Posted on 10/20/2010 11:40:05 AM PDT by Feline_AIDS
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Emma Stone will play Gwen Stacy in the next "Spider-Man" movie.
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Jack Nicholson did one better. He negotiated points on merchandise as well and if I recall took home around $50million.
The screenwriter (Sam Hamm) got something like $100,000 total.
Yup, if you ever get a contract for points on profit from Hollywood hang it on your wall because it’s only use is art you’ll never see a penny. Warner Bros continues to tell JMS that Bab5 is still in the red, even though they made about $600 million on the DVDs alone and B5 was made for about a million bucks an episode. And the fun part is they can open up the books and “prove” it.
It’s easy to say you should go for points on gross, problem is the other side has to agree with that and if you’re just some unfamous scriptwriter they answer will be no, then they go hire somebody else and you get nothing.
California liberals use the same accounting tricks in reverse to “prove” that Obamacare is going to save us money and cover even more people.
Actually the primary trick Hollywood uses is the shell corporation. When they start a project they make a company, that company has 1 asset: the budget of the movie. That company exists to spend the budget and hand the movie to a different company (the real company), it doesn’t own the movie or anything relating to it, and it’s not cut in on the revenue stream. So since that company only spends and never receives the movie never makes a profit. Neat trick.
I agree that Woody was terrific. Bill Murray was funny too.
Emma Stone was great in Zombieland. It’s available for download on Netflix.
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