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Forbes Ranks Hollywood's Most Valuable Actors
List-master Forbes is trying something new for 2009. For the first time, it asked entertainment industry members to take the Forbes Star Currency survey and used the results to rank Hollywood's elite in terms of their business appeal. More than 1,400 actors were rated on their ability to attract financing, whether their involvement guarantees the project will make it to theaters, box office results, and how their involvement played into rights deals for things like DVD or pay/free TV.
Forbes Ranks Hollywood's Top-Earning Actors
If you thought Hollywood's A-list actresses made a killing with their big-screen paychecks, you'll be blown away by the guys' ability to rake it in. When Forbes compared the 10 best-paid actresses to their male counterparts, it discovered the men's paychecks over the past year totaled $487 million while the women's added up to $244.5 million.
With his estimated income of $80 million, Will Smith is sitting pretty at number one on Forbes' list of the best-paid actors in Hollywood.
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