4 ms·
He should have leveraged the success of the album to get high paid work. Jim Carrey was offered $350K for Dumb and Dumber, which he turned down (he wanted $400
by paulsutter 8y ago
He should have leveraged the success of the album to get high paid work.
Jim Carrey was offered $350K for Dumb and Dumber, which he turned down (he wanted $400K). Then when Ace Ventura became a surprise hit, the offer for Dumb and Dumber was raised to $7,000,000, which he took. He made only $350K for Ace Ventura, but that opened the door to a bigger payday.
Based on the success of Dumb and Dumber, he was the first actor ever to be paid $20M, for Cable Guy, a flop at the box office.
You get paid for /previous/ success, and that's what the author's dad should have learned.
Edit: removed mistaken reference to Liar Liar, thanks
- batbomb 8y agoI'm not quite sure there's any metric you could use to declare Liar Liar a "total flop", but sure.
- joshschreuder 8y agoYeah, 302M box office vs. 45M budget hardly seems like a flop
- bshepard 8y agoDo markets for art work in the same way as markets for talent in film? To what extent does success in mass media illustration correspond to success in selling singular art objects?
- toast0 8y agoIt doesn't need to, if success in mass media illustration leads to success in attaining mass media illustration contracts. I recall hearing that such and such cover was done by the same person who did some other cover.
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoThey live in an UWS brownstone. Can't have had too much of a struggle through life.
- busterarm 8y agoAt 89. If you remember what Manhattan was like 25-50 years ago, you wouldn't be saying that. In the 80s you could buy brownstones for $20k.