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The Highest-Paid Actors For A Single Production, Ranked

Darcy Jimenez
Darcy Jimenez
The Highest-Paid Actors For A Single Production, Ranked
Keanu Reeves has pocketed some hefty earnings from the "Matrix" movies.
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Using, data from Wikipedia, the team over at Genuine Impact have put together a visualization showing the ten best-paid actors of all time, in terms of salary and box office royalties for a single production.

The highest-paid actor in history is Keanu Reeves, who pocketed $156 million from the "Matrix" franchise. He's followed by Bruce Willis, who made $100 million from the salary and box office royalties for 1999's "The Sixth Sense."

Tom Cruise is a three-time earner of $100 million, from "Top Gun: Maverick," "War of the Worlds" and "Mission: Impossible 2." He also appears in seventh place on the list, after making $70 million from the first "Mission: Impossible" film.

At the other end of the ranking, Harrison Ford earned $65 million from "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," while Jack Nicholson made $60 million from his role in 1989's "Batman."


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Via Genuine Impact.

Comments

  1. Sean Stewart 4 months ago

    OlloThis is incorrect.you have to do a adjusted list ,example Jack Nicholson fee in today's dollar is 120 million, and you can't list Mr Reeves at number 1 as your counting his fee fir the whole franchise, not one movie,

  2. Christopher Buchanan... 6 months ago

    I'm almost certain that for all practical purposes $100 million X 3 = more than $156 million ÷ 2, but I like Keanu's public image and I'm glad his payday is #1.

    1. Unknown 6 months ago

      The thing is that those two movies were shot as one and split. So Keanu had a single earning event comprising the salary and (probably) gross profit share.

  3. Lawrence Charters 6 months ago

    That is a terrible visualization, and a terrible graph: mixing metrics, mixing scale, but pretty. Pretty is not a good thing, in this case.

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