Forbes' Top 10 overpaid stars: Will Ferrell, Tom Cruise and more!
From Inside the Box — ferrell-290.jpg Forbes' released another Top 10 list -- this time of the most overpaid stars in Hollywood. Will Ferrell tops the list. We are shocked. In order to qualify for the Top 10 Overpaid Actors list , each actor had to have appeared in three films in the last five years that opened at at least 500 theaters. It comes as no surprise that Will Ferrel tops the list; it's been awhile since he's had a hit. For every $1 Will Ferrell earns, his movies only earn $3.29. The #2 spot is a bit of a surprise -- Ewan McGregor. He's not one of the higher-paid stars on the list, which ...

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Will Ferrell is Hollywood’s most overpaid star, says Forbes
News Briefs — Will Ferrell is Hollywood’s most overpaid star, according to an annual Forbes.com study that examined the average return of investment for each dollar spent on an actor’s salary. Forbes claims that for every dollar Ferrell was paid, the comedian’s films earned $3.29 — the lowest amount among Hollywood’s 100 biggest stars. Most of the blame can be placed on Ferrell’s summer bomb, Land of the Lost , which grossed only $64.8 million worldwide, but had an estimated budget of $100 million. Below is Forbes’ list of top 10 most overpaid stars, with each actor’s average return on ...

Ferrell Reaches Forbes’ Elite
Accidental Sexiness — ... Will Ferrell has officially done it. The hilarious leading man has topped Forbes‘ highest paid Hollywood stars list, overpaid stars that is. Going from comedic genius for his work in Anchorman and Old School, to still rather humorous flicks such as Talladega Nights and Elf, to not so funny films, ie. Land of the Lost and Semi-Pro. ...

Will Ferrell Is Hollywood's Most Overpaid Star According to Forbes
Aceshowbiz.com - Entertainment News — ... . "Although he appeared as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the three new 'Star Wars' films, McGregor is not the kind of actor who earns $15 million paychecks. Unfortunately, his low pay couldn't protect him from landing second on our list, because his recent movies have performed so badly," Forbes writes. And here's the Top 10 Hollywood's Most Overpaid Stars according to Forbes : ...

Will Ferrell: Hollywood's Most Overpaid Actor of 2009
Get The Big Picture — Once again, Forbes has unveiled the list of the most overpaid performers in the movies, and once again, it was a bad year for ...

Will Ferrel and Ewan McGregor Top Forbes List of Most Overpaid Actors
/Film — ... : Forbes has compiled a list of the top ten overpaid stars in Hollywood. Topping the list is Will Ferrel—who has had a string of box office duds lately (Land of the Lost’s failure comes to mind), yet still commands a high salary. According to Forbes, Ferrell’s films earn an average of $3.29 for every dollar he was paid. Compare that to Forbes’ ...

Will Ferrell is most overpaid star: Study
EW.com: Movies — Will Ferrell is Hollywood’s most overpaid star, according to an annual Forbes.com study that examined the average return of investment for each dollar spent on an actor’s salary. Forbes claims that for every dollar Ferrell was paid, the comedian’s films earned $3.29 — the lowest amount among Hollywood’s 100 biggest stars. Most of the blame can be placed on Ferrell’s summer bomb, Land of the Lost , which grossed only $64.8 million worldwide, but had an estimated budget of $100 million. Below is Forbes’ list of the 10 most overpaid stars, with each actor’s average return on ...

Will Ferrell, Ewan McGregor Top List of Most Overpaid Actors
FilmoFilia — ... Will Ferrell and Ewan McGregor on Wednesday headed a Forbes.com list of Hollywood’s most overpaid stars when looking at the financial returns of their movies. ...

Early Buzz: Good docs, Gainsbourg/Beck, overpaid actors and more
Pop Candy: Top Stories & Community Feed — ... hop right on these headlines: - The A.V. Club has its list of the best music of the decade. - I'm always interested to see which documentaries are make the shortlist to win an Academy Award. Tyson and Anvil! The Story of Anvil didn't make the cut. - You'll want to watch Charlotte Gainsbourg 's surreal music video . It features Beck . - I love that John Oliver from The Daily Show is getting his own series . - Forbes names of Hollywood's most overpaid stars . Congratulations, Will Ferrell . - Here's a story about Parks & ...

