Tom Cruise will earn over $100 million for Top Gun: Maverick, Variety announces. Remuneration which includes his salary, ticket sales, as well as income related to streaming and rental of the film. For each production, the actor also receives a percentage of gross receipts, and therefore benefits from box office bonuses even before the studio was profitable. A one-of-a-kind agreement, a vestige of a time when stars, not franchises, made feature films successful. The Mission Impossible star’s colleagues are not to be pitied either. Also according to Variety, Apple will pay Leonardo DiCaprio $30 million to team up with Martin Scorsese on the historical drama Killers of the Flower Moon, and $30 million to Brad Pitt to pilot a film about Formula 1. Far from being outdone, Netflix will pay Chris Hemsworth $20 million and Millie Bobby Brown $10 million to reprise their roles in Extraction and Enola Holmes, respectively. Jason Momoa has renegotiated his contract to Aquaman, thus doubling his salary which will be 15 million dollars for the second film. In 2019, Joaquin Phoenix earned $4.5 million for his supervillain role in Joker. To bring the actor back in a sequel, Warner Bros. will now have to pay $20 million. Note that Ryan Gosling in Ken and Margot Robbie in Barbie will receive exactly the same salary for their role, and they rank very well in this ranking of the highest paid actors and actresses of the year, to be found on the Variety site.
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