6 facts tagged with hollywood
Sean Connery was offered Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings: $10 million plus 15% of worldwide gross across all three films. He passed because he "never understood it." The trilo…
Warner Bros. offered Jack Nicholson $10 million to play the Joker in Tim Burton's 1989 Batman. His agent dropped the salary to $6 million in exchange for points on the box offi…
Arnold Schwarzenegger took a $0 salary to star in the 1988 comedy Twins. In place of a fee, he negotiated 20% of the gross - not net - alongside Danny DeVito and director I…
In 2008, no studio would insure Robert Downey Jr. for Iron Man because of his post-rehab record, so Marvel wrote him a base salary of $500,000 and a backend cut of the gross. E…
Clooney, his neighbor, and a billionaire built a tequila in a Cabo garage. Diageo paid them up to $1 billion.
Sylvester Stallone was so broke he sold his bull mastiff Butkus outside a 7-Eleven for $40. Days later he sold the Rocky script with himself attached as the lead, then went bac…
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