Babs as soon as cubby died jacked up producers fees taking a big chunk out off the top before profits. Dad last know movie their fee were published it was $32 million, out of $142 million budget. Brosnan was paid they say now approximately $16 million, so almost $50 million was blown for nothing much in return.dirtybenny wrote:$400-$450 mil costs are ridiculous, the production companies need to realize spending that much is wasted money. They made Casino Royal for $200 mil adjusted for inflation, that's about the max they should spend. I bet they'd get much closer to that figure if they ditched his royal cragginess and his inflated price tag. Not to mention their obsession with "art house" directors and actors in supporting roles who demand the earth to lower themselves to work on such "low brow dreck."
I remember reading when we had someone dump a bunch of the numbers it was$10-11 million salary for dad, maybe gbp? There was some sort of bounty’s after dad did well. They say he wanted $20 million for bond 21 , mgw later admitted the salary wasn’t a issue. Brosnan said it wasn’t much off the dad salary.
Eon tried to say it was too much and rebooted. They used gbp (76 million gbp?) to try to say they cut the budget but when exchanged it was more than dads cost. So they still got their producers fees up front.
Long way to go to get back to where we started , I wouldn’t be surprised producers fees weren’t north of $50 million for nttd.
Btw the highest paid bond ever was Connery, unpublicized but he walked off set on gold finger or thunderball, said he hurt his back and needed to heal , production started up again when he got a % of the bo. 1960s money but adjusted he made out like a bandit. Even DAF where Connery gave his salary to charity he made more than the $1million he gave away from his cut of the us bo.
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