Wiktionary
adv. 1 (context bridge English) In the part of the the score sheet in bridge that is reserved for honors, penalties, and premiums; a score that does not count towards game. 2 (context accounting English) Classified as an ordinary expense or revenue item, or a current asset.(R:MW3 1976: page=5) alt. 1 (context bridge English) In the part of the the score sheet in bridge that is reserved for honors, penalties, and premiums; a score that does not count towards game. 2 (context accounting English) Classified as an ordinary expense or revenue item, or a current asset.(R:MW3 1976: page=5)
Wikipedia
Above-the-line is the list of individuals who guide, influence and hopefully add to the creative direction, process and voice of a given narrative in a film and their related expenditures. These roles include but are not limited to the screenwriter, producer, director and actors.
Often, the term is used for matters related to the film's production budget. Above-the-line expenditures reflect the expected line item compensation for an official above-the-line member's role in a given film project. These expenditures are usually set, negotiated, spent and/or promised before principal photography begins. They include rights to secure the material on which the screenplay is based, production rights to the screenplay, compensation for the screenwriter, producer, director, principal actors and other cost-related line items such as assistants for the producers, director or actors.
The distinction originates from the early studio days when the budget top-sheet would literally have a line separating the above-the-line and below-the-line costs.
Above the line may refer to:
- Above the line (filmmaking), an accounting term used in film production to denote expenditures that occur prior to filming
- Above the line (advertising), an advertising strategy to promote brands through conventional forms of mass media
- Above the Line (TV series), a 2008 Canadian television series
- Above-the-line deduction, a type of tax deduction in the United States of America
- A component of contract bridge scoring
- The group voting ticket option in Australian elections
- Above the Line, the colloquial name for the Research and Development Expenditure Credit technology tax relief scheme in the UK
Above the Line also known as Out and About: The Series was a Canadian comedy television series in 2008. Only one episode appears to have been made, and it is unclear when or on what network it aired.
Usage examples of "above the line".
In the Cheraw district, on the Pedee, above the line where Marion commanded, the Whig and Tory warfare, of which we know but little beyond this fact, was one of utter extermination.
Over her nose, just a trifle above the line of her eyebrows, was a peculiar red mark, a sore, which was very disfiguring, as though it were hard to heal.
Samantha laid a wedge-shaped chin on her left shoulder to help her consider, and she smiled as silken whiskers brushed her cheek just above the line of nerve deadness.
You should be above the line of fire but if the Posleen notice you you'll be in for a hot time tonight.
But she leaned forward and kissed Abivard on the cheek, just above the line where his beard stopped.
A single toothmark winked just above the line at which the tanker had cut the section from his lure.
As his mouth tarried just above the line of silk, she felt a hunger deeper than any she'd ever experienced.
A hazy brightness above the line of buildings across the street indicated the rest of the Depot was still flooded by the projection lighting system which was that of the old fortress—.
I noticed at once, in the third rubber, the figure of 1500 above the line.
The midges and flies came out in force and hovered above the line of march as thick as smoke.
Even the captain had a faint pattern of scales on the backs of his hands and his throat above the line of his cuirass.
Two wings were at first visible, which were gradually united as the topsails of those in the centre rose above the line of sea.
He thought he saw something that he was looking for but it was a hawk that slid down into the wind and then rose above the line of the farthest pine woods.
Raum held Shra so that her head still floated above the line of power.
The contents consisted of a hundred and fifty pages of typewritten script, apparently banged out on an old machine, for some of the letters were above the line, others below it, and some either distorted or faint.