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As for the women, the first one to show up in seventh place is DiCaprio’s Don’t Look Up co-star Jennifer Lawrence, who takes home a similar $25m bag, followed by Julia Roberts (Leave the World Behind $25m) and Sandra Bullock (The Lost City of D $20m). While this type of contract is a necessity for straight-to-streaming movies, it also helps protect actors from the kind of issues that led Scarlett Johansson suing Disney over Black Widow’s earnings.
So, is everyone in Hollywood jumping over to streaming and fixed predefined paychecks? Not quite, since superheroes Chris Hemsworth and Robert Pattinson’s salaries don’t yet account for additional performance-derived income from Thor: Love and Thunder and The Batman. Tom Cruise is yet another example of someone who’s sticking with the standard of old as his high $13m base pay for Top Gun: Maverick, plus a share of box office income, might partly explain why the movie has been delayed for so long.
It’s not surprising to see that the way movie stars earn their wealth has changed on par with the way audiences consume the content they work on, nevertheless, until movie theaters get fully back to normal it will be hard to make a definitive call on how and for whom actors would rather ply their trade.
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