I didn't now they could do this, well Im sure you can. I just never knew how budgets were allocated. The investors don't ask nikkas to show them the receipts?
Jonah Hill only got paid 60k for "The Wolf of Wall Street", movie has grossed $339M
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I didn't now they could do this, well Im sure you can. I just never knew how budgets were allocated. The investors don't ask nikkas to show them the receipts?
I just learned the game myself and realized this shyt ain't nothing put an excuse for people to give a bunch of money
all the investors care about is getting their money back
shyt reminds me off the good ol days when I was eating off mortgage fraud
I came in trying to sell scripts now I learned how to produce them and kept the bulk of the money
only thing missing from my equation I need a big name actor to get that 100 mil wired to the production account
but I'm working on them plugs right now only a matter of time
A studio didn't make the film. Granite Films (an independent financier) picked up the 100 million dollar tab. Paramount only distributed the film. And Leo probably gonna cash out around 40-50 million when the box office closes on Wolf, because he produced the film and is getting back end points.
BulletProof
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Would have done the same.
Just wouldn't have talked about it publicly.
Just wouldn't have talked about it publicly.
LastManStanding
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not even Cruise and Smith are making the crazy amounts of money they used to make in years past. Downy Jr. lucked up and landed the Iron Man franchise. that's pretty much the only way to get huge money nowadays unless you get a RARE type of back end deal like Leo did with Inception. dude took little money up front with a loaded back end and ended up making $59M!
"DiCaprio is said to have made $59 million--$59,000,000--from Inception alone, thanks to salary, back-end pay and a cut from DVDs and rentals."
http://www.eonline.com/news/381567/...ey-despite-taking-long-long-break-from-movies
Will Smith made 100,000 million off Men in Black 3, Decaprio is not in his league at all
LastManStanding
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I highly doubt Leo took more than $10M up front. a typical Scorsese movie budget is usually around 80-100M anyways. Leo just got some back end points.
however if you want to talk about someone who takes a shytload of money up front, then look no further than Adam Sandler. dude will tell the studio that it cost 60M to put together one of his bullshyt movies that are finished filming within a month, pay all of his friends damn good salaries, and then the public still goes out and makes it a profitable movie. I'm not hating for the dude getting paid and paying his friends, but I guarantee you that his movies could be done for less than $5M.
Will Smith, Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp, Denzel, and Leo are the few left in the 20 million dollar pay day category, for straight acting salaries. But highest earners is the trio of Will Smith, Tom Cruise, and Johnny Depp. They giving Depp 50 million off top for a 5th pirates movie and he gonna get back end money.
LastManStanding
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where are you getting your facts from? all I'm seeing is Will Smith was paid $20M for MIB3. I know he also received back end points, but I don't see anything about $100M.
regardless it doesn't matter. guys like Smith and Cruise are in it for blockbuster type of summer hits. they both have made incredible fortunes off of big name franchise films (Men in Black, Mission Impossible, etc.).
EQ.
Mansur Brown - "Heiwa"
clarify this for me breh.
the cac mamba
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I dont agree with this sentiment at all,i woulda passed,i dont care who the actors and directors are...thats disrespectful even to him esp them knowing it was going to gross hundreds of millions worldwide...
Youre an actor thats what you for a living what you mean its not about money
It certainly aint about respect cuz they lil brothered ur ass,thats just me..
I would told em to shove that offer somewhere...
Youre an actor thats what you for a living what you mean its not about money
It certainly aint about respect cuz they lil brothered ur ass,thats just me..
I would told em to shove that offer somewhere...
LastManStanding
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Men in Black 3 grossed $624M on a $215M budget.
that breaks down to a net profit of about $343M (before taxes) because the studio typically sees 55% of the total revenue, the theaters get the other 45%. now take that away from the $215M production budget and you're left with about $128M in profit.
if Will got paid $100M for that movie then good for him, but he would have had to get like damn near 50% of everything (box office and sales/rentals) in order to make that happen. I just don't see it.
that breaks down to a net profit of about $343M (before taxes) because the studio typically sees 55% of the total revenue, the theaters get the other 45%. now take that away from the $215M production budget and you're left with about $128M in profit.
if Will got paid $100M for that movie then good for him, but he would have had to get like damn near 50% of everything (box office and sales/rentals) in order to make that happen. I just don't see it.