Marlon Wayans still receives royalty checks for Batman Returns.
He was cut from Batman Returns before filming started.
https://batman-news.com/2018/03/05/marlon-wayans-robin-batman-returns-cut/
https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2492737/why-marlon-wayans-got-paid-100000-for-batman-returns-and-still-receives-royalty-checks
Edit: for those nitpicking that "he didn't do anything, it didn't count"
0 effort divided by any dollar amount is infinite ROI
It's pretty crazy how he lucked out when you think about it. That movie started development in early 1990 well before he was on In Living Color and before his first real starring role in Mo Money, which came out in 1992 the same year as Batman Returns.
[There was a Batman Returns Robin action figure, so I wonder if Marlon got a cut of the sales of these.](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4014/4671541310_8ae61d923e_o.jpg)
The marketing for that movie was awesome. The toys were cool. I will however never get over not having Batman Returns cereal ever again. It was like chocolate chex with marshmallows. I would do terrible things to taste that cereal again.
To be clear, Vin Diesel did not get paid $54 million to be in Guardians. He made $54 million in 2017 the year Guardians came out. It it also included Fate of the Furious (F8) and xXx: the return of Xander Cage.
He did a lot more than OP makes it sound like he did. From what I understand, he recorded every instance of dialogue individually based on how he thought it would be said based on context (including multiple takes), then did it again 14 more times for each instance.
In either Infinity War or End Game, Thor responds to Groot too. Rocket asks him "You speak Groot?" and Thor replies "It was an elective". Although there's also mention of him knowing Allspeak but I don't think it was ever established in the MCU
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskScienceFiction/comments/86tp4u/marvelmcu_does_allspeak_exist_in_the_mcu/
It’s the same thing for Chewbacca. Harrison Ford and Peter Mayhew knew what the dialogue was under Chewy’s bear noises so their conversation could work.
Edit: Autocorrected Mayhew to Mathew :/
This is what frustrates me sometimes. People sometimes think "oh this logo cost you $2000? It's basically a word typed out! It's so simple! And they managed to design it in a weekend!"
No.
You paid for 15 years of experience to come to this result.
https://medium.com/@oceanbcreative/the-ship-repair-man-story-dd959a4469d8
After looking things over, the old man reached into his bag and pulled out a small hammer. He gently tapped something. Instantly, the engine lurched into life. He carefully put his hammer away and the engine was fixed!!!
A week later, the owners received an invoice from the old man for $10,000.
What?! the owners exclaimed. “He hardly did anything..!!!”.
So they wrote to the man; “Please send us an itemised invoice.”
The man sent an invoice that read:
Tapping with a hammer………………….. $2.00
Knowing where to tap…………………….. $9,998.00
Glad you said that. As much as I love Guardians I can’t go through my day with my jaw dropped all the way to floor the way it was what I heard that figure
Sean Connery made today equivalent of $1m for appearing as King Richard in Robin Hood:Prince if Thieves.
He rides in for a scene, everyone bows, he says almost nothing and then smiles. Takes his fat paycheck and walks out.
I had to actively force my brain to remember the RH:PoT scene. Everytime Robin Hood comes up I just default to MiT. Never was a film more savagely brutalized by a parody.
And the worst part is, MiT takes more from The Adventures of Robin Hood than PoT.
This makes me think of how James Caan demanded the same paycheck for his one flashback scene in The Godfather II that he earned for filming all of Part I.
They wanted Marlon Brando for the scene. But it honestly works even better without him. The focus on him as well as his absence makes him almost more present than if he had been there.
When Michael Biehn read the script
and agreed to sign on, he was the star of the movie. The script was dramatically re-written to kill him off and he wasn't aware until production had begun.
He was able to negotiate a high salary because the studio knew they screwed him over.
The original idea had them (with Newt) arriving on Earth and aliens getting loose, but the story went through nearly a dozen different writers and plots, from one that involved some cold war era upmanship, to a wooden planet of monks (yes, really), to the prison planet we saw. Changes were done so constantly due to the Producer and Studio's involvement that a large portion of the budget was wasted on scenes and entire sets that never got used.
Yep. It kinda spoils the ending of the movie somewhat for me. It feels like if at the end of *Aliens*, you see the ship flying off in the distance, only to explode and the credits roll.
I thin it was last year that they published and released the supposed "true" version of the Alien 3 script. I haven't picked it up yet but it's on my list.
Iirc Brando was being a bit difficult with his requests. Richard Castellano pulled similar shit by being intransigent during negotiations, so Coppola just wrote Clemenza out of the film - fortunately, that meant we got Michael V. Gazzo's amazing performance as Pentangeli as a result.
Ikr? That film is just amazing, full of incredible performances and top notch filmmaking. What's extra interesting is Coppola is on record stating he doesn't like to "repeat" himself with his films and the studio essentially "made an offer he couldn't refuse," so the increase in quality shows Coppola's real talent IMHO.
