The Biggest Hollywood Stars they charge multimillion dollar amounts for being in a movie, but lately there was some secrecy around the exact amounts, but a recent Variety article has shed some light on this, and also on how salaries are affected in the case of those titles that are going to premiered directly in streaming.
Specifically, Variety has revealed the salary of seventeen Hollywood stars for a recent career title. The absolute leader of the list is Daniel Craig, who has earned $ 100 million for appearing in two sequels to ‘Daggers in the Back’. On the same average is Dwayne johnson and his $ 50 million for ‘Red One’. Craig’s will be seen on Netflix and Johnson’s on Amazon, hence the hefty amounts.
The “bargain” of streaming
In fact, there are eight actors who exceed the legendary $ 20 million barrier that came to Hollywood thanks to Jim Carrey and ‘Un loco a domicile’. The funny thing is that in all salaries they are higher than normal precisely because they are movies that are going to be seen first in streaming or that are released simultaneously in cinemas and some platform.
For instance, Will Smith He has earned $ 40 million for ‘King Richard,’ which will hit HBO Max at the same time as it hits theaters, Denzel Washington another 40 million for ‘Small details’, Leonardo Dicaprio has taken 30 million for ‘Don’t Look Up’, one of the most anticipated releases of Netflix, Mark Wahlberg took another 30 for making ‘Spenser: Confidential’ for Netflix, Jennifer Lawrence 25 for ‘Don’t Look Up’, same amount earned for Julia Roberts thanks to his participation in ‘Leave the World Behind’, also for Netflix.
Why is it that streaming companies pay much higher salaries? Simple, the big stars also receive a quantity of the benefits that the movies generate in theaters, and to compensate for what they stop earning, the platforms pay upfront based on a generous estimate of what those titles would have raised, but with zero guarantees that they would get it.
Otherwise, the stars would surely not accept the deal. To give you an idea, Dwayne Johnson’s base salary for ‘Jungle Cruise’ was $ 22 million. From there until 50 for ‘Red One’ there is a lot of difference …
The rest of wages
Already in the line of 20 million dollars, we do find films that are scheduled to be released first exclusively in theaters: Brad Pitt by ‘Bullet Train’, Sandra Bullock by ‘The Lost City of D’ or Chris Hemsworth by ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’. In that amount we also have Ryan gosling for ‘The Gray Man’, but that blockbuster – there is talk of a budget of 200 million dollars – will be seen on Netflix.
The list given by Variety is completed with Michael B. Jordan and the $ 15 million he earned with ‘No Regrets’, finally released on Amazon, the $ 13 million of Tom cruise for ‘Top Gun: Maverick’, the 11.5 million Chris pine for ‘Dragons and Dungeons’ or the somewhat scarce 3 million Robert Pattinson by ‘The Batman’.
A separate case is that of Keanu reeves and ‘Matrix 4’, since his base salary ranges between 12 and 14 million dollars, but the actor has not yet closed an agreement with Warner to determine the compensation for the fact of premiering it on HBO Max and theaters simultaneously . Don’t be surprised if that amount doubles or even triples …
It is true that many actors are missing, the absence of Chris Evans for ‘The Gray Man’, since if Gosling has pocketed 20 million dollars, surely he has achieved a lot more, but they are amounts that serve to give us an idea about how the Hollywood industry moves today and for what streaming platforms have to pay more …