Scarlett, you need a new agent...
Posted on 04/02/2009 9:25:47 AM PDT by mikelets456
Julia Roberts is getting $15 million to make Eat, Pray, Love, but Scarlett Johansson was only offered $250,000 for Iron Man 2. Kim Masters on the tactics Hollywood is using to slash salaries.
You’re Scarlett Johansson. You’re pretty and you’re pretty famous, too. And you’ve just been offered the part of the Black Widow in Iron Man 2! That’s got to be some payday, right?
How about $250,000, which is what Marvel Studios offered Johansson and Mickey Rourke to be in the film?
The stars negotiated the number up to something over $400,000. Still, it’s not hard to imagine that even a year ago Johansson could have expected to break seven figures for a role in a big franchise film. It’s a pretty thrifty deal for such a recognizable name.
If an actor balks at the deal, the studios say they will move to another choice immediately. “They’re not fucking around,” says the talent representative. “They know exactly who that next person is. Sometimes they’ll tell you.”
But salaries are being slashed now in Hollywood and even bigger stars are not immune. “Why would anybody pay Julia Roberts $20 million to do Duplicity?” says one producer. “That won’t happen again.” Indeed, this source says Sony Pictures is ponying up $15 million for Roberts to do Eat, Pray, Love and probably already regrets having committed to pay that much.
What the revolution in technology had started, the economy has hurried right along. After years of impotent promises to choke off rich deals with talent, the studios are finally making it happen. They’re hammering on star salaries and perks like private jets, too. “They’ve wanted to go in this direction for a long time and the global
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now, will wage caps come to professional sports ... ?
Look for more Hollywood folks to turn conservative!
How about $250,000, which is what Marvel Studios offered Johansson and Mickey Rourke to be in the film?
That is NEXT!
Julia Roberts doesn’t have enough $$$ to pay me to be in any film I’d make.
Scarlett, you need a new agent...
That Scarlet Johannson got a second job after “Ghost World” is proof Hollywood is doomed (Yea!).
A Conservative : someone who’s been mugged by liberalism.
Let’s just see how far this ‘shared sacrifice’ is going when we talk about the ‘artist class’.
And they thought they were special?!?!
They’ve pledged to Obama to make less money....
One of my Husband’s customers runs a hollywood stunt company (he moved his family OUT of CA and to LA..Lower Alabama:). He said there just isn’t much going on in hollywood... much like the building industry down here.
How’s that ‘pledge’ going, Hollywood????AAAAAAAaahahahahahaha!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51kAw4OTlA0
Salaries are going down! Down I say! Oh, by the way, Julia Roberts is making $15M for her new movie.
The first Iron Man movie made a PROFIT of $440M. So, of course, they need to economize on salaries for the remake. Can't take too many chances, you know!
I suspect that there's more to the story.
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Oh, goody. Tell me more! Are they still wasting hundreds of millions on ihatebush movies that no one watches? Is there a bailout coming for the clowns and whores?
I’m not sure it’s tech or the economy so much as the studios finally looking at the actual revenues. Of the 13 movies Roberts has made this decade 3 topped 100 million in domestic grosses, and the last one of those was in 2004. Why is anybody paying her 20 million bucks? She’s got movies that aren’t breaking even, and her salary has a lot to do with it. Scarlett Johansson has never had a movie top 100 million, while He’s Just Not That Into You has come really close (92 million) it’s an ensemble movie and it’s her first to top 50 million since 1998. Again why pay her a lot of money? I’m sure Iron Man 2 will make a ton, but I predict no more than a dozen people will watch it BECAUSE of her, and that’s really what a Hollywood pay check is all about.
Not guilty!
It’s not actually stupid for Johansson to sign for that little. Her box office track record isn’t actually that impressive, her movies don’t make much money, she doesn’t seem to have a core body of fans. Iron Man 2 will probably be viewed by more people than have seen her last half dozen movies, it’s a chance for her to win fans and actually make some big box office later. And Mickey Rourke has had a hard time getting work for a while, The Wrestler did great but he’s going to need to prove he’s no longer a problem to work with and that he has an audience, working cheap on a block buster is a good way to do that.
“When the stars are paid tens of millions; that also pushes other costs up — particularly marketing. (Studios have to promote the movie hard, to recoup the cost of the stars.)
The change from film to digital distribution (digital in theatres that is); will fundamentally change the economics of film making.