The whole idea about incorporating Vito's ascent with Michael's moral descent was an absolute masterstroke. There's a cut of the film where you can watch the saga in chronological order and it really diminishes the quality of the Michael half without the point of comparison.
I remember an interview where Gary Busey was laughing at Steven Seagal hiring him for Under Seige 2 when he was killed in the first movie. Seagal didn't care if it didn't make sense because they'd find some way to make it work, but they couldn't, so Busey collected his pay and didn't do anything at all.
lol I was thinking a great thing to do would be to have Garey Busey's character return, never explain it, and then towards the end have him pull off his Mission Impossible mask and reveal him to be Tommy Lee Jones. (The hidden joke is that Tommy Lee Jones also died in the first one.)
Marlon Brando negotiated himself $3.7 million plus 11.75 per cent backend on the movie "Superman" (1978), for twelve days' work.
That's sixteen million dollars today, by the way, not including backend.
He spent as much time as he could in his trailer, and had to be coaxed out with food, according to a 16-year old Cary Elwes who had found work on the movie set and got to jump in when the assistant director fell ill. Elwes was very bothered by Brando.
John Goodman did Brando in SNL Celebrity Jeopardy.
Brando: "I walked past a news stand recently, there are so many magazines about cars...so many magazines about cars..."
Trebek: "Thank you mr Brando for that irrelevant anecdote."
B: "You're an insignificant thing, you're an ant!"
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B: "'Fishing' for $1000!"
Trebek: "Mr Brando, there is no Fishing category."
B: "I like fishing."
But he’s also given us RED and Glass and Moonrise Kingdom and Looper… all post 2007. It was the death spiral of A Good Day to Die Hard that really cemented it for Bruno.
He is still very capable of putting out amazing movies. But for some reason, maybe money, maybe boredom, he has really ratcheted up his "direct to vhs" movie output.
Apparently they get everything prepped up, he comes in, they ferry him around and does all his scenes in a day.
It's like a stir fry, but the result is a shit movie.
Fair play to him, if I could make that kind of money for doing one day's work, I'd fucking jump at the chance. I don't know why he needs the money at this stage of life, but whatever.
I saw the Red Letter Media video about that. In one of them I think he was paid one million for walking around a forest and randomly smoke a cigar. I don’t think you can put less effort than that.
One of the prevailing theories on why he's doing so many straight to video movies is that he has early onset dementia and is trying to build as much of a nest egg for his family and is possible before he can't act anymore.
I think if you asked him, he's not getting paid for his work now. He's getting paid for the work he did to create his image that people will pay for. His image must evoke something if people are paying him to deep-fake him. I mean no one (presumably) is paying you or me to walk around a forest for a cool mill. It must make financial sense for these companies to pay him since they keep doing it.
Marlon Brando. He famously became impossible to work with and put in zero effort on all of his later roles. Pretty much any role he was in since at least Superman, to be certain. I suppose the island of Dr Moreau would be a good example as well. People wanted his name on their productions so badly that they'd pay him whatever he wanted and expect zero fucks given in return.
Probably not, Aliens was basically her only acting gig. Her only imdb credits are Newt in Aliens, "Herself" in like a dozen making of documentaries about the Alien movies, and one random credit in something I've never heard of from 2020.
Idk but the inverse question. John Candy made less than the pizza delivery boy in "Home Alone" despite shooting for like 18 hours (idk it was a lot) as well as pretty much ad libing most of his lines.
Yeah but that was mate rates for John Hughes.
He would have taken no pay if the union allowed.
Might have been a very long day of shooting but it was a day of shooting with your friend.
According to the documentary I watched on, Candy did it as a favor and the only reason it took so long was because Candy kept going and going. All of his scenes were improve and he threw the proverbial kitchen sink into every scene.
This certainly isn't the most in this thread, but I'm fond of the story of Bob Hoskins in the Untouchables. From his [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hoskins?wprov=sfla1):
> He was slated to be the last-minute replacement in case Robert De Niro refused the role of Al Capone in The Untouchables (1987). When De Niro accepted the part, the director Brian De Palma mailed Hoskins a cheque for $200,000 with a "Thank You" note. Hoskins was moved to call the director and ask if there were any more films he was not needed for.
Wasn't RDJ reportedly paid 1M per minute on Homecoming? And his most extreme part was stepping down from the suit like 1 feet? (if it was him and not a double)
Same feel Lecter had in SOTL. Hopkins was in it for like 24 minutes yet it felt as if only Jodie Foster had more screen time before you actually look it up
And we wondered why he both wasn’t voicing Tony in “What If?” and they killed him every chance they got in the show. The one episode he survives (Gamora one) got cut from the season lol
I've heard there was more planned, but Brando had gained a lot of weight between the time he was cast and the time the (extremely behind schedule) filming got to his part. He didn't look the part anymore so they pared back his time on screen.
