Does anyone understand how the points system works? I know that the production costs are paid back and the film has to make some money before the points are paid out but how are they set up? Is it 1 point per dollar in the film? And, does each point represent a percentage of what an actor or crew member (if given points) gets based on the overall budget?
caryn james
A "point" can be what ever the producer wants it to be.
It can be a straight percentage - one point is one percent so
there are 100 point available.
It can be a sliding percentage - one point is a percentage of one
percent so there could be 1,000 or 100,000 points available.
The points are given out based on what the producer gets - not the
overall budget or the gross or even the net. So a movie that
returns $10,000,000 might only net the producer $3,000,000. In a
straight percentage each "point" is worth $30,000.
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