January 1, 2008

Hollywood's Highest Paid Actors

Posted by ExtraTV Staff on January 1, 2008 7:09 AM


Johnny Depp's legendary turn as Captain Jack Sparrow in the "Pirates of the Carribbean" franchise has helped make him one of the highest-paid actors in Hollywood.

"Between June 2006 and June 2007, he made $92 million," said Forbes magazine's senior editor Lea Goldman. She attributes Depp's success to talent, luck and old-fashioned business savvy.

"We looked at his advance for movies he started filming and also looked at money making off back end," she explained.

The second highest-paid actor is none other than Brad Pitt, followed by Tom Cruise. But Forbes is hesitant to name either one of them as the most bankable star: That distinction goes to Matt Damon.

"Though his paycheck isn't as high as Will Smith's, his movies also aren't that expensive, and relative to what they've done at the box office he ends up delivering the most dollars to the studio," explained Goldman.

As for the $20 million boys' club, let's just say it's a very funny list.

"It's Vince Vaughn, it's Will Ferrell, it's Ben Stiller," said Goldman. "Their movies aren't performing as well as they once did."

And in the girls' club, the top earner is still Nicole Kidman, followed by Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Aniston, Julia Roberts and Scarlett Johansson.

"She's a critical darling," explained Goldman of Scarlett. "They love her. She's got the chops and also a sex bomb. She's a goddess!"

Even the top female earner, Kidman, is in danger of losing her spot on the list.

"We've seen movie after movie from her over the last few years. Problem is those movies aren't faring so well," said Goldman. "While she may have commanded the $15 million paycheck, really you've gotta wonder how much longer that is going to continue."


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my fav is arnold schwarzenneger,antonio banderas and sylvster stallone


- mohsin
Posted 10/07/08 07:41 AM
 
 

Lets start taxing movie actors they don’t contribute any thing to society. At least big oil business has employees , pays half of the social security for those employees, provides income for the employees, pays health insurance, buys products and services off of other companies who do the same as they do. All of whom pay sales taxes , income taxes, real estate taxes etc. What does Johnnie Depp do with his 92 million? If the democrats want to be selective in their tax selection let’s star with Hollywood actors , directors, producers , studios on down the line follow the money trail. Then they should move to pro sports all of the players make to much money. Stop funding stadium construction when owners of teams that are worth a billion dollars let them go out and take a loan or build there own like the Hunt Brothers or Joe Robbie did. Next go to the music industry you mean to tell me that rap music is contributing to our culture? Tax all of them. As far as I am concerned beef up the IRS and let them become the pit bull of tax collection that they used to be. How many houses doe a movie star have to have? Since the democrats always want to create divisions in this country by creating class war fare lets start at the top and look at every one who goes to the democratic fund raiser,Tim Robbins(Wacko) Michel Moore, Barbara Streisand, Bill Mahar,David Letterman. After they are finished in Hollywood go to the news media in NYC. These people don’t have any special talent that could not be replaced by any one of a 1000’s people walking down the street in NYC and could do it for 1/10 of then money that Katie Curic makes. If extra had any balls they would look at the entertainment industry from top to bottom to start cutting the fat. Lets tax them at75% that should take the load off of the middle class.


- Tom
Posted 09/28/08 08:19 AM
 
 

my favorite of all time was humphry bogart and james cagney and john garfield,thet were great actors!


- dogworld
Posted 09/04/08 12:11 PM
 
 

and probably another great legendary actor from india..that is kamal hassan.he is such a versatile and profilic actor..he has been trying donning different roles in all his movies..and if u look at his performance..he is truly amazing..he should have get oscars for many instance..anywany i juz wish him a great success in his next venture titled Marma yogi and followed by Marutha nayagam..


- pazino
Posted 08/24/08 07:50 PM
 
 

i like it


- adekeye adegoke
Posted 07/30/08 06:26 AM
 
 

thats 252,054 dollars a day and 10,502 dollars per hour OMG!


- rachael
Posted 07/25/08 12:30 PM
 
 

The only one of these guys who can actually act is Johnny Depp. The others just are pretty faces. I mean especially Cruise and Damon. They can’t act at all. They are just handsome emotionless clothes horses.
Depp is quite a good actor and has not pursued the commercial path although he eventually ended up there on a fluke. He’s done a lot of risky roles and made many quirky choices in his career which I have respect for.
One non-US actor that is also a great movie star with great looks and who can actually act is India’s Shahrukh Khan. He’s world famous just about everywhere but the USA which doesn’t accept subtitled films. He’s a huge success in Europe for instance.


- annie
Posted 05/12/08 10:13 PM
 
 

Johnny Depp deserves to be the highest payed actor. Matt Damon is a good actor, but I like Johnny Depp better.


- blank
Posted 01/02/08 03:07 PM
 
 

Matt Damon is the best actor of the year
He deserves the highest paycheck


- Anonymous
Posted 01/02/08 08:35 AM
 
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