On a related note that’s more relevant to the readers of AV Club, never accept equity in exchange for a salary. For every startup that turned into Facebook, there are ten thousand that never made a dime - and even in the unlikely event that your company does hit it big in the IPO, there’s still a chance that…

Absolutely true. Same way billionaires & big corps like amazon don’t pay taxes. Our tax system is trash.

You kidding?

It didn’t do as well as we thought. We can pay you in taters.

No they didn’t. What the fuck are you talking about? Jackson sued over points on gross and they settled and then he agreed to make another trilogy for them. New Line never claimed the trilogy lost money, which would be absurd to even try. The argument was over how many hundreds of millions were considered gross. 

My Big Fat Greek Wedding didn’t “lose money” and Gold Circle never claimed it did. Nor did any of the other movies you mentioned that I’m familiar with the accounting on. Gold Circle paid out over $40 mil in points even before the lawsuit. The issue in that particular case was that Gold Circle was claiming around $280…

It depends if he was offered net or gross. A-listers can get gross, meaning a flat percentage of the box office. Nobody takes net, also called points, unless they have no choice. Even if your movie was successful the studio can distribute the losses on other movies it did that fiscal year and show no net profits.

Or a cardboard box. When the trope of hoboes wearing barrels originated, lots of food and other items were shipped in barrels, and stores would simply take the top off to sell from them in bulk (flour, sugar, etc.) . So empty ones could easily be found for free.

Do you know how much Whisky distilleries will pay for an old barrel!

I like Worthington’s performance in Avatar. Him being an unknown actor makes the fish-out-of-water aspect of the story stronger in my book.

Considering how the franchise was/is in production hell, it might have actually done more harm if he was constantly unavailable due to shoots that never see the light of day.

Columbia is really just an intern at Sony

well first you add in the marketing, which you never admit how much it costs if the movie isn’t a huge hit, and then you can probably add in every single cost of a courier delivering a can of film (when that still happened) or maybe a $50 service fee for every time the digital file was emailed and then...didn’t those…

You’re drastically underestimating how good at fucking over creatives Hollywood studio accounting departments are. Some examples of movies that have (according to their studios) never turned a net profit: Return of the Jedi, Forrest Gump, Men in Black, Spider-Man, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix... the list…

10% of profits would not be 10% of the box office gross. Likely the studio would have found a way to claim Avatar lost money.

I love that you have that with your daughter! I am guessing at 17 mine will want absolutely nothing to do with me (given she’s only in kindergarten and already demands her independence even when walking down the street)! I will probably watch my trashy TV alone while she judges me for it.

I’m assuming this iteration of GG is for every Social Media corporation. As its a steady stream of free advertising for them.

“the original teens had grown up and were now playing themselves as 30 year olds dealing with an office gossip”

I never watched the original and have no idea who played what role, but before this article described the new show, I had assumed from the picture that whomever had played the original teens had grown up and were now playing themselves as 30 year olds dealing with an office gossip. Why are we still casting people that…

If I wanted to see a bunch of rich libs throwing around progressive buzzwords to feel better about their privilege and be petty to each others I’d just log on twitter.