actually, revising my previous comment.
"In February 2022, it was reported that Blumhouse Television and NBC News Studios had declined to share profits from The Thing About Pam with the family of Louis Gumpenberger."
really? you're profiting off of the man's death and despite the family winning a 3million suit against pam hupp which they'll never see a cent for, you don't see a reason to donate part of the profits to them?
gross.
loading replies@birdcages First of all, only parties that contribute to a project should get compensation and they always sign contracts for their services. No sane producer will sign a contract with someone that doesn't bring anything to the table, information in the public record is simply not enough. If someone has something to offer that is valuable can negotiate to be compensated economically. Compensation could be a lump-sum up front or deferred as points over revenue/profit or any mix theseof. Anyways nobody is forced to sign a contract if he doesn't agree with the term but once signed no party can pretend to change its terms unilaterally especially after the fact when they see if it's been a success or a failure.
In this case the family would do better by looking at themselves and their lack of vision, trust in the story or in the show makers.
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i think maybe you missed what my point was. i wasn't talking about being compensated for participation in the series (though i will say the notion of "value" to the production team is strange, given that they wouldn't have anything to portray about his death had the man not died so his story therein has innate value). i was talking about the overarching issue of people profiting off of other people's tragedies that's been going on since humans developed schadenfreude. regardless, i still think that it was gross of them and that's just my personal opinion at the end of the day. doesn't change based on what is and isn't expected of a film or tv production team.
