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Jan 12 13 12:02 AM
Ted Newsom wrote:Grrr. And rightly so.
On deferral.
After the film came out, and later went out on disk for rental and purchase, The tapeworm bragged about "making a big-budget-kind-of-film on a shoestring budget", to the press and media. Bragged that aside from the deferred work rates (again, let's remember this is amounting to around $200k for non USA rates, so that's at least half a mil of work, by IATSE and SAG standards), it only cost roughly $250,000 to get the film into the cinemas, and soon after, available for rental and sale on disk at dvd/video-stores.
Let that sink in. The Tapeworm says - basically - that the cost of the film was $50,000, to make prints of the work, the work that the Tapeworm conned everyone else to make for It.
The tapeworm, later, brags about how "its" film made over $750k. $750,000 at the box-office alone, without any dvd rentals or sales or merch or ancillary-profits, and this $750,000 was *after* the costs of the film-prints for the cinemas and theaters and all promotional costs, etc, had been deducted. "Adjusted gross".
So, there should have been *way over* $300,000 left over, from which to pay the minimal fees to everyone who worked on the film, the people who made that film happen. With a big chunk of change left over, which could be paid out in other ways, maybe in some parr passu arrangement, or to re-invest in a new film with some actual, proper salaries paid to below-the-line professionals.
Yet no-one who made the film happen for this %%%%-bag got paid. Other than the small coterie of smarmy "co-producers" and "executive-producers".
Costume designers? Seamstresses? Make-up artists? SFX Make-artists? Prop designers? The main storyboard artist who had to do over WAY over 200 pages of 'boards, with three frames/screens per board?
They never saw a dime.
That math does not work. But when questioned about these numbers that don't add up, when questioned on this con-job, the pieces of sh!tt involved said nothing. They merely disappeared, with the auteur apparently moving to below-the-line jobs for advertising and realty-TV crap.
They got off easy.
What really bites is when someone that starts as cast or crew, or a writer bitching about points on dvd sales, decides to make their own project, and because of their narcissistic $*@!+!@* (especially from some of these WGA wannabees who've barely been more than a Reader or a staff-writer on something like "Anger Management"), they have some metaphysical-aneurism, and afterwards, for some reason, believe that their presumed "talent" makes them a "Director" or "Creator" and that they can con people. This coming from their utterly-askew misperception of their so-called "talent", which til now has never made them more than one of the pages or Tracy Morgan's flunkies on 30 Rock.
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