Acting & Cinema
Who Pays and Who Gets Paid
A monopoly broken and permitted again, a film that never made a profit, and what a residual is
United States v. Paramount · Art Buchwald · the 2023 strikes · 4 chapters · 11 min read
A monopoly broken and restored, a film that never made a profit, and what a residual is.
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The business of it
- 01The Studios Owned the CinemasOn a monopoly broken in 1948 and permitted again in 2020.
- 02The Film That Never Made a ProfitOn a definition doing work that arithmetic cannot.
- 03How a Film Gets MoneyOn assembling money, and what the assembly rewards.
- 04Paid Twice, or NotOn a payment for reuse, and a seventy-year argument that keeps restarting.