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Forbes loves lists, and this is a great one if you love to resent actors' huge paychecks -- the Top 10 Overpaid Actors , that is, actors who cost more than their box office worth. According to MSN , in order to qualify for the list, each actor had to have appeared in three films in the last five years that opened in at least 500 theaters. No. 1 on the list is Will Ferrell. For every $1 Ferrell earns,...
The Celebrity Blog , Celebrity gossip juicy celebrity... (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Hollywood star Will Ferrell has topped a list of luminaries whose returns offer the least value for money. According to Forbes' list, the movie funnyman made just $3.29 (£1.97) for every dollar he was paid after a run of box office disappointments. Ewan McGregor finished second, followed by Billy Bob Thornton, Eddie ...
The Daily Dust (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Trainspotting actor Ewan McGregor has been named one of Hollywood’s most overpaid stars in a list by Forbes.com. The 38 year old Scot earns back less in box office returns for his salary than any other actor except Will Ferrell, the star of this years catastrophic failure Land of the Lost. Films starring McGregor earn on average [...]
Splash News Online (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Well the proof is in the pudding! Will Ferrell tops Forbes list of overpaid actors with movie's taking in roughly $3.29 for every dollar he made. Ewan McGregor was right behind him at $3.75 per dollar followed by Billy Bob Thornton , Eddie Murphy and Ice Cube. Sorry fellas, but we're not surprised. A couple people we didn't expect on the list? Tom Cruise and Leonardo DiCaprio . So, what's a good ratio...
<B>Patrick Joubert Conlon</B> (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Will Ferrell tops our list of actors who cost more than their box office worth : For every dollar Ferrell was paid, his films earned an average $3.29. Compare that to Shia LaBeouf, who topped our list of Best Actors for the Buck in August. For every dollar LaBeouf was paid, his films earned an average $160. ... To create our list, we looked at the 100 biggest stars in Hollywood. To qualify, each actor...
Oh Beautiful girls (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Name : Angelina Jolie Born Name : Angelina Jolie Voight Date of Birth : June 4, 1975 (1975-06-04) (age 33) Place of Birth : Los Angeles, California, United States Occupation : Film actor Years Active : 1982; 1993–present Spouse(s) : Jonny Lee Miller (1996–1999), Billy Bob Thornton (2000–2003) Domestic Partner(s) : Brad Pitt (2005–present) Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie...
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Will Ferrell and Ewan McGregor on Wednesday headed a Forbes.com list of Hollywood’s most overpaid stars when looking at the financial returns of their movies. Ferrell tops the list of stars who cost more than their movies do, taking in one dollar for every $3.29 his films make. According to Forbes, “Land of the Lost” cost [...]
PerezHilton.com (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
If he isn't worth the dollars being put into him, than maybe that means we'll get a break from his juvenile antics in lame flicks. Forbes has just released their list of the most overpaid actors in Hollywood and coming out on top is not-so-funny-anymore Will Ferrell. Forbes calculates this statistic by comparing the return of [...]
Marc Valdez Weblog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
When you live in Las Vegas, New Mexico , you live - where, exactly': My quest to discover how 40 years have altered a movie version of America has stumbled on a pocket of America altered for a movie. Hollywood gets out here a lot. Tom Mix shot some Westerns here. The Communists invaded it in Red Dawn. Billy Bob Thornton's been here a couple of times, once when he directed an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's...
Arts Admin (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Tomorrow in our cultural sector class we will talk about the economics of movies. And I don't understand this story from Forbes ( via Tyler Cowen): Funnyman Will Ferrell and British actor Ewan McGregor on Wednesday headed a Forbes.com list of Hollywood's most overpaid stars when looking at the financial returns of their movies. ... Using a formula that calculated the actor's estimated salary on each...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Comic actor Will Ferrell has the dubious distinction of heading a new Forbes magazine list of Hollywood's most overpaid stars. A top-ten list also includes (in order)...
AAEA Hollywood (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
By Alan Smithee Blacks make up 13% of the national population but evidently 30% of the Hollwood actors with the worst return on investment according to a very stupid and ignorant Forbes list . How about retitling the poll: "More Stupid Ways To Make Blacks Look Bad in Hollywood." Forbes's 10 most overpaid stars (in order) were: Ferrell ($3.29); Ewan McGregor ($3.75); Billy Bob Thornton ($4);...
Pajiba (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Forbes magazine, which fancies itself as one of those highfalutin business periodicals, lowered itself into the Hollywood muck this week (hit whoring) and ran a piece on the most overpaid actors in Hollywood, using a very sophisticated algorithm that involved...
dBTechno (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Boston (DbTechNo) - Actor Will Ferrell has been named by Forbes magazine as the most overpaid movie star. To reach this conclusion, the magazine calculated what a star was paid, and what their movies raked in at the box office as part of their formula. For example, according to Forbes, Ferrell only made $3.29 for every $1 [...]
Frankly My Dear... (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Is Will Ferrell the most overpaid star in Hollywood? Yeah, probably. Eddie Murphy makes that annual Forbes Worst ten list, as do Ice Cube, Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor, Tom Cruise, Drew Barrymore, Billy Bob Thornton (?) and Samuel L. Jackson...
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