Nice dodge of the point there.
Getting back to the subject of the thread, this story from the public radio program Marketplace goes into some detail on how much actors are paid in residuals. One example they use is the actor who played Gunther the barista on the sitcom Friends. (Apparently he got the part because he had worked as a barista.)
And, other than the Charlie Sheen/Other Guy character in Two and a Half Men, those shows characters aren’t rich.
Charlie wasn’t rich either. A major plot point on the show involved him being mortgaged out the ass on everything and living hand-to-mouth on royalty checks every quarter.
That breaks it down pretty effectively. That is the SAG standard for residuals. At the end of the article it mentions that cast members can negotiate their own residual deals. I’m sure the main cast of the Simpsons have their own deal in place. The guest stars will get the SAG rate.
So basically, we shouldn’t hire actors to act?
JFGI. I Googled simpsons residuals and here’s your answer.
http://www.backstage.com/news/fxxs-simpsons-deal-case-study-new-media-residual-structure/
I don’t know the details of how it works but my mother-in-law still gets a couple thousand dollars a year for my late father-in-law’s various appearances. He did a couple episodes of a Batman animated series, a few movies, an episode of Seinfeld (he was one of the Japanese guys who rented out drawers in Kramer’s dresser).
But where the money really is, is on music royalties. He was a music writer in Japan and did a lot of TV and commercials work. 45 years after most of that stopped my mother-in-law still can live comfortably on royalties as the music is reused for various purposes. Downside is that she doesn’t know from year to year what it’ll be, but upside is one year a pachinko machine used the theme song for a TV show he did and she got nearly six figures.
But she’ll also get a check for $0.28 because a sample of some random bit of music was used in some random movie nobody’s ever heard of.
Have you even seen the show? They are very broke.
With a horse in the basement.
I don’t know. He had budgeted 80,000 a year for hookers…
Can we drop this subject and stick to the subject of residuals?
Why? Does it also bother you when a gay actor plays a straight character, or vice versa?
Automatic if you are in SAG. SAG (or more likely a contractor) monitors the runs of shows, knows which members are on them, and sends the check to the agent who takes a cut and sends it to a manager who sends it to the actor. The standard contract 20 years ago did have a sliding scale which went on more or less forever. My daughter got money for the 20th showing or so. The amount also varies depending on the market. It all gets consolidated - she got one check for the four shows she was on in a series.
And it can be small. She was an extra on a soap which got shown in Italy - and after agent commissions she got a check for two cents.
However if you are a star of a show, everything is negotiable. In fact everything is always negotiable if you have a good agent/manager.
I don’t know you personally so I can’t speak to your state of mind, but your posts are just looney.
The girls of 2BG did own a horse for quite a while; it was the last vestige of Caroline’s former wealth. I think it’s gone now, though, because though the show is meant to be farcical, the horse was taking things too far.
So based upon that article, here’s a theoretical answer. $1.5 million per episode over 574 episodes (including next season to be aired) = $861 million for the purchase.
Actors get 6% of gross. That’s $52 million.
If we assume that 5% gets broken down among the six top billed of the cast (with the 1% divided up amongst the rest), that’s $43 million total or $7.1 million per actor for the deal.
You make my point. If they had money they could stable the horse but instead because they are so broke it has to live in the basement.