2023 was a large yr for a number of actors. Margot Robbie and Cillian Murphy turned the faces of the “Barbenheimer” craze by means of their starring roles within the two greatest movies of the summer season, Barbie and Oppenheimer. Their co-stars Ryan Gosling and Matt Damon additionally acquired loads of love alongside them, with Damon additionally showing within the hit movie, Air. Past them, Tom Cruise continues to be as fashionable as ever, touchdown Mission: Inconceivable – Lifeless Reckoning to essential fanfare, even when its field workplace numbers had been lackluster. But, monetarily, we now know that none of them had a much bigger yr than Adam Sandler.

Forbes launched its annual record of highest-paid actors and Sandler topped the record by a large margin, beating out the second place Robbie with $73 million USD in comparison with her $59 million USD. Cruise, Gosling, and Damon all adopted within the third, fourth, and fifth positions respectively. There is a clear distinction between Sandler and the remainder of the pack too: Netflix. Whereas different actors on the record principally relied on conventional releases, the Pleased Gilmore star delivered three movies for the platform final yr, together with Homicide Thriller 2 with Jennifer Aniston — one other entrant on the record in sixth place — You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, and the animated hit Leo. He additionally acquired fee for Spaceman, which hit the streamer on March 1.

Sandler hasn’t topped the most-paid actors record since he raked in $47 million USD starring in Punch Drunk Love and Mr. Deeds, however his general cope with Netflix has been an particularly profitable one, value over $250 million upon its final renewal. It is secure to say the deal labored out simply effective for each events, as Sandler’s titles often ranked amongst probably the most seen titles on the platform upon their launch. His movies racked up a staggering 500 million hours seen within the first six months of 2023 alone. It was sufficient to beat out Robbie regardless of the over $1.4 billion USD success of Barbie, a cameo in Asteroid Metropolis, and her manufacturing function on Emerald Fennell‘s Saltburn.

Adam Sandler’s Monetary Win Continues a Rising Development in Hollywood

Sandler is not the one actor to journey streaming success to the highest. He is not even the one actor at Netflix to rank primary on the Forbes highest-paid actor record. In 2022, Tyler Perry scored the highest spot after his A Jazzman’s Blues and A Madea Homecoming had been launched on the platform. He additionally re-upped with Netflix after the very fact with a multi-year, four-picture pact that features this yr’s Mea Culpa and the upcoming Six Triple Eight. It is clear that Netflix has no scarcity of cash to present in the case of huge names, additionally inking profitable offers with Dan Levy, Addison Rae, Vanessa Kirby, Omar Sy, Jennifer Garner, and plenty of extra over the previous a number of years.

The remainder of the record was dominated by theatrical mainstays, making Sandler’s success stand out much more. Leonardo DiCaprio positioned seventh coming off of his flip in Martin Scorsese‘s Killers of the Flower Moon whereas Jason Statham tied him amid a packed yr together with Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, Quick X, Meg 2: The Trench, and Expend4bles. Behind him is Ben Affleck following his Air directorial effort and The Flash cameo, adopted by Denzel Washington after capping off his time as Robert McCall with The Equalizer 3.

Keep tuned right here at Collider for extra on what Sandler and Netflix have subsequent on their respective dockets. Within the meantime, Spaceman is streaming on Netflix now.

Spaceman

Jakub Procházka, orphaned as a boy and raised within the Czech countryside by his grandparents, overcomes his odds to change into the nation’s first astronaut.

Launch Date

March 1, 2024

Director

Johan Renck

Runtime

107 minutes

Writers

Colby Day , Jaroslav Kalfar

Studio

Netflix

Distributor(s)

Netflix

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