Sometimes the Hollywood machine makes me ill with the degree of money being thrown around. Now I am not talking about stars getting giant paycheques for movies. I won’t even get John started on his rant about the master hack Chris Tucker getting $25 million for Rush Hour 3.
Hollywood celebrities get paid for much more than just the movies they are in. Every talk show, magazine shoot, tv commercial, product endorsements, and a bazillion other paths of income that just give them more money than anyone could really need.
Now apparently shilling out your rights to baby pictures is quite lucrative.
The first photo of Shiloh Jolie-Pitt shattered records when People and Hello! pooled their resources and paid $4 million for the first glimpse of the world’s hottest baby obsession since the Dionne Quintuplets. Now People and Ok! are driving each other to bankruptcy trying to land the first photos of the Brangelina twins
Because apparently Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie don’t already have enough combined wealth.
I can understand getting paid for everything you do. You are in demand, so call your shots. I get that. Hey now you’re a Rock Star get the show on – get paid. But since when did getting knocked up get you so much money? These publications are desperate to be the first for that boost in sales for that month showing the pictures that no one else has, but do they really rake in THAT much money that it makes it worth paying upwards of $15millon for a photoshoot?
It just sets an example and a standard that can prove to be very costly in the future. What happens when someone more popular than “Bradgelina” eventually surfaces and asks for more? You know someone will pay it.
On one hand, signing a contract with one publication to get the first pictures will allow a measure of privacy for the celebrity family in the babies’ earliest days rather than being bombarded by requests or worse, paparazzi treading close to illegal activities to invade your privacy. Of course this doesn’t guarantee that it won’t happen anyways.
To me, its kind of like the Tickle Me Elmo. During the Christmas season a few years back (10?) the demand for this toy was insane. People were paying thousands for a $30 toy that would be widely available 2 months later. It was the demand to get it first that made people crazy
What do you think? Is it too much? Is it reasonable for them to ask $15m for first look?
Are the celebrities holding the publications ransom, or are they just working within the business?
I’d pay 15 billion to see her naked (and not in a movie, i already have Beowulf for that)
(Type your comment here. Make sure you’ve read the commenting rules before doing so) They donate all money to charity they have made that clear. They are amazing people with caring hearts. Congratulations and thank you to them for helping other children.
I think its smart for Brad and Angelina to ask for soo much money. Hopefully the get more than the magazine can afford and some of the magazines hopefully go bankrupt and no longer exist. Thus eliminating some papparrazzi. I hate the papparrazzi and if the some how forces some of them to loose their jobs good! I think brad and angelina should ask for more, SUCK EM DRY!!!
Bryan, if you read the whole story it was about paying for baby pictures in the first place.
I know they gave it to charity. Doesn’t mean they will this time. But they likely will.
Its ASKING for that much money that is the concern.
I would just flood the marketing world with pictures of the kids, making any pictures of them worthless. Maybe then no one will stalk the family like they did suri cruise.
They donate the money to charity. They don’t keep it. When Shiloh was born they donated her picture money to charity. I have no problem with this. It protects the child from potentially being harmed by overzealous paparazzi trying to get the first shot.
i read the tittlew quickly and thought it sayd “$ 15 million to take a picture of angelinas twins”
and i thought it was something else ; )
then i read it slowly and my smile faded…
Brangelina should ask the press to donate to worthy charities and whoever donates the most gets the first photos.
If you had put the whole story here it wouldnt be so bad ! First pictures they got 4 million for they gave every penny to charity. They plan to do the same with every penny they get from these pictures so there now as bad as you guys are making them seem.
I couldn’t possibly care any less about their breeding capabilities, but I understand that gossip rags and celebrity lifestyle publications are a huge money making machine. I do think the celebrities should be reimbursed for the millions others will make off the story and the photos.
Photos of these babies will make someone tens of millions in revenue – why shouldn’t Brad and Angelina get that money (and hopefully put it in a fat account for the baby’s future).
It’s not their fault that a shit magazine is willing to pay that much. And I’m sure they put that number down to be left alone because I’m sure they thought that nobody in their right mind would pay that amount for a baby picture.
But somebody is and if a magazine is willing to pay that much for a photo then all the more power to Brad and Angelina. I say good for them. I’m pretty sure that they aren’t sitting in their home plotting to sell pictures of the twins. They probably get bombarded with offers and why not take them, if they are willing to pay enough. Let these idiot magazine bleed a bit.
But the sad thing is that I’m sure the magazines will probably get that money back easily. People are gluttons for useless information about people they’ve never met.
$15M is pocket change for hungry media slobs who are willing to dish out the platter of dough. They make it back in spades anyway.
Good for Brad & Angelina…make some ‘free’ money for some pictures which eventually the whole world will see anyway.
I don’t entirely blame them.
If it drives those mags into bankruptcy, then that’s great. The good thing about Pitt-Jolie is that they donated the money from Shiloh’s photos to charity, and I suspect they’ll do the same here, so in that regards, I say more power to them, but it makes me wonder if it’s a payment to them, or do the mags donate it directly to charity? If that’s the case, then they probably get to write it off.