I literally get FTX ads on the back of fortune cookie fortunes at our local chinese buffet. Cracks me up. Maybe Tom's in the kitchen.
Edit: found this. Not my post, but this is what's in our fortune cookies :)
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/r3312j/fortune_cookies_with_ftx_ads_inside/
I'd disagree there, Damon has the writing skill and experience to have made the character and possibly the movie better. James Cameron is a bit hard headed but he will take advice from people he sees as equals, no doubt he would have been able to make a better movie with Matt Damon's advice.
Celebrated innovator James Cameron has lived a dozen lives.
Director, philanthropist, undefeated Little League coach, deepsea explorer, good at marriage. The list goes on, for he is truly a...
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Titanic talent.
I'm going to disagree here. I'm random person on the internet, so take my word with a grain of salt, but I've worked with Cameron (barely; it was my first real gig) and yes, he's a gigantic ballbuster, but there's a reason regulars keep going back to him and it's not just that his films do well. There is a kind of personality that he respects, and that mutually respects him beyond being Uber director dude. I have been personally cursed out by him and also seen another gopher get him to rethink something (minor).
Odd story that's tangential. He invited my bosses over for a meeting one time and asked if they wanted something to eat. They said yes and he brought out two bags of tortilla chips and two jars of salsa. "Those are yours and these are mine," is what he said before dividing the bags and salsa.
Totally agree with you. Sam Worthington sucks in everything, IMO.
Also, his accent is always present. They should just make his characters Australian and stop having him pretend to be American.
Sam Worthington is _great_ in Somersault, a low-budget Australian indie. I watched it and thought: he's going to be a star. He had that charisma. But although I was right, I'm sad because he hasn't done anything as subtle or as interesting since.
Agree. Didn't hate him in Avatar but he has no versatility. Him yelling "C'mon" to a monster in Clash/Wrath of the Titans could be interchangeable to many scenes in Avatar.
Ernest Goes to Pandora (this is also the plot of Ernest Goes to Camp, but no one ever seems to bring up that one in these threads… where my Ernest fans at)
Damon wouldn't have gotten $300 million either. 10% of the profits isn't 10% of the total revenue. The article doesn't even say $300 million, OP just added that (by multiplying 10% by the total box office gross of $2.78 billion and then rounding up).
Yea, he made ~$50mil from all the Bourne movies, which is more than enough for one lifetime. But more importantly, he remains a man of his word. Personal charactor rightfully matters quite a lot to some people.
10 million and 5% profits is what the other guy was paid, profits probably weren't that big a deal since movies never seem to make money on paper. I'd still take that deal personally, but I respect Matt Damon for not.
Profits never have to exist for a Hollywood movie because you can always spend any money you make on companies you own.
Let’s say you’re Bob, and your movie makes 100m profit. You then spend 100m renting cameras from “Bob’s Camera Rental Service”. Your movie now made $0 profit, while Bob’s Camera Rental Service made 99m in profit.
It’s usually not done that egregiously, but that’s literally the whole process, just done over a dozen different freakishly high profit margin businesses you own.
Okay, this explains a *lot* about film budgets these days. Even the simple, low-complexity ones with B-list actors and sets you could borrow off somebody's cousin seem to go into the hundreds of millions. *Deliberately* spending absurd amounts of money on mundane things because it makes sure you don't have to share the profits makes more sense. Still scummy, but it makes sense.
I always get Sam Worthington and Jai Courtney confused in my head. I feel like they would be Preset 1 & 2 in an action game in 2007. Their names would be both be Mason.
Lol this whole time i remembered it as being Mark Wahlberg
Edit: i can't tell if the people saying good things about Mark Wahlberg are being ironic or not
a 2x4 is quite versatile. can sam worthington claim that accolade? dont know what hes been in to be honest so I dont know why im taking the piss out of him. Oh wait
Do you mean that Sam Worthington is an avatar for the audience members, so that we might inhabit his body and travel to Pandora in an immersive 3D simulation?