Morning Shots: Tattoos, Overpaid Stars, Aaron Sorkin, And Whether Sex Sells
NPR Blogs: Monkey See — ... • Forbes declares Will Ferrell to be Hollywood's most overpaid actor, as part of its list of the top ten. Land Of The Lost will really throw off a guy's numbers, though. ...

Will Ferrell Named Hollywood's Most Overpaid Star
TVGuide.com: Breaking News — Will Ferrell can bring the funny, but he hasn't been able to bring in the big bucks, according to Forbes. The actor has topped the magazine's list of Hollywood's most overpaid stars, largely due to his summer disappointment, Land of the Lost. After examining stars' salaries compared with the revenue each film generated over the past five years, Forbes determined Ferrell's films earned an average of ... Read More > Other Links From ...

Will Ferrell Is Overpaid (That Depends On Your Definition) According To Forbes
:: The Playlist :: — ... Forbes magazine has released their annual list of Hollywood's most overpaid stars, and sometimes-funny funnyman Will Ferrell is number one. The rankings are calculated by factoring in the production costs of an actor's movies over the past five years against how much boxoffice, DVD and other revenue they generated in order to come up with an operating income for each film. That number is that stacked up against an actor's salary and there you go. All in all, every $1 spent on a Will Ferrell movie, it will bring in a $3.29 return. Ferrell had a particularly forgettable 2009 ...

Lancelot Link Thursday
Sex In A Submarine — Lancelot Link Thursday! For those of you buy Playboy for the articles, here are some articles about screenwriting and the biz that may be of interest to you. Brought to you by that suave and sophisticated secret agent... Overpaid Hollywood Stars - who is *most* overpaid? Hollywood Reporters Next Generation List - Executives on their way up. Why should you move to Hollywood to pursue your career? And my friend Keith's movie BATTLE FOR TERRA is the #1 video-on-demand ...

The Vampires Are Coming! Lock Up Your Checkbooks
Gawker: defamer — ... • Forbes has done the math on the most-overpaid stars in Hollywood, coming up with a showbiz equivalent of a PE ratio, calculating how much their movies gross for every dollar they are paid. Topping the list: Will Ferrell whose films earn a mere $3.29 for every dollar he has paid. [Forbes] ...

The Vampires Are Coming! Lock Up Your Checkbooks [Trade Roundup]
Gawker — ... ] • Forbes has done the math on the most-overpaid stars in Hollywood, coming up with a showbiz equivalent of a PE ratio, calculating how much their movies gross for every dollar they are paid. Topping the list: Will Ferrell whose films earn a mere $3.29 for every dollar he has paid. [ Forbes ] • The New York Times reports on how early very obscure Oscar buzz for ...

The Vampires Are Coming! Lock Up Your Checkbooks [Trade Roundup]
Gawker — ... • Forbes has done the math on the most-overpaid stars in Hollywood, coming up with a showbiz equivalent of a PE ratio, calculating how much their movies gross for every dollar they are paid. Topping the list: Will Ferrell whose films earn a mere $3.29 for every dollar he has paid. [Forbes] ...

The Vampires Are Coming! Lock Up Your Checkbooks
Gawker Comments — ... ] • Forbes has done the math on the most-overpaid stars in Hollywood, coming up with a showbiz equivalent of a PE ratio, calculating how much their movies gross for every dollar they are paid. Topping the list: Will Ferrell whose films earn a mere $3.29 for every dollar he has paid. [ Forbes ] • The New York Times reports on how early very obscure Oscar buzz for ...

//The Movies// Hollywood’s 10 Most Overpaid Movie Stars
What Eye Thought... — ... The day of the movie star may be coming to a close. Studios arent willing to shell out these super paychecks to Hollywood’s megastars anymore because the movie going public is not going to the movies to see the stars anymore, they are going to see good movies (look at Paranormal Activity, 2 unknowns, 100 milli plus at the box office). So Forbes has put together a list of 10 stars that are overpaid, and unfortunately ya boy the Don Mega made this list too, ouch. ...

