Kevin Hart was called a greedy “whore” for refusing to tweet without getting paid.
A-List actor and comedian Kevin Hart has quickly become a go to actor for movie studios interested in using Hart’s acting abilities. According to this leak from Sony, Hart believes he deserves more than $3 million be in a movie and tweet about it.
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Gawker recently reported, e-mails between Sony Pictures co-chair Amy Pascal, studio exec Clint Culpepper, and Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton, regarding Kevin Hart. The movie studio was hoping Hart would be interested in writing a Tweet about his new movie in order to promote his new movie. But, as you can see below, Kevin Hart wanted more money to promote the movie on Twitter:
“I’m not saying he’s a whore, but he’s a whore.”
It’s not as if we paid him 3M and 4M respectively for his last 2 films thinking he might be nominated. We paid for his ability to open a film which included his social media savvy. I feel like this is something that should be negotiated going into the film as opposed to after the fact. It feels tantamount to
buying a car and then upon picking it up being told that the engine will cost extra. I’m tempted to suggest we call his bluff. If he doesn’t do his normal routine, his film will not open as well and his brand will appear diminished and he will- in fact – be fucking himself because we have his next 2 immediate films. And then there’s the social media precedent we’re setting…especially in light of the fact that Channing is at the same agency.
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It seriously begs the question, should a movie studio pay an actor more money to use social media to promote the movie? Either way, Sony executives wants actors to do more work, which is not specified in a contract, for free. If Kevin Hart is the whore, does that make Sony the pimps?
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