Becoming a movie star is a tough deal. Even if you are a talented professional actor, you probably have more chances of getting hit by a meteor while walking to your car on a beautiful sunny afternoon than becoming a star. However, for the very very few who make it, the monetary rewards can be substantial, to say the least. Here is a Before-After picture of how much some famous stars made in the first movies and where they ended up a few Oscars later. Julia Roberts $50,000 for Mystic Pizza (1988)
$25 Million for Mona Lisa Smile (2003) Tom Cruise $75,000 for Risky Business (1983)
$70 Million (includes a percentage of gross) for Mission: Impossible (1996)
$75 Million (includes a percentage of gross) for Mission: Impossible II (2000) Denzel Washington $10 Million for Courage Under Fire (1996)
$20 Million for The Manchurian Candidate (2004) Halle Berry $600,000 for Monster's Ball (2001)
$14 Million for Catwoman (2004) Jack Nicholson $12,500 for On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)
$60 Million for Batman (1989)
$10 Million for About Schmidt (2002) Paul Newman $17,000 for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
$1,000,000 + 10% of gross for The Towering Inferno (1974) Dustin Hoffman $17,000 for The Graduate (1967)
$5,800,000 plus a percentage of gross for Rain Man (1988) Elizabeth Taylor $200 a week for There's One Born Every Minute (1942)
$1,000,000 plus 10% of the gross for Cleopatra (1963)
$1,100,000 plus 10% of the gross for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) Sean Connery $100,000 for Dr. No (1962)
$17 Million for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) -------------------------------------------------------- |
