Johnny Depp comes in at number one on the ignoble ranking, with a return of just $2.80 in ticket sales for every dollar he was paid to star in the picture.
Johnny Depp was one of the biggest stars on the planet in the 2000s, generating immediate box office gold in seemingly any film he appeared in and, therefore, commanding some of the highest paychecks in the industry.
(Will Smith, with a $5.00 ROI, came in second place, while Channing Tatum, at $6.00, landed in third, for all those curious.)
Gone is the time when actors could marshal a movie’s ticket sales; now is the era of intellectual property, when shared universes drive legions of viewers into the theater.