Tom Cruise’s salary of 100 million dollars for a movie
The salary of “Tom Cruise” for playing a role in the new movie “Top Gun: Maverick” reaches at least 100 million dollars.
Charso Press: The movie “Top Gun: Maverick”, which has become the best-selling movie of Tom Cruise’s career at the box office with sales of over 1.2 billion dollars, will also bring an astronomical salary for this 60-year-old movie star, and based on According to reports, the total salary of this actor will reach more than 100 million dollars in addition to a percentage of the box office sales as well as the profit from its upcoming release in online display systems.
“Cruise” received an advance payment of 13 million dollars to star in the action film “Top Gun”, but a significant part of the profit is related to his contract, which also includes a percentage of the box office sales.
“Top Gun: Maverick” has sold 1.24 billion dollars at the global box office so far, of which 620 million dollars have come from American theaters, and the audience’s reception of this film continues. This movie is the best-selling movie that has been released so far this year and it is also the ninth best-selling movie in the history of American cinema.
The story of the new episode of “Top Gun”, which was made with a budget of 170 million dollars, is about “Pete Michel” (Tom Cruise), who after 30 years of working as the top pilot of the Navy, is exposed to a new test. The main part of the movie “Top Gun” directed by “Tony Scott” came to the cinema in 1986 and achieved worldwide sales of 350 million dollars.
Tom Cruise’s salary of $100 million is one of the biggest salaries for an actor to appear in a movie, which is equal to Will Smith’s salary of $100 million for “Men in Black 3”. “Daniel Craig” has also received more than 100 million dollars for acting in two parts of the movie “Knife”.
Paying actors such astronomical salaries is rare these days, as superhero movies hold more appeal for many of today’s moviegoers than big-name actors.
Variety reported that “Tom Cruise” has signed such a contract to act in the next two parts of the “Mission Impossible” movie and will earn a small part of his salary in advance and the majority of it from box office sales.