Will Ferrell is Hollywood's most overpaid star, says Forbes
Oh No They Didn't! — ... Will Ferrell is Hollywood’s most overpaid star, according to an annual Forbes.com study that examined the average return of investment for each dollar spent on an actor’s salary. Forbes claims that for every dollar Ferrell was paid, the comedian’s films earned $3.29 — the lowest amount among Hollywood’s 100 biggest stars. Most of the blame can be placed on Ferrell’s summer bomb, Land of the Lost, which grossed only $64.8 million worldwide, but had an estimated budget of $100 million. Below is Forbes’ list of the ...

Will Ferrell Is Hollywood's Most Overpaid Actor
Cinema Blend News — ... Frat Pack brought back the R-rated comedy and were the kings of mainstream comedy. Movies like Old School , Anchorman , and Wedding Crashers killed at the box office, and the biggest cog in the machinewas SNL-alum Will Ferrell. Since then, the group kind of petered out, with Judd Apatow's gang taking the reins, and while Ferrell has continued to have big hits (both Step Brothers and Blades of Glory made more than $100 million), his price tag is not worth what it used to be. Forbes has printed a list of Hollywood's most overpaid actors, using a salary to returns ratio, ...

Don't Pay Will Ferrell Too Much To Act
I Watch Stuff - The Best Movie News Ever — By looking at the last three mainstream films big Hollywood actors starred in within the last five years, subtracting the voice-acting parts and applying maths, Forbes has compiled a shaming list of the ten most overpaid stars, and has found that Will Ferrell earns the least back in box office for every dollar he's paid. Would you like to see the full list, and see where Eddie Murphy places since you know he's got to be on there? Oh, good, here it is: 1. Will Ferrell 2. Ewan McGregor 3. Billy Bob Thornton 4. Eddie Murphy 5. Ice Cube 6. Tom Cruise 7. Drew ...

Will Ferrell Tops Forbes' 10 Most Overpaid Stars
mediabistro.com: FishBowlLA — According to Forbes, citing the stinker Land of the Lost, Will Ferrell earned an average $3.29 for every dollar Ferrell was paid. Compare that with Michael Cera who made the magazine's "Hollywood's 10 Best Actors For The Buck" list who earns $102 for each dollar he's paid. The only actress on the list this year is, no surprise Drew Barrymore. And yes, Tom Cruise is number six and Jim Carrey is number ten. Read the ...

Will Ferrell tops Forbes Most Overpaid Stars list
Hollywood Hills — ... Forbes has compiled a list of the 10 Most Overpaid Stars and Will Ferrell comes in at No. 1. Ewan McGregor is a close No. 2. ...

Ferrell Is Not Worth His Cost
The Celebrity Cafe — ... Ferrell Is Not Worth His Cost 19-Nov-2009 Written by: Blakely Slater Will Ferrell tops Forbes’ list of “Hollywood’s Ten Most Overpaid Stars” as of 2009. If Forbes had it their way, Will Ferrell would not be starring in “Land of the Lost.” Instead, he would be sentenced to the land of the lost, the land of the lost actors that is. According to Forbes’ latest celebrity list, Will Ferrell is “Hollywood’s most overpaid star.” Forbes suggests that Ferrell is not a good investment anymore based on the fact that for every dollar he is paid, the movie only earns an average of ...

Will Is Hollywood’s Most Overpaid
JFX Online — ... Forbes has released its annual list of the Hollywood hotshots who give the least bang for a studio’s bucks, and the usual gang of suspects are present—like Tom Cruise, Eddie Murphy and Jim Carrey. Topping the list is funnyman Will Ferrell, largely due to the dismal failure of “Land of the Lost” last summer. ...

Will Ferrel Is Overpaid – Duh!
At The Movies - Film News and Reviews — ... Forbes recently compiled its list of the top ten most overpaid film stars, and it includes some huge names. Some are surprises, some were always odds-on to appear in such a list. ...

