@Itwasme - Hmmm, I was not aware she did. Did it equate to what she would have made in theaters? Because that’s pretty important.

@Murderisbadong - i did the math, and at the time of the lawsuit, Scarlet was suing for the entirety of profit made...

She had already made $20mm at that time. The film's budget was stated at $200mm, and let's assume that budget includes her pay, so the budget increases with her payout. So if she wants $50mm, then the films budget is $230mm (if the budget doesn't include her salary it's $250mm).

Here's the numbers...
US BO: $170mm
International BO: $175mm

Studios typically make 50% of US BO, but let's say Disney negotiated 60% to be safe. That's $102mm.

Studios typically make 20-40% of international BO based off the market. Let's assume the high-end (we know it is lower though since they didn't just release it in high-end markets). That's $70mm.

Now let's add on D+, where Disney said they made $60mm from, and you have a total earned from this film of $230mm - or the entirety of profits.

Since then BO has ticked up slightly $176 domestic and $185 international, and someone here said D+ did $131mm, but I don't know if that is accurate. So there is a bigger pie to share and her suit is for less since she would have made more money from all this, even still, if she wins she makes more money than Disney on the film - which is kind of crazy.

@Itwasme - People are acting like Disney (or WB) are making these decisions happily, but I'm sure every single studio exec wishes the market still looked like 2018.

We can't just pretend things are back to normal and expect billion dollar box office grosses to come back, and studios can't just sit on all of their movies for another year and then go back to normal like nothing happened. The first option is foolish and the second would wreak even more havoc on the industry than we've already seen.

These studios are limping along (probably still profitable, but not nearly as much as they used to be), there are investors in individual projects who are going to get washed out, shattering the gangbusters perception from just a few years back. These companies are like spaceships that just got holes blasted through them, and they're closing off bulkheads to save the rest of the ship.

It ain't pretty, but all of the squabbling about other stuff is kind of lower priority than survival (survival in business terms meaning profit and confidence in the future). When we're talking about stuff like Shang-Chi and Eternals, it really looks like the theatrical side of the industry is going to take a long time to recover (or maybe it never really does).