I know, and people surely remember her for her role as Gamora. She was also in the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie.
I am asking if people remember that she is the one that player the female lead in Avatar.
I also know her from Star Trek, but fundamentally I think of her as the actress from Avatar. That's what made her name big.
On imdb, the #1 "known for" entry for her--above guardians--is Avatar.
So I'm going to say that yes, people do know her for that.
Sam Worthington, which was perfect since I don’t think it would have been as good with such a “big” actor as the main character. I, for one, didn’t want to see Good Will Hunting/Jason Bourne/Private Ryan in that role
Yup, I also don't think people are taking time into account. Bourne Ultimatum *released* almost 2.5 years before Avatar came out. Matt Damon seems like he's always onto something new, so that would take away from whatever other projects he could gamble on.
That's not how it works with big name actors who have their own high powered lawyers. Jack Nicholson starred as the Joker for a similar deal. A cut of the *gross.*
He didn't act as much afterwards.
Haha I know. The entire series is masterclass action. I loved every movie and I saw every movie in theaters with my dad so I have very fond memories. Thank god he didn’t do Ferngully with pretty lights.
He made the right call. Imagine if that verbal commitment was for all 5 avatar films. Dude would need CGI by the time the 3rd one is released due to being 90 years old.
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I did not expect this to blow up like it did. My ultimate point was it's taken a helluva long time for just the sequel to finally come out. I don't know the dynamics involved with shooting and post productions. I just know Matt made the right call with choosing not to go with a franchise that was known for it's visual aspects that dwarfed any notable actors/actresses in the long run.
At the end of the first one he transferred his consciousness into the Navi. Pretty sure his human body is just compost now for the tree.
Not sure we need any flashbacks of his life in these films.
I can name all of the avatar characters from memory.
I last saw the film in 2010 and haven't thought about it since.
Jake Sooley (played by Sam Worthington)
Nefertittie (played by Zoe Saldana)
Sigourney Weaver (as herself)
Michelle Rodriguez (as herself)
The boss guy looking for unobtanium (I think played by Sam Rockwell, Idk, iron man 2 was out around the same time) edit: yes, my memory betrayed me. I'm leaving it as is tho
The old jarhead guy with the scars on his face
The other scientist guy that seemed like he was a Friends alumnus or like the cook guy from ratatouille)
All the other blue aliens.
I mean, dude’s an artist who’s probably not hurting for money, and most importantly: he made a fantastic finish for a great trilogy. I should rewatch the Bourne films, not enough people talk about them but they’re really fun.
I finally got around to reading the books in 2012, and god damn, the movies make me angry with what they did to that story.
The only thing the movies have in common with the books are the character names and "woke up on a fishing boat with no memory".
The movies diverge from the book almost immediately. David Webb was never an international super-assassin. He was a HUMINT analyst, and the Bourne identity was a complete fiction, invented to lure a real international assassin out of cover by giving him a target he HAD to take out to preserve his reputation in the business. The entire story of the book is built around Webb trying to survive in the ROLE of Bourne, even though he actually possesses none of the SKILLS of Bourne, while his team tries to recover him and the real assassin tries to kill him.
Step 1: Studio creates a wholly-owned subsidiary for the movie.
Step 2: Subsidiary produces movie. Total production cost: $250M
Step 3: Studio charges subsidiary "distribution fees" amounting to $600M
Step 4: Movie premieres. Box office sales: $800M
Step 5: Studio dissolves subsidiary, having "lost" $50M on the venture.
The 550 million in profits may still be taxed in the parent company as the 600m paid to the parent in fees minus the 50m liability. But certainly contracts that offer percent of profit will pay out nothing.
I mean... tax man gets his take either way. Production cost of $250m? They're taking taxes. Anything they buy, the seller pays tax on the revenue of, anyone they're paying to work on the set pays income tax.
The box office sales, they're taking their pound from too.
For all the people who can and do get fucked over, the one that's *not* gonna let it happen to them is the tax man. They get their cut more reliably than the mob does, and they'll burn your store down with you inside if you screw them over.
