It doesn’t particular matter for Gerard because “net profits” or points on the net profits are called Monkey points in the industry for a reason.

Any accounting firm hired by a major studio (or any studio with the juice to find $70m worth of financing) can show a movie with domestic grosses of only $170m had no net…

So, looking up the law, it gets even weirder.

Normally resisting arrest and obstruction are two separate charges. In Georgia, resisting arrest is rolled into obstruction. However, the statute states that you can be charged with resisting arrest, with or without using force. This raises an important question:

How the…

Their talent was top-tier, no doubt, but neither was consider an A-list, box office draw actor at the time (compared to people like DiCaprio, Smith, Bale, Denzel, and Cruise). In fact, Marvel took a risk with RDJ because of his prior substance abuse issues and the fact he wasn’t a big name star, but this also provided…

ScarJo didn’t join the MCU until Iron Man 2. We already had Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk, so it’s hard to say the business model is necessarily hiring top-tier talent, since of the talent they had by the time of the release of The Incredibly Hulk, two of the main actors were already gone (Howard and Norton). RDJ…

Exactly.

Unless the contract stipulated that the theatrical release would be the exclusive release for a set period of time, Disney was under no obligation to renegotiate the contract for the financial benefit of ScarJo.

Trust me, if Disney (namely their lawyers) felt they had a legal obligation to renegotiate the…

No it wouldn’t have (the box office, that is).

It would’ve been on the level of Ant-Man at worst, Dr. Strange at best, but with a significantly higher budget compared to Ant-Man (to the tune of about $70-100m).

Black Widow isn’t that interesting of a character, the story isn’t particularly interesting or relevant, it’s…

Correction: She and her lawyers claim the contract said that. Disney disputes this. Hence the lawsuit.

Corporations do bad and evil shit all the time, especially Disney. However, it’s a bit silly and presumptuous to assume that 1. Disney and their lawyers would either purposefully or mistakenly cost themselves millions…

I mean, right now, it’s on par domestically with A Quiet Place Part II (and only beating it by around $30m internationally, also amazing considering you’re talking about an MCU film vs. a horror sequel), which is astounding since it’s a horrow movie sequel with a budget 1/4 to 1/5 the size of Black Widow’s.

It’s simple…

Her accent is so similar to Penelope Cruz’s accent as Donatella Versace is (of course) Ryan Murphy’s The Assassination of Gianni Versace, I can’t unhear it.

It’s also reminding me a lot of American Hustle, from overstuffing the film with Oscar winners and nominees, to the aesthetic, to trying to glamor up and make more…

This makes me think back to why the show Prince Charming, or any dating show focused on same-sex relationships simply wouldn’t work.

One of the things that allows opposite-sex shows to work is that although a guy or a woman might not be interested in the focal point of desire, they can either go home or be sent home,…

This is often because, due to the format, Law & Order can write and film episodes while there’s still legal concerns being underway for the real-life people and events they reference. It might be overly prejudicial and biased in terms of being put out into the public by a popular show if they take a real-life event…

Food allergies are less about cleanliness and more about a general streamlining of diets, ironically enough, away from foods specifically to avoid allergies.

Many parents avoid giving their children foods commonly associated with allergies (such as peanuts and shellfish) for fear of causing an allergic reaction, when…

I’m guessing the sued part was her former landlord accusing her of immoral behavior as a way to get her to move out. He might have dropped the word “sued” informally, but didn’t actually go through with filing in court. It’s a really shady tactic by landlords because the process itself takes a long time, and if the…

That’s exactly my point.

There’s no way that Disney (or any studio) would keep the percentages or the bonus breakpoints the same given the relative increase in the price of the “ticket”.

You’re right. I don’t think she’s gonna get the full $50m, unless in her contract Disney/Marvel guaranteed exclusivity for a…

Some friends, (who are in the Air Force), were talking about this last week.

Apparently, they had a near Airman who had just joined their unit, and who apparently didn’t think he smelled. He would take showers, sure, but he never used any deodorant. After awhile (and because you don’t get to take as many showers as…

Gotta say, badass reference to “Children’s Story” and the incomparable Slick Rick.

The only thing different on a PC (and I have two M2 drives currently) is that you don’t need a separate spacer (although the screw acts as one, and you don’t need a heatsink.

In fact, I don’t think you need a heatsink in the technical sense, because an M2 NVME drive is designed to run without one (and I’m not sure how…

No company is going to pay either percentages or bonuses off of what are essentially 3x the price of a theatrical ticket, especially when they can keep most (if not all, in the case of Disney, since they distribute their own films) of that money by not having to pay the theaters their cut.

Having worked in more than a…

To your last point, if there’s no explicit promise of theater exclusivity for X period of time, it would take a tortured reading of the contract to say that it disallowed other methods of release, particularly Disney+, since that didn’t even exist when the contract was drawn up and the movie started filming.

If you negotiate a back end deal with talent, you can’t fuck them by removing the mechanism by which they make that back end.