Tom Cruise look down on everyone. According to Variety’s list of highest-paid actors, the star of Top Gun: Maverick reached $100 million earned in just one year. Compared to his other colleagues, who immediately ask for sensational cachets, Tom and his agents agree on lower figures, preferring to add the percentage on the proceeds to the contract. The same will happen for the next chapters of Mission Impossible whose cachet will start from an initial 12 million.
Brad Pitt, Will Smith, Leonardo DiCaprio: the names of the highest paid actors of 2022
Immediately after Tom Cruise, in second place in the ranking we find Will Smith surprisingly, who earned 35 million dollars for the film emancipation, based on the true story of an African American slave. In third place, tied with 30 million, are Leonardo DiCaprio (thanks to Killers of the Flower Moonthe new film by Martin Scorsese) and Brad Pitt, thanks to the contract for the next film on Formula 1. Scrolling through Variety’s Top 20 reveals that Dwayne Johnson was paid $ 22.5 million for Black Adamswhile Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds caught 20 for Spirited. Same amount Netflix paid Chris Hemsworth for Extraction 2 and that they cashed in Vin Diesel (for Fast X), Tom Hardy (per venom 3) and, surprisingly, Joaquin Phoenix for Joker 2. Stable at 20 million Denzel Washington, for the action movie The Equalizer 3, while a step below, at 15 million, appear Jason Momoa (for Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom) and the stainless Eddie Murphy (for Beverly Hills Cop IV). Scrolling down the prestigious ranking we find in eighteenth place with 12.5 million dollars, Margot Robbie who will star in the film Barbie, the exact same figure taken by Ryan Gosling, who plays Ken in the film. Soon after we find Millie Bobby Brown, whose success has literally exploded in his hands thanks to Stranger Things: at only 18, Netflix will pay her 10 million to star in the second season of the series Enola Holmes.
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