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Post by igs on Aug 24, 2017 12:00:02 GMT
I'm not sure why ER should have more income than BC and I didn't even read that Forbes article oops I'm just bored and procrastinating by talking out of my ass. But, he is an Oscar winner - whatever one personally thinks about said win (I still am bitter that Jake Gyllenhaal didn't even get a nomination for Nightcrawler haha) - which should hike up his fees. And even though I thought Fantastic Beasts was awful it did make a ton of $$$.
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Post by sgev1977 on Aug 24, 2017 12:37:37 GMT
I'm not sure an Oscar win helps nowadays with the paycheck if the movie isn't popular enough but who knows. Sometimes it's the negotiation and not the real numbers. That could explain why people like a few of the Marvel gang are so high even when outside the franchise they aren't exactly hit makers. Or they are just finally becoming rich thanks to just their superhero characters after years of cynical reports about how little they earned and how people doesn't even knew their names!
In theory the huge box office should help ER with the sequel salary but I thought we were talking about fist movies numbers. Anyway he is not in the list. Maybe there is another source but it's not Forbes.
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Post by igs on Aug 24, 2017 14:39:50 GMT
In theory the huge box office should help ER with the sequel salary but I thought we were talking about fist movies numbers. Anyway he is not in the list. Maybe there is another source but it's not Forbes. It was a bit unclear to me what we were talking about re: ER to be honest. Fantastic Beasts was a guaranteed hit though, so I suppose he didn't start of very low to begin with (neither did BC for Strange, of course, especially compared to the Phase I people like Chrises Hemsworth and Evans who got like 250k or something for their first MCU films.) You're right about the Oscar. But Theory of Everything was popular enough, it's no TIG or another indie hit such as that one (the one that always comes to mind being similar to TIG in terms of budget and eventual boxoffice is Silver Linings Playbook which is a good comparison to be had!) but it isn't some obscure movie that won someone an Oscar because they "were due" or the film was "important". So I imagine it might have affected ER's salary quite a bit.
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Post by dreamsincolour on Aug 24, 2017 23:27:24 GMT
Just to be clear, ER wasn't on the top 10 list of male actors, but it did specify at the end that he and Liam Neeson had only just missed the cut At $13M. Not the top 10, but that still put him ahead of BC for only the one Fantastic Beasts film. And for all I always thought it would do well, there was quite a lot of speculation that JKR's extension of that world without Harry Potter was a stretch too far, especially as a period story that wasn't based on a known popular book. And until JKR and co proved the audience was there in practice, it was still an unknown quantity. In view of that, I do think ER must have had a fantastic agent to get him a $13M deal for it from the off, especially when there are plans for 5 more. It would have made sense to hold back re the first testing of the waters. That's why Marvel starting small for their earlier unknown quantities made sense, although that $250K starter figure for the likes of Chris Hemsworth does seem incredibly tiny!
But I don't think it's winning an Oscar, per se, that inflates salary. Producers don't just pay more for the sake of it. They pay more because of the presumption/hope that that person will be worth more to them, by their resultant greater visibility and acclaim putting more paying bums on seats. And reality is that I don't think that ER is a significantly bigger box office draw now than he was before the Oscar. If he was, I think "The Danish Girl" would have taken more money. Just to be clear, though, I'm not trying to run ER down, and I actually think that general audiences are rather moving away from following particular actors unless the film is of interest too (which applies to BC as well), I'm just surprised at that level of money.
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Post by sgev1977 on Aug 25, 2017 0:02:57 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Aug 28, 2017 19:50:21 GMT
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Post by roverpup on Aug 28, 2017 22:22:50 GMT
Can't wait to see this hopefully on Youtube. :-))
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Post by sgev1977 on Aug 31, 2017 11:11:02 GMT
Weirdly it wasn't announced for the London Film Festival. If it will be released in the U.K. until next year it will be out of the BAFTA awards so it's very weird. It still could be the "surprise" movie of the festival.
Other (my own) theories: Weinstein really has financial problems; he has a new award strategy or he plans more changes ahead (a la buying some hit in another festival like it happened with Philomena to be his new favorite)
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Post by onebluestocking on Aug 31, 2017 14:28:31 GMT
Maybe he's not worried, since BC never wins the BAFTA anyway.
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Post by kreizimam on Aug 31, 2017 14:36:52 GMT
Is it out yet? Is it out yet? Is it out yet?
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