Robert Downey Jr. tops the highest-paid actors list once again.
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Downey Jr’s US$80 million earnings are thanks largely to a lucrative profit-share deal from the US$1.39 billion success of superhero epic Avengers: Age of Ultron.
Following at second place is Chinese superstar and martial arts expert Jackie Chan who at 61, still earned a whopping $50 million during the past year from his stints in Hollywood as well as in China. That’s an increase of $5 million from what he was estimated to have earned past year.
Sandler, 48, whose most up-to-date massive price range movie “Pixels” carried out… He earned big bucks from his movie Dragon Blade as well as from merchandise. Nevertheless, three Bollywood actors have been named within the top ten list of male actors, beating a number of Hollywood heavyweights together with Mark Wahlberg, 44, Johnny Depp, 52 & Leonardo DiCaprio, 40.
Rounding out the top three is Vin Diesel whose stake in the “Fast and Furious” franchise netted him a cool $US47m. Meanwhile, Mission: Impossible star Tom Cruise is at No. 6 with $40 million.
The Wrap gives a list of the other high-paid actors from June 1, 2014 to June 1, 2015.
“Though we have long looked at foreign actors starring in the US films – Irishman Liam Neeson, Brit Daniel Craig and Australian Hugh Jackman have all made the Highest-Paid Actors list previously – we have never examined those working exclusively in worldwide movie industries”.
Amitabh Bachchan and Salman Khan tied at No. 7 with $33.5 million each.
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To work out the list, the publication subtracts management fees and taxes from their measured earnings.