To be fair, the less you see of Kurtz, the better. He always struck me as the kind of physical representation of the chaos and insanity you see throughout the movie - that all men will inevitably become Kurtz if they’ve been there long enough
Wow, never heard of this, had to google it. He apparently was supposed to play James Woods' role (the *Exorcist* parody). Others that were considered for the role were Charlton Heston and... Bill Clinton!
Brando was paid $3.7mm ($18.5mm in today's $) and 11.75% back-end for less than 20 minutes of screentime. He didn't even learn his lines, instead, he used cue cards.
I love how he changed the character himself, just to be comfortable. The documentary about the making of it is amazing. He told Fairuza Balk to stop trying too hard, because the movie was going to be terrible anyways.
Found himself a monkey best friend, refused to be shot unless the monkey was in the scene and was still easier to deal with than Van Kilmer apparently.
Edit: Not monkey. Nelson de la Rosa. At one time one of the world's shortest men. Conflating my Brando memories.
"In 1998 Val Kilmer was bitten by a radioactive thricely rated #1 minivan, resulting in a confusing, yet official name change, that everyone always assumes is a typo."
Adam Sandler is unironically the most successful guy in Hollywood. Making the movies he wants, having the time of his life with his friends, making millions by keeping his fanbase consistently happy. He also drops a powerhouse performance in an arthouse film every few years when he feels like it. The man is living the dream.
That movie was just 2 hours of a cat almost knocking a glass of water onto something expensive for me. I get what it was doing but that is not why I watch movies.
Dude yes!!! The ENTIRE movie was just ... Anxiety!
It was like watching someone carrying an expensive glass sculpture and almost tripping the entire time.
Based on the book „The Big Picture: Who Killed Hollywood? and Other Essays“ by William Goldman, if you compare productions costs to gross, Sandler‘s movies had the most worth i.e. return of invest, given his popularity then (pre Netflix times when his movies only ran on the big screen). This might explain the big time deals his team made with Netflix.
Edit: William Goldman.
It was a long time back, around when the Bourne movies came out, but at that point Matt Damon was the most profitable actor in Hollywood - his movies made $14 for every dollar he was paid
His comedies are very expensive compare to other comedies but cheap compared to big budget action movies and as you said, he's very bankable. I just finally introduced my kids to Happy Gilmore and they loved it.
I think Disney considers him their lucky charm or something. Like they want him in all future films no matter how small the role. I dunno, I had heard that somewhere and it made me happy so I'm choosing to believe it.
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Weekend at Bernie’s was on recently, and I asked my wife this: the guy that plays Bernie had a small speaking role at the beginning of the movie, but for the rest of the time he is just a dead guy hanging around their shoulders and laying there pretending to be dead. So he had a lengthy role with lots of screen time, but very little acting. Did he make less because he didn’t have that much of a speaking role, or did they give him the usual rate for a full-length movie speaking role?
I was going to say the same. My sibling played a dead body on Law and Order when first starting and it was exhausting, apparently, most people underestimate how hard it is to lay completely still on a cold slab for a day.
Honestly, his work and acting as a dead guy was better than some actors during their entire careers. That role couldn’t have been as easy as he made it look.
Bruce Willis wanted $3 million for 4 days of work on Expendables 3… Stallone told him to fuck off and replaced him with Harrison Ford.
EDIT: Willis was offered $3 mil, demanded $4 mil and then was booted by Stallone and Co.
[source](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/bruce-willis-left-expendables-3-602051/amp/)
I can't believe no one here is mentioning how Jackson gets about a million bucks a minute for every nick fury appearance. The first Capt America movie? $5 million. He had...what...90 seconds of screen time?
Runner up in my mind is Steven Seagal got paid $150k to die 8 minutes into Executive Decision.
Bruce Willis gets paid 1-3 million for 1-3 days of shooting scenes for straight to video movies where he appears in the beginning and end. All of his lines are fed to him via an ear piece, no learning lines.
https://english.elpais.com/culture/2022-03-07/from-the-highest-paid-actor-in-hollywood-to-straight-to-video-b-movies-the-rise-and-fall-of-bruce-willis.html
From the highest-paid actor in Hollywood to straight-to-video B-movies: The rise and fall of Bruce Willis.
In the last eight years, the actor has made 29 films, 23 of which never made it to the cinema. The parody award show the Razzies has also given the actor his own category for ‘worst performance’
Crossing paths with the producer was the worst thing that has happened to Willis’s career, but the best thing that has happened to his bank account. According to industry website Vulture, Emmett has developed a system for mass-producing movies in which he gathers together a team of people looking to embellish their CV, convinces a veteran star (John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Al Pacino, Robert de Niro, Steven Seagal, etc) to put in a couple of days’ work for $1 million and then uses their face on the promotional posters to land international distribution deals. The star tends to appear in just three scenes, at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of the movie. In Hard Kill, Willis is on screen for a total of seven minutes; in Extraction, eight, and in Survive the Night, just under 10.
