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Movie $ keeps rolling in
Monday, October 1, 2007
People often ask me if I continue to make money from the Big Fish movie. Normally this would be a somewhat audacious question, but I'm sure the source of it resides in the desire to know how the book-to-movie business works. This is how it works, normally: the author of a book whose work is purchased for the creation of a film receives a paycheck upfront, and that might be $500 and it might be a $1,000,000 (my check, by the way, was nowhere near either). After that, no matter how well a movie performs, the author usually gets nothing. Ever.
But I had a part in Big Fish. Somehow this escapes most people's attention, how I don't know, because it's a crucial eights seconds or so of the film. I am the professor. Take a look.
So yes, for my role in the movie I continue to get checks in the mail. One came today. It is for $14.96
posted by Daniel Wallace at 3:20 PM
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One of the best things about your blog is the insight you give us into your own life. I had no idea that you got risiduals from Big Fish and the drawing you provided was hilarious.
Having an 8 second part in such a great movie is rich reward in itself though :)
I bet you laugh when you see such cheques.