Go, Scarlet Johansson! That seems pretty cut and dry to me, hope she can make a dent. I think Disney shot Pixar in the foot too. All of Disney’s new stuff has been premier access, but then they released Luca normally from day one, which seemed a little messed up to me. Disney is a jerk.
Downey received a US$20 million salary up front, as well as 8 per cent on the movie’s back-end points. This means he gets a percentage of the profits, which came to an additional US$55 million.
I mean... the Disney corporation deserves a good kick in the nuts for a lot of reasons, but dropping a serial abuser/stalker who was committing those crimes at the time of his employment from their family-friendly franchise isn’t one of them. If RDJ was chasing his wife down to punch her in the face in front of their…
Disney will pursue a settlement, even if the legal team thinks they’ve got a fair chance in court. They stand to lose alot by disclosing specifics of the streaming model in court filings. If you thought regular movie studio budgets were accounting gymnastics and sorcery before streaming, the streaming side laid bare…
Sounds like another contract law case that should be resolvable in five minutes - setting aside the damages calculations, of course - but will instead take years.
Honestly, one of the big “holy shit” ideas is that this didn’t happen earlier. My guess, which is somewhat supported by her attorneys’ claims, is that her side had been trying to work something out before going to court but Disney wasn’t having it.
Disney’s response is pretty terrible. Basically shaming her for having already made $20 million and saying she doesn’t care about the safety of her audience. They took advantage of Covid fears to boost subscriptions to their streaming service, bragged about how much money they made from it, and now that someone is…
DISNEY having the balls to claim “callous disregard for the horrific and prolonged global effects of the COVID-19 pandemic” is fucking WILD.
Wait, she is one of Marvel’s most bankable stars? Unpopular opinion—she is a great sidekick or part of an ensemble, but she’s not a main character. Not in any version of the Marvel universe. ScarJo does great with what she’s given, (I guess?), but really, talk about biting the hand that feeds you.
It also goes somewhat surprisingly hard, suggesting that the suit the suit is “especially sad and distressing in its callous disregard for the horrific and prolonged global effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Guess Disney and ScarJo had to look closer at those contracts for box office compensation.
“Buy ‘em out, boys!”
I think it’s time the industry realizes theaters are dead and they will not be coming back to the way things used to be. Next time, negotiate for a cut of the streaming too.
Completely on the worker’s side here. Pay them properly for the work they have done.
It’s clear the model will need to change: Maybe the answer is sales from theatrical release and premium sales? That’s will be the minimum starting point.
But yeah... I get the context of the situation and how the new model screws…
That’s ‘retire and never work again’ money, I get the appeal and also, let’s be fair, Disney+ made a killing on that premium tier, figure even if you just had 10M worldwide buy in That's almost 160M profit for them to split with no one and the worldwide buy in is likely to be triple or quadruple that at a minimum. So…
This story and the subsequent movie version, could have more legs to it than the Black Widow movie itself. Promises, lies, manipulation, deceit, megabucks involved...just need throw in some sex angles and a lot of violence and special effects and this might be a hit.
Meh, she’s just pursuing money she thinks she’s owed. It doesn’t have to be personal or malicious and I doubt it would end their relationship should another opportunity for both parties to make money in the future arise.
The ramifications of this suit are potentially huge, considering that a lot of major players in Hollywood have strongly objected to the way studios dumped their films on streaming platforms in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic,
i saw it in the theater. im sure as hell not going to see a marvel movie and use a soundbar or built in tv speakers. it would be like seeing a picture of paris and saying good enough.
I didn’t expect the first Guardians of the Galaxy to hit a billion because it was full of obscure characters and seemed like it would have a tone completely different to the rest of the MCU.