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> Eric Lewald : The Hollywood normalcy is you provide a number one hit and the money starts flowing. What happened with us was we had a number one hit, but it w
by gwern 9y ago
> Eric Lewald : The Hollywood normalcy is you provide a number one hit and the money starts flowing. What happened with us was we had a number one hit, but it was four or five companies working on this. One of them was Saban. What he did after the first season was cut $500 off the script fee for the writers.
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> Julia Lewald: Me being one of the writers.
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> Eric Lewald: His rationale was, "it's a hit. They want to be part of it, so they'll take less money."
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> JuliaLewald: "And if not, there's a line out the door of people who will."
Brutal.
- amyjess 9y agoHaim Saban was notorious for underpaying his people. Half the cast of Power Rangers, another Saban show, quit during the second season because they were working for peanuts. IIRC, they only got paid $1000 per episode. That was low even by 1994 standards.
- mcguire 9y agoWeird that Saban doesn't address those comments in the article....
- gwern 9y agoFor this style of interview, I don't think they are necessarily in the same room at the same time but I think the reporter is splicing together separate interviews using a common set of questions. Hence the lack of interaction or responses between interviewees.
- JBlue42 9y agoThat's Hollywood in a nutshell. If you don't want to do something, there's someone else that will sacrifice to do it. Works for companies too. VFX companies will take on a project they'll lose money on just to have a foot in the door with a studio and work on a big movie. This usually means a combination of offshoring and running people ragged.