Let's do lunch, baby. You're a Hollywood producer on your way to the Paramount Studios with a budget in your hand for the next Brad Pitiful vehicle. You've carefully added the costs for union gaffers and grips, you know what it'll cost to blow up seventeen used trucks, and you know you'll have to shoot eighteen miles of film with a small army of camera men, lighting people, and street sweepers. All of these functionaries are below-the-line costs, because they get paid, and then they go away. Above-the-line players are people like the headliner, Brad Pitiful. Above-the-line also includes the director, the writer, and the producer...yeah, you.
Why the distinction? What is this mysterious line all about? Profit participation. Above-the-line players in Hollywood often take a salary cut, even working for minimum wage, in return for a cut of profits when the film comes to market. Famously, when Jack Nicholson played the Joker in Batman, he took a very small salary and a large profit chunk. That decision ended up netting him somewhere close to a hundred million bucks, in today's dollars. Nice work if you can get it, eh?
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Finance allah shmoop What is in direct cost All right
Well let's start like we try to always start with
the opposite Direct costs are the cost of the medal
for the engine block for this building direct costs are
the windshield wipers Direct costs are the glass The door
handles the pain the radio and the two gallon cup
holder for holding supersize slurpees Direct build one car and
you have to pay for this stuff in cash No
ambiguity Alright these air direct costs of building the car
But what about indirect costs Well indirect is a totally
different animal So like whether you build one car that
day or one hundred Well you have to heat the
building at least in january in detroit That heat is
an indirect cost of building the car And yes it's
not really Detroit it's pontiac michigan Or wherever But we're
just saying it's cold there What about the insurance he
had to carry for the car company or the lawyers
you employ Or the least back on the giant robot
car makers or the unpaid obligations into the union pension
fund All indirect costs So yeah it's all the stuff
You basically have to pay for in order to stay
in business and avoid major lawsuits So you can continue
to pay for all those direct costs that actually go
into the making of your product Like the direct costs
you can think of as you know kind of things
that produce a gross margin And the indirect costs you
know kind of produce an operating margin Just saying All
right so just make sure that when you're building a
car you don't sell gps system that gives you in 00:01:38.489 --> [endTime] directions See that That would be bad This
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