THEY MAKE THAT MUCH!? by whozit

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THEY MAKE THAT MUCH!?

POSTED BY: WHOZIT
UPDATED: Saturday, October 1, 2016 14:40
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Thursday, September 29, 2016 6:00 PM

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/stars-getting-rich-fan-conv
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This is why the cast goes to every convention on the planet. For a $100 photo they should throw in a coupon for a car wash...or validate your parking

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Thursday, September 29, 2016 9:11 PM

MOOSE

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The most sought-after stars include Reedus (one convention owner says he easily could command a $200,000 guarantee and pocket $500,000 per weekend), Andrew Lincoln (who donates his proceeds to charity), Star Wars great Mark Hamill and anyone who played Doctor Who.

That's very cool of Andrew Lincoln.

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Thursday, September 29, 2016 10:25 PM

THGRRI

Yep Andrew was very cool for doing that. And now you know why the cast of Firefly loves it's fans. Let's see if they can do us one and get the Firefly game back on track?

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Friday, September 30, 2016 12:19 AM

SECOND

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

Kaylee said:

"The fact is, a guest star on a TV show can get around $10,000, whereas you can work two days at a convention and pull in the same amount — and sometimes double and triple that," says Firefly actress Jewel Staite, who did 12 conventions last year while pregnant with her son and, as she says, "pretty much not hireable." She'll do the same when she has a second child. "Have I turned down smaller jobs that won't pay as much? Absolutely. It would be silly of me to say yes to the job that pays $10,000 for a week of work and bow out of a big convention where I could potentially walk away with $40,000 in two days."

Adds Staite, "My actor friends are always saying how much they're dying for a genre show just to break into the convention world."

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Saturday, October 1, 2016 2:40 PM

ECGORDON

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.

I knew they made good money, but was never aware exactly how much was possible, how much percentage the con kept, plus agent fees, etc.

My son got free autographs from the BDHs at SDCC 2004. Can anyone tell me if that was an exception to the rule, do most celebrities charge for that in San Diego, in the past or present?

Over eight or nine years I managed to get multiple autographs from our BDHs. The first few were free, including Nathan and Ron at an advance screening of the BDM in Austin on 5/5/05. I also was lucky in answering a trivia question correctly on the old Universal Browncoat site and won a Serenity Press Kit, the cover of which was signed by Joss, Nathan, Morena, Adam, Gina, Sean & Summer.

A friend of mine was able to get autographs from Jewel & Alan for me at a con in Florida, which I think were $20 each. The first I paid for directly was from Morena at a con in Dallas in 2006. Actually Richardson Convention Center, which was a fairly small venue, then either 2007 or '08 the con moved to the Irving Center, much larger, and more expensive. Dallas now has three yearly cons, usually in Feb, May & Oct. One year Adam, Ron, Jewel & Sean appeared together, another time Gina and Alan. One time Nathan was the only BDH scheduled, but he cancelled at the last minute. I had pre-paid so went anyway. I believe that year I got autographs from Felicia Day (1st issue of The Guild comic), John Noble and Jasika Nicole from Fringe, & Colin Ferguson from Eureka.

The next year the con was even bigger and moved to downtown Dallas. Nathan did appear this time, but he was charging more than he would have the previous year. Not only that, just before his first session, they announced it would be even more than originally reported. That was one of the longest days of my life, standing in Nathan's very long line, then after that standing in another long line for Summer. I believe that was two years ago, and it's the last media con I've attended.

I'm retired now and on a limited budget, so I can't afford stuff like this anymore, but at least I have a pretty good collection already. I have at least three autographs from all nine stars, including on each of the variant covers of the first Serenity comics and on the Inkworks card set, Alan's on Float Out, Summer's on a Sarah Connor Chronicles poster, Greg Edmonson on the Firefly soundtrack CD, plus a photo (not signed) of me with Jewel, Ron, Adam & Sean. The autograph from Joss and one from Chris Buchanan were not obtained personally, and neither cost me anything. I can't recall how much I've paid over the years, but I know the cost did keep going up each time. I'd guess close to $1000 for everything, and that's not counting the cost of the signed items themselves.

I don't regret the expense, and I don't have any complaints about what stars charge. Things are only worth what people are willing to pay, and I've gotten my money's worth many times over.

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