feb 6, 2014 - HOLLYWOOD REPORTER How Johnny Depp Made $1 Million in a Week

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The cost-effective business of film stars and "boarding" scenes: Where A-listers work on a compressed schedule, studios save, and everyone keeps the illusion of his or her quote.

In Hollywood today, studios and stars alike are trying to get more bang for their buck.

For instance, Johnny Depp slashed his $20 million quote to appear in Disney’s upcoming musical Into the Woods. He was boarded in for a week on the London set and was paid $1 million, according to sources. Given the risky nature of musicals, the film needed to be made on a budget of about $40 million. Depp’s move — a favor to Disney and helmer Rob Marshall, who directed Depp in the studio’s Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides — allowed the film to be greenlighted. It also allows the actor’s representatives to maintain that his quote is intact.

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