@@JoeBidensDroolBib as the comment above said - the richer/more powerful person in the siituation was the one who promised something verbally and got the law to bend to their will by legally dishonouring the verbal contract. So yeah, it's funny how verbal contracts are only valid when it's convenient for a richer party.
It’s good to remember that verbal contracts are not enforceable everywhere and contract law around them varies from place to place. Here in PA in the US verbal contracts are valid and enforceable, but of course you’re gonna have to show proof that a verbal contract was made and that can be tough. In a lot of places they’re just straight up invalid and there’s a lot of good reasons for that to be the case. As my contract law professor said “ALWAYS GET IT IN WRITING”. It doesn’t matter if you think someone is your buddy, if there’s a couple million on the line and no piece of paper with signatures and they’re holding all the cards…then there’s a good chance you’re about to get screwed.
Says Online that his Net worth is sitting at 10 million dollars. Looks like that movie did pretty well for him. He'd probably just be a regular Walmart employee right now if it was never made.
Moral of the story: NEVER agree to a handshake deal when the deal involves any kind of monetary gain. This is the same situation as the McDonalds documentary. Handshake deals never hold up in court. Get it in writing always
That's because handshake deals aren't real deals. You can just say it never happened and it's as legitimate as the entire deal. Handshake deals aren't real and people need to remember that. RECORDED handshake deals are different. Deals with verified evidence of being made are real deals.
@@enriquecabrera2137 handshake deals are for when I'm selling a car for cash and someone offers 7k and I accept it. If I'm not getting paid right then I'm putting it in writing.
My friend came to work one day. His daughter insisted that he watch this movie with her called Napoleon dynamite. He explain the movie in detail. So I rented the DVD and watch Napoleon dynamite with my family and another family. We laugh practically through the whole movie. It was so offbeat, untraditional and bizarre.
I saw this in theaters on opening weekend. I had never heard of it, but it was showing and I wanted to see a movie. The only people in the theater were me and my buddy and like 12 other people. The following week after the one-liners spread like wildfire, EVERYONE had seen it at my Highschool. Lol
Jared Hess (director/creator) had a lawyer draw up the contract. But a few key words on the contract describing the commercial dvd sales vs store bought dvd sales. Hess’s lawyer agreed to the commercial dvd sales. This left Hess with practically nothing. The judge in the case said she felt terrible but Hess’s lawyer who agreed to the contract screed up.
No movies should cost what they do to make them. Everything cost related to a movie is so inflated because they're expecting such a high return. I'm not sure if it's true but I heard that a set at universal costs $9,000 an hour. How? Perfect example of why there are homeless people.
when will people realize that “your word is bond” is a dead saying. EVERYTHING HAS TO BE IN WRITING. I am 42 and I have been screwed over more times than fingers on my both hands.
Deadwood got cancelled just like that .. Creator has a handshake deal with the executive but after the executive got arrested it got cancelled due to no show proofing
Thanks for this I just finished watching something on RUclips tv I think it was where John heder guest start on this show which is similar to boys in the hall and skits like that mad tv . He's such a dork 😂
I just couldn’t ever get into this movie. In theater, on DVD, stoned, sober, never. My friends all found it hysterical. Haven’t tried watching it in at least 15 years, though I can’t imagine it aged well or that I could even get into it. So many better comedies from that time
"Show biz" is BUSINESS! If the written contract said 10% (or didn't require independently audited financials) then one may lose on a handshake "deal." In some locales oral contracts may be valid for a short, fixed period of time.
45 bucks a day back in the days was good money because I remember minimum wage was $48 dollars a day in California so I’m guessing in that state the minimum wage was $35 even less so he was getting pay pretty good
I was a projectionist building prints and this was my first build! Those film reels that came in the universal studio tins and with armored transport were no joke carrying around. Truly an experience to remember.
