Show Me The Money!

[Steve <bboy_mn@yahoo.com>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Anne <urbana at c...>"
<urbana at c...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Steve <bboy_mn at y...>" 
> <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> <Huge snip>
> > 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.

> Anne:
> 
> Steve, I can't recall where I saw this, but I did read online that 
> Daniel made $110,000 (American) for SS/PS and $3 Million (American) 
> for CoS (I will try to look it up). ...edited...
> 
> Anne U

bboy_mn:

Thanks Anne, your figures for Daniel don't sound too far off. 

Curious what Rupert and Emma are getting. They are probably making an
effort for those figures not to get out.

Warner made nearly a billion (which in the US is a 1,000 million. I
believe in Britain, it's a million million) off just the movie alone.
Plus more from the merchandising and licensing. Now they are well on
the way to a second billion (maybe only half to three quarters of a
billion) for the second movie, and the third movie may not set any box
office record, but it will certainly be a very successfull movie. So
from three movies, I can easily see Warner grossing 2.5 (US) billion
at the box office. 

I think possibly one of the reasons the three main charaters are only
signed for three movies is that Warner realizes that sometime during
the third movie the actors are all going to wise up and want to
renegotiate their contracts for a fairer share. So, I'm guessing, for
these three unless they consent to work cheap. We will be starting all
over again with new actor for the movies after the third. And I
wonder, considering how hard it was to find the three original actors,
if they will be able to stick to the British only cast for movies
beyond the third. Personally, I don't see it happening. Maybe Hally
Joel Osmet (sorry if I spelled his name wrong. The 'I See Dead People'
kid.) will get to play Harry after all.

The Americanization of the movies might make a good movie, but I
suspect they will make a poor story, and will certainly not make money
like the first three. 



Just a few more thoughts.

bboy_mn