slashfilm.com - 10/7/2008
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According to The Daily Mail (read: grain of salt), Johnny Depp will be paid £32,000,000 (about $56 million) for the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean 4 . This would make Depp the highest paid actor (up-front) in film history. Tom Hanks supposedly made an estimated $50 million for the Da ...
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Johnny Depp Gets The Loot For Pirates 4
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Johnny Depp Gets The Loot For Pirates 4 It looks like Johnny Depp will be taking home quite the bag of loot for returning as Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean 4 . SlashFilm.com picked up on a report in the London tabloid ...
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... Johnny Depp to become the highest paid actor in Hollywood! According to Slashfilm.com, Pirates of the Caribbean 4 will make Johnny Depp become the new highest paid actor in Hollywood! Beating out Tom Hanks (Angels and Demons) AND Keanu Reeves (The Matrix)! This leaves us to wonder! Since Depp is getting paid so much, what about the other stars of the film - Keira Knightly and Orlando Bloom? Don't expect to see them in the sequel! ...
Is Johnny Depp worth $56 million a movie?
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... should be taken with at least a tablespoon of salt), but if it's true, that would be the highest upfront payment in movie history. (As Slashfilm notes, the highest-paid movie actor ever was Keanu Reeves, who earned a total of $194 million for the two Matrix sequels, though most of that money was his percentage of the profits, not a flat fee upfront.) I'm not sure any actor is worth $56 million. It seems almost criminal to spend that much money before even a single foot of film is shot. (Remember ...
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