These Are The Highest-Paid Film and Television Roles Of All Time

Bruce Willis, $120 Million

Bruce Willis initially negotiated for his usual $20 million paycheck to film The Six Sense. On top of that, though, he also asked to receive a percentage of the movie's gross revenue and video sales. The 1999 film earned him a whopping extra $100 million. 

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The More You Know

  • Toto was paid $125 per week while filming The Wizard of Oz.
  • The Lion King was originally known as King of the Jungle until someone at Disney finally remembered that lions don’t actually live in jungles.
  • The mask used in Halloween is a modified Star Trek William Shatner mask.
  • Worldwide ticket sales for the Saw franchise put it at just shy of a billion dollars, making it the highest earning horror franchise globally.
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