by ThrowawayR2 on 6/4/2023, 5:58:56 PM
by ksec on 6/4/2023, 7:23:58 PM
Let's ignore the 384x average writer for a second.
A company with a current market cap of $28B paid half a billion to its CEO over the past 5 years?
by voisin on 6/4/2023, 8:31:07 PM
It is crazy that anyone can make this level of wealth without taking massive risk with their own capital.
by missedthecue on 6/4/2023, 7:03:47 PM
That's eye watering but turns out most of it was given in performance based stock options a few years ago, staggered over seven years, at prices (judging by today's stock value) that will never be hit.
Not to say he doesn't make a lot of money...
by pyrophane on 6/4/2023, 7:18:19 PM
Zaslav, of course, is famous for killing a lot of in-production Warner Bros. projects to take a tax write-off on them when he took over. This includes the Batgirl movie, which was in post-production at the time. Crazy to think how many people worked for years on that film only to have it all thrown away at the end like that. If I'd been heavily involved in making it I might have left the industry after that.
by pard68 on 6/4/2023, 7:27:22 PM
Who did he piss off to get this written?
by stcroixx on 6/4/2023, 7:44:37 PM
Similar gap regardless of industry. Fix should not be industry specific.
by projectileboy on 6/4/2023, 9:37:33 PM
The average writer made over $1M? Even for TV or cinema that sounds high. What’s the median?
by iancmceachern on 6/4/2023, 6:54:46 PM
And they probably didn't even write a single script
> "Meanwhile, average pay for Hollywood writers has remained virtually flat at about $260,000 as 2021,..."
Somehow any iota of outrage I might have felt just evaporated. Elites griping about even bigger elites don't muster much sympathy.