Harrison Ford Named Forbes’ Top-Earning Actor
By Natasha Dorsainvil
Even though Harrison Ford has only headlined four movies since 2000, he’s still managed to make it to Forbes’ number one spot as Hollywood’s top earning actor. What shot him up to the top of that crisp, green mountaintop, you might ask? It just so happens that Ford worked out a deal which stipulated that once 2008’s Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull earned back all of its production and advertising costs, all of the overflow profits would be split between himself, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas. So, between June 2008 and June 2009, Mr. Indiana Jones earned $65 million. With paydays like that, it’s safe to say that Ford will keep with his four-film-a-decade pace.
The following four top-earning actors who came it millions short of Ford include Adam Sandler ($55 million), Will Smith (tumbled from Forbes’ 2008 top spot with $45 million), and Eddie Murphy and Nicolas Cage who both earned $40 million.
Via Forbes
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