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It took months of negotiations, a cancelled table read and a lawsuit but the adult cast of ABC’s Modern Family have successfully concluded their salary renegotiations with 20th Century Fox TV. As part of that, the sextet have dropped their lawsuit against the studio, a spokesman for 20th TV confirmed. Filming on the fourth season premiere will begin on Monday as scheduled with co-creator Steven Levitan directing.
Related: Are ‘Modern Family’ Actors Nearing Salary Agreement?
The conclusion comes after a big meeting with all parties after the rescheduled table read yesterday, in which 20th TV presented the actors with a new offer, higher than the $150,000 an episode for Julie Bowen, Ty Burrell, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Eric Stonestreet and Sofia Vergara, which the quintet rejected on Sunday. (They originally had been seeking $200,000 an episode, up from the $65,000 an episode each of them made most recently.) I hear the final salary is in the $170,000-180,000 an episode range for this coming season with bigger year-to-year increases than the previously offered rise to a $325,000 in Season 9, and a small piece of the series’ lucrative back-end. Ed O’Neill, who was at a little over $100,000 an episode and already had back-end participation, negotiated separately but joined his colleagues in their lawsuit out of solidarity. As is the practice in salary renegotiations, the cast have agreed to add another year to their seven-year contracts in exchange for bigger paychecks. The news came during ABC’s all-star party where Modern Family co-creator Steve Levitan hinted at the pending resolution. “I think it will be settled extremely shortly, maybe even before I get my car,” he said. Word of the agreement started coming in a few minutes later. Levitan later explained that things were getting very close at 6:30 PM when he was leaving the office to come to the party. “I’m extremely relieved that the distraction is over, and I’m happy to get back to work on Monday,” he said, declining to elaborate whether he and fellow profit participants contributed to the actors’ back-end share.
The renegotiation drama was watched closed by the reps for the kids who co-star on the series. They will go in next the way The Big Bang Theory‘s supporting players renegotiated their salaries after stars Johnny Galecki, Kaley Cuoco and Jim Parsons completed their deals.
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ed o’neill is still making significantly more than the rest of the cast
I started watching the show for Ed O’Neill, and many other shows previously because he was in them as well. He was the only proven star in the ensemble and therefore should get more than the other actors. He has shown in the past, when he went for the Best Supporting Actor Emmy instead of the Best Actor Emmy that he was a team player for Modern Family and further shows it after he already had a backend agreement and still helped the rest of the cast out even though they already had signed contracts.
They know this. They know that Ed makes more than they do. The goal wasn’t to get as much as him. Their goal to get what they think is fair in terms of what actors on other shows with similar success have made and what is a fair slice of the revenue the show bringing in.
The chemistry of the cast is what ultimately makes the show what it is. I’m glad for then because they deserve it!
I’m confused how Hollywood works?!
The show is on ABC which is owned by the Walt Disney Co., so wouldn’t they be the ones who own and operate the show?!
Why would Fox just allow Disney to have one of their successful TV shows and air it on ABC?! Wouldnt Fox just air the show on Fox if they’re the company that actually owns the show?
The studios, and the networks do what is in the best interest of themselves, not the whole company. Fox owns the show, but they sold it to ABC, because they paid the most money for it, or Fox could of passed. Fox has a contract with ABC though, so they couldn’t just jump, and take the show off the network. After the contract Fox, may take the show to their network, but the ratings, may not be the same. But if ABC, cancels the show, if it gets way too expensive, Fox, would most pick it up, to get as much episodes as possible for syndication. Yeah, Hollywood is confusing.
If only those who write comments write grammaticaly-correct comments, we’d be more inclined to believe they know what they’re talking/writing about. Until then, either write it correctly or stay away from Deadline. No room for wannabes (slang for want-to-be people)here; try Hollywood Reporter.
BTW… Hollywood’s not confusing if you know about the Biz.
Wow, it must be hard being you.
I can’t imagine how hard life must be for you, being that you have to live in a world that has less perfect people like you.
Do us a favor. Take that broom out of your ass and focus on what is important here.
An excellent assemble of actors got together and created a great energy/synergy for a show. It is important for them to capitalize on their success as soon as they can. Remember the cast of Friends?
Well, anyway….. you can give me a F for this reply, but I am still more happy now than you will ever be.
If you’re going to be giving someone crap about grammar, at least spell “grammatically” correct
Well, someone paid attention in class. Glad one reader caught the planting. Good for you, McGoo. LOL. Really.
