Sentence examples for kill fee from inspiring English sources

His translation wasn't used, but the kill fee included a percent of the show's royalties.

Mr. Wolf's side contends that the contract guarantees the money as a kind of termination payment, or "kill fee".

Indeed, the editor told the paper's ombudsman that had the critic "not volunteered to withdraw the review and accept a kill fee, the paper would have published it".

Rather he accepted an unprompted offer from the reviewer himself, made when he submitted the piece, to withdraw it for a "modest kill fee".

Mrs. White once confided to this reviewer a sidelight on the famous break, which had less to do with Gill's panning than with O'Hara's demand, which Wolff describes, that the magazine pay him a two-hundred-and-fifty-dollar kill fee for each story submitted and returned.

He had been burned once, and in many ways his precedent-setting deal is less about establishing a gigantic salary benchmark, Mr. Kamins said, than it is an elaborate "kill fee" to protect Mr. Jackson from getting burned again, at a time when Universal was in the process of being sold.

The kill fees for the book are bigger than the fees paid to writers who are in there.

All pieces are subject to editing and review by our US-based editorial staff, and we cannot pay "kill fees" if final pieces do not meet our editorial standards.

Other cuts executives mentioned included magazine promotional items, photo shoots that stretch for several days, the high "kill fees" paid for completed photographs that do not make it into the magazines and the near-daily lunch orders from Balthazar.

Many analysts say the industry could remain relatively stable; 65% of subscribers are locked into long-term contracts that charge hefty kill fees for quitting early.

Over the past year, Fannie and Freddie, which hire mortgage companies to manage millions of home loans that they own, have paid Bank of America and others $1.5 billion in kill fees to cancel servicing contracts for 700,000 loans.