7 facts tagged with money
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…
Bobby Bonilla last played for the New York Mets in 1999. The Mets still cut him a $1,193,248.20 check every July 1, and will until 2035, because owner Fred Wilpon deferred…
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…
Jeff Bezos owns one of the tallest residential fences in Beverly Hills. It violates the city's 7-foot height code. Rather than trim it down, he pays roughly $1,000 a month…
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…
Clooney, his neighbor, and a billionaire built a tequila in a Cabo garage. Diageo paid them up to $1 billion.
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