>The Rock becomes the highest paid actor of all time with a $50 million paycheck for his upcoming movie
How the FRICK does he do it?
>The Rock becomes the highest paid actor of all time with a $50 million paycheck for his upcoming movie
>The Rock becomes the highest paid actor of all time with a $50 million paycheck for his upcoming movie
How the FRICK does he do it?
These Hollywood execs are fricking idiots, Rock couldn't even save Black Adam.
The Rock is ONLY reason Black Adam made money. The rest of the DCEU film thereafter failed.
>The Rock is ONLY reason Black Adam made money.
That movie's budget is listed as 200-250 mil + marketing. 400 mil is not breathing even.
$400m is pathetic even for the Rock. The first Ant Man made $500m.
DC is a tainted brand, I don't blame him
for a fricking christmas movie?
Oh my God this is going to be a disaster lmfao
A fricking kids Christmas comedy?
>Give him 50 MILLION DOLLARS
Remember when movies didn't cost $300 million to make?
Pajeets and associates love him. Gloabalism in action
As always, Americans are delusional and blame others for their own consumption patterns
You're brown
I'm pretty sure this record was previously held by Arnold for T3 (30 mil). I guess the "has the rock finally surpassed arnold" poster memed something into reality.
And unlike Arnold, still not a single memorable movie under his belt.
he knows there is nothing on the backend because 15% of zero profit is zero so he is getting paid on the frontend.
Correct
>"The project is seen as the first of a potential franchise, reimagining holiday mythology. The project will be a joint-venture production between Seven Bucks Productions, Amazon Studios, Amazon Prime Original Films, The Detective Agency, and Chris Morgan Productions."
Gonna bomb so hard
The more people involved the more it guarantees failure. Large committees always produce garbage
It's a Christmas movie on Amazon. As long as it gets people to sign up for prime, they win
>As long as it gets people to sign up for prime
More people are going to drop prime than sign up
At Christmas? Absolutely not
>The project is seen as the first of a potential franchise, reimagining holiday mythology.
We already had Rise of the Guardians and it was mid as frick.
This guy is a heartless who doesn't care about the quality of his movies
moronic people love the Rock and the parents of said moronic people take them to see his movies so they don’t have to look or talk to them for 2 hours
If it's that easy then why studios losing money on box office?
Didn't RDJ negotiate for a cut of the gross in avengers and ended up making over a hundred million?
I doubt it. Look up some of the shady history of Hollywood accounting. Anytime an actor signs a deal like that the studio somehow finds a way to report the film losing money even if it makes a billion dollars.
Why not just Google it morons?
His base salary for Avengers was 10 mill, and then he got an additional 40 million from the films gross revenue (1.5 bill). So basically he negotiated for ~2.7% of the films revenue.
There is no definitive source on how much RDJ made on The Avengers. It’s just a bunch of shitty sites like Insider, Daily Mail and the like guessing and speculating.
Studios like Disney never disclose how much they actually pay their actors in terms of base salary and especially not backend.
They even fib on their yearly earnings reports so they can cut themselves a break on taxes, which is why The Force Awakens is stupidly called the most expensive movie ever made despite that not being even close to the truth
I'm sure he has made over a hundred million over all of the films combined, probably even more like 200 million or 300 million, but probably not that much off of one film.
Avengers 2012 cost somewhere in the neighborhood of 400 million dollars in terms of budget and marketing. Not taking into account the theaters' cut, RDJ would have had to negotiate for 10 percent of the film's profit to make 100 million just off the one movie.
There is zero fricking chance that any actor in this day and age would ever receive that kind of backend. The closest in modern history who enjoyed that kind of backend is Jack Nicholson, who reportedly received anywhere from 6%-15% of Batman 1989's profits. The only reason it wouldn't surprise me that Jack received that much money for Batman 1989 is because that film was produced by Jon Peters, who absolutely would have been stupid enough to give Jack Nicholson that amount of money.
obvious money laundering is obvious
>Black Adam starring The Rock = $393 million box office
>The Flash not starring The Rock = $267 million box office
A $50 million paycheck appears to be justified
He brings in audiences.
Will never beat Arnie
At what, bootlicking?
>the immense confidence placed in Johnson's talent
I guess they somehow forgot about Black Adam
You mean the only reason that movie made any money?
>Red One
>Holiday movie
So he's playing Santa Claus reimagined as marvel/dc type hero?
They can't be fricking serious...$50 million dollars? They are NOT gonna make that back for a movie called "Red One", which is what...a Christmas movie? Holy frick.
It's a streaming movie. They want to put Rock on all of their holiday advertisements
If they wanted a big dumb meathead for a role they should've got Cena. I say this unironically after being shocked at how well he did in fricking Peacemaker. Though I will concede that Rock has his moments (I.e bits of Jungle Cruise for example.) He's most definitely not a 50 million biller.
They are panicking. Everything is collapsing and they need a hit and the Rock and his people tricked another studio into buying into his "system"
these morons will kill streaming services with these overinflated budgets in
imagine having a golden goose and then still going bankrupt because you want to spend 300 mil for every piece of shit
>pay actor 50 million for role
>"wah, why are movie budgets getting so high?"
