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As the list was based on number of films on the chart, there may have been some stars who appeared in fewer films listed but with a higher total rental. The list favors films and stars of the later eras as later films generally gross more. John Wayne topped the list. Variety noted that Crosby's last hit prior to 1965 was High Society in 1956 ...
Highest annual earnings. Sylvester Stallone was the highest-paid actor in 1987, 1988, 1990, and 1995. Dwayne Johnson was the highest-paid actor in 2016, 2019, 2020, and 2021. Julia Roberts was the highest-paid actress in 1998, 1999, and 2000. Forbes publishes yearly lists of the highest-paid actors and actresses based on total earnings from 1 ...
April 22 – Billy Price, English actor. May 4 – Nicholas Hamilton, Australian actor. May 7 – Maxwell Perry Cotton, American actor. May 13 – Antonio Cipriano, American actor. May 18 – Addison Holley, Canadian actress. May 23 – Ella Rappich, Swedish actress born in South Africa. May 30 – Jared S. Gilmore, American actor.
Three of the four highest-grossing films, including Avatar at the top, were written and directed by James Cameron.. With a worldwide box-office gross of over $2.9 billion, Avatar is proclaimed to be the "highest-grossing" film, but such claims usually refer to theatrical revenues only and do not take into account home video and television income, which can form a significant portion of a film ...
The list was based on a poll of movie theater owners, who were asked to name who they felt were the previous year's top 10 money-making stars. The Top 10 Poll, which appeared annually in Quigley's Motion Picture Herald and The Motion Picture Almanac, was long regarded as one of the most reliable barometers of a movie star's box-office power, as ...
Inside Out 2 (In theaters) The newest entry on the list, Pixar's Inside Out 2, recently became the highest-grossing animated film of all time. The film follows a group of simple emotions that ...
Mission: Impossible 2. $57,845,297. Mission: Impossible 2 broke Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ' s record ($54.1 million) for the highest weekend debut for a spy film and Mission: Impossible ' s record ($45.4 million) for the highest weekend debut for a film based on a TV show and a Paramount film. It had the highest weekend debut of 2000.
The 2000s saw the resurgence of several genres. Fantasy film franchises dominated the box office with The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean, the Star Wars prequel trilogy (beginning in 1999), The Chronicles of Narnia, etc. Comic book superhero films became a blockbuster subgenre following the releases of X-Men, Unbreakable, and Spider-Man; culminating in the ...