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 In a legal setback for the the Walt Disney Co., a federal jury in Riverside awarded the creator of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" nearly $269.2 million in damages from the once-popular prime-time game show. 
  
 The decision strikes at the heart of the "vertical integration" argument that has buttressed the wave of consolidation that has swept Hollywood over the last 20 years, in which media giants contend that it is economically advantageous to control both the production and distribution of TV programming. 
  
 Creator Celador International sued The Walt Disney Co. in 2004, claiming that it had been denied its fair share of profits from the show, which aired on the entertainment giant's ABC network for three years beginning in the summer of 1999 and continues to appear on local TV stations. Celador argued that a series of "sweetheart deals" struck between a clutch of Disney-owned companies kept the show in the red, even as it became ABC's first No. 1 show in more than a decade. 
  
 Celador asked the jury to award damages of up to $395 million in broadcast licensing fees, based on what one expert said would be the fair market value of the show. The U.K.-based company also claimed that it was owed $10 million in revenue from the sale of "Millionaire"-inspired games and other merchandise. 
  
 The jury arrived at a figure that was slightly less -- $260 million in licensing fees and $9.2 million in money owed from the sale of merchandise. Disney issued a statement, saying it plans to challenge the award. 
  
 "We believe this verdict is fundamentally wrong and will aggressively seek to have it reversed," Disney said in the statement. 
  
 The case has been described as an illustration of "Hollywood accounting," in which TV shows that become major hits never turn a profit. Over the course of the four-week trial, Celador's attorneys introduced evidence that the show generated $515 million in revenue from license fees over the course of its three-year prime-time run through 2002, not including $70 million in merchandising revenue. 
  
 "Millionaire" also attracted nearly $1.8 billion in advertising for ABC, according to research firm Kantar Media. 
  
 But according to Disney's accounting, Millionaire has run a $73-million deficit. 
  
 [Update, 11:22 p.m.: For more, see the story on the ruling against Disney in the "Who Wants to Be a Millionnaire?" lawsuit in tomorrow's Times.] 
  
 -- Dawn C. Chmielewski 
  
 Photo of "Who Wants to be Millionaire?" by Virginia Sherwood / ABC ||||| All those who believe Hollywood is nothing but surface and glitz, slight-of-hand and fakery, deception and fraud, might now have another datapoint to trot out to support their argument. 
  
 A federal jury in Riverside, Calif., ruled against Walt Disney Co. on Wednesday in a lawsuit brought by Celador International over royalties for the hit game show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.” The award: $269.2 million. 
  
 Celador had alleged that Disney units ABC and Buena Vista Television concealed profits earned on the show to avoid paying licensing fees “through a complex web of self-dealing transactions.” 
  
 The jury agreed, and handed Celador a cool quarter-billion. Paul Smith, chairman of Celador, said, “I am pleased that justice has been done and thank the jury for their wisdom and the time they have taken to consider this complex case.” 
  
 Disney said, “We believe this verdict is fundamentally wrong and will aggressively seek to have it reversed.” 
  
 Click here for the WSJ story; here for the NYT story; here for the LAT story; and here for further coverage from The Hollywood Reporter, Esq. 
  
 The trial highlighted a financial system known as “Hollywood accounting,” a term used to describe an arrangement in which actual profits of a TV show or movie are buried deep within a series of complex transactions, making it difficult for outsiders to discern. 
  
 In an interview with the NYT, Celador’s lawyer, Robins Kaplan’s Roman Silberfeld said that the subsidiaries, ABC and Buena Vista, “had colluded in artificially depressing the network license for ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’ so that there would be no profits to share with Celador.” 
  
 Silberfeld estimated that ABC earned more than a billion dollars in advertising revenue. But “there was no profit ever shown on their books, and as a result they never shared any with Celador,” he said. Celador did receive $21 million in executive producer fees. 
  
 The Disney team was led by Howard Katz of Shepard Mullin. 
  
 The “Millionaire” case, along with a separate Wednesday ruling affecting the actor Don Johnson, mark two wins for content producers and give them leverage in their continuous struggle with distributors for their share of media profits. 
  
 In another lawsuit dealing with similar issues, a jury in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday ruled in favor of actor Don Johnson in a dispute with television producer Rysher Entertainment LLC. The verdict requires Rysher to pay the actor’s production company $23.2 million in damages and recognize him as co-owner of the television series “Nash Bridges,” entitling him to future royalties. |||||
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A California jury ordered the Walt Disney Co. to pay the creator of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire $269.2 million for withholding profits, the LA Times reports. Celador International argued that Disney hid its real profits through what's known in the biz as "Hollywood accounting" and in the lawsuit as a "complex web of self-dealing transactions," notes the Wall Street Journal. Millionaire made gobs of money for Disney through licensing fees and ads, but showed up as a money-loser on company ledgers.