The cost of the 2,000 or 3,000 prints required for a “block buster” is over $10 million. That's on top of the film stock used in shooting, and the higher cost of post-production work in film, compared to digital media.
The high cost of distribution leads a studio to spend millions on “A”-list stars, who have a track record of selling tickets. That, in turn, leads to higher marketing costs, etc. etc.
The use of over-paid “A”-listers as voice actors for animated films is particularly extravagant. As the cost of producing animations drops with advances in computer animation & when full digital distribution kicks in — there won't be the perceived “need” to have big name stars on the marquee. The main advantage of the stars in an animation is the promotional work they do — appearing on the talk-show circuit to talk up the movie. When the costs of production and distribution are lowered, the need for such high-profile promotion will drop.”
Keep up your liberal, radical agendas and you’ll be asking people on the street for spare change...
I guess that is not the kind of change these over rated, egotistical, narsacistic actors were thinking about. I wonder when they are going to start “capping” Michael Moore’s fat bank account - he thinks Obama is a super hero! Wait until he sees the “change” in his bank account.
Keep up your liberal, radical agendas and you’ll be asking people on the street for spare change...
I guess that is not the kind of change these over rated, egotistical, narsacistic actors were thinking about. I wonder when they are going to start “capping” Michael Moore’s fat bank account - he thinks Obama is a super hero! Wait until he sees the “change” in his bank account.
What's probably being reported is the minimum guarantee payout; most of these $10+ million deals are a small amount up front, and the balance as a share of the profits of the film, usually with a guaranteed payout.
I'm sure Scarlet will get beyond $10 million when the movie releases and the box office rings up a massive amount ($440+ million for Iron Man). She'll share in the profits, but until the release she'll only get the $400,000 up front.
Oh, and NOT GUILTY!
So Sean Penn is finally going to make what he’s worth? He’ll have to pay THEM.
The initial offer to Rourke was $250,000. I don’t know where the deal closed. But studios are very aggressively ignoring actors’ quotes, lowballing them - and making those deals. Aside from Will Smith, Johnny Depp and a few others, the old quotes are out the window at the moment. I know many people who are making deals today for a fraction of their former prices of just a couple of years ago.
Very funny.
There should be a 99% tax rate on liberal celebrities.
My family got so tired of listening to actors and actresses spouting their political viewpoints that we started blacklisting the movies starring those we didn’t like and stopped going to the theater much. Now with the high cost of going to a movie theater to see what is usually a lousy film anyway we have gotten so we only see about one family movie per year any more if even that.
We used to rent videos and DVD’s weekly, but now don’t ever rent them unless one of the kids needs to watch a movie for a school project. We also used buy videos or DVD’s of all the movies we liked and now have a huge collection of them, but the movies started getting so bad that we hardly buy any now.
We have now gotten to the point that we wait for most movies to be shown on TV and then record them on our DVR, so we can watch them without having to watch the commericals. I make popcorn and we have our family movie nights at home. If we don’t have anything recorded on the DVR, then we pull out a movie from our collection and watch that together.
More and more it seems that the movies we watch are old ones on AMC, TCM. and once in a great while a newer movie on the Hallmark channel or one of the other movie channels. We have come to the conclusion that most of the movies coming out of Hollywood these days are garbage, so we watch the old ones with Fred Astair, Clark Gable, Judy Garland, Bob Hope, etc. It is pretty hard to think the new movies are worth watching when there are movies like Hello Dolly, An Affair to Remember, Roman Holiday, Royal Wedding, Casa Blanca, Gone with the Wind, African Queen, and the likes that are so easy to find to watch.
With the economy getting worse all the time, I am sure more and more people will be waiting for movies to be shown on TV and watching movies from their own collections at home instead of going to the theater, or buying DVD’s.
So now Scarlett Johansson's salary is only $125,000 per breast? She'd come very cheap if you only shot her in profile.
Good. The last thing celebtards need is more money.
““off the books” compensation”
Like sex.
No movie ever makes a profit. Hollywood’s accountants see to that.
The only rule you need to know as an agent is “there is no net.”
‘Ghost World’ was one of the best American films of the decade.
Does not matter to me because I would not pay a flat dime to see the movie.
Check your local multiplex. Most stuff playing at any given time is bad. Were you referring to SJ’s performance in GW or the film as a whole? The film accurately captured the millennial suburban ennui and the effect of post modernity on notions of self worth. Among many other things.
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