How much in royalties does an actor get on DVD, and does it decrease in time?
375482
it depends on the contract
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The average won't really help you as most distribution deals are made with national theatre chains. That said, studio pictures tend to split the box office 70/30 (70% distributor, 30% exhibitor) while major event pictures (like Star Wars Ep. III) keeping up in the low to mid eighties. Independent Films have significantly less leverage and end up with closer to 50/50 deals with the exhibitors. Exhibitors get even bigger cuts on revived classics where they just pay a flat fee (say $500) to show cult classics (usually at midnight) and then keep the box office.\n\nExhibitors keep 100% of concessions.\n\nThe Theatre business is a horrible business to be getting into at this point though. The transition to home entertainment is forcing theatres out of business. The big boys have it down to a super-efficient science that it is nearly impossible for a single house to compete.\n\nIf you are going into the business you will definitely need some kind of a super-sweet gimmick, like "Tarantino personally curates all movies" or something like that. That or a liquor license.\n\nEmail me if you want more info.
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One thing you can do to guarantee not getting ripped off, is whats called a "poor man's copyright". This is how you do it. First, make a copy of your script, outline, storyboard etc., whatever you have. Put the original in a shipping envelope (the manila colored ones with padding work best), now, take it to the mailbox, and mail it to yourself, honestly, the post office will do this. They will take the letter, process it, in processing they will stamp it with their location, and the date, then when it comes back to you, DO NOT OPEN IT, literally leave it closed, forever, but keep it safe. The reason being, if someone steals your idea, the "poor mans copyright" will hold up in court if the date is visible (and before the other person says they made theirs), and the envelope is unopened, that way they know it was not tampered with in any way. This is a great help to struggling writers who dont have the money to spend on copyrighting their ideas.
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The price is comparable to the artist. A top artist will get tens of thousands for song rights for a movie, an unknown should be happy with $2,500 and the exposure that they will get. Most movies produce a sountrack. Make sure that you get a royalty for any soundtrack sales, be happy for the great exposure and publicity and take whatever they offer above that. It is tricky when the artist is little known. You don't want to risk making it too difficult for the studio, they just may move on to another song , and you may loose a great opportunity for your artist to gain mainstream exposure.\n\nMany little known artists would pay for the opportunity.\n\nGood luck.
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Artists can get royalties, or if they die, thier 'estate' can get the royalties: http://tinyurl.com/7bsmp
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You dont need instructions if you use www.dvd-cloner.com. Ive been using it for 2 years now. They even have a decriptor that can copy 99% of DVDs without worrying about the copyright protection. The upgrades are free and it is one simple click as long as you have a DVD copy drive. Just get that software and a pack of DVD-R and copy them. As long as you dont distribute them for sale and its for your personal use, then it is not illegal.
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publisher's secure rights by buying them from the library of Congress. you can copywright your own work or purchase the rights to existing work. royalties are a shared percentage of the net residuals, usually referring to the money an artist receives after album sales. of course in this day and age, the nature of these beasts is much more complicated and the monopoly that the major label record companies have over artists is crippling the music industry. for further reading and info, i bought a book called "all you ever need to know about the music business" although im not sure of the author. good luck
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I would try http://www.dvd-cloner.com cuz they have a CSS decryptor that will burn movies that are copyrighted.\n\nUse the evaluation version for now.\n\nI only give out the registration key code if I get the chosen as the best answer =)
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Went to USPS website to see but it doesn't specify.  However I sell things on eBay and find that it can take anywhere between 2-9 days depending on distance.  What you should do is contact the company or check their website & see if you can find what day the DVDs were shipped.
747905
Don't hold your breath.  It's suppose to take 6-8 wks but I've waited for months on end for refunds, credits and reward certificates....if you don't get them in a timely manner complain like I did...I got a free DVD and my rewards
39655
I heard he's working on getting the rights and is pertty close if he hasn't got them already. I don't think it'll be in theaters for at least 5 years, though. More's the pity.
1019851
.9 gig per hour is plenty good for tv. I don't know what technique you are using to go to dvd but at this rate you can fit about 4 hours of video on a standard one sided dvd-r
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It will be hard to sell DVDs because now we have netflix, and so far on ebay, Ive seen movies sell at like .99 cents. Noone buys VHS movies anymore, so I dont think you should make this your primary income. You can definitely make some EXTRA income by selling off stuff you just want to get rid of. Its not very difficult to set up an account with ebay. You can start basically today if you signup. Plus the buyer pays the shipping price so you dont really lose anything unless your item doesnt sell.\n\nI used to sell virtual items on ebay and made tons of profit. You might too.
740204
It depends on the producer and if you use back up singers and whole orchestras for instance.  Micheal Jackson spent many millions of dollars to make his last recording that nobody really heard.  I would think that $5,000-$10,000 a day would be common, but that doesn't make it good.
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You can get a used copy of the first season DVD for $21.\nA new copy runs $30.\n\nSee reference below.
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Yes I have, and no I dont think its a good deal.\nI acquired some lesson cd's a few years ago during one of their promotions and found; that although easy to use and accurate as far as I could tell the lessons did not cover much ground and of course you were encouraged to purchase more and more in order to complete the entire program.\n\nOn a side note - over the years, watching the TV promos and the guarantees offered I have come to the conclusion that this guys is a mailing list aggragator. The Video Professor business may be only a means to an end- - - collecting valid names and addresses of people who buy off TV ads. This information can be sold to other companies for more than $10.00 per name. You can see that selling a name many times over to various companies for ten or more dollars per name would be a lucrative business. This is what I'm thinking, I have no proof but it seems to me to reasonable.
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No cause King Kong is Dvd-9 which has 9gb of data, Get dvd Shirnk to copy it to ure HDD and remove encryption and to compress the size to fit on a 4.7gb DVD. I cant tel you where to get it, but GOOGLE is a good friend in that matter. Also hope you are doing this as a backup since what your doing is illegal, and yahoo has your IP address so they track you down and make the FBI do the dirty work..hehe...hope you like 500,000 dollar fines and copyright infrigment on your record.