Who are the 20 highest paid stars in Hollywood

Tom Cruise, Will Smith, Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Dwayne Johnson are the actors who earn the most per film. The first actress to appear on the list of Hollywood stars with eight-digit salaries is Margot Robbie, but far behind those already mentioned who, in the worst case, almost double the salary that the Australian will receive for being Barbie.

The information was provided by Variety, which counts, dollar for dollar, how much the aforementioned performers earn or will earn, and many more. From Will Ferrell to Chris Hemsworth, passing through Joaquin Phoenix, who to make Joker 2 required more than quadrupling his salary for the original film, to Millie Bobby Brown.

Paradoxical is the case of Tom Cruise, because for Top Gun Maverick he reaches an unusual figure of nine digits (one hundred million dollars), but because that amount will be obtained from the sale of tickets in theaters, what he receives as a salary (he itself occurs, so the negotiations must not have been difficult) and the sale of the film to the streaming service, which it despises so much.

Joaquin Phoenix, in “Joker”. He asked for much more for the sequel. And they granted it.

And speaking of streaming, the platforms have become a lifesaver, or at least an incredible profit for Hollywood stars, who used to be hooked on “bonuses” according to whether their films worked at the box office, or No.

Before he took the stage at the Oscars, no, not to receive his statuette for King Richard, but to slap Chris Rock in the face, Will Smith had already filmed Emancipation, a thriller about runaway slaves, for which Apple paid him paid US$35 million.

And so, Leonardo DiCaprio will pocket his US$ 30 million, deposited in his bank account also by Apple, which finances Killers of the Flower Moon, the new Martin Scorsese.

Tom Cruise, smiling, a few days ago in the Wimbledon final. No one earns as much as him. AFP Photo

Apple bets heavily on the stars, because it will pay the same to Leo’s partner in Once upon a time… in Hollywood, Brad Pitt. The actor has already announced that he plans to stop working in front of the cameras, but he may not do so if they continue to pay him so much money for a film that is still untitled, but that will take place in the world of Formula 1, directed by Joseph Kosinski. Does it ring a bell? He is the director of… Top Gun Maverick.

Dwayne Johnson gets paid extra to promote his next movie on his social networks.

And Netflix, which spent US $ 200 million on the premiere of The Gray Man this Friday, between salaries to Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, directors Anthony and Joe Russo and the enormous production of the thriller, is going to pay its protagonists for two sequels US$20 million and US$10 million. These are Chris Hemsworth (Rescue Mission 2 is about to be released) and Millie Bobby Brown. The star of another Netflix tank, Stranger Things, has already completed the second part of Enola Holmes.

So much money on one side makes it difficult for traditional Hollywood studios to convince other figures to work on their projects, if they don’t put eight figures on the table. Thus, Dwayne Johnson agreed to star in Black Adam, the DC superhero movie, if they added dividends to the US$ 22.5 million for producing the film, and receive an additional fee for promoting it on their social networks…

Next, the Top 20 with the lucky ones. If they charge the same, they are arranged alphabetically.