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

Jack Nicholson, $50 Million

Jack Nicholson starred as the Joker in the 1989 Batman movie, and he laid an exceptionally creepy foundation for his predecessors Heath Ledger and Jared Leto. Nicholson took a percentage of the film's profits, earning him a $40 million pay increase.

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The More You Know

  • Will Smith wanted to adopt the German Shepherd in I Am Legend.
  • George Clooney had a keg of Guinness installed in his dressing room whilst filming Ocean's Eleven.
  • In the movie 'The Hangover', no effects or prosthetics were created for Stu's missing tooth. Actor Ed Helms never had an adult incisor grow, and his fake incisor was taken out for the parts of filming where Stu's tooth is missing.
  • "Dracula" was filmed in English during the day, and in Spanish at night.
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