Top 40 Hollywood Earners of 2010

Vanity Fair magazine has put together a list of the top 40 earners in Hollywood for the year of 2010. James Cameron took first place with a whopping $257 million, which is more than second, third and fourth highest earners took combined.

Click here to see a break-down of how the celebrities made their money, which shows that the each member of "Twilight" took $25 million for "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn." Meanwhile it took only $12.5 million to hire Tom Cruise to write, produce and star in "Mission: Impossible 4."

Oren Peli, the man behind the $10,000 "Paranormal Activity," is now a rich man with $26.5 million, most of which came from producing the second installment. And $50 million of Steven Spielberg's $80 million once again came from his very lucrative deal with Universal Studios theme park, which pays him consulting fees and royalties.

And one can only wonder how Nicolas Cage continues having financial difficulties, since he earned $23.5 million last year.

1. James Cameron ($257 million)

2. Johnny Depp ($100 million)

3. Steven Spielberg ($80 million)

4. Christopher Nolan ($71.5 million)

5. Leonardo DiCaprio ($62 million)

6. Tim Burton ($53 million)

7. Adam Sandler ($50 million)

8. Todd Phillips ($34 million)

9. Taylor Lautner ($33.5 million)

10. Robert Downey Jr. ($31.5 million)

11. Will Smith ($29 million)

12. Joe Roth ($28.5 million)

13. Kristen Stewart ($28.5 million)

14. Jerry Bruckheimer ($27.5 million)

15. Robert Pattinson ($27.5 million)

16. Jason Blum and Oren Peli ($26.5 million)

17. Tyler Perry ($25 million)

18. Jennifer Aniston ($24.5 million)

19. Jon Favreau ($24 million)

20. Nicolas Cage ($23.5 million)

21. Angelina Jolie ($23.5 million)

22. Sandra Bullock ($22 million)

23. Brian Grazer and Ron Howard ($21 million)

24. Christopher Meledandri ($21 million)

25. Joel Silver ($21 million)

26. Owen Wilson ($19.5 million)

27. Vince Vaughn ($18.5 million)

28. Daniel Craig ($18 million)

29. Vin Diesel ($18 million)

30. Ben Stiller ($18 million)

31. Steve Carell ($17.5 million)

32. Martin Scorsese ($17 million)

33. Katherine Heigl ($16 million)

34. Shia LaBeouf ($16 million)

35. Tom Cruise ($14.5 million)

36. Reese Witherspoon ($14.5 million)

37. Hugh Jackman ($14 million)

38. Shawn Levy ($14 million)

39. Guy Ritchie ($13.5 million)

40. Eddie Murphy ($13 million)

Source: Vaniry Fair

Chevrolet's "Transformers 3" Super Bowl TV Spot

Paramount Pictures is planning to show a TV spot for their upcoming "Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon." But before that ad plays, Chevrolet will have their own, which will feature Bumblebee. Chevrolet has decided not to wait till February 6th, and has instead unveiled their TV spot online. Watch it below.

"Transformers 3" will deal with the space race between USSR and USA, and will feature Shockwave as the main villain. It stars Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Josh Duhamel, John Malkovich, Patrick Dempsey, Ken Jeong, Tyrese Gibson, and Frances McDormand.

The new movie is once again directed by Michael Bay and will hit 2D and 3D theaters on July 1st.

 

Joseph Gordon-Levitt Confirmed for "The Dark Knight Rises"

It was once reported that Christopher Nolan has been looking to bring several of his "Inception" cast members for "The Dark Knight Rises." Tom Hardy is already on board as Bane and there were talks that Joseph Gordon-Levitt would play The Riddler.

Nolan has previously confirmed that The Riddler won't appear in the film, but Deadline has now learned that Gordon-Levitt will still appear in "The Dark Knight Rises." As always, it's not clear what role he will be playing.

The third Batman film also has Anne Hathaway on board to play Selina Kyle (Catwoman) and is set to begin shooting in May for a July 20th, 2012 release.

Source: Deadline

New Trailer - Bridesmaids

Your mind is the scene of the meme

Social media and the creativity of user generated content has forever changed the way we watch movies – take Inception, for example. Christopher Nolan’s latest is a hit with the internet, which has latched on to stills, quotes and even the theme music to make some truly hilarious content.

You had better stop reading if you haven’t seen it yet as there are some spoilers in the pick of the best memes, image mashups and fan videos that we’ve collected below: Oh, and if you haven’t seen Inception, go and see it now – it’s OK, we’ll wait.

The trailer
The trailer was always going to be ripe for remixing – with the pumping score and rememberable quotes. Here’s our pick of the litter:

DORA THE EXPLORER in INCEPTION: Incepción Trailer

Inception Trailer A Capella Re-Dub

Trailer for ‘Toy Story 3: Inception’

Cobb and Fischer
Much like the interrogation scene from The Dark Knight, these stills from the bar conversation have been used far and wide as an image macro or ‘exploitable’ (an image that can be endlessly altered by adding text):

Strutting Leo

Taken on the set of the movie, this infectiously happy Leo DiCaprio has been photoshopped into countless scenes for humerous effect. No matter what happens, he just keeps on strutting:

Infographics Galore

All the dream layers in Inception mean infographics – where information meets design – are not only apt but many are incredibly beautiful. Here’s our favourites, click them to see them full size:

NEW POSTER: Bridesmaids

From the Producers of Superbad and Knocked-Up...

Are you ready for movies about Hula Hoops, Slip-n-slide and Frisbees?

This whole business of making toys into movies is really starting to get out of hand. The Wham-O toy company has just signed a deal with ICM for representation to help in the process of bringing their toy products to the big screen. This is the same toy compnay that brought the world classic toys such as  Frisbee, Hula Hoops, Super Ball, Slip 'N Slide, Hacky Sack, Boogie boards and several others.

THR brings up the fact that Wham-O also developed a ton of interesting toys that never really went anywhere, "such as a do-it-yourself bomb shelter (created during the time when backyard bomb shelters where de rigeur) and the “instant fish” idea that consisted of selling mud with eggs from a unique species of African fish (they wouldn’t mate in America)." I would have loved to play in a do-it-yourself bomb shelter!

It's not surprising that Wham-O would want to try and capitalize on the toys they have developed, after all every other major toy company is doing it right now. I guess they'd be stupid not to try. And I'm sure a good movie or TV series could come from it.

ICM also represents Atari and has made deals at studios to develop films for Asteroids at Universal, Rollercoaster Tycoon with Sony Pictures Animation and Missile Command at 20th Century Fox. It wont be long before we see a Slip 'N Slide movie go into production.

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