Interesting info. One suggestion, maybe try to level out your tone at the start of your sentences . It sounds like your voice is being pitched up then drops back down. Not a criticism, just a suggestion. Great job.
This regularly happens in the music business as well. Contracts are often not paid at the royalty level that was agreed. They make people fight them in court. My neighbor’s son had a record label with bands that were regularly on the radio and Warner brothers just ceased royalty payments claiming that the small label didn’t actually own any rights and they had to fight them in court over what would have been around $20k. After attorney fees, they would have lost money so they just walked away.
I always find it bazaar that people are happy to make a deal when they think the project will flop but then when there's actually a lot of money involved suddenly they are unhappy with the percentage they agreed to. They are happy about 66% of little but unhappy about 66% of a lot?
Same thing happened with the McDonald’s brothers the family got screwed out of the 1% royalties for every sale McDonald’s makes today would amount to 100 million a year in royalties.
I've met John Heder when he went to an amusement park here in Salem OR called enchanted forest. Really cool guy I even learned we went to the same high school. Not at the same time though he graduated like 10 years before I started
This is something similar to what happened with the Chapelle show. Comedy Central said they would split the profit with David Chappelle 50-50 but when they found out the show had made $50 million they only wanted to give him 10%. and when he refused to play the game, they said they would destroy him in social media by telling the world that he had become mentally unstable. you can probably do some research and find were Dave Chapelle explains this on stage . I think it’s on Netflix.
Get it on paper, then make 2 copies. 1 for each party involved. That way if one side tries to screw the other you will have proof that will hopefully get you a win in court
It did not cost 400k to make. The total production cost was actually closer to 17k. Which makes 1k payday make sense. If you wanna say they spent 400k on marketing AFTER the movie was a success then maybe that number makes sense. But even then that's money spent on not the actual making of the movie. But they absolutely did NOT have 400k to make Napoleon Dynamite.
Jon Heder knew my son's band member Matt. He was at Matt's house when they had a party but my son was not able to make it. I mentioned that because Matt showed him a picture of my son with that same look on his face and Jon Heder said that my son Andrew would have been perfect for the role of Napoleon Dynamite because his hair with naturally curly and he had that look down perfectly.
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funny how verbal contracts are only valid when it's the richer person who claims them...
Very strange
Not so much richer, but more powerful. Don’t make deals with powerful people unless you have it in writing. Life’s not fair.
@@JoeBidensDroolBib Nope, it's really not. The richer person (Fox) got the verbal contract thrown out.
@@JoeBidensDroolBib as the comment above said - the richer/more powerful person in the siituation was the one who promised something verbally and got the law to bend to their will by legally dishonouring the verbal contract. So yeah, it's funny how verbal contracts are only valid when it's convenient for a richer party.
It’s good to remember that verbal contracts are not enforceable everywhere and contract law around them varies from place to place. Here in PA in the US verbal contracts are valid and enforceable, but of course you’re gonna have to show proof that a verbal contract was made and that can be tough. In a lot of places they’re just straight up invalid and there’s a lot of good reasons for that to be the case. As my contract law professor said “ALWAYS GET IT IN WRITING”. It doesn’t matter if you think someone is your buddy, if there’s a couple million on the line and no piece of paper with signatures and they’re holding all the cards…then there’s a good chance you’re about to get screwed.
Damn. Always get it in writing, folks!
Mc Donald’s brothers did and they said there was no proof of the signing
@@noahrenschler7210 Damn. Always get it in recording, folks!
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Just be richer than the other guy and write good legislation to stop corruption. We don't even have a free market brother.
Says Online that his Net worth is sitting at 10 million dollars. Looks like that movie did pretty well for him. He'd probably just be a regular Walmart employee right now if it was never made.
At £45 a day you ask for paperwork they'll phone another guy
Moral of the story: NEVER agree to a handshake deal when the deal involves any kind of monetary gain. This is the same situation as the McDonalds documentary. Handshake deals never hold up in court. Get it in writing always
That's because handshake deals aren't real deals. You can just say it never happened and it's as legitimate as the entire deal. Handshake deals aren't real and people need to remember that. RECORDED handshake deals are different. Deals with verified evidence of being made are real deals.