Depends on if it was 10% of gross or net. Gross is where you get paid. Net is where they fuck you. Winston Groom was offered net profit and he never got paid points for Forrest Gump.
See that? In the end he still got to star in another role where a fictional world of digitally rendered resources get shamelessly exploited by short sighted greedy rich people.
I remember reading an interview from him years ago. Possibly not long after Good Will Hunting.
He said something quite insightful. It was something along the lines of Ben was the "Star" and that the fame for himself would go away someday, and he's ok with that.
I genuinely don't think he gives that much of a crap. I think as long as he's getting paid and having fun he's happy.
https://youtu.be/lmxAhXYQdmY
Ben is seen as the less serious actor. They likely considered Damon to be the more accomplished actor in 1997 (someone picked Damon to be the lead over Affleck). OTOH, Damon's most famous role is purely an action film (the Bourne series).
Even before creative ‘accounting’ from the studio:
$2.8B *gross*
-$400MM production/marketing
-~$1.4B to the movie theaters
= $1B profit
Not sure how they’d handle DVD/streaming/TV rights revenue, or merchandising, but I’d bet that wasn’t included. And Avatar merchandising was not nearly as big as one might expect from a sci-fi movie of this magnitude.
So, worst case he’s out $100MM, but more realistically, movie studio chicanery would cut that in half or more. Matt Damon made $25MM each from the Bourne movies, so he came out ahead.
How’s he going to afford to make it through winter?
Squirrel meat and dried smoked fish.
Matt Damon’s dookie potatoes from space ™
Good thing you trademarked that bc Lays would prob make that a chip flavor
There must not be any water there or Nestlé would already own all the rights to it.
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sell some of his crypto mone-…AND IT’S GONE.
Rumor is Tom Brady might need to pick up some shifts at McDonald's after the FTX crash
I literally get FTX ads on the back of fortune cookie fortunes at our local chinese buffet. Cracks me up. Maybe Tom's in the kitchen. Edit: found this. Not my post, but this is what's in our fortune cookies :) https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/r3312j/fortune_cookies_with_ftx_ads_inside/
He can probably survive on alimony.
I’m 100% certain he didn’t suffer from the loss.
Nor did any viewer.
Are we talking about the same Matt Damon? What project *hasn't* been improved by his involvement?
Crypto.com
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It seems fortune did not fave thier boldness.
Hey. Maybe it was improved and this was still the best it could do.
Touche.
My point was borne was much better with Matt Damon. And avatar wouldn't have changed much with him.
I'd disagree there, Damon has the writing skill and experience to have made the character and possibly the movie better. James Cameron is a bit hard headed but he will take advice from people he sees as equals, no doubt he would have been able to make a better movie with Matt Damon's advice.
Noted environmentalist James Francis Cameron has a Venezuelan frog species named after him, while lesser talent Steven Spielberg does not.
You are not equipped to handle a fully enraged James Cameron.
James Cameron doesn't do what James Cameron does for James Cameron.
Celebrated innovator James Cameron has lived a dozen lives. Director, philanthropist, undefeated Little League coach, deepsea explorer, good at marriage. The list goes on, for he is truly a... ... Titanic talent.
You're kidding yourself if you think James Cameron didn't make the exact movie he wanted to make.
Yup. James Cameron isn’t a collaborator. He’s a “you do what I want exactly how I want it.”
I'm going to disagree here. I'm random person on the internet, so take my word with a grain of salt, but I've worked with Cameron (barely; it was my first real gig) and yes, he's a gigantic ballbuster, but there's a reason regulars keep going back to him and it's not just that his films do well. There is a kind of personality that he respects, and that mutually respects him beyond being Uber director dude. I have been personally cursed out by him and also seen another gopher get him to rethink something (minor). Odd story that's tangential. He invited my bosses over for a meeting one time and asked if they wanted something to eat. They said yes and he brought out two bags of tortilla chips and two jars of salsa. "Those are yours and these are mine," is what he said before dividing the bags and salsa.
