Show Me The Money!

[Steve <bboy_mn@yahoo.com>]

Does anybody have any links to sites, articles, or general knowledge
that indicates how much the primary players (Daniel, Rupert, Emma,
Tom) are getting paid for their roles in the HP movies?

I know for the first movie it wasn't much. It's potential as a box
office draw was a complete unknown, and the actors were inexperienced.
But now that the movies and the actors are a proven commondity, I
wonder how much money they are getting. I'm sure even if it's big,
it's small compaired to a fair share of the profits.

I read an article recently about Madam Hooch (forgot the actresses
name) but as far as she was concerned ALL the actors were being ripped
off by Warner Bro.s. 

(from the same article) Daniel Radcliffe was suppose to continue into
the second movie on his original five figure salary, but the Actor's
Equity Union stepped in and force Warner's to increase it to something
like $2 million. I assume that under the circumstances, to the Actor's
Union, $2 million was something like minimum wage under the
circumstances. Considering that actors like Lenardo DeCapprio and
others get $20 million up front for movies that don't make anything
near a billion dollars (and that just the moive, not the secondary
sources of income like merchandising).

Also, I seems that none of the primary actors are getting anything
from the use of their images in advertising, merchandising, art,
etc.... They get their base pay and that's it.

It think it's wonderful the the kids are having fun, and that they are
not obsessed with the money, but when they turn 18 or 21 and look at
it from a new perspective and see that Warner grossed several billion
dollars, then they look at the share they got, they are not going to
be too happy. 

True, even the lowest paid of the main three is still going to have a
substantial amount of money, and their future (hopefully) is going to
be secure and they can afford to attend any collage or university they
want. But still, considering the revenue they are generating, I would
like them to get something approximating a fair share. 

One concern I have about Daniel, is that his father, who appears to be
a very good father, has quit his job and is now Daniel's fulltime
manager. That's all well and good, but his father still has to pay car
insurance and pay the mortgage and utilities, etc... and the only
place I can see that money coming from is Daniel's money. I'm sure
Daniel told his father he could pay himself whatever he thought was
fair. But if fair is $100,000 a month, then Daniel will be left with
nothing. (I seriously doubt it's a $100,000 a month, I'm just trying
to illustrate a point.)


So, I'm curious if anyone has heard what the main four characters
(Dan, Rup, Emma, Tom) are making? Either from memory, or if you have a
link or an article.

thank to all.

bboy_mn