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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Storm Raven" data-source="post: 3887593" data-attributes="member: 307">It doesn't matter how much their net is in this case. The studios appear to gross about $12 million on that million unit delivery. The writers currently get paid about 0.005% of that. Note that this is not 5%, or even 0.5%, this is five thousandths of one percent. Whether or not the studios net a ton or not on a DVD sale, the fact that the writers get five thousands of one percent simply makes the studios look bad. Worse even that saying the writer gets 4 cents per DVD.They don't have to pay an actor $20 million or do a full blown $40 million advertising campaign if they do not want to. Lots of movies are made for well under $100 million, and most of those appear to actually make money. The decision to lay out huge amounts of money on a particular movie is entirely within the perview of the studios. They make the decisions concerning how much money to budget and can figure out a way to stay within that budget. If they are losing money by being profligate, that is their problem alone.Once again, you seem to be mistaking "opportunism" or "set in stone reality". The costs of these productions have grown, not because of some law mandating that they do so, but rather because studios decided they could get the additional funds from DVD sales and other aftermarkets. Costs have grown to encompass expected revenue. The problem is that the studios have decided that this additional revenue belongs entirely and exclusively to them - and that they don't have to bother to share it with anyone else. That is poor planning on the part of the studios, but not an immutable fact of life.No. I looked at your stuff intiially thinking "hey, the studios might have a point", but things like 5 thousandths of a percent, and the fact that you seem not to understand why costs have grown, getting the cause and effect exactly backwards has convinced me that the stuidos not only don't have any very good arguments, but if this is the best they can come up with, they have no arguments.</blockquote>

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