Big Fitz
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I only watch movies I can buy from a clearance bin at a used media store. Outside of resorting to piracy, I don't think they profit much from my 3 bucks of after retail purchase."Military Contractor CEO Pay in 2010
Northrop Grumman CEO Wes Bush: $22.84 million.
Lockheed Martin CEO Robert Stevens: $21.89 million.
Boeing CEO James McNerney: $19.4 million.
Financial Sector CEO Pay in 2010
JP Morgan Chase CEO James Dimon: $20.81 million.
Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf: $18.97 million.
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan: $1.94 million."
Not as dead as shit like this.
And shit eaters like you.
War Is a Force That Pays the 1 Percent: Occupying American Foreign Policy | Truthout
annual salaries
kanye west: 25 million
Harrison Ford: 65 million
Leonardo Dicaprio: 77 million
Matt Damon: 22 million
George Clooney: 19 million
Johnny Depp: 50 million
Alex Rodrigues: 32 million
Kobe Bryant: 25 million
Yes! It's ridiculous. I'm glad that you see that Alex making $32 mil a year ends up making Yankee tickets go up to $100 or more per seat.
Hey - maybe:
Its time to Occupy Hollywood!
It's time to stop paying Johnny Depp "stupid money." Celebrities make too much -- and we can do something about it
The great recession is not Johnny Depps fault. Johnny Depp did not decimate your 401K and your childrens college savings plans. He did not foreclose your home. He did not take away your health insurance when you got laid off. He did not start charging you new monthly banking fees while awarding himself a hefty bonus. All the guys ever done is dress like a pirate and entertain people.
Johnny Depp is not the problem. But the entertainment industry is so bloated and reckless that it can pay him $50 million in the last year alone. Depp just shrugs: If theyre going to pay me the stupid money right now, Im going to take it. But in the midst of economic collapse, its time to stop paying Johnny Depp stupid money. Its time to Occupy Hollywood.
Depp isnt the only wildly overpaid person in America, of course, and actors arent the only mega-earners. Tiger Woods salary and endorsements will earn him about $62 million this year which is actually a stunning comedown of nearly $30 million in the wake of his marital implosion. And thanks to hefty album sales and a smash tour, Lady Gaga will pull in roughly $90 million. Thats a lot of lobster shoes.
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As Brent Cox explained for the Awl last month, even adjusted for inflation, Hollywood has never before paid the kind of psycho money its hemorrhaging on its stars now. In 2011 money, Marilyn Monroe would have clocked in at a modest under $2 million for The Misfits. Leonardo DiCaprio, in contrast, stands to make $50 million for Inception.
To pay for the stars, studios have gutted the number of movies they make by 20 percent. And while Depp earns enough to buy himself a small planet, Jack Sparrows home at Disney is laying off hundreds of employees. This is the same studio whose sense of proportion is so out of whack that it prides itself on sticking to a $215 million budget for a remake of The Lone Ranger, starring, of course, Johnny Depp. In a harrowingly grandiose statement of out-of-touchness, Jerry Bruckheimer told the Hollywood Reporter this week, For the smaller scenes [we] laid off the extras, the effects people, the makeup people We bunched together scenes with Tonto and the Lone Ranger, so we had a much smaller crew. We saved about $10 million just by doing that. Wait, thats how you saved money? Laying off effects people?