Jim Carrey, the first movie star ever to command a salary of $20 million per picture, has signed a deal with Warner Bros. in which he will receive no upfront cash and no percentage of the gross for the upcoming film 'Yes Man'. Instead, he will receive a so-called cash-break deal on 36.2 percent of the back end -- that is, the amount the studio holds onto after it recovers its production, prints and advertising costs. In her Deadline Hollywood blog, writer Nikki Finke remarks that this "could just turn out to be the worst talent deal ever" for a major star. "The conventional wisdom in Hollywood is always to get as much fixed compensation as you can upfront because you're never going to see the back end thanks to the studios' creative accounting," Finke wrote. She quoted one unnamed talent manager as saying, "Let me put it this way: if his reps were a hospital, they would be shut down for malpractice. This is a new kind of Hollywood stupid."
in 'Yes Man' A guy (Carrey) challenges himself to say "yes" to everything for an entire year. Based on the memoir by Danny Wallace.
I have a feeling that it will work for him. Funny math won't cut it against a law suit that will charge them with "cooking the books". The studio will have to account for every expense and this will lean towards more overall earnings on the back-end. Just wait, in 1 and 1/2 years we will be reading how Jim Carey made 75 million on this movie.
It'll work for him as long as he's actually doing a comedy; not a pseudo-comedy (like Meet and Jane) or some waste-of-space drama (The Number 23).
*Note, one of my favorite films is The Truman Show, all is forgiven in his career because of that movie.
what if he says..."yes...but..."? that counts doesn't it?
Alrighty then.
Jim Carrey is very money smart. He wouldn't allow himself to be screwed (after all he is a Capricorn) like the article says he is the first movie star ever to command a salary of $20 million per picture the guy is at the point in his life when he can pick and choose his roles for any amount of money but who knows this may just be a marketing campaign after all he will play the 'Yes Man'
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