GTA IV: Niko Bellic Only Made $100,000
Forget liberty – give us residuals or give us death. It’s a sentiment shared by countless actors, and one most poignantly offered by Michael Hollick, better known as the voice of GTA IV’s immigrant star, Niko Bellic.
Hollick told the New York Times that he got around $100,000 for 15 months of work recording audio for his role in GTA IV’s. The game has gone on to earn over $600 million in just two weeks.
“It’s tough, when you see Grand Theft Auto IV out there as the biggest thing going right now, when they’re making hundreds of millions of dollars, and we don’t see any of it,” Hollick told the Times. “I don’t blame Rockstar. I blame our union for not having the agreements in place to protect the creative people who drive the sales of these games.”
Hollick is also mad that he received no compensation for his voice appearing in the game’s marketing campaign.
“The first GTA 4 trailer generated something like 40 million hits online, and that’s my voice all over it, and I get nothing. If that were a radio spot, I would have. Same thing for the TV ads. I recorded those lines for the game, but now they’re all over television.”
Further complicating things is the fact that numerous artists, programmers and engineers contribute to the creating of a character like Niko Bellic. Where, execs claim, do you draw the residual line?
Source: www.yahoo.com
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