... “Not just writers and directors and stars, but also cinematographers, editors, costume designers and other crucial artists who, in my view, are very underpaid,” Affleck told NYT. The partners “have worked on films that have generated $10.7 billion at the global box office” with “three Oscars between them.” ...
Comparing Artists Equity to the 1919 founding of United Artists by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith “as a way to exert greater control over their creative and financial destinies,” NYTwrites that “more recently, the horror film producer Jason Blum has used — to spectacular effect — a business model in which established directors and stars work for union scale pay upfront in return for creative freedom and a stake in the financial success of the resulting film.” ...
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