[opendtv] Negotiations Stalled for Voice Actors in 'The Simpsons'
- From: Monty Solomon <monty@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 01:42:00 -0400
Negotiations Stalled for Voice Actors in 'The Simpsons'
By BERNARD WEINRAUB
April 14, 2004
LOS ANGELES, April 13 - On television Homer J. Simpson is an
underachiever, the safety inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power
Plant, with the record for most years worked at an entry-level
position. In real life Mr. Simpson and his family of subversives
have, by the estimate of accountants employed by the actors who
supply their voices, earned Fox upward of $2.5 billion as the stars
of one of the longest-running prime-time series in television history.
Now those actors are demanding their share of the wealth. Insisting
that "The Simpsons" would not be the same without them, the
professionals behind the voices of Homer, Bart, Marge and the show's
other animated characters are holding out for the kind of financial
rewards earned by actors on hit sitcoms like "Friends" and "Frasier."
Hollywood executives say that the actors' insistence on not just a
near tripling of their salaries - to $8 million a season - but also
on a share of the show's profits is a first for an animated series, a
genre that studios and networks have counted on for predictable costs
and peaceable casts.
...
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/14/arts/television/14SIMP.html
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