This shouldn't even have to be said.
Plus doing Handshake deals sometimes gets sour 😆
@@enriquecabrera2137 handshake deals are for when I'm selling a car for cash and someone offers 7k and I accept it.
If I'm not getting paid right then I'm putting it in writing.
@@deusvult6920 handshake deals are for when you don't need a handshake deal
“It’s like 1 dollar an hour!” - Napoleon
Gosh!
ITS BEEN 18 YEARS??? Jeez I remember everyone in middle school phrasing this movie every 15 minutes like it was yesterday
Gosh
Yep same 🤣😅 damn.
it’s fucking crazy that the mid 2000’s is almost 20 years ago
He goes to church with my in-laws and by all accounts seems like a wonderful man.
This is one of my favorite movies to this day
darn this man is a STAR 🌟, loved his dancing on that movie
And Hollywood still acts like they are the moral compass for the US. 😂
Actually, Hollywood REFLECTS American morals. And it's no different than any other business. Cutthroat.
It's one of my favorite movies. I think my husband and I watched it everyday for almost a year. We could quote every line from it 😆
45 dollars? That's like a dollar an hour :)
How? You dumb or bad at math?
Go back to school dude, no
Hysterical i actually visualize Napolean while reading it
@@puppetmasterproductions maybe I will, GOSH!
@@puppetmasterproductions I guess you've never watched the movie then. lmao
One of the coolest dudes ever! Met him at a Comicon he was great with the guests attending!
He looks like he should be a live action movie of beavis and butt-head.
👍
Along with Daria.
Vote for Pedro
I'm voting for Tina the Fat Lard
Always hire a Jewish lawyer to read your contract before you sign it
I'd actually recommend a contract lawyer...
Kanye: 😡
@@NoonyJW nah, lesss be real. Kanye gotta Jewish lawyer for sure
i remember that
@@NoonyJW Kanye knows this as well . did anybody actually listen to what he wad saying lol
When you said 18 years ago I instantly felt older.
Makes me feel sad.
That’s terrible. Fox did them dirty
Did they though? Without Fox, the movie will not go anywhere. They also become millionaires form it, so... better than most.
Noone is suprised. It's FOX ffs 🤷♂️
Um that’s less than minimum wage
@@alexlilano1931 wtf are you talking about man. You condone this crap? You’re a pos human being if you don’t think what they did was wrong
@@eliteculture1519 These actors got extremely lucky. This is what most actors wish they had. Millions of dollars off of one movie
You can't make a handshake deal with a hands-rubbing dealmaker.
A happy merchant
“Your mom goes to college” 😂😂😂
That sucks! 😮 he deserves so much more. ❤😂 great movie.
My friend came to work one day. His daughter insisted that he watch this movie with her called Napoleon dynamite. He explain the movie in detail. So I rented the DVD and watch Napoleon dynamite with my family and another family. We laugh practically through the whole movie. It was so offbeat, untraditional and bizarre.
Should have had Uncle Rico write them a contract so they didn't get screwes
This is why you need nunchuck skills, bow hunting skills and computer hacking skills.
Just a quick reminder. Vote for Pedro
Napoleon dynamite is one of my favorite movies. My dad had it on his PSP. We watch that thing all the time.
That’s how you do a short vid. I kept thinking you were gonna leave us hanging on some of the info but it wrapped up nicely. Well done sir
I saw this in theaters on opening weekend. I had never heard of it, but it was showing and I wanted to see a movie. The only people in the theater were me and my buddy and like 12 other people. The following week after the one-liners spread like wildfire, EVERYONE had seen it at my Highschool. Lol
Never take a "handshake deal" when making deals with corporations.
