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Originally Posted by Arlington
This is really turning into a PR disaster. I’ve had many friends text me articles they’re seeing about this, and they aren’t even Scream freaks like me. So apparently the script was Sidney heavy (so says Jamie Kennedy), and they low ball her? And now look like a-holes in an era where women are supposed to be making some ground in empowerment and equality.
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That's how it's been spun but these movies have always been made for peanuts. It's what makes them profitable, and given that the fifth one actually had the lowest budget of them all in relative terms (if the first is adjusted for inflation it's still a good few million more) I'm not surprised that Paramount/Spyglass have baulked at Neve's aksing price, whatever it may have been.
She accepted x payday on 5 likely as a legacy thing, that if they were gonna get the movie made at all then the actors had to work for less (and it's not a coincidence that a good few legacy characters were killed off in 5), but with the franchise's viability reestablished and Neve as the star of the show she wanted the proper remuneration this time around.
It's a shame that a middle ground couldn't be reached as I can't believe that she's after a
gargantuan paycheque - Avengers this ain't - but then it's all relative, if she came back for said peanuts and was requesting, say, five or ten times more for 6 then by blockbuster standards it's still a pittance, but too much for what Paramount want to pay.