Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sizable outlay was probably Murphy's guaranteed piece of the box-office take, which was calculated as a percentage of the gross and may have exceeded $15 million. Hollywood's megastars demand a slice of the gross because they know that most films will never pay any earnings to holders of net-profit percentages, which Murphy has derided as "monkey points." Before Buchwald's case is over, Hollywood neophytes may get a first-class education in how the power players operate...