May 16 2012
Robert Downey Jr. 'Avengers' pay set to hit $50 Million.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Robert Downey Jr is set to earn over $50 million for being in The Avengers while the other actors will 'only' earn between $2 and $6 million.
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Mitholas | May 16, 00:30 CET
IrrationaliTV | May 16, 00:36 CET
Nothing about Joss in the article but i guess it all depends on Joss's contract.
chrisdvanne | May 16, 00:37 CET
janef | May 16, 00:37 CET
But I bet it's closer to $2-3M than $50M. He probably got a modest flat upfront fee + nice bonus if the movie hit certain financial benchmarks. Of course, the movie hit ALL the financial benchmarks. And there is this (joking) comment:
Also, with my percentage of "the Avengers" gross, I can afford to buy... [gets call from agent. Weeps manfully. Resumes typing.] ...a fine meal. But REALLY fine, with truffles and s#!+.
If he returns for the sequel, he can and probably will ask for the moon. i.e. RDJ was supposedly paid only $500,000 upfront for Iron Man. When that movie became a huge hit, he re-negotiated for a much bigger piece of the subsequent pies.
[ edited by dottikin on 2012-05-16 09:40 ]
dottikin | May 16, 00:39 CET
eddy | May 16, 00:46 CET
(And finding out what Joss makes ruins that underdog status we like him to have!).
Jaymii | May 16, 00:56 CET
Mitholas | May 16, 02:19 CET
Andy Dufresne | May 16, 02:28 CET
Jaymii | May 16, 02:43 CET
Mitholas | May 16, 02:46 CET
Spike the Avenger | May 16, 02:51 CET
[ edited by Derf on 2012-05-16 12:36 ]
Derf | May 16, 03:19 CET
Joss alludes to a bonus here
"If you can make 500% margins on “Avengers,” the studio will probably be pretty happy.
[Laughs] I might even get that bonus."
I think he might ;)
bivith | May 16, 04:14 CET
alice | May 16, 04:57 CET
RDJ IS Iron Man, he brings the same draw to this character as he did Chaplin - even more so, and on a much wider scale, and that was absolute brilliance.
Just give Downey Jr. all the monies.
Willowy | May 16, 05:08 CET
Anyway, my point is, without RDJ, could Avengers ever have been a possibility? Sure, it's just really hard to imagine how. And if it takes $50 million to compensate the guy, go for it.
Sigfodr | May 16, 05:15 CET
This. It does kinda feel weird when you think that he has been a multi-millionaire since probably before he even made Buffy.
Kaan | May 16, 05:22 CET
Xane | May 16, 05:50 CET
Still, the rules behind Hollywood payroll tend to bug me. I feel like the actors who carried a comparable amount of screentime and central plot significance should be paid equivalently. I read in an interview that Sam Jackson doesn't even make much money off his films, but he does so many that it's irrelevant.
WhatsAStevedore | May 16, 06:09 CET
Osgiliat | May 16, 06:22 CET
bobw1o | May 16, 06:24 CET
Sigfodr | May 16, 06:27 CET
It does feel like it was written for him, no? I heard he improvised a lot of the dialogue. Not that I don't adore Gwyneth Paltrow, but it was a little obvious that Pepper Potts was written for Rachel McAdams.
WhatsAStevedore | May 16, 06:36 CET
punkinpuss | May 16, 06:57 CET
lbowman | May 16, 07:04 CET
DreamRose311 | May 16, 07:05 CET
I'm certain Hiddles, if he didn't THIS go-round, will make piles and piles any future time he's Loki.
He does what he WANTS!
;)
Willowy | May 16, 07:15 CET
Lol, at my maths fail.
5 points on the gross, then :)
bivith | May 16, 07:27 CET
IrrationaliTV | May 16, 07:55 CET
OneTeV | May 16, 08:43 CET
Now of course I think Joss is worth as much, but really Joss had only ever directed one film ever.... Marvel was really paying him a huge compliment by entrusting this project to him, he couldn't really hope to command the big bucks too!
embers | May 16, 09:04 CET
Pointy | May 16, 11:01 CET
WhatsAStevedore - Pepper was written for Rachel McAdams?! ...I am so glad that didn't happen.
alice said:
alice, if you really mean that RDJ merely plays himself, I'm assuming you don't know his work very well. He's not playing himself in Iron Man/Avengers. If anything, he's sort of playing Tony Stark in real life. And both of those performances are brilliant.
prettymaryk | May 16, 16:01 CET
m'cookies actual | May 16, 17:36 CET
snuffles | May 16, 17:59 CET
sumogrip | May 16, 19:30 CET
Annapurna | May 16, 19:42 CET
I wonder if RDJ has a higher salary then Bale on Batman
Spike the Avenger | May 16, 21:58 CET
No one at Marvel agreed to give RDJ $50M in salary upfront to be in Avengers.
IrrationaliTV | May 16, 22:38 CET
alice, if you really mean that RDJ merely plays himself, I'm assuming you don't know his work very well. He's not playing himself in Iron Man/Avengers. If anything, he's sort of playing Tony Stark in real life. And both of those performances are brilliant.
Assume nothing, I know all of RDJ's work and I also know his ego. He was very talented before, during, and after his drug problems. Since his incarceration I have seen the same character in everything he plays. RDJ, plays RDJ is all I am saying. Oh and that I just think it is ridiculous that actors are paid so much for so little screen time. Just saying...
[ edited by alice on 2012-05-17 13:45 ]
[ edited by alice on 2012-05-17 13:47 ]
alice | May 17, 04:42 CET
Spike the Avenger | May 17, 04:59 CET
Simon | May 17, 05:01 CET
Spike the Avenger | May 17, 20:56 CET