Neo and Trinity are back on the big screen.

"Matrix Resurrections" has been running in German and American cinemas for two weeks.

It's the fourth installment in the Matrix saga, with Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss in the lead roles.

But as well as the Canadian actor is known for his portrayal of the main character of the Matrix, his commitment to cancer research is far less.

According to media reports, 70 percent of the income he earned from the first three Matrix films went to research into leukemia, after all, 80 million dollars.

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His willingness to donate is no coincidence.

In 1991 his younger sister Kim developed leukemia.

She fought the cancer for ten years before she got better.

Reeves is said to have supported his sister so much during this time that it even delayed the shooting of the first Matrix film, released in 1999.

Born in 1964, Reeves began acting while he was still in school.

His breakthrough in Hollywood was when he was 25 years old when he played the idiot teen Ted in Bill & Ted's Crazy Journey through Time.

This was followed by a leading role in the action film "Speed" and fees running into the millions.

A fifteen percent profit sharing

For his first job as a hacker Neo, Reeves received ten million dollars and also secured a ten percent share in the film profits. "The Matrix" grossed approximately $ 467 million at the box office, with a production cost of $ 63 million. In addition to his fee, the lead actor received an additional $ 35 million. According to the online medium LADbible, seventy percent of the money went to cancer research.

Reeves also donated the proceeds from his subsequent films.

For "Matrix Reloaded" and "Matrix Revolutions", both from 2003, the actor is said to have received a fee of 15 million US dollars each.

He secured a fifteen percent profit share for both films.

But while the second part of the film series grossed almost 742 million dollars worldwide, it was just over 427 million dollars for "Matrix Revolution".

Production costs for both films are estimated at around $ 110 million to $ 150 million.

Reeves also rides the subway

The costs for "matrix resurrections" should now be at a similar level.

Reeves' salary is estimated at between $ 12 million and $ 14 million.

According to Bloomberg, the fourth part of the film series grossed almost eleven million dollars at the box office in the first week of cinema.

The film can initially also be seen on the HBO Max streaming platform, which is likely to reduce the revenues of the movie theaters.

The now 57-year-old Reeves is considered a modest Hollywood star who sometimes takes the subway.

He has not only dedicated his earnings to the fight against cancer, according to media reports, part of it also went to the crew members behind the scenes of his films, such as the stuntmen and graphic artists of Matrix.

In the mid-2000s, he set up a foundation to support children with cancer, but it does not bear his name.

He didn't tell about it until 2009.

“I have a private foundation that has been around for five or six years and supports a few children's hospitals and cancer research,” he said in an interview with the “Ladies Home Journal”.

"I don't like to associate my name with it, I just let the foundation do what it does."

The outbreak of the corona pandemic led Reeves to break new ground.

In 2020 he auctioned a Zoom Date with himself. The proceeds went to Camp Rainbow Gold, a summer holiday camp for children with cancer.

The winner is estimated to have paid more than $ 19,000.

In his private life, the actor is in a relationship with the artist Alexandra Grant.

His net worth, despite his charity, is estimated at tens of millions of dollars.