1) Movie Companies (including Disney) are scum and their standard contracts are full of lies. Basically they pay themselves money out of gross ( not 'profit'), insisting it is 'costs', when it is not. So they declare hugely successful movies as accounting losses. This lets them not pay the people that worked on the movies, who all get a cut only if there is a profit. Yeah, the stars can negotiate other stuff, but not make up, sound effects, etc.
2) Scarlet (like most stars) knew this, so she demanded
The summary of Disney's argument isn't self-consistent. It says both that theatrical release was not required and that the theatrical release requirements specified no less than 1500 screens. So were there requirements or not? And my recollection was that the original issue was pretty clearly that SJ management thought that the contract had the industry standard clauses that precluded a hybrid release, otherwise they would have negotiated for a cut of streaming revenue. It sounds like Disney is trying t
I summarized Scarlet's lawyers argument, I have no evidence supporting it, except:
The long and consistent history of incredibly corrupt and abusive accounting practices of the industry. I am basically taking the word of the following people:
1) Eddie Murphy 2) Lynda Carter 3) Art Buchwald 4) Jim Garrison (D.A. that investigated JFK, who later had to sue to get money promised for his help with the JFK movie) 5) Winston Groom (Author of Forrest Gump) 6) Stan Lee 7) Peter Jackson 8) Michael Moore 9) Don Johnson
And mo
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1) Movie Companies (including Disney) are scum and their standard contracts are full of lies. Basically they pay themselves money out of gross ( not 'profit'), insisting it is 'costs', when it is not. So they declare hugely successful movies as accounting losses. This lets them not pay the people that worked on the movies, who all get a cut only if there is a profit. Yeah, the stars can negotiate other stuff, but not make up, sound effects, etc.
2) Scarlet (like most stars) knew this, so she demanded
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Awesome - can you show us the transcripts or contract you read that you got this information from?
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"the contract stated that any theatrical obligations "
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I summarized Scarlet's lawyers argument, I have no evidence supporting it, except:
The long and consistent history of incredibly corrupt and abusive accounting practices of the industry. I am basically taking the word of the following people:
1) Eddie Murphy
2) Lynda Carter
3) Art Buchwald
4) Jim Garrison (D.A. that investigated JFK, who later had to sue to get money promised for his help with the JFK movie)
5) Winston Groom (Author of Forrest Gump)
6) Stan Lee
7) Peter Jackson
8) Michael Moore
9) Don Johnson
And mo