Nice cover.
FOX makes a lot of money so does ABC. FOX Network for some reason didn’t want to air the show but FOX Television produces it. They should have fired the entire cast and hired a new cast it would have generated enormous publicity and their ratings would have gone up it would have been easy to replace everyone.
ha, as that had worked ever. Even doing that with one character often has bad effects. Plus these actors are good, and they deserve part of the success. They change one exec and things could work, they change one actor, and they often don-t (for the show at least, however long the success lasts)
I can only assume this suggestion is a joke.
Question: “The show is on ABC which is owned by the Walt Disney Co., so wouldn’t they be the ones who own and operate the show?!”
Answer: The major entertainment companies (Fox, Time-Warner, Disney/ABC, Universal/NBC, Sony, Viacom/CBS, etc.) all have 2 different divisions — one for production, and the other for distribution. The 2 divisions generally operate as independent profit centers for the parent company. So it’s not unusual at all (in fact it’s the norm) for shows to be produced at a Fox to wind up being distributed by another television network. Usually, a production company’s “sibling” distribution company will get 1st opportunity to pick up a show, but the production company is ultimately free to sell the show to whatever distributor is willing to pay the highest price.
Biggest payday most of these folks will ever get. Take it while you can, Sofia.
Sofia has so many endorsements and business ventures I highly doubt Modern Family will be her biggest payday.
This obviously means the cast has sold out and the show will no longer be funny. Obviously.
what are the year to year increases? how much back-end and what will they most likely get from that?
what’s ed o’neill’s deal?
i think they caved in too fast. they should be getting at least 200k at this point. they’ve been underpaid for the past couple years!
weak deal closing!
They did pretty good, they got double the salary, with only 3 million more viewers, but for the cast’s sake, I hope this is only a one year deal.
I will happily accept 65,000 per episode but congrats to the cast on their salary increase, it’s a great show, they work hard and they deserve the salary increase.
So as usual the lawsuit was not about ethics, but about getting more money.
So typical.
With the exception of “The big celebrities; Film, TV”, careers are short so it’s a MUST to get the most while you can. Five, ten years from now – as many others actors in the past – you’ll ask, “where are they now.” Here today, gone tomorrow. So, whom do you recall from past shows, flims that are still ‘making it/working”? See. not many, at all.
Anyone know what the four kids earn per episode?
would like to know that as well – they’re the best part of the show…
They work as unpaid interns.
This is what I’m interested in knowing.
The child actors on the show didn’t re negotiate their contracts.
They are getting roughly $15,000-$20,000 per episode, then they have management fee’s and agents fee’s so hopefully they are each seeing ~$10,000-$15,000 a peice.
Don’t forget they don’t quite have the same bargaining power as the adults and are most likely over the moon that they are making enough to basically set up the rest of their lives thanks to their immediate payday + royalties.
I don’t we show but from what I’ve seen it can be pretty funny. But does anyone really relish the idea of 5 plus years more of the show? Once the kids age out of being young and funny the show will really decline.
Ed has always been a class act in his forty plus years in the business. He’s one of the most well-liked and beloved person in the biz.
What no one is mentioning is how these big pay raises screw the below the line artists and craftspeople who actually make these shows go.
Where is their payoff for working long hours, missing their families and fixing the broken shit that is handed to them everyday. I can’t speak directly for MF, but usually you end up with no raise, no wrap party, and perks disappear as the shows budget becomes cash strapped. Could you imagine if the cast had included the crew in their lawsuit? When pigs fly.
You’re not wrong in that the cuts will come in below the line wages and perks, but at the same time (and sadly) they’re a lot more replaceable than the above the line folks as far as viewers are concerned. No one ever stopped watching a show because the assistant hair and makeup girl got let go. The actors and the reps know this.
While I’m not claiming the system is “fair” outside of general supply and demand, it should be noted that after Modern Family ends, the crew will have far less trouble finding another project than many of the cast.
As someone else mentioned, being part of a highly successful show is a double-edged sword for many actors. Once that show is over, struggling through the typecasting is often difficult, if not impossible.
@Jose, I’m not going to get into nitty gritty, but I gotta say you know a FAR different Ed O’Neill than the one I’ve worked with. And not one of those flying folding chairs, or script binders, or sets of car keys, or coffee cups, of dinner trays, or craft service trash cans, or apple boxes, or sun glasses cases, or countless other props and momentarily handy items ever came even close to hurtling in my direction.