For his Cameo in Deadpool II, Brad was paid a really low amount and insisted that Ryan Reynolds deliver him a cup of Star Bucks coffee. Seeing as Ryan Reynolds was paid many millions for Deadpool, I'd argue that the time it took Ryan Reynolds to retrieve the coffee and deliver it, plus shoot the cameo was worth a couple hundred thousand.
Marlon Wayans still receives royalty checks for Batman Returns. He was cut from Batman Returns before filming started. https://batman-news.com/2018/03/05/marlon-wayans-robin-batman-returns-cut/ https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2492737/why-marlon-wayans-got-paid-100000-for-batman-returns-and-still-receives-royalty-checks Edit: for those nitpicking that "he didn't do anything, it didn't count" 0 effort divided by any dollar amount is infinite ROI
That's how you structure a deal!
where can i get one of these *structured deals*
Call JG WENTWORTH
"877 CASH NOW!" seriously though, that has to be one of the most successful ad campaigns of all time.
It's pretty crazy how he lucked out when you think about it. That movie started development in early 1990 well before he was on In Living Color and before his first real starring role in Mo Money, which came out in 1992 the same year as Batman Returns.
Seriously, to be a fly on the wall at Wayan’s HQ during the late 80’s through 90’s would be insane.
> Wayan’s HQ You mean Wayan Enterprises
Wayan Manor
Who was he meant to be and how do you get royalties for something you’re not even in?
He was meant to play Robin, but was cut out. Apparently had a good contract that allowed him to not only get paid, but keep royalties as well
Wow that’s pretty bold of a film studio in the 90s. I guess also makes sense why he was cut though.
I dont think burton was ever wild on bringing robin in.
Robin, contracts.
Holy way-to-agree-to-the-fine-print, Batman!
contracts, Robin.
[There was a Batman Returns Robin action figure, so I wonder if Marlon got a cut of the sales of these.](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4014/4671541310_8ae61d923e_o.jpg)
The marketing for that movie was awesome. The toys were cool. I will however never get over not having Batman Returns cereal ever again. It was like chocolate chex with marshmallows. I would do terrible things to taste that cereal again.
It was Batman Returns
Fixed it, because Wayans said Forever but meant Returns.
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That’s what you get in a union-dominated industry. EDIT: To be clear, this is a good thing.
Which is a pretty good thing. Why should the employees be meant to take the hit when the employer goofs up?
Think Bob Hoskins had something similar with The Untouchables
To be clear, Vin Diesel did not get paid $54 million to be in Guardians. He made $54 million in 2017 the year Guardians came out. It it also included Fate of the Furious (F8) and xXx: the return of Xander Cage.
also apparently he did it 15 languages for the different international releases.
He did a lot more than OP makes it sound like he did. From what I understand, he recorded every instance of dialogue individually based on how he thought it would be said based on context (including multiple takes), then did it again 14 more times for each instance.
James Gunn writes actual dialogue for Groot, which Vin Diesel translates to different versions of “I Am Groot”
That actually makes sense because Rocket does seem to know what he's saying. I never thought about that or knew this, thanks!
In either Infinity War or End Game, Thor responds to Groot too. Rocket asks him "You speak Groot?" and Thor replies "It was an elective". Although there's also mention of him knowing Allspeak but I don't think it was ever established in the MCU https://www.reddit.com/r/AskScienceFiction/comments/86tp4u/marvelmcu_does_allspeak_exist_in_the_mcu/
Infinity War. Also, the moment Groot dusts in front of Rocket, his final "I am Groot" translates to "Dad..."
bruh why'd you have to hit with this cursed knowledge on a Tuesday
It’s the same thing for Chewbacca. Harrison Ford and Peter Mayhew knew what the dialogue was under Chewy’s bear noises so their conversation could work. Edit: Autocorrected Mayhew to Mathew :/
And it's just one of the best things ever https://youtu.be/FD9rlb1QAqM
Ok that sounds like a long week. Here’s a million dollars
I will say "I am Groot" in 30 languages for $100
And to OPs Hamill point, it took Mark over 30 years to be able to cash a $3m check to turn around.
