Variety Magazine

So today in class, we spiced things up a little and did a fun activity where every person in the class had a certain part in Hollywood. I happened to be a famous actor and had to sign a contract with a studio for as much money as I could get. I had a lot of fun. Then after that we were challenged to see how familiar that is which the real Hollywood. My initial reaction was that it was nothing like it. Hmm was I wrong though? What we did was of course on a smaller scale of the dealing that Actors and studios really do. But what it comes down too is actors that want a gig in a movie or studios that are eyeing a particular actor meet each other and try to make a deal that would benefit both. That is exactly what I did today. Two different studios came up to me and wanted me to be a star actor. One only wanted to give me 5 million while the other was willing to give me 15 million. I found a article on variety magazines website where Samuel Jackson was in a pretty long dispute with Marvel Entertainment on how much money he should get in the movie Iron Man 2 which will be filming soon. It is a paramount picure films and they quote as to saying Jackson and his ICM reps have cleared those dealmaking hurdles, and he will take part in the sequel that director Jon Favreau shoots in the spring, with Paramount Pictures distributing in summer 2010. From what i read in the article it seemed pretty similar to what I had to do this morning in class. I had a lot of fun and im pretty interested in the end results.