Actors are not the ones who want to tie their wages to box office success, it's mainly in the studio's interest as this way the studio can keep the costs low when a movie disappoints at the box office. If they didn't include these backend deals they would have to pay A-listers like Scarlett a higher fixed salary than now. 20 million may seem outrageous to you but without backend deals A-listers would have gotten even higher fixed wages than that.
Tolstoy will live forever. Some people do. But that's not enough. It's not the length of a life that matters, just the depth of it. The chances we take. The paths we choose. How we go on when our hearts break. Hearts always break and so we bend with our hearts. And we sway. But in the end what matters is that we loved... and lived.
I don't think they spoke to her since they are all stunned by the law suit to the point Feige is very angry and he has a reputation for always been in control.
It's so funny how just 2 weeks ago, some of here on the box office thread were trying to make sense of the box office drop of BW in the 2nd week. who would have predicted this law suit was coming?
Scarjo had the pull to negotiate a front end deal on a marvel movie. Come on. Her agents said look ScarJo you can get 30 million, but with a backend deal on a movie like this with how huge marvel is we will negotiate like this you will make a lot more money. This thing is gonna do a billion. And it would have. No doubt in my mind. But the pandemic happened. There are actors with front end deals. Unless you are saying there aren't. Then you have a point.
A good part of my potential wages are tied to my company's financial success. If they underrepresent their performance, there's legitimate action I can take. I have nothing at all to do with show business. If they intentionally tank a certain part of their business, or manage it in a risky and unconventional way that impacts what I can expect in earnings, there is legitimate action to take.
Are you asserting Disney intentionally tanked this film and Jungle Cruise? To not pay their actors? Or managed it badly during a pandemic? What the heck were they suppose to do? They had 3 choices. Release it in theaters only. Not release it. Release it in a hybrid fashion. ScarJo filed the lawsuit. No one else has. In the middle of a pandemic. I mean Disney released Mulan only on Disney plus. They didn't want to do that. That doesnt benefit them. They did what they could. I haven't seen any of those people file a lawsuit.
I don’t if this applies. But my experience is whenever there’s a dispute between a company and a union member, it will first go to a third party arbitrator for a hearing. The arbitrator will rule on the case. If one or both sides disagrees with that ruling than the next step is to file a lawsuit if they choose. I think there was an arbitration hearing and ScarJo disagreed with the ruling.