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AITI for not caring? She agreed to work for that rate, and didn't negotiate for a percentage of the actual profit, but is mad now about how much it made? Most of us don't make a percentage of our company's profit and have to work for what we agreed to on hiring.
I know this is an indie film, but Hollywood is notorious for "creative accounting." You gotta get that shit in writing that you'll make X% of the gross, rather than complaining after the fact.
One % of gross is only given to big name actors. No art director is ever getting that. Best they get is % of net, which is always 0, no matter how much money the movie makes.
Two, "they agreed" is a shit fucking excuse when talking about power-imbalanced relationships. She had the choice to either starve or accept the $300 a day. Some fucking choice.
Three, if it weren't for her and others like her, movies don't get made. Some fat cat sitting around all day is the one who's going to eat up the profits from this, fuck them and pay the artists that made this happen.
If you commission an artist on upwork for a $10 logo and your startup becomes a billion dollar company, you don't owe that artist residuals.
The issue is that she agreed to a wage, not knowing whether it would be a hit or a flop. Plenty of movies are trash and make no money or lose money. She is not the one taking that risk if the movie failed. She would have gotten her agreed upon compensation either way.
If artists feel they aren't getting compensated fairly, let them unionize/strike. Its fine if she wants to protest for future change, but she's not entitled to anything extra on this specific film, just because it happened to do well. She could have leveraged the publicity to negotiate better terms next time, but now studios might see her as someone who complain loudly about a deal after its done.
This was a movie produced and written by two YouTubers dude. This level of success was far from certain. $6741 for what calculates to amounts to 22-23 days of work isn't actually horrible. It's not high pay either, but then again if she has negotiated a fraction of gross and this had flopped she could easily have gotten less than that.
"She agreed" to it is not a good argument in support of exploitation.
Exactly.
A list actors can go for % on top of a salary in the millions
Art directors, indeed, get pocket change