[a fool in paradise]

You might not care but everything you’ve ever seen on a movie screen is determined by those accounting and credit rules.

That's where the real piracy is in Hollywood, in the bean counters offices stealing it away from the contractually obligated "producers" of the work (Sam Hamm signed for points of profits on his work and saw nothing as I noted because the pirates cooked the books to show it "earned nothing" even though it was a top drawing film that made back its expenses and was not "null".).

Hollywood wouldn't return to the soundstage to make 3 more films in a franchise if the first really did tank as they said.

[IYAS9YAS]

That's where the real piracy is in Hollywood, in the bean counters offices stealing it away from the contractually obligated "producers" of the work (Sam Hamm signed for points of profits on his work and saw nothing as I noted because the pirates cooked the books to show it "earned nothing" even though it was a top drawing film that made back its expenses and was not "null".).

He shoulda learned from prior Hollywood got-screwed-overs. Never go for points of "profits". Go for points of gross revenue.

[discostu]

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.