Tom Cruise on course to biggest movie payday with 'Top Gun: Maverick'
In the process, he could overtake Bruce Willis’ reported $114 million payday for 1999’s
Sixth Sense.
Not accounting for inflation, it overtook Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, which made $153m in 2007. When global box office revenues are factored in, Maverick took $253m, according to Forbes.
In addition to a base salary of between $12m and $14m, as per
Variety estimates, Cruise will receive 20 per cent of first-dollar gross for
Maverick, in addition to potential revenue from streaming sales, wealth-tracking website Celebrity Net Worth reported.
The film was made on a production budget of $170m. Within the US, it is expected to earn in excess of $300m, becoming Cruise’s biggest earner, after
War of the Worlds’ $234.4m, according to Comscore.
In total, the movies where Cruise is a leading actor have grossed close to $8.5 billion in worldwide revenue, according to estimates by box office aggregator
The Numbers. He has also produced 12 movies, which have reaped $4.8bn globally.
Recently described by
The New York Times as the last great movie star, Cruise’s net worth is estimated at $600m by Celebrity Net Worth.