Overcoming a series of expensive stars: Tom Cruise, Margot Robbie, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Aniston… Adam Sandler becomes the actor who earns the most in 2023.
On March 6 (local time), Forbes magazinejust announced the list of actors with the highest salaries in 2023. The 10 highest-earning stars earned a total of 449 million USD, of which the number of actors was male. overwhelming (8/10).
Adam Sandler surprised everyone by surpassing a series of famous Hollywood names to take the top spot with $73 million in pocket money last year. The 57-year-old star earns this “huge” salary mainly thanks to a lucrative contract with “giant” Netflix. Last year, the actor teamed up with Jennifer Aniston in Murder Mystery 2 , participated in the family film You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah and voiced the main character in the animated work Leo .
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The fact that Adam Sandler became the highest paid actor in 2023 surprised many people, especially when the actor ignored a series of famous names in Hollywood: Tom Cruise, Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie… On X, many viewers The audience was surprised by this ranking. Someone even expressed: “The fact that Adam Sandler earns more money than Tom Cruise leaves me speechless.”
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The next name on the list of actors who earned the most money last year is Margot Robbie. Forbes estimates that the star born in 1990 will earn 59 million USD by 2023. This amount of money is mainly thanks to her participation in producing and starring in the “blockbuster” Barbie (earning more than 1.4 billion USD) as well as appeared in Asteroid City and was one of the producers on the Saltburn project.
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Tom Cruise ranked third on the list just published by Forbes . Hollywood’s top action star earned $45 million last year thanks to starring in the blockbuster Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One as well as streaming revenue of Top Gun: Maverick . Forbes rates the 62-year-old actor as one of the last screen stars to control the “first-dollar gross” deal. This means that the actor is paid a percentage of box office receipts and other revenues starting from the day the film is released, before the studio can even recoup the money.
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Fourth place at the same time belongs to two actors Ryan Gosling (left) and Matt Damon (right) when each star earned 43 million USD. In 2023, Gosling made a fortune by playing the Ken doll in the blockbuster Barbie that resonated globally. Meanwhile, Damon pocketed a similar amount of money thanks to his impressive role in the sports biographical film Air with his close friend Ben Affleck and appeared in the film about the “father of the atomic bomb” – Oppenheimer .
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Jennifer Aniston ranked behind the two colleagues mentioned above with $42 million earned in the past year. The 55-year-old star has a dreamy income mainly thanks to starring alongside Adam Sandler in Murder Mystery 2 and continuing to lead the new season of the hit series The Morning Show while still receiving profits from Friends . In particular, Forbes revealed that this star earns up to 2 million USD for acting and executive producing each episode of The Morning Show .
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Seventh place on this list features two stars Leonardo DiCaprio (left) and Jason Statham (right) with earnings of 41 million USD each. Last year, Hollywood’s most flamboyant actor made a fortune mainly by starring in the movie Killers of the Flower Moon by famous director Martin Scorsese. As for “transporter” Statham, he had a busier year when he appeared in a series of “blockbusters”: Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, Fast X, Meg 2: The Trench and Expend4bles.
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Ranked ninth on the list is Ben Affleck as this powerful star earns about 38 million USD in 2023. Last year, the 51-year-old star teamed up with close friend Matt Damon to produce Air , starring in the mystery thriller film. hide Hypnotic , which runs the film production company Artists Equity as well as has a high-profile advertising deal with Dunkin Donuts. Currently, the male artist is causing controversy with his personal life story with Jennifer Lopez when the documentary The Greatest Love Story Never Told was just released.
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The last name on the list is veteran actor Denzel Washington. Forbes estimates that in 2023, this artist will earn $24 million, mainly thanks to the success of the action movie The Equalizer 3 . The 70-year-old star’s work and acting received many positive reviews from critics. In addition to this new project, many titles from the 1970s also continue to create a steady source of income for the Oscar-winning star.
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