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(108,977 posts)This is from an article about how the far more bankable Jennifer Lawrence was paid less for American Hustle than the male leads.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/12/exclusive-sony-hack-reveals-jennifer-lawrence-is-paid-less-than-her-male-co-stars.html
The current talent deals are: ORussell: 9%; Cooper: 9%; Bale: 9%; Renner: 9%; Lawrence: 7%; Adams: 7%.
Pascals email response to the news of Lawrence making less than her male colleaguesdespite the fact that shes far and away the biggest star of the picture, since Hustle was green-lit after The Hunger Gameswas: there is truth here.
The news is even more troubling when you take into consideration that the hack also revealed a staggering gender pay gap among Sony staffers. According to a spreadsheet listing the salaries of 6,000 employees, 17 of those employees were raking in $1 million or more, but only one of those $1 million-plus employees is a woman. Also, analyzing the pay of the two co-presidents of production at Columbia Pictureswho have the same jobpointed to another gender-pay disparity, with Michael De Luca ($2.4 million) making almost $1 million more than Hannah Minghella ($1.5 million).