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by objclxt 4158 days ago
Nobody takes net points. Plenty of people take points on the gross, which is fine. Studios know that talent has wised up to net points, but that doesn't stop creative accounting from screwing you over in other ways.

For example, one of Peter Jackson's main grievances when he sued New Line was that he had been promised a cut of the revenue from merchandising right sales. New Line sold the merchandising rights to its own sibling and subsidiary companies using a closed bidding process at well below market rates.

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Plenty of people don't take points on the gross. Very few people get such points on gross.
I can't imagine he will work with those guys again.

Also, I can't imagine any of my friends still working with them after I've been screwed over.

Isn't this a relatively small world? Why work with people like that?