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Tom Cruise Takes a Pay Cut for Mission Impossible 4?
Tom Cruise is reportedly taking a “significant” cut in his up-front payday for the next installment of the Mission Impossible film franchise. He’s hoping to make up the difference on the back end with, what we can all assume, will be a bigger piece of the gross profits since no one is stupid enough to take net points on anything in Hollywood. I saw this covered on a few sites but it appears to have originated … Read entire article »
Filed under: Film / Television / Media
Who wants to be a $269.4 millionaire? Disney loses case brought by creators
In another Hollywood Accounting story that broke yesterday and another one involving The Mouse, Disney lost a suit brought on by Celador International, the owners and creators of the television game show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire in 2004. The loss has been reported around the web including at Bloomburg and the details are nothing new. Basically they are claiming that claiming Disney arm Buena Vista and the ABC network “through a complex web of self-dealing … Read entire article »
Filed under: Film / Television / Media
Hollywood Accounting II: Disney screws The Cheetah Girls author
Like the story about Warner Bros saying Harry Potter lost money for them, here’s another story of Hollywood Accounting at it’s finest. Disney, if their battle to cut out the family owners of Winnie The Pooh is any evidence, has the reputation of putting the screws to anyone for the sake of a profit. Looks like they did the ol’ Hollywood Accounting one-two blow to the author of the books that spawned the popular (and apparently … Read entire article »
Filed under: Film / Television / Media
Warner Brothers says Harry Potter is a loser!
In the latest edition of Hollywood Accounting slight of hand (some would say out-and-out deception) Warner Brothers Studio is saying that they lost money and are still not in the profit on HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX even though the film brought in 938 MILLION dollars and holds the #9 position on all time World-Wide Box Office grossing films. Nikki Finke’s Deadline.com got their hands on the balance sheet for the film and … Read entire article »
Filed under: Film / Television / Media
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