Adam Sandler’s 4 movie tasks of 2023 propelled him to an annual wage of $73m (£57m), making him the highest-paid performer in Hollywood, in accordance with Forbes journal.
The standup turned actor additionally launched into a comedy tour, which supplemented earnings from starring and producing in Netflix’s Homicide Thriller 2, in addition to his writing, producing and voice work on Leo, the streamer’s standard animation.
Sandler was additionally concerned with little-seen motion comedy The Out-Legal guidelines, and produced and starred – alongside his spouse and daughters – in acclaimed comedy You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah.
The actor final topped the listing in 2002, when he made $47m (£37m) starring within the likes of Mr Deeds and Punch-Drunk Love.
In second place was Margot Robbie, who at 33 can be the youngest actor on the listing by a decade. The large international success of Barbie, which she co-produced, is essentially chargeable for the estimated $59m (£46m) Robbie earned in 2023.
Regardless of the most recent Mission: Unattainable film performing under par on the field workplace, partially on account of being launched a number of weeks earlier than Barbenheimer, earnings from that movie, plus streaming residues from 2022’s High Gun: Maverick, meant Tom Cruise was third on the listing, with $45m (£35m).
Robbie’s Barbie co-star, Ryan Gosling, was joint fourth, alongside Oppenheimer’s Matt Damon; each males earned $43m (£34m). In the meantime, Ben Affleck, Damon’s co-star – and director – on Air, the Nike sports activities movie launched early final 12 months, was ninth, with $38m (£30m).
Sandler’s Homicide Thriller co-star Jennifer Aniston got here in sixth on the listing with $42m (£33m). One in every of solely two girls within the High 10, Aniston has solely starred in two movies prior to now 5 years – Homicide Thriller and its sequel – however her earnings had been presumably a lot supplemented by Associates residuals (Forbes doesn’t embrace cash earned by means of promoting and sponsorship offers).
Killers of the Flower Moon star Leonardo DiCaprio made $41m (£32m), inserting him joint seventh with Jason Statham, the one English actor on the listing.
Statham starred in 4 2023 releases: Quick X, Meg 2: The Trench, Expend4bles and Man Ritchie’s Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre.
In tenth place was Denzel Washington, who made $24m (£19m) and featured within the third Equalizer movie. At 69, he’s the oldest, and the one Black actor on the listing.
Forbes experiences that it calculates its estimates by means of interviews with brokers and trade consultants, in addition to crunching knowledge from the likes of IMDbPro.
The enterprise journal stated its figures characterize taxed earnings for the calendar 12 months 2023, and solely embrace revenue associated to leisure.
In 2022, Tyler Perry topped the Forbes listing, whereas Dwayne Johnson did so for the three earlier consecutive years.
