We’re 20 years removed from the days when movie star salaries first exploded into the tens of millions of dollars.
When Jim Carrey got a $20 million check to appear in The Cable Guy it became such a huge news story that it almost doomed the film.
Variety also reveals that Daniel Craig, who previously said he’d rather “slash” his wrists than make another James Bond movie, is getting one of the biggest movie star paychecks in recent history for Bond 25: A whopping (and weirdly appropriate) $25 million.
Given how much bigger the movies have gotten in the intervening decades, it’s sort of surprising that $20 million became a kind of plateau for stars.