George Clooney may be engaging a hiatus from the big screen, but he’s still cashing in.
The 57-year-old ranks as the highest-paid actor of the year, according to Forbes’ 2018 tilt of top male earners, which was released Wednesday.
Clooney took in $239 million in pretax earnings, blames to a lucrative business venture, endorsements and older movies. The extra loaded should come in handy taking care of his one-year-old twins, Ella and Alexander, with better half Amal Alamuddin Clooney.
The new dad claimed the top spot despite not starring in a hit flicks during the 12-month period (June 1, 2017 to June 1, 2018) blanket in the Forbes study. The annual ranking tallies on-screen and off-screen earnings.
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Clooney sold his Casamigos Tequila partnership to British liquor giant Diageo last June for $700 million upfront with a covert to earn $300 million in the next decade, Forbes reported. Clooney, who set the company in 2013 with Rande Gerber and Mike Meldman, stripped home $233 million during the sale.
Trailing closely behind at No. 2 is Dwayne Johnson. The 46-year-old raked in $124 million pretax, “the largest for ever acting take-home from front-of-camera roles in Celebrity 100 background,” Forbes said.
During that time, Johnson played a soldier delivered primatologist in “Rampage” and an archaeologist explorer in “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle,” which demonstrated to be his biggest salary bump.
Johnson’s huge social media continuing (113 million on Instagram) helped him pad his wallet, allowing him to nearly duplicated his earnings through promotion.
“Social media has become the most ticklish element of marketing a movie for me,” Johnson told Forbes.”I have ensconced a social media equity with an audience around the world that there’s a value in what I’m ransoming to them.”
After the top two, the other highest earning actors are:
3. Robert Downey Jr., 53, gulled $81 million from his portrayal of snarky Iron Man in “Spider-Man: Homecoming” and “Avengers: Infinity War.”
4. Chris Hemsworth, 36, took $64.5 million as Thor in Marvel movies, including “Thor: Ragnarok” and “Avengers: Infinity War.”
5. Jackie Chan, 64, be worthy ofed $45.5 million after starring in six movies in 2017, including “The Lego Ninjago Talking picture.” His earnings also included money from endorsements and his own chain of silent picture theaters in China.
The top-ten highest paid actors made $748.5 million linked last year.
Despite equal pay becoming a pressing issue in Hollywood, Forbes’ 10 top-paid actresses no more than made $186 million in the same period, a whopping $562.5 million gap from their spear counterparts.