eastside313
Superstar
The money flows down, you get paid to make a series, movie or for a musician album. This means you pay for the shyt you produce with the budget they sign off-on - that is the value of the overall deal. Often you get some of this upfront, or yearly and often you get a cut of the success, more often in music. In series, often the studio or other production companies might co-invest with you providing additional funds.
The point is that these contract are long and complex like Issa Rae was saying when everyone said she was get x million. She might get more or less, nobody outside of that circle knows that.
Then why you talking like you know who getting paid what on 50 contract with starz