At least they had the heart to give million bucks. No favor goes unpunished.
"Oh yes thank you oh gracious lord for bestowing upon me 1 million dollars instead of the 10's of millions we were promised."
Jared Hess (director/creator) had a lawyer draw up the contract. But a few key words on the contract describing the commercial dvd sales vs store bought dvd sales. Hess’s lawyer agreed to the commercial dvd sales. This left Hess with practically nothing. The judge in the case said she felt terrible but Hess’s lawyer who agreed to the contract screed up.
THANKS!
It's a shame how much "justice" can be bought
Thank u for making that movie my brother and I spent many night laughing our butts off we watched over and over - we thought it was hilarious
" just a handshake what would u do in a situation like this " napeolan lol
I'm actually VERY shocked it cost that much to make.
I doubt that it cost that much, there was nothing special about that movie. Fox is lying.
No movies should cost what they do to make them. Everything cost related to a movie is so inflated because they're expecting such a high return. I'm not sure if it's true but I heard that a set at universal costs $9,000 an hour. How? Perfect example of why there are homeless people.
Napoleon dynamite is definitely of of my fav movies
I'm so sorry to hear that.
It’s one of my favorites too, the previous commenter is just a Richard
damn this the type of movie you forget but love once u remember it.
My man sounds like Donnie from Wild Thornberrys when we starts a new sentence 💀 😂
when will people realize that “your word is bond” is a dead saying. EVERYTHING HAS TO BE IN WRITING. I am 42 and I have been screwed over more times than fingers on my both hands.
Deadwood got cancelled just like that ..
Creator has a handshake deal with the executive but after the executive got arrested it got cancelled due to no show proofing
One of my all time favourites!
Thanks for this I just finished watching something on RUclips tv I think it was where John heder guest start on this show which is similar to boys in the hall and skits like that mad tv . He's such a dork 😂
Totally living up to the saying" "Sly like a FOX!" 🤣😂
Buncha greedy jerks!🙄
I just couldn’t ever get into this movie. In theater, on DVD, stoned, sober, never. My friends all found it hysterical. Haven’t tried watching it in at least 15 years, though I can’t imagine it aged well or that I could even get into it. So many better comedies from that time
"Show biz" is BUSINESS! If the written contract said 10% (or didn't require independently audited financials) then one may lose on a handshake "deal." In some locales oral contracts may be valid for a short, fixed period of time.
45 bucks a day back in the days was good money because I remember minimum wage was $48 dollars a day in California so I’m guessing in that state the minimum wage was $35 even less so he was getting pay pretty good
First time I've ever been recommended anything besides a poll from this guy.
My lil sister watched this movie EVERY... SINGLE... DAY... one summer ☀️ 😮💨.... she would recite it during dinner to us... good times good times 😝
I was a projectionist building prints and this was my first build! Those film reels that came in the universal studio tins and with armored transport were no joke carrying around. Truly an experience to remember.
When you make prints of a film is the reel a negative?
That movie made his career. It would have been smart to do even if they charged him a million dollars for John to get to play the roll.
He was great in The Benchwarmers
That’s my favorite movie of all time 🙏🏼👏🏼
Justice for Pedro
Love how the captions had to put DVD instead of vhs.
For the few minutes it was worth watching at the very beginning, it makes sense a grand was only paid.
I’m guna watch this tonight!!! 😂
Depending on the state a hand shake deal is upholdable in court for roughly 3 to 5 years
Jon's a millionaire because of that break. Don't feel bad 4 him. And 4 the record.....Napoleon is one of my favorite movies ever.
His real life character was like yeah I’ll do this movie for 1000 bucks it just makes the movie that much better
Should've done it in Texas. Texas law says a hand shake is the same legal binding as a signed contract
Wow. Sad that happened. Glad he got the million.
Still probably one of my fav movies
Interesting info. One suggestion, maybe try to level out your tone at the start of your sentences . It sounds like your voice is being pitched up then drops back down. Not a criticism, just a suggestion. Great job.
