Posted on 04/02/2009 9:25:47 AM PDT by mikelets456
Julia Roberts is getting $15 million to make Eat, Pray, Love, but Scarlett Johansson was only offered $250,000 for Iron Man 2. Kim Masters on the tactics Hollywood is using to slash salaries.
You’re Scarlett Johansson. You’re pretty and you’re pretty famous, too. And you’ve just been offered the part of the Black Widow in Iron Man 2! That’s got to be some payday, right?
How about $250,000, which is what Marvel Studios offered Johansson and Mickey Rourke to be in the film?
The stars negotiated the number up to something over $400,000. Still, it’s not hard to imagine that even a year ago Johansson could have expected to break seven figures for a role in a big franchise film. It’s a pretty thrifty deal for such a recognizable name.
If an actor balks at the deal, the studios say they will move to another choice immediately. “They’re not fucking around,” says the talent representative. “They know exactly who that next person is. Sometimes they’ll tell you.”
But salaries are being slashed now in Hollywood and even bigger stars are not immune. “Why would anybody pay Julia Roberts $20 million to do Duplicity?” says one producer. “That won’t happen again.” Indeed, this source says Sony Pictures is ponying up $15 million for Roberts to do Eat, Pray, Love and probably already regrets having committed to pay that much.
What the revolution in technology had started, the economy has hurried right along. After years of impotent promises to choke off rich deals with talent, the studios are finally making it happen. They’re hammering on star salaries and perks like private jets, too. “They’ve wanted to go in this direction for a long time and the global
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Keep up your liberal, radical agendas and you’ll be asking people on the street for spare change...
I guess that is not the kind of change these over rated, egotistical, narsacistic actors were thinking about. I wonder when they are going to start “capping” Michael Moore’s fat bank account - he thinks Obama is a super hero! Wait until he sees the “change” in his bank account.
What's probably being reported is the minimum guarantee payout; most of these $10+ million deals are a small amount up front, and the balance as a share of the profits of the film, usually with a guaranteed payout.
I'm sure Scarlet will get beyond $10 million when the movie releases and the box office rings up a massive amount ($440+ million for Iron Man). She'll share in the profits, but until the release she'll only get the $400,000 up front.
Oh, and NOT GUILTY!
So Sean Penn is finally going to make what he’s worth? He’ll have to pay THEM.
The initial offer to Rourke was $250,000. I don’t know where the deal closed. But studios are very aggressively ignoring actors’ quotes, lowballing them - and making those deals. Aside from Will Smith, Johnny Depp and a few others, the old quotes are out the window at the moment. I know many people who are making deals today for a fraction of their former prices of just a couple of years ago.
Very funny.
There should be a 99% tax rate on liberal celebrities.
My family got so tired of listening to actors and actresses spouting their political viewpoints that we started blacklisting the movies starring those we didn’t like and stopped going to the theater much. Now with the high cost of going to a movie theater to see what is usually a lousy film anyway we have gotten so we only see about one family movie per year any more if even that.
We used to rent videos and DVD’s weekly, but now don’t ever rent them unless one of the kids needs to watch a movie for a school project. We also used buy videos or DVD’s of all the movies we liked and now have a huge collection of them, but the movies started getting so bad that we hardly buy any now.
We have now gotten to the point that we wait for most movies to be shown on TV and then record them on our DVR, so we can watch them without having to watch the commericals. I make popcorn and we have our family movie nights at home. If we don’t have anything recorded on the DVR, then we pull out a movie from our collection and watch that together.
More and more it seems that the movies we watch are old ones on AMC, TCM. and once in a great while a newer movie on the Hallmark channel or one of the other movie channels. We have come to the conclusion that most of the movies coming out of Hollywood these days are garbage, so we watch the old ones with Fred Astair, Clark Gable, Judy Garland, Bob Hope, etc. It is pretty hard to think the new movies are worth watching when there are movies like Hello Dolly, An Affair to Remember, Roman Holiday, Royal Wedding, Casa Blanca, Gone with the Wind, African Queen, and the likes that are so easy to find to watch.
With the economy getting worse all the time, I am sure more and more people will be waiting for movies to be shown on TV and watching movies from their own collections at home instead of going to the theater, or buying DVD’s.
So now Scarlett Johansson's salary is only $125,000 per breast? She'd come very cheap if you only shot her in profile.
Good. The last thing celebtards need is more money.
““off the books” compensation”
Like sex.
No movie ever makes a profit. Hollywood’s accountants see to that.
The only rule you need to know as an agent is “there is no net.”
‘Ghost World’ was one of the best American films of the decade.
Does not matter to me because I would not pay a flat dime to see the movie.
Check your local multiplex. Most stuff playing at any given time is bad. Were you referring to SJ’s performance in GW or the film as a whole? The film accurately captured the millennial suburban ennui and the effect of post modernity on notions of self worth. Among many other things.
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