On Monday, a group of more than 50 on-set employees filed a petition for an election to be represented by IATSE.

  • Jordan Lund@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    So the writers are underpaid, the actors are underpaid, the VFX people are underpaid…

    When they blow $200M making a movie, where does the money go?

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        1 year ago

        Actually, it’s either a) big name actors who are demanding more money upfront because of disappearing residuals, or b) shooting in expensive locations. There are many such cases of both of these factors coming together to create a perfect storm too.

        Say what you will about Sound Of Freedom, but that movie was made on a $14.5 million dollar budget by an indie studio shooting at economic locations while not overpaying the main cast. If this was made by a major studio, I bet it would cost about $75 million at least to make the same looking movie with equivalent-calibre actors and similar looking locations. (It should also be pointed out that Angel Studios has already agreed to the Hollywood unions’ terms, so it’s likely they have already been giving their actors and writers fair residuals for awhile now, due to their low resistance to the terms.)

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      1 year ago

      Tom Cruise has to get to his next Scientology level SOMEHOW, stop thinking of only yourself

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        1 year ago

        Those shell companies on the Caiman Islands set up to account away all the profits don’t pay for themselves, you know?

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      1 year ago

      Hollywood accounting is almost as notorious as Louisiana politics for being crooked, labyrinthine, and nigh arcane.

      Seriously, it’s a fucking crazy web of financial fuckery.