The Amount Of Money The Cast Of ‘Friends’ Makes STILL Will Make You Question Your Career Choices
《老友记》明星们的收入，至今仍会让你怀疑自己的职业选择
By Matt Keohan ︱Dec. 27, 2018
At the beginning of December, Netflix raised a lot of eyeballs by revealing that it was paying AT&T $80 million for the exclusive streaming rights to all 10 seasons of Friends in 2019, despite the sitcom’s last episode airing 14 years ago. Some media outlets are claiming that the deal could extend multiple years beyond 2019.
12月初，尽管这部情景喜剧在14年前就已经播完了最后一集，但Netflix向AT&T支付了8000万美元的独家流媒体播出权，以便在2019年播放《老友记》十季内容的消息仍旧吸引了众多眼球。一些媒体还声称，这笔交易很可能会在2019年后，继续延长很多年。
Friends is one of the most successful sitcoms of all-time, but to learn just how rich the show made its six star players is still mind-bending, especially when you consider that they were paid just $22,500 per episode in the first season.
《老友记》是有史以来最成功的情景喜剧之一，但要想了解它究竟是如何让这六位明星演员变得那么富有，始终都让人意乱神迷，尤其当你知道，他们开始第一季时，每人每集的收入只有2.25万美元时。
mind-bending：令人费解的，致幻的；使极度兴奋的
In 2002 at the end of season eight, Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer negotiated a salary of $1 million each per episode for season nine, which at the time was the biggest deal ever made for a 30-minute television show.
在2002，在第八季结束时，詹妮弗·安妮斯顿，寇特妮·考克斯，莉莎·库卓，马特·理勃兰，马修·派瑞和大卫·修蒙协商确定，第九季的片酬为每集100万美元，而这是当时，为为时30分钟的电视节目所进行过的最大一笔交易。
Over 15 years later, the money is still pouring in.
15年后，钱仍在源源不断地涌入。
Via Marketplace:
据Marketplace透露：
The cast’s per episode paycheck wasn’t the only dough they were receiving from the show. After season six was over and it was back to the negotiation table, they all started receiving a portion of the show’s syndication profits.
每集的工资并非是该剧的演员们从节目中得到的唯一收入。第六季结束后，重新回到谈判桌上，他们都开始获得该节目播出的部分利润分成。
Today, all six of them still receive 2 percent of syndication income, or $20 million each per year, since the show still brings in $1 billion annually for Warner Brothers. Plus, now that the Netflix deal is going through, Aniston, Cox, Kudrow, LeBlanc, Perry and Schwimmer can expect to see even more on their checks from Warner.
如今，由于华纳兄弟每年仍能为其带来10亿美元收入，这六位演员仍能获得2%的播出收入，即每年2000万美元。此外，如今和Netflix的交易正在进行中，安妮斯顿、考克斯、库德、勒布朗、派瑞和修蒙可以期待获得来自华纳的更多收入。
Imagine getting paid $20 million a year for work that you did 15 years ago. That’s the work of 333 working school teachers for playing make believe decades ago. I’m taking my child to Broadway directly after he exits the womb.
想象一下，为15年前曾经做过的事，你至今仍然可以每年获得2000万美元的报酬。这不正是几十年前333名教师玩的“梦想成真”的游戏所说的工作嘛。我想好了，只要孩子一从子宫里出来，我就直接把Ta带到百老汇去。
乔治·克鲁尼在成名之后给了他最亲密的朋友们每人100万美元。英语读头条（第220期）
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