So, here’s the deal on movie residual money for a writer. Jason X was my first credited feature. I got sole credit. Box office is irrelevant (unless you negotiated a backend into your deal which few writers are able to do). So regardless if the flick made one million or 200 million, as the writer you’ll not see a dime of box office money. But we do see very small pieces of the pie when it comes to DVD, video, Pay-Per-View, Network and Cable. This money shows up quarterly.
However, at this point I haven’t seen any residual money on Jason X. If New Line turned in their profits last quarter then they would have had 60 days from March 31st to pay that money to the guild. That deadline’s up at the end of this month. It’ll take the guild a couple of weeks to turn the money around and get a check out to me.
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