production is convinced that if jennifer lawrence had fulfilled her agreement that the film would have made a minimum profit of $10,000,000, and now seeks to recover damages from jennifer lawrence for her material breach of contract. under contract law, the facts above suggest that the most likely potential recovery for ace productions would amount to

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