Hollywood’s Best Actors For The Buck – Forbes.com

Interesting…

Earning $20 million upfront for a movie is so 2007. These days studios are squeezing every cent they can out of actors, and that means many stars only earn the big bucks after the studio gets back its money.

In these frugal times it’s useful to look at which actors earn studios the most for their money. Pay someone $10 million to star in your big summer blockbuster and what can you expect for your investment? If you hire Shia LaBeouf, expect a lot. For the second year in a row, he tops our list of Hollywood’s Best Actors for the Buck.

And:

Because women typically earn less than men in Hollywood, they make up a full half of our top 10 list. Anne Hathaway is the highest-ranking woman in the No. 2 spot. For every dollar she earns studios earn $64 off of her films.

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  1. Aunt Lily's avatar Aunt Lily

    Actors have gotton the short end of the accounting stick before Cliff Robertson took to the courts,I think some studios and syndicates would love computer generated images to catch on big,then they could use computer generated voices and shaft the actors.

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