Dany Boon, the highest paid director in 2014 – The Obs

Paris (AFP) – Already crowned several times the highest paid French actor, filmmaker Dany Boon in 2014 was the highest paid director Michel Hazanavicius before, according to the annual ranking of professional magazine Ecran Total

<. p> Dany Boon, director and screenwriter of “Supercondriaque” hit 3.4 million technician salary in euros and copyrights for this comedy, which grossed more than 5.2 million entries.

This is much more than had been seen last year Roman Polanski won for “Venus in Fur” with 1.3 million euros in compensation.

This is a new record for Dany Boon – who had previously card in rooms with “Welcome to the Sticks” (20 million viewers) and “Nothing to Declare” (more than eight million) – . According to a ranking established in early 2013 by Le Figaro, he was crowned the highest paid player in France and Europe, despite the failure of his comedy “A perfect plan.” He had been number 1 on this list of Figaro in 2009 and 2012.

Behind him is the director Michel Hazanavicius, Oscar winner for “The Artist”, which has been the director paid the most Last year according Ecran Total. He touched 2.5 million total fixed remuneration of EUR for “The Search” with Berenice Bejo, film about the destinies of four characters in the second Chechen war.

The Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg arrives third, with 1.1 million for “Map to the Stars”, the classification as integrating foreign directors on majority French productions minority. This is followed by Laurent Tirard for “Holiday Petit Nicolas” (995,000 euros)

The first woman director is 13th. This is Lisa Azuelos for “An encounter” romantic comedy with Sophie Marceau and François Cluzet.

Lartigau is 9th for “Family Aries”, Jean-Luc Godard 11th for “Goodbye to Language,” Luc Besson for his 12th cardboard “Lucy” (biggest hit to abroad French cinema for twenty years). Philip Chauveron, director of the hit comedy of the year to 12.3 million entries “What we do to God?” is 25th.

The calculation of remuneration, compiled from data collected by the site Cinefinances.info, however, includes no other resources as a possible revenue sharing.

For “Lucy” for example, given the huge revenues of the film, proportional remuneration Luc Besson must be very high stresses Ecran Total.

The first four directors of the ranking also exceed the compensation cap on a film set in 2015 by the National Film Centre (CNC), notes the newspaper.

The AcSB decided in December to limit access to its public support for movies considered disproportionate to the artistic cost. He predicted that the maximum compensation is fixed at 990,000 euros, including the films above 10 million budget.

This decision came after the CNC rant distributor and producer Vincent Maraval in 2012 on excessive fees of movie stars. In this controversy, all eyes were turned towards particular Dany Boon.

portion of remuneration of the director in the quote, Jean-Luc Godard who holds the record as the classification of ‘Ecran Total. Fixed remuneration accounted for 31% of the budget of his film “Goodbye to Language” or 600,000 euros for a movie to less than 2 million budget.

According to the new rules of the CNC, compensation maximum of an actor, director or writer in a film whose budget is less than EUR 4 million may not exceed 15% of the production cost if the film wants to claim the aid.