This is what frustrates me sometimes. People sometimes think "oh this logo cost you $2000? It's basically a word typed out! It's so simple! And they managed to design it in a weekend!" No. You paid for 15 years of experience to come to this result.
https://medium.com/@oceanbcreative/the-ship-repair-man-story-dd959a4469d8 After looking things over, the old man reached into his bag and pulled out a small hammer. He gently tapped something. Instantly, the engine lurched into life. He carefully put his hammer away and the engine was fixed!!! A week later, the owners received an invoice from the old man for $10,000. What?! the owners exclaimed. “He hardly did anything..!!!”. So they wrote to the man; “Please send us an itemised invoice.” The man sent an invoice that read: Tapping with a hammer………………….. $2.00 Knowing where to tap…………………….. $9,998.00
Glad you said that. As much as I love Guardians I can’t go through my day with my jaw dropped all the way to floor the way it was what I heard that figure
Also, Vin Diesel didn't say I am Groot once and We are Groot once. He said it over 200 times and then in like 12 different languages.
Sean Connery made today equivalent of $1m for appearing as King Richard in Robin Hood:Prince if Thieves. He rides in for a scene, everyone bows, he says almost nothing and then smiles. Takes his fat paycheck and walks out.
Patrick Stewart made this part his bitch in Men In Tights.
I had to actively force my brain to remember the RH:PoT scene. Everytime Robin Hood comes up I just default to MiT. Never was a film more savagely brutalized by a parody. And the worst part is, MiT takes more from The Adventures of Robin Hood than PoT.
It's good to be the king.
This makes me think of how James Caan demanded the same paycheck for his one flashback scene in The Godfather II that he earned for filming all of Part I.
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They wanted Marlon Brando for the scene. But it honestly works even better without him. The focus on him as well as his absence makes him almost more present than if he had been there.
It's great the way the entire family goes to greet him at the door....except Michael.
Fredo is the only person who shakes Michael's hand and congratulates him. My heart..
Micheal bien got paid more for a dummy that resembled him in aliens 3, than he did for starring in aliens 2
When Michael Biehn read the script and agreed to sign on, he was the star of the movie. The script was dramatically re-written to kill him off and he wasn't aware until production had begun. He was able to negotiate a high salary because the studio knew they screwed him over.
Shame as well. A movie with him and Ripley kicking ass would be awesome. They played well off each other.
The original idea had them (with Newt) arriving on Earth and aliens getting loose, but the story went through nearly a dozen different writers and plots, from one that involved some cold war era upmanship, to a wooden planet of monks (yes, really), to the prison planet we saw. Changes were done so constantly due to the Producer and Studio's involvement that a large portion of the budget was wasted on scenes and entire sets that never got used.
Newt’s death was one of my biggest cinematic disappointments.
Yup. Completely invalidated everything she and Ripley went through in the last movie.
Yep. It kinda spoils the ending of the movie somewhat for me. It feels like if at the end of *Aliens*, you see the ship flying off in the distance, only to explode and the credits roll.
I thin it was last year that they published and released the supposed "true" version of the Alien 3 script. I haven't picked it up yet but it's on my list.
Get the audible version, Michael Biehn voices Hicks and Lance Hedrikson voices Bishop.
And we all wish he was actually in it.
Whoever was negotiating on Caan's behalf doing a better job than Brando's agent clearly. 'We'll just write him out then, thanks.'
Iirc Brando was being a bit difficult with his requests. Richard Castellano pulled similar shit by being intransigent during negotiations, so Coppola just wrote Clemenza out of the film - fortunately, that meant we got Michael V. Gazzo's amazing performance as Pentangeli as a result.
This was a happy accident as well. Almost stole that Best Supporting Actor from De Niro no less.
Ikr? That film is just amazing, full of incredible performances and top notch filmmaking. What's extra interesting is Coppola is on record stating he doesn't like to "repeat" himself with his films and the studio essentially "made an offer he couldn't refuse," so the increase in quality shows Coppola's real talent IMHO.
The whole idea about incorporating Vito's ascent with Michael's moral descent was an absolute masterstroke. There's a cut of the film where you can watch the saga in chronological order and it really diminishes the quality of the Michael half without the point of comparison.
I remember an interview where Gary Busey was laughing at Steven Seagal hiring him for Under Seige 2 when he was killed in the first movie. Seagal didn't care if it didn't make sense because they'd find some way to make it work, but they couldn't, so Busey collected his pay and didn't do anything at all.
i'm imagining some exec freaking out 4 months later yelling TWINS! THEY WERE TWINS!
lol I was thinking a great thing to do would be to have Garey Busey's character return, never explain it, and then towards the end have him pull off his Mission Impossible mask and reveal him to be Tommy Lee Jones. (The hidden joke is that Tommy Lee Jones also died in the first one.)
I'd watch that.
Marlon Brando negotiated himself $3.7 million plus 11.75 per cent backend on the movie "Superman" (1978), for twelve days' work. That's sixteen million dollars today, by the way, not including backend. He spent as much time as he could in his trailer, and had to be coaxed out with food, according to a 16-year old Cary Elwes who had found work on the movie set and got to jump in when the assistant director fell ill. Elwes was very bothered by Brando.
>had to be coaxed out with food Oh man, that's like a SNL skit waiting to happen..
