@Viper13579:The reality is that every A-List talent is going to want their nut up front now, and as a consequence due to higher startup costs fewer projects will get green lighted.
No one can predict what's going to be a hit and what's going to flop - you succeed by having your talent take the risk with you, and putting out a lot of projects. Some will succeed and some will flop, and your own and your talent's success will rise and fall with the tide.
Except not any more.
Disney thought John Carter was going to be a hit and had a whole host of sequels planned for it. Disney put a lot of resources into that one with very little return.
Maybe Disney's path forward is to not use A-Listers - which brings with the fact that your cast isn't going to be one of things bringing eyeballs to your release.
And here we have the world's best example of "you think you're hot sh!t, but you're only cold fart warmed up".
Scarlett is kidding herself is she truly believes her performance in the woeful Black Widow movie is worth $100M USD. All I see here is a complete and total lack of talent in Hollywood if this is the best the industry can produce.
Black Widow tanked (relatively-speaking) because you and your character aren't interesting Scarlett, not because Disney ripped you off. They should have (and likely did) set a performance benchmark for ticket sales before remotely offering profit-based residuals. If the tickets don't sell in a vanity piece, that's on you.
Black Widow's about as interesting a superhero (sans any modicum of superhero ability) as the arrow guy and flying guy in Avengers, whose names are so forgettable I can't recall them at all. I wouldn't pay a red cent to watch a movie starring them either, which is the real problem here.
You can't all be Captain America, Thor or Ironman. Some of the Marvel characters are little more than background filler, cannon fodder, romantic interest (gag) or comic relief. Black Widow falls well and truly into that "meh" category.
$100M for Black Widow is beyond laughable. Bridge burnt, move along Scarlett, no-one but your greed-fuelled entourage cares.
Hey, she took a lower salary because she was depending on a percentage of the box office of a theatrical release - and Disney screwed her over by releasing it to streaming video simultaneously.
If they had had a theatrical release as planned and the movie tanked - then you just went with the roll of the dice and you lost - but Disney didn't do that.
As for the quality of the character and all the other elements of the film - that's all on Disney. Scarlett certainly fulfilled her end of the bargain and wasn't responsible for the writing or effects or story.
$100 million was the plaintiff's first offer, and if Disney had negotiated in good faith I'm sure that the settlement figure would've been negotiated lower - but Disney instead simply ignored the plaintiff, so that's the amount they're suing for.
So yeah, bridges burnt and all that. Top tier talent will henceforth be reluctant to sign with Disney in the future unless there's a huge chunk of change up front, because talent will know that Disney can't be counted on for compensation on the back end, so movies will be harder to make and finance and that's on them.
@khatibi22 Hmph ... I replied to this but don't know where my reply went.
Go to the left of the chasm and target the the boss with the designator.
As I recall, he shoots low and raises his aim point until he hits you. Before the laser gets high enough to hit you, cartwheel to the right and continue targeting him. He should get slammed from space before his laser gets you.
For the next round, go to the right side of the chasm and target him. Target him with the designator and cartwheel to the left when his laser gets close to you and continue targeting him. Again he should get stomped before his laser toasts you.
Go back to the left and repeat.
As I recall, once you get a hang of the pattern to use it's not terribly difficult.
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