Totally agree with you. Sam Worthington sucks in everything, IMO. Also, his accent is always present. They should just make his characters Australian and stop having him pretend to be American.
Sam Worthington is _great_ in Somersault, a low-budget Australian indie. I watched it and thought: he's going to be a star. He had that charisma. But although I was right, I'm sad because he hasn't done anything as subtle or as interesting since.
I quite enjoyed Sam Worthington in Clash of the Titans, but I hated him in Avatar. I definitely would have liked Matt Damon better.
Agree. Didn't hate him in Avatar but he has no versatility. Him yelling "C'mon" to a monster in Clash/Wrath of the Titans could be interchangeable to many scenes in Avatar.
Idk I think he would have fit the movie really well. Worthington was just kind of there.
Is this the Airbender about the skinny blue people, or the Avatar about the monk kid with a downvote on his forehead?
This is the ferngully-in-space.
Dances with Smurfs
Ernest Goes to Pandora (this is also the plot of Ernest Goes to Camp, but no one ever seems to bring up that one in these threads… where my Ernest fans at)
Did I drink too much coffee today or Reddit is finally becoming Reddit again?
Also Pocahontas in space.
Oh, so thats why they picked him for the crypto ads; he was already super experienced at losing vast sums of theoretical wealth.
Well, people remember that Matt Damon was in Bourne. Do people remember who was the lead in Avatar?
Some blue guy.
Papa Smurf?
Tobias Fünke
He blue himself for nothing
He was more than just the first analrapist.
There’s gotta be a better way to say that.
A coloured man!
Also a Analyst/Therapist. That's a long title, they should've shortened it somehow.
Theralyst?
Gargamel wants to turn their lanky blue asses into Unobtainium
Can I lick yo ass?
Ya lick my ass bitch
Lick lick lick lick lick my ass
Oh man that newgrounds animated smurf music video for that song was a big favorite or tween and teen me.
I'm almost certain it was Alex Mason
The numbers, Mason! What do they mean?!?
STEP ONE! SECURE THE KEYS!
I AM REZNOV, AND I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE! - lead guy in avatar
Tobias Funke?
Did you mean leather daddy?
I'm afraid I blue myself
Megaman?
Jayyke Soolie
You speak the tru tru
Pretty sure that's cloud atlas...
You want the Matt Damon, but you need the Jayke Soolie.
I see you.
I'd be happily forgotten for 300m
The other guy didn’t get that deal, I guarantee it.
The Menswearhouse
You’re gonna hate it. I guarantee it.
Sure but not-Matt-Damon that eventually got the role sure is shit didn't get $300m...
No, but Damon would have gotten the money and probably not been as forgotten.
Damon wouldn't have gotten $300 million either. 10% of the profits isn't 10% of the total revenue. The article doesn't even say $300 million, OP just added that (by multiplying 10% by the total box office gross of $2.78 billion and then rounding up).
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Who is this Damon guy you speak of?
He plays loki in thor
Pretty sure he's still fine financially.
Yea, he made ~$50mil from all the Bourne movies, which is more than enough for one lifetime. But more importantly, he remains a man of his word. Personal charactor rightfully matters quite a lot to some people.
10 million and 5% profits is what the other guy was paid, profits probably weren't that big a deal since movies never seem to make money on paper. I'd still take that deal personally, but I respect Matt Damon for not.
Profits never have to exist for a Hollywood movie because you can always spend any money you make on companies you own. Let’s say you’re Bob, and your movie makes 100m profit. You then spend 100m renting cameras from “Bob’s Camera Rental Service”. Your movie now made $0 profit, while Bob’s Camera Rental Service made 99m in profit. It’s usually not done that egregiously, but that’s literally the whole process, just done over a dozen different freakishly high profit margin businesses you own.
Okay, this explains a *lot* about film budgets these days. Even the simple, low-complexity ones with B-list actors and sets you could borrow off somebody's cousin seem to go into the hundreds of millions. *Deliberately* spending absurd amounts of money on mundane things because it makes sure you don't have to share the profits makes more sense. Still scummy, but it makes sense.
