Most of the cast and crew work for scale and a share of the profits.
The musicians work for scale, as does Mr. La Selva, earning $1,200 or $1,300 for conducting the Central Park season.
The ad's cost was cut from $180,000 to about $60,000 because actors, directors, caterers and the Altus Group, the agency that put the commercial together, agreed to donate their services or work for scale.
Who knew that Woody Allen, who established the pattern of making movies his way with famous actors willing to work for scale for the privilege, provided the industry's dominant countermodel for the coming generations?
In B-list Hollywood, apartments are shared, credit cards are maxed out and actors -- both male and female -- are thankful to work for scale in low-budget movies made especially for cable, international or straight-to-video markets.
I said, 'If you want to work for scale and fail, be my guest.' " Mr. Konyves's script inevitably compresses some parts of the novel and omits others, but it also expands on the text.
How, when his armies of darkness are on the march, co-opting teenage power balladeers to work for scale or nothing in exchange for lucrative prime-time exposure – a nakedly exploitative business model that has somehow yet to attract the attentions of the UN Commissioner for Karaoke Rights?
Having passed over Scarlett Johansson (mentioned, but not in the film), who had offered to work for scale, he falls wildly in love with the enigmatic Laurel, whom he plucked out of nowhere and who insists she is not an actress.
"So a lot of pretty well-known actors, directors and writers are working for scale, because they're sharing revenue from the outset".
No one worked for scale on his most recent movie, "Battleship," which was supposed to be the summer blockbuster of 2012.
But while Nicholson's salary was "enormous", laughs Fletcher, "the rest of us were working for scale, or a little above that.
