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1% finder's fee

posted 8 years ago by shredder08
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Gates tells the FBI guy that he believes the treasure is worth $10 billion. He agreed to take 1% (splitting it with Riley) = $100 million. Riley was really complaining about $50 million? LOL.

[–] jtrip-45023 8 years ago

Considering that they got offered 10% that's quite a bit of money to turn down. It's funny though by the next movie it seems they've both ended up broke. Also, Ben tells Riley at the end of the first movie that next time they find a treasure that he can decide how much they get out of it but the details of that were never discussed in the second movie.

[–] jack-upland 8 years ago

In the next movie, Abigail has kicked Ben out of his house - how can she do that? Riley is in trouble with the IRS, which I guess is plausible...

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Oddly enough it seems that they got a much lower sum. In the beginning of the second film Riley says "Do you know what the taxes are on 5 millions dollars? 6 million."

[–] jekporkins (1972) 4 years ago

That always bothered me. It would have been 50% I believe. I got to think the only reason they made them both broke was to push the motivation for finding another treasure. Why else would Riley, a total pussy, go along for the ride again?

[–] strntz (12255) 6 months ago

That's the problem with most sequels - the happy ending often has to be undone for the sequel to work.

[–] Sidha108 (2676) 6 months ago

They probably had to pay a bunch of legal fees for the crimes they committed throughout the film. Even though they were the “good guys” in the situation, they still would have to answer for their actions.