About a year ago, Scarlett Johansson sued Disney over business practices that allegedly reduced her Black Widow fee. A report by the Hollywood Reporter now reveals
how little some character creators get paid for their characters’ performances. And what bizarre MCU rules they have to endure in the process.
$300 for Hawkeye: Absurd MCU rules push figure prices down
According to this, illustrator and author Devin Grayson and JG Jones assumed that they would each receive $25,000 for the use of their comic book character Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) in Black Widow due to their contract. At the end they only got a fifth of the amount.
According to the report, this is due to a bizarre system of regulations that tie remuneration to the screen time of the character and the medium of the performance. An appearance in a series episode brings about 2000 dollars. However, if it is shorter than 30 minutes, the amount is halved.
Marvel News from Comic-Con:
If the character appears in less than 15 percent of the film’s screen time, the appearance is considered a cameo and is remunerated less. This includes Sebastian Stan’s Bucky in Captain America 2: The Return of the First Avenger, who many fans consider a central character.
Furthermore, the wording of the contract appears to be misleading. Apparently, the remuneration is not paid to the individual artists of the templates, but divided among all the creators of the characters in a film. It seems that the remuneration can be regulated in almost any depth. According to the report, Grayson was supposed to be in Hawkeye for Belova’s appearances received only a meager $300 each.
The Boys Season 3: Better (and Badder) Than Marvel?
Now available in full on Amazon Prime, The Boys Season 3 is better than ever. We talk about the highlights of the 3rd season, clarify why the superhero satire has made a big leap in quality and give an outlook on the already confirmed season 4.
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We end up discussing why The Boys is so superior to the MCU series at the moment. The Amazon series has outstripped the Marvel Universe in its specialty of all things: serial storytelling.
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What do you think of Marvel’s wage rules?