The business side of Hollywood has always been convoluted, weird, and probably better left behind the curtain out of sight of movie fans.
However, these days so much of the conversation around a movie, especially a franchise film, is about the moving and shaking that goes on in agent offices and studio accounting departments.
What was (insert any random tentpole movie title here)’s budget? How did it do at the box office? The lead actor got paid How much?!?At the end of the day, the movie is the movie and no one will remember if it was a flop or success at the time, but still, there are certain times when it is interesting to take a closer look at the “business” side of “show business” and one of them has to do with Arnold Schwarzenegger making a metric crap-ton of money for appearing in “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
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