Tara Reid has filed a $100 million over use of her face on slot machines promoting the Syfy “Sharknado” film series.
In a lawsuit filed Thursday in California, Reid is accusing Syfy and “Sharknado’s” producers of using her likeness on slot machines without her consent.
Slot machines with a RTP percentage closer to 100% are often termed loose slots while games with a low RTP are referred to as tight. For example, if you are playing a slot machine with a RTP value of 95%, the house edge is equal to 5%. This means that on average and over millions of spins the machine wins 5% of every unit wagered.
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The suit points to Reid’s contract for the sixth “Sharknado” film, which states that “in no event shall [Reid’s] likeness be used for any merchandising in association with alcohol, tobacco, gambling, hygiene, or sexual products without [Reid’s] prior written approval.”
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- Return to player (RTP) is a measure of how much a slot machine pays back to its players for each unit wagered over time. It is most commonly expressed as a percentage value and is almost always below 100%. The difference between 100% and the slot machine's RTP is known as the house edge, and this is the mathematical advantage that allows casinos to make a profit over the long term.
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The suit continues that Reid gave no such permission to her face on those slot machines. It goes even further, stating that the defendants never even asked for her permission.
However, the Dec. 6 filing listed Asylum Entertainment LLC as one of the defendants, which is a different company from the actual producer of the “Sharknado” films, The Asylum.
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A representative for Syfy and The Asylum did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment.
Reid has starred as April Wexler, and along with Ian Ziering, has appeared in all six “Sharknado” films that have aired yearly on Syfy since 2013. The most recent film, “The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time,” premiered on Aug. 19.
Pamela Chelin contributed to this report.
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Cassie Scerbo gets the best/worst line of the first movie, and delivers it with the appropriate amount of overwrought emotion: 'They took my grandfather, so I really hate sharks.'
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At the movie's climax, Scerbo falls out of a helicopter while fighting off a shark -- into the mouth of a different shark.
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Not to worry: Scerbo is rescued from the shark's belly when Ziering dives chainsaw-first into its mouth and cuts them both out.
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In a nod to the first movie, Ziering cuts a shark in half with his chainsaw, in slow motion, while standing on top of a car in 2014's 'Sharknado 2: The Second One.'
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The tornado part of the Sharknado claims a life in the second movie when the Statue of Liberty's head breaks off and crushes 'Shark Tank's' Daymond John.
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Vivica A. Fox justifies her appearance in the 'Sharknado 2' when she kills two sharks on the top of the Empire State Building using a sword. Too bad she's sucked into the sharknado and eaten shortly afterward.
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Ian Ziering takes it a step further when he uses a chain as a harness and rides a shark through the tornado, impaling it on the top of the Empire State Building.
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Reid loses her hand in the second movie, but a surgeon (played by Billy Ray Cyrus) soon replaces it with a circular saw.
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In the third movie, 'Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No,' Ziering and President Mark Cuban are among a group who impales a shark at the White House on a flag, mimicking the iconic photograph of the flag-planting in Iwo Jima during World War II.
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George R. R. Martin's cameo in 'Sharknado 3' ends in bloodshed when the 'Game of Thrones' author is killed while watching a movie called 'Shark Wedding.'
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The sharks aren't just a threat on earth in the third movie. When the heroes use a giant laser to break up the sharknado storm, a few sharks are launched into space.
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Ziering's weapon of choice against space sharks is a laser chainsaw.
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