Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Jackie Chan vs. Iron Man – BBC

Robert Downey Jr. and his Iron Man, Jackie Chan with Ancient Rome and Vin Diesel “Fast and Furious” – Forbes magazine has published data on the earnings of Hollywood actors from June 2014 to June 2015- th.

Forbes Magazine annual list of the richest actors – those who managed to earn more than their counterparts with the help of their craft. They can represent different countries like the Irishman Liam Neeson (sixth in 2014), British or Australian Daniel Craig Hugh Jackman. One thing remained the same: in the rating were to star in Hollywood movies, or even more blockbusters – just so they appear the hope of a fairly high fee.

This year, Forbes decided to View in the rest of the world, and was surprised to find that there are actors and live very well, anyway, in the Indian Bollywood. For example, Akshay Kumar was the ninth ($ 32.5 million), ahead of quite a American Mark Wahlberg ($ 32 million) and Amitabh Bachchan and Salman Khan shared the seventh or eighth place ($ 33.5 million), slightly behind the Tom Cruise ($ 40 million). And in the first five editions of the new system is also a surprise.

1st place: Robert Downey Jr.
$ 80 million

There were no changes: leader of the ranking for the third year Streak gets Robert Downey Jr., longtime Iron Man from Marvel kinokomiks. Over the past year, he appeared in a regular collection of superheroes – the blockbuster “The Avengers: Age of Ultron ‘worldwide revenues which amounted to $ 1.398 billion. This is less than it was at first” Avengers “in 2012, but not much: those earned $ 1.519 billion and three years occupied the third place in the list of highest-grossing films (after “Avatar” and “Titanic»).

2 nd place: Jackie Chan
$ 50 million

Jackie Chan turned afford to compete with Iron Man, although he left behind him as much as $ 30 million. worthy of a Hollywood star salary Chan brought pseudo-blockbuster “Dragon Sword,” in which ancient Chinese warriors rub shoulders with ancient Roman legions defended the independence of their country from claims of the Emperor Tiberius. It where Ancient Rome, and where China – but this film (co-production with Western companies) worth $ 65 million, earned more than $ 100 million at the box office, and the role it played (except Chan) John Cusack and Adrien Brody. Well, Jackie Chan himself, who was one of the producers of the tape, it was possible to earn not only on the acting fee, but also on the sale of various souvenir products and to establish a network of cinemas of the same name in his native country.

3- Place: Vin Diesel
$ 47 million

Vin Diesel last year was not included even in the top ten list of Forbes, but was now in third place just because superuspeshnoy seventh of the police-car thriller “Fast and Furious” who earned at the box office $ 1.511 billion and fought on equal terms with the first “Avengers” and “Jurassic World” for a place in the top three of the most cash. It was assumed that this part will be the last – during the shooting was killed in a car crash Paul Walker (Brian O’Conner played in almost all the films of the franchise), and to complete the picture needed the help of computer technology. But after the release of Vin Diesel has announced that the eighth of all will be, it will be released in April 2017 and it will also appear Steytema heroes Jason and Dwayne Johnson.

4th place: Bradley Cooper
> $ 41.5 million

Cooper managed to climb so high in the rankings due to the “sniper” Clint Eastwood, in which he played the role of the effective US Army shooter Chris Kyle, who fought in Iraq and died after returning to the United States. The film grossed $ 547 million – ten times its budget, and has received several nominations for “Oscar”, including “Best Film” and “Best Actor”. Get possible, however, only one statuette – for the installation of sound, but the financial results were not affected. Revenues Cooper, however, was not only of the fee for “Sniper”: he has voiced in Raccoon least successful Marvel kinokomiks “Guardians of the Galaxy».

5th place: Adam Sandler
$ 41mln

Hit in the top five is not brought Sandler movies, though the comedy with his participation American audiences watching willingly (“Odnoklassniki-2″ in 2013 earned $ 242 million). Over the past year these projects have not been Sandler comedy “Mixed”, however, he was able to recoup their costs ($ 127 million fee at 40 million budget), but the other films did not come out even in wide release. But the actor has managed to conclude quite a lucrative contract with the video service Netflix (continues developing its own content) and will take part in four films. That was enough to earn $ 41 million – and a little bit ahead of Tom Cruise.

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