First off, your "truth in advertising" scenario is about as far off from the truth as the trailer that you're taking issue with. If you look at the acting profession as a whole, it's one of lowest paying occupations out there. This isn't just something I read in Entertainment Weekly, it's from actual income and wage data, which I work with almost every day.

For every Tom Cruise, there are hundreds of low paid and often unemployed actors and actresses. A friend of mine used to live downstairs from Joan Allen, who's now a pretty well known lead actress and paid pretty well. At that time, she was unemployed and had been for about a year. Her husband was one of the leads on a CBS TV series, yet all they could afford was a modest duplex rental. Your stereotyping of actors, producers, and directors is an overly "top down" oriented view of the industry. It would be the same as calling retail store clerks overpaid and saying that shoplifting only affects the CEOs that are making millions.

I know a few of the grunts who work in the entertainment industry, and except for people involved at the technical end, most of them would earn more doing the same type of work in other industries. Like it or not, piracy does disproportionately affect the workers who go project to project, paycheck to paycheck. No one's going to cut back Peter Jackson's directing fee because of piracy fears, nor Julia Roberts' fees, etc. Whenever layoffs are announced, it's not the people at the top who get jettisoned, it's always the support staff and the midlevel emplyees who bear the brunt during downturns.