Inception Motion Picture
Inception Motion Picture – Is it true that Leonardo DiCaprio earned $50 million for Inception? Aren’t stars hurting from the recession at all?
Of course they are! Look at poor, poor Julia Roberts, who made only a reported $10 million to eat all that pizza for Eat Pray Love. Or Kristen Stewart, who supposedly earned a paltry $12.5 million for each part of Breaking Dawn. And oh, one A-lister has reportedly taken a huge pay cut:
And that’s Tom Cruise. The actor reportedly has accepted a scaled-down salary for an upcoming fourth installment of the Mission: Impossible franchise.
So then where does DiCaprio’s obscene haul for Inception fit into all this? It’s more like a fluke, if the facts are to be believed.
Inception has earned about $570 million so far and, per Forbes, is expected by analysts to bank closer to $750 million before it’s all over. DiCaprio has earned more than $50 million of that—so far; the cash is still piling up over at his place—not by a simple, traditional paycheck, but with a much rarer arrangement.
Because the film was considered a risky venture by financiers, DiCaprio agreed to take an up-front pay cut, much like Cruise will do. But unlike Cruise, who will get additional back-end pay once the film breaks even, DiCaprio cut himself a sweet deal called “first-dollar gross.”
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