Most overpaid Hollywood stars/ Forbes

[woodrot]

Top 10 overpaid actors 2012

1 - Eddie Murphy, $2.30 box office takings for every $1 earned

2 - Katherine Heigl, $3.40

3 - Reese Witherspoon, $3.90

4 - Sandra Bullock, $5

5 - Jack Black, $5.20

6 - Nicolas Cage, $6

7 - Adam Sandler, $6.30

8 - Denzel Washington, $6.30

9 - Ben Stiller, $6.50

10 - Sarah Jessica Parker, $7

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/20605312

I cant actually disagree too much with that - I dont think I have seen a decentish Nick Cage Movie since Birdy( decent-ish all things considerd ).I have no idea who Katherine Heigl is...

[woodrot]

actually, I saw Bangkok dangerous on a transatlantic flight last year, maybe it was the quaaludes and the scotch, but it didnt seem to make any kind of sense

[*Bob*]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_s7KAwgiQbZA/S4_dAG-hW3I/AAAAAAAAEDA/01tL2GRo8kQ/s1600/zz6fa2a6db.jpg

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Spooky, *bob*. All three makes him look like Eddie Murphy in the golden boy film. Would that put his ratings up?

[DJKillaQueen]

They won't stay overpaid for long if the movies they do stop making 'hard to fathom' huge profits. The studios are brutal in that respect.

[El Pibe]

Yeah thank god, otherwise we'd have had twenty years of desperately poor Eddie Murphy vehicles.....oh...wait.....

[DJKillaQueen]

There ya go El Pibe

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?id=eddiemurphy.htm

Even the dross makes makes huge amounts...........4 billion dollers for the studios over his career.......

[El Pibe]

Cheers DJKillerQueer

Of course 'over his career' rather undrmines your good-as-your-last-film brutality suggestion.

Plus he's much less annoying in Shrek ;)

And the most interesting thing about that list is how much money Dreamgirls made...staggering!!!

[Jeremy]

Think you might want to fix that first line, EP...

[El Pibe]

I think you're mistaken jeremy

[Jeremy]

Right, with you.

Search function is useful.

[Huguenot]

*giggles* surprised that one took as long as it did.

[DJKillaQueen]

Please edit that first line El Pibe, it's not funny (although I don't think you mean to be genuinely offensive).

All I was trying to illustrate is why Eddie Murphy is so highly paid. Most top stars are on some kind of points system in addition to up front fees that give them a share of the profits. We can debate the value of one actor over another, especially in a 'brand' kind of movie like Shrek. But studios tend to stick with what they think works, and that includes an A list of actors they consider to be bankable. Even the BBC does that. If you are producing a one off drama for them them you have to use a certian quota of actors from their A list.

[Huguenot]

I'm sure now you've stopped using a convenient spelling mistake to call him a c***suck he'll cease and desist ;-)

[DJKillaQueen]

I always thought it was El Pipe....only realised it was El Pibe tonight when I looked properly......it was a genuine mistake all this time.

[Huguenot]

:D I was beginning to wonder!

[DJKillaQueen]

lol it's true. I had no idea my slight misread had a major translation shift.... :D

[Moos]

That's right, cos it's not like he's mentioned it once or twice before.