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GreyThinkyWhale	Posted: July 18, 2009 07:02 am Quote
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Neavers	Posted: July 18, 2009 04:15 pm Quote
fishsticks Group: Moderator Posts: 3566 Member No.: 6 Joined: July 01, 2005	Yeah. The protest idea is that we all bombard them with terrible auditions. Edit: I got the news from here: http://www.forcesofgeek.com/2009/07/is-fox...t-futurama.html This post has been edited by Neavers on July 18, 2009 04:18 pm -------------------- <<<9 head-splodeys and counting!>>>
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GreyThinkyWhale	Posted: July 18, 2009 06:18 pm Quote
Infosphere Brain Group: Admin Posts: 3855 Member No.: 1 Joined: June 20, 2005	Yeah, I saw that one. This is the sort of original one: http://www.variety.com/article/VR111800612...egoryid=14&cs=1 f***. PEEL is suggesting it's a negotiating ploy, and Variety points out: "It's not the first time 20th has gone that route during a tough negotiation on one of its toons. The studio previously made a similar move on "The Simpsons" when it couldn't come to a deal with its stars. Casting feelers were sent out for replacements, but a deal was eventually made with the original cast." So hopefully we'll get the actors... but I don't wanna be overly optimistic. --------------------
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Posted: July 21, 2009 11:04 am

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From PEEL (from an anonymous cast member):

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"Tell your friend that the thing his computations don't take into account is this: The current order of 26 episodes will put the series over the top of the magic number of 100 episodes, and make the show a viable syndication package, forever. Picture, if you will, the Mother Alien in "Aliens", birthing those gooey alien egg-things every few seconds, and you've got a somewhat accurate image of what a syndication package is to a studio, if you just imagine those gooey egg-things as filled with cash. Millions upon millions in cash for the studio; self-generating, without the studio ever again having to do... anything. The show just sits there, spewing ridiculous gobs of wealth at the corporation, possibly for decades.

These actors have been the most underpaid cast in primetime animation since it became a genre again. They have, up to now, made less per episode than the King Of The Hill actors, less than the Family Guy or American Dad actors, and certainly less than the Simpsons actors. By a lot. This is the magic season, and they are actually asking for less than their fair share, considering their contribution, and considering what this show is about to become, in terms of earning power, for so many much higher on the totem pole than they. And BTW, $75,000.00 per episode is a made-up figure. And who would be surprised if it was made up by 20th Century Fox TV to make the actors appear greedy, when in fact, the almost entire *lack* of balking at that amount in comment threads all over the Web seems to indicate the actors' real demand is probably, again, not high enough to garner the outrage the 20th Century Fox TV spinmeisters desire from the general public, so they had to tweak it. And it is probably closer to what they should have demanded. The irony is, they underestimated their own value yet again.

P.S. - It is also a very poorly veiled stunt (played on the actors) that this show is going to be carried only on Comedy Central. You can bet that the second a deal is signed, an announcement will fortuitously be made that the show will be returning to the FOX Network, thereby pumping millions more, with its higher ad revenue stream, into the show.

P.P.S. - Please ask your PEEL friend to do the math on 50K per ep, and also 40K, to see the profit margin for FOX. That's more in the region of what they're asking. I have it on the best authority"

Phil LaMarr has also said on Facebook that it's a negotiating tactic and that the $75K figure is greatly exaggerated.

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GreyThinkyWhale	Posted: July 25, 2009 04:13 pm Quote
Infosphere Brain Group: Admin Posts: 3855 Member No.: 1 Joined: June 20, 2005	Well the Comic-Con panel was anticlamactic. The voice actors weren't there and I don't think we learned anything outside episode plots for next season. --------------------
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Neavers	Posted: July 25, 2009 04:26 pm Quote
fishsticks Group: Moderator Posts: 3566 Member No.: 6 Joined: July 01, 2005	Comic Con tweets: David X Cohen is wearing the 3-wolf-moon shirt. Groening: "We love our FUTURAMA actors" then blatantly blames FOX and sends out a hope they can reach a deal soon. (Cont.) ... Cast really isn't here and we're literally looking at notes from the writers room. It's sad. After projecting notes from the writing room for entertainment—it didn't work—we've moved on to the Q&A. [cont.] ...but nobody's supposed to talk about... the issue. Groening just handed a kid in an elaborate Nibbler costume a complete FUTURAMA-on-DVD set, packaged in a Bender head. Upcoming epsiodes: The secret origin of Scruffy, Twitter in the year 3000, Bender marries Amy causing a robosexual marriage controversy. (These sound really s*.) Out of FUTURAMA swag, Groening just gave away a pair of FAMILY GUY boxer shorts. Cohen: "Keep your fingers crossed What's going on right now is business. Edit: God damn you, GTW. This post has been edited by Neavers** on July 25, 2009 04:26 pm -------------------- <<<9 head-splodeys and counting!>>>
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GreyThinkyWhale	Posted: July 26, 2009 09:46 pm Quote
Infosphere Brain Group: Admin Posts: 3855 Member No.: 1 Joined: June 20, 2005	God damn me? Oh, you were writing when I posted? Damn. lulz, yea, I was following Twitter and knew most of that. I didn't know the one about the 3-wolf moon though. Now THAT is awesome. Pic: Oh man, I think he is. --------------------
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GreyThinkyWhale	Posted: August 11, 2009 03:47 pm Quote
Infosphere Brain Group: Admin Posts: 3855 Member No.: 1 Joined: June 20, 2005	Uhhh yea this topic was resolved a while ago... The voice actors have all signed back on. --------------------
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