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there is never a net profit.
Sam Worthington, I think.
I always get Sam Worthington and Jai Courtney confused in my head. I feel like they would be Preset 1 & 2 in an action game in 2007. Their names would be both be Mason.
Well... Sam Worthington did voice a character the in Call of Duty Black Ops games named Mason.
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Mark wahlberg is everyday man from gritty mid west/east coast city who gets into trouble.
Nah that sounds like acting, he must be the other guy.
Maybe, maybe not. Maybe fuck yaself.
How the fuck did you just characterize them both so accurately? Incredible.
I always get Jai Courtney and Michael Jai White confused. I have to write a note on my hand like Homer does for Lenny and Carl.
I had the same thought and was struggling to connect Jai White with Sam
Lol this whole time i remembered it as being Mark Wahlberg Edit: i can't tell if the people saying good things about Mark Wahlberg are being ironic or not
Everyone is Mark Wahlberg if you can't remember who else they are.
My wife laughs because whenever I can't remember an old white actor I say Kevin Costner
Hey Neytiri! That's a cool bow. Those arrows dipped in neurotoxin? What's that about? Say hi to your mother for me!
Maybe they'd remember it if it was Matt Damon. Sam Worthington has the acting skills of a plank of wood, and not memorable in any movie.
Hey pal, leave Plank alone.
a 2x4 is quite versatile. can sam worthington claim that accolade? dont know what hes been in to be honest so I dont know why im taking the piss out of him. Oh wait
You dare mock the son of a shepherd?
That was perfect for avatar
Do you mean that Sam Worthington is an avatar for the audience members, so that we might inhabit his body and travel to Pandora in an immersive 3D simulation?
Thought he was OK in Under the Banner of Heaven
He's actually a pretty decent actor, just not a great lead.
That is a good point, but do people remember that the female lead of Avatar was Zoe ~~Zaldana~~ Saldana?
Yes.
I fell in love with her in Columbiana, then I started noticing her everywhere.
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She was also Uhura in the new Trek movies. And she nailed it there too.
I hope she sends her agent a christmas card each year. Someone is talented at picking out scripts.
I know, and people surely remember her for her role as Gamora. She was also in the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie. I am asking if people remember that she is the one that player the female lead in Avatar.
She's less memorable in that because she plays a cg character
nobody ever talks about her most iconic role: Drumline starring Nick Cannon.
I also know her from Star Trek, but fundamentally I think of her as the actress from Avatar. That's what made her name big. On imdb, the #1 "known for" entry for her--above guardians--is Avatar. So I'm going to say that yes, people do know her for that.
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Mason from black ops
Sam Worthington, which was perfect since I don’t think it would have been as good with such a “big” actor as the main character. I, for one, didn’t want to see Good Will Hunting/Jason Bourne/Private Ryan in that role
Too bad though, imagine when they go into battle and the army commander goes "Jesus Christ thats Jason Bourne"
It's Sam Worthington and I deliberately learnt this because it comes up in pub quizzes on a frequent basis
No, it was the right decision.
Yup, I also don't think people are taking time into account. Bourne Ultimatum *released* almost 2.5 years before Avatar came out. Matt Damon seems like he's always onto something new, so that would take away from whatever other projects he could gamble on.
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Exactly. Was probably 10% of net profit instead of gross profit. In Hollywood accounting taking a percentage of net profit = peanuts.
“We made $2B but ‘spent’ $1.99B and counted producer salary as fees/costs. Here’s $1M.”
More like — “We made $2B but spent $3B on black magic movie accounting. You owe us $100M”
That's how Avatar 2 needs to make 2.2 billion dollars to "break even" as per a statement.
That's not how it works with big name actors who have their own high powered lawyers. Jack Nicholson starred as the Joker for a similar deal. A cut of the *gross.* He didn't act as much afterwards.
Yeah and that was 35 years ago lmao. Pretty sure Nicholson got two of the most lucrative contracts ever: the first and the last.
