LEGAL FILE

Actor Elliott Gould has filed a $5.8 million lawsuit against Tri-Star Pictures, claiming it breached his contract to appear in the film “Fifty” when it abandoned the project and refused to pay him. In his Superior Court lawsuit, Gould says his pay-or-play 1988 agreement was to give him $350,000 for appearing in a featured role in the film, plus $50,000 of the net profits. But he was told last December, about two weeks before rehearsals were to start, that Tri-Star was abandoning the project “due to the alleged refusal of Richard Dreyfuss to appear in the film” and that it was no longer obligated to honor Gould’s contract.