After The Tomorrow War, Amazon continues to spend lavishly on The Terminal List with Chris Pratt

Amazon Prime continues to release the tickets by paying Chris Pratt again for The Terminal List series.

When you have a lot (a lot) of money, you buy anything and everything, regardless of the price, or you send rockets into space. That’s a bit of Amazon’s philosophy, and it carries over to its Amazon Prime Video streaming platform. The giant is spending lavishly to establish itself as the boss of legal streaming as it goes neck and neck with Netflix, both of which have around 200 million subscribers. And after lining up the zeros for The Tomorrow War, Amazon brings out the checkbook for the return of Chris Pratt in its catalog with the series The Terminal List.

The platform had already paid no less than $ 200 million for Chris McKay’s The Tomorrow War, but it was profitable given the success of the film. This time around, she really took it big to secure Chris Pratt again for The Terminal List. To camp former NAVY Seal James Reece from the Jack Carr novel, Pratt made $ 1.4 million per episode. While we don’t yet know how many episodes the show is made up of, it still makes a lot of money.

That’s a hell of a pay raise for Chris Pratt, who had made “only” 1.5 million for Avengers: Endgame as well as Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. A crazy salary, even for a superstar, because, by comparison, Henry Cavill’s salary for The Witcher on Netflix was $ 400,000 an episode. With the astronomical pay of Pratt, the series will quickly cost the platform to smile.

So a serial episode becomes as expensive as a feature film. Indeed, the platforms are working hard to continue to overshadow Hollywood. And with the small box offices due to the pandemic and the many hybrid releases (in theaters and streaming) which cut wages, it is then not surprising that famous actors end up going to flirt on the side of the SVOD, which gives them a frenzied belly dance with big checks.