Tim Miller says he spent two years making “Deadpool” and earned $225,000.
Forget the salary. The more egregious sin is not getting a cut of Disney merchandise!
“I feel like every time I walk down the aisles out there on the floor of CCXP and I see all these Deadpool figurines, I think they wouldn’t be here if we hadn’t made that film. And I feel uniquely fortunate that I could be part of it. Then, then my second thought is, I wish my director deals had a piece of the merchandising so that I could get some money from all of that.”
I’d be surprised if Disney gave points on anything to anyone these days.
Unregulated capitalism always ends with a few big corps, and once that happens they have all the labor negotiating power.
If the few big studios try to compete they’ll lose potentially hundreds of millions of dollars. If they all “individually’” decide to cut pay for highly specialized positions, that labor pool doesn’t really have any other options but to take it.
People always forget “the free market will do what’s best” means making the product that profits the most, that often includes cheaping out as much as possible on everything including labor, and selling as much as possible. That’s rarely the same as making the best product.
Disney and Marvel should have never been allowed to merge.
“Disney and Marvel should have never been allowed to merge.”
I actually feel nauseous when I think about the fact that everything has degraded so much that this is even a sentence that actually had to be stated out loud as if it was a contentious idea that must be arrived at rather than a truth so obvious that everyone feels the same rage in their bones and words are hardly necessary to understand why.
Fox and Disney merger shouldn’t have happened.
When Disney bought marvel they weren’t doing so hot. They’d already sold off media rights for major franchises (Spiderman, xmen, fantastic four), and had taken a huge gamble with Ironman. While it panned out Disney came in well before anything was proven regarding the mcu - https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/how-marvel-went-from-bankruptcy-to-billions/
George Lucas got a % of merchandise from Star Wars and Disney lost out on a crap ton of money because of it. I doubt they will make that decision again.
20th Century Fox was the distributor for Star Wars. They didn’t own any of it until 2012 to my knowledge.
Surely, the DGA is at fault here. That is just absurd. That’s basically what I (a set lighting technician…not even the DP or the gaffer) made over a two year stretch (when the film industry was still alive and hadn’t been absolutely decimated by Disney and Netflix’s monopolies).
Shawn Levy was behind the camera for this year’s “Deadpool & Wolverine,” Reynolds’ first outing in Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Shawn Levy is a DP? Wow! If you want to embarrass yourself, conflate cinematography with directing.
maybe he got free mint mobile service for a year, too
No, it’s was a $15/mo deal (for three months, prepaid up front, then $45/mo afterward).
Is this really how the mint mobile deal is? That doesn’t seem like much of a deal at all.
Bruh that’s a lot of money though.
It’s 9375 per month. That’s quite a bit over double my salary.
It’s not an outrageous salary but it’s still a really good salary.
Its more than that per month. Above (I think) $160k, you don’t pay FICA (Social Security) anymore for the year, so more of that goes in your pocket. The reason is that the Social Security benefit you receive later never goes above a certain amount.
Edit: I missed the “2 year” part and my original statement was for 1 year.
$225k/24 months is exactly $9375/month, and may or may not have exceeded the FICA tax limit at the time, depending on how he was paid. If it was paid out biweekly like a normal paycheck, it wouldn’t have gotten close, but if it was a lump sum when he finished, it definitely would have.
Paying two years of work as a lump sum at the end is a pretty terrible thing to do to employees, so I hope they didn’t. There may be other options, I’m not familiar with the norms in filmmaking.
Musk made that much in a day since 2022.
