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[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Aw, I know the girl who delivered the fruit to the SPN folk!
Oh, and their Facebook group appears to answer my question: 4 cents per disc. And that gets distributed to the writers of the episodes on that disc? So, basically, a penny for each writer? HOT DAMN. And where does all the other money go? How does the writer rate compare to the actor/director/anyone else rate? I assume most of the money goes to overhead and then corporate profit.
PC, I don't think it is a flat 4 cents, I think it is a percentage. So, they would get the same percentage of the download as the DVD, but the cost for the download is less.
It's .3%. I think the 4 cents comes from the average DVD price ($20) times the .3%. (Except this equals 6 cents, so maybe I'm wrong.)
I think the 4 cents comes from the average DVD price ($20)
That's the average movie DVD price. But TV-on-DVD usually sells for three times that, MSRP.
Maybe the price is based on what the stores/distributors pay wholesale rather than the retail price?
Maybe the price is based on what the stores/distributors pay wholesale rather than the retail price?
Bingo!
This links explains it all: [link]
We propose to double the home video residual formula from 0.3% to 0.6% for the first $1 million in reportable gross and from 0.36% to 0.72% over $1 million.
I don't know if this is wholesale or retail.
Thanks, Wolfram. I didn't know about all those other disputes, too.
My understanding is that they were willing to take all the other disputes off the table except doubling the home video residual formula and setting a percentage on streaming video.
On Sunday night, the writers were allegedly told that if they took the doubling residual proposal off the table the producers would offer them a percentage on the streaming. So the writers did (albeit temporarily and in good faith). Then the producers offered them shit. So it's back on the table.
Petition from WGA: [link]