![]() I interpreted it as $2 million for all three. Servetus said this on Maat 7:49 pm | Reply Because the profits were so extreme from the venture, the studio or somebody decided to pay them additional money. The LOTR cast also got bonuses afterwards - I remember reading this at some point. I wonder if the publicity and getting his name out in the US is where it pays off. Oh so that really is not a lot of money when you consider it is for 2 movies (3 if you count the 2nd Hobbit)and a whole year of filming the Hobbit. Servetus said this on Maat 2:23 am | Reply I can always rely on someone telling me stuff i don’t know here □ I’m sure, though, that some expert will weigh in on this soon. I think it more likely that he managed a percentage deal for Hobbit - he plays a bigger role in that. Servetus said this on Maat 7:48 pm | Reply I work in a profession where people are always being told that they should be happy just to have the chance, and while that’s true, it’s also true that what they do is work and should be appropriately compensated. There’s a fairly specific subtext to this post that I didn’t air above, but it’s essentially my personal position that there are certain kinds of sacrifices people make to get opportunities that turn out in the end not to have been worth it. ![]() If they could, they would probably even pay for such an opportunity. But for someone like RA and the other it is all about the chanche to get a big breakthrough. I don’t think RA got much for CA and I have no idea if it will be 2 million per year or in total for all three films. The young actors from Harry Potter and Twilight earn sum between ten and twenty million for the latest instalments, as much as the A list stars get. I think the later will be much better paid. Servetus said this on Maat 2:19 am | ReplyĬE got so little for the first movie because he was offered a deal of potentially nine(?) movies. I think you can get that if you are a star - don’t know if you can get that if you are Richard Armitage. I read that Tommy Lee Jones got an amazing amount - but that was set up as percentage of gross. I think the Hobbit will bring in loads of money worldwide and that may be where he actually profits some.Ĭhris Evans only got 300K USD in salary, so I can’t imagine that Armitage would have gotten more than that, as he’s no more well known and had a much smaller role. I wonder if RA has that written into his contract. Also, is it possible that he will make money from the profits of the movie? I read that keanu reeves made his money from the profits of the Matrix and not from the actually salary he received from it. ![]() I interpreted that it was 2million each movie. And: are you smiling all the way to the bank?” For me, of course, the main thing is that he’s happy with the whole deal.Ħ9 Responses to “Smile for me, Richard Armitage. Still, that doesn’t mean he shouldn’t be appropriate compensated for his efforts, as what he does is also work, and he has to live from what he earns. Of course, ceterum censeo, I’m sure it’s not primarily about the money for him, but about the work and the challenge. That still seems awfully little to me, especially when you consider how much time they take to make. Not in absolute terms (I’d have to work over 20 years at my current salary to gross USD 1M), but still. OK, maybe they’re not making scale for their work on these films, like Keira Knightley did on Pirates of the Caribbean however, from my American perspective, $2 million for three films would be awfully cheap. for work afterwards, who are characterized as “respectable television actors”) because they are cheap. Curiously, the article mentions that sum as if it’s a lot, says this generation of British actors in Hollywood are on “fast-forward” (I wonder if Armitage thinks that - I don’t think his fans do), and says that this remuneration proves that people are not still hiring British actors (he and the actors from Strike Back who went to the U.S. It depends a bit on whether that total is for three movies or just two, but if he’s going to have worked over two years (fall of 2010 for Captain America and apparently some work in 2013 on the end of the Hobbit project, even if he could squeeze something else into the end of 2012) that doesn’t seem like much money to me. Even with the extremely high tax rates in the UK that should mean he doesn’t end up in the poorhouse however, that figure seems to me like he is being drastically underpaid. Armitage to sit back and not take the next thing that comes along, at least in a financial sense - article from the Sunday Times courtesy of states that Armitage received $2 million for Captain America and The Hobbit. ![]() So, I guess we now have an answer of sorts to the question of whether the money for The Hobbit will enable Mr. Thanks for that, Richard! You have no idea how I needed it. Richard Armitage, BBC Breakfast interview for Robin Hood, October 2007. ![]()
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