Tim Allen's character is shown to have a house in the Hollywood Hills, which would seem to indicate he's worth millions. Yet he's supposed to be a washed up actor who hasn't had a decent job in 20 years.
The other actors don't appear to be doing too bad either, yet they're so hard up for cash they're making appearances at electronic store openings.
Jerry Seinfeld hasn't done anything since Seinfeld yet he's still the highest paid comedian with $33m in a year. These guys probably get paid from reruns and the show is still on so it's not like any of them are out of a job. They're probably just promoting the new season with the commercials.
shareSeinfeld doesn't need to do anything but he's done plenty. He's been a director, a writer and producer for projects, and still occasionally acts from time to time.
shareHe was the lead of a tv show.
Tv shows actually pay better than normal cinema movies.
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Besides, it's seems like he will do Any type of Galaxy Quest related appearance.
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Yep. I know someone who is basically only known acting in certain TV show from 30 years ago that has a large fanbase, and only one season at that. He'll make $15,000 for showing up to a single sci-fi convention or comic con in a bumfuck state like Mississippi, and that's before merch sales. There was a period where he was making $200k a year just from back-to-back conventions, essentially touring with other B-list cult actors. He just bought a new lakeside mansion. They make tons of money.
shareHe probably negotiated for a percentage of all licensed stuff. Imagine getting like a quarter percent of all the profits on anything using the Star Trek brand.
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Not all that far-fetched. Even if he's just built a career out of small odd-roles and convention appearances since then, there's some decent money to be made and he's also likely entitled to residuals and merchandising profits. He's also likely fairly wealthy from the original run of the show, and it's very feasible that he could have properly invested the money and is just living off addition earnings and interest.
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The jersey shore cast were paid thousands for just club appearances --- so just imagine...
shareMaybe he paid it off back when he was in the green stuff, now convention gigs pay the insurance, taxes, and utilities so he has to keep doing them. Or maybe he has money still, but the cons pay to well to turn down even though he dislikes (or is burned out from) doing them.
shareShatner had a decent film-and-TV career before Trek, and had at least 2 other TV shows, he got paid more for the original series than the other actors and got a lot more non-Trek work than any of his castmates.
It's entirely possible for someone with a career like that to have paid off a nice house and made some good investments, when he was younger and flusher. So yes, the income disparities we see in the film are believable, especially since Jason probably gets paid more for appearances than the supporting characters. Even though they need the money more.
Who's to say he didn't pay the house off years ago? It's a TV Show so he'd likely be getting royalties as regularly as any actor in real life does so that along with the appearances he was making to sign autographs etc should be enough to pay off the rest of the expenses.
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As people here have already mentioned, if you buy a house and the land it stands on when you have the means to do so, it doesn't matter if you become completely poor afterwards - you still own the house and the land, and no one can or automatically will take it away from you.
Of course the point here probably is, if you become poor, you will probably sell the unnecessarily extravagant house and land, and live in a more humble way just to survive.
The house they showed wasn't improbable for an actor who'd had at least one hit TV show, and a steady income from fandom appearances. It seemed to be more of an upscale family home than a mansion on Mulholland drive, if it was in one of the less fashionable areas of the LA Basin then Jason could have paid it off years ago and was earning enough from personal appearances to pay the property taxes and a pool guy.
Actors can earn quite a lot from con appearances and autograph shows. Carrie Fisher relied on the income in her later years, and was able to maintain her nice house in Beverly Hills on the proceeds. She called it the "Celebrity Lap Dance".
"you still own the house and the land, and no one can or automatically will take it away from you."
This should be true, but it's not. You will still have to pay a property tax every year and if you miss those payments, the house and land can be repossessed.
Plus maintenance on a home is always expensive,especially a luxury home.
Most of the people posting don't really understand homeownership or how tv/film income works.
I understand home ownership.
The greatest expense is a mortgage. If you have no mortgage then you suddenly have a high disposable income.
It's entirely feasible he can live in that house if he paid off the mortgage early on. Plus he might have inherited money/property which millions of people do every year.
This thread is nonsense.