Composers who are lucky to be approached to produce an original score for a movie within an orchestra the musicians get a basic pay and individual artists also get very little pay for their musical contributions in movies, however the average cost to produce, market and advertise a film in today's industry is in excess of $75 million with zero cost input by the musician, translating in a marketing dream and the returns for a blockbuster hit can be monumental. In terms of what you stated there "Pay to appear" in the movie and tv industry? I have not heard of any of that thus cannot comment on that. big hug to you xxxx
P.S.
Although it being a niche market and Blockbusters aside though, there are many thousands of films produced each year worldwide which do well, make money, and create income opportunities for composers and songwriters, both in the initial year of release and for many years afterward.
Bookmarks