Is Robert Downey Jr. sexier than Johnny Depp?
Cele|bitchy — ... . Robert was joined with Christian Bale and Shia LaBeouf as actors who made the studios the most money for the smallest paychecks. Meanwhile, the Most Overpaid Actors list included: Will Ferrell, Ewan McGregor, Billy Bob Thornton, Drew Barrymore, Tom Cruise, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jim Carrey. I think Robert still has a good decade of lead actor work, and then he’ll gracefully transition into solid character work. I actually like him better as a character actor - he gets a chance to be his quirky self, and he doesn’t have to be the straight guy. ...

Turn Me On, Dead Man
Hollywood Elsewhere — Turn Me On, Dead Man Will Ferrell 's track record over the last five years (and particularly the titanic failure of Land of the Lost ) has earned him the title of Hollywood's most overpaid actor , according to an intensive survey announced a day or two ago by ...

Will Ferrell tops most overpaid Hollywood stars list
Film | guardian.co.uk — ... A year is a long time in Hollywood. This time 12 months ago, Will Ferrell was sitting pretty as one of America's most bankable comic actors, renowned for his pitch-perfect impression of George W Bush. Today there is a new man in the White House and Ferrell has just been named as the industry's most overpaid star. ...

Film: Newswire:Will Ferrell, Ewan McGregor top Most Overpaid Stars list
A.V. Club — Forbes Magazine just came out with its annual list of the most overpaid stars in Hollywood, which it generates via a somewhat complicated metric that looks at their last three films and compares their paychecks, the films' budgets, and the money those films brought in via theatrical, TV, and DVD release. The list isn't a snotty, opinion-laden "Why does Keanu Reeves still get paid to make movies?" dig at actors who stink up the screen; it's a cold-blooded return-on-investment comparison that calculates which stars are least profitable to the studios.  Naturally, big ...

NEEDS PHOTO Forbes Ranks Hollywood's Top 10 Overpaid Actors
Luxist — Forbes loves lists, and this is a great one if you love to resent actors' huge paychecks -- the Top 10 Overpaid Actors, that is, actors who cost more than their box office worth. According to MSN, in order to qualify for the list, each actor had to have appeared in three films in the last five years that opened in at least 500 theaters. No. 1 on the list is Will Ferrell. For every $1 Ferrell earns, his movies only earn $3.29. The No. 2 spot is filled by Ewan McGregor. His ratio is $1 to $3.75. Nos. 3, 4, and 5 are Billy Bob Thornton, Eddie Murphy, and ...

Ewan McGregor's Link Saber
Film Experience Blog — ... Finally, you've probably seen Forbes' list of Hollywood's most overpaid stars by now. This isn't something I think about a lot given that my favorites tend to be people whose salaries aren't reported. But I do think lists like this are problematic. They underline obvious truths (no star is foolproof... even when they stick to formula and some people are just lucky / some people are grossly overpaid because they happen to star in franchises that would be hits without them) and often obscure some real truths. ...

Lame 'Electric Slide' Poster Makes Even the Wedding Reception Dance Seem Cool
:: The Playlist :: — ... Bonnie and Clyde , but hopefully with a better ending for all involved. Since they robbed more than 70 banks, expect plenty of montages of heists and spending sprees. Mulligan is rightfully riding high after her sure-to-be-Oscar-nominated role in " An Education ," and we see her doing well here, but not if she liberally employs the pose (and the haircut) from the poster. The art is being used to appeal to potential distributors, but with its cheesiness and McGregor's high ranking on Hollywood's most overpaid list , we wonder if it's worth banking on. It's directed by Tristan ...

Will Ferrell wants to teach us HOW TO GET MARRIED AND STAY SINGLE
gordonandthewhale.com — ... I can’t imagine a situation in which I would not be a Will Ferrell fan, specially after his brilliant rendition of “Freebird” on Conan’s last episode last week, but the comedy star doesn’t seem to be doing as well as he once was. His box office numbers have declined a bit since his ELF days and in November Forbes Magazine named him the most overpaid actor in Hollywood, mostly due to the horrible performance of LAND OF THE LOST, which cost $100 million but earned only $65 million worldwide! ...