are speaking out amid Michael Oher's bombshell conservatorship lawsuit against Leigh Anne Tuohy and Sean Tuohy, defending the 2009 film and sharing exactly how much they paid its real-life subjects.
In a lengthy statement issued to ET on Thursday, Alcon Entertainment co-founders and co-CEOs Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove defended the film's integrity while shining a light on the nature of the 2006 business negotiations that resulted in securing the rights to the story.
was based on Michael Lewis' book of the same name and relied on the likeness of both Oher and the Tuohy family. Alcon Entertainment financed the film, while Johnson and Kosove served as two of the movie's producers.
The statement begins with a defense of the film, which has come under scrutiny in recent weeks as Oher filed legal documents claiming that the Tuohys lied about adopting him and tricked him into making them his conservators when he was 18.
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