I loved this movie in high school. Crazy it's been this long
I had so much Napoleon Dynamite merch. I was obsessed
This regularly happens in the music business as well. Contracts are often not paid at the royalty level that was agreed. They make people fight them in court. My neighbor’s son had a record label with bands that were regularly on the radio and Warner brothers just ceased royalty payments claiming that the small label didn’t actually own any rights and they had to fight them in court over what would have been around $20k. After attorney fees, they would have lost money so they just walked away.
This movie is now so iconic and a classic!
I always find it bazaar that people are happy to make a deal when they think the project will flop but then when there's actually a lot of money involved suddenly they are unhappy with the percentage they agreed to. They are happy about 66% of little but unhappy about 66% of a lot?
Nope they agreed to % but fox cheated them after only giving 10% of the agreed sum
When I was a kid I was obsessed with this movie
Such a good show 👏
Same thing happened with the McDonald’s brothers the family got screwed out of the 1% royalties for every sale McDonald’s makes today would amount to 100 million a year in royalties.
I did learn from this video . Well done
I've met John Heder when he went to an amusement park here in Salem OR called enchanted forest. Really cool guy I even learned we went to the same high school. Not at the same time though he graduated like 10 years before I started
Goddamn that picture of him nowadays caught me off-guard
I still use lines off this movie till this day
One of the greatest movies ever
Son-of-a-gun! Napoleon Dynamite it's like my favorite movie.
money is only important to those who dont have it. once you have it, its just paper and numbers. you can survive with none of it.
I loved this movie so much my kids bought me the DVD for Mother's Day. Someone borrowed it and never gave it back. 😞
Should've had a contract written up stating they had to bring the movie back!😃
Sounds about right, everyone got paid except the main worker
Hey Napoleon are those tater tots in your pocket
I stubbled on this movie and just couldn't stop watching it can't believe that they got screwed so bad.
This is something similar to what happened with the Chapelle show. Comedy Central said they would split the profit with David Chappelle 50-50 but when they found out the show had made $50 million they only wanted to give him 10%. and when he refused to play the game, they said they would destroy him in social media by telling the world that he had become mentally unstable. you can probably do some research and find were Dave Chapelle explains this on stage . I think it’s on Netflix.
I still can’t see or hear “tater tots” without thinking of him
If they didn’t have the budget to pay me, I definitely would have made a deal where I get a nice chunk of change if the movie happens to blow up.
His voice does the same thing at the end of every sentence.
It never matters what people say it only matters what's on that paper.
Napoleon dynamite was staple of my childhood❤
Harold total drama ❤
It's like how he got paid for working the chicken farm
Back then, 45 dollars a day was right around minimum wage.
STFU... 18 YEARS AGO!? 😳 Wowww... How did the time fly by?
Why did I always think this movie was older? I needa rewatch it now
Get it on paper, then make 2 copies. 1 for each party involved. That way if one side tries to screw the other you will have proof that will hopefully get you a win in court
Handshake deals are legal and binding in Texas
Can you bring me my chapstick? But my lips hurt real bad..
Great movie !
It did not cost 400k to make. The total production cost was actually closer to 17k. Which makes 1k payday make sense. If you wanna say they spent 400k on marketing AFTER the movie was a success then maybe that number makes sense. But even then that's money spent on not the actual making of the movie. But they absolutely did NOT have 400k to make Napoleon Dynamite.
Such a great flick. 🤘
damn 31% DVD royalties is too good to be true literally
I don't do shit unless it's in writing.
Jon Heder knew my son's band member Matt. He was at Matt's house when they had a party but my son was not able to make it. I mentioned that because Matt showed him a picture of my son with that same look on his face and Jon Heder said that my son Andrew would have been perfect for the role of Napoleon Dynamite because his hair with naturally curly and he had that look down perfectly.