Highest Paid Acting job of all time?

[Riddick]

This is totally from memory but I think in real dollars William Holdens cut from Bridge on the River Kwai is up there.

[Aloysius]

MrWookie - great sleuthing. Tom Cruise is extremely wealthy.

This is from an article discussing Keanu Reeves, who is not on the wiki list:

Keanu Reeves became the highest paid actor to date based on the two Matrix sequels, for which he received $206 million from a 15 percentage of the box office takings and untold revenues from the Matrix video game, DVDs and eventual TV sales. So, while most people would never guess that Keanu Reeves eclipsed Tom Cruise's bankable status, the enigmatic Canadian has run circles around Hollywood.

If the 15% is anywhere near true the $200M+ figure makes sense.

Keanu Reeves is also extremely wealthy.

-Al

[diebitter]

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I think Nicholson set a record for his part in Batman, since he got a good cut of the profits. I would be kinda surprised if that record stood, though.

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I think this is the winner too. I have a vague recollection he made about 250 mill if you add up the percentages etc. That sounds completely balmy though, so maybe I have the decimal place one out or something.

[funkymunky]

I know Tom Cruise's deal was extremely lucrative, even by Hollywood's standards, but hadn't heard that about Reeves. Reeves I guess has the highest double payday (cashing in on the Matric sequels), but I think Cruise's standard movie deal was best (and I believe he was just dumped by Paramount)

I saw Cruise talked about on Robin Leach's show - the man is filthy rich.

[tshort]

Keanu Reeves earned 15% of box office sales for Matrix Sequels. $110 million for Matrix Reloaded and another $65 million for Revolutions.

He gave the majority of his earnings away including millions to costume designers, special effects, etc.

Edit: I don't know for sure if the figures I listed are correct. I Googled the box office sales and looked at the first link.

[SlowCheetah]

Tom Cruise for Mission Impossible 3, according to my mass communications teacher.

75 mil before he even said a line...plus a percentage of the earnings.

[youtalkfunny]

Before most of you were born, Marlon Brando got an insane amount of money for his two minutes of acting in Superman.

[housenuts]

alot of soccer players make more than any of these guys and they are some of the best actors around

[MidGe]

For what it is worth, I think that Malon Brando was the highest paid for minutes in a movie for either Superman 2 or for Apocalypse Now.

[troymclur]

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For what it is worth, I think that Malon Brando was the highest paid for minutes in a movie for either Superman 2 or for Apocalypse Now.

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Arnie is up there as well for Batman and Robin. I believe he was paid something like 10 million for 2 weeks of shooting.