Actually, it’s either a) big name actors who are demanding more money upfront because of disappearing residuals, or b) shooting in expensive locations. There are many such cases of both of these factors coming together to create a perfect storm too.
Say what you will about Sound Of Freedom, but that movie was made on a $14.5 million dollar budget by an indie studio shooting at economic locations while not overpaying the main cast. If this was made by a major studio, I bet it would cost about $75 million at least to make the same looking movie with equivalent-calibre actors and similar looking locations. (It should also be pointed out that Angel Studios has already agreed to the Hollywood unions’ terms, so it’s likely they have already been giving their actors and writers fair residuals for awhile now, due to their low resistance to the terms.)
So the writers are underpaid, the actors are underpaid, the VFX people are underpaid…
When they blow $200M making a movie, where does the money go?
Investors, bigwigs and big name actors I would guess.
And the companies that act as middlemen.
If they pay a vfx studio 10 million, not even a tenth of that goes to salary. And what does, gets sucked up by executives at the company.
That system should at least mean steady work for the artists, but then they only have jobs while the company has a project
Actually, it’s either a) big name actors who are demanding more money upfront because of disappearing residuals, or b) shooting in expensive locations. There are many such cases of both of these factors coming together to create a perfect storm too.
Say what you will about Sound Of Freedom, but that movie was made on a $14.5 million dollar budget by an indie studio shooting at economic locations while not overpaying the main cast. If this was made by a major studio, I bet it would cost about $75 million at least to make the same looking movie with equivalent-calibre actors and similar looking locations. (It should also be pointed out that Angel Studios has already agreed to the Hollywood unions’ terms, so it’s likely they have already been giving their actors and writers fair residuals for awhile now, due to their low resistance to the terms.)
Plenty of way better movies we’re made for similar or less adjusted for inflation
https://collider.com/best-low-budget-films-into-blockbusters/#slumdog-millionaire
It’s not that rare, and Sound of Freedom’s cast wasn’t high tier.
Tom Cruise has to get to his next Scientology level SOMEHOW, stop thinking of only yourself
Those shell companies on the Caiman Islands set up to account away all the profits don’t pay for themselves, you know?
Hollywood accounting is almost as notorious as Louisiana politics for being crooked, labyrinthine, and nigh arcane.
Seriously, it’s a fucking crazy web of financial fuckery.