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Comment on AI startup Synthesia says it's creating a $1M stock pool to pay actors with equity for the use of their likeness, a first for the AI industry.

vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

A whole million? You thought there was only A grade and B grade movies … wait until you see Z grade.

For context, Keanu Reeves was paid $156 million for the two Matrix sequels. There’s plenty more actors getting paid over a million … each.

Source: …wikipedia.org/…/List_of_highest-paid_film_actors

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Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Such a revealing list, a lot of, ohhh, that’s why they acted in that one.

Looking at you terminator 3

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Grimy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
The Hollywood business model is coming to an end.

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- vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  With the likes of massive companies like Disney and Paramount running the show … it’s going to be a while.
  
  Also, you do realise that these massive wages come from the obscene profits made by movies, in other words, if you want to make money, you need to spend it.
  
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