The end of overpaid Hollywood actors?

[Lobster Charlie]

God, I sure hope so!


"Studios have taken note of the fact that only three of the 10 highest-grossing films last year - War of the Worlds, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Mr and Mrs Smith - were star-driven. The rest of the major hits - such as Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and The Chronicles of Narnia - had no stellar names, or fat salaries, to speak of."


http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1180235.ece

 

[TheVileOne]

MI:3 under-performed. And that's Tom Cruise.

Studios should do more about not paying for over-priced flops and crappy remakes like Poseidon.

 

[JLBats]

The studio system is persistant in placing crap on our movie screens, and I'm betting that there is a major shake-up coming in the film industry, ala the '70s.

 

[TheVileOne]

Well I think there might be a shake-up coming at WB after their abysmal summer.

 

[xwolverine2]

itll never end

 

[BT18]

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and The Chronicles of Narnia - had no stellar names, or fat salaries, to speak of."


http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1180235.ece

That isn't true at all

I've read multiple places that Danielle Radcliffe makes over 10 million dollars per sequel, and although I can't find the exact figure disclosed it would stand to reason that Hayden C and especially Natalie Portman would receive similar compensation for movies garenteed to generate hundreds of millions that would be threatened were not for their continued participation.

What this article simply does is limit the definition of what is a "star" to the same bull$hit dozen overexposed people rather than those with a virtuous logical kind of stardom like a Steve Carrell. But no, people who watch the Daily Show don't count, just the tabloid- magazine complete F'ing airheads who care about Lindsay Lohan and Jennifer Anniston.

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

MI:3 under-performed. And that's Tom Cruise.

Studios should do more about not paying for over-priced flops and crappy remakes like Poseidon.

agreed. what do overpaid actors have to do with the quality of a film? its the studios fault for making crappy films in the first place,not the actors.


lets be honest here, johnny depp, tomcruise(he needs to disappear for awhile), and others such as keanu reeves have star power.

 

[Mr. Credible]

agreed. what do overpaid actors have to do with the quality of a film? its the studios fault for making crappy films in the first place,not the actors.


lets be honest here, johnny depp, tomcruise(he needs to disappear for awhile), and others such as keanu reeves have star power.

yup.

 

[<(o_o)>]

If Hollywood completely scales back on their cgi driven movies I don't know what I will do. There will eventually be less & less of them coming out each year. They will probably stick with whats been popular & successful at the box office thus far, films like Spider-Man, Pirates Of The Caribbean & the Harry Potter film series etc & stop pouring big budgets into movies that will probably be a potential risk of them losing a ton of money over like Superman Returns.

 

[Carter]

I really thought that MI3 was a good movie that should have done a lot better.
But after MI2, it's not a huge suprise.

 

[bored]

That isn't true at all

I've read multiple places that Danielle Radcliffe makes over 10 million dollars per sequel, and although I can't find the exact figure disclosed it would stand to reason that Hayden C and especially Natalie Portman would receive similar compensation for movies garenteed to generate hundreds of millions that would be threatened were not for their continued participation.

What this article simply does is limit the definition of what is a "star" to the same bull$hit dozen overexposed people rather than those with a virtuous logical kind of stardom like a Steve Carrell. But no, people who watch the Daily Show don't count, just the tabloid- magazine complete F'ing airheads who care about Lindsay Lohan and Jennifer Anniston.

I think the point is that marquee stars, of which only Portman comes close to in those three actors you named, aren't as bankable as they once were.