{"id":371216,"date":"2026-01-15T11:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T11:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371216\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T11:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T11:16:10","slug":"ben-affleck-and-matt-damon-give-new-films-1200-crew-members-back-end-bonuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371216\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Affleck and Matt Damon give new film\u2019s 1,200 crew members back-end bonuses"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ben Affleck and Matt Damon <\/a>know that a collaborative on-set environment is key to motivating all those involved, which is why they brought back an old-school back-end bonus model for the 1,200 crew members working on their new movie, The Rip. <\/p>\n

Directed by Joe Carnahan, the crime thriller, out Friday on Netflix, will see the famous duo reunite on screen as Miami cops who become distrustful of those around them after discovering a stash of millions in cash. The longtime friends and collaborators<\/a> also produced the movie through their production company Artists Equity. <\/p>\n

During a recent joint appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Affleck, 53, and Damon, 55<\/a>, explained how they implemented their company\u2019s main objective of profit-sharing to pay the movie\u2019s crew members.<\/p>\n

\u201cNetflix is obviously a streaming platform, business is obviously changing, there\u2019s been a lot going on,\u201d Affleck said, referring to the film industry\u2019s controversial shift to streaming<\/a>, \u201cand what we\u2019re kind of trying to do is, in the old days, you knew how a movie did and you could get bonuses based on the box office performance.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cAnd what we wanted to do was try to adapt that model to what\u2019s happening on streaming. For a bunch of reasons, but basically one of the things that was important to us is we really believe that it\u2019s not just the cast and the writers and director, but that the environment, every single person involved, that if they\u2019re committed to making the movie good, it\u2019s very likely to be better. It\u2019s really a collaborative art form.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Matt Damon (left) and Ben Affleck (right) have reunited for their new movie, ‘The Rip’ (Getty Images for SiriusXM)\"Affleck<\/p>\n

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Affleck and Damon on ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’ to discuss their new movie, ‘The Rip’ (The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\/X)<\/p>\n

Noting that \u201cthe more people that watch [the movie] the more levels it will hit,\u201d Affleck said that what was most important to them was that the monetary success be shared with the \u201c1,200 crew members, every standby painter, greensman, camera [operator].\u201d<\/p>\n

His remarks were met with uproarious applause, as Damon chimed in with a joke<\/a>, adding: \u201cThe more you guys watch this movie\u2026\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cNot that we could suggest that you just leave it on, unless you\u2019re a good person,\u201d Affleck laughingly echoed with host Fallon joining in. \u201cYou would never say to turn on the movie and put it on loop,\u201d he teased. \u201cBut if you happened to do that, crew members would make a lot of money.\u201d<\/p>\n

Affleck and Damon have starred in numerous movies together throughout their careers, including their Oscar-winning romance drama Good Will Hunting (1997), comedy fantasy Dogma (1999), and sports drama Air (2023).<\/p>\n

In 2022, the pair co-founded and launched Artists Equity, an artist-led studio, focused on sharing a movie\u2019s profits with all involved. It replaced their now-defunct production studio, Pearl Street Films, which they operated from 2012 to 2022.<\/p>\n

The Rip will be available to stream on Netflix beginning Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-371216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}