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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ll admit I had little patience for the actors’ strike until I read this article about how poorly the Orange is the New Black cast was compensated. These actors were working on a hit show that was critically acclaimed and made Netflix millions, and they still had to keep their day jobs to cover 5 am cab fare to the set. Insane.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/notes-on-hollywood/orange-is-the-new-black-signalled-the-rot-inside-the-streaming-economy[/quote]

The residuals for streaming work are laughable.

My cousin gets around $1300 every month for work she did as a victim on Law & Order SVU, Bones, and an episode of CSI Miami.

She did a 3 episode arc on Ozark and her check for the residuals of that is around $5-$8.

What I found interesting is the part of the article that stated that the residuals are calculated after the first 52 weeks of streaming. So, 1 year after the content is released is when they start getting residuals calculated? No wonder when I see videos some of them post of their checks they are like $.05!

OITNB pretty much established Netflix as a powerhouse to contend with traditional network media. House of Cards came out before OITNB, but House of Cards had well-known actors on its roster.  [/quote]

I have a friend who does day hire extra work.  He has been on House of Cards four times.  As a day-hire extra, he gets no residuals.  He got a day rate of something like $125 to be on call all day and get into scenes where they needed groups of people. He's also been on Veep and a couple of other shows (I forget which ones right now).  Extras get no residuals, often have the most trouble getting up to the $26K that is required to get health benefits and are the most vulnerable part of the industry.  And they number in the 10s of thousands of the 160K members of SAG.

The strike and the contract issues are about the people on the bottom-most rungs of the ladder, not the 2% of the A-listers and B-listers who negotiate their own contracts.  This is for those who get paid by boilerplate contracts and by union-negotiated rates, not about people with agents who have individually tailored contracts.[/quote]

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