Archive for October 8th, 2008

No New Disney Resort for Oriental Land Company

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

Every business wants to expand, Disney wants to expand, Oriental Land Co Ltd wants to expand, everybody would want to expand (and make more money). So it isn’t a surprise when the Oriental Land group looked into opening another park in a major city in Japan. However, a one year study convinced them that opening another park with Disney character running around would not bring them the investment return they want to justify the plans.

The Oriental Land company is now looking into other option without the Disney Characters.

Source: OLC group and Reuters.

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55 million Dollars

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

Johnny Depp will be the next actor that can call himself the best paid one. To come back and reprise his role as Captain Jack Sparrow he will get a check for 55 Million dollars. Not a bad paycheck, isn’t it? I didn’t think so. But I do think that it is to much. Who needs 55 million to play one role? Nobody, not even the best Jack Sparrow in the world!

With so many actors strugeling in the industry I would love to see one top actor to be a little more humain and strike another kind of contract deal. How about signing a 55 million contract for a role where you keep 1 million and have it stated in the contract that the other 54 million will be equally divided between all the extras, technicians and other lower paid people on the set. Nobody who is already rich needs another 55 million added to his or her account, but all the other people would welcome that little extra to get some bills paid.

55 Million dollars for one movie, for any movie, for any role… way to much. But that is just my 2 cents.

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