The Hollywood Reporter shares fascinating financial info that we know is for reals – cuz they got it from the Sony email hack:
by Austin Siegemund-Broke, Paul Bond
Cameron Diaz is a bigger star than Jamie Foxx. At least that’s the way Sony saw it when paying the actress $7.5 million to appear in Annie, $2.5 million more than her male co-star.
To illustrate the state of Hollywood salaries, THR analyzed two full production budgets revealed in the Sony hack — one for a midrange family movie, the other the pilot for Battle Creek, a CBS series that aired this spring — chosen not because they represent excessive spending, but rather because they exemplify what it costs to make an average piece of American entertainment.
Read it all at Hollywood Reporter
EDITOR’S NOTE: Y’all may have noticed what’s missing in this breakdown, and in the rest of the article too: Who the writers were and what they got paid. A sign of the high regard in which the Reporter holds us poor, floundering scribes?