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John Cusack is tweeting out some of the dirty secrets of Hollywood accounting -- and it's pretty illuminating.

#sagaftra #strike #wga

@johncusack tweets:

The greed is almost a legendary comic trope - one fun fact - when I was a youngin- I did a film (with a boom box) and somehow I got points - net not gross.

Never expected to see any money - but the film became quite famous - so about 10 years ago - I looked again at the financial statements they were obligated to report - and to my shock - they claimed they had LOST 44 million dollars on the film -

I thought wow , I almost bankrupted Fox! ( not really )

The film cost about 13 million to make - and money spent to release was minimal at the time - 30 years in - that film lost millions every year! A neat accounting trick don’t ya think?

@johncusack tweets:

Sag strike reality - yes stars get paid - but stars do nothing alone cause it ain’t standup. actors on massive hit tv shows - who are really recurring characters - are allowed to be slotted in as guest stars -

So an actress on a number 1 hit show in television - are offered 4 grand an episode - as “ guest stars “ for 4 6 8 or more for episodes
that means after taxes agents lawyer - maybe managers - they will be lucky to take home 1200 1400 dollars - maybe ?

And the business tells them - you better take the job - cause we can get thousands of other actresses to take the job - who will be grateful for the “ exposure “

Truth - it’s disgusting treatment - 100 % unfair - when they are making hundreds of millions a year - on the show - why be so cruel and cheap ? They do it because they can. And women are allowed to be grossly underpaid compared to the men in the same films or shows - why ? Cause they can.

@johncusack tweets:

I know someone - very close to me actually - that was on a hit cable show - ran seven years - (it could still be going)
She was paid 1/7 th of the male lead - she was nominated for multiple Emmy’s and won - (nominated for at least 3 recall ) no other person behind or in front of camera was ever nominated,

The rich ass studio rolling in money - would NOT give her a raise - after underpaying her horribly

And made her take cable guest star money - which was not 4 thousand a week in cable - but still viciously underpaid her for a long running show - who’s performance was nominated for multiple Emmy’s - as she was everyone’s favorite character - and clearly the most popular character on the show.

It was so mean she just hated the gaslighting asshole execs - and wants out of the business - as the treatment is so toxic -?

- Why did they do it -
Because they could get away with it.

@johncusack tweets:

How about another dirty little secret ? And | know - as a producer I've been on both sides of the table - and as an actor and writer -so I can’t wait for some twitter troll to tell me to stay in my lane - fuck you in advance you can’t! Me seen heard experienced it myself -

So here’s the dirty little secret : It’s not just the studio heads that are cheap cruel sick bastards - in the show | mentioned -( the same goes in film world to various degrees )

The “ creator, show runner “ was a big shot producer with many hit shows - he had real leverage and power to pay this actress and the actors fairly - he was sharing in the massive profits of the studio - that was rolling in money - Now you would think he’d be grateful and want to take the adversarial position against studio to protect the show and cast - right ?

Why he alone making obscene amounts of cash a year-

He might say - hey studio rolling in record profits from my hit show - if your not gonna do my actors right - shame on you -
I’ll give them some of my cut - your making 100s of millions - I’'m making half that - Why are we being such lowlife guttersnipe freaks ?

Some not all - but many many of the creators /show runners /producers are paid off to be in on the hustle - they are just as bad as the worst caricatures mogul executives -

Some producers and writers creators in the guild are fucking over Actors and writers in league with the studios Those are the facts -

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#StarTrek #Union

Chief Miles Edward O'Brien, who could strangle you with a cordless phone if he wanted to, is pictured. Chief O'Brien, who can kill 2 stones with one bird, is facing the camera and winking. O'Brien, who can dribble a bowling ball, is on DS9 station and wearing his classic gold uniform, and has the energy of a man who is walking away from an explosion without looking backwards at it. Closed caption reads, "He was more than a hero. He was a union man."

Kyle Weidleman boosted:

tfw you are regretting moving your stuff into the Speaker's office ahead of the vote.

@pluralistic joke’s on them, I spent all my money on my kids!

Kyle Weidleman boosted:

Gotta love tech journalists who describe Mastodon as "that impossible-to-use website." First of all, it's an app. C'mon. Second of all, aren't these the same people who write breathless explainers about the wonder of cryptocurrencies, which are not only impossible to understand but literally built from bullshit?

lol nah

Kyle Weidleman boosted:

One thing that Mastodon newcomers may not realize is how easy it is to turn Mastodon for web into essentially a Tweetdeck clone, with columns for search/compose, home, notifications, and any lists you've set up. It takes literally seconds.

Here's what mine looks like right now:

@rswirling at least they’re being honest about who they are, unlike the 200-ish of their GOP colleagues who have standing ovations only to vote down further aid to Ukraine in the future.

@Chris @caseynewton you know his target audience can’t handle anything that spicy.

Using MetaText and seeing if this works like a Quote Toot, per @caseynewton https://mastodon.social/@caseynewton/109552558121590566

Kyle Weidleman boosted:

You're reading that right folks: zero (0) dollars in federal income taxes paid for 2020.

@melissaryan MetaText is more user-friendly than the official Mastodon app

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NYT: The Internal Revenue Service failed to audit former President Donald J. Trump’s tax filings for his first two years in office despite having a policy that makes the auditing of sitting presidents mandatory, a House committee revealed on Tuesday after an extraordinary vote to make public six years of his tax returns.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/20/us/politics/a-committee-will-decide-whether-the-former-presidents-returns-are-released-publicly.html

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@nberlat “Tesla crashing” and not just the cars themselves

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the GOP has been coming apart for some time. it seems like that might escalate in the next two years though. the house is basically ungovernable and we're ramping up for a very messy GOP primary.

@patdennis

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If you think it’s trouble for Twitter to be hostage to the whims of Elon Musk, I encourage you to apply that thinking to Starlink.

Broadband, but rather than fiber in the ground that can be seized or resold or rerouted or regulated, instead thousands of satellites that are controlled only by Musk! To Musk this is a huge positive, but to the other 8 billion of us, it’s a huge negative.

We must not let broadband be Musked.

@albinokid my wife and I set up locked instagram accounts for our kids so we can accept who has access. it’s not perfect, but it can help you keep the assholes away.

@patdennis congratulations!

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