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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,...
H O C K E Y D I N O (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
There are comedians that I think are not funny. Yet because of certain roles or events, they are forever deemed funny. For example I don't think Eddie Murphy is funny. I think he's a good actor, and I've enjoyed his movies, but I don't find him really funny. His stand up special was pretty funny about 20 years ago, but what have you done for me lately? I do not think Robin Williams is funny. I did...
Political Partying (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
generic1 : “Not since ‘The Birth of a Nation’ has a mainstream movie demeaned the idea of black American life as much as ‘Precious,’ Full of brazenly racist clichés (Precious steals and eats an entire bucket of fried chicken), it is a sociological horror show. Worse than Precious itself was the ordeal of watching it with an audience full of patronizing white folk...
Philosophers' Playground (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
My Fellow Comedists, Good brother Ron asks, "What is the unfunniest day on the calendar? Is it December 7, a day that will live in infamy? Sept. 11? Aug 6 (Hiroshima)? That list seems distinctly American, but I'm having trouble thinking of others. The Jewish calendar has Tisha B'av, a day to remember the destruction of the Temple. Other historical Jewish catastrophes (the Nuremberg Laws, etc.)...
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
This week's Ketchup includes casting news and rumors for Thor, Spider-Man 4, The Hobbit and Guardians of Ga'hoole, new sequels in the Jackass and Underworld franchises and potential new movies for Brad Pitt and Eddie Murphy.
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Just the other day, I tackled the notion of whether A-List actors were becoming an endangered species . Now Forbes is adding to the celebrities woes with a list of Hollywood's 10 Most Overpaid Stars . Their criteria for the list: Look at the 100 biggest stars who have starred in at least 3 flicks opening in more than 500 theaters in the last 5 years, and calculate a return-on-investment by dividing...
The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Funnyman Eddie Murphy has been on the national stage for nearly 30 years now, so it’s understandable that audiences think they know the comedian and actor inside and out. Here are five things you might not know about the man who brought Axel Foley to life: 1. He Knew What He Wanted to Be [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The star of Elf and Anchorman zooms up from No 9 last year in the Forbes annual list on account of the box-office disappointment of this summer's Land of the Lost A year is a long time in Hollywood. This time 12 months ago, Will Ferrell was sitting pretty as one of America's most bankable comic actors, renowned for his pitch-perfect impression of George W Bush. Today there is a new man in the White...
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...
FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
It's a true shame that the once raunchily hilarious comedian Eddie Murphy has turned into a family film garbage machine. I don't have problems with family films, but rather family films that simply suck. So when I heard the news from THR's Risky Biz Blog that Eddie Murphy is attached to produce and potentially star in The Misadventures of Fluffy, a road trip flick through New York featuring talking...
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...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Will Ferrell Ewan McGregor Tom Cruise and Eddie Murphy have been declared among Hollywood's most 'overpaid' stars.
Don't Lose Your Day Job (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Risky Business is reporting that Eddie Murphy is attached to produce and could potentially star in The Misadventures of Fluffy, a new buddy comedy that’s been set up at Paramount. Clark Kent says: After that kiddie movie he did, he should really choose his titles more carefully. VIA CS: Sam Pitman and Adam Cole-Kelly sold the pitch for [...]
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);...
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