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Financial_Doctor7150 t1_iu8s6ig wrote

i heard jack nicholson was the first to get a massive paydeal on batman 1989 he wanted 10 percent of the box office and made about 60 million dollars keanu Reeves did the same for the matrix 2 and earned 100 mill i have no clue what the rock would earn as black adam ,it seems hes the biggest star right now

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LatkaGravas t1_iu97qx8 wrote

I think Marlon Brando was the first, actually, to negotiate a payday that was earthshaking in the industry. In early 1975 Brando signed on to Superman: The Movie with a salary of $3.7 million and 11.75% of the box office gross profits, totaling $19 million. That was for five minutes of screen time. Those numbers may not seem huge but in the mid '70s, on an inflation-adjusted basis as compared to even 1989, they were massive. America was just about to come off the gold standard (May of that year), so the dollar had not yet begun to depreciate. While Nicholson's numbers for Batman were impressive the dollar by 1989 was already worth nowhere near as much as it was in the mid '70s.

Anyway, whether Brando or Nicholson made "more" is beside the point. Brando blew the doors off when it came to actor compensation. I don't recall another actor getting that kind of back-end deal until Nicholson for Batman, actually.

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igoslowly t1_iu9dtz6 wrote

tom cruise is getting 10% of top gun maverick gross and it’s at $1.45 billion from box office sales

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