Hello to all , I'm new so apologies if this topic was done to death in the past !
A few queries:-
1) Someone mentioned fees for the script and 2.5 percent etc for video sales.Another thread suggested that writers virtually never get a percent of gross box office.Those two dont seem to reconcile.
I understand there are minimum percents for TVshowings etc , but what do writers get in practice?
Joanne ( "JK") Rowling( Harry Potter) got a percent of merchandising too.
Does anyone know what the likely percentages of box office
takings and merchandising would be on a run of mill , good and outstanding script.( if any).
2)The consensus on here seems to be that writers dont get enough.If Tom Cruise gets 15m a go ( and hes got his fair share of critics!) what do the REAL A list writers get?
( and the B's!)
OK a poor script can be glossed up with good direction , acting and budget but surely the start point is the story?
Are the big studios fixated with developing stars and leveraging big budget scripts against upcomers who have superior story craft?
Rowling spent something like 6 years , earning zero money to write the Potter books , hoping to then sell them.
For the small chance of a couple of hundred k ( I know she got much more eventually!) how many people would really risk putting all that work in?
Thanks and regards to all.
A few queries:-
1) Someone mentioned fees for the script and 2.5 percent etc for video sales.Another thread suggested that writers virtually never get a percent of gross box office.Those two dont seem to reconcile.
I understand there are minimum percents for TVshowings etc , but what do writers get in practice?
Joanne ( "JK") Rowling( Harry Potter) got a percent of merchandising too.
Does anyone know what the likely percentages of box office
takings and merchandising would be on a run of mill , good and outstanding script.( if any).
2)The consensus on here seems to be that writers dont get enough.If Tom Cruise gets 15m a go ( and hes got his fair share of critics!) what do the REAL A list writers get?
( and the B's!)
OK a poor script can be glossed up with good direction , acting and budget but surely the start point is the story?
Are the big studios fixated with developing stars and leveraging big budget scripts against upcomers who have superior story craft?
Rowling spent something like 6 years , earning zero money to write the Potter books , hoping to then sell them.
For the small chance of a couple of hundred k ( I know she got much more eventually!) how many people would really risk putting all that work in?
Thanks and regards to all.
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