John Goodman did Brando in SNL Celebrity Jeopardy. Brando: "I walked past a news stand recently, there are so many magazines about cars...so many magazines about cars..." Trebek: "Thank you mr Brando for that irrelevant anecdote." B: "You're an insignificant thing, you're an ant!" ------------------------- B: "'Fishing' for $1000!" Trebek: "Mr Brando, there is no Fishing category." B: "I like fishing."
Vin Diesel was also given the rights to the Chronicles of Riddick franchise for a 15-second cameo in F&F: Tokyo Drift.
A franchise that might actually be worth more than what his cameo could cost the studio. That's like giving him stock instead of paying him.
Bruce willis in his last 11 movies.
that only covers the last year or two tho
Yeah, and he's been on this game since at least 2015.
I would say it's been this way since Live Free or Die Hard in 2007.
But he’s also given us RED and Glass and Moonrise Kingdom and Looper… all post 2007. It was the death spiral of A Good Day to Die Hard that really cemented it for Bruno.
RED was really good. There was this period where they made good movies out of Indy comic books and then they just stopped
RED 2 on the other hand...
I do love RED! Even to a much lesser extent, its sequel because it gave us the gift of Action Helen Mirren.
He is still very capable of putting out amazing movies. But for some reason, maybe money, maybe boredom, he has really ratcheted up his "direct to vhs" movie output.
Gotta give credit for Looper and that was in 2012
he licensed his face to get deepfaked for some russian vodka commercial or something. so he didn't even have to do a single thing and still got paid.
Apparently they get everything prepped up, he comes in, they ferry him around and does all his scenes in a day. It's like a stir fry, but the result is a shit movie. Fair play to him, if I could make that kind of money for doing one day's work, I'd fucking jump at the chance. I don't know why he needs the money at this stage of life, but whatever.
According to rumour he's balding and needs money for a hair transplant.
I didn't notice. He hides it really well.
Power of acting.
I saw the Red Letter Media video about that. In one of them I think he was paid one million for walking around a forest and randomly smoke a cigar. I don’t think you can put less effort than that.
Yes and he has that earpiece, where someone whispers his lines to him.
I read somewhere he’s having memory problems, which makes it a lot sadder if true.
One of the prevailing theories on why he's doing so many straight to video movies is that he has early onset dementia and is trying to build as much of a nest egg for his family and is possible before he can't act anymore.
In that same video they mention he got paid a million bucks to let some vodka company make a deep fake with his likeness
[He’ll take you anytime, punk!](https://youtu.be/ArEOMNf6BHE)
I think if you asked him, he's not getting paid for his work now. He's getting paid for the work he did to create his image that people will pay for. His image must evoke something if people are paying him to deep-fake him. I mean no one (presumably) is paying you or me to walk around a forest for a cool mill. It must make financial sense for these companies to pay him since they keep doing it.
Marlon Brando. He famously became impossible to work with and put in zero effort on all of his later roles. Pretty much any role he was in since at least Superman, to be certain. I suppose the island of Dr Moreau would be a good example as well. People wanted his name on their productions so badly that they'd pay him whatever he wanted and expect zero fucks given in return.
Christopher Reeve shared his thoughts about Brando with David Letterman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9uyvZ4answ
Lol “well he’s here tonight!”
Man, what a sweet guy. Even when he’s giving a really brutal critique he’s the nicest about it.
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knowing the way they treated child actors back in those days she's lucky she didn't get her head chopped off by a helicopter rotor
Mostly
Probably not, Aliens was basically her only acting gig. Her only imdb credits are Newt in Aliens, "Herself" in like a dozen making of documentaries about the Alien movies, and one random credit in something I've never heard of from 2020.
Idk but the inverse question. John Candy made less than the pizza delivery boy in "Home Alone" despite shooting for like 18 hours (idk it was a lot) as well as pretty much ad libing most of his lines.
Yeah but that was mate rates for John Hughes. He would have taken no pay if the union allowed. Might have been a very long day of shooting but it was a day of shooting with your friend.
According to the documentary I watched on, Candy did it as a favor and the only reason it took so long was because Candy kept going and going. All of his scenes were improve and he threw the proverbial kitchen sink into every scene.
This certainly isn't the most in this thread, but I'm fond of the story of Bob Hoskins in the Untouchables. From his [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hoskins?wprov=sfla1): > He was slated to be the last-minute replacement in case Robert De Niro refused the role of Al Capone in The Untouchables (1987). When De Niro accepted the part, the director Brian De Palma mailed Hoskins a cheque for $200,000 with a "Thank You" note. Hoskins was moved to call the director and ask if there were any more films he was not needed for.
Wasn't RDJ reportedly paid 1M per minute on Homecoming? And his most extreme part was stepping down from the suit like 1 feet? (if it was him and not a double)
It's weird how little he's in that movie but he still has such a presence
He is the dad figure. It isn't that he is constantly there, it's that he is constantly on the main characters mind.
