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WSJ: Scarlett Johansson Sues Disney Over ‘Black Widow’ Streaming Release
- Thread starter wingkongex
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She's in the right in this one. This is a contractual deviation by my judgment.
That said, I personally vastly prefer day-1 VOD format myself and hope it sticks but that filmmakers and cast members get deals that fairly adjust for the change.
That said, I personally vastly prefer day-1 VOD format myself and hope it sticks but that filmmakers and cast members get deals that fairly adjust for the change.
I can't believe the amount of people on social media taking Disney's side. Corporation fucks over one of its employees with a clear contract breach and people defend it.
It's especially hilarious when I see people saying she has enough money. Because Disney obviously doesn't.
It's a shame it has to come to this.
It's especially hilarious when I see people saying she has enough money. Because Disney obviously doesn't.
It's a shame it has to come to this.
Yep, because it's EXACTLY the same thing when somebody making 30k a year gets fucked over by a company. Oh wait, they probably are already, this is America. They can ROT because they said mean things about a multimillionaire online. Fuck em! Am I rite?
How's that her fault? If they didn't honor the contract as a result of the pandemic, they should still pay up
Everyone says it is clear as day and they violated the contract, but it is clear from the complaint that her contract did not guarantee any exclusive theatrical window. They're relying on what "everyone knows" and "industry standard". What will sink Disney is just that email from Marven's chief counsel
Either Disney plum forgot to renegotiate her contract to account for D+, or they were so arrogant to think they could get away with fucking her over, as if she were some newcomer who has to take what she can get.
Johannson is an enormous asshole who trips over herself to defend pedophiles, but if her allegations are true, Disney needs to pay up.
Johannson is an enormous asshole who trips over herself to defend pedophiles, but if her allegations are true, Disney needs to pay up.
The lawyers must have seen this coming. How did it get this far? Where they that inept or did they think she wouldn't care? She's out of the franchise. What does she have to lose?
They knew it was coming; they blew her off
Not sure she cares. She's made a buttload of money from her Marvel work so she probably can be selective on roles now. She'll probably be like DiCaprio and just desperately go for an Oscar.
She is correct and she deserves to get paid.
With that being said, I hope this lawsuit causes Disney to sever all ties (if they weren't already severed) with her. I am so very over her and all her nonsense.
Take your money and kindly go away.
With that being said, I hope this lawsuit causes Disney to sever all ties (if they weren't already severed) with her. I am so very over her and all her nonsense.
Take your money and kindly go away.
Totally, they are part of the problem, the kind of mentality that keeps the status quo in place, but that's beyond the the topic at hand.... I will just say I hope she gets paid every penny.
The TV side of media has already seen salaries for actors change. Due to the nature of streaming, especially if they're exclusive to 1 streaming platform, like those only on Netflix forever kind of shows, actors no longer get the same amount of syndication royalties as the previous generations. So this means higher upfront payments, if I remember what I read correctly, since we are not going to get Stranger Things and Umbrella Academy going into syndication and showing up on TV channels all around the world. This also likely means streaming platforms are not going to do multi season shows just to get to the syndication minimum number of episodes, so actors will get jobs in less of those 6,7 seasons shows.
To be honest I think this will ultimately mean talents will make less money while studio executives continue to make more. It is good that she's sueing them. If Disney can screw over her, they are definitely screwing over less well known talents and workers.
In all fairness, lesser known talent would never have a deal like this to begin with, so they wouldn't even have room to be screwed.
is this the part where we realize that anyone in these movies without the last name "downey" got totally screwed by disney, this lawsuit notwithstanding?
Either they really think they have a case or they're just going to try and bury this huh
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It depends. When Marvel was still under Ike Perlmutter, I believe they paid the main actors some 100 to 300K upfront, with most of their potential revenue from box office profits, with the option to renegotiate for sequels. Same goes for the Star Wars movies. Actors like Daisy Ridley and John Boyega had contracts that were like this. Imagine if this happened to them or to any film that they have, that are helmed by new or lesser known talents? I doubt they can sue Disney and still get hired by anyone after.
Yeah, I'm not understanding that part, is she making money from the premier purchases then?
As a general rule these things never go to court, there's too many embarrassing secrets that end up coming out in public via discovery (see Epic vs Apple.) They'll settle out of court at some point.
They broke the contract with her. They owe her money. Simple as that.
Its a breach of contract and a material one at that. She should be entitled to expectancy damages or restitution (if they can't determine how much the contract was going to end up getting her)
This whole affair reminds me of how Robert Downey Jr. purportedly fought and encouraged his costars to fight for more pay to continue staring in the MCU films. Apparently the word was that Disney was open to recasting if they did not want to return.
metro.co.uk
Downey Jr wants better pay for Avengers
Robert Downey Jr is reportedly campaigning for his Avengers co-stars to get a pay rise for the sequel.
metro.co.uk
So you give more of a shit for a multi billion dollar company not paying people what they're owed.
They might have defenses to impracticability but even then there's still likely restitutionary damages and quasi-contract remedies if paramount or disney gets unjustly enriched over it.
Maybe. Though Disney would then be dealing with the fallout of refusing to work with a female actor who wanted more money. I'm sure they will have no problem just cutting her a check.
EDIT: Just saw that tweet. Wow. They are going to play it like that? Ice. Cold.
While I think she will win and/or get paid, the contract (per the complaint) just says the movie would have a wide theatrical release so it's not as simple as that
I think she is likely due some sort of pay out, but realistically how well would this would have performed without streaming is entirely speculative given the pandemic. I don't really think many of the people that paid for streaming g would go to the cinema right now, but I also don't think delaying the film again would have been financially viable.
I mean I mentioned that they did in fact break the contract sooooo
At a guess, maybe there was some part of her contract that did give her money for streaming/Disney premiere, but it was negotiated before that was scheduled to launch alongside the theater release, and is probably at a lower percentage than what she gets from the traditional box office.
Yeah, this movie doesn't have long legs in part to covid and people not wanting streaming services nowadays (and who blames them as every movie coming out nowadays doesn't have legs outside the initial week) but technically that contract was broken so... eh she should get something out of that technicality
