How much did the Firefly cast get paid?

POSTED BY: Succatash
UPDATED: Thursday, June 26, 2003 01:07
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JAVIDRHO

Friday, June 6, 2003 7:44 PM

Just did a Google search and found the following site listing 1999 salaries from the SAG (Screen Actor's Guild). - This is general information (not official) and lists only "minimum salaries", but it might help with understanding TV show budgets, etc.

http://www.unh.edu/theatre-dance/jobs&prob-pay.html

BTW, My Google search string was the following:
"TV show "production cost" actor salary"

"Remember, shoot the man, not the horse.
Dead horse is cover, live horse is a great pile of panic." -Mal

SUCCATASH

Friday, June 6, 2003 10:55 PM

Thanks for that great link, it is very interesting.

SUCCATASH

Tuesday, June 10, 2003 12:20 AM

What do you think the budget for the new Firefly movie will be?

40 million? 60? 100?

JASONZZZ

Tuesday, June 10, 2003 12:57 AM

Does it list what kind of residues actors generally receive for syndications, re-airs, etc.

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Originally posted by JavidRho:
Just did a Google search and found the following site listing 1999 salaries from the SAG (Screen Actor's Guild). - This is general information (not official) and lists only "minimum salaries", but it might help with understanding TV show budgets, etc.

http://www.unh.edu/theatre-dance/jobs&prob-pay.html

BTW, My Google search string was the following:
"TV show "production cost" actor salary"

"Remember, shoot the man, not the horse.
Dead horse is cover, live horse is a great pile of panic." -Mal

CYRIDEL

Tuesday, June 10, 2003 3:02 AM

Edit: Weird, it didn't put the quote in...

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What do you think the budget for the new Firefly movie will be?

40 million? 60? 100?

Hopefully much lower than that. I would hope that if they spent $2 million for about 45 minutes of tv then for 2 hours they could spend only about $10 million or so. As much as I love Firefly, and I know everyone else here does as well, I really don't think this is gonna be a big blockbuster. It just doesn't have the fan base for a Spider-Man, X-Men, Star Trek, Star Wars, Matrix opening. It needs to be one of those movies that doesn't cost much and makes back 5 or 6 (or more) times what it cost. That might make the execs look at it and say "Hey, this makes a pretty good profit. Let's fire up another movie and bring the series back."

I really don't think that Joss would fall into the whole special effects bonanza that other Scifi movies have fallen into. The two "Star" franchises really seem to have fallen into the idea that if they have huge impressive special fx then the story won't really matter. I would think that Joss looks at it the other way. He'll do story first and worry about the fx only if it's important to the story. So hopefully they can keep the costs down and the profits up.

LONE

Tuesday, June 10, 2003 3:31 AM

The 2001 SAG rates are available here: http://www.sag.org/theatrical_contracts/theatrical-tv.html

hope that helps...

MALFIREFLY

Thursday, June 12, 2003 6:12 PM

Adam is also in uhh the Patriot, so, just thought I would add that in there to help Adam.
-S1

MATWANG

Thursday, June 12, 2003 8:35 PM

I read somewhere, on one of these Firefly threads, that the cost per episode was 2 million, but that a good portion of that figure was licensing paid to Fox, and the actual episodes cost far less to produce.

DUTCH

Thursday, June 12, 2003 11:07 PM

I bet they got paid more than I make :D

DMAN[WARLLAMAS]

Friday, June 13, 2003 6:29 AM

My 'guess' is something like this:

$20k-25+k/eps:
Nathan Fillion (Mal)
Adam Baldwin (Jayne)
Gina (Zoe)

$15k-20k/eps:
Ron Glass (Book)

$10k-15k/eps:
Alan (Wash)
Sean (Simon)
Jewel (Kaylee)

$7k-10k/eps:
Summer (River)
Morena (Inara)

Depending on their contract, they probably agreed to a set number of eps and get paid every two weeks based on that amount.

Someone on this site has to have a connection in Hollywood for this kind of info. Any IRS agents around here?

Nice post for speculation.
[)-man[WarLlamas]

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