It is a LIE to say that the upfront payment is less than a million dollars.
That is sheer, unfounded speculation. There is NO evidence whatsoever for this statement.

Thanks to Lemoncat for his negative posts today which prove to anyone who may have been uncertain, that in fact he is a basher.

Bashing while using weasel-words so that he can try to start a big food fight about what he did or didn't say and/or mean -- uh huh, we've seen that playbook before.