{"id":390142,"date":"2010-03-04T12:52:06","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T17:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.economist.com,21005172"},"modified":"2010-03-04T12:52:06","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T17:52:06","slug":"will-work-for-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/390142","title":{"rendered":"Will work for food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RECESSIONS are hard on everyone, even Hollywood megastars. The <em>New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/04\/movies\/04stars.html?hp\">peers inside<\/a> the paycheques of the movie business&#8217; top actors during this time of tightened belts:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When the estimated salaries of all 10 of the top acting nominees are  combined, the total is only a little larger than the $20 million that  went to Julia Roberts for her appearance in \u201cErin  Brockovich,\u201d a best-picture nominee in 2001, or to Russell Crowe for \u201cMaster  and Commander,\u201d  nominated in 2004.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Maths whizzes will note that that comes to around $2 million per actor, but the money isn&#8217;t evenly distributed. Stars of some major pictures, including the leads in the billion dollar movie &#8220;Avatar&#8221;, apparently worked for salaries at or near guild minimums, though the story mentions that actors often benefit from large bonuses earned from successful pictures. About those guild minimums, we learn:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>For the most part guild minimums are set in a provision of the Screen Actors Guild  contract that Hollywood cognoscenti refer to as Schedule F. It requires  than an actor receive at least $65,000 for work in a feature film.  Overtime is negotiable. The actor must be fed and, at some point,  allowed to rest.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>At some point, preferably after the movie is finished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RECESSIONS are hard on everyone, even Hollywood megastars. The New York Times peers inside the paycheques of the movie business&#8217; top actors during this time of tightened belts: When the estimated salaries of all 10 of the top acting nominees are combined, the total is only a little larger than the $20 million that went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}