These Are The Highest-Paid Film and Television Roles Of All Time

Mel Gibson, $30 Million

Mel Gibson became the highest-paid actor for a single project in 1998. He starred in Lethal Weapon 4 and took home a $30 million paycheck. The Lethal Weapon series was also hugely popular, making Gibson a high-priority actor.

Jack Nicholson, $50 Million

Jack Nicholson starred as the Joker in the 1989 Batman movie, and he laid an exceptionally creepy foundation for his predecessors Heath Ledger and Jared Leto. Nicholson took a percentage of the film's profits, earning him a $40 million pay increase.

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The More You Know

Shakira was banned from her school’s choir, and her classmates said she sounded like a goat.
Worldwide ticket sales for the Saw franchise put it at just shy of a billion dollars, making it the highest earning horror franchise globally.
Jim Caviezel was struck by lightening while he was on the cross in, Passion of the Christ.
Christopher Mintz-Plasse, who played the character of ‘Fogell/McLovin’ in the coming-of-age indie flick ‘Superbad,’ was only 17 when filming took place. Being a minor at the time, his mother was required to be on the set during the filming of his sex scene.

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.