Apple, Netflix Amazon Want to Change How They Pay Hollywood Stars

Apple builds a bonus system around sign-ups, viewer loyalty and production costs.

Eddy Cue, senior vice president of services at Apple Inc., left, walks to lunch during the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, US, on Thursday, July 13, 2023. 

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

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