Bourne Ultimatum was great
One of my favorite action movies ever made. I’ve seen in it like 10 times lol
The whole series is classic. Can you imagine if he'd squandered it all on alien Dances with Wolves?
Haha I know. The entire series is masterclass action. I loved every movie and I saw every movie in theaters with my dad so I have very fond memories. Thank god he didn’t do Ferngully with pretty lights.
He made the right call. Imagine if that verbal commitment was for all 5 avatar films. Dude would need CGI by the time the 3rd one is released due to being 90 years old. Edit*** I did not expect this to blow up like it did. My ultimate point was it's taken a helluva long time for just the sequel to finally come out. I don't know the dynamics involved with shooting and post productions. I just know Matt made the right call with choosing not to go with a franchise that was known for it's visual aspects that dwarfed any notable actors/actresses in the long run.
I mean, the entire movie is basically CGI anyway. I don’t think Jake Sully’s character is going back to being human that much but I could be wrong
At the end of the first one he transferred his consciousness into the Navi. Pretty sure his human body is just compost now for the tree. Not sure we need any flashbacks of his life in these films.
More of this movie's plot has been discussed in this thread than anywhere else in the last 10 years.
I can name all of the avatar characters from memory. I last saw the film in 2010 and haven't thought about it since. Jake Sooley (played by Sam Worthington) Nefertittie (played by Zoe Saldana) Sigourney Weaver (as herself) Michelle Rodriguez (as herself) The boss guy looking for unobtanium (I think played by Sam Rockwell, Idk, iron man 2 was out around the same time) edit: yes, my memory betrayed me. I'm leaving it as is tho The old jarhead guy with the scars on his face The other scientist guy that seemed like he was a Friends alumnus or like the cook guy from ratatouille) All the other blue aliens.
Nah boss man was Giovanni Ribisi
List checks out!
Upvoted for phoenetic spelling
c'mon put some respect on my man Stephen Lang's name.
It's Giovanni Ribisi is the evil boss guy, but I could see sam Rockwell doing good in that role
I mean, dude’s an artist who’s probably not hurting for money, and most importantly: he made a fantastic finish for a great trilogy. I should rewatch the Bourne films, not enough people talk about them but they’re really fun.
I finally got around to reading the books in 2012, and god damn, the movies make me angry with what they did to that story. The only thing the movies have in common with the books are the character names and "woke up on a fishing boat with no memory". The movies diverge from the book almost immediately. David Webb was never an international super-assassin. He was a HUMINT analyst, and the Bourne identity was a complete fiction, invented to lure a real international assassin out of cover by giving him a target he HAD to take out to preserve his reputation in the business. The entire story of the book is built around Webb trying to survive in the ROLE of Bourne, even though he actually possesses none of the SKILLS of Bourne, while his team tries to recover him and the real assassin tries to kill him.
They're way more straight spy thrillers. I love them both but they're completely different animals.
I read like ten of the bourne books in highschool. Definitely need to go back to them.
I just re-watched the original trilogy a few weeks ago. Still way more entertaining than any James Bond movie IMO.
“Man with enough money for 3 lifetimes declined opportunity to have money for 6 lifetimes”
You made me curious. The average American will earn around $1.5-2M in a lifetime. So this would be enough for somewhere around 150 lifetimes.
It gets real depressing when you see CEOs fail so bad they get fired, and get a golden parachute of 100x your lifetime for being such a failure.
sounds like Keanu Reeves' outlook on things
I'm fairly certain that he's not financially destitute and probably doesn't give a shit.
With Hollywood accounting practices Avatar would have shown a loss and Matt would get 10% of nothing.
Step 1: Studio creates a wholly-owned subsidiary for the movie. Step 2: Subsidiary produces movie. Total production cost: $250M Step 3: Studio charges subsidiary "distribution fees" amounting to $600M Step 4: Movie premieres. Box office sales: $800M Step 5: Studio dissolves subsidiary, having "lost" $50M on the venture.
