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The big business of Trump's deportation plan The companies quietly running the federal government’s immigration detention and deportation system are anticipating a potentially massive payday should Donald Trump return to the White House.
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Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
Less than a year later, in October, Sweeney nabbed a $7.5 million payday to star in The Housemaid, a Lionsgate thriller that will also star Amanda Seyfried and be directed by Paul Feig, multiple sources tell The Hollywood Reporter.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2024
However, Lewis Millstone did option The Twelve Chairs and paid them $600 to write a treatment for the movie (an amount of money that was paltry compared to many Hollywood writers’ paydays but princely compared to the Soviet Union).
—Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
The big paydays that I was used to just weren’t coming around anymore.
—Zack Sharf, Variety, 16 Oct. 2024
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Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
Less than a year later, in October, Sweeney nabbed a $7.5 million payday to star in The Housemaid, a Lionsgate thriller that will also star Amanda Seyfried and be directed by Paul Feig, multiple sources tell The Hollywood Reporter.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2024
However, Lewis Millstone did option The Twelve Chairs and paid them $600 to write a treatment for the movie (an amount of money that was paltry compared to many Hollywood writers’ paydays but princely compared to the Soviet Union).
—Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
The big paydays that I was used to just weren’t coming around anymore.
—Zack Sharf, Variety, 16 Oct. 2024
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“Payday.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/payday. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.
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payday
noun
pay·day
ˈpā-ˌdā 
: a regular day on which wages are paid
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