[television is just wrong]

found this interesting. Hollywood dealing with a recession of ticket sales. Didn't see it posted at least not under exact title. Sorry if duplicate.

[kjo]

Maybe they ought to stop offending so many people with their politics.

[stboz]

There's a crack in the dam. Next thing you know, it will again be affordable to live in Kaleephornya.

[Mo1]

Oh here's a thought

Maybe make decent movies and we might go to see them

95% of the movies put out today are trash and not worth even renting on DVD

[Robert A Cook PE]

Bummer.


12 million dollar homes gonna have to sell for only 10 million.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

When the highlight of their season has to do with queer sheepherders (not cowboys) and their issues, they can jolly well starve as far as I'm concerned.

[Windcatcher]

Good progress, but we're not there yet. I want to see something like "Paramount Declares Chapter 11" or "Actors Forced to Sell Mansions" or somesuch. *Then* it'll be time for the block party.

[jdm]

Don't tell George Clooney about a pay cut. It will ruin his whole year.

[samtheman]

Facing declining cinema audiences, Hollywood is trying to persuade its top actors to set an example by cutting back a lucrative arrangement known as “first dollar”, under which the director, producer and stars receive a share of a film’s box office take regardless of whether the studio has covered its filming costs.

In other words, they are reducing an essentially unreasonable deal ("I get my cut before anybody else makes a dime") down a notch or two.

[FlingWingFlyer]

It's odd that this is happening about the same time the rash of pro-terrorist/anti-America movies we heard about six months ago started hitting the big screen. Coincidence? NOT!

[SAMS]

I could live for a year just on the amount of thier "paycut"

[bcsco]

Judging by the article, Jimmy Stewart opened up Pandora's Box. I wonder what he'd think if he were around today to see where his negotiations have taken the industry.

Let's see, stars' salaries in the double-digit millions, and on top of that upwards of 40% of the box office take regardless of how well the movie does financially. IMHO that amounts to a death wish on the part of producers as and the financiers as a whole. Whatever got into these people's minds (assuming, of course they had one to begin with)...oops, I know, they jumped on the bandwagon themselves and are included in that 40%. How stupid of me to forget this. Sheeesh!

Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of RATS!

[bray]

Looking forward to End of the Spear. Unfortunately some of the money will go to SoddomWood for their propaganda movies.

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters

[F16Fighter]

Tom Hanks

The only role Hanks hasn't been cast in yet has been as a deeply disturbed and complicated four-eyed octopus from Mars.

[Tanniker Smith]

It's pretty bad when I consider that the only movies that I saw last year were:

Elektra
Son of the Mask
Robots
Sin City
Monster-in-Law (on video)
Madagascar
The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3D
Sky High
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Chicken Little
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

And I only saw Elektra and Sin City because I had time to kill and they were what were playing conveniently (and it was a sort of consensus thing, too.)

Almost all of the rest were movies I took my son to see. Some were good, some weren't. Some were so dumb even he didn't like them -- and 9-year-olds *always* like kid movies, if only for the popcorn and nachos.

[Chode]

why would this mutt take less money for a movie that in all likelihood will make a fortune from all the people that read the book and want to see tha movie unlike the fagflicks nobody wanted made let alone wanted to see...???

[april15Bendovr]

The cost of being a liberal mouthpiece for the Democrat Party.

[VOA]

Tom Hanks has delighted his studio bosses by accepting a pay cut for his
role as the book’s art sleuth hero.

Well, I guess for once I've got to admit it may not be "all about the
money" for some actors.

I suppose in this case, Hanks will do it for fewer dollars in exchange
for spreading shadowy gossip about the Catholic Church, to look good at
the next FemiNaxis of America fundraiser banquet, and to be treated
as a really great self-sacrificing grunt on the left side of
the culture wars.

[advance_copy]

Their pay cuts should be reported to the FEC as an in-kind donation to the DemocRAT National Comittee. It is the price they are paying for promoting Bush hatred and liberalism.

[joebuck]

"Tom Hanks has delighted his studio bosses by accepting a pay cut for his role as the book’s art sleuth hero."

I wonder if what really happened was that Hanks agreed to less guaranteed cash for a larger cut of the gross. This is what Nickolson did in the first Batman movie and his decision increased his take by millions. (dozens of other examples of this - the big stars can make these type of deals.) Thus, maybe Tom just decided to take a calculated risk which could possibly increase his take. We are dealing with a book franchise which has been the best selling novel of at least the last five years, so I think such a deal would be a smart move on Hanks' part.

[OpusatFR]

Oh good. Another movie I won't see. How can Hollywood not understand that the DaVinci Code is as offensive to me as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion is to Jews?