 Executive producers Benjamin Melniker (qv) and  Michael E. Uslan (qv) sued Warner Brothers for forcing them into  accepting a net profit agreement rather than the gross profit one  that was set up for other parties like Jack Nicholson (qv).  Warners then claimed that, although _Batman (1989)_ (qv) at the time  was the 5th biggest grossing film ever, it was still technically in  the red, and offered the two producers a $1 million out