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Black Widow | July 9 2021 | ScarJo secures the bag from Disney

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6 hours ago, AJG said:


None the HBO Max People have caused a stink at all.

 

Im guessing she wants more of the “hush up and leave” money they’ve been handing out to actors recently.

 

I think (at least the big name like people on wonder woman) negotiated and got bought out of their participation bonus by Warner cleanly:

including Warner Brothers who, on information and belief, settled with its talent on films such as Wonder Woman after it released those films “day-and-date” to its streaming service HBO Max last year – Disney and Marvel largely ignored Ms. Johansson, essentially forcing her to file this action.

 

4 hours ago, Menor said:

From the article it sounds like her contract pretty clearly stipulated theatrical regardless, so not sure how this is relevant.

The movie did had a theatrical release of more than 1,500 theater has by the contract, the dispute is about the theatrical windows which is not mentionned in it (because in 2017 that was so automatic they did not think of it)

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10 hours ago, Valonqar said:

I just want to remind everyone that this was in the works well before the movie came out and we only now got the announcement. So speculation that she only decided after the movie underperformed doesn't hold. Her layers must have been on it ever since Disney announced the hybrid release but they are ready now.

 

To try to show harm and have a case they need for BW to clearly and without reasonable doubt having a lower performance than a traditionally release without D+ would have done in the COVID world I think (which number could be quite low in the current environment), if this was going to go over 700m not sure it happen.

 

It was in the talk since even before COVID, when D+ became a big thing (there is e-mail from 2019 in there) that I would imagine and in the work since the decision was made also, but they need harm, they need a lower than reasonable to expect BO for it to make sense.

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Reading the deadline release case, I think that made my impression of the moment when supposed leak of her deal started to be talked about to be right:

The source added that Scarlett will also get a revenue bonus if the movie does well at the box office, meaning she could walk away with $31m 

 

alleges she's lost more than $50million in earnings as a result of Black Widow being released on Disney+ at the same time as theaters

 

That sound like she had the usual old school 20M+10% "gross" type of deals like the Bullock-Jolie-Denzel-Depp were getting, the idea that a 8 figures headliners would have a bonus structure that cap at 6m.... of them being just 20% of the total compensation would make the concept of bonus completely useless.

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5 hours ago, Last Man Standing said:

There's no way they'll let it get to court.


Hopefully this press is doing enough damage that they have to pay up and settle with her out of court. 
 

Good for ScarJo leading the way. Hopefully others will have the confidence to follow if they’ve also been ripped off. And hopefully it changes contracts going forward and keeps the fairness. 

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4 minutes ago, SpiderByte said:

Uhhhhhhh no. Definitely not true.

 

 

 

 

WB paid all their people their money and we've not heard about the "sanctity of the cinematic experience" since.

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So, I noticed after re-reading the statement Disney left that they say:

 

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The release of Black Widow on Disney+ with Premier Access has significantly enhanced her ability to earn additional compensation on top of the $20M she has received to date

 

At first glance, that does seem to imply Disney planned to compensate or make it up to her in some way.

 

They had to make some kind of deal with both Emily Blunt and the Rock over Jungle Cruise because they seemed to fully support the dual release of their film with the Rock being the one to first announce it on his Instagram feed.

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8 minutes ago, Yandereprime101189 said:

They had to make some kind of deal with both Emily Blunt and the Rock over Jungle Cruise because they seemed to fully support the dual release of their film with the Rock being the one to first announce it on his Instagram feed.

Is Rock producer of Jungle Cruise? Not necessarily his fee linked with theatrical revenue.

 

Edit: Yes he is. So yeah probably some negotiations were done there.

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King Kevin is allegedly peeved at Disney. He didn’t want to do a hybrid release (guess he won that pony) and now this ScarJo money mess.

 

(FYI Report came from former THR reporter Matt Belloni, which CB 3rd partied.) 

 

Good job Disney, peeving off one of your few dependable earners. 

 

 

https://comicbook.com/marvel/news/marvel-studios-kevin-feige-report-disney-black-widow-release/

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2 hours ago, eddyxx said:

I guess this is national news now, they’re talking about ScarJo sueing Disney on Morning Joe today 👀

 

When was the last time the studio producing the biggest franchise in the world got sued by its star just a few weeks out of their major summer release?  It's pretty unprecedented, even in the film industry, so it's big news.  

 

 

2 hours ago, charlie Jatinder said:

Is Rock producer of Jungle Cruise? Not necessarily his fee linked with theatrical revenue.

 

Edit: Yes he is. So yeah probably some negotiations were done there.

 

"THE ROCK "PRODUCES" EVERYTHING HE SIGNS ONTO NOW, CHUMP!"  😂

 

the rock can your grandmother do that GIF by The Titan Games

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10 hours ago, Barnack said:

Reading the deadline release case, I think that made my impression of the moment when supposed leak of her deal started to be talked about to be right:

The source added that Scarlett will also get a revenue bonus if the movie does well at the box office, meaning she could walk away with $31m 

 

alleges she's lost more than $50million in earnings as a result of Black Widow being released on Disney+ at the same time as theaters

 

That sound like she had the usual old school 20M+10% "gross" type of deals like the Bullock-Jolie-Denzel-Depp were getting, the idea that a 8 figures headliners would have a bonus structure that cap at 6m.... of them being just 20% of the total compensation would make the concept of bonus completely useless.

 

Why would they give her that deal when they didn't even give it to RDJ?  He reportedly made $50m on IM3 with a back end deal.  His reported deal for Endgame was $20m upfront and 8% on the movies break even back end points.

 

10% of gross would have meant giving her $100m on a a $1b film.  No way was that happening - especially if they were paying her $25m up front

 

Even so, there's no way that BW would have made $500m more during a Pandemic release with a 90 day window.  That $50m potential loss is pie in the sky numbers.

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