Kevin Hart
Kevin Hart, a comedian, actor and producer, is herald’s by Forbes as America’s highest paid stand-up comedian in 2019. As of this writing in 2019, with a good amount mostly coming from his tours and all other projects, he has earned a total of Eighty Seven Million dollars ($87 M). And the year isn’t done yet. He still has one more movie credit to his name in Jumanji: The Next Level, which is set to be released this December 2019 and there are already filming shoots set early 2020. Oh well, it is what they say it is, indeed, laughs don’t come cheap.
Charlie Heaton
Charlie Heaton, a British actor and musician, who takes on the role of Jonathan Byers in the Netflix original supernatural series, The Stranger Things, is taking his equal part of a salary of Two Hundred Fifty Thousand dollars ($250,000) with the rest of the young main cast of the series. Having had quite a string of TV credits after coming out from a year’s tour as drummer for the noise-rock band, Comanechi, his acting career debuted in his 2015 appearance in ITV crime drama series, DCI Banks, as well as appearing in the same station’s detective series, Vera, thereafter. Since then, it has been a line of TV shows before he finally moved on to film. His next big film credit will be the 2020 film based on comic book of the same name, New Mutants, as Samuel “Sam”Guthrie/Cannonball and some other projects that have been long standing.
Cameron Diaz
From the 2011 movie, Bad Teacher where Cameron Diaz played the role of a lazy middle school teacher, Elizabeth Halsey, she was able to score Forty Two Million Dollars ($42m) compared to her original contract of $1 million. This is what people in the industry would refer to as Hollywood’s legendary deals in all its history. Who would think that a comedy role of a lazy teacher returning from her old job she despised so much to save enough money for her breast implant would make so much money? Or should Cameron Diaz get the credit for the box office hit?
Kristen Stewart
Kristen Stewart is an American actress, director and multi-award nominee and awardee, with her total films grossing over $4.3 billion worldwide. She was named as the highest paid actress in the world in 2010 and 2012. She was most popularly known as Bella Swan from the Twilight Saga film series from 2008 to 2012 and after starring in Snow White and the Huntsman in 2012, Stewart avoided big-budget films for independent productions at least for the next few years, where she also excelled and won awards, not that long after she had her directional debut for a short film in 2017 and returned to Hollywood to an action film lead credit in 2019 Charlie’s Angels. And though it has received mixed reviews from critics, the movie grossed at $45.8 million worldwide and paid her a fat check of $7 million.
Margot Robbie
For the upcoming American superhero movie credit for the title role, Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn, also based on the DC Comics of the same name, Margot Robbie is set to earn a Nine Million dollar to Ten Million dollar ($9-10 M).
The film is the 8th movie in the DC Extended Universe and the follow-up spin-off of the 2016 movie, Suicide Squad, where Robbie also starred alongside a big cast ensemble. The latter movie was praised by its humor and Robbie’s character performance and won multiple awards which made it the only DC movie to win an Academy Award. And this spin-off is set to earn some more of those awards as Warner Bros. Pictures have set the release on February 7, 2020.
Ben Affleck
For the 2019 American action-adventure film credit, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter, Ben Affleck, who we now rarely see on screen or on reel, was reported to have cashed in Eight Million dollars ($8 M). The movie which was directed by J.C. Chandor was released by Netflix in select theatres on March 6, 2019 before its worldwide streaming release on March 13, 2019. This Netflix film has an all-star ensemble of lead casts who make a group of former US Army Delta Force soldiers reunited for a heist job of a South American crime lord, After a month since release the movie was released Netflix has report over 63 Million views, for sure it goes by the hundreds of millions views now.
Joaquin Phoenix
For the American psychological thriller film credit title role as Joker, Joaquin Phoenix, actor and producer, has earned Four Million Five Hundred Thousand dollars ($4.5 M). The movie was released on October 4, 2019 and has generally received a positive review on Phoenix’s performance and Todd Phillips’direction, musical score and cinematography. However noted for the film’s dark tone and portrayal of mental illness, and handling of violence, Joker, became a major box office success and grossed over One Billion dollars ($1 B), making it the first R-rated film to pass the billion-dollar mark, also the seventh highest grossing film in 2019 and the 35th of all time. Way to go for Joaquin Phoenix!
Jessica Chastian
Award winning actress, producer, and 2012 Time 100, Jessica Chastain, is reported to have cashed in Four Million Five Hundred Thousand dollars ($4.5 M) for her movie credit in the 2019 American supernatural horror film, It: Chapter 2. The movie is actually the 2017 sequel of It, where she stars as Beverly Marsh, the only girl member of the childhood click, the Losers. The movie premiered in Los Angeles on August 26, 2019 and was released in the theatres on September 6, 2019 in 2D, Dolby Cinema and IMAX. Worldwide, the film grossed over Four Hundred Sixty Nine million ($469 M). Still a good sum for a movie!
Martin Lawrence
Martin Lawrence is a stand-up comedian, actor, producer, talk show host, and writer most known in the 90s. And in an upcoming reprise of an American buddy cop action comedy film, Bad Boys for Life, where he co-stars with Will Smith, he is set to receive a good amount of Six Million dollars ($6 M). The movie is actually a sequel to 1995 Bad Boys and 2003 Bad Boys II and the last of the Bad Boys trilogy. Columbia Pictures has set the movie to be released in the theatres on January 17, 2020. And I have a feeling it’ll all be a good time funny feels early 2020!
Jason Statham
Jason Statham is an English actor and film producer, known for his action-thriller roles which throughout his film career, he regularly performs his own stage combat and stunts. And for the 2019 spin-off movie credit of The Fast and The Furious movie series, for his reprising role as Deckard Shaw, Statham was reported to have made Thirteen Million dollars ($13 M). The spin-off movie is a reported box office success and had gross earnings of Seven Hundred Fifty Eight Million dollars ($758 M). So while Statham’s career as an actor and producer has been criticized for lacking depth and variety, he’s, however being praised for leading action movie resurgences especially in the 2000-2010s, as his 2002-2017 movies generated an estimate of $1.5 billion! Making him one of the movie industry’s most bankable stars.