But I forgot what it was.
Oh yeah now I remember. What ever happened to blake?
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Thursday, April 9, 2020
Sunday, November 22, 2015
Wait A Minute!
Overheard at Forbes:
(1) Cooper, Bale and Renner each got 9% of the profits, while Lawrence and Adams each got 7%.
(2) Cooper, Bale, and Renner split 9% three ways or 3% each, while Lawrence and Adams split 7% two ways or 3.5% each.
The first reading is blatantly unfair to the women; the second reading is blatantly unfair to the men. There isn't enough information given in the cited Forbes article to decide between the two.
But my biggest problem with the first scenario is why the hell does nearly 41%* of the profit go to just five people? That right there is the Hollywood problem in a nutshell: overly-paid actors. There are plenty of other people involved in filmmaking who deserve a piece of that pie. Do actors take it in the shorts when a film loses money? I suppose they do over time if they continually act in flops.
I would like to see numbers on how much profit went to actors in the decades past.
Actors and actresses need the shit taxed out of them because they mostly give those ill-gotten gains to bad causes.**
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* 9 + 9 + 9 + 7 + 7 = 41
** Here's to you, Ike
[added] I just read that Jennifer Lawrence's newest film "Mocking Jay: Part 2" has severely underperformed expectations. I was a big fan of that series and even went to a theater to see the last one. Her loudmouthed antics are enough to keep me away this time.
Though these elite actresses are still well remunerated, the Hollywood pay gap has been well publicized. Lawrence made headlines this year when Wikileaks revealed she and her female American Hustle costar received a lower cut of profits than their male counterparts. The leaked Sony correspondence relayed Lawrence’s representatives complaining that male actors (Bradley Cooper, Christian Bale and Jeremy Renner) received a 9% cut of profits, while Lawrence and Amy Adams pocketed just 7%. Link to sourceI read this in two different ways, neither of which I like:
(1) Cooper, Bale and Renner each got 9% of the profits, while Lawrence and Adams each got 7%.
(2) Cooper, Bale, and Renner split 9% three ways or 3% each, while Lawrence and Adams split 7% two ways or 3.5% each.
The first reading is blatantly unfair to the women; the second reading is blatantly unfair to the men. There isn't enough information given in the cited Forbes article to decide between the two.
But my biggest problem with the first scenario is why the hell does nearly 41%* of the profit go to just five people? That right there is the Hollywood problem in a nutshell: overly-paid actors. There are plenty of other people involved in filmmaking who deserve a piece of that pie. Do actors take it in the shorts when a film loses money? I suppose they do over time if they continually act in flops.
I would like to see numbers on how much profit went to actors in the decades past.
Actors and actresses need the shit taxed out of them because they mostly give those ill-gotten gains to bad causes.**
__________________
* 9 + 9 + 9 + 7 + 7 = 41
** Here's to you, Ike
[added] I just read that Jennifer Lawrence's newest film "Mocking Jay: Part 2" has severely underperformed expectations. I was a big fan of that series and even went to a theater to see the last one. Her loudmouthed antics are enough to keep me away this time.
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