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Pale male fail – Who makes the most in Hollywood

posted by Women & Hollywood
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 6:29pm CST

Vanity Fair has put together a list of Hollywood’s highest film earners and not surprisingly, at the top of the list are all white men. The highest female on the list is Emma Watson who made $30 million for the latest Harry Potter films. ($15 million for each.) I’m glad she’s getting a big pay day for the film, and I’m even happier that both she and Rupert Grint both made the same amount of money.

The other women on the list include:

Cameron Diaz- $27 million

Sarah Jessica Parker – $24 million

Katherine Heigl – $24 million

Reese Witherspoon- $21 million

Angelina Jolie – $21 million

Jennifer Aniston – $20 million

Sandra Bullock – $20 million

Kristen Stewart- $16 million

I find it incredibly depressing that the top earner in the business is Michael Bay who made tons and tons of money off of Transformers, Revenge of the Fallen.

Here’s some other things that I noticed:

Steven Spielberg makes $50 million a year consulting for Universal’s Parks on a contract that was signed 20 years ago. Wow.

Guys make serious bucks as producers. Check out Ben Stiller and JJ Abrams. Hardly any of the women on the list make money other than as actresses.

Tyler Perry makes all his money off his own material (except for one title). No one else on the list does that.

How the hell do Robert DeNiro and Russell Crowe still rate a $20 million fee for their latest flicks Little Fockers and Robin Hood. Wonder how much Blythe Danner (who plays DeNiro’s wife) and Cate Blanchett (Marion) got for their work. I can pretty much guarantee it wasn’t anywhere near that amount. Keep in mind that Crowe’s last film State of Play was a big flop, and I can’t remember that last good DeNiro film.

Hollywood’s Top 40 (Vanity Fair)