The Firm Inc sued the 29-year-old Bloom in Los Angeles Superior Court, claiming he breached a verbal contract to pay his former management team 10 percent of his earnings from his hit movies, according to documents seen here Wednesday.
The company claims it substantially negotiated the actor's roles in the recently released romance Elizabethtown, as well as in Ridley Scott's crusade epic Kingdom of Heaven and in Haven.
But, The Firm alleges, Bloom jumped ship in July of this year and has failed to stump up hundreds of thousands of dollars in commissions, at least some of which has been diverted to the actor's new management company.
British star Sir Anthony Hopkins will be given a special honor at next year's Golden Globe Awards in Hollywood to mark his lifetime of cinematic achievement, organisers announced this week.
Hopkins, 57, who won the best actor Oscar for his chilling role as deranged but brilliant killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter in 1991's The Silence Of the Lambs, will receive the coveted Cecil DeMille Award at the Jan. 16 Globes ceremony.
Recent recipients of the special award given out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association include last year's honouree, funnyman Robin Williams, Michael Douglas, Gene Hackman, Harrison Ford and Al Pacino.
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