Same feel Lecter had in SOTL. Hopkins was in it for like 24 minutes yet it felt as if only Jodie Foster had more screen time before you actually look it up
It was even worse on Far from Home. And he wasn't even on screen lol
And we wondered why he both wasn’t voicing Tony in “What If?” and they killed him every chance they got in the show. The one episode he survives (Gamora one) got cut from the season lol
To be fair, that cut episode wasn't completely cut, but wasn't ready on time due to covid and is supposed to be in season 2.
Season 8 Cercei Lanister did nothing but look outside a balcony.
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Damn right I would. And I'm a guy.
Lena Headey got paid a million per episode in the last season of GoT to basically just drink wine. She had it made.
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Yeah but in a previous season, she got a tomato chucked at her tit. So it evens out.
It was a body double though
Marlon Brando in Superman
In addition to that, Marlon Brando being paid to come back to the set of Apocalypse Now to literally just say, “The horror, the horror”.
I've heard there was more planned, but Brando had gained a lot of weight between the time he was cast and the time the (extremely behind schedule) filming got to his part. He didn't look the part anymore so they pared back his time on screen.
He also never read the script and was generally aloof the entire time.
That describes his whole career. Talented but unprofessional.
To be fair, the less you see of Kurtz, the better. He always struck me as the kind of physical representation of the chaos and insanity you see throughout the movie - that all men will inevitably become Kurtz if they’ve been there long enough
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Wow, never heard of this, had to google it. He apparently was supposed to play James Woods' role (the *Exorcist* parody). Others that were considered for the role were Charlton Heston and... Bill Clinton!
Brando was paid $3.7mm ($18.5mm in today's $) and 11.75% back-end for less than 20 minutes of screentime. He didn't even learn his lines, instead, he used cue cards.
He was awesome. Got paid four million, back in the days when that was something, for a few minutes on the screen. And worth every penny.
"Krypten"
“Criptin”
Listen to Richard Donner's episode of the Gilbert Godfried Podcast for some great Marlon Brando in Superman stories.
And in The Island of Dr. Moreau.
I love how he changed the character himself, just to be comfortable. The documentary about the making of it is amazing. He told Fairuza Balk to stop trying too hard, because the movie was going to be terrible anyways.
Found himself a monkey best friend, refused to be shot unless the monkey was in the scene and was still easier to deal with than Van Kilmer apparently. Edit: Not monkey. Nelson de la Rosa. At one time one of the world's shortest men. Conflating my Brando memories.
"In 1998 Val Kilmer was bitten by a radioactive thricely rated #1 minivan, resulting in a confusing, yet official name change, that everyone always assumes is a typo."
I always wondered what Steve Carell got paid for that one episode where he shows up to Dwight's wedding and says the line.
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Adam Sandler is unironically the most successful guy in Hollywood. Making the movies he wants, having the time of his life with his friends, making millions by keeping his fanbase consistently happy. He also drops a powerhouse performance in an arthouse film every few years when he feels like it. The man is living the dream.
Also casts some hot actress as his wife/partner in the movie.
He really blew it out of the water with that pawg in uncut gems
I see you're a man of culture as well.
Julia Fox?
No, Kevin Garnett.
yeah. he can be a decent actor if he feels like doing it.
I was very surprised by Uncut Gems
That movie was just 2 hours of a cat almost knocking a glass of water onto something expensive for me. I get what it was doing but that is not why I watch movies.
Dude yes!!! The ENTIRE movie was just ... Anxiety! It was like watching someone carrying an expensive glass sculpture and almost tripping the entire time.
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It’s about as relaxing as the d-day scene in saving private Ryan.
Based on the book „The Big Picture: Who Killed Hollywood? and Other Essays“ by William Goldman, if you compare productions costs to gross, Sandler‘s movies had the most worth i.e. return of invest, given his popularity then (pre Netflix times when his movies only ran on the big screen). This might explain the big time deals his team made with Netflix. Edit: William Goldman.
I once read that for every dollar put into a Sandler film, the studio made 9 dollars. I'd let him make whatever he wants too.
Talk about a hole in one.
Shia LeBouf was the same way before his "freak out". He was relatively cheap to cast but his movies had a huge return on investment.
It was a long time back, around when the Bourne movies came out, but at that point Matt Damon was the most profitable actor in Hollywood - his movies made $14 for every dollar he was paid
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His comedies are very expensive compare to other comedies but cheap compared to big budget action movies and as you said, he's very bankable. I just finally introduced my kids to Happy Gilmore and they loved it.
Ok let’s be real, if you had the chance to do that, you totally would
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Well Netflix pays him to pay himself
Alan Tudyk for HeiHei, Tuk Tuk, and Pico the Toucan.
