> A percentage of profits is worthless because of "Hollywood accounting".
One can always ask for a percentage of the gross, although it's rare that something like that is agreed to by everyone concerned. The producers of the original "Lord of the Rings" films felt for some reason kind of desperate at one point and tried to get Sean Connery to play Gandalf. They offered him a percentage of the gross to appear in the film. I did the math on it one time and if I remember correctly it would have paid over half a billion dollars...
One can always ask for a percentage of the gross, although it's rare that something like that is agreed to by everyone concerned. The producers of the original "Lord of the Rings" films felt for some reason kind of desperate at one point and tried to get Sean Connery to play Gandalf. They offered him a percentage of the gross to appear in the film. I did the math on it one time and if I remember correctly it would have paid over half a billion dollars...