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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 3886056" data-attributes="member: 15651"><a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/01/23/business/dvd.php?page=1" target="_blank">Interesting article</a> from almost 3 years ago when the SAG was negotiating.  Sure, there is revenue generated by DVD sales and internet generation.  I understand the writers wanting their piece of the action, but at the same time the writers get a minimum, whether the show or movie is a hit or it sucks.  The movie 300 was a huge hit.  It had a budget of about $60 million.  Worldwide box office receipts were $456 million.  Theaters keep about 50% of the box office receipts, so that comes to about $228 million for the studio.  It has sold an estimated 8.33 million DVDs* so far.  If the studios get about $12 for a DVD, as stated earlier, $100 million for the studio.  The $0.04 per DVD for the writers comes to $333,000 to divide.  The actors' $0.15 gets them about $1.25 million.  No idea what the director's cut is.  So, based upon a huge hit movie, the writers do look like they are getting the shaft.  But...The movie Evan Almighty was one of the biggest losers of all time in absolute dollars.  With a budget of $175 million, its worldwide box office gross was about $172 million.  At 50% of the box office, Evan Almighty lost about $89 million dollars.  It has so far sold an estimated 1.2 million DVDs*.  At $12 per DVD for the studio that comes to about $14.4 million, so it is at a loss of about $75 million dollars. The writers cut of the DVD sales comes to about $48,000 to split and the actors get about $180,000 on a movie that still has not made a profit.  The article I linked above said that the actors backed down on higher DVD revenue rather than change the model so that movies have to make a profit before they start getting a residual.  It will be interesting to see how this all shakes out.  In the meantime, I will catch up on recorded shows, rent some DVDs of movies I never got to see and maybe will be able to spend a little more time with the family with the TV turned off because there won't be anything worth watching.  * DVD sales estimates taken from <a href="http://www.the-numbers.com/" target="_blank">The Numbers.com</a></blockquote>

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