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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She must have found out how Hollywood calculates profits on a film and doesn't like her split[/quote]

Well, exactly. Have you not been paying attention? The Sony Pictures hack revealed an enormous wage gap in Hollywood. Not just among actors (I'm sorry, Amy Adams paid much less for American Hustle than Jeremy Renner?!), but among the suits as well.
 
http://fusion.net/story/30886/why-the-sony-pictures-salary-list-should-be-public/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/12/17/stop-denying-the-gender-pay-gap-exists-even-jennifer-lawrence-was-shortchanged/

[i]In [Jennifer] Lawrence, we have a highly talented woman who is single with no children, and — as evidenced by her success — extremely hardworking. She likely has a team of agents, managers and lawyers who advocate for her best interests in production deals, representatives not only skilled at negotiations but presumably well-informed on prevailing compensation standards in the industry. And yet, she’s still paid as though she’s less valuable than her male co-workers, who performed the same job she did. How much less was she to be paid? What’s the difference between 7 points and 9 points? Yup, about 23 percent.

Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Adams aren’t average women; they have far more power and resources to ensure they are paid what they are worth. So if, despite that, they still get paid just 77 cents for every $1 their male counterparts make, ordinary women negotiating on their own for an hourly wage as a cashier or an annual salary as a mid-level manager don’t stand a chance. If the pay gap is so flagrantly affecting one of Hollywood’s biggest female stars, [b]can there be any doubt it’s also affecting typical working women — probably far worse?[/b][/i]

Wake up and smell the coffee.[/quote]

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