Dont forget earnings from Juan Sheet

I remember back in high school a guy I knew wanted to study chemical engineering because he thought what Cage did in The Rock looked like fun. Apparently he instead went to Hollywood and got shredded up and is trying to make his way as an actor. He was a smart guy, got 1360 on his old SAT I think. He looked a lot different in H.S. I bet eventually he'll be in a film with Cage.

Valley Girl is the bomb. He was good in Peggy Sue Got Married and also Racing with the Moon.

Now I dont know anything about the contract or if there was one, but I would imagine he is getting shafted for these, he probably could of done a lockout and gotten like 10 mil more easily for the last 4. I mean they average like 800 mil profit per a flim, and I know they probably got some expensive costs, but **** I think Radcliffe should of gotten more.

I guess he was probably arguing for more and more once he realized how much they were making, hence why it always goes up(that and they need him or the series is worthless), so maybe he haggled up pretty well, still think its low.

So how did he end up offing himself?

yeah the 14 mill there is where things get interesting- maybe he signed like a 3 year contract? With all the books sequels were inevitable so maybe they made longer term contract with option for producers to terminate. In other movies they actors renegotiate before the sequel obv.

The rock is most definitely his best movie imo

There are way too few posts itt stating the awesomeness of both National Treasures and Con-Air.



They are very awesome btw.

Adaptation tho

Also speaking of Adaptation and Nicholas Cage, is Adaptation his highest IMDB rating in a leading role? I feel like for any actor to be considered great they should at least be in like 2 8+ movies.

Omg wow. **** all you guys, Cage is amazing.

Leaving Las Vegas was a clutch role for him, also The Weatherman was choice.

It leads to the question, is he the best actor ever or just his generation?

Face/Off is great

Do Bollywood actors count?

Apparently, Akshay Kumar makes 30 crores per movie, which is about $6m. Considering he churned out 46 movies in the last 10 years, I can easily see him surpass Cage.

Cage sucks as an actor, he is basically the same in every movie.

That said, hes done some really good movies. Hes kinda like Keanu or marky mark, he cant act his way out of a box, but he just makes lots of entertaining ****.

I mean yeah he also does a TON of complete crap, but hey, ***** gotta eat yo!

Leaving Las Vegas is hands down the best love story ever made, so I dont care what he does, he gets a lifetime pass on that alone.

Add Ben Stiller to the list above Cage.

Forgot about him. Funny that there's someone who is even worse than Cage making this kind of bank.

marky mark > cage tho

Diablo - I don't really know the particulars of Keanu's Matrix deal, but from what's been widely reported Keanu did actually negotiate for a $15 million salary against 15% of Gross Box Office receipts. I mean of course there can be contractual profit participation carveouts even in a "Gross" definition, but this is very typically referred to as a "Net" participant if there is any kind of carveout. Anyway people do negotiate against pure gross revenues (obviously happens rarely) and it does seem that's what Keanu did.

(But to econo's post: not $15 million + 15% of Gross B.O., but an earn out of $15 million until Gross B.O. % exceeds the $15 million, which of course it did).

Anyway this would put Keanu at $200 mil + from the Matrix movies. (Again a widely reported figure, but who knows.)

What does seem to stand as fact is Keanu gave $75 million of his earnings to the crew of the Matrix movies. So we have to assume he made at least that much from the Matrix movies.

also, imho you guys are forgetting one of the GOAT actors, Denzel Washington. If he isn't a top earner I don't know what this world has come to.

also no way Robert Downey Jr. isn't on the 2011 list. Iron man and sherlock holmes?

Nic Cage is awesome

No way in hell Denzel is a top 10 earner over the last decade.

If you ranked the Best Actor Oscar winners from the last 20 years (by that single performance) NC in Leaving Las Vegas would be near the top. It's a 100% lifetime pass.