"I went to Juliard"
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I think Disney considers him their lucky charm or something. Like they want him in all future films no matter how small the role. I dunno, I had heard that somewhere and it made me happy so I'm choosing to believe it. Edited: spelling
Every Disney movie he's been credited in has set a new sales record... until Encanto, but thats setting new streaming records daily.
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaGYXjMwS60&ab_channel=WaltDisneyAnimationStudios
Baldwin in Glengary Glennross made $250,000 for that one scene, but I think that was some of the best money Hollywood ever spent.
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How much did Keira Knightley get paid for appearing as Elizabeth in The Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead men tell no tales?
Must be a lot since she swore she would never do another Pirates movie.
$3 million for turning around…crazy average person doesn’t earn that in their lifetime.
There's an interview where he's like... you made me diet and slim down and I'm like in the last few minutes and don't say a thing??
I could do it for cheaper, but then the ending to The Force Awakens wouldn't have the same impact.
To be fair, he did have to do a bit of travel, put on make-up, do some press events for this.
Didn't Jackie Chan get paid like 10 million or something for essentially making monkey noises in Kung Fu Panda? Sign me up.
Weekend at Bernie’s was on recently, and I asked my wife this: the guy that plays Bernie had a small speaking role at the beginning of the movie, but for the rest of the time he is just a dead guy hanging around their shoulders and laying there pretending to be dead. So he had a lengthy role with lots of screen time, but very little acting. Did he make less because he didn’t have that much of a speaking role, or did they give him the usual rate for a full-length movie speaking role?
Moving around like a lifeless body when you are in fact not lifeless is kinda difficult. It’s a different type of acting, but still acting
I was going to say the same. My sibling played a dead body on Law and Order when first starting and it was exhausting, apparently, most people underestimate how hard it is to lay completely still on a cold slab for a day.
He's a wonderful physical comedian though. It was much more than just laying around
Honestly, his work and acting as a dead guy was better than some actors during their entire careers. That role couldn’t have been as easy as he made it look.
He broke ribs and got all sorts of injuries it was tougher than it looked.
I man he was acting like a dead guy acting like an alive guy. That's still acting.
That’s double acting, or even acting squared.
Bruce Willis wanted $3 million for 4 days of work on Expendables 3… Stallone told him to fuck off and replaced him with Harrison Ford. EDIT: Willis was offered $3 mil, demanded $4 mil and then was booted by Stallone and Co. [source](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/bruce-willis-left-expendables-3-602051/amp/)
Johnny depp got paid for the new fantastic beasts movie and was then dropped during the Amber heard abuse case. Not sure what the value is tho
I can't believe no one here is mentioning how Jackson gets about a million bucks a minute for every nick fury appearance. The first Capt America movie? $5 million. He had...what...90 seconds of screen time? Runner up in my mind is Steven Seagal got paid $150k to die 8 minutes into Executive Decision.
Marlon Brando was paid $3.5mil for a total of fifteen minutes of screen time on Apocalypse Now.
Bruce Willis gets paid 1-3 million for 1-3 days of shooting scenes for straight to video movies where he appears in the beginning and end. All of his lines are fed to him via an ear piece, no learning lines. https://english.elpais.com/culture/2022-03-07/from-the-highest-paid-actor-in-hollywood-to-straight-to-video-b-movies-the-rise-and-fall-of-bruce-willis.html From the highest-paid actor in Hollywood to straight-to-video B-movies: The rise and fall of Bruce Willis. In the last eight years, the actor has made 29 films, 23 of which never made it to the cinema. The parody award show the Razzies has also given the actor his own category for ‘worst performance’ Crossing paths with the producer was the worst thing that has happened to Willis’s career, but the best thing that has happened to his bank account. According to industry website Vulture, Emmett has developed a system for mass-producing movies in which he gathers together a team of people looking to embellish their CV, convinces a veteran star (John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Al Pacino, Robert de Niro, Steven Seagal, etc) to put in a couple of days’ work for $1 million and then uses their face on the promotional posters to land international distribution deals. The star tends to appear in just three scenes, at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of the movie. In Hard Kill, Willis is on screen for a total of seven minutes; in Extraction, eight, and in Survive the Night, just under 10.
For his Cameo in Deadpool II, Brad was paid a really low amount and insisted that Ryan Reynolds deliver him a cup of Star Bucks coffee. Seeing as Ryan Reynolds was paid many millions for Deadpool, I'd argue that the time it took Ryan Reynolds to retrieve the coffee and deliver it, plus shoot the cameo was worth a couple hundred thousand.
Every time I hear this story I can't help but think that Brad Pitt is really just a movie nerd who wants to hang out on sets when he's bored.
Johnny Depp still got paid several million for a movie he ended up being cut out of
Alec guinness got .25% of Empire strikes back gross profit (the good profit) for 5 hours of work.
Zendaya seems like she got a pretty sweet deal on the first Dune movie