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

Will Smith, $20 Million

2015's Suicide Squad made a huge splash in Hollywood. Will Smith starred alongside Jared Leto and Margot Robbie, and his paycheck racked up to $20 million. He's also been in Men in Black, Independence Day, and After Earth.

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The More You Know

  • Lady Gaga taught herself to play the piano at only four years old!
  • In Saving Private Ryan, all of the main cast were given basic military training except Matt Damon, in the hope that the cast would build a resentment towards him necessary for the role.
  • Each frame of the CGI scenes in James Cameron’s, Avatar (1/24 of a second) took an average of 47 hours to render.
  • Executive producer of Toy Story and Chief Pixar shareholder Steve Jobs picked Bob Dylan as his first choice to write and perform the soundtrack to the film over Randy Newman.
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