Normies love Rockslop
Poor Vin Diesel was cucked by him, before he was the strong bald action guy, now The Rock gets all the roles
what does he do with all that money? He could literally walk around giving homeless people money and end the homeless crisis but instead hoards all of that wealth to himself.
i dont think dwayne has that much money lol
maybe bezos or musk could
Hey now remember that time he went to that convenience store he stole from 40 years ago to buy 10 candy bars to show what a great guy he was on social media? The Rock gives back to the community!
he raise eyebrow good
Unthreatening for the kids, dad-hot for the ladies, faux-alpha for the sois, he ticks a lot of boxes for anyone who just doesn’t care
Because this is Hollywood's biggest open secret. I remembered disgraced rapist screenwriter Max Landis talking about this in a video once. He described how Hollywood constantly wastes money. They throw money around like candy and they do so to the detriment of a lot of their productions. They waste money on the stupidest shit possible. Which is why the WGA and SAG are so made they aren't getting that money waste anymore lol
Jesus Christ these fricking morons
1 actor alone and now your film needs to make back approx 110 Million dollars boxoffice. So assuming it's a huge success and has a 100 M opening- which is very questionable - that all goes on Rock before the film even begins making back the rest of its budget. This, after black adam and all his latest mid ass films which show he can't lead a blockbuster to commercial viability?
Dumb. How fricking stupid can you be?
Amazon really are the leading hollywood slop mill, their committees sure know how to machine out forgettable product for inflated budgets.
Our girl Kiki's in this too, btw
AAAAHHH LOOK AT HER HANDS SHES A MUTANT
How the frick can she bend her fingers back to a 90 degree angle?
You can't do that? Really?
Because she's acute!
Bruce Willis held that record for a while with Die Hard, and people mocked them for it because he'd only done romcom tv before it
>five MILLION dollars
wow, color me impressed
50 million dollars, moron
>Dwayne Johnson is a bigger actor than Chris Evans
what in the world
Fake news
1600 people lost their jobs so that Dwayne Johnson could be in what seems to be in a litty action adventure reboot of The Santa Clause
Why is Amazon determined to burn money with everything they do with their film and tv division? It has to be designed to fail for tax write offs or something. No one could continually make so many blunders with so much money at resources at their disposal, otherwise they surely would have accidentally fallen into some surprise hit or success by now.
How when black adam was a flop.
It wasnt
A 20 day reshoot after poor test screenings ballooned the production out to $260 million.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/black-adam-2-not-moving-forward-dwayne-johnson-1235282822/
God knows how much they spent in marketing on top of that. It then made less than $400 million at the box office. They would have lost money at best, hence why they cancelled the sequel.
The Rock’s 50m includes an estimated backend, per Variety:
https://variety.com/2021/film/news/biggest-movie-star-salaries-daniel-craig-dwayne-johnson-1235043305/
The largest paycheck for a single movie is generally believed to be Cruise for Top Gun Maverick, where took more than 100m … that’s upfront, points, and producers fees.
Keanu is well known to have got about 120 -140m for the whole Matrix series, but most of that was to get him for the sequels.
But there’s a lot of surprises:
- Daniel Crag, $100m for 2 knives out movies.
- Sandeler, $250m for his Netflix films.
-Cameron Diaz, 42m, Bad Teacher (one of the first huge points/back end deals)
- Emma Stone 27m, LaLa Land
https://www.businessinsider.com/16-of-the-highest-paid-movie-roles-of-all-time-2018-5#13-leonardo-dicaprio-as-dom-cobb-in-inception-15
Interesting almost all of the big upfront salaries are in the 30-40m range and it’s guys like Decaprio, Denzel, etc
>Cameron Diaz, 42m, Bad Teacher
Didn't cruise get like $100 mil for Maverick?
So did Todd Phillips for Joker apparently. But the difference is that those were backend deals. This is upfront money. Which is insane. Especially since this is a movie and not a series
RDJ was getting 50 mil per Marvel movie
They paid him this amount more than once
Backend deals. This is upfront money. Paying someone 50 million dollars for a movie upfront is insane, especially one not part of an already established series of films
That is crazy, Dwayne must give up his body for sex
He's like the Avatar of actors. Makes ridiculous money while leaving absolutely no cultural footprint.
>cashes in an estimated $95 million for Star Wars
he was a good friend
>Red One
Is this another direct to Netflix movie with a $200m budget?
Yes. It’s based on the mythology of Santa Clause. Seven Bucks Productions is proud to present another amazing film that has the potential to kickstart a cinematic universe to rival any currently filling seats at theaters. We are committed to ensuring the highest quality cinematic content even for smaller screens.
this is how Dwayne Johnson actually talks btw
I hope Netflix starts planning for the sequels and spinoffs already so it can be a bigger bomb
>. It’s based on the mythology of Santa Clause.
A $200 million dollar budget for this?
I like the rock, however, I don't like Dwayne The 'Pebble' Johnson
>How the FRICK does he do it?
he understands inflation
>you want me to star in this film? it's going to take 2 years to complete? I normally ask for $20 million for such a role, but at the way things are currently going, I'll need $50M