Steven Spielberg Keeps His Two Percent Of Universal Studios Ticket Sales
We were pretty eager to see if Steven Spielberg and Mickey Mouse would actually come together to create some kind of super theme park. Unfortunately, that’s not going to happen, and we’ll just have to settle for separate parks with separate rides. At the end of the summer it seemed that Spielberg might be getting out of his lucrative theme park consulting contract, but instead, he’s just extending it.
He agreed to delay a buyout option in his consulting contact with NBC Universal, which means he’ll be getting a fat paycheck until 2017. He’ll probably get to throw his two cents in when it comes to designing new attractions in Singapore and Dubai, so we might need to put those new parks on our theme park wish list. Maybe he’ll even tell Harry Potter how to do things the Spielberg way down in Florida. We kind of figured that his deal was too good to drop, especially because Disney probably wouldn’t have wanted to share that much cash with anyone.
For now things will remain as they always have been, and Spielberg will continue to cash in on about two percent of ticket sales at the Universal Studios parks in Florida and Japan. That’s like $20 million a year just from the Sunshine State alone. Unfortunately, he doesn’t get any money from the park in Hollywood, but it’s pretty clear that he’s not hurting due to the economy.
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