Today, the premiere of the sixth season of the "Game of Thrones" took place. Budgets for shooting, actors' fees and much more.
Soon the premiere of Seventh Season of the Games of Thrones will take place. The famous series of the HBO channel continues to beat all conceivable records by revenue and audience, and I will provide you with key figures on the occasion of the main television event of this year.
The shooting of each series of the sixth season will cost $ 10 million - totaling $ 100 million for the entire season. For comparison, shooting the first season of the "Game of Thrones" cost HBO $ 60 million. The cost of the second season, according to the Wall Street Journal, rose by 15% (that is, it reached almost $ 70 million).
The actors' fees and much more. Today the premiere of the sixth season of the "Game of Thrones" took place. The famous series of the HBO channel continues to beat all conceivable records by revenue and audience, and ibusiness collected key figures on the occasion of the main television event of this year.
The shooting of each series of the sixth season will cost $ 10 million - totaling $ 100 million for the entire season. For comparison, shooting the first season of the "Game of Thrones" cost HBO $ 60 million. The cost of the second season, according to the Wall Street Journal, rose by 15% (that is, it reached almost $ 70 million).
Until now, the record for the cost of one episode belonged to the "Friends"
The story is well-known that the actors of the main roles in the series "Friends" basically negotiated fees only jointly - and always agreed on the same rates. The principled position of the "Six" allowed them to increase their payment for one episode from 22,5 thousand dollars (in the first season) to one million dollars for a series in the last seasons of "Friends". Thus, by the end of the series the cost of each episode grew to a record $ 10 million, of which six million went to the honorariums of the show stars. Subsequently, the creator of the series, Martha Kaufman, called these figures "insane."
However, the most expensive transaction in the history of television is "Ambulance". After the third season, the top managers of Warner Brothers began to analyze what revenues their series brings to the NBC channel. It turned out that the high ratings of the "First Aid" have many side effects for the channel.
For example,
Thanks to the success of the series, the audience of the news program that was on the air right after this show grew. In addition, sales managers of NBC sold the advertising time of the "First Aid" only in a package with less successful serials, which made it much more effective to sell advertising inventory of the channel. The result was,
That NBC had to buy episodes of the last three seasons in 6.5 times more expensive - for $ 13 million for the series or $ 286 million for the season. Otherwise, the series Warner Brothers would simply go to another channel - potential buyers included, for example, the CBS channel.
Previous record holder HBO on budget failed on the air So far, the most expensive series HBO was "Rome", each episode costing nine million dollars. Despite high ratings and prestigious awards from film critics, the management has considered,
That the shooting of the third season will be economically impractical - as a result, the creators had to fit in the second season of the event at least three planned seasons. The second place among the series HBO - "The Underground Empire" (five million dollars) and "Deadwood" (4.5 million dollars) .
The shooting of the battle in the ninth episode of the second season cost eight million dollars, which is two million more than the budget of one episode at that time. Nevertheless, the original plan was even more grandiose, but the creators failed to protect the original budget.
It was planned to build nine ships - eventually had to "settle for" one, and the rest to draw on the computer. Nevertheless, later director Neil Marshall admitted that he was struck by the resources that he managed to use for the filming of this battle - for example, the crowd alone involved more than 400 people. By the way,
The most expensive battle ever shown in the series or film, is considered a battle in the "Matrix: Reloaded". On 17-minute collision was spent about 40 million dollars (40% of the total budget). In 2014, Game of Thrones became the most rated show of the HBO channel in history The average audience of one episode of the series reached 18,
4 million people.
The previous champion was the "Sopranos" (1999-2007) - 18.2 million people. However, partially the success of the "Game of Thrones" is explained by the appearance of a separate (that is, not requiring a subscription to cable television) online streaming service HBO Now and the increased popularity of devices for recording broadcast transmissions (DVR).
The most downloaded show on pirated services since the second season In 2011, the first season of "Game of Thrones" took the second place in the rating of the most downloaded programs from the TorrentFreak edition and was second only to the TV series "Dexter". However, starting from 2012 the series confidently "leads" in this rating. Furthermore,
In 2015 the final of the fifth season of "Games of Thrones" set a record for the number of BitTorrent users simultaneously distributing it - 258 thousand.
Five actors "Games of Thrones" earn 300 thousand dollars per episode In 2014, the creators of the series introduced a new payment system, according to which the entire cast was divided into three levels.
The first level consisted of five people: Keith Harington (John Snow), Peter Dinklage (Tyrion Lannister), Lena Hidi (Cersei Lannister), Emilia Clarke (Deeneris Targarien) and Nikolai Koster-Valdau (Jamie Lannister). The second level included many more actors, including Natalie Dormer (Margery Tyrell), Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark),
Macy Williams (Arya Stark). Finally, the third level was provided for episodic characters. Only the first level of the cast is known to be paid - according to the Deadline, it is 300 thousand dollars for each series. The actors managed to agree on this amount at the conclusion of the contract for the fifth, sixth and seventh season.
However, even the existence of a contract does not exclude that a character can be killed according to the scenario, and the actor who plays it will lose his job. According to the publication, before the negotiations, the salary of Dinklage and Hidi was $ 160,000 for the series.
In 2015, Martin's income was $ 12 million In the annual ranking of Forbes author of "Games of Thrones" took 15th place in revenue. The same number over the last year earned, for example, the author of "50 shades of gray" EL James.
