Michael Hollick, who voiced Grand Theft Auto IV’s Niko Bellic, and provided the body for the character, earned a measly $100,000 for 15 months of voice over work since late 2006. He’s upset, of course, since the game has sold millions of copies and raked in over $600 million so far for Rockstar Games and parent Take-Two Interactive.
You already know whose side the New York Times Seth Schiesel is on, because he editorializes the situation in this way (emphasis ours): “Mr. Hollick was paid only about $100,000 […] with zero royalties or residuals in sight.”
To some, earning $100k for a little over a year’s work – for speaking into a microphone – might not be a situation of “only” getting six-figures.
Then again, Hollick’s voice and likeness have been used to reap huge profits, and had this been a film or television series, he’d be getting a much larger share of things.
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