It’s better than nothing.
Posted by turdslinger on November 23rd, 2009 at 11:49 pm
It turns out Will Ferrel is the most overpaid actor by a measure of profit to salary:
Ferrell took first place largely due to the flop of his summer 2009 movie “Land of the Lost”, which Forbes said cost an estimated $100 million to make but earned just $65 million at box offices worldwide for movie studio Universal Pictures.
The movie followed a disappointing $43 million box office for Ferrell’s 2008 outing “Semi-Pro”, and $128 million for “Step Brothers”.
Also,
Eddie Murphy commanded a high salary after the success of family comedies like “The Nutty Professor”. But his most recent films “Meet Dave” and “Imagine That” were box office duds, taking Murphy to fourth place for earning an average $4.43 for each dollar he was paid, Forbes.com said.
The thing is, of course those were all terrible movies. If they’d used someone else, the movies would have made nothing at all.
