Hollywood history will remember 2023 as the year of Barbenheimer. Since their releases on the same day in July, Barbie and Oppenheimer have dominated the box office, the awards circuit, and countless essays and op-eds. At the Oscars on Sunday, Oppenheimer is expected to sweep most of the major categories, including Best Actor (Cillian Murphy), Best Supporting Actor (Robert Downey, Jr.), and Best Director (Christopher Nolan), and Best Picture.
But even with those two blockbusters—Barbie grossed $1.4 billion worldwide and Oppenheimer was just shy of $1 billion—there were still plenty of hours left in the year for other entertainment. And if Netflix’s annual engagement report reveals anything, it’s that many people spent an astronomical amount of time watching Adam Sandler movies.
Since signing his first $250 million four-picture deal with the streamer in 2014, the 57-year-old Sandler has starred in eight movies for Netflix and produced several more through his Happy Madison production company. The majority of his back catalog of comedies are now licensed to the platform as well. In the first six months of 2023 alone, Netflix subscribers spent more than 500 million hours watching Sandler’s movies.
Or, as Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos explained when he re-upped the collaboration in 2020, “There’s no such thing as too much Sandler.”
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But even with those two blockbusters—Barbie grossed $1.4 billion worldwide and Oppenheimer was just shy of $1 billion—there were still plenty of hours left in the year for other entertainment. And if Netflix’s annual engagement report reveals anything, it’s that many people spent an astronomical amount of time watching Adam Sandler movies.
Since signing his first $250 million four-picture deal with the streamer in 2014, the 57-year-old Sandler has starred in eight movies for Netflix and produced several more through his Happy Madison production company. The majority of his back catalog of comedies are now licensed to the platform as well. In the first six months of 2023 alone, Netflix subscribers spent more than 500 million hours watching Sandler’s movies.
Or, as Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos explained when he re-upped the collaboration in 2020, “There’s no such thing as too much Sandler.”
Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattcraig/2024/03/06/highest-paid-actors-2023-adam-sandler-margot-robbie/?sh=7e0e963763a0
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00:00 Hollywood history will remember 2023 as the year of Barbenheimer.
00:05 Since their releases on the same day in July, Barbie and Oppenheimer have dominated the box office,
00:10 the awards circuit, and countless essays and op-eds.
00:13 At the Oscars on Sunday, Oppenheimer is expected to sweep most of the major categories,
00:18 including Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Director, and Best Picture.
00:24 Starring in a hit movie remains Hollywood's ultimate golden ticket.
00:28 But even with those two blockbusters, Barbie grossed $1.4 billion worldwide,
00:33 and Oppenheimer was just shy of $1 billion,
00:35 there were plenty of hours left in the year for other entertainment.
00:39 Beyond the hefty salaries, what's truly been earned by this year's highest-paid actors
00:44 is greater power within the industry.
00:46 In an industry where pay can rise or fall based on each performance,
00:50 this list represents a snapshot of who has the most leverage in Hollywood in 2024.
00:55 Here are the top highest-paid actors in 2023.
00:59 #6. Jennifer Aniston
01:03 Friends' residuals ensure that the artist forever known as Rachel Green
01:07 doesn't have to go get one of those job things ever again.
01:10 Yet the 54-year-old actress continues to star in both TV and movies.
01:15 Aniston reportedly makes as much as $2 million for acting and executive producing
01:19 each episode of The Morning Show on Apple TV+,
01:22 and appeared alongside Adam Sandler in Murder Mystery for Netflix,
01:26 all while promoting brands like Uber Eats, Pivlot Fitness, Vital Proteins,
01:30 and her own haircare line, Lola V.
01:33 Tied at #4. Matt Damon and Ryan Gosling
01:37 Many around Hollywood are rooting for Affleck and Damon's upstart artist equity studio to succeed,
01:43 given its promise to help crew members and other below-the-line talent
01:46 share in the movie's profits.
01:48 Its first project, Air, starring Damon and directed by Affleck,
01:52 sold to Amazon before it ever went into production for an estimated $130 million.
01:58 That figure was well above the movie's budget,
02:00 ensuring that there would be plenty of money to go around.
02:03 In addition, the 53-year-old actor took a mere $4 million for his supporting role in Oppenheimer,
02:09 far below his normal rate, in exchange for a small slice of the movie's substantial profits.
02:14 Tying with Damon, he may be just Ken,
02:17 but the supporting role in this year's biggest movie was good enough for an Oscar nomination,
02:21 and one of the biggest paydays of the 43-year-old Gosling's career.
02:26 As an added bonus, his power ballad from the movie, I'm Just Ken,
02:30 has been streamed over 100 million times on Spotify.
02:34 #3. Tom Cruise
02:37 The 61-year-old action star not only defies all conventional wisdom
02:41 when it comes to his outrageous stunt work in his movies,
02:44 but also the evolving norms around how an actor gets paid.
02:47 Cruise is one of the last, if not the very last movie star,
02:50 who can still command a vaunted, first-dollar gross deal,
02:54 meaning he gets paid a percentage of box office and other revenue beginning the day it's released,
02:59 before the studio even recoups its money.
03:02 This year, he cashed in on the latest Mission Impossible movie,
03:05 and continued receiving streaming and on-demand profits for 2022's Top Gun Maverick.
03:11 And studios still definitely want to be in the Tom Cruise business.
03:15 In January, he signed a development deal with Warner Bros. to create new projects.
03:20 #2. Margot Robbie
03:23 The cultural phenomenon that was Barbie took off in July,
03:26 and never really slowed down, grossing $1.45 billion at the worldwide box office,
03:31 and untold millions more in licensing and partnerships.
03:35 As both the producer of the movie and its star,
03:37 Robbie cashed in on an estimated 12.5% of all back-end profits,
03:42 which Forbes estimates were more than $60 million.
03:45 Her now-red-hot production company Lucky Chap
03:48 was also behind last year's much-buzzed-about satire Saltburg,
03:52 and in February, signed a new exclusive first-look deal with Warner Bros.
03:56 #1. Adam Sandler
03:59 In the first three months after Murder Mystery 2 was released on Netflix,
04:03 the streamer reported that it was watched for a total of 173 million hours across the world,
04:08 and ranked in the top 10 in 90 different countries.
04:12 The sequel was part of a very busy year for the Sandman,
04:15 who did more than 40 stand-up comedy tour dates in 2023,
04:19 to go with three Netflix film projects.
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