hollywoodcrush.mtv.com has this article about the salaries of our dream team for BD...
I feel dizzy..
via @hollywoodcrush
Well at least now we know a main reason why the two parts of "Breaking Dawn" are seeing their production costs rise: New York Magazine's Culture Vulture blog got the news late last week that the Big Three stars of "The Twilight Saga" finagled some major pay increases for the final two installments of the franchise that made them household names.
Each is making $25 million for the two film deal, plus 7.5 percent against its gross revenue, which (based on the amount "New Moon" made in theaters) will give them $41 million a piece.
As /Film points out, that's more than three times as much as the stars made in "New Moon" ($12 million a piece). There's no word on how much Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner made for "Eclipse," but we're assuming it's still under the $20 million mark.
Such a pay upgrade isn't unheard of, as the Big Three in "Harry Potter" (Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson) are each making an estimated $50 million a piece for both parts of "Deathly Hallows." Still, those are their seventh and eighth films in the "Harry Potter" franchise, and their work on the films has spanned more than a decade. Compare that to this being Kristen, Rob and Taylor's fourth and fifth films in a franchise that has only been in production for a little over four years.
Obviously Summit has money that they've made off "The Twilight Saga" to burn, as we told you yesterday, but we hope that they are spending some of that on upping the budget of the film to work in some better special effects (imagine if Catherine Hardwicke had to film the Renesmee birthing scene with her $37 million budget), instead of just nailing down their big stars.
Ashley Greene and Kellan Lutz mustccc be really pissed that they only settled for a little over $1 million a piece for these films, but if each actor was being paid for the amount of lines they say in the films, we understand why there's such a salary difference.
One studio that is certainly breathing a sigh of relief is Universal, who Culture Vulture reported managed to close a $7.5 million salary for Taylor Lautner in "Stretch Armstrong" only before his $25 million plus payday was leaked. That sounds like expert bargain hunting to us.
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