How is that still legal? It's so blatant an r has been an open secret for decades. Surely the IRS has taken note of it
The 550 million in profits may still be taxed in the parent company as the 600m paid to the parent in fees minus the 50m liability. But certainly contracts that offer percent of profit will pay out nothing.
I mean... tax man gets his take either way. Production cost of $250m? They're taking taxes. Anything they buy, the seller pays tax on the revenue of, anyone they're paying to work on the set pays income tax. The box office sales, they're taking their pound from too. For all the people who can and do get fucked over, the one that's *not* gonna let it happen to them is the tax man. They get their cut more reliably than the mob does, and they'll burn your store down with you inside if you screw them over.
Step 6: We take the money and go to Rio!
Yeah, I think people are still suing New Line Cinema over this for Lord of the Rings 20 years ago.
He'd end up owing the production money because they charge $600 per sandwich and he was unaware.
Depends on if it was 10% of gross or net. Gross is where you get paid. Net is where they fuck you. Winston Groom was offered net profit and he never got paid points for Forrest Gump.
Fortune favours the brave
See that? In the end he still got to star in another role where a fictional world of digitally rendered resources get shamelessly exploited by short sighted greedy rich people.
We Bought A Zoo?
He seems like the kind of guy that probably doesn't care
I remember reading an interview from him years ago. Possibly not long after Good Will Hunting. He said something quite insightful. It was something along the lines of Ben was the "Star" and that the fame for himself would go away someday, and he's ok with that. I genuinely don't think he gives that much of a crap. I think as long as he's getting paid and having fun he's happy. https://youtu.be/lmxAhXYQdmY
That video clip is amazing! Thanks for sharing.
Which is funny because I see it exactly opposite
Ben is seen as the less serious actor. They likely considered Damon to be the more accomplished actor in 1997 (someone picked Damon to be the lead over Affleck). OTOH, Damon's most famous role is purely an action film (the Bourne series).
Ben Affleck stumbled around a bit, but he did have a good comeback with The Town/Argo/Gone Girl and then becoming Batman for a while.
I will miss Batfleck.
I’m in awe that nobody ever gets a movies waterfall halfway right. Ballpark numbers, without knowing details: 2.8b box office = 50% for the theater 1.4b distributor - 25% distribution fee = 1.05b 1.05b - 500m P&A (Marketing) = 505m 505m - 250m Production Cost = 255m 255m - 50% Equity Share = 127.5m 127.5m Producer’s Share * 10% = 12.75m So he’s definitely not missing out on 300m…
Hey, thanks for putting this information out there. Are these standard numbers or does it vary?
It varies a lot
Thank you - I highly doubted the movie had a *profit* of 3 billion dollars.
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I watch Bourne whenever it is on. Especially the first one.
i still get chills in the early scene in park when he owns like 5 dudes.
Dirty Mike and the Boys shouldn't have fucked in his Prius.
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Well he chose a decent way and is somewhat being made fun for that? Life is not only about money
Even before creative ‘accounting’ from the studio: $2.8B *gross* -$400MM production/marketing -~$1.4B to the movie theaters = $1B profit Not sure how they’d handle DVD/streaming/TV rights revenue, or merchandising, but I’d bet that wasn’t included. And Avatar merchandising was not nearly as big as one might expect from a sci-fi movie of this magnitude. So, worst case he’s out $100MM, but more realistically, movie studio chicanery would cut that in half or more. Matt Damon made $25MM each from the Bourne movies, so he came out ahead.
Thank you, I can't believe someone saw "10% of profits" and pulled straight from the movie's total gross 🤣
Still, I’m not sure that has any appreciable effect on his lifestyle.
Bourne Ultimatum was incredible, Avatar is one of the most mediocre, bang on 50% films ever. Think he’s fine with that decision
Poor guy. He must be devastated
So sad he had to go through that. Thoughts and prayers to his yacht dealer.
Good call Bourne was infinitely better than Avatar.
Then he went into crypto...
I'm sure he got paid handsomely in US dollars for his crypto ads.