Writers Strike!
Writers are on strike.. The world seems all tore up and both sides are really just as guilty.
Writers want more money (notice, not SOME money.. not a FAIR amount.. but MORE) for the crap movies and TV that they are churning out. They feel entitled as they WROTE the thing, and if hey its a hit.. maybe they should get more money out of it. Oh and maybe its online, so they should get some money out of that (in fact they get SOME now, just not much).
Companies, of course want the total opposite. Writers get less, actors get less, company gets more. Which is basically why business models are failing left and right in our society. No one wants to change how things are done.
Anyway, to the 3rd party outside of the whole “we write, and we want money”, and “screw you writers, you get plenty!”.. I can tell you this. Movies make a bucketload of money, I think writers/actors should receive probably 40% total. Split that in half for the individual shares, put about 20-30% with the company propper. Then put 10% on support staff (*see below), and 20% in critical areas (*see below).
**Almost all shows/movies have an area that gets a lot of work.. Scifi goes nuts on all of them (costume/makeup/set design/etc..) and other genre’s typically hit one specifically. I honestly think directing is the most bogus position on a movie at this point.. I’ve seen movies (renditions) by 2 different directors and typically the difference isn’t the “style” of the movie so much as it is the different actors chosen to do it.. (casting probably).
*In summary if you use a lot of makeup give those guys a bigger cut, if you use CGI, give my peeps (the geeks) a bigger chunk