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y gave begrudgingly.At first it didn’t matter because Hollywood accounting is such that somehow the studios could always show a loss on the movie. The stars got wise to that very quickly, and started taking front end participations, a percentage of the ticket when movie goers bought their tickets. In my 35 years on Wall Street [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], I participated in financing many movies, and I have to tell you that nobody ever made money on the backend. No matter how big the movie, somehow the movie always lost money when it came to the backend participations.We have now reached a point where the giant multinationals that control media on a world wide basis are fed up with what they are putting up with on behalf of brand name stars. Mel Gibson as you know has run into trouble on the West Coast with his drinking [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and purported anti-Semitic r[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]rks resulting in Disney canceling a Holocaust series with Gibson’s production company.Now Tom Cruise has had a falling out with Sumner Redstone [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and Viacom. Publicly Redstone has stated he doesn’t like some of Cruise’s actions in the last year. This doesn’t make sense. Normally when a studio breaks with a star, there is no public statement. None is required to be given, and they just part