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- čas přidán 24. 04. 2024
- On episode 253B of McRae Live, we take a look at the news that the actors from The Blair Witch Project are demanding retroactive residuals from Lionsgate.
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I'm glad you revisited this topic! I was halfway through the last one when it disappeared. I enjoyed listening to your insight. I'll be 50 next month so I remember the whole Blair Witch Project marketing and how huge it was. I actually DIDN'T want to see the movie if it was real, but by the time I went to see it I knew the difference. I'm very much looking forward to It's Me Billy Chapter 2! Thanks!
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I really like the idea of the blair witch grant
Then sign a better contract. If they really got screwed this would up come up after its box office success. Not now.
There is a THIRD WAY to appease everyone in all this with consideration towards all. Read this from when Lionsgate shot the big studio sequel, 2016's BLAIR WITCH, as per an interview with Heather Donahue (now going by name of Rei Hance):
""My name and face are forever going to be someone else's intellectual property. My snot-flooded portrait was back. It's all anyone wanted to talk to me about... Then Lionsgate called. The company that originally bought The Blair Witch Project was purchased by Lionsgate and they're the ones behind this new sequel. They asked what they could do to show me how much they appreciated my work in the original. They made sure my last name wasn't used anywhere. In their press materials, their protagonist goes in search of his 'sister' but they don't use my name. For all the talk of Hollywood being populated with jerks and sharks, these guys were actually being considerate and were genuinely concerned that this would not be any more disruptive to my life than was inevitable."
"Considerate and genuinely concerned" or CYA as per their Compliance Dept? Either way, the actors stand little to no chance of past residuals and the legal war itself would bankrupt them. This is contract law and it's a crying shame they couldn't see this thing earning a quarter-billion when they signed their 1% off for $300,000 but welcome to capitalism. The lady who designed the Fidget Spinner didn't pay $400 to renew her patent in 2005, the global market for fidget spinners is now right at $1 billion, she got not a penny and just downsized from her house to a tiny condo in Florida.
The trio need to abandon their past resentment, which is really just regret as a form of self-hatred misdirected at Lionsgate, who had nothing to do with their business decisions. Now let's think about the future, let's think not WOULDA COULDA SHOULDA, but move forward. Lionsgate use the trio in the reboot (likenesses, voices, names), cut them in for a profit %. ALIEN is about to reboot big time going back to basics after a series of horrible sequels and prequels. People have a massive nostalgia now for the analog twilight of the 90s, work the trio into the film in some capacity and make them ambassadors of the reboot, hitting every film festival, every sci-fi/horror NerdCon. Let's think FUTURE RESIDUALS and the life ahead because you bet all your chips on what WOULDA COULDA SHOULDA to go do contract war w/ a studio clocking $3.6 billion revenue, you're going to relive those nightmares all over again. Earn your future residuals, establish your own $60,000 artistic grant. That should be a drop in the bucket should the new film clock triple digits and why shouldn't it?
I can't help wondering..
If they'd asked for a % of all future profit (even a very small one) instead of the 300k, do you think they could have got that?
Quick question: what if the film had lost money... would they have helped with the reimbursement?
I imagine they would go missing for real in that case😂😂
Uh...no.
Wait… these three are alive!? They made it out of the woods??!?! 😂😂 (Jk, jk)